Tricky / Биография
Adrian Thaws - who later morphed into Tricky Kid, then Tricky - was born on the 27th of January 1968 in Bristol, England. His full name is Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, as he told The Wire. His father left the family before he was even born and his mother, Maxine Quaye, committed suicide when he was four. He named his first solo album after her - Maxinquaye - and though he hardly knew her he feels like she's speaking through him with his words, like he once said. He spent his youth with his Grandma, who often let him watch old horror movies instead of going to school.
With 15 he begins to write lyrics ("I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants" MixMag 96), though not with the ambiguity and tricky-ness that showed up later on his albums. At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £50 notes off of a friend, who grassed Tricky up. In an interview, he says about his experiences in prison: "Prison was really good. I'm never going back." (NME 95).
Eventually he meets DJ Milo and hangs out with a posse called The Wild Bunch, which evolved into Massive Attack. He gets the nickname 'Tricky Kid' from DJ Krust (The Stool Pigeon 2008) and at 18 he becomes a member of the Fresh 4, a rap group built from the Wild Bunch. He also raps on Massive Attack's highly acclaimed debut album 'Blue Lines' which is released in 1992. But as soon as making music turns into a business he doesn't like it anymore. Though Tricky also appears on Massive Attack's next album, 'Protection', he never had the feeling of being a part of the band; never really enjoyed it.
Besides, he already had found his own way of making music. In 1991, before the release of 'Blue Lines', he met Martina Topley-Bird. The story of how they both met may be a myth, but it's a nice one: Martina was sitting on a wall near Tricky's house when he walked by and chatted her up. Some time later she comes to his house, and she mentions to Tricky and Mark Stewart (Bristolian producer and musician now living in Berlin) that she sings. She is only fifteen years old, but her 'honey-coated vox' impresses them and they record a song called 'Aftermath' (though The Face 95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called "Shoebox").
Tricky shows the song to Massive Attack, but they aren't interested. So in 1993 he decides to press a few hundreds vinyls with that song. He cut it directly off of the tape, so that the song is basically "just bassline and hiss." (NME 94). Finally, this white label gets him a contract with Island Records and he can start to record his first solo album.
In the same year in which he records 'Maxinquaye' (1994) he also works with other musicians like the Swedish band Whale. The results are three tracks on Whale's album 'We care' ('Kickin', 'Tryzasnice' and 'Young, dumb and full of cum') and another song ('The Now Thing') that was turned out as a b-side. He also starts making remixes for other people, like the one for Angelique Kidjo ('Agolo') and Leena Conquest ('Boundaries'), both released in 1994.
In 1995, 'Maxinquaye' gets released. Besides Martina, it also features Ragga ('You don't') and Alison Goldfrapp ('Pumpkin') on vocals. The album is very successful (Number two in the UK charts) and Tricky soon becomes a media darling and inventor of a new musical genre, the so called Trip-Hop. Tricky himself declares that he hates that term and doesn't see his music as Trip-Hop: "If you listen to trip-hop... if you actually listen to what trip-hop is, my music don't sound nothing like it. You can hear where kids have been influenced, and I can hear influences and shit, but it's totally different music. My music's my music, though." (Raygun 99). Probably everyone else hates the word in Bristol - now hyped as the hometown of Trip-Hop with bands and artists like Portishead, Massive Attack, Roni Size, Smith & Mighty, Statik Sound System, Monk & Canatella, Purple Penguin and the Cup Of Tea label.
But back to Tricky: He tours with PJ Harvey in Europe and the States and Martina is already pregnant. In April 1995 their daughter Maisey is born and they start a solo tour through Europe and the US. Also around that time, Tricky founds his own record company 'Durban Poison', "named after a particularly potent brand of smoke" (The Face 96). The first release in October is an EP called 'I be the prophet' that Tricky released under the name 'The Starving Souls'. Other bands that he signed to Durban Poison include The Baby Namboos (mostly relatives of his), Genaside II, The Autumn People and Grace Jones. But for quite a while none of these releases really happened.
