posted by machine Cork show photo by Richard from massiveattack.ie > Read more...

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posted by machine Glastonbury: BBC coverage link http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/artists/massiveattack/ > Read more...

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posted by machine Now That's What I Call Tourture: Letter from Musician Union, from The Guardian   Clive Stafford Smith says "there is a clear reluctance within the record industry to discuss the use of music as torture" (Welcome to 'the disco', June 19). We can reassure him that the Musicians' Union takes this issue very seriously. We will be putting forward a motion to the International Federation of Musicians executive committee at their October conference with a view to securing international condemnation of this use of music in interrogations. John Smith General secretary,... > Read more...

posted by machine Glastonbury stage times: Other Stage 10:45 - 12:15 Segments form the show will appear on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer > Read more...

posted by machine Meltdown Monday: Fleet Foxes photo: olivia hemingway > Read more...

posted by machine: Meltdown Monday 16th June: Elbow Photography:Olivia Hemingway > Read more...

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posted by machine: Now That's What I Call Torture Volume 1 http://www.russiatoday.ru/features/news/26455 > Read more...

posted by machine: Meltdown reviews: The Times:entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article4143364.ece The Guardian: music.guardian.co.uk/pop/livereviews/story/0,,2286898,00.html The Metro: www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/article.html The Guardian: music.guardian.co.uk/live/story/0,,2285760,00.html > Read more...

posted by machine Meltdown Thursday: Grace Jones setlist > Read more...

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posted by machine: Meltdown Wednesday: Martina Topley Bird Photography:Olivia Hemingway > Read more...

posted by machine: Now That's What I Call Torture.   http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo   http://www.reprieve.org.uk/Press_stop_torture_music.htm > Read more...

posted by machine: Meltdown Wednesday: Stiff Little Fingers drum kit > Read more...

posted by machine Meltdown: UVA / Reprieve projections Photography:Olivia Hemingway > Read more...

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posted by machine Meltdown Sunday: Yellow Magic Orchestra > Read more...

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posted by the machine:A Gong photo from Saturday's Meltdown. Photography;Olivia Hemingway > Read more...

On Sunday 15 June, US President George W. Bush is visiting London as part of his valedictory world tour. Reprieve is using this opportunity to highlight the suffering of Binyam Mohamed, the London resident who remains in Guantánamo Bay. The US military has announced that it wants to put him through its discredited military commission process, using evidence derived from his torture. A final decision will be made in the next two weeks. This call to action ties in with Reprieve’s exposure at Massive Attack’s Meltdown 2008 at the Southbank Centre (on Sunday, Taxi to the Dark Side will... > Read more...

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posted by machine: 09/06/08 Saku Arena Tallinn, Estonia 11/06/08 Stereoleto Festival St. Petersburg, Russia 14/06/08 Meltdown London, UK 22/06/08 Meltdown London, UK 28/06/08 Glastonbury Festival Shepton Mallet, UK 01/07/08 Live at the Marquee Cork, Ireland 03/07/08 Westerpark Amsterdam, Netherlands 04/07/08 Eurockeenes Belfort, France 06/07/08 Heineken Opener Festival Gdynia, Poland 10/07/08 Krizanke Monastery Ljubljana, Slovenia 11/07/08... > Read more...

posted by machine // George Clinton and P Funk have been added to the bill at meltdown 21st June. Peaches and Four Tet are also taking part in the Silent Disco programme. More soon. > Read more...

posted by machine: This is the Meltdown line-up June 14th to 22nd Massive Attack 14th RFH / Gong 14th QEH / Yellow Magic Orchestra 14th RFH / Horace Andy + Johnny Clarke + Earl 16 + Prince Malachai 15th QEH / Reprieve Screening of Taxi To The Dark Side with post talk 15th Purcell Room / Screening of The Night James Brown Saved Boston 15th BFI / Elbow + Fleet Foxes 16th RFH / Vangelis' Bladerunner Score live by The Heritage Orchestra 17th RFH / Stiff Little Fingers + Mark Stewart and the Mafia + Adrian Sherwood 18th RFH / The Shortwave Set + Martina Topely-Bird 18th QEH / Grace Jones... > Read more...

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posted by machine the meltdown line-up will be announced this sunday in the observer newspaper and online here. tickets will go on sale on 24th april. > Read more...

posted by robert del naja--Thanks to clive stafford smith for posting here- REPRIEVE are going to be an important part of the meltdown project.We are still unable to reveal anything on the line-up.But its getting exciting! meanwhile,if you happen to find yourself on charing cross rd next thursday night,and can fight your way past a swarm of smokers, tap me on the shoulder-check out my gleaming blue/gray studio tan-and have a look at the paintings and images from War Stories, collected together for the first time since santas ghetto at bethlehem last xmax. If I/m drunk enough,;ll probably spill... > Read more...

posted by clive stafford-smith   memo: from gitmo If you were locked up in an American Secret Prison like Guantᮡmo Bay for six years or more, would music be high on the list of things youd miss in your solitary confinement? There would be plenty of other things you wouldnt have -- youd never see your family, perhaps rarely read a book but for the most part youd never be allowed to listen to your tunes. Theres one exception, of course: They torture you with their own favorite music. Binyam Mohamed spent several months in the Dark Prison in Kabul, with the US blasting Eminem at... > Read more...

posted by machine: clive stafford-smith from reprieve has just returned from guantanamo and he's going to blog here soon. for information on ghost prisoners , extraordinary rendition and black-site prisons go to: reprieve.org.uk > Read more...

posted by Robert Del Naja>Cannot reveal anthing of use here today.Had a midweekend in Glasgow last WEd/THur and have pruned away large parts of my brain> then spent the actual weekend with the coolest Guy of Garvey on another co/writing mission..interesting shit indeed! Got a couple of pictures from a recent session at 100 suns studios down our way, I will have to dig em out. Got nothing to say about the album today! I am not obliged to discuss Meltdown or the tour..could do better..in fact blogging feels a little like publishing crap egocentric little diary entries-how nice! > Read more...

Posted by the Machine: Robert Del Naja and Neil Davidge have recently produced the scores for three films that will be released this year. Trouble The Water recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. More news on the release dates for these films here soon.  In Prison My Whole Life  http://www.myspace.com/inprisonmywholelife  Trouble The Water  http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/  Battle In Seattle  http://myspace.com/battleinseattlemovie > Read more...