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Gorillaz have announced a 20th anniversary reissue of their debut album Gorillaz, featuring B-sides, demos and a collection of live recordin...

From pulsating big band funk to throbbing electro-soul jams, Britfunk showed how British Black music reshaped its American influences.

Pop’s longest-serving imaginary band fill the reopened venue with deceptive chaos and the delight of feeling part of something again

Published: 6:00 AM July 10, 2021    Updated: 8:40 AM July 10, 2021 Soul II Souls Jazzie B will be among the acts lining up for Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music - Credit: Alan Davies The founding father of chart-topping group Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, is set to headline a Suffolk music festival this summer.  The DJ, producer and originator of the pioneering Soul II Soul sound system, who topped the charts with Back to Life (However Do You Want Me), will be performing at Woodbridges Elmhur...

DiGiCo delivers Quantum power for Gorillaz live stream UK – In mid-December, Gorillaz returned to the stage with ‘Song Machine Live From Kong’ for three separate fully live shows performed from the basement of Kong Studios, West London over the course of two days. Over a million viewers in more than 120 countries tuned in to the show via the LIVENow platform, which featured a pioneering mix of animation and live performance. The format was fitting for the biggest virtual band on the plan...

DiGiCo delivers Quantum power for Gorillaz Thursday, 11 March 2021 UK - In mid-December, Gorillaz returned to the stage with Song Machine Live From Kong for three separate fully live shows performed from the basement of Kong Studios, West London over the course of two days. Over a million viewers in more than 120 countries tuned in to the show via the LIVENow platform, which featured a pioneering mix of animation and live performance. The format was fitting for the biggest virtual band on th...

HBO Maxs Its a Sin Is the Heady, Gut-Wrenching Show You Need to See Queer as Folk’s creator is back with a series about youth, hope, and belonging against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis in London. In the first episode of It’s a Sin, the new Russell T. Davies drama set to debut on HBO Max on February 18, Ritchie Tozer is giddy. He’s moved to London, he’s enrolled in school, and he’s ogling boys — one long-haired figure in particular. As these things go, Ritchie is still a touch shy...

Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 07.55 EST Little about 2020 has been straightforward. So there is something perversely logical in the prospect of Gorillaz – a half-real, half-virtual band who released their best music in ages this year – playing a triumphal pre-Christmas gig with various layers of reality cavorting around them. As this live stream begins, up pops not Damon Albarn, the musical half of the core Gorillaz partnership, but Robert Smith from the Cure. Backlit, he sings str...

“Is anybody out there? Hello? Can you hear us?” In a cavernous secret warehouse, there’s a party underway that would bring Matt Hancock to actual tears. Surrounded by motorbikes, horse-headed dummies, mysterious monoliths, shelves of bizarre bric-a-brac and amps and curtains scrawled with slogans – “STAY NEGATIVE”, “INNATE RASHES”, “IT’S BETTER TO SLEEP WITH A SOBER CANNIBAL THAN A DRUNK CHRISTIAN” – a motley crew of soul kings, bovver boys, rappers, indie heroes, druids...

Gorillaz Song Machine Live Extravaganza Available Only on LIVENow News provided by Share this article LONDON, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual band close out 2020 with three massive live shows beamed to 111 countries around the world Sundays closing show will be available by popular demand to watch over the coming days on LIVENow Tickets priced at £15/$15 and can be purchased Song Machine Live From Kong, powered by Anker is available to watch now on demand here. The biggest virtual band...