Gorillaz - Demon Days Live

Your humble author was recently notified of the details regarding the planned Gorillaz live show at the Manchester Opera House, Nov 1st-5th. As of right now, there is no ability to purchase tickets, but the link is labelled "coming soon".

The timing of this event truly blows, since my schedule for the week is fairly well booked. However, I pass the information on to my readers since it's one of the few interesting scoops I have.

Enjoy.

In a world first, Gorillaz' smash hit second album Demon Days will be performed in its entirety across five consecutive nights (November 1st - 5th) at the Opera House, Manchester - as part of a series of trailblazing events ahead of the inaugural Manchester International Festival in late June and early July 2007.

The album's guest musicians will descend on Manchester to take on the task of recreating the three-million selling Demon Days live onstage. The two-dimensional band members will take a back seat as their musical collaborators are brought together for the first time ever, in five remarkable and unrepeatable performances. Guest musicians will include Happy Mondays front-man Shaun Ryder and UK hip hop artist Roots Manuva, with further names to be announced in the run-up to the event.

"I mean this event is the one and only time this is ever gonna happen, where we'll be able to bring together the 'Demon Days' guest performers along with these other musicians. So it's a definite one-off."Russel

***Update*** (3:15pm) From the official gorillaz site, we learn that tickets go on sale Oct. 3rd.