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These are the videos I've seen or heard of, with the release
date, a short description, some pics and links where you can
see the videos. There are also links to some web sites about
the video directors. At the end you will find the videos Tricky
did with Massive Attack and some others that he appeared in
(Soul II Soul, Public Enemy and more), click here to jump there.
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Aftermath (24.1.1994)
director: Mike Lipscombe |
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This video is - like all of Tricky's early videos - directed by Mike Lipscombe. You can see Martina and Tricky in an empty old house, singing the lyrics. The light is moving so that the faces are sometimes in darkness and sometimes in light. Then there are some little fires, and sometimes you can see an old woman with an aquarium in her lap. Very strange atmosphere. The video was shot in a "derelict mental hospital", as you can read in the magazine Music Week (from 29. January 1994).
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Ponderosa (18.3.1994)
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The Ponderosa video is almost the sequel to Aftermath, it looks very similar, maybe even shot in the same location, and Tricky and Martina wear the same clothes. You can see Tricky and Martina in an elevator, mouthing the lyrics. As in Aftermath there is strange light and sometimes fire. But there are also some religious figures and signs, like burning crosses in the background.
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Overcome (11.1.1995)
director: Mike Lipscombe |
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This video was shot in the English town Cambersands, again by Mike Lipscombe. It takes place on the beach and has a bit of a science fiction touch. There are old fashioned dressed people walking at the beach, when suddenly helicoptors appear. They tear something out of the water, a metal ring with a bowl in the middle (see pic). Also Tricky and Martina are there, but just rarely to see. Read the Melody Maker article about the Overcome video shot in Cambersands
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Black Steel (18.3.1995)
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Almost throughout the whole video you can see Martina singing the lyrics, while other people or animals appear in the background. Sometimes parts of the lyrics are written on the screen, too. Inbetween you can see a band playing (only a drummer and guitar player), they look kind of aggressive. Just for the "switch on, switch off" part Tricky is there, holding his hands towards the camera.
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Hell is round the corner (8.7.1995) director: Stephane Sednaoui producer: Line Potmyr |
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The whole video is dominated by the colour red, the background is red and also Tricky's shirt or dress. The camera is moving around Tricky who is singing his part. When he's finished, he shakes his head and morphs into Martina (see pic). They both look kind of puzzled and wear a strange make-up. This goes on and on until in the end Tricky moves backwards to a door and melts with the red background.
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Pumpkin (24.10.1995)
director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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As the Hell Is Round The Corner video is dominated by the color red, here it is blue. You can see Alison Goldfrapp or Tricky - depending who is singing at the moment - in a lonely street. The light is blue and a little red light (like a laser) is moving from one to the other, pointing on their faces as they sing. As the video goes on, some other persons appear from both sides of the streets, who move towards them. They have flash lights and though they don't do much, you get the impression that they are not really friendly, the whole atmosphere gets a bit uncomfortable.
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Here come the aliens (February 1996)
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This video was made more than a year before the song appeared on the Makes Me Wanna Die single and the music is a bit different. I have never seen this video, but this is a descripition that was sent to me by Ferdinand (thanks a lot): "Black and white pictures; we see Tricky and Martina one time, Afrika Izlam the other time. Sometimes very clear pictures, they're sitting in a metro driving through the tunnels, Martina standing a bit behind Tricky. Sometimes the pictures are completely blurred. The camera fades in and out on them. Sometimes they say some lyrics sometimes not. Sometimes we just see the picture through the window of the metro... grafitti passing, lights, slower... faster... slower again. just like the images of the artists ... sometimes speeded up, sometimes slow motion..." Here you can read a description of this video in Italian (pdf file), via Way Back Machine, as the file is not online anymore.
