What Would Happen if a Gorilla Was Given a Human Baby
Glory TAKEDOWN
2000-2002
History | Tours | Lore
During the humble beginnings, Gorillaz were seen by many as zilch more than a comedic novelty deed; a gimmick that was taking a generalised potshot at the industry information technology was partaking in, with seemingly little insight relative to electric current affairs or political movements (something that would profoundly dissimilarity afterwards phases). The entire concept had spawned from Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett, who'd both been faced with personal dilemmas through their own lives around this time. Damon had cleaved up with Justine Frischmann, whilst Jamie was taking rut afterward the Tank Girl pic had (ahem) tanked at the box office. The pair ended up living together in a flat in 1998 afterwards facing these problems, and would whittle abroad days upon days watching MTV; until the penny dropped that no matter what would come on, nothing shown ever had substance. The decision was made to substitute all of this with a band who could speak on several greater volumes than the Pop artists of the time, and to accomplish this with a group who weren't really there to have whatsoever credit for their work, Gorillaz.
After two years of evolution, recording songs in Jamaica, creating countless publicity images (with animation by Passion Pictures) and recording voice actors to assume the roles of each band member, Gorillaz would become known in the November of 2000 with their debut EP, Tomorrow Comes Today, a music video to go with the title track & an advent on the cover of the fashion magazine Dazed & Confused. Their popularity would skyrocket 4 months after with their first single, Clint Eastwood; which was followed shortly by a Hijack on Xfm radio evidence, their first public alive performance at London's Kings Cross Scala & their cocky-titled studio album.
Gorillaz soon began branching out globally, playing live abroad and breaking America with their album; leading to six one thousand thousand copies being sold worldwide. Their success began a wave of slogans they'd use beyond their work, including:
- Dark Pop
- Gorillaz Mobile
- Hip-Hop Hard Man
- Irrepressible, Irresistable
- Kiddie-Frightener
- Lo-Fi Thriller
- Shoot to Ill
- Zombie Hiphop
- Zombies and Painkillers
Gorillaz were soon given the opportunity to anonymously brand a remix ofL'flirtation est united nations oiseau rebelle(originally listed as the "twenty,000 Leagues Mix") for an MTV competition in which people had to approximate which producers did which remixes of the aria. Around this fourth dimension, the grouping started touring Japan where their popularity was shockingly lower than nigh people had expected, with the album declining to sell due to a…rather uncomfortable marketing campaign.
To combat this, Gorillaz released a Japan-merely compilation to boost their sales in the east; aiming to accomplish the regional success they'd originally intended. G Sides would somewhen be released globally, as the determination to group their lesser known songs together was too practiced an idea to waste for parts of the globe where they already had a following. The band would continue travelling, landing a collaboration with D12 in response to ix/11, which kickstarted their lean towards politically charged music; planting the seeds for Demon Days.
Bizarrely, the French Electronic duo Daft Punk would aid Gorillaz through marketing throughout 2001 in what seemed similar a friendly rivalry between the two groups. Taiwan had promotional CD's that advertised them both, Toonami would host a Midnight Run marathon of all their animated videos, in some countries, Daft Punk's Discovery album would include adverts for Gorillaz in the CD case and somewhen, Daft Punk performed with Gorillaz & several other artists for a fundraising event at Fabric.
Gorillaz would widen their pool of media with a series of animated shorts for MTV known every bit Gorillabitez; 1 of these saw the band's lead singer being depicted equally an advocate for the Free Tibet Campaign. The group'south Tv set appearances would continue near the cease of 2001 with a Channel 4 mockumentary titled Charts of Darkness, which jokingly delved into how Gorillaz was created. They also got merchandise, including Nokia phone cases & a HitClips cartridge for Clint Eastwood.
The side by side year would run across Gorillaz perform at the BRIT Awards, with the cartoon members appearing on phase for the beginning time; along with Phi Life Goose egg. Following this came a competition to win the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's first Xbox, a United states of america tour, a remix anthology by some other cartoon band, a collector'southward card from a series of cards for various artists in the Metro Silicon Valley paper, plans for a movie with DreamWorks titled Glory Harvest & a toyline of the band (plus a zombie gorilla) by Art Asylum; sadly, neither of the latter 2 saw the light of day.
Gorillaz also had their own densely crafted website, which gave fans the opportunity to visit the band's fictional HQ, Kong Studios; besides equally playing flash games, mixing their music & chatting with the band members. The band also got a TV game via Sky Digital's PlayJam network titled Zombie Kong.
Stage 1'south legacy was stiff plenty to warrant an anniversary compilation titled Gorillaz: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Vinyl Boxset & a range of designer CaSuMi chairs for young children crafted by West Town; both were released in 2021.
