The music is cool and it is allowed to stand up by itself as the visuals are very much just a backdrop (whereas many of their videos see the visuals as important as the song itself). Of course it helps if you like the Gorilliaz but I speak as someone who has only heard the singles off Demon Days and yet enjoyed almost all of the songs in this film. 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. 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.
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