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Poems (26.3.1996)
director: Pinko / Tricky |
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There are different elements or little stories in the video: At the beginning there's Tricky with a boxing glove, in front of his mouth is a little camera or screen showing his mouth singing the lyrics. Then there are two kids (black and white) punching each other with boxing gloves, later Terry Hall and Tricky with the same gloves instead of the kids. In one scene Tricky, Martina and Terry are walking on a road (with parts of the lyrics on street signs or advertisements in the background), later they get into a car (with the word "bullet" on the front sign). In another scene they all hold signs saying "I'm Terry, I'm miserable" (Terry Hall), "Martina, I'm a weary lone parent" (Martina) and "I'm Tricky, unusually sensitive and paranoid" (see pic).
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Christiansands (22.10.1996)
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Tricky and Martina are in a room that could be a doctor's waiting room, Martina is reading in a magazine. Tricky wears a black suit and is walking in the room, later he's even climbing the walls. At the end of the video there are three disco divas singing in this room, all dressed in the same long dresses that are connected with each other. There were some rumours once that Tricky himself is the singing lady in the middle who hides her face a lot between her hands, but there's no real prove for that.
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Tricky Kid (December 1996)
director: Arthur Jafa |
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This video was shot in Berlin, before and after the Tricky concert there (December 4th '96). You can see Tricky and a woman walking in the streets (the area is called Schoeneberg, near the club Metropol where the gig was taking place), it looks like Tricky is following her. Later they are in a subway. Sometimes you can see closeups of Tricky on a roof, he has some strange makeup in his face... Then there are some scenes where Tricky is tied up in some metal chains inside a building and a lot of flashlights hit him. Some scenes are in black and white, they were taken in the club directly after the concert, with the audience walking behind Tricky. I was there, but unfortunately you can't see me. I guess the video should show the life of being a "superstar", with the real fans playing the fans...
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Makes Me Wanna Die (13.4.1997)
director: Floria Sigismondi |
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This video is really brilliant, kind of surreal. You can see Martina in a bathtub, Tricky at some other place. Then suddenly there are lizards and snakes on Martina's head and body. All the scenes have a very soft and golden light and have the typical Sigismondi effect: Tricky's moves are speeded up and then slowed down, so that they look very strange and not really human. At the end Tricky's face is close to Martina's and a long lizard tongue comes out of his mouth, reaching for her face.
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Money Greedy (1998)
director: Theodore Witcher |
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Tricky said in interviews that Broken Homes and Money Greedy have a close connection, and also the videos for the two songs are connected somehow. In the Money Greedy video we can see Tricky and a bunch of other people, they're in an elevator most of the time (see pic). They're dressed as if they want to make a robbery or something like that, wearing black masks sometimes. Inbetween you can see streets in NY and one particular car driving, sometimes with visual effects that duplicate the car. Later you can see Tricky in a cab, he's obviously hurt, holding his hands to his stomach. Then we see Martina walking on the street, afterwards putting a kind of oxygen mask on Tricky's face. But in the end it turns out to be a bad dream, since Tricky's waking up in bed.
