King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Residency Tour 2025 - Vilnius #1

Wow! Australian music psychonauts "King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard" have chosen our Vilnius for their concert residency in Europe : on May 29, 30 and 31.

One of the most productive and versatile music groups on the planet "King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard" from Australia chose Vilnius for their 2025 residency. This group will perform three completely different programs during three evenings in Lukiški prison. In 2025, only 5 residencies of this group are planned in Europe: in Portugal, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria and Lithuania.

Background – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Iron Lung
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For the music agency "8 Days A Week", this is another impressive step forward and a special gift to the beloved city. Undoubtedly, during the last three days of May, the Lukiški prison in Vilnius will become the epicenter of the pilgrimage of the "gizzfans" of the entire region - the energetic concerts of this group are worth covering hundreds of kilometers. They have been repeatedly recognized as the best live artist at various Australian awards. It is possible that one of the brightest cases of musical tourism in Lithuania is waiting for us.

Experimental psychedelic music group "King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard" really resembles aliens from another galaxy - they constantly surprise with their genre twists and normal music business breaking the rules. From the hard-to-remember title "King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard" to offering everyone to play their pirate records.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gila Monster
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According to the influential publication Pitchfork, these musicians are truly enlightened - freed from the notions of harmony and correct music and doing whatever they want. Judging by the reaction of listeners all over the world, they do it with high quality and originality. For example: they have well over a million monthly listens on Spotify, several of their videos have surpassed one million views, and their live shows are often sold out.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Theia / The Silver Cord / Set
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Competing creative performance with "gizzards" can be rare. Last year, the band released their 25th studio album, The Silver Cord. On average, they release two studio albums a year, and in 2017 and 2022 they released as many as five! If Australians play as long as the Rolling Stones, by 2072 they will boast a discography of 120 albums.

Rolling Stone Australia has listed the group as one of the 50 greatest Australian artists of all time . It seems that today the group is definitely among the most anticipated artists in the world.

Pre-concert matters

Advance tickets are always cheaper. Tickets for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's residency in the capital go on sale on Friday, but the Australian band's fans around the world can get advance tickets now. True, this requires a code from 8 Days A Week or the group itself. Write a message on Facebook or at the address www.8dw.lt, you will be given a special code and thus save. Presale on Tuesday, June 11. 12 o'clock Codes are valid for a very limited time. Presale ends June 13th. 12 o'clock We expect thousands of music tourists and band fans from all over the world.

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About King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard|

"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard" is a music group from Australia, formed in 2010. in Melbourne. The current line-up of the band consists of Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh. They are famous for their constant exploration of various musical genres, energetic live performances and an extremely large collection of their records.

The band's discography is truly impressive - their 25th studio album was released last year. Starting with garage and surf rock, "gizzards" released psychedelic and progressive rock albums, later added elements of jazz and folk, various types of metal, and even tried occult rap and synth-pop. One of the band's fans jokes that if he sold his Gizzard record collection, he'd raise the amount needed for a house deposit.

Internet publication Stereogum sums it up: "This is a rare band that can convincingly blur the lines between Phish, " Neu!, King Crimson and Osees, but keeping their original sound.”

In 2024, the group plans to play almost 60 concerts around the world, i.e. i.e. on average every weekend, and sometimes more often. Some of their performances are marked with a special tag: "3-hour marathon".

Both in their creations and recordings, musicians are constantly looking for unexpected solutions. In one of the albums, the vocalist recorded his voice by placing four "iPhones" in the room. Critics described the sound of the next album as if it was recorded in the next room through a woolen sock. Inspired by the music of the Middle East and Turkey, the Gizzards adapted their guitars to the traditional instruments of the region. Musicians experiment with microtonal music and polyrhythms unusual in the Western rock tradition. To the skeptics' question "Why would you do that", they answer "Why not".

In the band's latest album "The Silver Cord", the musicians, inspired by the purchased electronic drum kit from Simmons, abandoned the guitar rock sound, and focused on synthesizer music. The publication consists of two parts: original compositions lasting half an hour and their extended versions lasting more than an hour and a half. It is interesting that "PetroDragonic Apocalypse", released in 2023, also features completely different music - in it, the musicians pay tribute to the sound of heavy metal. The musicians themselves present these two records as different and complementary sides of In and Jang.

"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard" is very concerned about environmental issues. In the 2020s for the single "If Not Now, Then When?" they were awarded the Environmental Music Prize. After receiving 20 thousand musicians donated to the non-profit organization "The Wilderness Society". Some time ago, they released a short documentary film, for which the group donated the money collected for screenings to initiatives that help the Australian aborigines. Last fall, the musicians called on their countrymen to support indigenous rights in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum.

As Pitchfork says, “Fourteen years into their career, the band's stamina is endless. They passed through ancient Mesopotamia into space and still seem to be searching for new territories.”

References:

https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kinggizzard/
https://www.facebook.com/kinggizzardandthelizardwizard
https://x.com/kinggizzard
https://www .youtube.com/@KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard

This concert season is again very colorful and wonderful.
Previously announced concerts of the agency "8 Days A Week".

06 10 - The Jungle
06 16 - Fontaines D.C.
06 26 - SleafordMods'
07 04 - Asaf Avidan
07 05 - Two Feet
07 10 - Baxter Dury
07 14 - Oliver Tree
07 20 - Jacob Collier
08 01 - Devendra Banhart
08 12 - Yves Tumor
08 15 - Jessie Ware
11 08 - RY X with LNOBT Symphony Orchestra (Sold Out)
12 05 - Efterklang
02 22 - Loreen

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Doors open: ~18:00
Start: ~19: 00
Event duration: ~3 hours
Intermissions: Yes
Event language: English
Children admitted for free: No
Age limit: N-18, under 18 m. persons must be accompanied by an adult

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