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Bits & Bobs (28/10) I reckon Murdoc would have his head, but Gorillaz' voice trainer Damon Albarn has been talking in the media again - this time about the Manchester concerts. Listen to the very interesting interview here (requires RealPlayer). Haven't got RealPlayer? Head on over to real.com - you can also watch the new video for Dirty Harry while you're there. In Gorillaz web store news, the shop has now got a new "DARE" white edition of the Noodle doll in stock. Hold it down here. Interested about those new b-sides? "Hongkongaton" is a brand new track - not the same song as on the recent Warchild benefit CD. It was recorded in part at the Hong Kong sessions and finished in the UK with producer Danger Mouse. Rumour has it, Gorillaz photographer Jamie Hewlett makes an appearance on the track. The Chopper Remix of DARE is touted as the best mix yet, and All Alone is officially released after being played in session in the States on the Demon Detour earlier this year. . Video & EMAs (25/10) You can now watch the video for Dirty Harry by heading over to www.gorillaz.com, going into the box office and entering the secret Dirty Harry password. Not got the password? Head over to the box office and sign up for the mailing list to receive it! As previously rumoured, Gorillaz will be performing at the MTV Europe Music Awards on November 3 in Portugal. Not Portuguese and/or don't have tickets? Watch what is sure to be a technological breakthrough performance on your TV screens that night! As previously reported, Gorillaz are nominated for five awards. Watch for more news later on the subject of Dirty Harry and the new video! . COMPETITION (21/10) BREAKING NEWS. Do you want to be the first person you know to see the new video for Dirty Harry? Well guess what. I've got two names on a guestlist for an exclusive screening on Monday (24th) in London to give away. If you can get to London on short notice for this glitzy affair then you and a mate could be lucky winners. Email gorillazqa@gmail.com and tell us why you think you should go. Best/funniest answer wins. Include your phone number in the email so that our crack team of correspondents can get a hold of you. Disclaimer: You must be able to get to Central London on short notice. Accomodation and travel will not be provided. The song's only four minutes long, so it's not a lengthy event. If you win, we'll let you know on Monday. . Dirty Harry Needs A Gun (21/10) Formats for the new single Dirty Harry, released 21st November, are as follows: CD1: Dirty Harry / All Alone (Live) . Metro Gorillaz (20/10) First up, sorry for the mix up relating to the image below. The record label sent us the promo artwork for Dirty Harry but we're going to have the proper format art up very soon! In other fun news, Gorillaz cashed in at the Digital Music Awards. Gorillaz have won the awards for Artist of the Year and Dance Artist. Thanks to everyone who voted for the band and also for the fan site in the People's Choice Award. We did very well but just lost out to Depeche Mode. Noodle was on hand at the ceremony to collect the Dance Award, and our friend Roots Manuva picked up the gong for Artist of the Year. Finally, Gorillaz have their first ever exhibition. For those of you who can get to Paris before the end of Friday, you can check out RTE's (they run the Paris Metro) Gorillaz exhibition in the Auberge station. The exhibition was put together in collaboration with official Gorillaz photographer Jamie Hewlett. You want pictures? Here and here. . Teasers (18/10) As previously stated, the new single Dirty Harry comes out on the 21st November. The promos that have been sent out look like this:
Here are some teaser clips from the new promo video: RealPlayer: Hi | Lo . I Need A Gun (14/10) More bits of newsworthy information... Gorillaz' new single, Dirty Harry, now has a confirmed release date of the 21st November 2005. We've had a tip off that you all should watch out on Gorillaz.com as the video will be premiering some time in the next 72 hours! Stuck in America with no way to get to Manchester for the shows next month? Here's a contest that provides tickets and airfare for 2! You should also know that right now we are preparing some special new sections to the site, and we should have more very big news coming very shortly. Keep checking back! In the meantime you really are a very silly person indeed if you haven't voted for us at the BT Yahoo Awards. Click here! . Latest Awards Update & New Single (10/10) First off, as widely anticipated, the next single from the multi-platinum smash hit album will be called Dirty Harry and will be released at the end of November. Radio 1 in the UK has already added it to the playlist and you can expect official format information & track listings very soon. In the