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Review: Five take-aways from opening night of Gorillaz North American tour in Vancouver

The creative, collaborative well former Blur singer Damon Albarn keeps drawing from is showing no signs of drying up

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Gorillaz north american tour, review: five take-aways from opening night of gorillaz north american tour in vancouver back to video.

When : Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m.

Where : Rogers Arena

Tickets/info : livenation.com

Gorillaz, the virtual quartet of vocalist/keyboardist 2-D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs, kicked off its 22-date 2022 North American tour on Sunday night at Rogers Arena.

Conceived in 1998 by former Blur singer Damon Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett, the enormously successful project is a multiplatinum performing unit whose latest project is a postmodern digital hit machine whose latest recordings were released as the Song Machine project where independent webisodes dropped new songs ranging from Momentary Bliss with U.K. rapper Slowthai and punk rock duo Slaves to Pac-Man, released in honour of the 40th anniversary of the video game. These tunes were captured for an album Song Machine, Season One: Strange TImez in 2020.

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Always a fluid membership outside of Albarn, Gorillaz latest music has featured everyone from the Cure’s Robert Smith to Malian singer Fatourmata Diawara and Elton John. The touring band tends to boast an equally impressive pedigree. Past tours included members of the Clash, legendary soul singer Bobby Womack and many more.

Since hitting the road in 2022, the group has released more new songs, including Tormenta featuring Bad Bunny, Cracker Island with Thundercat and Greg Kurstin. The latter track is also announced as the title of the next Gorillaz album, due in Feb. 2023. The setlists for gigs have averaged 25-plus tunes drawn from across the band’s eclectic career.

Here’s how opening night went down:

1 — M1A1: After a charming walk onstage to a voice loop saying “hello,” the dozen waving members of this iteration of the Gorillaz kicked into one of the band’s meanest tunes. Shifting from no gear to overdrive they threshed their way into gig mode. It was a mission statement too, as this is a very high-energy, groove-heavy show.

2 — 19-2000 : The cool shoeshine indeed. The quintet of back-up singers got their ooh-ooh-oohs in swing and someone fired a black lace bra at Albarn. His grin was as big as Murdoc’s on the giant backing animation.

“You mild us like a golum,” Albarn offered — and then has to explain he didn’t mean the “Tolkien franchise character.”

3 — Cracker Island: So this is a total killer in concert. From the Thundercat visit on the video to the wicked double-step beat, this one is already a crowd singalong. The players seem to be loving it too as it’s smiles all-around. Albarn noted that this is not a choreographed unit, so the dancing bassist and guitarist were just that pumped-up.

4 — El Manana: This is not a ballad band, or a love song band, but this slower melodic tunes proved to be the sway-in-place part of the performance. One who was never in place often was Albarn, who can growl, hit high wails like a soul man and belt like a choirboy. His frequent trips into the edges of the crowd and rather ridiculous running bit about a baby in protective headphones being the “wise one” proved the former Britpop dandy is now a full-blown Vegas raconteur.

5 — Dare: A smashing tour de force for the exceptional backing vocalists, this time from Demon Days has long been a fan fave and got hearty cheers — or three — from the capacity crowd. At this point — song 17 or so — this party was raging. Gorillaz can clearly keep swinging for years to come as the creative, collaborative well Albarn keeps drawing from is showing no signs of drying up.

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Gorillaz kicked off their North American tour on Sunday night (September 11th) to a packed Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC. The immersive experience demonstrated why the virtual band is one of the most influential acts of the past two decades — and why they’re not to be missed in person (grab tickets to the tour here ).

Co-creator, frontman, and primary contributor Damon Albarn was like a conductor, lovingly leading his sprawling live ensemble and exceptional backing singers. Arranged on glittering risers like an orchestra, they played underneath a big screen showing artist Jamie Hewlett’s iconic animated band members — Murdoc, Noodle, Russel, and 2D — while dancing lights bathed the room in color.

Gorillaz have been masters of experimental storytelling right from the outset, creating vast, multidimensional, multimedia universes for their eclectic music to live and breathe in. Their 2001 eponymous debut , for example, had interactive online features that allowed visitors to virtually explore Murdoc’s Winnebago (the RV has become an icon in Gorillaz mythology), while 2020’s collaborative audiovisual web project Song Machine had songs, featuring artists like Robert Smith, Slowthai, and Elton John, released episodically as music videos.

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