{"id":812655,"date":"2026-03-08T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/812655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:19:13","slug":"watch-gorillaz-make-their-saturday-night-live-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/812655\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gorillaz Make Their Saturday Night Live Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1767-gorillaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gorillaz<\/a> made their Saturday Night Live debut on March 7, performing alongside host Ryan Gosling at Studio 8H. To mark the occasion, they played their 2001 classic \u201cClint Eastwood\u201d and debuted a song from their new album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/gorillaz-the-mountain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mountain<\/a>, \u201cThe Moon Cave\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/asha-puthli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asha Puthli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/black-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Thought<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/anoushka-shankar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anoushka Shankar<\/a>. Check out both performances below.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33815-harry-styles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Styles<\/a> made a cameo fresh off of the release of his album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/5-takeaways-from-harry-styles-new-album-kiss-all-the-time-disco-occasionally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/a>. He popped up during Gosling\u2019s opening monologue, which saw Gosling struggle to hold the attention of a camera manned by a Styles fan and perform a high-pressure cover of \u201cSign Of The Times.\u201d Styles will <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/harry-styles-set-to-host-and-play-snl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">host and perform<\/a> on the show on March 14.<\/p>\n<p>The musical guests on SNL\u2019s 51st season so far have included <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-geese-perform-au-pays-du-cocaine-and-trinidad-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geese<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-asap-rocky-perform-dont-be-dumb-songs-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A$AP Rocky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doja Cat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sabrina-carpenter-performs-manchild-and-nobodys-son-on-saturday-night-live-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/brandi-carlile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandi Carlile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/28595-mumford-sons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mumford &amp; Sons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/dijon-announced-as-saturday-night-live-musical-guest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivia Dean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-dijon-perform-higher-and-baby-medley-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dijon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-bring-out-dakota-johnson-for-madeline-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lily Allen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-host-cher-perform-christmas-songs-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bad Bunny<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-host-cher-perform-christmas-songs-on-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a> have both hosted episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Gorillaz will return stateside in September for a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/gorillaz-announce-2026-north-american-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American tour<\/a> supporting The Mountain. It\u2019s their first large-scale run in the region in four years. They also have a few festival dates in the UK and Europe set for this summer, including a headlining slot at Barcelona\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-cure-my-bloody-valentine-the-xx-to-play-primavera-sound-barcelona-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primavera Sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gorillaz made their Saturday Night Live debut on March 7, performing alongside host Ryan Gosling at Studio 8H.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[1816,77,269,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-812655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116194703440538268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}