If and when regular presales are announced, I will alert you here.
TICKETS
fanclub, the Sub-Division, will benefit from a 48 hour exclusive pre-sale prior to tickets going on general
sale. To join Sub-Division go to www.gorillaz.com/subdivision.
The U.S. and Canada dates, promoted by Live Nation, will be followed by a series of ten shows across
Europe and the UK, as well as, seven shows across Australia and Asia.
Gorillaz co-creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett‘s new live experience encompassing material from
all three multi-platinum Gorillaz albums played its first ever show at this April’s Coachella festival,
absolutely slaying a crowd of 70,000 in the final headline slot of the weekend. Featuring Albarn, Mick
Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, Bootie Brown, UK Hip Hop stars
Kano and Bashy and others as well as video animation, artwork, film and stage design by Hewlett,
Gorillaz have since played in front of more than 400,000 fans headlining Glastonbury, Roskilde in
Denmark and Benicassim Festival in Spain and will soon become the first Western band of their
magnitude to play in Syria when they play the ancient Citadel in Damascus on July 25th following a
headline slot at Byblos Festival, in Beirut, Lebanon.
Universal raves for the current Gorillaz live band have included the following:
comics artist Jamie Hewlett — was at its most expansive at Coachella. Albarn acted as a composer and a
conjurer, directing a mini symphony and waving his arms to inspire flashes of synthesized and electronic
sounds. The Gorillaz — aided by Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, anchors of what was once one of
England’s most ambitious bands, the Clash — were, in many ways, the most perfect of Coachella bands.”-
-LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Gorillaz, the multi-media music project helmed by former Blur front man Damon Albarn and Tank Girl cocreator
Jamie Hewlett, is the most intriguing, and perhaps one of the most important, music groups to
emerge from the ’00s. Nowhere was that more obvious than Sunday night at Coachella, when Gorillaz
sucked the crowd from virtually every other portion of Empire Polo Field for a rousing conclusion to the
festival.”–LA WEEKLY
and drummer Russel Hobbs, returning from MIA status transformed into a giant. “On Melancholy Hill” also
picks up immediately following the conclusion of the white knuckle chase captured in “Stylo,” with
Noodle’s Cyborg doppelganger, Murdoc and vocalist 2D headed to Plastic Beach by way of an undersea
odyssey featuring cameos from Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, Simonon and Jones, De La Soul and more. The
full back story of the various Gorillaz misadventures filling the gap between Demon Days and Plastic
Beach, the discovery of Point Nemo and construction of Murdoc’s new HQ, the formation of the current
Gorillaz live band and more are chronicled in Journey To Plastic Beach
http://www.hulu.com/watch/158164/gorillaz-journey-to-plastic-beach#s-p1-sr-i0. Journey To Plastic Beach
recently debuted alongside “Feel Good Inc.,” “DARE,” “Clint Eastwood” and other visual essentials from
the extensive Gorillaz videography at the band’s recently christened Hulu channel at
http://www.hulu.com/gorillaz
Plastic Beach was released March 9 in the U.S. on EMI’s Virgin Records. It immediately set two career
landmarks, selling more than 112,000 copies in its first week and entering the U.S. album chart at #2.
Both career highs, the sales number and chart position bested those of 2005′s double-platinum Demon
Days, which sold 107,000 in its debut week, entering the chart at #6.
Gorillaz a/k/a Murdoc Niccals, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs were co-created by Albarn and Hewlett
over ten years ago, and unleashed on the world with their self-titled 2001 debut album, which has sold
nearly two million copies in the U.S. The band’s 2005 follow up, Demon Days, featured the Best Pop
Collaboration with Vocal Grammy winner “Feel Good Inc.” and sold in excess of two million copies in
America.
For further developments in the ongoing Gorillaz saga, check back hourly at the all new
http://gorillaz.com, follow the band’s own Murdoc Niccals at www.twitter.com/murdocgorillaz, or check out
the Gorillaz YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/gorillaz
October 8 New York, NY Madison Square Garden On sale August 6
October 10 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center On sale August 6
October 11 Washington, DC Patriot Center On sale August 13
October 13 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre On sale August 6
October 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre On sale August 13
October 16 Chicago, IL UIC Pavilion On sale August 27
October 17 Minneapolis, MN Target Center On sale August 13
October 19 Houston, TX Toyota Center On sale August 6
October 20 Dallas, TX Verizon Theatre On sale August 13
October 22 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center On sale August 13
October 24 Denver, CO Wells Fargo Theatre On sale August 13
October 26 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre On sale August 6
October 27 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre On sale August 6
October 30 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena On sale August 6
November 2 Seattle, WA Key Arena On sale August 20
November 3 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena On sale August 13
