Great show at Rebel Club on August 25, 2019! Wonderful display of talented bands from “down under” Opening act #1 was ORB who were as good as their sound system would let them. I’d like to see them do a longer set to get a better idea of how they compare to their excellent studio work. #2 opening band was Stonefield, a power-rock band consisting of four sisters who really got the crowd head-banging and warmed up for King Gizzard. The headliners finally made their way on stage and proceeded to send the crowd into a moshing frenzy with music from their latest album Infest the Rats Nest. They played an eclectic set list, that made its way through their huge back catalogue of albums and was able to change up the pace now and then to give people a chance to catch their collective breaths. Epic drum solos from Eric and Michael were definitely one of the highlights of the night. The only thing missing was a solo from Ambrose, but with so many songs to choose from you can’t have everything. I found the background video show a bit distracting as I was up in the Mezzanine area, but all-in-all a great concert by a great band! Come back to Canada soon!!
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by anne-notremmel
This was a great gig. The support act (a three-man band (from Spain? called Los Padres?)) came across like the Velvet Underground doing a set of Lovin' Spponful songs. They were ok, but more can't be said.
King Gizzard et al. were superb, though. I can't have been the only person wondering whether they would do their recent 'Nonagon Infinity' album end-to-end without a break (as it appears on the cd and streaming). They didn't, but split it into three parts, each three songs long. Between these three parts were numbers from their back-catalogue, like 'Trapdoor' (a lot less interesting live than in the studio version), 'Cellophane', etc. But the tracks from Nonagon Infinity were the standouts - the album is so utterly strong, almost from beginning to end. My favourite album of the year so far, really, and they did it justice. The crowd went mad and there was more crowd-surfing than I've seen in ages. I'd definitely go to see them again. By the time 'Robot stop' came round for the *second* time, I was just wishing they'd go through the whole album again (maybe not strictly *ad infinitum*, but for at least a couple more times!).
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by john-preston-1
Always a crazy good time w these guys. Lots and lots of new material from Banana & Nonagon.... would've liked to hear a lot more old stuff as most of the new stuff blends together and sounds the same (sometimes intentionally)...
The band seems to be moving in a direction of the 2-3 power chord / song, "Street Fighter" music.... Since I've been seeing them back from the 12 bar bruise days, this was a bit disappointing since the Gizz I fell in love with flaunted their versatile sounds & abilities with songs ranging from Float Along and Mystery Jack to Hot Wax and It Got Old.
I've seen these guys ~5 times, and would not be itching to go back anytime soon if they keep playing in-and-out of nonagon.... it got old.
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by bkind
It was a clear evening with a chance of fireballs coming thorugh the speakers from the venue. The scorching heath of starting songs set the fans ablaze as they joined bodies and mind rushing the stage in form of a very tight mosh pit. Song after song we let our spirits escape our weak forms and forgot about fatigue and exhaustion. The band let us though a lot of different themes without losing that scorching energy which started the show. I didn’t want it to end ever, I could have stayed in that limbo for an eternity, listening to them play live. At the end, I heard all of my favorite songs, yet I didn’t hear all of my favorite songs... trust me, buy yourself a ticket and go see them live.
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by danijela-vojvodic
If a train departs Paris at 13:30 (Paris time), travelling at approximately 270km/h toward London, which is hosting a Melbourne earthquake in a kaleidoscopic venue in Hackney at 2pm (BST), what time will Mick finally arrive at the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard gig?
Late.
But just in time to hear the double drums warm up my ears as I run towards the steamed windows of the swing doors separating the old, bald mortals drinking lagers from dirty glasses on a Monday afternoon and the space travelling Pied Pipers luring the children to their Nonagon Infinity.
Full review here: https://medium.com/@ValentineMick/the-perils-of-the-australian-pied-pipers-93b227035606#.lqifaqy5g
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by ValentineMick
Stunning, stunning, stunning and very, very hot. An absolutely brilliant gig and it was great to see the band occasionally, when the couple in front of me stopped holding up their smart phones and filming practically the whole event. They stopped briefly, well for approximately 90 seconds, when I said that I'd like to watch the band play live rather than through their devices, so that was rather irritating. More of a pain in fact, than the beer raining down on me from above now and again. Ban people filming on their devices at gigs I say! Bah humbug!
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by SoundSerpent
King Giz & The Liz Wiz are the biz. Live on stage, they deliver their jams, thrashes and meanderings in a show that surfs through their far-beyond-eclectic back catalogue in style.
What's incredible is just how locked-in and together the band are, regardless of the musical genre they're playing. Go see King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard for astounding musicianship, myriad musical stylings mashed through a psych rock prism, jolting time signature changes, trippy visuals and a sense that you're getting in touch with something transcendental.
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by james__clayton
From start to finish the entire show was a mosh pit and damn well good one too. The moment they started I swear the room temperature went up by 10 degrees from everyone going wild and letting loose.
At one point Stu crowd dived and was carried outside all the way to the beach and dunked in the water by fans. Great enough the rest of the band kept playing until he came back, five minutes or more later.
If you have the right crowd, their shows are amazing. You already know the music is going to be great live anyway
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by JavierMarcano
It was a great gig, but with one crucial flaw. The band played loads of their great numbers from across several of their electronic psych offerings, and they were generally excellent. The flaw was that the tour was called the 'Murder of the Universe' tour, and they played none of the material I've heard from the parts of that album that are on Spotify. That material, supposedly from its third disc, has been there for weeks, so why didn't they play it? Surely we should at least have been treated to 'Vomit Coffin'???!!!
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by john-preston-1
I've been to a bunch of rockshows in my life, this was one of the best ones so far, top 3 hahaha!
Gizz (and Mild High Club) really now how to build tension, pace and give a show a really diverse taste. I had been anxiously awaiting their set-list and when i saw them bringing in regular and microtonal instruments i knew i'd be in for a real treat!
Sound quality was great, VJ'ing was amasing and the crowd was nuts! tons of good vibes.
To top it all off these duderinos can play like hell!
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by seto-bikouta
