Gorillaz

BABELGUM Launches 1st Global Premiere Of GORILLAZ Documentary 'BANANAZ' BANANAZ TRAILER: GORILLAZ GO BANANAZ: Babelgum announced today that Ceri Levy's Bananaz, about virtual cartoon band Gorillaz, has been selected to screen on the new, Flash-driven Babelgum website as the first ever global, on-line premiere on April 20th prior to the film's subsequent theatrical release via EMI including DVD and broadcast rights worldwide. "As an independent filmmaker it's exciting to be partnering with Babelgum and EMI, two companies who are able to connect and mobilize audiences on both a local and global level, allowing us to maximize revenues in an incredibly difficult distribution environment " ... Read Full Story

If you were on YouTube yesterday, you would have seen Monkey Bee short plastered all over the site. The classic tale of the Monkey King Tale is again retold in a special way. (Kinda reminds us of The Forbidden Kingdom in an East meets West version of Monkey King.) In an exclusive YouTube worldwide premier, Jamie Hewlett, the visual mastermind behind Gorillaz and "Tank Girl", has crafted a live-action masterpiece to accompany the first single from the massively ambitious "Monkey: Journey To The West". The album, a collaboration with Damon Albarn, is out now on XL Recordings. The music and short film are an ... Read Full Story

Damon Albarn: ex-Blur singer, mastermind of Gorillaz, co-creator of Monkey: Journey to the West, Hot Man Jones Jamie Hewlett: English comic book artist and designer, co-creator of the comic strip Tank Girl, co-creator of the band Gorillaz, co-creator of Monkey. Now, I LOVE Gorillaz, so when I found out (a little bit late to the game) that they'd also created this circus opera under the guise of "Monkey" I was interested to hear the music. It's all sung in Chinese but strangely enough is VERY cool. They also did the promo spot on the BBC for the Beijing Olympics: A little bit strange I ... Read Full Story

The BBC Olympic ad was shown for the first time last night - airing at 7.27pm on BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4 and BBC News (the first time the BBC have executed a roadblock across their channels.) The BBC Olympics ad is based on the 1970's childrens TV programme Monkey and has been animated by Gorillaz animator Jamie Hewlett, with music from Damon Albarn. This clip will be used throughout the BBC coverage of the Beijing Olympics and I think we'll be seeing a lot of it over the next 6 weeks. The BBC are also hoping that this ad will be distributed and watched ... Read Full Story

Gorillaz are a virtual band formed in 1998 by Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. The band is composed of four animated band members: 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel. The band's music is a collaboration between various musicians with Albarn being the only permanent member. Their style is broadly alternative rock, but with a large number of other influences including hip hop, electronica, dub and pop. Read Full Story