Demon Days Live

Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House
Video by Gorillaz
Released	27 March 2006
Recorded	Manchester Opera House
Genre	Alternative
Length	69:50
Label	Parlophone
Producer	Gorillaz
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Gorillaz video chronology
Phase One: Celebrity Take Down (2002) Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House (2006) Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades (2006)

Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House is a Grammy Award nominated^[1] live DVD by Gorillaz, released 27 March 2006 in the UK (see 2006 in British music). It compiles the live performances from 1 November–5 November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House that recreated the Demon Days Studio album and was directed by David Barnard and Grant Gee.

Nearly all of the album's performers were available to participate in the event, including Neneh Cherry, Bootie Brown, Shaun Ryder and Ike Turner. MF DOOM and Dennis Hopper appeared through video and narration, respectively. Local Manchester choirs were hired for the performances.

Included as an encore are "Hong Kong", a song written for the War Child album Help!: A Day in the Life, and "Latin Simone (¿Qué Pasa Contigo?)" from the Gorillaz album, as a tribute to the memory of Ibrahim Ferrer, who died before the event took place. Also included are the visuals seen on the large screen for all but three of the performances, as those songs featured single cover art for the duration of each respective song. The visuals for "Kids with Guns" are the contribution by the "Search for a Star" video winner "Carlos".

During the performance, 2D and Murdoc appeared (as puppets) in a box and were motioning for the encore toward the end.

The live performances in Manchester were a pre-festival commission for the Manchester International Festival, which took place in 2007.^[2][3] The DVD charts number 1 in UK DVD charts

Track listing

1. "Intro" (Gorillaz, D. Harper)
2. "Last Living Souls" (Gorillaz)
3. "Kids with Guns" featuring Neneh Cherry (Gorillaz)
4. "O Green World" (Gorillaz)
5. "Dirty Harry" featuring Bootie Brown (Gorillaz, R. Robinson)
6. "Feel Good Inc." featuring De La Soul (Gorillaz, D. Jolicoeur)
7. "El Mañana" (Gorillaz)
8. "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" featuring Ike Turner (Gorillaz)
9. "November Has Come" featuring MF Doom (footage) (Gorillaz, D. Dumile)
10. "All Alone" featuring Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird (Gorillaz, R. Smith, S. Tong)
11. "White Light" (Gorillaz)
12. "DARE" featuring Rosie Wilson and Shaun Ryder (Gorillaz)
13. "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head – Read by Dennis Hopper" (Gorillaz)
14. "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" (Gorillaz)
15. "Demon Days" (Gorillaz)
16. "Hong Kong" featuring Zeng Zhen (Gorillaz)
17. "Latin Simone (¿Qué Pasa Contigo?)" featuring Ibrahim Ferrer (footage) (Gorillaz)

Performers

• Vocals/piano – Damon Albarn
• MD/keyboards – Mike Smith
• Guitar – Simon Tong
• Second guitar – Simon Jones
• Bass – Morgan Nicholls
• Drums – Cass Browne
• Percussion – Karl Vanden Bossche
• Turntable – Darren Galea
• Cello – Isabelle Dunn
• Cello – Dan Keane
• Bass – Emma Smith
• Viola – Amanda Drummond
• Viola – Nina Kapinsky
• Violin – Antonia Pagulatos
• Violin – Kirsty Mangan
• Viola – Gary Pomeroy
• Cello – Deborah Chandler
• Guzheng – Zeng Zhen

Backing vocalists

• Wayne Hernandez
• Sharlene Hector
• Rosie Wilson
• Wendi Rose
• Aaron Sokell

Release details

The DVD was released in various countries:

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Australia	27 March 2006	Capitol	DVD	356 2449
			DVD: Deluxe Edition	359 3559
Japan	29 March 2006	Toshiba-EMI	DVD	TOBW3294
United Kingdom	27 March 2006	Parlophone	DVD	0946 3 59355 9 2
Canada	28 March 2006	Parlophone	DVD	0946 3 59354 9 3
United States	4 April 2006	Parlophone, Virgin	DVD	0946 3 56243 9 7

References

1. ^ 2007 GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS
2. ^ Manchester International Festival >> pre-festival commissions
3. ^ News – Gorillaz to take family on tour – from NME.com

External links

• Gorillaz-Unofficial DVD webpage
• [1]
• Entire video available online