While Phase 1 wasn't seen with the same sincerity as later periods of their career, Gorillaz had still chop-chop gained a die-difficult following worldwide, making a unique style of music that had been coined equally "Zombie Hip-Hop"; intertwining this with the surreal comedy of their videos and presenting themselves much more professionally than any cartoon musicians that had come earlier (or even since). By the terminate of Phase ane, the band had won 3 Billboard VMA's for Clint Eastwood ("Maximum Vision Laurels", "Best Modern Stone New Creative person Prune" & "Best Rap/Hip-Hop New Artist Clip"), ii EMA'south for "Best Dance" & "Best Song" (Clint Eastwood) & a Q Award for "All-time Video" (Clint Eastwood).
TOURS
The early Gorillaz live shows were interesting, as the performers would practice each gig behind a behemothic screen, allowing them to act as they wanted without e'er distracting their audience from the on-screen visuals. The ring'due south voice actors would also be with the alive ensemble to speak as the cartoon members between songs; bizarrely, they would sometimes even play Gorillabitez during these gigs every bit well.
LORE
Born on half-dozen/6/66 in Stoke-on-Trent, Murdoc Alphonce Niccals was found every bit a infant on the doorstep of his father, Sebastian Jacob Niccals (or Jacob Sebastian Niccals). Rather than seeing his son as…well, a son. Sebastian would take reward of the kid, hurling him into whatsoever situations he could for get-rich-quick opportunities; the virtually infamous for Murdoc being the local Are-You-A-Star? talent competition, Murdoc saw these types of shows as nothing more than drastic and embarrassing. This was what encouraged him to brand a name for himself without any management or college-ups telling him what to do, fuelling the drive he even so has with Gorillaz to this mean solar day.
Murdoc would often attend his schoolhouse, Sodsworth Comprehensive, reeking of whiskey and causing anarchy past being the course clown equally opposed to learning anything. However, his life was inverse forever when a skin-headed school bully by the name of Tony Chopper made him crack afterward countless insults had been hurled day afterwards day. Murdoc retaliated with a harsh, witty remark that led to Chopper breaking his olfactory organ, giving it the first of a stunning amount of fractures. From this day, Murdoc had found a new level of confidence; and a new outlook on how to get through life.
Murdoc would spend his teenage years committing crime after criminal offense, whilst discovering a beloved for artists such every bit Black Sabbath, The Clash, Dio & various other artists introduced to him by his brother, Hannibal; who bankrupt Murdoc's nose 2 times for playing We Rock on his personal turntable (oddly, Dio don't have an album called "We Rock", only it's what Ascension of the Ogre says, and so…). After graduating Sodsworth with one qualification (International Baccalaureate in Anti-Social Anthropology), Murdoc inverse his center name to Faust as part of an agreement with Satan to let him make the world'due south greatest band (something he also did to try winning Kelly O'Driscoll's heart).
Murdoc was also gifted his own bass guitar, "El Diablo" as part of the deal, but a bulk of the bands he put together ended up declining (he insists that none of them failed because he was on vocals); some of the bands he started included The Called-for Sensations, Hitler's Ballgag, Wild Willy Wally and the Wallingtons, The Stupid Name Gang & This Bear witness Has Been Cancelled (later on renamed We Have Carve up, because nobody went to whatsoever of their gigs; lord knows why). Because of this chain of failures, he ended up jumping from job to job to afford his rent, including gravedigger, soup-seller & office-time mall Santa. Eventually, at 31, Murdoc decided that he needed a better vocalist if he was e'er going to go somewhere with his music, starting time his "masterplan"…
In Crawley New Town, Stuart Pot was a boy with a (mostly) uneventful babyhood; he was well-mannered, despite existence a few bricks shy of a load (the latter quality beingness common amid Crawley residents). One of Stu'south favourite things growing up was watching horror films, such equally Dawn of the Dead, The Exorcist & The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, zombie movies being the ones he enjoyed the well-nigh. He likewise enjoyed musicians such as The Jam, Buzzcocks and his favourite group, The Human League. Stu managed to achieve adept grades at St Wilfred'south school, despite not having any real appetite or major life goals he wanted to achieve.
