Way way back, late last June, us weirdos here at KGLW.net finally got our act together and established this here Forum for the swarm… so it turns out that…
June 23 is the birthday of the KGLW.net Forum!
Big thanks to y’all for being here!! — for having fun, for reacting to updates from the band, for sharing your awesome art, for following the Couch Tour threads (and shouting out the teases you hear!), for coordinating fan meet-ups, and for sharing the non-Gizz music and all the other stuff that excites you!
Thanks to everyone here for sharing your Gizzard fandom with us!
A Brief History of KGLW.net…
- 2022 October 19 — @AlteredBeef had a crazy idea and created the “Phase 0” site, a single page of manually-edited HTML
- 2022 November 4 — first post on the @kglw_net Instagram account
- 2022 December 13 — the “Phase 1” site goes live, built by yours truly (using Jekyll
)
- 2023 February 3 — we receive official permission from The Kings of Gizzard and The Wizards of Lizard to publish all song lyrics!
- 2023 April 4 — initial launch of
KGLW.today, built by yours truly (using Gatsby
)
- 2023 May 9 — the “Phase 2” site launches, a proper CMS (powered by Songfish
)
- 2023 June 19 — one thousand followers for the @kglw_net Instagram account!
- 2023 June 23 — initial launch of this here Forum subdomain (powered by Discourse
)
- 2023 July 16 — one thousand registered users on KGLW.net!
- 2023 October 23 — the @kinggizzard Instagram account starts following our @this_day_in_gizztory Instagram account
- 2024 January 22 — The King Gizzette (KGLW.net’s Blog) publishes the first in a series of posts highlighting notable live recordings: Brent’s Recs Volume 1
- 2024 February 21 — KGLW.net Team Member KQ recovers a lost recording from 2011, making it the second-oldest full recording of the band!
- 2024 April 15 — having done months of extensive research, KGLW.net Team Member @TimelandIsWacky publishes the first set of full histories of every original King Gizzard song
- 2024 May 15 — the start of Europe Tour 2024 becomes the Forum’s busiest day by far, with almost 250 posts in the first Couch Tour thread!
- 2024 June 18 — one thousand followers for our @this_day_in_gizztory Instagram account!
Cheers to y’all we’re excited to see what the future holds for Gizz-Liz-Wiz and all of us fans!