Watch Aries ft Peter Hook and Georgia HERE. Featuring the legendary Peter Hook on bass, with alt-pop singer and producer Georgia on drums, Aries sees our virtual heroes capture much of the current mood with a soaring affirmation of human connection. Aries is the third episode of Song Machine from Gorillaz. Follow SONG MACHINE Here ‘cause I feel so isolated without you I can’t play a happy tune on my own So stay by my side High or low tide This had stopped being a fascination long ago. Now he could get the Russel figurine, the ‘Reject False Icons’ badge, even a T-shirt with the Geep logo from the ’19-2000’ video. Trawling through the internet had eventually led him to merchandise. Now this is what the boy had had in mind back when he had so desperately wanted to get into music. Some of the bits feel forbidden to someone of his age (a policeman examining a man’s bottom) some of the bits make him giggle uncontrollably (a 2D voodoo doll in Murdoc’s Winnebago) some of the bits he discovers feeling like the only person ever to have come across them (a game in which you need to get a frog across a busy road, set to a polyphonic version of ‘DARE’).īehind every pair of Y-fronts, every satanist’s Bible, every misplaced melodica is a hidden treat, a game or an opportunity for interaction of some kind. Hours upon hours he has spent after school wandering through Gorillaz’ giant internet home. He’s been copying pictures of them for ages: sketching his favourite pictures from Rise of the Ogre, pausing music videos on YouTube, sketching cool things on the Kong Studios website. He’s not really sure if it’s rap, or rock, or some other thing, but why the hell does all that stuff matter so much? Plus Gorillaz aren’t just about the music anyway. While his friends spend break time sending Ne-Yo and 50 Cent songs to each other on Bluetooth, the boy is perfectly happy listening to ‘Dirty Harry’ on his iPod. He glances briefly at his mates’ scores: a 6 for his friend’s project on the Simpsons (how Year 7), a generous 8 for another’s effort on Snoopy (hardly difficult to draw). And he’s feeling pretty smug at the moment anyway.ġ0/10 on his art project. By now he doesn’t care if his friends like them or not. The boy has heard this before, and is unfazed.

‘Why do you love the Gorillaz so much? They’re shit!’

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