Essentially a trip hop duo,
consisting of MC and singer Robert '3D' Del Naja and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall
(also called: 'G').
The Bristol formation became popular in particular by the
impressive video clip, recorded in one take, of their composition Unfinished
Sympathy. In the clip singer Shara Nelson, at the time still attached to
Massive Attack, walks through a desolate 'urban landscape' unmoved while singing
a song loaded with impending doom. Readers of British newspaper The Guardian proclaimed
the song one of the ten most beautiful songs ever.
MC Robert Del Naja is known
as a very peace-loving person, so it's a bit strange that his duo was given such
an aggressive sounding name. 'Yes, funny,' Del Naja once said, and continued to
explain that Massive Attack was the name of a gigantic party organized by their
favourite place of entertainment, The Warehouse, a party he and Andrew (former
band member Andrew ' Andy ' Lee Isaac Vowles, aka Mushroom or Mush, ed.) retained
good memories of.For the party animals: the club in question is located at 57 Prince Street in Bristol.
When the Gulf war burst out in 1991, the band name was
temporarily changed to Massive. But at the release of their next single it was already
back to Massive Attack.
Active: 1998-present, GBR
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