A dual-headed tour that effortlessly skips between rave sets and shows accompanied by some of Europe’s most acclaimed orchestras and sinfonias? There’s possibly only one band in the world capable of pulling that off, and that’s Australia’s freewheeling King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, who have today announced an EU / UK tour later in the year, flipping between the two diametrically opposite shows.
In November, the prolific Australian group will bring their 2025 Phantom Island Orchestral Tour to the world-famous Royal Albert Hall and a number of European cities. Led by conductor and musical director Chad Kelly, the performances will see the group play select songs from their vast catalogue, including never-before-heard tracks off their forthcoming album, Phantom Island.
With the rave sets taking inspiration from The Silver Cord, their 2023 foray into electronic / synth-heavy sounds, prepare to dance while KGLW evolves in real time. They are transforming their extensive oeuvre, swapping their no-nonsense guitars and fuzz pedals for a bastardised fully modular synthesis table that shares the same beating heart of their ethos—ambitious, improvised, and epiphanic. Rave and freak out.
The full list of dates is as follows:
31.10.25 – Aviva Studios – MANCHESTER (rave set)
01.11.25 – Electric Brixton – LONDON (rave set)
02.11.25 – Electric Brixton – LONDON (rave set)
04.11.25 – Royal Albert Hall – LONDON (with Covent Garden Sinfonia)
05.11.25 – La Seine Musicale – PARIS (with L’Orchestre Lamoureux)
06.11.25 – 013 – TILBURG, NL (rave set)
07.11.25 – Mainstage – DEN BOSCH, NL (with Sinfonia Rotterdam)
09.11.25 – Inside Seaside Festival – GDANSK, PL (with The Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra)
10.11.25 – Columbiahalle – BERLIN (rave set)
11.11.25 – SaSaZu – PRAGUE (rave set)
12.11.25 – Gasometer – VIENNA (rave set)
14.11.25 – Poolen – COPENHAGEN (rave set)
15.11.25 – Gothenburg Film Studios – GOTHENBURG (rave set)
Tickets for the shows will go on artist pre-sale at 10 a.m. on 2nd April and general sale at 10 a.m. on 4th April.
This summer also sees the Melbourne 6-piece take the orchestra show on a U.S. run which will feature a different accompanying 28-piece orchestra in each city before which they head to the EU for a European Residency Tour for early summer which sees them play multiple-night shows in Lisbon, Barcelona, Vilnius, Athens and Plovdiv. Details of the EU residency shows can be found HERE.
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