Australian indie rock band, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, have announced tour dates across the United Kingdom and Europe for 2024. The band also announced shows across North America and South America dates for next year.
The band took to their social media pages to announce a whopping 58 shows from March to November of next year. The extensive tour includes festivals, arenas, amphitheaters and even stadiums across the globe. The band had previously already announced there headlining set at next years Wide Awake Festival in Brixton, London, but they have now added more shows across the United Kingdom and Europe.
The band have just released their 25th studio album, The Silver Chord, last month and previously released metal album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation, last June. The band are known for being prolific in releasing a lot of material, bringing out five studio albums in 2017 and 2022. Releasing only 2 studio albums this year can be considered a quiet year for the band, whom are one of the hardest working musical acts in the world.
The band have talked about the new album and its link to the previous one, saying the two albums are “birthed from the same womb. PetroDragonic Apocalypse’’s supercharged opener ‘Motor Spirit’ is in fact just a blackened and twisted version of ‘The Silver Cord’’s hypnotic first track ‘Theia’.” They also spoke of their being two versions of the new album, saying: More unconventional still, there are two different versions of ‘The Silver Cord’: one where their jams are ruthlessly honed into a tight 28 minutes, and another where they’re allowed to sprawl across an hour and a half.
The band, however, did release a nine-hour 86 track long live album at the beginning of this year, Live at Red Rocks 22, which is material stretched across three nights of three-hour marathon sets at the Red Rocks in Colorado, United States. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard also released another live album this year, Live in Chicago ’23, which is again very long, clocking in at 5 and a half hours, with material comprising over three sets across three nights.
Tickets for all of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s tour dates go on general sale on Friday (November 10) and tickets can be found here. The presale goes live on November 8th and can be found on the band’s official website here.
Tour Dates
15/05/2024 – Forest National – Brussels, Belgium
16/05 – Stadthalle – Offenbach, Germany
18/05 – Forum Karlin – Prague, Czech Republic
19/05 – Arena Wien – Vienna, Austria
20/05 – Columbiahalle – Berlin, Germany
22/05 – Stadtpark Open Air – Hamburg, Germany (3-hour marathon set)
23/05 – AFAS Live – Amsterdam, Netherlands
25/05 – Wide Awake Festival – London, United Kingdom
26/05 – Liverpool Olympia – Liverpool, United Kingdom
27/05 – Usher Hall – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
29/05 – Civic Hall – Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
30/05 – Bristol Beacon – Bristol, United Kingdom
31/05 – Brighton Dome – Brighton, United Kingdom (Acoustic Set)
02/06 – We Love Green Festival – Paris, France
04/06 – UNALTROFESTIVAL – Milan, Italy
