Gorillaz Live

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Gorillaz Live
Tour by Gorillaz
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Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Asia
Associated album Gorillaz
Start date22 March 2001
End date20 July 2002
Legs5
No. of shows22
Supporting act(s) Dan the Automator
Gorillaz concert chronology

Gorillaz Live was the first concert tour by the British alternative rock virtual band Gorillaz, in support of their self-titled debut album. [1]

Contents

Visuals and production

The logistics of an animated band going on tour proved problematic, with Jamie Hewlett saying in a mid-2001 interview: "We've come to realize that we've come up with something that's a bit ahead of its time and the technology doesn't exist to do everything we want to do, so the live show was something we had to really think hard about." [2] As a compromise between having a live and virtual stage presence, the band's musicians played behind a giant cinema screen, which projected music videos and visuals to the crowd. Lead singer Damon Albarn later expressed discomfort at this setup, confessing that he "was frustrated" behind the screen. [3] Later still, Albarn called the screens "obtuse", [4] believing the human element of the band necessitated a change. In a 2010 interview, Albarn voiced distaste at the concept of hiding collaborators behind a screen on the then-upcoming Escape to Plastic Beach Tour: "I couldn't entertain the idea of putting Lou Reed or Bobby Womack behind a screen. I'm not that daft." [5] Gorillaz Live was ultimately the only tour to have the musicians silhouetted behind a screen.

The voice actors of the virtual band toured alongside the real band, speaking to the crowd and each other in-between songs. However, according to Haruka Kuroda, budgeting issues prevented most of the voice actors from participating in the concert's international legs; Kuroda was the only voice actor to tour with the band beyond Europe. [6] [7] American DJ Dan the Automator was the opening act for select dates. [8]

Set list

The following setlist is obtained from the concert held in London on 22 March 2001.

  1. "M1 A1"
  2. "Tomorrow Comes Today"
  3. "Slow Country"
  4. "5/4"
  5. "Starshine"
  6. "Man Research (Clapper)"
  7. "Sound Check (Gravity)"
  8. "Latin Simone (¿Qué Pasa Contigo?)"
  9. "Re-Hash"
  10. "Clint Eastwood" (featuring Phi Life Cypher)
  11. "Rock the House" (featuring Phi Life Cypher)
  12. "Dracula"
  13. "19-2000"
  14. "Punk"
Encore
  1. "Clint Eastwood" (featuring Sweetie Irie)

Tour dates

List of 2001 concerts [9] [10]
DateCityCountryVenue
22 March London England Scala
22 June Paris France La Cigale
24 June Dublin Ireland Olympia Theatre
16 August Osaka Japan IMP Hall
18 August [a] Tokyo Chiba Marine Stadium
25 August [b] Liverpool EnglandOld Liverpool Airfield
24 September Edinburgh Scotland Edinburgh Corn Exchange
25 September Birmingham England Birmingham Academy
26 September Manchester Manchester Academy
28 SeptemberLondon London Forum
List of 2002 concerts [11] [12]
DateCityCountryVenue
23 February Toronto CanadaToronto Docks
25 February Boston United StatesAvalon Ballroom
26 February Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
28 February New York City Hammerstein Ballroom
1 March Philadelphia Electric Factory
3 March Chicago Aragon Ballroom
5 March Seattle Paramount Theatre
7 March San Francisco Warfield Theatre
8 March Los Angeles Hollywood Palladium
9 March
11 March Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes
20 July [c] Lisbon Portugal Torre de Belém

Notes

  1. ↑ The show on 18 August 2001 in Tokyo was part of the Summer Sonic Festival.
  2. ↑ The show on 25 August 2001 in Liverpool was part of the Creamfields festival.
  3. ↑ The show on 20 July 2002 in Lisbon was part of the Isle of MTV festival.

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Gorillaz Mobilizing For U.S. Release, Live Dates". Billboard . 12 June 2001. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Redfern, Mark (Summer 2001). "The Gorillaz Rock 'da Art House". Under the Radar .
  3. ↑ Hubbard, Michael (22 May 2002). "Interview: Damon Albarn". musicOMH . Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  4. ↑ Vozick-Levinson, Simon (4 June 2010). "Gorillaz creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett on the cartoon band's past, present, and future: The Music Mix Q&A". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Conner, Thomas [in German] (13 October 2010). "With star power to draw on, Gorillaz steps in front of the cartoons". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 17 October 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2017– via Archive.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ↑ "Gorillaz-Unofficial meets Haruka Kuroda". Gorillaz-Unofficial. 2005. Archived from the original on 16 December 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "LEFT HAND HARUKA METHOD: The Haruka Kuroda Interview". Hallelujah Monkeyz: The Gorillaz Fancast. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "GORILLAZ GET DOWN TO US MONKEY BUSINESS". NME . 27 February 2002. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "Billboard Bits: McCartney, Gorillaz, Skunk Anansie". Billboard . 20 April 2001. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "ゴリラズが秋に米国ツアーの可能性" (in Japanese). Barks. 6 August 2001. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  11. ↑ Sources for shows in North America:
  12. ↑ "Com Gorillaz e Morcheeba: "Isle Of MTV" apresentado em Lisboa". Público (Portugal) (in Portuguese). 11 June 2002. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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