Gorillaz - Live Performances

Live Performances

Between the 1st and 5th of November 2005, there was a Gorillaz festival at the Manchester Opera House. The event was filmed by an EMI film crew for a DVD release, Demon Days Live, in late March 2006. It was later announced that an American version of the event would take place from 2 to 6 April 2006 at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Within an hour of release tickets were sold out. The 6 April show was filmed for a live webcast at MSN Video. Palladia (then known as MHD) also broadcasted an Apollo Theater show in HDTV on 31 December 2006.

A world tour was planned using the display technology described above. However, due to extreme costs and fine technical difficulties, the tour was cancelled. Gorillaz headlined the final night of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 18 April 2010. On 27 April they were the main guests on Later... with Jools Holland. In addition, Gorillaz played a short run of intimate UK rehearsal gigs exclusively for G-Club members, before taking up a two-night residency at London's Camden Roundhouse (29 and 30 April 2010). Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash performed guitar and bass respectively with the band and more than once in the evening chords from The Clash song "Guns of Brixton" were heard as a subtle reference to their presence. These will both feature the full Gorillaz production, including video animation, artwork and film. On 22 March they were announced for Roskilde Festival. On 22 April, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett appeared on.

Before they started their world tour, Gorillaz played a secret show in Kentucky at the Oulipo Ballroom. A sell out crowd of 5000 people attended.

Gorillaz kicked off their first ever world tour on 20 July at Byblos, Lebanon. The tour took them across North America in October, Europe in November, and finally through Australia, New Zealand, and one date in Asia in December.

On 25 July 2010, Gorillaz performed a concert at the Citadel of Damascus in Syria.

The Escape to Plastic Beach Tour officially kicked off in Montreal, Canada on 3 October to rave reviews.

During the Gorillaz show at Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand on 21 December 2010, Damon Albarn announced that it would be their final live show with the Plastic Beach line up.