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Massive Attack concert in Sofia in two days

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Massive Attack concert in Sofia in two days

Massive Attack

Photo: Festival Eurockeennes/Rod le Hiboo

British band Massive Attack's concert at Sofia's Zala Festivalna scheduled for July 15 at 8pm is only two days away.

The band will arrive in Sofia on July 14 and will be accommodated in a hotel "near Festivalna", Bulgarian media said. Grant Marshall  reportedly had asked for a hotel room with an "expansive bath".

The band is not coming to Bulgaria with their own catering, but instead have requested the Bulgarian organisers to provide "Mediterranean and south American dishes," the report said.

Reportedly, they have also asked for vodka, gin, red Cuban rum, Australian and French white wines, lager, ale, energy drinks and others.

Tickets will cost between 50 and 80 leva, and according to reports, are still available at the National Palace of Culture's (NDK) ticket centre. They will also be sold at stores of Bulsky Travels, Select Bookstore, Sofia Vision, Ticket House, Plovdiv Music Centre, Bourgas Sound Garden, Medusa in Veliko Turnovo and Ozz Music in Varna. Tickets will be on sale as of April 6 2010.

The British band, native of Bristol, England, are a collaborative music production duo formed from co-producers, various favoured session musicians and guest vocalists. They make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be progenitors of the trip hop genre.

Originally, the band was three in number, DJs Grantley "Grant" Marshall or "G", Andrew "Andy" Vowles or "Mush" (no longer in the band)  and graffiti artist-turned-MC Robert Del Naja, or "D".

In August 25 their new EP, Splitting the Atom, was announced. The other new tracks on the EP were revealed to be Tunde Adebimpe's Pray For Rain, Martina Topley-Bird's Psyche and Guy Garvey's Bulletproof Love.

Splitting the Atom was succeeded by their latest release, Heligoland.

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