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Tricky (left) in the Queen’s with Face from 50 Solid Crew (right)
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Tricky shoots Glasow
Last year, Tricky was sent a demo by Scottish band Engine and, on the strength of it, he signed them to his label. Now he’s filming a full-length movie with them. Jay Richardson spent a day with Tricky and crew on set in a Glasgow club.
t’s a Thursday night in the Queen's Club in Glasgow and rapper. producer and professional mood merchant Tricky urges filmmaker Lee .laffe to ‘get this film shot'. Bob Marley's former harmonicist nods his assent. The unassuming social club is decked in red drapes and the stage is an autumnal pastoral scene. The pensioners who usually inhabit the club have made way for Face from So Solid Crew. At the door. Michael Redmond. alias Father Stone in Father Ted. is wearing ermine. He's flanked by two policewomen. a little too young and tightly attired. On stage. Glasgow band Engine begin performing before a camera while .laffe trains a second on Tricky and ‘his boys’. cutting with swaggering intent through a 2()()~strong crowd. This is the first day‘s shooting of a new movie. A full-length feature
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f with attendant album produced by
‘ former
lsland boss Chris Blackwell‘s Palm Pictures. the as- yet-untitled production will
showcase eight acts signed to
Tricky's
Brown Punk
Filming is scheduled for across the
UK and US. incorporating
label.
performances from Engine. Face 2 and. bizarrely. actor Elliot Gould.
‘l've got my own new album
i tinished.‘ explains Tricky. ‘But this : compilation and film has to come first. l‘d said to Chris I wanted to put
a compilation of the label together ,
and he said. “Let‘s do it. But I want
a documentary." Then one night. I’m 3 listening to the songs and visuals 5 start coming into my head. So I § thought. why not use the music as narration. like a musical almost‘."
Neil Young‘s appalling film Greendale demonstrated the pitfalls of a brilliant musician attempting a
: visual concept album. but Tricky is
Engine
adamant that in multimedia artist and ex-Wailer Jaffe he’s found his ideal collaborator.
‘To be honest. I'm a lazy motherfucker.’ he admits. ‘Lee drove to Santa Monica every day and made me finish writing. He totally understands what I’m trying to get out of' my head. so I trust him. And he's only ever worked with Bob Marley and lean-Michel Basquiat before. so it‘s a huge compliment.‘
’I was always a Tricky fan.‘ explains Jafi'e. ‘Chris was in LA two months ago. said he was going to see Tricky and brought me along. We hit it off and Chris said. "Well. why don't you guys make a movie?”
Tricky plans to return to Glasgow to shoot the video for Engine's forthcoming single. provisionally entitled ‘The Condition’. Both he and Jaffe are in agreement about the band. the American proclaiming the six-piece ‘awesome' while Tricky describes them as ‘very real and dreamy at the same time. I'm going to have them in a gangster scene around the pool table!‘
‘l‘d like my mum not to be ashamed of me. so I'm hoping there‘s no nudity or drugs.~ singer
Kath Knox laughs. ‘Well. maybe if
it’s done in a tasteful manner.’
Engine perform at Nice N Sleazy on Wed 10 May.
‘I thought she was going to bite my face off. I think monkeys should be left in trees.’
Jess/ca Alba reflects an her close encounter of the ham klnd u hen asked to Arss a C/illllp tor ltllt
‘Jet2.com condemns French strike action and calls for lazy frogs to get back to work.’
The head/me to a sterv about french Strikers on Jet2's‘ websrte, written by Philip Meeson, Char/man and cruel exeCut/ve of the Yorkshire based budget carrier.
‘I would rather eat my own testicles than reform the Smiths, and that’s saying something for a vegetarian.’ Morr/ssey has opted for not sitting on the fence when rt comes to hrs Old band gett/ng back together.
‘I tried to persuade Colin Firth to do Celebrity Wrestling with me for Comic Relief a few years ago but he was afraid. Not physically, but I think he was afraid of becoming aroused.’
The mind of Hugh Grant qurte simply boggles.
‘l have to have everything in a straight line or everything has to be in pairs. I’ll put my Pepsi cans in the fridge and if there’s one too many then I’ll put it in another cupboard somewhere.
Even when he 's drscussmg his own obsessrve compu/Slve d/sorder. Davrd Bee/(ham can 't stop himself from placrng a product Ill there.
‘Shit, yeah! I’d be as white as Father Christmas otherwise.’
Sir Tom Jones reveals the astonishing truth that he dyes his ha/r.