Gorillaz on Live Shows & New Album

0:00It's March 31st. This is Music News Today. Music coverage powered by AI. Gorillas kicked off back in 1998, when Blur's Damon Albarn teamed up with artist Jamie Hewlett to create this wild virtual band. They blended experimental indie rock with four animated characters, singer 2D, bassist Murdoch, keyboardist noodle, and drummer Russell Hobbs making. Visuals as big a star as the music itself. Over the years, they've dropped killer collabs with folks like Dell, the funky homo sapien, Dellisoul, Snoop Dogg, and even world music artists on their latest album. Live shows have always been tricky for these virtual cats, especially their 2006 Grammy hologram gig. They performed their hit Feel Good Ink and linked up with Madonna on Hung Up. But the tech using that muse an eyeliner system bombed in. Person quiet sound, vibrating screens from bass, and folks missing the start. In a fresh chat on Zayn Low's show this week, Hewlett and Albarn owned up to it, looking stunning on TV, but straight awful live in the room.

1:04Low remembered being hyped on the idea of global simultaneous shows, but the cost and tech just weren't there yet, like how AvA nailed it later with. Their voyage, residency, they broke down how cranking the volume made the invisible screen shake, killing the animations, so everything stayed low key. The talk also hit their new album, that epic 2010 Glastonberry said, early in character interview headaches and a scrapped movie idea. Gorillas keep pushing boundaries, proving virtual vibes can still pack a punch when the tech catches up.