Mom and Dad were nice enough to come help Vero babysit while Etienne, Benoit and I hit the road to see Massive Attack in Montreal. We were originally going to see them in the Spring but they postponed that tour and rescheduled right after Ezra was born. FANTASTIC?
21 years of Mezzanine!
I’m not the hugest Massive Attack fan but I (along with everyone) fell in love with their Mezzanine album from 1998. It’s a perfect album…one of those that you can listen from front to back. In honour of the album they were playing the album in full 21 years after they released it.
I would have to say that musically, I thought the show was fantastic. They mixed up the tracklisting of their album and played a few songs I didn’t recognize but found out later that they had used samples of these songs in the building of Mezzanine so they decided to play those samples in full song form which is interesting.
Visually I’m not sure what to say. It was quite the spectacle! Considering I don’t know much about Massive Attack I didn’t realize they were a hyper political band. Images of Saddam Hussein and Iraq bombings still flash into my memory banks. As Etienne put it “I didn’t realize my Saturday night in Montreal would consist of me seeing images of dead people in a warzone.” I’m still not sure what they were trying to portray with a lot of their visuals.
But all in all, I was really excited to hear one of my favourite albums from the 90s played in a live format and we are very lucky to have caught it!
I can’t complain about our seats!
Hanging out with these two jokers.
Decent light show.
End of the show.