Gorillaz announce return to S.F.
Hot on the heels of its stage-sagging headlining set at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park over the weekend, Gorillaz announced on Monday, Aug. 14, that they are returning to the city to perform at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Oct. 4.
The virtual hip-hop band, created by British pop icon Damon Albarn (formerly of Blur) and the illustrator Jamie Hewlett, is on tour in support of “Humanz,” its fifth studio recording and first new album since 2010.
Many of the guests featured on the release, including Pusha T, house music producer Jamie Principle and English grime star Little Simz, appeared onstage with Albarn and his touring band at Outside Lands — and could very likely return for the new date.
Rappers Vince Staples and Danny Brown are also on the bill for the fall date.
Tickets for the show, priced at $65 for general admission, go on sale Friday, Aug. 18.
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“It was that sense that, ‘Stuff is really accelerating at the moment and we are about to enter a whole new epoch,’ ” Albarn said during an exclusive backstage interview at Outside Lands. “We’re now in it . ...
“When I was making the record, I was concerned with my own internal didactic,” he added. “Now I just play the music. I don’t even feel it. It’s so of now that I don’t even feel like explaining what the songs are really about. They just fit in so naturally with what’s going on.”