Search For A Star

Search For A Star was a talent contest held by Gorillaz in December 2004 on the Gorillaz.com website.

Competition
Search For A Star was held for fans who could get the chance to collaborate with Gorillaz. There was an average of 100 entries per week, which was then brought down to 10. Which were then put forward for a public vote. There was a total of 200 or more entries that were viewed. There was then a gallery added to Kong Studios, which showed all of the entries. A total of three entries were chosen, even though it was initially thought to have only one winner.

Audio Submissions

 * 'I Don't Know (Too)' [Sazzy]
 * 'To Breathe' [Alkemians]
 * A Little Diddy I Wrote [HarleQuinMcCartney]
 * A Mellow interlude [Kid Francescoli]
 * Awareness Intruded [Product80876]
 * Baby Let's Go [Brian Doyle]
 * Break From Tradition [Nathan Matsuda]
 * Bumblebee [Rockefort Loopfrog]
 * Club UK Heist [Hyshi]
 * Demons In My Head [Neeta]
 * Desert [Jike]
 * Desmond [Desmond]
 * Dirty Harry False Icon Mix [Pywakit]
 * Do It All The Same [Matt Schobs AKA Yearbook]
 * Easy [Zsolt]
 * Electroskud [Ponzoni Fabrice]
 * Fatal Gaze [Carmen]
 * Feel Good [Bryan Reynolds]
 * Finish Music [Special Olympics]
 * Flute Movin' (Beastie Boys Remix) [DjDoughy]
 * Flypaper For Freaks [LittleDictator]
 * Going Somewhere [Nico]
 * Get Down [Jike]
 * Get Down [P Buck and the BSC]
 * Giant Dog [Simian Team]
 * Gloucester Gremlins [The Lunatic Fringe]
 * Gogo [Special Olympics]
 * Grace [Klavar]
 * GZ [Pricotroll]
 * Here 4 U [Dilettantes]
 * Hero Quest [Random Swashbuckler]
 * Highway to Heaven [Spacejunkie]
 * Hook Around Soul [EQ]
 * Horrified, Lousy, Someone [Sidewalk Poets]
 * In the Mirror [Joint State]
 * Indian Dance [Asidus] [audio winner of 'Search for a Star']
 * Infinity G [Go Soshi]
 * Inner Voices [Andrew Silagy]
 * Jackson In The Box [John Frost]
 * Kid Gloves [Capuchin]
 * Konamicode [Ryan Barger]
 * Long Rhode [K-Fresh]
 * Manoel Brasil [Manoel Ricardo]
 * Max Mendoza [Maxguy2099]
 * My Christ [The Prime Manifesto]
 * My Brother Is Xrying [Summer Melody]
 * Night, Night, Niiiiiiiiiiiiiight [Pegak]
 * Obscurus [Titchka]
 * Oneway - 22 [Brian McHugh]
 * Option Two (Magnetic Shift) [Switch]
 * Ox Solo [Oxymoron]
 * Radio Dating Presents Meet Yer Match [Sameguy]
 * Radioraduga [Dopesaint]
 * Rarr [Ryan Barger]
 * Reciprocated Love [Dj Jaims]
 * Recluse 7.0 [A-Ron]
 * Road [Ded Reckoner]
 * Robbing Beverly Hills [Heather1067]
 * Sadness Takes Place [Jenova X]
 * Schinn Diggin' [Stan the 3rd]
 * Seven in heaven [Bearduk]
 * Sheep [GuyLloid200]
 * Sleep To This [Lefty]
 * Solitaryman [SergeBoogie]
 * Somethings Wrong [Johnnydowntown]
 * Soundtrack [The Almighty M-Cue]
 * Spyro Cong Studios Contest [-Spyro-]
 * Stockolm [Mr.Loberlin]
 * Superstar [Phase Fate]
 * Tech 68 [Maestro A.M.]
 * The Ambi [Xplicit]
 * The Darchitect [Go Soshi]
 * The Only Way [K. Brown]
 * Tinralley [Aimlessscene]
 * Tittle Tattle (DDR Edit) [Zonk]
 * Turn a Page (For An Happy Ending) [Flabbergasting]
 * Une Partie D'Mois [Auto]
 * Yeah! So... [Chinese Norman]
 * Yesca [Cabuya]
 * Your World With Zane Thumsberry [Pachonga]
 * Zoom [Dj Moonstone]

Winners
Carl Sowerby, also known as Sourbee, won the video competition with a Flash animation titled "Tablemanners" (which can still be found on his Youtube channel here), Irina Pavlovna Bolshakova, also known as Schneeflocke, won the art category with a drawing of 2-D and Paula Cracker titled "2D and Paula", that can also be found on her website here (which later led her to meet Jamie Hewlett personally), and Danny Gonzalez aka Asidus won the audio category with the song made by himself called "Indian Dance" (and can also be heard here).

All three winners collaborated on the last single off Demon Days, El Mañana/Kids With Guns. Sourbee added his visuals for the B-side track "Don't Get Lost In Heaven (Original Demo Version)", which was then featured on the DVD single. Schneeflocke made an artistic interpretation drawing of "El Mañana", featured on a card insert also from the DVD version of the single, and Asidus made a remix of "Dirty Harry" called "Uno Quatro" which was featured on the Gorillaz website, with the URL included on the back of the card. It was said that the winners were originally going to get their own rooms on Kong Studios, but this never came to be.