MASSIVE ATTACK (London Brixton Academy, 04/02/16)

There's not many acts left on my bucket list - and, let's face it, the likelihood of ever crossing off Tom Waits is depressingly low - but the original trip-hop collective have for some reason always eluded me. But tonight, 14 years after I fell in love with "Blue Lines", I finally caught up with 3D, Daddy G and Horacy Andy at Brixton Academy, and it was most certainly worth the wait. The decades haven't blunted their political edge (the sparse retro visuals are almost entirely themed around the Syrian migration crisis), nor the otherworldly brilliance of Horace Andy's vocals on "Angel", and a rare airing of "Unfinished Sympathy" was the joyfully-received cherry on the cake.