Tricky
Stephen Dalton, Venue (Bristol), July 2008
HOME, THE saying goes, is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to return to. The most restless, prolific, exotic, contentious and mercurial maverick to emerge from Bristol's 1990s music boom, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws seems to have spent the last decade on a mission to get as far away from home as possible.
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