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Gorillaz

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Hey, Hey, We're The Gorillaz

Profile by Sheryl Garratt, The Observer, 29 July 2001

IN ITS TENTH year now, the £20,000 Mercury Music Prize is awarded every September to the best British album. Chosen by a panel of critics, ...

Gorillaz: Hey Hey We're The Monkeys!

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, August 2001

Four years ago Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett shared a flat and partied with Spice Girls. Then they invented GORILLAZ. The weed-soaked cartoon collective has ...

Don Waller's top albums of 2001

Review by Don Waller, Rolling Stone, 26 December 2001

1. Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (Columbia): To paraphrase what the man himself said, "Don't compare this with my old records — compare this with ...

Gorillaz: Damon and the fine art of faking it

Report by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 15 January 2002

At this year's Brit Awards, Damon Albarn's creation, Gorillaz, look set to upstage the fake bands they so like to mock. Stevie Chick reports. ...

Linkin Park: Reanimation/Space Monkeyz Vs. Gorillaz: Laika Come Home

Review by Will Hermes, Spin, September 2002

WHO INVENTED the remix? Let P. Diddy debate that one with a posse of royalty-deprived Jamaican dub producers. ...

Gorillaz: Opera House, Manchester

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 3 November 2005

AS IF IT HADN'T escaped the attention of the Gorillaz co-creator, we're in the Oasis heartlands. And in the city where more than anywhere else ...

Gorillaz: Manchester International Festival, Opera House, Manchester

Live Review by Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, 6 November 2005

Paul Morley watches Damon Albarn's cartoon band come alive ...

Gorillaz

Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Independent, 12 April 2006

THERE ARE GHOSTS at the Apollo. Bobby Byrd holds his master's cape, the amateur night regulars bawl, shimmy and shake, and Fats Gonder asks "are ...

Damon Albarn: The Great Escape

Report and Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Independent, 12 April 2008

THERE ARE GHOSTS at the Apollo. Bobby Byrd holds his master's cape, the amateur night regulars bawl and shimmy, and Fats Gonder asks: "Are you ...

Damon Albarn: From Pop to Opera

Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 2 November 2008

He's indifferent to money and drugs. He hates the celebrity circus. And he famously said no to Tony Blair – but yes to getting drunk ...

Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 9 March 2010

Gorillaz Get Serious: Plastic Beach loads up on guest stars and gravitas ...

Gorillaz: Roundhouse, London NW1

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 30 April 2010

NOT LONG AGO, Damon Albarn's reaction when asked about his involvement with Gorillaz was coyly to keep his counsel. At the concert that launched them ...

Monkey see, monkey do, monkey tour: the Gorillaz are back

Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 10 May 2010

"I SAY! They're fancy!" exclaims Jamie Hewlett when Damon Albarn strides into the pair's West London headquarters. The object of his fascination? Albarn, his sidekick ...

Gorillaz: The Singles Collection 2001-2011

Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, December 2011

THINK OF BLUR'S Damon Albarn and one thinks of Britpop, which is rather unfair, given that he's spent the last fifteen years working on projects ...

Gorillaz: The Singles Collection 2001-2011

Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 23 December 2011

WHAT THE HELL were Gorillaz? A pop curio, maybe? Hindsight suggests they were crucial in determining the shape of British pop in the millennium. Gorillaz ...

Gorillaz: Dreamland, Margate

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 13 June 2017

Damon Albarn's one-time cartoon band should have been spectacular, but too often the songs amounted to less than the sum of their parts ...

see also Damon Albarn

see also Blur

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