Gorillaz is a " virtual band " consisting of four animated members: 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs.

For the purposes of the music videos and the Gorillaz storyline canon, Del performed under the identity of " Del the Ghost Rapper ", who was said to be a spirit that was hiding from death within the band's drummer, Russel Hobbs.

As part of Russel Hobbs ' back-story, the character of Del was one of Russel's friends that was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, whose ghost possessed Russel.

* Russel Hobbs, fictional drummer character in the virtual band Gorillaz

Change Your Surname " as well as " Weed in the Tweed " however Felix hopes to reach fame through his new star studded band ' Funk Off and Die ', conducted by Russel Keable.

While recording tracks for the debut album, Another Pond, Bridie and Phillips joined McKinnon ( also on guitar ) in the ambient pop band, Easter, with Russel Bradley on drums and percussion, and Tim Cole on vocals.

However, when Pete Henderson and Russel Pope presented the band with unlabelled cassettes containing rough mixes of these recordings, and the members voted on their favourite tracks, the majority of votes coincidentally fell on recordings from the 29 November show at the Pavilion.

There was no fixed line up in the band originally and local musicians Martyn Campbell ( Richard Ashcroft, Rain ) Sean Payne ( Zutons ) Russel Pritchard ( Zutons ) and Robby Stevenson ( Hokum Clones ) all contributed to early shows.

In a departure for the band, the song is mostly performed in the video by Noodle, with 2D, Russel, and Murdoc only appearing in short cameos in the video ; 2D is seen listening into Noodle's room by pressing his ear to the floor, Russel is shown seated on a toilet reading a newspaper directly below Noodle's room and Murdoc appears at the end of the video lying in bed with Shaun Ryder, who wakes up, apparently having dreamt up the entire sequence of the video.

In 2003 the band and Crowe were infamously parodied by fellow Australian band Frenzal Rhomb on their track " Russel Crowe's Band ".

A stylised duck head, an Easter egg in early Gorillaz videos, can be found as a tattoo on the arm of Russel.

The " virtual character " version of Sophie within Harsh Realm briefly becomes Hobbs ' ally until she is gunned down by Waters.

Linda is dismayed to find that her daughter is still held in virtual slavery by Mr. Sands ’ s cousin, Mrs. Hobbs.

* Flying J Wranglers, country and western band based at Flying J Ranch in Alto, headed by James and Cindy Hobbs

The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Dave Culross and bassist Derek Boyer.

Guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito, along with drummer Mike Smith, former members of a local band Mortuary that disbanded at the time, joined Suffocation and created a new lineup with Mullen, Hobbs, Smith, Cerrito and Barohn.

In 1962, he had an uncredited part in a scene in " Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation " where he played ( and performed a solo ) in a dance band.

The two Zehringer brothers ( then known as Rick Derringer and Randy Z ) and Hobbs became Johnny Winter's band for the albums Johnny Winter And and Live Johnny Winter And in 1970 and 1971 respectively.

The single received support from John Peel, Mike Davies, Mary Anne Hobbs and Steve Lamacq, helping the band secure a support slot with Pitchshifter on their farewell tour.

On the Jump On It album, Alan Fitzgerald was replaced on bass by Randy Jo Hobbs, and the subsequent tour to promote the album saw the band performing as a four-piece without a bass player, utilizing Jim Alicivar for keyboard-bass.

The band also performed on the Mary Hobbs show on BBC Radio 1.

In 1980 Hodgkinson formed The Work, a post-punk band with guitarist-composer Bill Gilonis, bassist Mick Hobbs and drummer Rick Wilson.

Throughout 2000 and 2001 the band became regulars in the British music media with reviews and features appearing in magazines such as Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Rock sound, NME, Revolver and Q as well as being played on Mary Anne Hobbs BBC Radio 1 show and the legendary John Peel show.