When Stu was 11, he fell out of a tree; this somehow caused all the hair on his body to fall out, growing back in a new natural blue color. His father, David (former family name being Tusspot), worked at a fairground tinkering with the electronics and would oft make custom keyboards for Stu to experiment with. His mother, Rachel, was a nurse who supplied her son with painkillers due to frequent migraine attacks that would only worsen over the years. Eventually, Stu would find a task at Uncle Norm'southward Organ Emporium; and at 19, his life would be driven in an entirely new direction…
Meanwhile, across the pond in Brooklyn, a immature well-spoken Hip Hop Hardman named Russel Hobbs was faced with a monumental series of tussles with the undead. Firstly, the time when he and his friends were gunned down past a black Humvee outside a 7-Eleven; Russel was the merely survivor, and noticed that one of the Humvee shooters was in fact the Grim Reaper. The spirits of all his expressionless friends then went inside Russel, including Del, who would become a guest artist on two Gorillaz singles years later. The possession permanently turned Russel's optics completely white, along with giving him his musical skills; making him known as "The Rhythm Male monarch".
Unfortunately, a demon had likewise decided to use Russel's body equally a host, causing him to abound twice his size i night and rampage through the dorms of the private school he attended, The Xavier School for Young Achievers. While having no recollection of this event, he was expelled; and the anxiety put him in a blackout for iv years. Eventually, a priest visited to exorcise the demon, waking Russel as he and so moved to a new school, Brooklyn High. From here, he was able to acquire countless things most Hip Hop, giving him a new charter on life.
However, Russel'southward parents had him shipped to England to live with his uncle in Belsize Park, the well-nigh notable item he brought with him would go a crucial instrument to Gorillaz, the Hip Hop Automobile, which contained every kind of beat y'all could imagine.
Russel then got a job at Big Rick Black's Record Shack, where he became a local fable for his cognition of beats and grooves; hoping he could keep to live a happy life without anymore anarchy (what practise you lot honestly call back is going to happen?).
On the 15th of August 1997, "D-24-hour interval" would accept place, where Murdoc prepared to enact his plan for stardom. Step 1:Smash into a keyboard shop to steal equipment.Step two:? Stride iii: Profit. If he'd picked anywhere other than Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium to raid, there'due south no way this disaster would've ended in the same manner; equally Stu-Pot was working at that place that twenty-four hours. The Vauxhall Astra collided with Stu's face, putting him in a vegetative state and giving him eight-ball hyphema in his correct eye. Murdoc was promptly arrested and given a thirty thousand hour customs service sentence, ten hours of each week spent looking afterwards the limp Stu.
Murdoc would spend these ten hours doing all the best things he could recall of with the poor kid, punching, kicking, dunking, stunt driving with Stu bumping effectually in the back, until the day Murdoc wanted to impress a bird by doing donuts in a Nottingham machine park. Being the hellraiser without any moral fibre he naturally is, Murdoc crashed the car; firing Stu through the windscreen. After flying seventy mph, landing face first onto tarmac and skidding half a mile across the ground, Stu miraculously recovered! At the cost of his other middle, he stood up with a "pretty boy" await that immediately convinced Murdoc to take him in every bit the frontman for his adjacent band. Stu was also given a new nickname based on this incident, "2d", after the two dents in his eyes that turned them black (changing to white whenever he feels like it).
1 year later, Murdoc took the next footstep in his program, acquiring a personal HQ for his band, a building on an Essex hilltop known as Kong Studios. The location being widely known for supernatural occurrences, as the site was originally a graveyard for Dandy Plague victims, the final owners of the mansion were Hell's Angels known as 'The Nomads', who used it as a clubhouse; until a political party in 1993 where over two thousand bikers were locked inside and perished in a fire. The hill is as well notably correct next to a vile landfill site, filled with mad cows & alien torsos.
With himself as a bassist, 2D on keyboards and vocals & 2d's girlfriend, Paula Cracker on guitar, all Murdoc needed was a drummer. A quick visit to Big Rick Black's was all it took, asking Russel for an obscure tape and dragging him out with a pocketbook over his head when he wasn't looking. Shockingly, Russel actually decided to stay with this maniac; convinced solely past the music they were developing. Information technology seemed like Murdoc had finally accomplished his goal and formed the dream band he always wanted…until Russel defenseless him having an affair with Paula in the Kong Studio toilets. Russel broke Murdoc's nose five times and Paula was kicked out (debatably at the cost of her sanity).
The hunt for a new guitarist started immediately, with an advert placed in NME'south backpages; stating "Global phenomenon seek guitarist for World Domination", "GSOH required" & "No hippies". Soon after the advertizing was put out, a 10-foot high FedEx crate was planted outside the door to Kong, with a little girl bursting out belongings a Les Paul, screaming Japanese, shredding a killer solo, performing a twenty-foot high karate jump, bowing and saying one give-and-take, "Noodle".
