What happened after Plastic Beach

Gorillaz

9 may. 2025

Since Plastic Beach...

The last anyone heard of Murdoc Niccals, he was living on Plastic Beach, an island in the South Pacific formed entirely from rubbish. All was well, until the day Murdoc’s tropical ghetto was raided by pirates. (Not the eye-patch kind - those modern-day ones with machine guns and no sense of flair.) Murdoc decided that evacuation was the bravest option, and fled heroically in a rusty brown submarine.

Days after the attack on Plastic Beach, Noodle awoke in a strange Japanese village that smelled of fish. It was a fishing village. She’d been plucked from the waves by an old pearl diver named Chiyoko, so to repay her kindness, Noodle took a job as her apprentice. She was a natural (having shared a tour bus with Murdoc, she was really good at holding her breath). But one day, deep beneath the waves, Noodle prized open a pearl shell of unearthly size, accidentally releasing an ancient hell demon...

Russel Hobbs had always put on weight easily, so when he grew sixty times in size swimming to Plastic Beach, he thought it might be his thyroid. Noodle, riding on his back the whole way, guessed it was more likely the six tons of polluted shrimp he’d swallowed en route.Russel had found Murdoc, but like a circumcision ceremony their reunion was cruelly cut short. Pirates attacked from all sides, so Russell cradled Noodle inside his giant mouth and swam away.

During the pirate attack on Plastic Beach, 2D hid in his underwater quarters. Unwittingly, he’d made himself prey to a far fiercer foe: a great white whale known as Massive Dick (weirdly, no relation to Moby). The blubbery beast swallowed 2D in one bite, and swam into the deep.But a lifetime spent eating ocean garbage – and now 2D – took its toll on Massive, and he died. His carcass washed up on a desert island, where 2D was finally free…