the skate board kid said:
I was watching something on E and there were interveiwing them but there were just two guys and made up all 3 guys and 1 girl and they only exist in like animation or something like that. I think the guys do all the instruments and add them all together in later on
~TSBK~
There are a lot of confused people in this thread on a lot of points, but I would like to clear this one up.
It was Jamie Hewlett (the creator of Tank Girl) that created the Gorillaz image and characters. The characters are of course just fictional personas, but each fictional member of the band does have a real-life non-fictional counterpart that makes the music. it's not just Damon Albarn (the front man) making everything it's a big collaboration between all the members already mentioned above, and a lot of their friends (Dan the Automator, Dangermouse, Doom...).
It's completely understandable that people are confused by all this, because it's actually meant to be. They have released serveral false bios just to keep people confused about it.
BTW: Padfoot, by "which is which" do you mean which non-fictional name is which fictional name? Because I layed all that out in my first post.
Fictional name = Non-fictional name.
I left Murdoc out because as far as I know he could be completely fictional, but that's something that I don't think anyone knows but the band. I don't know who actually plays bass on the tracks; possibly Damon Albarn(2D).
Also, I suppose there are gothic elements in a few songs, but it's certainly not one of the dominant characteristics of the group. So, I would never call 'em gothic. Just like I wouldn't necessarily call 'em hiphop either. It's a really genre straddeling thing.
And come on... what's gothic about Noodle? :p