Gorillaz Release Detroit Tix for 'Escape to Plastic Beach' World Tour, On Sale Now

Gorillaz world tour 'Escape To Plastic Beach' will go on sale today at noon. The North American tour will play at Detroit's Fox Theatre on Wednesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets ($49.50, $65.00 and $99.00) go on sale today Friday, August 6 at noon and may be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, the Joe Louis Arena and Fox Theatre box offices, Hockeytown Authentics in Troy (without service charge), at all Ticketmaster locations, Ticketmaster.com and livenation.com. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. For additional information, call (313) 471-6611.

Gorillaz fanclub, the Sub-Division, will benefit from a 48 hour exclusive pre-sale prior to tickets going on general sale. To join Sub-Division go to www.gorillaz.com/subdivision.

Gorillaz co-creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett‘s new live experience encompassing material from all three multi-platinum Gorillaz albums played its first ever show at this April's Coachella festival, to a crowd of 70,000 in the final headline slot of the weekend. Featuring Albarn, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, Bootie Brown, UK Hip Hop stars Kano and Bashy and others as well as video animation, artwork, film and stage design by Hewlett, Gorillaz have since played in front of more than 400,000 fans headlining Glastonbury, Roskilde in Denmark and Benicassim Festival in Spain and will soon become the first Western band of their magnitude to play in Syria when they play the ancient Citadel in Damascus on July 25th following a headline slot at Byblos Festival, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Plastic Beach was released March 9 in the U.S. on EMI's Virgin Records. It set two career landmarks, selling more than 112,000 copies in its first week and entering the U.S. album chart at #2. Both career highs, the sales number and chart position bested those of 2005's double-platinum 'Demon Days,' which sold 107,000 in its debut week, entering the chart at #6.

Gorillaz a/k/a Murdoc Niccals, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs were co-created by Albarn and Hewlett over ten years ago, and unleashed on the world with their self-titled 2001 debut album, which has sold nearly two million copies in the U.S. The band's 2005 follow up, 'Demon Days,' featured the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocal Grammy winner 'Feel Good Inc.' and sold in excess of two million copies in America.

For more information visit http://www.gorillaz.com, or follow the band's own Murdoc Niccals at www.twitter.com/murdocgorillaz.

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri

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