The lead singer of Bristol band Massive Attack has launched a stinging attack on his home city's architecture, claiming it looks like "Eastern Europe in the 1960s".

Robert Del Naja, also known as 3D, made his latest outspoken comments about Bristol in an interview in a national newspaper.

He had described the city's waterfront buildings as being "eastern European".

He told The Guardian: "I was up on Brandon Hill yesterday, looking over the waterfront, and it's a ****ing mess.

"It looks like eastern Europe in the 60s. There's not a single building on the Bristol skyline that's been put there in the last 50 years that is of note which is legacy-building."

Del Naja also went on to repeat his criticism of the name of Colston Hall, ahead of a week-long programme of events to celebrate its new foyer.

The hall was named after Edward Colston, a Bristol born slave trader from the 1600s. Massive Attack called for the hall to have its name changed back in 2002, refusing to play the venue because of the names association with slavery.

Other Bristol artists would not appear to share their views, as Roni Size and Beth Rowley will be performing at the venue at the end of the month.

Del Naja said: "They've spent £18m on it, and our point was, if you're going to re-brand Colston Hall, don't you want to think about changing it's name so it's not named after a slave-ship builder?

"You could just alter it, so it's called the Colston Hall and the Sierra Leone Centre, or the Freetown Centre. You don't have to erase Colston, you just have to add something about West Africa to the equation, so when people come to Bristol, it's not hidden."

But it's not just Colston Hall the group hasn't played, as Massive Attack hasn't performed at any of the city's musical venues for several years.

Bristol was conspicuous by it's absence in the line-up for the group's current UK tour, which instead takes in such lesser known musical destinations as Swindon.

Del Naja began as a Bristol graffiti artist before forming the St Paul's based Wild Bunch group in the mid-1980s, which included Knowle West rapper Tricky and producer Nellee Hooper.

This isn't the first time Del Naja has been vocal in his criticism of Bristol.

When the £500 million shopping centre Cabot Circus opened last year he branded it "absolute vandalism", and said it "captured that gripping 80s shopping mall look of mid-America slash the Midlands".

His architectural critique coincided with his Massive Attack colleague and fellow Bristolian Grant Marshall, aka Daddy G, playing a DJ set at the launch of the upscale fashion store Harvey Nichols on its star-studded launch night.