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Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. The band consists of four fictional members: 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs. Their universe is depicted through music videos, interviews, comic strips, and short cartoons. Damon Albarn is the sole consistent musical contributor, with the band featuring collaborations with various artists. Gorillaz's music marks a departure from Albarn's work with Blur, incorporating genres such as hip hop, electronic, and world music. Their debut album, 'Gorillaz', released in 2001, includes influences from trip hop, punk rock, dub, and Latin music, and achieved triple platinum status in the UK and double platinum in Europe, driven by the success of the single 'Clint Eastwood'. Their second album, 'Demon Days', released in 2005, attained six times platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US, and featured hit singles such as 'Feel Good Inc.', 'Dare', 'Dirty Harry', and 'El Mañana'.
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Pop-punk trio top 2027 bill as Czech festival shifts a week earlier

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The album features collaborations with Paul Simonon and Black Thought.

The 2026 festival will host over 200 performers.

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There's also The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Doja Cat, Massive Attack, Wet Leg, Jade

Recording spanned India to Syria, with multilingual performances and archival guest appearances.

Albarn also discussed appearing at the Brian Eno-hosted Palestine Benefit at Wembley next month.

The virtual band will perform their only non-UK show at Madrid's Pulse of Gaia festival this September, celebrating their 25th anniversary.

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The musician was honored for his creative contributions and commitment to environmental causes.

It's available to stream now.

We’ve heard of cult bands before, but with their new album ‘Cracker Island’, Gorillaz are taking it to extremes.

There's also Jockstrap, The 1975, Wesley Joseph, Jessica Winter and loads more.

The Dork cover stars' new album, 'Cracker Island', is out on 24th February.

Not only that, but you can grab an exclusive Jamie Hewlett illustrated cover to celebrate too. Well worth selling your soul for.

The album will drop on 24th February.

There'll be a pair of special performances in New York and London, too.

The 2022 event was hosted last night, November 13th, at Düsseldorf’s PSD Bank Dome.

The full record is slated to arrive on February 24th.

The band also have a new album coming early next year.

The band delivered a mash-up of ‘Afraid To Feel’ & ‘DARE’, as well as playing their own single, ‘OTT’.

Check out the latest track from it, 'New Gold', featuring Tame Impala.

The song - which got a first play at All Points East last week - is due on Wednesday, 31st August.

They gave a first airing to the track at All Points East.

Debuted live earlier this year, the song features Thundercat.

There's no release date for the track yet, but it has been played live.

“It’s been a really weird week in this country,” says Damon Albarn after ‘Tomorrow Comes Today’, and he’s not wrong; “...with a real surprise, but then an inevitable bullshit outcome.” “But this is only the beginning,” he adds. “It’s going to grow.” It’s fitting that Gorillaz chose to name today’s one-day festival after ‘Demon Days’. Released in the post-Iraq invasion early ‘00s, in an atmosphere of uncertainty and anger, it was the album where the playful mask of the cartoon side-project started to slip, revealing melancholy, slyly subversive, but ultimately uplifting depths. And it’s fitting too that they should hold it here in Thanet, where 64% of voters opted for Brexit - triggering the chaos currently taking shape on the horizon - but where the revamped Margate Dreamland has played a part in revitalising one of Britain’s oldest seaside towns, run-down for many years. ‘Uncertainty leaves room for hope’ was scrawled by Albarn on the wall of his studio during the recording of ‘Demon Days’; it’s a phrase that definitely rings true today. The clarity of the concept behind ‘Demon Days’ is missing on this year’s ‘Humanz’, which with its succession of guest spots plays more like a mixtape. But that should make it ideally suited to a live setting, and most of the album’s guests are here today; a selection of supporting attractions to amuse as we queue for candy floss or a spin on the waltzers. In the Hall by the Sea, Kilo Kish dances a dizzying line between R&B, alt-pop and musical theatre, before De La Soul stir up the Main Stage crowd with daisy-age positivity and a run through ‘A Roller Skatin' Jam Named "Saturdays"’ which couldn’t fail in this heat. Kali Uchis and Vince Staples both underwhelm slightly, Staples not helped by the usual 6pm rush to the food stalls, but back in the Hall there’s a commanding set from Little Simz, mixing light (picking up a guitar for the tender ‘Interlude’) and dark (‘Dead Body’), before a vicious ‘Bars Simzson’. There’s a tough choice next, between Kano, leaning mostly on last year’s ‘Made in the Manor’ - a brass-assisted ‘New Banger’, ‘This is England’, and the apt ‘T-Shirt Weather in the Manor’ are highlights - and Danny Brown. Both are excellent, but those who make it into a near-capacity Hall for Brown are treated to ‘Dip’,‘Grown Up’ and a frenzied ‘Ain’t It Funny’ ramping up the bass, and wild-eyed intensity, to sweat-inducing levels. As fans have wandered past street food stalls, tin can alleys and chainsaw-juggling unicyclists today, black-clad figures have been silently stalking the site, holding all-seeing-eye flags and looking like an invasion from Doctor Who. They start assembling on the Main Stage, ominously tolling bells, before removing their masks. It’s Gorillaz, and they’re soon joined by Vince Staples - and Albarn - for the rousing opener ‘Ascension’. A ‘Humanz’-heavy set follows - along with airings for the recently debuted ‘Sleeping Powder’ and the brand new ‘Garage Palace’ - but there are other early highlights in the shape of a searching ‘Last Living Souls’, and ‘Stylo’ - dedicated to the late Bobby Womack - which strikes a chord here (“Sing yourself out of depression/rise above... Electric is the love”). Grace Jones is sadly absent for ‘Charger’, and there’s no sign of Noel Gallagher either, his place on a triumphant ‘We Got The Power’ taken by one Graham Coxon, but the parade of guests still dazzles: De La Soul’s Pos for ‘Momentz’, with Maseo and Dave joining for an inevitable ‘Feel Good Inc.’ ending; Danny Brown, Coxon and Kelela for ‘Submission’ and Kilo Kish, who joins Albarn - who explains that they met for only the first time three hours before - for a stunning ‘Out of Body’. Perhaps best of all are the return of Kelela for ‘Humanz’ stand-out ‘Busted and Blue’ - that particular kind of fragile, spaced ballad Albarn does so well - a re-worked ‘Clint Eastwood’, with Kano and Little Simz trading bars in place of Del tha Funkee Homosapien, and, of course, a beaming Shaun Ryder, given a hero’s welcome for ‘DARE’. It’s hard to find much to fault about Demon Dayz, and, for the time spent here, it’s easy to forget the uncertainty that surrounds us. There’s an encore, but the words echoing in fans ears as they leave, climbing off Gorillaz’ carousel and back onto 2017’s, hanging on for dear life, are the last of the main set: “We got the power to be loving each other / No matter what happens / We've got the power to do that.”
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