Review: Gorillaz Launch The Mountain Tour in Spectacular Fashion at Co-Op Live

Gorillaz review: ‘A visually spectacular, career-spanning spectacle’

Blending classics from their discography and material from their acclaimed ‘The Mountain’ album, Gorillaz treated Manchester’s Co-op Live to an exhilarating, career-spanning performance as they closed out their two-night residency in style.

Review: Gorillaz launch The Mountain tour in spectacular fashion at Co-op Live

Bands touring a new album face a difficult dilemma, especially when they have a back catalogue stretching back more than 25 years.

Gorillaz kick off The Mountain Tour at Co-op Live

Based on the queue lined up outside the Co-op Live, you would struggle to guess the band playing here tonight. There are young kids with their mums and dads; gaggles of teenagers trying it on with the bar staff; twenty-somethings like me; middle-aged bachelorettes; and pensioners.