Despite the language barrier and no memory of her by, Noodle fit in perfectly. The band immediately changed their name to "Gorillaz" and began recording; the starting time song to come up from this fearsome foursome being Ghost Railroad train. Murdoc sent the track with some publicity photos to EMI A&R man Whiffy Smiffy, encouraging him to see Gorillaz at the Camden Brownhouse. second had also invited Rachel Stevens to the gig, as the ii seemed to go forth well, eventually becoming a couple (again, don't look any happy ending with this, it'southward 2nd).
On the 5th of November, Gorillaz played their first gig at the Brownhouse, landing a contract with EMI seamlessly. The post-obit day saw the record label signing political party, where Gorillaz met an creative person who'd get on to exist a close friend of theirs (and a biting rival to Murdoc) Damon Albarn. The political party somewhen devolved into a food fight, with Murdoc making advances towards Rachel until she stormed out, breaking up with 2d the adjacent day (come across?). Subsequently banking their seven-foot cheque, the band flooded Kong with all the right equipment to create their cocky-titled debut anthology.
Later on the album's release, their popularity was only getting larger and larger; but non all the attention they got was to their liking. A mysterious effigy known merely as "Dr Wurzel" had stolen Murdoc's Winnebago, beginning an online craze where pictures of the RV in various bizarre locations would pop up online. Wurzel harassed Gorillaz constantly, driving Murdoc up the wall with this hunt and bootlegging Ghost Railroad train, with what was supposedly a photo of the pre-Noodle band lineup.
After a lawsuit from a virtual band chosen Dopplegangerz, 2D leaning towards Buddhism & the Costless Tibet Campaign to endeavour and find his own identity and a wild Christmas political party at Kong (with rivers of alcohol flowing down the corridors), Gorillaz had made a proper noun for themselves in seemingly no time; starting off 2002 with their BRIT Awards operation and a North American tour. The tour started off rocky, only getting worse equally it went on, as Murdoc was arrested the 2d they touched down due to an incident in Nebraska fifteen years ago. He barely reached the stage for their start gig later on paying the $500,000 bail.
Negative reviews of their Toronto gig didn't help them either, nor did the nightmare trash heap on wheels known as their tour bus. Things seemed to get gradually better over the tour, just everything plummeted again once the ring entered Mexico. On the 11th of March, Gorillaz did a performance that would debatably get their everyman moment on stage. Murdoc whacked a fan who jumped on phase with his bass. Russel complanate mid-song and required vitamin injections to recover. Halfway through Man Research (Clapper), one of Siegfried & Roy'southward tigers got drunk and tried to steal an audience member's wheel. Someone threw up their lung onto the stage. All of these bug would be floored by one final disaster…
The final blast in the coffin was when several audience members were crushed underneath a behemothic inflatable gorilla caput from the phase set up. The gig ended immediately and the kids trapped underneath the prop had to wait twoscore-8 hours before they could be freed. The grouping ended their touring hither, moving to 125 Mulholland Drive and so they could arctic out and starting time laying out plans for a movie. The ring soon became mates with countless celebs in Hollywood (Murdoc managed to go himself thrown out of Hugh Hefner's house by trying to smuggle out ashtrays). Bizarrely, Murdoc'south skin besides permanently went from muddied yellow to dark green while tanning in LA.
Gorillaz began piece of work on their picture show Celebrity Harvest (alternate titles included "Whoops! There Goes My Career!", "Come Back With That Apple Pie" & "I Don't Similar The Aroma Of That, Amigo") in June, with Alfred C. Klinker as their manager; not the wisest choice, as the film's plot and tone seemed to drastically modify during every day of filming. Gorillaz took a suspension from filming with an MTV performance in Portugal, where another bombshell occurred with a fan asking for an shorthand; the item they wanted signed being a CD that the ring didn't recognise past a group now associated with them that they'd never even heard of.
Gorillaz flew back to LA, but to notice that the script for their movie had been rewritten yet again, finally firing Klinker. After Murdoc failed an audition for a Tv series called Shoot to Kill (for being too old), the group decided to write the pic themselves, checking into Room 103 at The Sheraton and beginning their first thought pitching session amidst each-other. Later a month of every idea going absolutely nowhere, 2d'due south idiotic pitches eventually acquired Murdoc to snap, going directly for his pharynx. Russel started yelling at Murdoc while Noodle began bitter his paw; and second's confront was going equally blue as his hair. In one swing, Russel most knocked Murdoc unconscious. The green-skinned Satanist slowly got up, declaring his hatred for the group he'd formed and stormed out of the hotel, leaving the other three to themselves; catastrophe Gorillaz then and there…
TO BE Continued
(in Phase 2)
Source: https://gorillazforbeginners.com/phase-1/
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