Overview
- Albarn delivered the reading on Jo Whiley’s December 23 BBC Radio 2 show, with audio available on BBC Sounds.
- Gorillaz’s album The Mountain is slated for February 27 following a phone‑free preview at September’s House of Kong event.
- Four tracks are already out, most recently Damascus, following The God of Lying with IDLES, The Happy Dictator with Sparks, and The Manifesto with Trueno and the late D12 member Proof.
- Guests on the LP include Black Thought, Asha Puthli, Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Kara Jackson, Paul Simonon, Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar, with archival “voices from elsewhere” by Dennis Hopper, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Tony Allen and Mark E. Smith.
- A March run across the UK and Ireland includes Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Nottingham, Liverpool, Belfast and Dublin, plus a Tottenham Hotspur Stadium headline, Bradford warm‑ups and festival slots at Electric Picnic, Primavera Sound Barcelona and Porto, and Rock Werchter.