Who played bass on gorillaz demon days live

When Peter Hook arrives to play cumulonimbus bass on the superb вЂAriesвЂ™, Damon beams and shrugs through his euphoric twist on a New Order tune as if he knocks out such glacial indie-pop brilliance in his sleep. For вЂDead ButterfliesвЂ™, he teases emotive boudoir soul refrains from his keyboard, while Kano sits on a nearby riser paying tribute to the D-boss. On вЂPink PhantomвЂ™ he duets with a cartoon Elton John, who sits at a grand piano festooned with a hairy hand candelabra. ItвЂ™s a methodology that also needs focus, though and, without any old hits for us to synchronize with every now and then, this falls to DamonвЂ™s more crystalline moments in the spotlight. ItвЂ™s a futurist, universal melting pot approach that allows Damon to get away with crooning a desolate melody amid the orchestral rhumba party of вЂDГ©solГ©вЂ™ merging JPEGMafiaвЂ™s sunny rap with CHAIвЂ™s J-Pop on вЂMLSвЂ™ and creating a raging miasma of future soul at the start of EarthGangвЂ™s psychedelic disco groover вЂOpiumвЂ™. These are tracks that often feel like classic funk, pop, rap and soul music intermingled, encoded, beamed out into the cosmos and deciphered by some far advanced civilization. ItвЂ™s like looking behind the Wizard Of OzвЂ™s curtain to find thereвЂ™s a wild-ass psychedelic punch party going on back there. Once Robert Smith has laced вЂStrange TimezвЂ™ with his aura of melodic anguish and holographic Beck has slippedвЂ™nвЂ™slid his way through the psych-pop вЂValley Of The PagansвЂ™, London singer Leee John twirls onto the cabaret stage in person, spinning falsetto soul harmonies over вЂThe Lost ChordвЂ™.

So, up close and exposed in the livestream format, and playing the new album largely in order (plus some bonus track swap-ins), they rightly embrace the anything-goes jumble behind the вЂtoons. The cartoon wrapping of Gorillaz has always been there to give some form of coherence to a wildly disparate and dislocated sort of project, not least on their recent compilation of monthly lockdown tracks вЂSong Machine, Season One: Strange TimezвЂ™. He raps into a megaphone, hammers keytars and parps toy trumpets in a bomber jacket, docker cap and glittery Elton pineapple shades, like someone sacked from DexyвЂ™s Midnight Runners in 1980 for looking far too pleased with himself. And through the visual madness and sonic splatterfest grooves Damon Albarn, more rambunctious ringmaster than centerpiece.

Who played bass on gorillaz demon days live