King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, the Australian music psychonauts, arrive in the capital, and in May 2025, they will hold here as many as three performances: on May 29, 30 and 31.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard from Australia, which is one of the most productive and versatile music bands on the planet, chose Vilnius as their residence of 2025. This band will perform three completely different programs in three evenings in Lukiškės Prison. In 2025, only the following 5 residences of the band are planned in Europe: in Portugal, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria and Lithuania.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, a band of experimental psychedelic music, indeed resembles aliens from another galaxy. they constantly surprise with their genre twists and breaking the usual rules of the music business. Starting with the hard-to-remember name of the band – King Squid and the Lizard Wizard, to offering everyone to release their pirated records.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gila Monster
According to the influential publication Pitchfork, these musicians are truly enlightened – they have freed themselves from concepts of harmony and correct music, and they do what they want. Judging by the reaction of listeners around the world, they do this in a very quality and original way. For example, well over a million people listen to them every month on the Spotify platform. Many their video clips crossed the million view mark, and their live performances are often tagged as “sold out“.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Theia / The Silver Cord / Set
A rare artist can compete in productivity of creating with “gizzards“. 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 albums each year! If these Aussies will play for as long as the Rolling Stones, in 2072, they will be able to be proud of the discography of 120 albums.
Rolling Stone Australia listed the band as one of Australia‘s 50 Greatest Artists of All Time. Looks that today the band definitely ranks among the most wanted artists around the world.
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