awards roundup, Gorillaz have nabbed two at the Q Awards this year, bringing in the gongs for Best Producer and Best Video. Result! In other news, you can vote for Gorillaz at the MTV Europe Music awards by going to www.mtvema.com and clicking on your country. Vote for Gorillaz in the following categories: Best Group, Best Pop Act, Best Song, Best Video, Best UK & Ireland Act. . Hold It Down (5/10) Lots of odds & ends... There has been another update to the Gorillaz web shop. They are now carrying a pack of DARE badges and stickers! Check it out, click here! Gorillaz are nominated for this week's Oven Fresh Keepers on Fuse. Give them a vote by clicking over to www.fuse.tv, then find shows and Oven Fresh and vote for DARE! You can also vote against the other videos, which will help out Gorillaz! In addition to the confirmation of De La Soul to the bill, all five nights in Manchester have now sold out! We hope you've got a ticket. No clue what we're talking about? Check out the tour page, which has details of the shows as well as the Demon Detour - including some great photos from the live session in Cincinnati. Look for it to develop into a comprehensive Gorillaz tour archive. Hey! Interested in receiving important Gorillaz news in your inbox? Sign up for the fans.gorillaz.com news brief here. . MTV Europe Awards (29/9) Gorillaz are up for five awards at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards, which are set to be broadcast live from Lisbon on the 3rd November. The band are nominated in the following categories: Best Group (vs. Coldplay, Green Day, Black Eyed Peas, U2) . Shop & Awards & Tickets Part 2 (28/9) The web shop is now online! Head on over to Gorillaz.com and follow the link on the front page to get 10% off your first purchase! Cowboy Gary, the shopkeeper, will be more than happy to help you! News on the advance ticket sale for the Demon Days in Manchester concerts. On Friday 30th September at 4pm GMT, subscribers to the official Gorillaz mailing list will get an email with a chance to buy early tickets. This exclusive email will be sent out to Gorillaz subscribers containing a super exclusive link to the once in a lifetime online store which will be selling the first 50 tickets for each day (so that’s 250 in all) for the performances in Manchester. To sign up for the mailing list, click here. Finally, Gorillaz have picked up another award nomination, in the Vapors Magazine Readers Choice Awards. Click here to vote for Gorillaz in the best album category! Dangermouse is also nominated for best producer. . Shop & Awards & Tickets (26/9) The web shop will now be opening tomorrow, the 27th of September. Here's a picture of the new Shopkeeper. I wouldn't mess with him...
Also, Gorillaz have been nominated for more awards. In addition to the MTVu Woodies (see last news entry), the band are up for three awards at the BT Digital Music Awards! Click here to vote for the People's Choice Award - fans.gorillaz.com. Finally, for those of you looking to snap up tickets for the shows at the Manchester International Festival, general tickets will be on sale from October 3, however Gorillaz fans will have access to buy special advance tickets from this Friday, September 30. Watch the fan site for more information! . MTVu Woodies (22/9) Following their success at the MTV Video Music Awards, Gorillaz are nominated for three awards at this year's MTVu Woodies! Gorillaz are nominated in the Woodie of the Year, Streaming Video, and Animated Video categories. Here are links to voting pages. You can vote as many times as you like! Click here to vote for Woodie of the Year. Hey webmasters! Put these banners on your website to encourage fans to vote for Gorillaz in the Woodie Awards! Banners: 120 x 600; 400 x 150; 468 x 60. . Gorillaz Songs Live In Manchester (19/9) In a world first, Gorillaz' smash hit second album Demon Days will be performed in its entirety across five consecutive nights (November 1st - 5th) at the Opera House, Manchester - as part of a series of trailblazing events ahead of the inaugural Manchester International Festival in late June and early July 2007. The album's guest musicians will descend on Manchester to take on the task of recreating the three-million selling Demon Days live onstage. The two-dimensional band members will take a back seat as their musical collaborators are brought together for the first time ever, in five remarkable and unrepeatable performances. Guest musicians will include Happy Mondays front-man Shaun Ryder and UK hip hop artist Roots Manuva, with further names to be announced in the run-up to the event. Demon Days producer and Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarn will also be on hand to help bring the album to life. Murdoc comments: "The way I look at this gig is kinda like the Pope giving his blessing to another