King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have not announced a 2027 tour of Australia or New Zealand. As of 9 October 2026 there are no dates, festival bookings or residencies for next year on either side of the Tasman,. The Melbourne band's most recent Australian dates are shows in Thirroul, on the New South Wales coast north of Wollongong, and in Sydney in October 2026.

The six-piece have just released Alien Metal, their 28th studio album, on Friday 14 August 2026. It is an electronic record made on a custom synthesiser rig the band nicknamed "Nathan", and it reached number 26 on the ARIA albums chart. It follows Phantom Island, the orchestral album that the band took around Australia in December 2025 with orchestra nights at the Sydney Opera House, Brisbane's Princess Theatre and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.

This page explains what is and is not known about King Gizzard's plans for 2027 and tells the story of the band's documented concerts at home and in New Zealand since 2016: seven nights in a row at the Night Cat in Fitzroy, three-hour marathon sets in Melbourne, a residency at the Princess Theatre in Brisbane, festival paddocks from Meredith to Cardrona, and the rock, orchestra and rave shows of 2025. It also covers the albums and their ARIA peaks, recent set lists and how to buy tickets safely when shows are announced.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No promoter, venue or festival has published a date, and the band have not announced a tour in support of Alien Metal. Any 'presale code', ticket listing or itinerary for 2027 should be treated with suspicion until an announcement appears.

The band's recent rhythm helps explain the silence. After the Phantom Island tour ended in Melbourne in December 2025, they confirmed a break from touring until August 2026 and the second edition of Field of Vision, the camping residency they first staged in Buena Vista, Colorado, in August 2025. Alien Metal was announced on 8 July 2026 with the single "Level 5", and the October 2026 shows in Thirroul and Sydney are their latest at home.

King Gizzard rarely let a year pass without playing Australia: the archive used for this page has home shows in every year from 2016 to 2025, even in 2020 and 2021 between lockdowns. They also have a habit of announcing tours with unusual formats, from five themed nights at Sydney's Carriageworks announced in 2021 to the orchestra-and-rock split of 2025. None of that is a prediction for 2027. When something is announced, sign up below and you will receive one alert with the dates, venues and sale times.

Before the King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard formed in Melbourne in 2010, and by the time the documented shows on this page begin they were already one of the busiest live bands in the country. The earliest entry is the Barwon Club Hotel in Geelong on Sunday 17 July 2016. Within a month they had played North Byron Parklands on Saturday 23 July, the Oxford Art Factory and the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 4 and 5 August and the UniBar in Wollongong on 6 August, all filed under Nonagon Infinity, the album that won them their first ARIA Award that year.

In late 2016 they toured the east coast and beyond: The Marquee in Brisbane on 25 November, the Coburg Velodrome in Melbourne on 26 November, the Big Top at Luna Park in Sydney on 29 November, Hazelberry Park in Berry on 2 December, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on 3 December, the Bar Pop Urban Orchard in Perth on 4 December and the Supernatural Amphitheatre at Meredith on Friday 9 December 2016. A similar run followed in November and December 2017, after the five-albums year, taking in The Marquee, the Great Northern Hotel in Byron Bay, the Bar on the Hill in Newcastle, the Big Top in Sydney, Commonwealth Park in Canberra, Port Beach in Fremantle, The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide and the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday 2 December 2017.

The most famous stretch of 2017 happened in a single Fitzroy bar. To launch Flying Microtonal Banana, released on 24 February, the band played the Night Cat in Melbourne seven times between Saturday 18 and Saturday 25 March 2017. The documented sets ran to 23 songs and mixed the microtonal new material ('Rattlesnake', 'Nuclear Fusion', 'Sleep Drifter', 'Billabong Valley') with an early taste of Murder of the Universe, which was not released until June.

The World Tour '19 brought them home in mid-2019 for bigger rooms: Howler and two nights at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne from Wednesday 26 to Friday 28 June, two nights at The Tivoli in Brisbane, two at the Roundhouse in Sydney, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide and the Astor Theatre in Perth on Saturday 13 July 2019. Then the pandemic hit. In February 2021, between lockdowns, the Micro Tour 2021 began with two nights at the Croxton Park Hotel in Thornbury and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Friday 26 February, and continued through Adelaide, Fremantle, Wollongong, Sydney, Brisbane's Riverstage and a festival site at Bambra, near the Surf Coast, on Saturday 24 April 2021.

December 2021 brought the band's first Australian residency in the archive: four nights at The Princess Theatre in Brisbane from Sunday 19 to Wednesday 22 December 2021, each with a different set. On Saturday 5 March 2022 came Return of the Curse of Timeland, the three-hour marathon set in Melbourne that Wikipedia ties to the release of Made in Timeland; the archive lists it at Reunion Park with 25 songs, followed two days later by the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Smaller and stranger dates fill the next two years, from the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine and the Northcote Theatre to a winery in Adelaide and a festival site in Deniliquin, the Riverina town where some of the band grew up, on Saturday 9 March 2024.

