Dear Friend

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Album Info

Release Date: 2016-09-03

Labels: The Vinyl factory, Battle Box, Virgin EMI Records

Heavyweight transparent blue vinyl held in transparent red plastic sleeve with text on either side of the sleeve.

Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies sold exclusively at the Massive Attack The Downs concert Bristol UK, Saturday 3rd September 2016. Due to poor weather conditions at the concert the remaining vinyl were later sold at Friendly Records and Idle Hands (both independent record shops in Bristol) for the same price of £20.00 and limited to one per person.

A further 700 un-numbered copies (Massive Attack, James Massiah - Dear Friend) were later sold through The Vinyl Factory website on 30 Sep 2016, stating this is limited to 1000 copies.

The A side is a new and original recording with spoken word lyrics. The B side features the same lyrics, however spoken over the instrumentation of "Take It There" from Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit.