The Gorillaz Thread

[shakermaker113]

isn't it being released in just a couple of weeks? they've done a good job keeping this under wraps.

[BlackSwan]

Yeah, the release is March 8th, so a little more than two weeks. I wake up every morning hoping it's leaked. Disappointment is a great way to start the day.

[betao]

Yeah, the release is March 8th, so a little more than two weeks. I wake up every morning hoping it's leaked. Disappointment is a great way to start the day.

I feel a similar feeling everytime the Massive Attack thread or the LCD SS thread is bumped, hoping for US tourdates.

Gets me everytime

[GnarVee]

Yeah, the release is March 8th, so a little more than two weeks. I wake up every morning hoping it's leaked. Disappointment is a great way to start the day.

STORY. OF. MY. LIFE.

[Gribbz]

I kinda assumed "Plastic Beach" wouldn't leak. I hope that's not the case for LCD Soundsystem as well.

[FoxeyLady]

Another amazing Stylo remix:

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Gorillaz/...ddy_Bang_Remix

[ArcadeParade]

I really want that Q magazine, and have been waiting and waiting. But what is now out where I am is a cover with John Lennon...I don't even see this cover on their website. Is the Gorillaz cover not for north america?

[brando4n82]

I'm actually pondering buying the cd when it comes out. I don't even rememeber the last time I bought a cd. I kind of want to buy the Sec.ed. MGMT cd,, i have no idea why though.

[Aurgasm]

I'm actually pondering buying the cd when it comes out. I don't even rememeber the last time I bought a cd. I kind of want to buy the Sec.ed. MGMT cd,, i have no idea why though.

....

[pinkfloydsgurl]

I'll be there to see them play, my first Live Gorillaz concert...i'm beside myself! WOOHOO!

[Aurgasm]

I'll be there to see them play, my first Live Gorillaz concert...i'm beside myself! WOOHOO!

there are a handful of people on this board that have seen them before. most of us are on the same boat as you 8^) cant wait

[dorkfish]

Shaun Ryder is apparently going to be there to mumble through Dare:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...not-ape-y.html

[dorkfish]

and if true, it means that there will be some back catalog hits performed, on top of Plastic Beach

[summerkid]

good news. Coachella should just book Black Grape since he's starting that up again.

[shakermaker113]

no, they shouldn't.

[ficklecycle]

Shaun Ryder is apparently going to be there to mumble through Dare:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...not-ape-y.html

Aww crap.

[summerkid]

no, they shouldn't.

hahahah oh c'mon you have to love shaun ryder and Its Great When Your Straight is a great album.

[shakermaker113]

I saw the happy mondays play the reverand black grape. that was fun. but it does not justify bringing that entire damn band back into existence.

[brando4n82]

I just checked SoulSeek and it's finally on there (the real version and not the fake leak going around.) It's in my queue right now, I'm 25th in line and I would've been first if the person who has it organized their folders instead of me clicking "download containing folder" only to dl EVERY mp3 the person has >:O

[brando4n82]

Shaun Ryder is apparently going to be there to mumble through Dare:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...not-ape-y.html

This is AWWWWEEESOME!


Everyday I'm getitng more and more excited to have lsd in my brain for the Gorillazazazsfjyjshgreitkjv h

[rage patton]

Shaun Ryder is apparently going to be there to mumble through Dare:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...not-ape-y.html

Ewww. I love the Demon Days live DVD, and I love Dare on record... but Dare live is painful to watch.

and if true, it means that there will be some back catalog hits performed, on top of Plastic Beach

This is the only good news I can gather from this.

[Aurgasm]

agreed rage. watching Dare live makes me cringe

[GnarVee]

AWWW SHHEEEEEEEIIITTTT I FUCKING HATE DARE

so much for "Plastic Beach Live"


MORE HOPE 4 DEL SHOWING UP.......

or just get ALL of Hiero for that matter...

[sbessiso]

ees coomin oop

[BlackSwan]

Good morning, Murdoc!

