"Gorillaz, the world's more popular virtual band, won Best Group at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon on November 3rd, 2005. Afterwards, they took the stage to play "Feel Good Inc" live."
Try and parse this: Gorillaz, the animated brainchild of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, appeared live onstage.
Animated....live onstage...
The Times of London reports that the illusion was achieved using an old Victorian parlour trick known as "Pepper’s Ghost"
(from here, more info on Gorillaz here)
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That's pretty cool, but it seems like an awful lot of effort for such a lame stage show.
ReplyDeleteThat was fantastic! A damn sight better than the "shadows behind a white screen" thing they did last time.
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