Demon Days Live (film)

Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House is a live DVD by Gorillaz, released 27 March 2006 in the UK (see 2006 in British music). It compiles the live performances from 1 to 5 November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House that recreated the Demon Days studio album and was directed by David Barnard and Grant Gee.

Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House
Video by
Gorillaz
Released27 March 2006
Recorded1–5 November 2005
VenueManchester Opera House
GenreAlternative rock
Length69:50
LabelParlophone
ProducerGorillaz
Gorillaz chronology
Phase One: Celebrity Take Down
(2002)		 Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House
(2006)		 Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rolling Stone

Nearly all of the album's performers were available to participate in the event, including Neneh Cherry, Bootie Brown, Shaun Ryder and Ike Turner. MF DOOM and Dennis Hopper appeared through video and audio narration, respectively. Local Manchester choirs were hired for the performances.

Included as an encore are "Hong Kong", a song written for the War Child album Help!: A Day in the Life, and "Latin Simone (¿Qué Pasa Contigo?)" from the Gorillaz album, as a tribute to the memory of Ibrahim Ferrer, who died before the event took place. Also included are the visuals seen on the large screen for all but three of the performances, as those songs featured single cover art for the duration of each respective song. The visuals for "Kids with Guns" are the contribution by the "Search for a Star" video winner "Carlos".

During the performance, 2-D and Murdoc appeared (as puppets) in a box and were motioning for the encore toward the end.

The live performances in Manchester were a pre-festival commission for the Manchester International Festival, which took place in 2007.[1][2] The DVD peaked at number 1 on the UK DVD charts.

The film was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Film.

In 2011, an audio-only version of the show was released on Spotify.

Track listing
  1. "Intro" – 1:11
  2. "Last Living Souls" – 3:21
  3. "Kids with Guns" (featuring Neneh Cherry) – 4:04
  4. "O Green World" – 5:17
  5. "Dirty Harry" (featuring Bootie Brown) – 4:00
  6. "Feel Good Inc." (featuring De La Soul) – 3:56
  7. "El Mañana" – 4:07
  8. "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" (featuring Ike Turner) – 5:30
  9. "November Has Come" (featuring DOOM) (footage) – 2:58
  10. "All Alone" (featuring Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird) – 3:52
  11. "White Light" – 2:26
  12. "DARE" (featuring Roses Gabor and Shaun Ryder) – 4:38
  13. "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" – Read by Dennis Hopper – 3:32
  14. "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" (featuring The London Community Gospel Choir) – 2:07
  15. "Demon Days" (featuring The London Community Gospel Choir) – 4:52
  16. "Hong Kong" (featuring Zeng Zhen) – 6:37
  17. "Latin Simone (¿Qué Pasa Contigo?)" (featuring Ibrahim Ferrer) (footage) – 3:53

Personnel
  • Vocals/piano/melodica – Damon Albarn
  • MD/keyboards – Mike Smith
  • Guitar – Simon Tong
  • Guitar – Simon Jones
  • Bass – Morgan Nicholls
  • Drums – Cass Browne
  • Turntable – Darren Galea

Backing vocalists
  • Wayne Hernandez
  • Sharlene Hector
  • Rosie Wilson
  • Wendi Rose
  • Aaron Sokell

String section
  • Cello – Isabelle Dunn
  • Cello – Dan Keane
  • Bass – Emma Smith
  • Viola – Amanda Drummond
  • Viola – Nina Kapinsky
  • Violin – Antonia Pagulatos
  • Violin – Jennifer Berman
  • Violin – Kirsty Mangan
  • Viola – Gary Pomeroy
  • Cello – Deborah Chandler

Guests

Charts
Chart (2006) Peak
position
Australian Music DVDs Chart[3] 5
Austrian Music DVDs Chart[4] 7
Belgian (Flanders) Music DVDs Chart[5] 10
Danish Music DVDs Chart[6] 3
Greek Music DVDs Chart[7] 4
Italian Music DVDs Chart[8] 12
New Zealand Music DVDs Chart[9] 2
US Music Videos Chart[10] 11

Release history

The DVD was released in various countries:

Country Date Label Format Catalog
Australia 27 March 2006 Capitol DVD 356 2449
DVD: Deluxe Edition 359 3559
Japan 29 March 2006 Toshiba-EMI DVD TOBW3294
United Kingdom 27 March 2006 Parlophone DVD 0946 3 59355 9 2
Canada 28 March 2006 Parlophone DVD 0946 3 59354 9 3
United States 4 April 2006 Parlophone, Virgin DVD 0946 3 56243 9 7
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References
  1. "Manchester International Festival >> pre-festival commissions". Archived from the original on 8 November 2006. Retrieved 6 October 2006.
  2. News – Gorillaz to take family on tour – from NME.com
  3. "ARIA Top 40 DVD" (PDF). The ARIA Report (841): 22. 17 April 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  4. "Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 07.04.2006". Austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  5. "Gorillaz – Demon Days Live [DVD]". Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  6. "Musik DVD Top-10". Hitlisten.nu (in Danish). IFPI Denmark. Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  7. "Top 20 DVD/Video". IFPI Greece (in Greek). Archived from the original on 15 May 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  8. "Archivio – DVD Musicali". FIMI (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  9. "Top 10 Music DVDs". RIANZ. Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  10. Nielsen Business Media, Inc (22 April 2006). "Top Music Videos". Billboard. 118 (16): 83. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
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