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Broken Homes (May 1998)
director: Theodore Witcher |
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The video for Broken Homes starts where Money Greedy ends, in bed. The woman that was sleeping besides Tricky gets up, he's still asleep. From then on you can see different scenes: PJ Harvey singing in a street, men carrying a coffin, Tricky in a cab again and in front of a church (see pic), later also in the church. As the story of the woman develops further, it gets clear that it is her corpse in the coffin, later we can also see her body in the coffin in the church. She has a quarrel with a fat, old man (her husband?), he hits her, but she rans away. Then she's talking to Tricky, but the older man approaches then and shoots her. At the very end you can see Tricky again in the cab passing the street where PJ Harvey is standing, and their eyes meet as the cab passes. Check out this audio interview where Tricky talks about this video
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For Real (July 1999)
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Tricky is sitting in a dining room or an asian restaurant on a big table. As the camera goes round the table you can see other people at the table, always different people. If I'm not mistaken, there are also one or two members of The Baby Namboos sitting. A lot of these men look like gangsters (and the end of the video suggests that Tricky is one, too). Tricky is mouthing the lyrics, partly to himself, partly to his neighbours as if he is talking to them. Later on he leaves the restaurant and walks in a barber shop. After someone put a towel on his face he is alone in the shop, looking at himself in the mirror, still singing the lyrics. Then the camera moves to the outside of the shop and you can see at first one policemen at the door, ready to get in, then even a LOT more policemen on the street. |
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Revolution Love (May 2001) director: Jake Scott |
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The video was directed by Jake Scott (son of Ridley Scott) who also made the movie "Plunkett & McLeane" and other videos for Live. It plays in some dark city streets, by night. You can see Tricky, Ed Kowalczyk and Hawkman, walking through the streets singing the lyrics. The interesting thing is that in fact it is only one person with different masks on, tearing down the mask when the singer changes. Like Tricky said in an interview about the song: "It's a song about different people from different planets and how they all feel the same thing. Me and Hawk and me and Ed are very different, but we come from the same experiences. Everyone's alike in some way."
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Don't Wanna (July 2001) director: ??? |
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Apparently there are two version of this video, one with another song ('Unofficial') in the middle (see below) and one without. 1) version without 'Unofficial' (length 3.34): You can see different scenes: a Tricky concert (filmed during the 2001 winter tour with Nicky Love singing), a woman boxing (the same one that you can see in the pic), a woman mouthing the lyrics of 'You Don't Wanna' (but she doesn't look like Ambersunshower). 2) version with 'Unofficial' (length 3.28): it has the 'Unofficial' video and music in the middle (from 0:27 to 1:43), a song only released on the French 2CD version of 'Blowback'. Before this song starts you can read "Tricky presents... Phatt Black". In that middle part you can see scenes from a party or club and Tricky standing still with lots of women, who look like (or some of them are) mannequins used of decorating windows. Unfortunately I can't find that version online anywhere (back then it was on the Anti website, Tricky's label at that time). But check out the 'Unofficial' video below with links to watch it. Here's a "Behind the scenes" video from the shoot of the 'Unofficial' video, the music played is 'Intro,Outro' (b-side of the 'You Don't Wanna' single): Dailymotion or You Tube
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Unofficial (2003?) director: Bas Vink |
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This video was shot in Madonna's club in London. You see people dancing in the club, two rappers rapping and in some short scenes you see Tricky surrounded by women, who look like mannequins for window decorations. Parts of this video are used in an alternative version of the "You Don't Wanna" video (see above). Here's a "Behind the scenes" video from the shoot: Dailymotion or You Tube (the music is 'Intro, Outro', b-side of the 'You Don't Wanna' single).
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Antimatter (May 2003) director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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In this video you can see Tricky and the female singer, Costanza Francavilla, in a room that looks almost like a cell. They move as if they feel sick, and their movements are filmed with special effects so that you can see them double. There is another video for The Antimatter Remix (Jimmy & T Remix) on the bonus DVD of 'Vulnerable' (see below), unfortunately this version can't be found online anymore (it was on the Anti website, Tricky's label at that time).
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Antimatter Jimmy & T. Remix
(May 2003) director: Stephane Sednaoui ??? |
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This is a totally different video than the one for 'Antimatter'. It shows Tricky and Costanza Francavilla recording the song (see pic), and in between other scenes with a couple dancing (first on the streets, later in a room). The woman of the dancing couple is sometimes changing from a "normal" one to a half naked and tattooed one. The video is released on the enhanced CD-Rom version of 'Vulnerable'.
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Council Estate (2008)
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This video was shot in Aulnay sous Bois, a Paris suburb, inside and outside of simple and poor houses. You can see different people, really angry or frustrated about their lives. At one point their faces are blurred with some visual effects. Tricky is also inside a flat, singing the lyrics. At the end all the people, also Tricky and some other guys, are leaving the house, one guy is breakdancing and they all seem happy and in party mode. It ends with Tricky standing alone in front of the house and thinking (see pic). The director is Valerie Pirson, as you can read here.
