The crowd was definitely on fire that night. The half-hour set by Australian support act The Prize was well received and the band had a great time on stage. Lucas Harwood watched them from the side and seemed to enjoy their performance.
After a 45 minute break and much cheering and clapping, the boys from King Gizzard took to the stage. Their set began with three of their microtonal songs, and by Pleura the crowd was so fired up that a large, raging mosh pit and circle pit formed. The band heated up with Converge and Witchcraft from the PDA album and Self-Immolate and Hell from the ITRN album, the crowd gave their all and kept the pit going. At the beginning of Self-Immolate an improvised drum solo was played by Cavs, as Joey’s amp had a malfunction or something, a roadie came on stage with an amp and wired Joey’s equipment to the new amp.
After the first energetic half of the set, the more improvisational part of the evening began. As well as more expansive versions of Ice V and Iron Lung, the band played an incredible and breathtaking version of Work This Time.
On the setlist there was also Ambergris between Ice V and Iron Lung, but this was not played - probably because of the advanced time.
After the last song the audience demanded an encore for minutes, unfortunately in vain.
Brilliant, got it as a draft into the site now.
I’d love to insert any further details you can provide for atmosphere, do you know if the show was covered by any local music journalism media or anything? Anyone notable in attendance, or demographics in the crowd that stood out?
But this is a good first draft that I can work with anyway, thank you very much.
Just listened to the recording on archive, Work This Time was definitely the highlight, best guitar solo we’ve heard in a while. Joey really likes to put emphasis on that, at the start he asked the crowd to make sure it was going to be the best night of his life; I think he said something similar to Stu in Atlanta '22 to prompt him into a big solo for that song too. Was great straight off This Thing which was also huge, Joey really did take his moment here.
I have to say Garden Goblin was strangely slotted in there, but Ice V and Iron Lung never fail to make a good ending.
The metal songs don’t tend to change much obviously, but I did like that Converge too.
