Want to see Gorillaz like you’ve never seen them before? Well, you certainly haven’t seen them in a music video with Jack Black in the past, have you? In this one for ‘Humility’, the band’s 2D is seen roller-skating in Venice Beach while the Kung Fu Panda star is serenading us on guitar. ‘Humility’ is due to appear on ‘The Now Now’, the newest Gorillaz album and the follow-up to 2017′ ‘Humanz’, scheduled for release on the 29th of June. Watch the video for ‘Humility’ below. For all of TGTF’s past coverage on Damon Albarn’s brood of rag-tag animated musicians, go here.
By Mary Chang on Tuesday, 24th January 2017 at 6:00 pm
There’s been burblings for a while that Damon Albarn was planning to bring Gorillaz back. Well, the wait is now over. Last week, a new track featuring 2015 Mercury Prize winner Benjamin Clementine (nice quiff, son) surfaced. ‘Hallelujah Money’ is not a celebration of cash and the mobility it provides, but rather a vehicle for Clementine to point out that old chestnut that framed in a needlepoint sign in the Monkees’ flat that indeed, money is the root of all evil. The promo, directed by Gorillaz and Giorgio Testi, dropped on the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump last week, which can’t have been merely a coincidence. Watch the promo below. Naturally, we expect that Albarn’s efforts aren’t for naught and that an album is on the horizon sometime this year. Watch this space. For past and admittedly old coverage of Gorillaz on TGTF, go here.
By John Fernandez on Tuesday, 6th March 2012 at 12:00 pm
Outkast’s Andre 3000, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Blur’s Damon Albarn are all in one room. Genius ensues yes? Need I write more? Yes. It would be rude not too.
‘Do Ya Thing’ is upbeat and full of quirkiness. No, it’s not a ‘Clint Eastwood’ or a ‘Dare’, it’s more of a ‘Stylo’ (review here) in my eyes. No, it hasn’t got Bobby Womack in his immense coolness, but it has got a rhythm that will have your toes tapping at an alarming rate. “You wanna do it / but you don’t know what you doin’ baby / A-a-a-a-aha / you wanna feel it / but you don’t know what you’re feeling tonight!” What an epitomization of the wild party that Gorillaz seem to be post-‘Plastic Beach’, with Andre 3000 giving an extremely Outkast touch to the proceeding with his ridiculously quick lyrics.
The synths are classic Gorillaz: they manage to be exciting without being exciting in the slightest. However, the level of effort seems to be low at best. It’s as if the three of them just sat in a room, got a repeated beat and did their thing (excuse the pun.)
Not anything special by any stretch of the imagination, but something to be cherished seeing as it is Gorillaz and a pair of other A-listers.
6/10
This song is available free for download from this Converse link. Oddly, this song appears to be directly linked to a campaign for a Gorillaz-themed, limited edition series of Converse Chuck Taylor trainers (see more here).
By Mary Chang on Monday, 6th September 2010 at 12:00 pm
Tomorrow night we will finally find out which album will be crowned the winner of the 2010 Mercury Prize. I’ve asked each of our writers to choose which album they think should win the gong this year, as well as which album they think was criminally absent from the 2010 shortlist. Hopefully you have watched the scene in the film ‘On the Waterfront’ where Marlon Brando says those iconic lines, “I coulda been a contendah! I coulda been somebody!” If not, watch this and you’ll get my meaning:
By Mary Chang on Monday, 19th July 2010 at 2:00 pm
Roskilde Festival this year was my first big festival, and everyone who’s heard of it here in America has been like, ‘nooooo, you went to Roskilde? Really?’ (The most humourous/cool? A clerk at the local guitar shop who looked at me incredulous, saying, ‘I just watched a Metallica DVD and there was Roskilde footage on there from ages ago. You were there?’) Yesterday I finally cut my wristband and took it off my right wrist after showing it off, victorious, to friends Friday night. It is now safe in a box with my other festival souvenirs.
It’s been over a week since I got back from Denmark, so I’ve had some chance to reflect on the whole Roskilde experience. Physically the site is much more massive than you can possibly imagine. (Except of course if you’ve been to Glasto, as Roskilde is often referred to as ‘Northern Europe’s Glasto’.) The main festival goes on for 4 days, and at first glance, the schedule does not look all that daunting. But after drinks and walking around a lot for those 4 days, you’d be surprised to find that after a while you get lazy and don’t want to move on to the next band you have circled on the schedule because you can’t find your legs. Somehow I managed 28 bands in 5 days (2 on Wednesday the 30th of June at Pavilion Junior, part of the festival warm-up period before the main event).
The first day was the calm before the storm. I think everyone was at the opening ceremony featuring American punk icon Patti Smith and her guitarist Lenny Kaye, and rightly so, because this being the 40th year of the festival and 10 years on from the horrible accidental deaths of 9 young male punters at Orange Stage during a Pearl Jam set, those lives were celebrated as well as the continuance of the festival for all these years. I didn’t see too many bands the first day because there really weren’t too many bands playing. American emo rockers Paramore was playing at Arena, the second-biggest venue on-site and in the far southeast corner of the property, but after all the trouble of getting to Orange Stage for Patti Smith, I really did not feel like going in that direction, only to have to turn around again.
Instead I headed over to Cosmopol stage to wait for LCD Soundsystem. In the intervening time I caught Electrojuice, a Danish electronic duo, and Tim Sweeney, a New York City DJ signed to James Murphy’s DFA Records label. But it seemed like everyone had come far and wide for LCD Soundsystem. It wasn’t so cramped at the start, but then it got really rammed. This performance on Thursday the 1st of July was just 2 days before they headlined Wireless in London and this as just a taster for Murphy of things to come. At the start he was uneasy by the crowds but soon got into the groove with numbers like ‘Drunk Girls’, ‘Daft Punk is Playing at My House’, and ‘I Can Change’. Claustrophobia set in and I just had to escape, and escape I did back to Orange Stage, hoping to get a good spot to watch Gorillaz.
Performed by Damon Albarn, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and the Gorillaz band the live show will feature songs from all 3 albums (Gorillaz, Demon Days and Plastic Beach) and feature animation, artwork and film as designed by Jamie Hewlett.
Featured Artists are yet to be announced but recent live Gorillaz shows have included performances by De La Soul, Roses Gabor, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, Mos Def, Kano, Bashy and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.
Apparently tickets are priced at £45 for all seats and will be on sale from 9am on Friday, 21st May through Ticketbastard (all tickets subject to a booking fee). The event will have a “standing GA floor with allocated seating” (quite how this will work is beyond me – standing but allocated seating?!)
Friday 10th September – Birmingham NIA
Saturday 11th September – Newcastle Metro Arena
Sunday 12th September – Manchester Evening News Arena
Monday 14th September – O2 Arena London
Tuesday 15th September – O2 Arena London
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