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Puppy Toy (2008) director: Dominic Leung |
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The video was filmed in a bar with unreal lighting. Tricky is dressed up, a guy is plaing the piano and a woman is singing. During the chorus the lighting is changing from red to blue-green and people are dancing. You can read more about the director and the video here (although the song is called "Puppy Dog" there).
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Murder Weapon (2010)
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The video was filmed in Tricky's boxing club "La Salle" in Paris, where you can see him working out and training with other guys. In between you can see other scenes that tell a kind of gangster story: a woman with a gun, people couting money, two of them are meeting Tricky when he leaves the boxing club, starting a fight (see pic). In the end the woman is shooting with her gun, but you can't see at whom, and Tricky is sitting in a shower.
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Ghetto Stars (2010)
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There is a shorter (3:24) and a longer version (4:55) of this video. In the shorter version you see different scenes showing Tricky and friends as criminals, often surrounded by people admiring him. Later on he meets with Freddie Foreman, who makes a short statement in the beginning of the longer version. He is a well known British criminal, convicted for murder and robbery. Tricky did an album with Gareth Bowen about British gangsters once ("Product of the encvironment"), Freddie Foreman was one of them (see more here). In his statement he says that young people have better education now than he had and that prison is not "a joy". The video contrasts his life against today's "ghetto stars" who seem to be criminals just to have fun, be cool and not because they are forced to. Tricky said in an interview once: I’ve got a friend called Freddie Foreman who is now about 78 years old, and he became a criminal to feed his family and get on. It’s not even like that now – kids do it now just to get a name or a reputation, and that’s because it’s been glamorised, which is kind of sad.
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Time To Dance (2011) directors: Pepe Belmonte & Jenny Lindfors |
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This video is directed by Pepe Belmonte (Francesca's brother) and Jenny Lindfors. It is a mix of photos with video parts of Francesca singing, dancing and being at a beach or in car, sometimes in black & white, sometimes in color. The chorus also has caleidoscope-like effects, and often the screen is split in two halfs. _
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Does It (March 2013) director: Tricky |
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The first video that Tricky directed and produced himself! You see scenes of Tricky and the band playing in dark blue light (see pic) mixed with film footage of violent street scenes and war scenes in blurred lights.
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Nothing Matters (May 2013) director: Garry Wood |
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The video was directed by Garry Wood, as you can read here. You can download it here. It is filmed in black and white and with a sort of fish-eye look. You can see a poor, urban environment, probably in England. From time to time a woman is showing the chorus with sign language in slow motion (see pic).
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Hey Love (June 2013)
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This video was done by the fans (no, like-minded people!), who uploaded photos to Instagram. Tricky and his crew then chose the photos that ended up in the video. There was also a competition to make a second video on Genero.tv, the deadline to send in a video was August 8 and the winner should be announced and honored on November 2 in London. The winner was Hugo Goudswaard, and his video was released in December (see below). _
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Parenthesis (5.9.2013) director: Tricky |
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This is the second video that Tricky directed, other credits are: camera by Frank Djouk, Sten Pittet and Jack. The video starts with Tricky going, more creeping, up the stairs, but it doesn't have a real story. You can see Tricky with headphones and a woman, in a yellow-greenish light, often out of focus and blurred. It reminds me a bit of the Makes Me Wanna Die video.
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Is That Your Life (4.11.2013) directors: Tricky & Len Trusty |
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This is the third video that Tricky directed, together with Len Trusty. The music was reworked by Tony Ra (2DMP), because Tricky thought the album version wouldn't fit a video. In the video you can see different scenes with a man (Danny Duvall), who seems to be a criminal. You can see him drunk in a bar, a strip club, robbing a store (through the eyes of the store camera), taking drugs, vomiting, playing violent video games with kids, lying on the bed with blood on his shirt, boxing... In the last scene you see him walking out of his house with a police uniform.
