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Gorillaz fans attending the band’s hotly anticipated "Escape To Plastic Beach" tour at the Brighton Centre today (on Thursday 18th November), will be able to design a new Gorillaz character, known simply as “The Evangelist.”

At the gig, there will be Murdoc control rooms where fans will be able to get their creative juices flowing and help Murdoc battle The Boogieman, the dark heart of Plastic Beach.

The winning submission will be redrawn by Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett, and the final creation will be revealed on 6th January 2011, on Gorillaz.com. The winner will be credited on the competition page and will receive a Gorillaz “gift pack” including a signed, framed print of Jamie Hewlett’s final design of “The Evangelist”. 

Budding artists can create and submit their ideas here: www.gorillaz.com/evangelist .

Internet Explorer 9 Beta was launched with the support of Gorillaz in September 2010.  Since then, over 10 million people have downloaded the browser worldwide and are enjoying the visually rich web experiences on the Internet, as expertly explained by Murdoc at www.gorillaz.com/club-room/laptop. 

These rich experiences include websites which have been specially created by household names, from Rough Guides to the BBC and Amazon to showcase the difference Internet Explorer 9 Beta can make.  Microsoft is featuring this web content and that of its other launch partners on its specially designed microsite www.beautyoftheweb.co.uk.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is designed to use the power of your computer’s hardware to radically improve your online experiences such as shopping, browsing, surfing, gaming, watching TV or streaming music.  At the same time, Internet Explorer 9 Beta reads special web design code enabling it to increase the speed, look and performance of websites by making colours, images and texture richer and deeper.

The competition entry deadline is Sunday 28th November. All entries will be put to a public vote to shortlist the best entries for each week of the competition.   Jamie Hewlett and Gorillaz’ design team will then judge the finalists from each week in order to pick a winner which will be announced on 6th January 2011 at www.Gorillaz.com .