It's purely a matter of logistics and coincidence, nothing more than that," he later told The Daily Mail.ĭuring the podcast, Goldie told Scroobius Pip: "For something like graffiti, which has inspired the world with font or anything to do with anyone wearing a baseball cap and sneakers, at its centre it is still misunderstood. He is a mate as well, he's been to some of the gigs. “It would be a good story but sadly not true. In response, Del Naja said to a crowd of fans in Bristol that "we are all Banksy". Last year, a Scottish journalist "outed" Del Naja as Banksy claiming that many of the artist's artworks appeared in locations and days following the Massive Attack tour. Williams includes the notion that further graffiti will pop up as Massive Attack continues to tour.Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack performs on stage during day one of Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time. “A rumour exists from 2010 that his work that went up around North America was his work but were not necessarily painted by him, but rather by a street team that happened to be following the Massive Attack tour. And on analysis of his North American work, this makes perfect sense,” concluded the journalist.Ĭould Banksy and Robert Del Naja really be the same person? Although we aren’t likely to find out any time soon, the theory pushed by Mr. What if Banksy is a group of people who have stencilling different locations both at home and abroad? Such a rich body of work done over a decade, across the globe, may allow for the suggestion.” said Mr. “But what if Banksy isn’t the one person everyone thinks he is. Further connecting the two, Banksy provided the foreword to book 3D and the Art of Massive Attack which was released by Del Naja last year. In 2008 Banksy produced 14 stencils across New Orleans marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.ĭel Naja co-wrote the soundtrack to the New Orleans-themed documentary Trouble the Water during the same time frame.Īlso in April 2003 Banksy’s work appears in Melbourne, the same city Massive Attack had played the month before.Īnd in 2013, when the artist’s month long residency in New York kicked off on the 1st October, the dates coincided with Massive Attack’s four night residency in the city between the 28th September and the 4th October at the city’s Park Avenue Armoury.”Īnyone who has been enthralled by Banksy’s work might remember that Del Naja appeared in the graffiti artist’s Exit Through The Gift Shop movie, discussing the two’s friendship from his early days as a Bristol street artist. Similar patterns are reported in 2006 when Massive Attack embarked on a US tour, which included a slot at the Hollywood Bowl, LA, a week before Banksy’s Barely Legal exhibition in the city. Later on that tour Massive Attack head to Boston’s Chinatown a day after a Banksy appeared there. Massive Attack played Toronto a week later before more new Banksy murals were reported there. “According to Craig’s investigation six Banksy murals were reported in San Francisco on after Massive Attack performed a two night stint in the city on April 25 and 27. Williams investigation is that the two may be one person after all, especially considering that the Massive Attack star was a graffiti artist in the 80s.Ī Daily Mail story delineates the connections between the two iconic figures with a timeline of coincidental events that plot the band and Banksy’s work appearing in the same cities within the same periods of time. This isn’t the first time Del Naja would be linked to Banksy, earlier admitting to being a personal friend. Williams has been working to unveil the identity of the artist, plotting his murals around the world and discovering that on at least six occasions more than a dozen appeared shortly before or after Massive Attack gigs in the same cities over the past 12 years. At best, the conclusion states that if Del Naja isn’t Banksy himself, he is at least responsible for a team of people that is behind the project which has appeared in all corners of the globe since its inception in the early-to-mid 90s. The latest theory, forwarded by 31 year old investigative journalist Craig Williams, stakes a claim that the man behind the controversial art is also a man of music: Massive Attack founder Robert “3D” Del Naja. Officials from around the world and fans alike have been speculating for years about the true identity of the guerrilla graffiti artist, yet no conclusive evidence has ever been found.
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