Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced a European run for June 2027, combining festival appearances with their own headline concerts. The Australian group will visit Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom across the announced itinerary.
The run includes appearances at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound and the Netherlands’ Best Kept Secret festival, alongside individual dates in Toulouse, Lyon, Bologna, Antwerp, Paris, London, Manchester and Bristol.
The June 2–6 Primavera Sound dates represent the festival’s advertised period, not confirmation that King Gizzard will perform on every day. Specific festival set times should be checked with the organisers.
Tickets for the newly announced headline shows are due to go on sale on Friday, October 30, at 09:00 UK time / 10:00 Central European Time. Individual venues may have different local purchasing arrangements.
The eclectic Australian group have built a reputation for moving between psychedelic rock, progressive experiments and heavier metal-oriented material, making their live shows difficult to categorise within a single genre.
This is the official band announcement on Instagram.
Australian rock group King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard was founded in Melbourne, Victoria, in 2010. Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, flute), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards, saxophone), Cook Craig (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Joey Walker (guitar, vocals), Lucas Harwood (bass, vocals), and Michael Cavanagh (drums, vocals) make up the band’s current lineup. They are renowned for their extensive record, dynamic live performances, and exploration of various genres.
Flightless was the label for the band’s early albums, which combined garage rock and surf music. In the early 2010s, they put out a number of psychedelic rock albums. Later in the decade, they experimented with a wider variety of musical genres, including jazz fusion on “Quarters!” and folk-inspired “Paper Mâché Dream Balloon.” Their 2016 album “Nonagon Infinity”, which took home the ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album, brought them further widespread recognition.
The band, well-known for their extensive career, started a trilogy of microtonal albums with Flying Microtonal Banana in 2017 and fulfilled a pledge to release five studio albums in a single year. The lyrics of later recordings, which included progressive rock, synth-pop, and heavy metal, deal with environmental issues and a connected fictitious world that fans have dubbed the “Gizzverse.” Three of the band’s five studio albums were released in October of 2022. Following the release of their 27th and most latest album, “Phantom Island”, in 2025, they went on tour performing a variety of rock, rave, and orchestral performances.
