Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
After a year of tragedy, the spotlight-shy producer stays in the shadows during this erratic yet utterly mesmerising set
Tricky has always been allergic to celebrity. When his 1995 debut album, Maxinquaye, went No 3 and made him a media darling, his horrified reaction was to dismiss the “coffee-table” record and the trip-hop movement it birthed, and to move his music firmly left field to evade unwanted critical hyperbole.
This aversion to the limelight was best illustrated when he was an unlikely guest during Beyoncé’s headline set at Glastonbury in 2011. Trapped in the spotlights before roughly 100,000 people and a TV audience of millions, he froze, unable to deliver his verse. “I told the press my mic wasn’t working,” he later admitted. “It was working fine.”
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