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Hey Love (18.12.2013) director: Hugo Goudswaard |
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This is the second video for 'Hey Love', the first one was done with Instagram photos (see above). This one is the winner of a competition on Genero.tv, the deadline to send in a video was August 8 and the winner should be announced and honored on November 2 in London. This is what the director Hugo Goudswaard says about the video: ”The song ‘Hey Love’ stimulated my mind and gave me inspiration to build a surreal trip into the darkness. I visualised a woman on a bench in a park undergoing different stages within a relationship. A snail being her counterpart. At the same time it is also a tribute to the dark skin. But people have to decide for themselves how to interpret this video, I just gave them the pieces to build their own story.” The model's name is Nella Ngingo, as you can read here. You can watch a "behind the scene" video on Vimeo.
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Sun Down (24.9.2014) director: Tricky |
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This is the first video from the album 'Adrian Thaws', Tricky directed it himself. It was shot in New York with Norman Reedus (of "The Walking Dead"), Cesar Aceituno and Mizuo Peck. The video starts with a sort of intro with the music of the Straight Face Remix of Nicotine Love. The story of the video is a little bit hard to grasp, it looks like Tricky murdered his girlfriend (Mizuo Peck) after a fight, in between you can see her face up close with blood on it, in the dark of a club (these scenes were shot at the club 'Cameo Gallery' in Brooklyn). According to the video description on You Tube Tricky and Norman Reedus play 'fictionalized versions of themselves'.
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My Palestine Girl (11.12.2014)
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This video was directed the day after Tricky's concert in Katowice, Poland (on October 31), where he met the directors. In this video you can see images of a woman mixed with images of flames and smoke. Tricky is mouthing the lyrics, his head in the dark. Towards the end it looks like a man is raping the woman, then leaving her lying on a bed with red flames (see pic). The actors are Zonia Al-Raboee and Lester. _
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Beijing To Berlin (16.10.2015)
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This video was released on the same day as the Beijing To Berlin single. In the video you can see Ivy (who does the vocals on this track) walking through the streets. Most of the time in a Chinese city (probably Beijing), a few times in Berlin, so the title is taken literally. You can also see Tricky's face when he is doing his vocals. I don't know who directed the video. _
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Diving Away (17.12.2015)
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This video is directed by Tricky and was shot in his Berlin appartment. There's no story in it, just different scenes like Luke Harris mouthing the lyrics in front of a wall and on a carpet, both of them standing at a window (see pic) or on the street, a tree, a glass with bees and other stuff. Credits for the video are: director: Tricky, Camera: Lucas Aurel Köppe, Assistant Camera: Raphael Peters, Editing: Mark Hunt.
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This video is directed by Tricky and Darrel Pursey and was shot in Knowle West, where Tricky grew up, which makes sense because the lyrics are autobiographical. You can see a man (starring Ben Ferris) boxing in a gym (it's actually Pursey's Gym inside Broad Plain Youth Club, read about here), running through the dark streets and walking on a graveyard. There's also a short scene with Whitley Allen, when he is mentioned in the lyrics ("me and Whitley hustled... But Whitley way too real"). I've read there's a short appearance of Tricky (probably the man with the dog?), but I'm not sure.
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When We Die (1.8.2017)
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This video was shot in New York City. The camera goes along different streets, always in slow motion, starting at day and ending at night. You can see people on the streets, most of them homeless people. For a while the camera follows a little boy, according to IMDB his name is August Bannerman. It also stars Tricky, but to be honest I didn't spot him. As you can read on IMDB the video was "written" by Jenny Marie Baldoz and Tricky. Side note: It seems she also filmed another video with / for Tricky, see this Instagram post. It seems Tricky will be starting something called False Idols Films.