The Final Murdoc radio show is streaming on Gorillaz.com right now. Two clips of Gorillaz tracks were played, one being a clip of Pirate Jet.

Edit: 2D is on the show as well.

[shakermaker113]

So, which Damon Albarn is going to turn up here, then? Will it be the extroverted frontman of Blur who strolled onto a sun-drenched stage in Hyde Park beckoning the masses in July 2009, or the side-stage dwelling, limelight-shunning organiser behind Africa Express’ jaw-dropping Paris show a month later? Well, a bit of both and neither, really. Little over six months after he was playing ‘Country House’, Albarn turns his attention towards the conceptual, genre-leaping futuregroove of Gorillaz with gloriously stunning results – third album ‘Plastic Beach’ is a flawlessly executed neo-pop masterpiece.
As with all of Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s work so far, there’s more going on here than just the music – the story of the world’s most successful virtual band now arriving at Point Nemo, where bassist Murdoc Niccals has set up Gorillaz HQ atop a floating trash island in the South Pacific, where he’s keeping singer 2D hostage and has built a cyborg version of guitarist Noodle (head online to check out the trailer that swirls around Hewlett’s monstrous, monumental Plastic Beach installation) - but the sheer strength of the songs demand they hog the attention.
Celebrity voyeurism and rampant consumerism are recurring themes throughout, Gorillaz’ reaction to the X Factor (de)generation an album of blistering-yet-melancholic, indelible-yet-throwaway pop songs – no-one quite does contrary-pop like Gorillaz.
The short, lush swirl of ‘Orchestral Intro’ precedes the industrial groove of ‘Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach’, Snoop Dogg’s menacing drawl taking centrestage as Hypnotic Brass Ensemble’s horns hover around a cool-as-fuck bass-glide behind him, next grime heroes Kano and Bashy spar over The National Orchestra For Arabic Music, themselves putting up a fight against a cascading wave of beats, whilst Damon comes out from behind the limelight to bask in it on ‘Rhinestone Eyes’. It’s relentlessly brilliant, all the more so for the way it effortlessly glues together its guest stars – all is one, it seems, in the murky world of Gorillaz.
Highlights continue to come thick’n’fast; Mark E.Smith’s psychohollers punctuate the middle of ‘Glitter Freezes’’ sonicstrobes and Gruff Rhys steals the show from De La Soul on the psychedelic surge of ‘Superfast Jellyfish’. The symphonic soulfulness with which Bobby Womack croons over penultimate track ‘Cloud Of Unknowing’, meanwhile, guides ‘Plastic Beach’ towards its finishing point with a poignant, prurient sadness.
A seamless coming together of artists, cultures and themes on a record by a band that doesn’t even exist; on ‘Plastic Beach’, Damon Albarn’s Midas touch is bordering on genius. Git.

Niall Doherty

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/revie.../7073/gorillaz

bastard didn't leak the album though.

[BlackSwan]

There is a Track-by-track description of Plastic Beach on Drowned In Sound... I'm not going to read it...

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4...c-beach?ticker

ALSO! According to unofficial,

the Gorillaz webshop is about to relaunch, powered by All Access. You can view the shop (no items are available to buy yet but some 'Plastic Beach' logo tshirts can be viewed) at this link:- http://shop.gorillaz.com/ (the link is down now)

On the shop there is also a notice announcing the 'G-Club'. This seems set to be the official Gorillaz online fanclub, and membership will bring (amongst other things) " [An] exclusive Gorillaz toy, early access to pre-sale tickets, exclusive competitions & goodies, 25% off all official merchandise all year, [and] previews of videos"

Pre-sale tickets, huh?

EDIT: I am now officially conflicted about going to Coachella.

[GnarVee]

Pre-sale tickets, huh?

EDIT: I am now officially conflicted about going to Coachella.

OoOooo......stab in the heart GV....


better book DEL! goddammit.

[rage patton]

EDIT: I am now officially conflicted about going to Coachella.

You know if you miss Coachella this year you will regret it.

[MuseRadio]

Well I guess its not like Gorillaz were gonna build this massive stage set-up to use for only Coachella right?