FACT vs Tricky: the Domino fall-out, Margaret Thatcher, and upsetting Katie Price

Tricky’s story is well told: a kingmaking appearance on Massive Attack’s Blue Lines; 1995’s peerless debut Maxinquaye; trip-hop touchstone Pre-Millennium Tension; and a string of unpredictable albums tilting from punk to reggae and back again. His latest album, False Idols, arrives on his new label of the same name, and finds him sounding at his most focused since the mid 1990s. In the first of our anecdote-stuffed two-part interview, the Knowle West boy talks us through his fall-out with former hom