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New Stole (13.12.2017)
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In this video you can see a woman (singer Francesca Belmonte) moving and being treated with all kinds of effects. It looks like she is like wax melting and changing. It is directed by a collective of video artists called Indexthumb, wled by Will Hamilton. They say about the video: "The animation evokes the idea of someone who will only ever let you get so close, shapeshifting playfully, before melting away before your eyes." According to Francesca the lyrics are about "a baptism of fire. It’s about acknowledging your trauma, facing it, embracing it, loving it and letting it go. It’s about coming out the other side having done the work, changed forever, for better or worse. It’s about knowing yourself and moving on." (both quotes taken from Northern Transmissions)
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The Only Way (Stripped Down Tricky Mix) (8.3.2018) director: Oliver Jiszda |
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This video presents "an intimate and smoky portrait of Tricky", according to the official You Tube channel. You can see Tricky's face in black and white with smoke, in between other black and white images of streets, tunnels, a burning house and other stuff.
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Makes Me Wonder (26.11.2019)
director: Mateusz Miszczyński & Jakub Stoszek |
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In this video you can watch the singer Marta walk through the night streets and tunnels. Mateusz Miszczyński later did another video for Tricky ("I'm In The Doorway", see below).
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Fall Please (11.6.2020)
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This video features photos, videos and the lyrics. It is directed and animated by Marta Kacprzak.
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I'm In The Doorway (25.8.2020)
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In this video you can see a woman driving in a red car through a rural area, while she is blindfolded. In between there are scenes with a young girl (maybe herself in the past?). At the end the two meet on the street, the young girl pointing a gun (toy) to the arriving car. The video stops before you can see if the car hits the young girl or not. The video is directed by Mateusz Miszczyński, who also did the "Makes Me Wonder" video (see above).
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Massive Attack: Daydreaming (1990)
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In the start you see a little house or sort of cottage in the country-side. Tricky is sitting at a table, the other members of Massive Attack and Shara Nelson are also sitting or standing in the house. You can also see an old woman laying tarot cards on the table. The whole video is shot in black and white, so it has an almost nostalgic atmosphere.
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Massive Attack: Just A Matter Of
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This is rather a short film than a video, directed in the early days of Massive Attack. The story is simple: all the members of Massive Attack (including Shara Nelson) are looking for Tricky and asking themselves where he is. At the end they all meet for a dinner, someone knocks on the door and you can see Tricky for a short time (the only time he appears in the whole film)... Some web sites list the time of the video 8.02 (see inflightdata), although the versions you can find online are only 6.42 minutes. I think the video was never officially released, except for a compilation VHS with the name "Dance International Video Magazine Vol.5" (see a photo here). One You Tube info says it was shot in Bristol.
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Massive Attack: Karmacoma (1995) director: Jonathan Glazer |
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This video is almost like a little movie and hard to explain. You can see different scenes in an old fashioned hotel, sometimes in different rooms, sometimes on the corridor. In the rooms you can see a man with black paint on his body taking pictures of himself, Tricky and the other members of Massive Attack dressed in blue clothes with a red sign saying TexMex on it, a little boy watching TV. One of the scenes features Daniel Tatarsky who looks almost exactly like John Nance (who played the main character in David Lynch's "Eraserhead"). He is typing the word Karmacoma on a typewriter, only the letter K is missing. On the corridor you can see a man, sweating, with a gun and a plastic bag in his hand, searching for a room. Or two twin girls with the letter K from the typewriter...
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Soul II Soul: Represent (1997) directors: Tom Carty, Walter Campell |
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The video is in black and white and shows scenes with all kinds of people from different cultures, sometimes living together peacefully (mostly kids playing together), sometimes faced with racism. In between you can see writings like "God is black" or "What colour is your blood". One of the persons you can see is Tricky, standing in front of a wall (around 2:20 and around 4:22). At the end you see him laughing in the camera in front of a wall with "Soul II Soul" written on it (see pic).
