Gorillaz live at Malahide Castle with support from De La Soul and Little Sims. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon
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And there you have it. Confirming what we were all lead to believe at the start of the week, it’s been announced that Gorillaz will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle on Saturday, June 9. Tickets for the show – which go on sale next Thursday, November 9 at 9am – are priced at €69.50. The world’s finest virtual band – formed by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett back in 1998 – released their fifth studio album, Humanz, back in April. Gorillaz last performed in Dublin at 3Arena (or what was then known as The O2 – back in November 2010.
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Ah, the old internet rumour mill. What on earth was life like before you? According to reports on a couple of mammoth Irish digital content pedallers, LCD Soundsystem are primed to play Malahide Castle on Tuesday, June 5, Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz will play Saturday, June 9 and Liam Gallagher (whose debut solo album Christine Costello reviewed for us over here) will play an as-of-yet unspecified date in the month. According to a post by Enjoy Malahide (and let’s face it, who wouldn’t enjoy Malahide?) the shows are provisional and dependent upon successful planning permission. Assuming that’s granted, and these shows are, you know, actually…
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We should all be honest and accept that this record was never going to match the expectation that preceded it. Gorillaz have been a reliable stalwart for over a decade now and their brand of politically motivated electronica and hip-hop has consistently delivered. They’ve soundtracked environmental decay, an Iraq war, and a recession and now, with a despot in the white house, it’s unsurprising that Damon Albarn chose this moment to return. What is surprising though is how limp and muddy it feels. Humanz is not the record it could be. It’s unfocused, messy and, worse still, pedestrian. A guest…