MASSIVE ATTACK - Just A Matter Of Time (1990)

JUST A MATTER OF TIME
subtitled "Where's Tricky?"
Directed by Roger Pomphrey, Bristol 1990

――When you started working with Massive Attack, were you aware that this was The Big Break?
Tricky: No. It went from fun to... not so much fun. When we got a record deal and my friend Miles left the band, the music changed. Suddenly people were worrying about what you said on the mic. I wanted to do some Jamaican cursing on one track and 3D wouldn't let me. To be honest with you, when Massive Attack signed a deal I was getting £200 a week and a pager, which meant I didn't have to go out and thief. It was just work. After a while, I didn't turn up in the studio. They did a video once called 'Where's Tricky?'　――The Stool Pigeon, 2008