Global phenomenon Gorillaz is set to kick off their massive 2026 tour with two very special warm-up shows at Bradford Live—the magnificent, newly restored art deco building in the heart of the UK’s City of Culture—on March 13 and 14. These shows mark the BRIT and Grammy-winning band’s first-ever visit to Bradford and come hot on the heels of their brand new ninth studio album, ‘The Mountain’, which is set for release on February 27th via the band’s own new label, KONG. This highly anticipated album is an expansive, richly layered sonic landscape spanning 15 songs and features an extraordinary list of collaborators, including Black Thought, Johnny Marr, IDLES, Omar Souleyman, Sparks, Trueno, and Yasiin Bey, alongside posthumous voices like Bobby Womack and Tony Allen.
The Bradford shows will officially kick off The Mountain Tour’s UK and Ireland leg, which opens in Manchester on March 20th and includes sold-out dates in Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, and Dublin. The tour will culminate with the band’s biggest UK show to date at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday, June 20th, with support from Sparks and Trueno. Furthermore, the iconic gates of Kong—the fabled home of Gorillaz—will open in Downtown L.A. when a celebrated new immersive exhibition, House of Kong, runs for a limited four-week run from February 26th to March 19th.
The House of Kong exhibition in Los Angeles will be accompanied by two very special, one-off GORILLAZ shows at the Hollywood Palladium on February 22nd and 23rd. These standalone U.S. dates will see Damon Albarn and the GORILLAZ live band perform the new album, ‘The Mountain’, in full from beginning to end, all under the watchful eye of the animated band members Murdoc, Noodle, Russel, and 2D. This full schedule guarantees an incredible new era of live performance and new music from the virtual band.