Gorillaz will perform live on stage as 3D holograms with De La Soul at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2005.

The animated four-piece will be projected onto the stage using cutting edge technology that has never before been used as part of a live music TV performance. Real life collaborators De La Soul will perform alongside them.

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s creations are up for five gongs at the ceremony that will air live from Lisbon, Portugal at 8pm GMT on November 3. Feel Good Inc has been nominated for Best Video, and they are also in the running for Best Group, Best Song, Best Pop Act and Best UK & Ireland Act.

They join a breathtaking list of atists performing at the EMAs 2005, including Akon, Coldplay, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Pussycat Dolls and The Black Eyed Peas. The event will be hosted by Borat Sagdiyev - AKA Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen.

Sponsored by LG Mobile and Replay Blue Jeans, the MTV Europe Music Awards 2005 will air to a potential worldwide audience of more than a billion people.

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Gorillaz won two awards, ‘Best Dance Artist’ and ‘Artist of the Year’, at this years BT Digital Music Awards. Both awards were voted for by the public.

Additionally the Official Gorillaz Fan Site - fans.gorillaz.com came 12th in the Top 200 People’s Choice Award. Graham Coxon’s official website - www.grahamcoxon.com came 128th.

Check out the full list of winners at the BT Digital Music Awards 2005.

The video for ‘Dirty Harry’ the next single from Gorillaz will be shown exclusively on gorillaz.com on Tuesday 25th October.

If you can’t wait that long there’s a trailer at the Gorillaz Box Office.

In a world first, Gorillaz’ smash hit second album Demon Days will be performed in its entirety across five consecutive nights (November 1st - 5th) at the Opera House, Manchester - as part of a series of trailblazing events ahead of the inaugural Manchester International Festival in late June and early July 2007.

The album’s guest musicians will descend on Manchester to take on the task of recreating the three-million selling Demon Days live onstage. The two-dimensional band members will take a back seat as their musical collaborators are brought together for the first time ever, in five remarkable and unrepeatable performances. Guest musicians will include Happy Mondays front-man Shaun Ryder and UK hip hop artist Roots Manuva, with further names to be announced in the run-up to the event.

Set against a backdrop of vintage grandeur, the intimate 2,000-anight capacity audience will be the first to experience the full Demon Days set performed by all the contributing musicians with the band expected to put in an appearance. Details of when tickets go on sale will be announced at a later date - register at www.gorillaz.com and the festival website www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com to receive details as they are announced.

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Gorillaz are in a Hong Kong studio today recording a new track for the latest War Child album “Help: A Day In The Life”.

Find out more about the album including the track listing over at NME.COM

You can download the album for £7.99 or each track for 99p each from midday tomorrow (Sept 9, 2005) from www.warchildmusic.com

A official CD release of the album will be in stores on Sept 26.