{"id":2063770,"date":"2026-07-27T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2063770"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:01:24","slug":"king-gizzard-announce-australian-tour-a-rave-set-and-a-block-party-they-curated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2063770","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard Announce Australian Tour, a Rave Set, and a Block Party They Curated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tKing Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have announced a 2026 Australian tour, anchored by a two-day, band-curated Croxton Block Party in Melbourne and featuring a late-night rave set in Sydney.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe run opens Oct. 13 at Anita\u2019s Theatre in Thirroul, followed by a headline show at Sydney\u2019s Hordern Pavilion on Oct. 14 \u2014 both with support from Xiao Xiao \u2014 and a separate late show the same night at Sydney\u2019s Liberty Hall billed as a \u201crave set.\u201d The tour then moves to Melbourne for the second edition of The Croxton Block Party on Oct. 17-18, a two-day event the band has curated and will headline with a three-hour set each night.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor the Block Party, King Gizzard have programmed a bill weighted toward the Australian underground and a handful of international peers. The Oct. 17 date features Japanese pop-punk mainstays Shonen Knife, Byron Bay psych group Babe Rainbow, Heavy Moss \u2014 the project fronted by King Gizzard bassist Lucas Harwood \u2014 plus B3LLY, Moktar, Techno666 and a solo modular-synth set from frontman Stu Mackenzie. The Oct. 18 date features Sydney rock band C.O.F.F.I.N, Glyconic, Gut Health, ORB, Public Figures and Moktar.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Block Party returns after debuting in 2025, converting the Croxton\u2019s carpark into a festival site. King Gizzard have a long association with the venue, which the venue said dates to the band\u2019s first show there in December 2015 and includes a 2016 residency and a 2020 bushfire benefit. Ticket buyers will contribute to a conservation initiative: through a partnership with climate agency FEAT, $1 from every Block Party ticket will support habitat restoration on Lungtalanana Island in Tasmania, a Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre-led project aimed at reintroducing the Bass Strait wombat and long-nosed potoroo.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tour arrives during an especially active stretch for one of rock\u2019s most prolific acts. Earlier this month the band announced its 28th studio album, the hard-electronic Alien Metal<\/em>, due later this year on its own p(doom) Records and trailed by lead single \u201cLevel 5.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSince forming in Melbourne in 2010, the seven-piece has built one of the most singular catalogues in contemporary rock, cycling through genres \u2014 microtonal psychedelia on Flying Microtonal Banana<\/em>, thrash metal on Infest the Rats\u2019 Nest<\/em>, and ambient and acid house on 2023\u2019s The Silver Cord<\/em> \u2014 while releasing at a pace few acts attempt, including five albums in 2017 alone. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat productivity has translated to steady U.S. chart presence: the band has placed multiple titles on the Billboard 200, topped Billboard\u2019s Emerging Artists chart, and reached the top 10 of both the Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts. <\/p>\n

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard \u2014 Australia 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOct. 13 \u2014 Thirroul \u2014 Anita\u2019s Theatre (with Xiao Xiao)<\/p>\n

\n\tOct. 14 \u2014 Sydney \u2014 Hordern Pavilion (with Xiao Xiao)<\/p>\n

\n\tOct. 14 \u2014 Sydney \u2014 Liberty Hall (late show, rave set)<\/p>\n

\n\tOct. 17 \u2014 Melbourne \u2014 The Croxton Block Party<\/p>\n

\n\tOct. 18 \u2014 Melbourne \u2014 The Croxton Block Party<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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