Gorillaz are to release their second collection of rarities and b-sides in the UK on the 5th November through Parlophone and in the US the next day via Virgin.

The D-Sides double disc album features 22 tracks from the Demon Days era also features remixes of Gorillaz songs from DFA, Hot Chip, Jamie T and Soulwax. The band’s first b-sides album, G-Sides, was released in 2001.

CD1
1. 68 State
2. People
3. Hongkongaton
4. We are Happy Landfill
5. Hong Kong
6. Highway (Under Construction)
7. Rockit
8. Bill Murray
9. The Swagga
10. Murdoc is God
11. Spitting Out the Demons
12. Don’t Get Lost in Heaven (Original Demo Version)
13. Stop the Dams

CD2
1. DARE (DFA Remix)
2. Feel Good Inc (Stanton Warriors Remix)
3. Kids With Guns ( Jamie T’s Turns To Monsters Mix)
4. DARE (Soulwax Remix)
5. Kids With Guns (Hot Chip Remix)
6. El Manana (Metronomy Remix)
7. DARE (Junior Sanchez Remix)
8. Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Years Remix)
9. Kids With Guns (Quiet Village Remix)

Pre-order from Amazon.co.uk now.

If you’re lucky enough to live in New York, look out for the Demon Days Live Show, which hits Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater next month. From 2 – 6 April the Apollo will play host to guests including Neneh Cherry, Bootie Brown, De La Soul, Ike Turner, Shaun Ryder, Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird. Tickets go onsale on Friday March 10th at 11 am EST through Ticketmaster .

And if you can’t make it to NYC, recreate the experience in your very own living room with the Demon Days Live DVD. Filmed in November last year at the Manchester Opera House shows, part of Manchester International Festival, Gorillaz: Demon Days Live DVD will be released by Parlophone in the UK on 27th March.

Pre-Order Demon Days Live for just £13.99 from Play.com

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Animated band Gorillaz have abandoned plans for a world tour, because it costs too much money to bring the cartoon characters to life on a regular basis.

The ‘Dirty Harry’ hitmakers – who are the brainchild of Blur singer Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett – set the Grammy Awards alight earlier this month (FEB06) when they performed with Madonna.

But it cost more than $1.5 million (£880,000) to bring Murdoc, 2-D, Russel and Noodle to the stage.

Hewlett says, “We’re just not gonna be able to do a proper tour. We’ve tried really hard to work out a way but the costs would be just astronomical.”

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Animated hip-hop stars Gorillaz have been signed up to play at this year’s Brit Awards.
Gorillaz, whose hits include Feel Good Inc and Dirty Harry, will perform live at the Earls Court show on 15 February.

Gorillaz have two nominations for best British group and British album, for Demon Days.

The Brit Awards, which will be broadcast on ITV1 on 16 February, will be hosted by Chris Evans for the second year running.

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Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the animated band Gorillaz, has been nominated for the £25,000 Designer of the Year prize.

He is one of four nominees up for the award organised annually by the Design Museum.

The cartoonist created Gorillaz with former Blur star Damon Albarn as a swipe against the growing number of manufactured pop bands.

Hewlett, 37, created the Gorillaz animations following success with his comic book heroine Tank Girl.

The other nominees are the humanitarian designer Cameron Sinclair, furniture designer Tom Dixon, and the design team behind The Guardian newspaper.

London-born Sinclair, 32, is on the shortlist for his work with the humanitarian group Architecture for Humanity.

It has been constructing schools, medical clinics and community centres in the aftermath of the Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake.

The Guardian’s design team, led by creative director Mark Porter, is nominated for the redesign of the newspaper in its new Berliner format.

Dixon, 46, who taught himself how to weld metal furniture after quitting art school, was selected for his new furniture and lighting designs.

The shortlisted work will go on display at the Design Museum from March 4 to June 18.

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