Madison Square Garden, Friday 8th October 2010

OK. This is it. The Big ONE!! Friday Night. New York City. Madison Square Garden. All the bases are loaded!! But then again...so am I. I went in to this one all tooled up...Cutlasses drawn, trumpets sounding...bass fully charged and at the ready. We've done some seismic events this year...Coachella...Glastonbury...Syria....all milestones in the Gorillaz golden glittering career. But this is it! The Garden. Home of the heavyweights, legendary boxers and er...Elton John. It was time for Gorillaz to annex New York.

Tonight's Menu...

And yes, indeed, we slayed them. A full house with people hanging from the rafters. Up on their feet and going crazy! The roar was like a battlefield in full swing! Gorillaz played a full 2 hour set with Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, Bootie, De La, the Syrians, Little Dragon, The Hypnotics...the whole army in full effect. I can't believe no-one filmed it. History is missing a vital document! All I found was this footage that someone posted out into the vast empty chasms of the Interweb. Looks like someone had snuck on stage behind us. Lucky I didn't see them on the night or I would have chopped the mother down.....Still, better than nothing I suppose....Check this out...

See what I'm saying? That's history in the making right there! I was so thrilled I had a quick shower, changed into my spare black v-neck sweater, Cuban heels and lucky 'inverted cross' and then sped off to SPIN the NYC Table tennis club, for the Gorillaz aftershow, to go watch Damon Albarn play table-tennis. But obviously when I came to my senses, I snuck off to a proper party over at Q-Tip's Cotton Bud Club. Woke up in a skip in Greenwich Village 8 hours later, still clutching the bottle of Petrone Smiles had kindly lent me... Let see what tomorrow brings!!....

M.N.xx