Meanwhile, Tricky's relationship with Martina is already only of an artistical nature. He is now with Björk and into some trouble with her former beau Goldie. He writes and produces two tracks on Björk's album 'Post' which is also released that year ('Enjoy' and 'Headphones'). That winter, Tricky starts recording his next album in Jamaica, near Ochorios, after his relationship with Björk is officially over.
1996 is one of Tricky's most productive years. He releases not only two albums and one EP, but also a lot of remixes and other collaborations with artists like Bush ('The Crow II'), Intastellla ('Grandmaster'), Sub Sub ('Smoking Beagles', which is also released as a b-side on Tricky's single 'Tricky Kid' later this year), Yoko Ono ('Rising'), Elvis Costello ('Distorted Angel') and Ambersunshower ('Chaos'). He also does a remix for Garbage ('Milk'), but the band is obviously not satisfied with this dark and hypnotic remix and only releases a softer version on the official single. The original Tricky remix can only be found on the 7" single and a promo CD.
'Nearly God' is the first of Tricky's own releases in 1996. He explains later that the title is inspired by a German interviewer who asked him how it feels to be God, well, nearly God. The project contains collaborations with Terry Hall (singer of The Specials), Alison Moyet, Cath Coffey, Neneh Cherry, Björk and Martina. It was recorded in about three weeks in the summer, and Tricky himself describes it as "a collection of brilliant demos". Tricky has already appeared on Terry Hall's 'Rainbows EP' (released last year) - with a live version that they did together of the Special's song 'Ghost Town'. Besides Hip Hop (he did a lot of cover versions of Hip Hop songs on all his albums) The Specials were one of Tricky's biggest early musical influences. He used a sample from their song '(Dawning of a) New Era' in Aftermath ('version 1') and the lyrics of another Special's tune ('Nite Klub') in a live version of his own song 'Ghetto Youth' on this year's tour. A version of 'Little drummer boy' by Terry Hall and Tricky is rumoured, but never released.
Originally 'Nearly God' also included a song with Blur singer Damon Albarn, but he pulled the song off at the last minute. Tricky says: "He wants to work on something for like two months and then do the vocals again and again and again, and I don't work like that." (Raygun 96) The song is later recorded again with former Madness singer Suggs, but this version ('I'll pass right through you') doesn't get released either. Four of ten rumoured songs with Neneh Cherry get released on her singles 'Woman', 'Kootchi' and 'Feel it' throughout 1996 and 1997. He also records another song with Cath Coffey, a cover of the Grease song 'Summer nights' which will be released in 1997 on her debut album 'Mind the gap' (only released in Japan so far).
In summer '96, Tricky starts a project with underground New York Hip Hop bands, which is his first attempt to bring British and American Hip Hop together. The result is an EP on the Pay Day label in the US called 'Tricky presents Grassroots'. It contains collaborations with The Hillfiguzes, Laveda Davis, Stephanie Cooke, Robert Malary Jr, and a slightly different version of his own song 'Tricky Kid'.
In November, Tricky's second solo album 'Pre-Millennium Tension' gets released. The title originated in a radio show, where the host described the nervousness of a calling woman with this term (PMT instead of PMS). 'Pre-Millennium Tension' is darker, more paranoid and not as radio friendly as 'Maxinquaye'. Tricky wanted it to be a punk record, and though the music may have turned out different it has this energy. He admits that he's still learning and wants "to write songs as good as Kurt Cobain or Bob Marley" (Raygun 96).
Besides all the recording he does a lot of touring during 1996 and 1997, including a Lollapalooza tour in summer '97. On these tours he starts to play a lot of unreleased songs, also long and freaked out versions of his songs. Later he says in an interview that this was one of the reasons he wrote the 'Pre-Millennium Tension' songs: to have some fast, energetic song to play live. TV appearances in 1997 include a taping for Sessions at West 54th and MTV's Fashionably Loud.
After he already appeared in a film back in 1995 ('Go Now', where he basically played himself), Tricky gets his first role in a major film in 1997. It's Luc Besson's 'Fifth Element', but he has just a little role as 'Right Arm' beside the main villain Gary Oldman.
