Regardless, as a home viewer all that mattered to me was that the gig worked on television and it very much did. With the audience seated this must have made for a quite unusual gig particularly with the musical range of the band bringing them to their feet one moment but then sitting down again the next. To the rear of the stage a large screen flashes up mostly static images. Only guest artists and dancers are given spot lights. With that mystery solved, the band still chose to exist in a sort of semi-real state which manifests itself here in the way that the state is in half-light with Damon Albarn himself playing behind a backlit curtain, thus only visible as a silhouette. I remember when they came out that there was a mystery around who the "real" band members and who had created these strange characters. If it happens, then – on this evidence – it’ll be unmissable.They are the internet band that have created an impact as much with their music as with their Magna-inspired visual style but I was curious to see how the Gorillaz performed "in person" on stage, considering that "they" were fictional creations. Beyond this salvo, though, the hits are largely absent – although it’s worth remembering that casual fans are hardly likely to have parted with the £15 price of online admission.Īt the close of each show flashes an ad: Gorillaz, live at the O2 Arena, August 11, 2021. On the sprawling Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head, Matt Berry steps in to deliver the late Dennis Hopper’s spoken word narrative in the manner of a stately sermon.
Albarn hops into a Gorillaz-branded golf caddy and rides over to a B-stage, where he reinterprets key Demon Days cuts like Last Living Souls and Don’t Get Lost in Heaven, imparting a reggae flavour with rich acoustic arrangements that include xylophone and contra drums.
Nine of Song Machine’s 11 tracks are aired with a sextet of backing vocalists and an airtight live bandĮlsewhere, the back catalogue proves pliable.
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