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Public Enemy: Do you wanna go our way (1999) directors: Jonathan Woods, Chris Adams |
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The whole video takes place in a futuristic surrounding, it features not only Public Enemy but also different guests. One of them is Tricky, though he is hardly recognizable. You can see him in a small sort of bubble moving across the screen for a couple of seconds (starting at 2.53 of the director's cut).
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Live: Simple Creed (2001) director: Marc Webb |
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Tricky has just a short appearance in this video, he also contributes vocals to the song. You can see him on TV when his part in the song comes up, while a guy is watching him. His part on TV looks like taken from the Evolution Revolution Love video, but I'm not sure...
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Tool: Parabola (April 2002) director: Adam Jones |
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The video is hard to describe, so you'd better watch it yourself: It starts with three men who are doing a sort of satanic ritual. Then Tricky appears, with two wires or branches coming out of his head. When a little creature gets crushed by some balls (looking like a molecule or something), Tricky obviously gets angry and shouts at the molecule. He cuts the dead creature into two halfes, later walks in a forest and finds a leaf. The leaf suddenly turns into a flame with an eye in it and Tricky's body gets burned by the flames from bottom to top...
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Rico & Tricky: Mixed-Up Faces (2002) director: ??? |
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The video only has some parts with Tricky in it, and these parts are taken from other Tricky videos (Christiansands, Pumpkin in black & white - see pic, and others). The rest of the video you can see Rico being chased by other people. Directly at the beginning his face gets hit against a wall, so the rest of the video he has a bleeding nose and mouth. At the end he seems to have reached his home safely, but then...
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Radagon & Tricky: Receive Us (2003) director: ??? |
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This video can be found on the bonus DVD of 'Vulnerable' (see discography), the song on the 'Back to mine' album. The video starts with a tatooed woman (the same as in the Antimatter Remix video, see above) getting out of bed after talking to someone on the phone. At her side you can see a man sleeping in the dark, probably Tricky. Then you can see Tricky driving in a car, first at night in a city, then at day in a more suburban surrounding following the woman, who left the appartment and meets a man (her secret lover, obviously), these scenes are shot in bad quality, as if this is an old homeshot video. Suddenly it changes to the night setting again and some masked men kidnap the couple. It ends with the kidnappers threatening the couple with weapons.
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Radagon & Tricky: Snap Them (2003) director: ??? |
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This video can be found on the bonus DVD of 'Vulnerable' (see discography). You can see people dancing at a party or club, filmed in red lights, very dark and very hard to see. The first half of the video has some scenes in between with Tricky driving in a car (see pic).
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Balay feat. Tricky: Tongue Tied (2008) director: ??? |
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This video uses parts with Tricky from the Evolution Revolution Love video and the Makes Me Wanna Die video (see pic). Otherwise you can see Balay mouthing the lyrics.
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Massive Attack feat. Tricky: Take It There (28.1.2016) director: Hiro Murai |
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Neither Tricky nor Massive Attack appear in this video, but I still included it here. You can see a man (John Hawkes) walking or rather stumbling through the dark. At first you may think he's drunk, but later he seems more like a zombie. He meets other people / zombies who perform a sort of dance routine around him. They end up in an empty swimming pool, where they "dance" together and the man seems happy. Sometimes they move him as if he is a puppet, according to 3D the man is struggling with his "internal demons", which are probably represented by these people? At the end he falls down and lies on the ground, maybe dead, maybe not (his eyes are still moving). It seems the video was shot in Atlanta, judging from a comment on an Instagram photo. 3D made a (long and confusing) comment in a TV interview about the meaning of the video, which seems to have a direct connection to Tricky: "The fact that me and Tricky had a sort of quite fractious relationship over the years and we haven't done any work together for like 20 years, and the fact that we're back on the same track together, I ... look at it as a conflict in the central character John Hawkes' head as he's dealing with his own internal demons, this is quite a good visualisation of that idea where the conflict may lie in the song."
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