{"id":2318251,"date":"2026-03-08T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2318251"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:48:13","slug":"watch-gorillaz-perform-clint-eastwood-the-moon-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-gorillaz-perform-clint-eastwood-the-moon-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gorillaz Perform &#8216;Clint Eastwood,&#8217; &#8216;The Moon Cave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The British virtual band debuts on <em>SNL<\/em> with songs from their first album and their latest<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gorillaz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gorillaz\" data-tag=\"gorillaz\">Gorillaz<\/a> debuted as <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> musical guest by performing a song from their first album, <em>Gorillaz<\/em>, and their most recent album, <em>The Mountain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe British virtual band opened with \u201cClint Eastwood,\u201d the lead single off their self-titled 2001 album. The song, which <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/100-best-songs-of-the-aughts-20110617\/gorillaz-clint-eastwood-20110616\">placed number 38<\/a> on the 100 best songs of the 2000s, is similar to the theme for <em>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/em>, the 1966 film in which Eastwood starred. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/del-the-funky-homosapien\/\" id=\"auto-tag_del-the-funky-homosapien\" data-tag=\"del-the-funky-homosapien\">Del the Funky Homosapien<\/a>, who raps the verses, joined the group on stage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood ft. Del the Funky Homosapien (Live) - SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMKA0ahftME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGorillaz\u2019s second song was \u201cThe Moon Cave\u201d from <em>The Mountain<\/em>, their follow-up to 2023\u2019s\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-gorillaz-cracker-island-1234681392\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-gorillaz-cracker-island-1234681392\/\">Cracker Island<\/a><\/em>. Singer-songwriter Asha Puthli, rapper Black Thought and sitar player Anoushka Shankar joined them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEach of the songs on the fifteen-track album has at least one collaborator, some of whom appear posthumously. On \u201cThe Moon Cave,\u201d those were guitarist and singer Bobby Womack and Dave Jolicoeur of De La Soul.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gorillaz: The Moon Cave ft. Asha Puthli, Black Thought &amp; Anoushka Shankar (Live) - SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZU_7tlOHOfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI just thought, if we\u2019re going to talk about the subject of death, I need some people who are dead to help me talk about it,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/damon-albarn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_damon-albarn\" data-tag=\"damon-albarn\">Damon Albarn<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/gorillaz-new-music-grief-ai-art-interview-1235514180\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> last month<\/a> in a wide-ranging interview alongside co-creator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jamie-hewlett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jamie-hewlett\" data-tag=\"jamie-hewlett\">Jamie Hewlett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe album was made amid personal losses for each member, as well as a formative trip to India. It applies Indian classical instrumentation, and lyrics are spoken in multiple languages, including Hindi. Other songs on it include \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gorillaz-trueno-d12-rapper-proof-new-song-the-manifesto-1235443081\/\">The Manifesto<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gorillaz-damascus-single-yasiin-bey-omar-souleyman-1235482978\/\">Damascus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGorillaz\u2019s <em>The Mountain<\/em> tour <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gorillaz.com\/tour\/\">begins<\/a> later this month in the U.K. The group has top billing at Barcelona\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/primavera-sound-2026-lineup-the-cure-doja-cat-gorillaz-1235435196\/\">Primavera Sound festival<\/a> in June and Atlanta\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shaky-knees-2026-lineup-the-strokes-gorillaz-1235521606\/\">Shaky Knees festival<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British virtual band debuts on SNL with songs from their first album and their latest Gorillaz debuted as Saturday Night Live musical guest by performing a song from their first album, Gorillaz, and their most recent album, The Mountain. 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