You know, I consider myself to be a fairly good-natured person. But just between you, me, and however many people read this website (and who are attracted by the headline), there is one thing/person I really, really dislike. That thing/person is Nostradamus. Think about it: he has been dead over 400 years, but the things he said in his time were so damn freaky that people still talk about him. They believe that he was able to see into the future. They believe in the scary things he predicted. And that is unnerving!
Take a look at Wikipedia or the first website you find when you Google ""Nostradamus 2008'" -judas" -- you will find all kinds of disturbing events that people think he predicted. What a downer that guy must've been, am I right? But there is one momentous event that dude did not predict, and this leads me to believe that perhaps -- just perhaps -- he might not have had the awesome powers of clairvoyance that so many people attribute to him. That event, of course, is the return of the Bristol scene's mighty trip-hop triumvirate in the Year of Our Lord 2008. It's true! Everyone knows about the new Portishead album, Massive Attack's performance at Glastonbury, and now, finally, we have the coming of the new Tricky album Knowle West Boy, a record so awesome that it deserves a more in-depth mention in its very own paragraph!
Knowle West Boy has already been released in the UK and is slated for release in the United States September 9 via Domino Records. It's being hailed as Tricky's best work in years, and to celebrate, he's playing shows in Europe, the UK, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Australia and... for the first time in five years, the United States! The North American tour kicks off with an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman September 3, before descending upon selected cities. Get ready: the man's got a brand new backing band, and he's not afraid to use it!
