When you think of environmentalism, you don’t always think of fun.Īlbarn: Fun! Exactly, it’s fun. But at the end of the day, it’s not just that. It’s gentle, it has environmental thoughts scattered and peppered around every bit of this record. And then we kind of developed it and situated the new Gorillaz “base” at Point Nemo and alluded to the fact that the plastic detritus in the Pacific Ocean had all collected. I love the new album, and everybody else seems to be really happy with it, too - what’s the theme behind it, the Plastic Beach motif?Īlbarn: If you meditate on plastic or the sea, I think all the songs kind of fit into that in one way or another.

: Maybe some reader will have an idea.Īlbarn: Well if they have, please get in contact with us, because we need that. If anyone who reads this knows a way of doing it - we’d love to have dancing around with us onstage. We know how to do it, but you can’t play a proper, stonking, kick-ass gig with holograms because - it has to be super quiet. As soon as you play, it goes boom-boom-boom-boom.Īlbarn: You can’t do a live gig with holograms at the moment. But if you’re there at those events, you’ll notice that you can’t turn your bass up, because it’s a visible screen that you project onto. Jamie Hewlett: We’d never actually used the animations in a live-show sense before - we’d only done it for the Grammys and the, which works on television.

But we’ve got a 70-foot screen behind it, which is all animated. On each song, a different spirit arrives on the stage. Yes, we do have a very strong, identifiable band - Mick Jones and Paul Simonon and all the guests that come along, almost on a conveyor belt. Someone said that, but it’s more cartoons, in a sense.

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