Throughout the years Tricky lived a rather unhealthy lifestyle, always out and always drinking too much. "I was at the point of chaos in my life. I was heading for disaster." (The Face 98) The turning point was a broken leg. Tricky spends three weeks in New Orleans, rarely goes out and drinks a lot of water: "That's the healthiest I've been in years." (The Face 98). He also records fourteen songs in New Orleans, only three of these will make it to the next album, though.
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With 15 he begins to write lyrics ("I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants" MixMag 96), though not with the ambiguity and tricky-ness that showed up later on his albums. At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £50 notes off of a friend, who grassed Tricky up. In an interview, he says about his experiences in prison: "Prison was really good. I'm never going back." (NME 95).
Eventually he meets DJ Milo and hangs out with a posse called The Wild Bunch, which evolved into Massive Attack. He gets the nickname 'Tricky Kid' from DJ Krust (The Stool Pigeon 2008) and at 18 he becomes a member of the Fresh 4, a rap group built from the Wild Bunch. He also raps on Massive Attack's highly acclaimed debut album 'Blue Lines' which is released in 1992. But as soon as making music turns into a business he doesn't like it anymore. Though Tricky also appears on Massive Attack's next album, 'Protection', he never had the feeling of being a part of the band; never really enjoyed it.
Besides, he already had found his own way of making music. In 1991, before the release of 'Blue Lines', he met Martina Topley-Bird. The story of how they both met may be a myth, but it's a nice one: Martina was sitting on a wall near Tricky's house when he walked by and chatted her up. Some time later she comes to his house, and she mentions to Tricky and Mark Stewart (Bristolian producer and musician now living in Berlin) that she sings. She is only fifteen years old, but her 'honey-coated vox' impresses them and they record a song called 'Aftermath' (though The Face 95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called "Shoebox").
Tricky shows the song to Massive Attack, but they aren't interested. So in 1993 he decides to press a few hundreds vinyls with that song. He cut it directly off of the tape, so that the song is basically "just bassline and hiss." (NME 94). Finally, this white label gets him a contract with Island Records and he can start to record his first solo album.
In the same year in which he records 'Maxinquaye' (1994) he also works with other musicians like the Swedish band Whale. The results are three tracks on Whale's album 'We care' ('Kickin', 'Tryzasnice' and 'Young, dumb and full of cum') and another song ('The Now Thing') that was turned out as a b-side. He also starts making remixes for other people, like the one for Angelique Kidjo ('Agolo') and Leena Conquest ('Boundaries'), both released in 1994.
In 1995, 'Maxinquaye' gets released. Besides Martina, it also features Ragga ('You don't') and Alison Goldfrapp ('Pumpkin') on vocals. The album is very successful (Number two in the UK charts) and Tricky soon becomes a media darling and inventor of a new musical genre, the so called Trip-Hop. Tricky himself declares that he hates that term and doesn't see his music as Trip-Hop: "If you listen to trip-hop... if you actually listen to what trip-hop is, my music don't sound nothing like it. You can hear where kids have been influenced, and I can hear influences and shit, but it's totally different music. My music's my music, though." (Raygun 99). Probably everyone else hates the word in Bristol - now hyped as the hometown of Trip-Hop with bands and artists like Portishead, Massive Attack, Roni Size, Smith & Mighty, Statik Sound System, Monk & Canatella, Purple Penguin and the Cup Of Tea label.
But back to Tricky: He tours with PJ Harvey in Europe and the States and Martina is already pregnant. In April 1995 their daughter Maisey is born and they start a solo tour through Europe and the US. Also around that time, Tricky founds his own record company 'Durban Poison', "named after a particularly potent brand of smoke" (The Face 96). The first release in October is an EP called 'I be the prophet' that Tricky released under the name 'The Starving Souls'. Other bands that he signed to Durban Poison include The Baby Namboos (mostly relatives of his), Genaside II, The Autumn People and Grace Jones. But for quite a while none of these releases really happened.
Meanwhile, Tricky's relationship with Martina is already only of an artistical nature. He is now with Björk and into some trouble with her former beau Goldie. He writes and produces two tracks on Björk's album 'Post' which is also released that year ('Enjoy' and 'Headphones'). That winter, Tricky starts recording his next album in Jamaica, near Ochorios, after his relationship with Björk is officially over.
