KGLW.net, the new King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard fan site that went live last October just unleashed its latest phase.
Here is kglw.net’s own blog post describing the update.
One of the biggest services the website is attempting to do is provide King Gizz fans consistent and accurate setlist information, including the types of notations that Phish.net has provided for Phish shows. The site is not trying to compete with other King Gizzard fan sites out there and values the contributions to the larger Gizzard fan community sites such as weirdoswarm.org have made. But they are trying to provide a unique resource that is not currently being offered. That is precisely what they are doing with their notated setlists.
That can include “song frequencies, segues, debuts, parent albums, venues, teases, cities, countries, bust-outs, guest performers, and more,” according to the site’s blog post announcing the upgrade.
As that post notes, the “accuracy of statistics is subject to improvement through the ongoing setlist notation project.”
It was Phish.net efforts that ultimately led to the creation of Songfish, a software service that is now being used by kglw.net.
The website is still early in its process of reviewing every show for which there is a complete recording, and there is a team of “setlist wizards” that review recordings of shows, essentially by committee. The process for improving past setlists is meticulous and will take time, and the site will only be able to provide this service for shows that have an available recording.
There are other sites tracking setlists for King Gizz, but all are using setlist.fm, which is owned by LiveNation. The setlists on setlist.fm do not offer the level of detail, such as including song teases and quotes, that kglw.net will be offering. They can also be inaccurate, as they generally don’t include any audibles that the band has made in the heat of the show.
The data will allow users to make their own profile and track the shows they have attended, as well as pull up statistics for their set of shows.
Here are mine.
Other improvements to the site with this latest phase include API, or Application Programming Interface, which will allow anyone to gain access to the raw data from the site.
I’ll note that I’ll soon have another post on this website explaining kglw.net with more detail about the website, including its charity goals, and other things the site is trying to curate, such as indexing all known bootleg recordings of the band’s performances and all known interviews with band members.
I’ve been getting involved with the site ever since they became aware of this blog and my efforts to cover six shows on Gizz’s European tour in March. And the site will soon be hosting a guest post on my travels in Europe this past March through five countries.