The third show on The Mountain tour for Gorillaz saw the band perform a six-song encore.
Two of the six songs featured in the encore were tour debut additions, with the much-loved Demon Days and Don’t Get Lost in Heaven featured at the end of the show. The Damon Albarn-fronted group has switched up their setlist slightly from night to night, with a two show stop-off at the Co-Op Live Arena in Manchester seeing slight variations to the setlist. On the second night of the tour, Gorillaz added Kids With Guns to their set, a song which was not featured at the bp pulse LIVE show in Birmingham last night (March 22).
The band has played songs predominantly from The Mountain, but the show in Birmingham also featured five songs from Demon Days and three from the self-titled debut album. A full setlist can be found below.
- The Mountain
- The Happy Dictator
- Tranz
- Tomorrow Comes Today
- Rhinestone Eyes
- 19-2000
- The God of Lying (with Joe Talbot)
- The Moon Cave
- El Mañana
- On Melancholy Hill
- The Empty Dream Machine
- Delirium
- Andromeda
- Stylo (with Yasiin Bey)
- Damascus (with Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey)
- Dirty Harry (with Bootie Brown)
- The Shadowy Light
- The Sad God
- The Hardest Thing
- Orange County (with Kara Jackson)
- Feel Good Inc. (with Posdnuos)
- Clint Eastwood
- Don’t Get Lost in Heaven
- Demon Days
The tour is set to continue the rest of the year, with dates in Leeds, London, and European festivals set to follow. Gorillaz will also embark on a tour of North and South America later this year.
A full tour of the UK is set to take place, including two dates at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena and a summer show at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where Sparks will open the show. A full list of shows can be found below.
- March 20 – Co-op Live Arena, Manchester
- March 21 – Co-op Live Arena, Manchester
- March 22 – BP Pulse Live, Birmingham
- March 24 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
- March 25 – First Direct Bank Arena, Leeds
- March 27 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
- March 28 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
- March 29 – M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool
- March 31 – The SSE Arena, Belfast
- April 1 – 3Arena, Dublin
- April 2 – 3Arena, Dublin
- June 20 – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
Further dates, including a headline set at Primavera Sound Barcelona and Rock for People, will also take place this summer. The tour is set to conclude on December 3 in Santiago, Chile. In a five-star review of the album, Cult Following described The Mountain as a return to form for the Albarn-fronted group, who made the most of archival tapes and fresh collaborations.
The review reads: “Albarn is keen to curate, and The Mountain is the most successful example of that for him to date. From posthumous appearances which feel like worthy inclusions to the sharp writing style Albarn has brought to this round of Gorillaz songs, it’s hard to feel like The Mountain is anything but a borderline masterstroke. The likes of Delerium and Damascus reinvent what the collective stands for. How well timed it is for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the group to bring about one of its best albums.”