Parish. Gorillaz whole-heartedly condone these Manchester concerts and I'm sure musically it'll be top-notch, especially with the original guests. You should look at it like a great orchestra performing the works of, say, Beethoven. These gigs will be the only 'Gorillaz Approved' renditions we ever allow, so catch it while you can." Box office details will be announced at a later date and you can register to receive this information at manchesterinternationalfestival.com. Bonus! Click here to listen to what Russel has to say about the event! . Web Shop Update (16/9) The web shop will now not be opening until next Friday, the 23rd of September. Have you got a Gorillaz fan site? Why not put this banner on and let everyone know? . Web Shop/Help (10/9) Gorillaz fans should be advised that the band's new web shop will be opening on the Friday 16th September and not Monday 12th as has been previously advertised. Rest assured, however, that it will be more than worth the wait. In other news, you can download the tracks from the new Help album for Warchild, featuring the new Gorillaz track Hong Kong, by clicking here. The album will be properly released to the shops on September 26. . New Song/Habbo Feedback (7/9) As previously announced, Gorillaz have recorded a song for the latest Warchild benefit compilation. We can exclusively reveal that this song is titled Hong Kong. More info will be released as we get it... In other news, for those of you who managed to get into the Habbo chats, if you are interested in giving us feedback then shoot a message to gorillazqa@gmail.com. . Tour Rumours (5/9) Those of you listening to the chart countdown on Radio 1 yesterday will have been amused to hear Murdoc's interview with the chart hosts in which our man was quite funny! In any event, some news in which you may be interested: It has been reported that the band are set to perform live at a music industry event in London at the end of October, testing the Demon Days material as road-worthy before kicking off a full scale tour. The band has decided to leave no stone unturned in their question to develop one of the best stage shows ever seen, and are in the process of developing a highly extravagant multimedia set. At the moment it is unclear whether a full scale tour will arrive before 2007, however it has been promised that it will be far more technologically advanced than the group's performance at the 2002 Brit Awards. In other news, Launch's chartspotter James Masterton had this to say about Gorillaz hitting the peak of the singles chart this week: "Just as the last Gorillaz single 'Feel Good Inc' dips out of the Top 40 after an epic 20 week run, the second single from 'Demon Days' storms the chart and beats the peak of its predecessor to give the virtual band their first ever Number One hit. To say that people love the single is something of an understatement. 'Dare' surely has to go down as the most universally praised single of the year, just about every review you read showering it with praise in one form or another. Central to its attraction is the presence of a certain Shaun William Ryder on guest vocals, the former Happy Mondays frontman landing his first chart hit for some time and inadvertently winding up with his biggest ever. As with any Gorillaz track, seeing the video is central to the whole experience and this one does not disappoint, showing Noodle dancing and singing to her genetic creation - the giant disembodied head of Mr Ryder. "It gets boring saying nice things about Gorillaz all the time but heck, what can you do? For those still cynical, 'Dare' is actually a better single than 'Feel Good Inc' and in many ways their most accessible track since '19-2000'. If nothing else it has done what the Happy Mondays and Black Grape could not, giving Shaun Ryder a presence on the biggest selling single in the land." . NUMBER ONE (4/9) Gorillaz have entered the official UK singles chart at NUMBER ONE with the new single DARE! More commentary later! . SFAS Part 2 (2/9) The winners of Search For A Star Part 2 have been announced! Danny Gonzalez from Orlando, Florida wins the audio round with "Indian dance." He said: "I made this with my soul and hear this is a ethnic sounding electronic song." Irina Bolshakova, a university student from Russia has won the image round with "2D & Paula." She also made a video that won round 13 and made it into the final lucky 13 before it went out. In other news, the chart battle is on for Sunday as DARE bids to enter the UK singles chart at number one! Will it be possible? Get out and pick up your copy of the single and make sure!. In the States this week, the album has shot back up to #8, Feel Good Inc holds in the top 20 on the singles chart and #1 for the third consecutive week on the Rock charts! |
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