Gorillaz add rare Plastic Beach track to Rock Werchter headline slot as The Mountain tour continues

Gorillaz featured a rare Plastic Beach track in their The Mountain show for the first time this year. The Damon Albarn-fronted band headlined Rock Werchter festival last night (July 4) and featured a number of all-time greats in their setlist. With On Melancholy Hill featuring alongside the Plastic Beach rarity, Gorillaz pulled out all the stops by playing most of their newest album.

To Binge would feature frequently on the band’s 2010 tour, but has been all but dropped since the Plastic Beach release. A rare performance of the song occurred last night, with a 20-song set at the Belgium-based festival. Albarn and the band reportedly soundchecked Every Planet We Reach is Dead, Hong Kong, and The Lost Chord also. These songs did not make it onto the final set but it does appear the band is optioning them for future shows.

A full setlist for the Gorillaz show at Rock Werchter can be found below.

• The Mountain
• The Happy Dictator
• Tranz
• Last Living Souls
• 19-2000
• Rhinestone Eyes
• El Mañana
• On Melancholy Hill
• Orange County (with Kara Jackson)
• Empire Ants (with Yukimi)
• To Binge (with Yukimi)
• Delirium
• Andromeda
• Kids With Guns
• Stylo (with Yasiin Bey)
• Damascus (with Yasiin Bey)
• Dirty Harry (with Bootie Brown)
• The Shadowy Light
• Feel Good Inc. (with Posdnuos)
• Clint Eastwood

The Rock Werchter festival stop-off comes just a few weeks after the band performed a headline show at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. A full setlist for their Johnny Marr and Sparks-featuring show can be found below.

• The Mountain (with Anoushka Shankar)
• The Happy Dictator (with Sparks)
• Tranz
• Tomorrow Comes Today
• 19-2000
• Rhinestone Eyes
• Saturnz Barz (with Popcaan)
• The Moon Cave (with Asha Puthli, Black Thought, and Anoushka Shankar)
• El Mañana
• Empire Ants (with Yukimi)
• With Love to an Ex (with Moonchild Sanelly)
• Casablanca (with Johnny Marr and Paul Simonon)
• Delirium
• Andromeda
• Désolé (with Fatoumata Diawara)
• Stylo (with Yasiin Bey)
• Damascus (with Yasiin Bey and Omar Souleyman)
• Dirty Harry (with Bootie Brown)
• Garage Palace (with Little Simz)
• White Flag (with Bashy, Kano and the Syrian National Orchestra of Arabic Music)
• The Shadowy Light (with Gruff Rhys and Zanai Bhosle)
• The Sad God (with Black Thought and Anoushka Shankar)
• Cloud of Unknowing
• Plastic Beach (with Johnny Marr and Paul Simonon)
• On Melancholy Hill
• Orange County (with Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar)
• The Manifesto (with Trueno)
• Dare (with Shaun Ryder and Roses Gabor)
• Feel Good Inc. (with Posdnuos)
• Clint Eastwood

Gorillaz bassist Seye Adelekan previously praised Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett for their work on The Mountain. He wrote on Facebook: “Gorillaz UK tour is done. It has been such a joy bringing not only the music of The Mountain and a whole host of other GZ classics but to be a gang of Humanz that represent so many different languages, ages, nationalities, faiths, musical styles, gender expressions and skills. What Damon and Jamie have built both in the music and the art represent something the world sorely needs right now… Unity. An army for peace. I love this family and this music. I can’t wait for the summer.”