Apparently The Face Magazine published an article in 2008 claiming that vocalist Martina Topley-Bird had to single-handedly bring up the child that Tricky had fathered. I’m assuming the author of the article was referring to Tricky and Martina’s 15 year old daughter but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if they were actually speaking of the the entire stage show.
Saturday night’s show at Club Soda was highly entertaining but Adrian “Tricky” was hardly present.
Despite the fact that on the Tricky website, all the videos and photos are of Adrian as well as the band bio, he pretty much left 90% of the singing and over-all front-man-ship to Franky Riley.
Honestly, there were a few times where Franky looked over at Tricky in a “what are you doing?” and “will you be joining us for any of these songs?” kind of way.
His contribution, as far as I could see, was taking off his shirt immediately upon gracing the stage, occasional back-up vocals, compulsive joint smoking and standing with his back to the audience, swaying back and forth.
In fact, if this picture were of the back of his head, it would depict perfectly what we saw of him all night:
Oh wait! There was the part where during the encore, Adrian invited the entire audience on stage to dance with him. For some reason, mostly guys took him up on his offer and it was only a matter of minutes before the venue was overcome with the thick stench of sweaty ball sack.
Then Tricky disappeared off the stage, leaving the band alone to stand around watching the audience flail around on stage to a pre-recorded track of Nelly or 50 Cent.
2/3 of the room emptied before we realized the show wasn’t over and the band and Franky finished up the night with a couple of songs; Adrian still MIA.
Highlights of the event include discovering Franky Riley, applying Jen R’s hand lotion liberally before realizing that it was flavoured-condom scented and the two hot chicks having sex in the stall next to me while I was in the bathroom.
Original article: It’s Tricky…