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It is undisputed that Massive Attack are one of the greatest British acts of all time, but one of the reasons why that is the intent of it all. Politically-, socially-, environmentally-conscious, they’re not just ‘all about the music’, with none of that ‘we write this for ourselves and if anyone else likes it, it’s a bonus’.

Their day at the new LIDO festival is entirely battery-powered, a first for a London festival, and is part of their new decarbonisation initiative that’s surely going to change everything for eco-friendly events; something to please local park net curtain-twitchers , you’d think.

And while other artists fret about whether it’s their place to talk about Gaza , Massive Attack use their major summer show in the capital as a multi-media platform f

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