1996 is one of Tricky's most productive years. He releases not only two albums and one EP, but also a lot of remixes and other collaborations with artists like Bush ('The Crow II'), Intastellla ('Grandmaster'), Sub Sub ('Smoking Beagles', which is also released as a b-side on Tricky's single 'Tricky Kid' later this year), Yoko Ono ('Rising'), Elvis Costello ('Distorted Angel') and Ambersunshower ('Chaos'). He also does a remix for Garbage ('Milk'), but the band is obviously not satisfied with this dark and hypnotic remix and only releases a softer version on the official single. The original Tricky remix can only be found on the 7" single and a promo CD.
'Nearly God' is the first of Tricky's own releases in 1996. He explains later that the title is inspired by a German interviewer who asked him how it feels to be God, well, nearly God. The project contains collaborations with Terry Hall (singer of The Specials), Alison Moyet, Cath Coffey, Neneh Cherry, Björk and Martina. It was recorded in about three weeks in the summer, and Tricky himself describes it as "a collection of brilliant demos". Tricky has already appeared on Terry Hall's 'Rainbows EP' (released last year) - with a live version that they did together of the Special's song 'Ghost Town'. Besides Hip Hop (he did a lot of cover versions of Hip Hop songs on all his albums) The Specials were one of Tricky's biggest early musical influences. He used a sample from their song '(Dawning of a) New Era' in Aftermath ('version 1') and the lyrics of another Special's tune ('Nite Klub') in a live version of his own song 'Ghetto Youth' on this year's tour. A version of 'Little drummer boy' by Terry Hall and Tricky is rumoured, but never released.
Originally 'Nearly God' also included a song with Blur singer Damon Albarn, but he pulled the song off at the last minute. Tricky says: "He wants to work on something for like two months and then do the vocals again and again and again, and I don't work like that." (Raygun 96) The song is later recorded again with former Madness singer Suggs, but this version ('I'll pass right through you') doesn't get released either. Four of ten rumoured songs with Neneh Cherry get released on her singles 'Woman', 'Kootchi' and 'Feel it' throughout 1996 and 1997. He also records another song with Cath Coffey, a cover of the Grease song 'Summer nights' which will be released in 1997 on her debut album 'Mind the gap' (only released in Japan so far).
In summer '96, Tricky starts a project with underground New York Hip Hop bands, which is his first attempt to bring British and American Hip Hop together. The result is an EP on the Pay Day label in the US called 'Tricky presents Grassroots'. It contains collaborations with The Hillfiguzes, Laveda Davis, Stephanie Cooke, Robert Malary Jr, and a slightly different version of his own song 'Tricky Kid'.
In November, Tricky's second solo album 'Pre-Millennium Tension' gets released. The title originated in a radio show, where the host described the nervousness of a calling woman with this term (PMT instead of PMS). 'Pre-Millennium Tension' is darker, more paranoid and not as radio friendly as 'Maxinquaye'. Tricky wanted it to be a punk record, and though the music may have turned out different it has this energy. He admits that he's still learning and wants "to write songs as good as Kurt Cobain or Bob Marley" (Raygun 96).
Besides all the recording he does a lot of touring during 1996 and 1997, including a Lollapalooza tour in summer '97. On these tours he starts to play a lot of unreleased songs, also long and freaked out versions of his songs. Later he says in an interview that this was one of the reasons he wrote the 'Pre-Millennium Tension' songs: to have some fast, energetic song to play live. TV appearances in 1997 include a taping for Sessions at West 54th and MTV's Fashionably Loud.
After he already appeared in a film back in 1995 ('Go Now', where he basically played himself), Tricky gets his first role in a major film in 1997. It's Luc Besson's 'Fifth Element', but he has just a little role as 'Right Arm' beside the main villain Gary Oldman.
Throughout the years Tricky lived a rather unhealthy lifestyle, always out and always drinking too much. "I was at the point of chaos in my life. I was heading for disaster." (The Face 98) The turning point was a broken leg. Tricky spends three weeks in New Orleans, rarely goes out and drinks a lot of water: "That's the healthiest I've been in years." (The Face 98). He also records fourteen songs in New Orleans, only three of these will make it to the next album, though.
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