King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard made good on hints during last week’s Reddit AMA that lots of tour dates in Europe and the U.S. would be dropped soon.
The band dropped 58 new dates Tuesday morning, outlining plans for four festival appearances in South America in March, a 15-show tour of Europe in May and early June, and a slew of dates in North America later in the year.
Ambrose Kenny-Smith with the microphone in Oslo, Norway last March. Photo by Javier Serna
While the band hit Europe twice in 2023, with lengthy tours in February/March and then again in August/Sept., this tour is shorter, skipping many of the spots it hit this year, while still making six appearances in the United Kingdom, three shows in Germany, and returns to cities such as Brussels, Belgium, Prague, Czech Republic, and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Here is a list of the dates on King Gizz’s website.
There are actually two separate legs to the North American tour, which includes shows in Canada (but no Mexico shows) with 24 shows stretching from mid-August to mid-September and then another 15 shows in November.
Tucked in to the dates were three separate acoustic shows, including Brighton, U.K. on May 31, Detroit on Aug. 23, and San Diego, Nov. 2.
The band had previously announced dates for marathon sets in Hamburg, Germany (May 22), Forest Hills, N.Y. (Aug 16-17), Chicago (Sept. 1), Washington’s Gorge (Sept. 14) and Austin, Texas (Nov. 15). No additional marathon shows were added with the announcement.
The band will bring its intense visual display to four South American countries in March. This picture is of the band at Red Rocks last June. Photo by Javier Serna
The band had previously mentioned in its newsletter that South American shows were forthcoming, but all four of those announced today are part of Lollapalooza festivals in Argentina (March 15-17), Chile (March 15-17) and Brazil (March 22-24). In addition, there is the Festival Estero Picnic in Bogota, Colombia (March 21-24). Of those, only Colombia is a country the U.S. Embassy advises Americans to “reconsider travel” due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest and kidnapping.
No word was given on what date the band will celebrate trans rights as it did June 3 this year in Pelham, Tenn., when the band came out dressed in drag and shamed Tennessee politics for its stance depriving trans people of their rights (on the same day that a federal judge struck down Tennessee’s previously transphobic law). In the aforementioned AMA, the band said it planned to make a tradition of observing that special show every year.
The band did say, in in its Instagram post announcing the shows, “Let’s get woke, freak out the right wingers and love each other.”
Words to live by.
The two North American tour legs bring the band back to this continent for more thorough touring after only playing 15 shows this June in Boston, Pelham, Tenn., Colorado’s Red Rocks, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles.
Next year’s North American first leg hits the east coast and Midwest heavily, while tucking in a trio of Red Rocks shows, including another long day at the famous venue with separate early and late shows on Sept. 9, and two Canadian shows (Toronto, Aug. 21 and Vancouver, (Sept. 12) before ending at The Gorge on Sept. 14.
I’m very excited about the stretch that includes Nashville (Aug. 30), Asheville, N.C. (Aug. 31), Chicago’s Northerly Island (Sept. 1), my adopted hometown of Minneapolis (Sept. 3) at the Armory (which seems like a bit big for the band in the context of this tour; capacity is around 8,000), and Milwaukee (Sept. 4). I’m probably going to ditch my plans to catch Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Labor Day for this stretch, but I’ll be missing out the front end of the tour and those two Forest Hills Stadium marathon shows to attend Phish’s festival in Delaware at the same time.
King Gizz brought some of its best improvisation to Chicago’s Salt Shed for three nights. The third of those shows was played in intense rain. Photo by Javier Serna
The second leg hits the West Coast more heavily, with four shows in California (Nov. 1-4), stops in Vegas’s Planet Hollywood (Nov. 8), Phoenix (Nov. 9), Albuquerque (Nov. 10), Oklahoma City (Nov. 12), Fayetteville, Arkansas (Nov. 13), Austin, Texas (Nov. 15), Houston (Nov. 16), New Orleans (Nov. 17), Atlanta (Nov. 19) and a pair of shows in Florida (St. Augustine’s Nov. 20 and Miami, Nov. 21).
Tickets via a special presale will be available for purchase tickets beginning Wednesday (Nov. 8) at 11 a.m. EST. A special code will be delivered to subscribers to the band’s Gizzymail newsletter. The general sale begins Friday, Nov. 10 at noon EST.
Here is the full list of shows announced to date:
March 15-17, 2024 — Buenos Aires, AR @ Lollapalooza Argentina
March 15-17, 2024 — Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile
March 21-24, 2024 — Bogotá, CO @ Festival Estereo Picnic
March 22-24, 2024 — São Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brasil
May 15, 2024 — Brussels, BE @ Forest National +
May 16, 2024 — Offenbach, DE @ Stadthalle +
May 18, 2024 — Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlín +
May 19, 2024 — Vienna, AT @ Arena Wien +
May 20, 2024 — Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle +
May 22, 2024 — Hamburg, DE @ Stadtpark Open Air #
May 23, 2024 — Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live +
May 25, 2024 — London, UK @ Wide Awake Festival
May 26, 2024 — Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Olympia +
May 27, 2024 — Edinburgh, UK @ The Usher Hall +
May 29, 2024 — Wolverhampton, UK @ The Civic Hall +
May 30, 2024 — Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon +
May 31, 2024 — Brighton, UK @ Brighton Dome &+
June 2, 2024 — Paris, FR @ We Love Green Festival
June 4, 2024 — Milan, IT @ UNALTROFESTIVAL, Circolo Magnolia
Aug. 15, 2024 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Aug 16, 2024 — Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium #
Aug. 17, 2024 — Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium #
Aug. 19, 2024 — Boston, MA @ The Stage at Suffolk Downs
Aug. 20, 2024 — Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
Aug. 21, 2024 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
Aug. 23, 2024 — Detroit, MI @ Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre &
Aug. 24, 2024 — Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion
Aug. 25, 2024 — Newport, KY @ MegaCorp Pavilion Outdoor
Aug. 27, 2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Dell Music Center
Aug. 28, 2024 — Richmond, VA @ Brown’s Island
Aug. 30, 2024 — Asheville, NC @ ExploreAsheville.com Arena
Aug. 31, 2024 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater
Sept 1, 2024 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island #
Sept. 3, 2024 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
Sept. 4, 2024 — Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre
Sept. 5, 2024 — St. Louis, MO @ The Factory
Sept. 6, 2024 — Omaha, NE @ The Astro Amphitheater
Sept. 8, 2024 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Sept. 9, 2024 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre [EARLY SHOW]
Sept. 9, 2024 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre [LATE SHOW]
Sept. 11, 2024 — Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Amphitheater
Sept. 12, 2024 — Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum
Sept. 14, 2024 — Quincy, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre #
Nov. 1, 2024 — Inglewood, CA @ The Forum
Nov. 2, 2024 — San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park &
Nov. 3, 2024 — Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheatre
Nov. 4, 2024 — Stanford, CA @ Frost Amphitheater at Stanford
Nov. 8, 2024 — Las Vegas, NV @ Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood
Nov .9, 2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
Nov. 10, 2024 — Albuquerque, NM @ Revel Entertainment
Nov. 12, 2024 — Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion
Nov. 13, 2024 — Fayetteville, AR @ JJ’s Live
Nov. 15, 2024 — Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater #
Nov. 16, 2024 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Nov, 17, 2024 — New Orleans, LA @ Mardi Gras World
Nov. 19, 2024 — Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre Atlanta
Nov. 20, 2024 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre
Nov. 21, 2024 — Miami, FL @ Factory Town
+ w/ Grace Cummings
# 3-hour marathon set
& acoustic set