COUNTER-CULTURE heroes Morcheeba and Tricky will co-headline the Saturday bill at this summer's Galtres Parklands Festival at Duncombe Park, Helmsley.

Both established their status within cutting-edge British music in the 1990s and are known for flouting conventional style with their unique approaches. Tyeish Liburd profiles the two acts.


Name: Morcheeba

Occupation: Adult contemporary, folk-rock, down-tempo, trip-hop band.

What is trip-hop? "A genre of electronic dance music combining hip-hop with softer, psychedelic sounds and slower tempo.” (dictionary.reference.com)

Band members: Ross Godfrey, guitarist; Paul Godfrey, turntables; Skye Edwards, age 42, vocals.

Band formed: to Skye Edwards when she performed at a party.

Style: Chilled out, with real depth and soul.

Debut album: Who Can You Trust?, 1996.

Breakthrough album: Big Calm, 1998

Number of studio albums to date: Eight, including Fragments Of Freedom, 2000; Charango, 2002; The Antidote, 2005; Dive Deep, 2008; Blood Like Lemonade, 2010; Head Up High, 2013.

Best known songs: Trigger Hippie; Tape Loop; Shoulder Holster; Let Me See; Part Of The Process; Rome Wasn't Built In A Day.

Most controversial moment: Godfrey brothers dismissed Edwards in 2003, due to apparent creative and personal differences. Group then had a number of replacement vocalists, such as Daisy Martey and Jody Sternberg, but the original line-up reunited in 2009, releasing Blood Like Lemonade on June 7 2010.

You may not know: Edwards owns and runs her own record label, Skyewards Recordings.

Where and when playing in North Yorks: Galtres Parklands Festival 2014, Duncombe Park, August 23.

 

Name: Tricky

Birth name: Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws.

Born: January 27 1968.

Age: 46.

Birthplace: Knowle West, Bristol, Somerset.

Background; Jamaican/English/Ghanaian.

Occupation: Trip-hop musician; producer; actor.

Style: Dark, whispering style of rap.

Initial works: Began to write poems at 15. Music career started at 18 as a member of rap group The Fresh 4; then sang with Massive Attack, 1988-1994.

Breakthrough: Debut album Maxinquaye on Island Records. In the year of its release in 1995, it was nominated for the Mercury Prize and was Melody Maker and NME’s album of the year.

Subsequent albums: Nearly God, 1996; Pre-Millennium Tension, 1996; Angels With Dirty Faces, 1998; Juxtapose, 1998; Blowback, 2001; Vulnerable, 2003; Knowle West Boy, 2008; Mixed Race, 2010.

Latest album: False Idols, 2013.

Film music: Tricky featured on soundtrack of Steve Beck’s Thirteen Ghosts, 2001, and Michael Rymer’s Queen Of The Damned, 2002.

Tricky on screen: Appeared in Luc Besson's 1997 sci-fi epic The Fifth Element, where good and evil battled for the future of 23rd century Earth.

Collaboration number one: Sang on Garbage's 1996 Top Ten hit Milk.

Collaboration number two: Set up record label Brown Punk with Chris Blackwell, legendary Island Records founder.

Collaboration number three: Appeared on stage at Glastonbury 2011 with Sunday headliner Beyonce. Apparently, he was unsatisfied with his performance.

You may not know: Named debut album Maxinquaye after his mother, Maxine Quaye, a poet, who had committed suicide when Tricky was four.

Where and when playing in North Yorkshire: Galtres Parklands Festival 2014 at Duncombe Park, August 23.

For Galtres Parklands Festival tickets, book online at galtresfestival.org.uk