In another interview, Jamie Hewlett mentions that his children were also huge fans of The Powerpuff Girls growing up and that the show was huge back then, and says that he's always been interested in the idea of cartoons crossing over, but that he's never seen a cartoon character entering another cartoon world, aside from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam. He also mentions that he and Jamie were both "massive fans" of The Powerpuff Girls when it came out and they always thought the energy of the show was "really cool," and that they're friends with the show's creator, Craig McCracken. "It all came about organically, is my point," Albarn says. According to Albarn, Ace was chosen as Murdoc's replacement because he and Jamie Hewlett believed Ace had a certain spiritual connection with Murdoc.
In an interview, Damon Albarn explained Ace becoming a member of Gorillaz and confirmed that Cartoon Network had given permission for Gorillaz to use the character. A sticker of an ace playing card is one of the many decorations on the Song Machine device. In Song Machine Live's pre-show interviews, Gorillaz live bassist Seye mentioned that he misses playing with Ace during The Now Now Tour, and a picture frame of Ace is one of the props on the set of Song Machine Live. He appears in some artwork featured in the Gorillaz Almanac and is mentioned a few times in the book. It was then revealed that he was the temporary new bass player for the band on their sixth studio album The Now Now while their usual bass player Murdoc was incarcerated at HM Wormwood Scrubs.įollowing Murdoc's release from prison, he stated in the final of the FreeMurdoc chats that Ace had gone back home and that he "was taking time out to write his memoirs." Since Phase 5Īce has been referenced a few times since his departure from the band after The Now Now. On May 5, 2018, Noodle was seen at the Kentucky Derby with Ace.
Noodle and Ace spotted at the 2018 Kentucky Derby. In Gorillaz, we got a living, breathing playlist.Check out Ace on the Powerpuff Girls Wiki. Even when they projected dystopia, they made the future sound bright (“On Melancholy Hill”).
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That they had no fixed lineup and an ever-rotating series of vocalists and collaborators (from Elton John to De La Soul, Clash bassist Paul Simonon to Afro-Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer) not only undercut old ideas of what it meant to be a “band,” it projected a vision that felt communal, even a little utopian, unbound by borders cultural, stylistic, or otherwise. But in retrospect, Gorillaz’s work-the electro-indie pop of “Feel Good Inc.” and “Dare,” the leftfield hip-hop of “Clint Eastwood” and “Dirty Harry,” the bits of American gospel, African folk, and dub-reflected a rootless, fragmented world that has only gotten more familiar with time. The question hit them: If culture was already fake, why keep pretending it was real?Īt first glance, the idea of an animated “virtual band”-the sprightly 2-D, rogue Murdoc Niccals, gangsta Russel Hobbs, and sweet outsider Noodle-seemed a little gimmicky, an art-school shot at mainstream pop. This was the dawn of reality TV-shows that turned so-called real life into prepackaged stories and people into cartoons. Their eyes were glazed, their minds empty. One day in the late '90s, comic-book artist Jamie Hewlett and Blur singer Damon Albarn were sitting around in their West London flat watching TV-a brand-new Panasonic, eight channels on screen at once.
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