Murdoc Niccals

Murdoc Niccals

First appearance Clint Eastwood
Portrayed by Phil Cornwell
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Occupation Bass guitarist
Nationality English
Murdoc Alphonce Niccals is a fictional English musician, and member of the virtual band Gorillaz. He provides bass, and is the self-proclaimed leader of the band. He is voiced by Phil Cornwell.
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Biography

In Rise of the Ogre it isrevealed that Murdoc was dumped on his father's doorstep in childhood and went on to a very abusive childhood.It has been proposed that his many addictions and his sour attitude are due to his childhood abuse. Murdoc stated in Rise of the Ogre that everybody knows who his father was but nobody quite knows who his mother is and there are so many stories about who she is. Sebastian Jacob Niccals ("orJacob Sebastian Niccals, depending on who's asking") is a spiteful drunk of a man who often verbally abused and exploited his sons. The local pub had a routine talent show that Murdoc was often forced to participate in so he could win his father drinking money (Murdoc once played Pinocchio, singing "I've Got No Strings"). Though he and his older sibling Hannibal never got along (he was responsible fortwo of the eight separate times Murdoc's nose was broken), it was through his older brother that Murdoc was introduced to his favorite bands, such as The Clash (though Murdoc found Black Sabbath on his own).
Murdoc played in a number of bands before Gorillaz, many listed off in Rise of the Ogre or other interviews; they never went anywhere. Notably, there were Murdoc's Burning Sensations,Patchouli Clark, Kiss 'n' Make Up, Bullworker, Crimson Backdraft, Motley Dude, The Stupid Name Gang, Durango 95, Two's A Crowd, This Show Is Cancelled (a band he recalls often confused audiences who didn't show up to shows, to which they responded by changing the name to We've Split Up to no avail) and an unnamed metal band which consisted of six people, including Murdoc on bass. The names andinstruments of the other members appear in the Gorillaz 2005 promotional booklet and are given as follows: Billy Boy (who is based on a character in A Clockwork Orange) and Tiny on guitars, Crunch on drums, Rocky on keyboards and Munch who appears to be listed as "Band Artist." Not much else is known about these characters including their personalities or current whereabouts, although they appear on a fewpieces of official Gorillaz artwork, most notably in the previously mentioned booklet as well as in Kong Studios where an image of Crunch, Billy Boy and Tiny can be seen on the wall in the instrument room.
Eventually after recruiting 2D through a series of accidents and not-so-accidents and kidnapping Russel from Big Rick Black's Music Shack, he pieced together the band that would becomeGorillaz. He purchased Kong Studios and was delivered a small Japanese girl who could play a wicked guitar solo; Noodle replaced Paula Cracker (presently an overmedicated psychopath with a personal vendetta against the thirteen-year-old who helped lead the band to success) as Gorillaz's axe bandier.Paula also cheated on 2D with Murdoc. Murdoc wrote the self-titled debut album with help from 2D and Russel.With the album's success, the band launched a disastrous world tour: while in the United States, Murdoc established a cult of personality with various seedy individuals, chief of which being Little Jimmy Manson, a psychopathic midget dangerously obsessed with either killing Murdoc, or falling in love with him. In a hotel room one night, Manson and his cronies summoned a black-skinned demon boythat has stalked the band ever since. After achieving fame, fortune, and several nasty hangovers, the alcoholic bassist relocated his band over to Los Angeles so they could begin production on a movie.
Unfortunately, this was never to be. They were conned by a movie director (who it turns out, was just an insane man) while Murdoc attempted starring in a television program (he was too old for the...