In Photos: Tricky, Strait Laces @ The Academy, Dublin

With ninth studio album Mixed Race still hot off the presses, and almost twenty years on from his career-making turn on Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, hip-hop and soul veteran Tricky is still out to prove he’s in it for the long haul. A packed house was there to greet him when he played a moodily-lit Academy in Dublin on Sunday night.
 
The man himself showed he’s lost none of his bark, opening his set with a herbal cigarette-toting striptease that caught the attention of the crowd and security staff in equal measure. Support came from energetic Northerners Strait Laces, and our man in the pit Mark Earley was there to commit some photos to memory card. Click on any of the images below to load a slideshow of his shots.