![]() ![]() Then again, King Gizz has always strived to go against the grain and keep innovating. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed FMB, but the setlist was not what I expected as most bands love to play up the audience and tease them with songs from albums past. And then another song, and another, and another - all from their latest release. Instead, the band went into the bluesy chill “Anoxia”, also off Flying Microtonal Banana (FMB). Like many concerts I’ve seen, I assumed the second song would be a soul-splitting anthem from Nonagon Infinity, but King Gizzard had other plans. The foreboding build up from percussionists Eric Moore and Michael Cavanaugh with the added hypnotic far eastern riffs from MacKenzie was just the right amount to get peoples’ bodies writhing along. King Gizzard opened up their electric 18-song set with “Open Water” the third song off Flying Microtonal Banana. ![]() Quite frankly, the band could have done without the projections since their stage presence dominates with their music ability. One moment a labyrinthine desert and the next a monochrome black hole of doom. When the lights dimmed, the stage was lit up by Windows 95 meets bad drug trip computer rendered projections from one of your NyQuil-induced dreams. Even test strums from his custom made microtonal tuned guitar elicited cheers from the sold out crowd as the marijuana clouds drifted to the front. It seems, though, that the touring and the growing fan base only seems to fuel the fire more for these guys.ĭuring a quick sound check, Mackenzie casually walked across the stage to tune up his gear and do a quick mic check. With seven dudes in a small tour bus driving from city to city around the country has got to grate on their nerves. Seeing as the band has been going non-stop for about seven years, I wondered how this show was going to play out. Now, less than a year later, King Gizzard flew by Cleveland at the Beachland Ballroom in support of their ninth album, Flying Microtonal Banana, the first of five albums planned for 2017. Last year when I interviewed Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard for their upcoming show at the Rock Hall, they had just released Nonagon Infinity, the first ever looping album and also the eighth album the band released since 2010. ![]()
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