Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour

Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour was one of the Gorillaz' live concert tours. The world tour spanned from July 2010 to December 2010.

The tour is in support of their third album Plastic Beach. This tour also saw the release of The Fall, a new tour album, featuring fifteen tracks, mainly influenced of 2-D.

Performance
During Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour, the band performed a live version of the album, Plastic Beach, along with songs from previous albums which included, Dirty Harry, Feel Good Inc., and Clint Eastwood (without Del The Funky Homosapien).

Personnel

 * Damon Albarn – lead vocals, keyboards, piano, acoustic guitar, melodica
 * Paul Simonon – bass guitar, background vocals
 * Mick Jones – rhythm guitar, background vocals
 * Jeff Wootton – lead guitar (Certain dates)
 * Simon Tong – lead guitar (replaced Jeff Wootton on certain dates)
 * Cass Browne – drums, drum machine
 * Mike Smith – keyboards
 * Gabriel "Manuals" Wallace – drums, percussion
 * Jesse Hackett – keyboards

Guest collaborators and additional musicians

 * Bashy – vocals on "Clint Eastwood" and "White Flag"
 * Kano – vocals on "Clint Eastwood" and "White Flag"
 * Mos Def – vocals on "Stylo" and "Sweepstakes" (select dates only)
 * Lou Reed – guitar and vocals on "Some Kind of Nature" (New York City and Los Angeles only)
 * Bobby Womack – vocals on "Stylo", "Cloud of Unknowing" and "Demon Days"
 * Neneh Cherry – vocals on "Kids with Guns" (select dates only)
 * Bootie Brown – vocals on "Dirty Harry" and "Stylo"
 * MF Doom – vocals on "Clint Eastwood" and "November Has Come" (select dates only)
 * Miho Hatori – vocals on "19-2000" (select dates only)
 * Yukimi Nagano – vocals on "Empire Ants" and "To Binge" (select dates only)
 * De La Soul – vocals on "Feel Good Inc." and "Superfast Jellyfish"
 * Daley – vocals on "Doncamatic" (select dates only)
 * Mark E. Smith – vocals on "Glitter Freeze" (select dates only)
 * Roses Gabor – vocals on "19-2000" and "Dare"
 * Members of Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music – orchestration on "White Flag"
 * The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – brass on "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach", "Broken", "Sweepstakes" and "Plastic Beach"
 * Demon Strings – strings

Tracklist

 * 1) Orchestral Intro
 * 2) Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach
 * 3) Last Living Souls
 * 4) O Green World (Certain Dates)
 * 5) 19-2000
 * 6) Stylo
 * 7) On Melancholy Hill
 * 8) Rhinestone Eyes
 * 9) Superfast Jellyfish
 * 10) Tomorrow Comes Today
 * 11) Empire Ants
 * 12) Broken
 * 13) Dirty Harry
 * 14) El Mañana
 * 15) November Has Come (Certain Dates)
 * 16) Doncamatic (Certain Dates)
 * 17) White Flag
 * 18) To Binge
 * 19) DARE
 * 20) Glitter Freeze
 * 21) Punk
 * 22) Plastic Beach
 * 23) Cloud of Unknowing
 * 24) Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China only)
 * 25) Feel Good Inc.
 * 26) Clint Eastwood
 * 27) Don't Get Lost in Heaven
 * 28) Demon Days

Festivals

 * Coachella: April 18, 2010
 * Glastonbury (UK): June 25, 2010
 * Roskilde (Denmark): July 1, 2010
 * Benicassim (Spain): July 18, 2010
 * Byblos (Lebanon): July 20, 2010

Trivia

 * The Escape to Plastic Beach Tour also featured new music videos and visuals on the big screen in the background while band members played up front. Visuals accompanied such songs as "Broken", "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach", "Dirty Harry", "Empire Ants", "Last Living Souls", "White Flag" and many others alongside the original music videos for the group's previous songs.


 * The poster used to promote the tour was highly influenced by the theatrical poster for the 1969 Sam Peckinpah western, The Wild Bunch.


 * The tour was later noted by Albarn to be an extremely costly endeavor; in a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Albarn explained: "I made about 20 pounds by the end of it, so I won't be going on another of those. It was incredible fun, I loved doing it, but economically it was an absolute fucking disaster."