ALBARN PUTS GORILLAZ ON HOLD TO WRITE STAGE SHOW
DAMON ALBARN will put his popular group GORILLAZ on hiatus in 2011 to give him time to write a new stage show.
The Clint Eastwood hitmakers wrap up their world tour this month (Dec10) and the British rocker has confirmed they will be taking an extended break next year (11) to focus on other projects.
Albarn and his Gorillaz collaborator Jamie Hewlett will be busy writing a new U.K. stage production, which has been commission by the Manchester International Festival (MIF) and English National Opera organisations as part of the London 2012 Olympic celebrations.
The show will premiere at the MIF in 2011 and Albarn admits Gorillaz will have to wait until he’s finished work on the production.
He tells Australian radio station Triple J, "I’m putting it (Gorillaz) back in a box for a while. Just putting it back on the shelf. I’ve got other stuff. I’m doing a piece for the Manchester International Festival about Elizabethan occult philosophy. It kind of was the end of magic and the beginning of science." Albarn and Hewlett previously wrote an opera for the MIF, Monkey: Journey to the West, in 2007.
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