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More Gorillaz Content – Murdoc’s Favourites

Since Damon Albarn and Jamie ‘Tank Girl’ Hewlett’s collaborative cartoon band Gorillaz were nice enough to give YouTube an exclusive on the video for their new track ‘Stylo’, YouTube have let their fictional bassist Murdoc Niccols curate a post on their Celebrity Playlist section. The mask slips a little bit, and Murdoc’s voice betrays him as an excitable 40 year old man, rather than a sharp-toothed ego-bass-maniac. Some of the videos are nice, like the clip from Jacques Cousteau’s ‘Silent World’, and others are revealing, like the dressing room rehearsal of “Hip Hop”, by Mos Def and my favourite colliery band/rap mashup group, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (who you should definitely check out on dino-space here). Anyway, here’s the clip – and no, Charlie Bit Me isn’t on there, odd, considering the teeth thing.

New Gorillaz Video – Stylo

gorillaz styloThe new Gorillaz album, plastic beach is out next week, and the video for ‘Stylo’, the first single to be drawn from was posted on YouTube yesterday – featuring an El Camino driving, sunglass toting, Bruce Willis. Bruce proceeds to chase the 3D animated crew across the California desert in a Mad Max style chase ending in true Hollywood style. We can’t embed the video, but you can watch it here, and check out the intro to their Plastic Beach concept below:

Gorillaz and Alan Moore (Watchmen, V, Swamp Thing) Collaborating on Opera

Monkey - journey to the westThis is obviously a good month for unexpected collaborations – first Wierd Al and the Pixies, and now Damon Albarn’s virtual band Gorillaz and the eccentric genius behind some of the biggest graphic novels of the last 30 years (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell <– Literally a massive book) , Alan Moore, on the libretto (the little book containing the text and story of an opera) for the new theatrical/operatic work curated by the Gorillaz, “Monkey: Journey to the West”. Based on the epic Chinese legend, and previously immortalised by the fantatic TV series: