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Gorillaz takes that kind of attitude with everything. We took a picture of us all wearing trash bag clothing and boots and it says it all. When it rains, none of us have rain gear so we gravitate to the bags. I had no boots, so when it snowed I wore the latest fashion - black boots made from garbage bags. According to the packing slip they were all part of an order from an online wholesaler that had long since been forgotten. Thank Blur for this - we found a huge box of various trash bags in the crawl space at the art studio, and started using them for everything. 'People take themselves way too seriously in the music industry,' explains Albarn near the start - who might at times be included by others in that bracket - 'so Gorillaz for us is an antidote to all of that.' For example, the constant references to garbage bags and trash cans. Shot over six years until 2006, Bananaz follows the evolution of Gorillaz from an idea hatched one night between two friends, Blur frontman Damon Albarn and designer Jamie Hewlett, to a multi-million selling, Grammy-winning, genre-straddling, virtual pop group. How did Gorillaz evolve from private joke into omnipotent pop stars? This documentary explains all, says Luke Bainbridge Their second album, Demon Days has sold 6 million albums worldwide. Gorillaz were crowned Best Group at the 2005 MTV Europe Awards and received 5 Grammy nominations and 2 Brit Awards nods.

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Formed in 2000, their eponymous debut album was released to international acclaim and 5 million plus sales. Gorillaz is the most successful virtual band ever, fronted by four wildly talented but totally disparate characters: pretty-but-vacant singer 2D, satanic bassist Murdoc Niccals, Japanese guitar prodigy Noodle and amiable man-mountain drummer Russel Hobbs. A free-wheeling film which teams these two likely lads with friend and film maker Ceri Levy.įeaturing Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Dennis Hopper, De la Soul and Ibrahim Ferrer and Ceri's camera. As one radio interviewer puts it, 'It's a parallel universe - these guys aren't in the band but they know the animated characters who are'.īananaz is an honest, at times hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn and Hewlett. He takes you on the road with this virtual phenomenon and shows a part of Gorillaz never seen before - reality. Audiences see just what Ceri Levy saw over some many and varied months of shooting from 2000 to 2006.īananaz is Levy's story of the partnership and community behind Gorillaz. The film removes the virtual walls of Gorillaz, a cartoon band created by artist Jamie Hewlett and musician Damon Albarn. “The Rock n Roll Swindle of our generation”īananaz, a film about a virtual band Gorillaz will show at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this month. With appearances by many of those who occasionally pass through this world Dennis Hopper, De la Soul, Ibrahim Ferrer, Dangermouse, Dan the Automator, D12, Bootie Brown and Neneh Cherry.

The result is an unsanitised, free-wheeling documentary film an intimate, honest and often hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn and Hewlett.

Levy filmed alongside and behind the scenes from 2000 to 2006, from first drawings, animations, music and the musicians, through to the faces behind the voices of Murdoc, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs.

The result is Bananaz, 91 minutes inside the remarkable real world of Gorillaz, the most successful animated band ever. At the birth of the project, film maker Ceri Levy set about to document this undertaking. In the late 1990's Jamie Hewlett met Damon Albarn and the concept of Gorillaz was born sometime after. This was the official website for Gorillaz, documenting the creation of the remarkable real world of Gorillaz, the most successful animated band ever!Ĭontent is from the site's archived pages. Bananaz: A Film About the Virtual Band, Gorillaz