Although Polo Urías ' band is currently based in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA, the city of Ojinaga has officially honored Polo Urías because of his contributions to Mexican norteño music. It has also impacted the city of Odessa, Texas in particular thus the mayor of the city Larry Melton honored him the key to the city and naming every 15th of November Polo Urias Day.

After a series of bass players and drummers — including Vanessa Thornton from Jebediah, Mike Hobbs, Hugh Jennings from Autopilot, Nicholas Jonsson and Tom King — the band settled on the line-up of Hobbs on the drums, with Simon Fasolo, previously of Perth band Colors, taking over the bass guitar.

During the scene where Mr. Hobbs escorts his daughter Katey to a dance at the yacht club, Herb Alpert is the trumpet player in the band.

Frank Mullen, ( born January 1970 ) is the vocalist of New York death metal band Suffocation, and met fellow band mates Mike Smith and Terrance Hobbs in high school.

In the 1980s, Hobbs lived on a bus in a carpark in Hayes, Hillingdon with the hard rock band Heretic before becoming a journalist for Sounds Magazine at age 19.

' Mustn't Grumble ' was also the name of a ' 70s rock band based in the UK comprising ' Animal ' Stuart Hobbs on vocals, Bob Morledge lead guitar, ' Sparky ' Ian Harrison keyboards, Lindsay Dalkes on drums, Chris ' Congas ' Maidment on percussion & Don Larking on bass.

The virtual gastric band procedure mixes hypnosis with hypnopedia.

* Lumi, a fictional character and the singer of the virtual band Genki Rockets, was born on September 11, 2037, and is the first human to be born in space.

* " People ," 2005 B-side from the virtual band Gorillaz single " Dare " ( song )

However, he has been involved in many other high profile projects, such as Gorillaz, a virtual band.

Gorillaz is a virtual band composed of four animated band members created in 1998 by Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl.

' Not unlike the band Gorillaz, Rhodes ' alter-ego, ' Lumi ,' was conceived as a ' virtual idol ,' except in this instance, unlike Hatsune Miku, Lumi is based on a real human girl.

Through keyboards, the band incorporated a virtual symphony orchestra as an equal fifth instrument, along with guitar, bass, drums and vocals.

* 2D, the fictional character from Damon Albarn's virtual band Gorillaz, comes from Crawley, according to the back-story created for them.

Given a virtual open account at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London, the band progressed rapidly, working closely with engineer Glyn Johns.

The lawsuit alleged that the game had " transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke circus act ", singing dozens of songs the group neither wrote, popularized nor approved for use in the game.

The group is also known for their real world success, through a virtual band.

* she ( band ), a virtual band formed in 2003 by Lain Trzaska

Gorillaz were a virtual band for which Hewlett reportedly received a " big money " offer from Dreamworks for the film rights.

At the 2006 Grammy Awards the Pepper's ghost technique was used to project Madonna with the virtual members of the band Gorillaz onto the stage in a " live " performance.

* 2D ( Gorillaz ), a member of the virtual band Gorillaz

He is best known as the creator of the animated series Home Movies and Metalocalypse and as the creator of the virtual death metal band Dethklok.

Small's virtual band Dethklok appeared, via video, at the 2009 Golden Gods Awards.

In their song, " The Sounder ", the virtual band Gorillaz makes a reference to the Tokyo Dome, saying: " Gorillaz rock the dome just like the one in Tokyo.

In computer graphics, the guard band is a virtual area of the screen bordering the real screen to which any rendering is ignored, used to simplify clipping.

Gorillaz, the virtual pop band have shown support through a TV spot showing animated frontman, 2D, meditating with fellow supporters outside of the Chinese embassy, followed by a brief message encouraging people to join the Free Tibet Campaign.

She is also known for her work with virtual band Gorillaz, as she is the first person to provide the voice of animated member Noodle.

* Binky Barnes, a fictional bulldog and a virtual band ( played by Värttinä ) on the TV series Arthur.