Massive Attack has announced the artists who will perform alongside them at the Act 1.5 show. The announcement was made following the band’s confirmation last December that they would perform at a large-scale climate action accelerator event to celebrate 25 years of climate activism. The event will occur on August 25th on Clifton Downs in Bristol. Three-time Grammy winner and political activist Killer Mike is among the special guests performing at the all-day show. Irish four-piece Lankum, Sam Morton, and DJ Milo from The Wild Bunch will also perform at the event.
In addition to providing an exceptional experience, the event aims to be the lowest carbon show of its size ever staged. Massive Attack is collaborating with climate scientists and analysts from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research to drastically reduce all primary emissions and take account of fan travel. The band has commissioned a roadmap for decarbonization of the Live Music Sector.
Professor Carly McLachlan from The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research said: “This is precisely the type of transformative approach that we need to see more of in the live music sector and indeed every sector; one that has the collaboration and vision to reduce emissions across all areas of impact and working beyond the areas you directly control to unlock the systemic change we urgently need to deliver on our Paris Agreement commitments”.
The concert will be powered by Eco-tricity x Grid Faeries and is part of the band’s collaboration with pioneering partners on this project. The gig tickets were available from July 23 and can be purchased through the official website. Massive Attack’s Del Naja, AKA 3D, has expressed excitement, stating that they are chuffed to play their home city again and to do it properly.
Finally, Massive Attack will also perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Spain’s Bilbao BBK Live in July, and has spoken out about their boycott of gigs in Israel since 1999. The group says it took the decision not to perform in Israel some years before the Palestinian call for international boycott was made.
The event is Massive Attack’s first UK performance in five years, and it will be the first to take account of fan travel. The concert aims to be a clarion call to musicians to take responsibility for their carbon footprint while also delivering a memorable show
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