Writer: Jules Musgrove
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have been swooping up awards left, right and center lately: An ARIA for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album for Nonagon Infinity. The Age Music Victoria awards for Best Album Nonagon Infinity, Best Band, and Best Live Band. Double J Australian Artist of the year and The J award for Australian Music Video of the Year for People-Vultures.
Pretty exciting, and now their own festival, Gizzfest, is back for a second year, kicking off today in Brisbane then happening in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. The line up is pretty rad and includes Pond, White Fence (USA), The Murlocks, Mild High Club (USA) and heaps more!
To celebrate the launch of this years Gizzfest, the band have released the video for their new track Rattlesnake. It’s the first single from the upcoming album Flying Microtonal Banana which is to be released 24 February 2017. Check it out below!
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard plan to release 5 studio albums in 2017. Flying Microtonal Banana is the bands first-ever experience in microtonal tuning, which features intervals smaller than a semitone and not found in customary Western tuning octaves. Drummer Eric Moore says “Earlier this year we started experimenting with a custom microtonal guitar our friend Zak made for Stu, “The guitar was modified to play in 24-TET tuning and could only be played with other microtonal instruments. We ended up giving everyone a budget of $200 to buy instruments and turn them microtonal. The record features the modified electric guitars, basses, keyboards and harmonica as well as a turkish horn called a Zurna.”
If that isn’t enough, they’ve also released a doco Bootleg Holiday From Hell which chronicles 2 years and 7 international tours! Watch it here.
GIZZFEST 2016 TOUR DATES
Fri 25 Nov – Marquee, Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane
for more info go here
Sat 26 Nov – Coburg Velodrome, Melbourne
for more info go here
Tues 29 Nov – Big Top, Luna Park, Sydney
for more info go here
Sat 03 Dec – Thebarton Theatre & Carpark, Adelaide
for more info go here
Sun 04 Dec – Urban Orchard, Perth
for more info go here
Plus there are a bunch of Gizzfest sideshows happening featuring some of the supports:
Sun 27 Nov | MELBOURNE
Gizzfest Hangover Party | Curtin Bandroom 5-9pm | $20 door sales only
featuring Boulevards, Dinner, Flightless DJs plus special guests
Wed 30 Nov | SYDNEY
Imperial Hotel | 8pm | $25 +bf
featuring White Fence, The Murlocs, Dinner, Greta Now
Tickets here
Thu 01 Dec | SYDNEY
Imperial Hotel | 8pm | $25 +bf
featuring Mild High Club, The Murlocs, Boulevards, GUM
Tickets here
Fri 02 Dec | MELBOURNE
Croxton | 8pm | $25+bf
featuring White Fence, Mild High Club, Boulevards, Dinner
Tickets here | Gizzfest ticketholders can buy tickets at Gizzfest for this show for $10 at the merch stand
END OF TOUR PARTY – Sun 04 Dec | PERTH
Jack Rabbit Slims | 10pm-2am | $20+bf
featuring Hideous Sun Demon, Gunns, Flightless DJs & special guests!
Tickets here | Gizzfest ticketholders can buy tickets at Gizzfest for this show for $10 at the merch stand
