13/02/2019

"How Bristol became a musical and artistic melting pot"


My interview with Eve Irvine on France 24 yesterday, talking about my book on Massive Attack and Bristol:

"How Bristol became a musical and artistic melting pot"




FRANCE 24 Historically a centre of the slave trade, Bristol is the hometown of a wealth of internationally renowned artists: Damien Hirst, Banksy, Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack. 

Author Melissa Chemam says that there is a clear link between those two facts. As people were brought in from across the world, their cultures came with them. 

The result put Bristol ahead of much of the UK when it came to new and different sounds and ideas.

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For more, check my book: "Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone" here:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/massive-attack/melissa-chemam/9781910089729


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