The Phantom Island Australia tour of December 2025 was the band's first proper home tour in more than two years. It was split into orchestra and rock nights: the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 December, the Enmore Theatre on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 December, the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Sunday 7 December, The Princess Theatre on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 December, then the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne with an orchestra show on Friday 12 December and a rock show on Saturday 13 December 2025. It had been preceded on Friday 24 October 2025 by a rave set at Federation Square in Melbourne.

The table below lists 108 documented Australia/NZ concerts by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard between 2016 and 2025, with the most shows in Melbourne (31), Brisbane (16), Sydney (16), Adelaide (8), Byron Bay (6), Fremantle (6). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (30 March 2023 to 13 December 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Iron Lung — played at 8 of 15 shows
2. Mars for the Rich — played at 7 of 15 shows
3. Crumbling Castle — played at 6 of 15 shows
4. Dragon — played at 6 of 15 shows
5. This Thing — played at 6 of 15 shows
6. Aerodynamic — played at 5 of 15 shows
7. Deadstick — played at 5 of 15 shows
8. Eternal Return — played at 5 of 15 shows
9. Gila Monster — played at 5 of 15 shows
10. Grow Wings and Fly — played at 5 of 15 shows
11. Lonely Cosmos — played at 5 of 15 shows
12. Panpsych — played at 5 of 15 shows
13. Phantom Island — played at 5 of 15 shows
14. Sea of Doubt — played at 5 of 15 shows

Before the King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Micro Tour 2021 (2021): 9 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Wollongong, Sydney, Brisbane, Bambra.
• World Tour ‘19 (2019): 9 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth.
• Australian Tour 2018 (2018–2019): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Lorne, Marion Bay, Byron Bay.
• Murder of the Universe (2017): 14 Australia/NZ shows — Byron Bay, Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Auckland, Wellington.
• Flying Microtonal Banana (2017): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Fremantle, Melbourne.
• Nonagon Infinity (2016): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Geelong, Byron Bay, Sydney, Wollongong.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Festival stages are a big part of King Gizzard's Australian record. The archive lists North Byron Parklands, the festival site outside Byron Bay, in July 2016, July 2017, July 2021 and July 2023, the Supernatural Amphitheatre at Meredith in December 2016, and a New Year run in 2018-19 that took in the Surf Coast at Lorne on 29 December, the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay in Tasmania on New Year's Eve, North Byron Parklands on New Year's Day 2019 and Fremantle Oval on 5 January 2019.

Summer festival circuits also took them around the country in January and February 2017 and 2020, with dates at the Brisbane Showgrounds, Footscray, Harts Mill in Port Adelaide, Sydney (the Sydney College of the Arts in 2017, The Domain in 2020), Fremantle's Esplanade Reserve and Albert Park in Auckland. Wikipedia also records that the band launched their own festival, Gizzfest, in Melbourne in 2015; it was held annually and toured Australia, and after the 2018 event the band announced that the 2019 edition would not take place.

Not every festival booking went ahead. In February 2023 the band withdrew from that year's Byron Bay Bluesfest in protest at the festival's booking of Sticky Fingers. Five months later they were back at North Byron Parklands for an eight-song set on Saturday 22 July 2023 that ran from 'Rattlesnake' to 'Magma'.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: career and records

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard grew out of friendships formed in Deniliquin, Melbourne and Geelong. Stu Mackenzie, Joey Walker and Eric Moore met studying music industry at RMIT University, and the line-up settled as Mackenzie, Walker, Moore, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Michael Cavanagh, Cook Craig and Lucas Harwood. Moore, who also managed the band and ran their label Flightless, left in 2020, leaving the six-piece that tours today. The name, Mackenzie has said, stuck because it was the most absurd of the many they tried.

Their first album, 12 Bar Bruise (2012), was garage rock recorded partly through iPhones, and it won an AIR Award whose $50,000 grant paid for their first overseas tour in 2014. A rapid run of records followed, from the narrated western Eyes Like the Sky to the jazz-tinged Quarters! and the acoustic Paper Mâché Dream Balloon. Nonagon Infinity (2016), a 'never-ending' album whose last track loops into its first, won the ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album.

In 2017 the band kept a promise to release five albums in one year, starting with the microtonal Flying Microtonal Banana and ending with Gumboot Soup on 31 December; Polygondwanaland was given away free for anyone to press. Later records moved into thrash metal (Infest the Rats' Nest, 2019), synth-prog (Butterfly 3000, 2021) and progressive metal (PetroDragonic Apocalypse, 2023), with three albums released in October 2022 alone. Rolling Stone Australia placed them 47th on its 2020 list of the 50 greatest Australian artists, and in 2022 they won the inaugural Environmental Music Prize, donating the $20,000 to The Wilderness Society.

Since 2024 the band have released music on their own label, p(doom). Flight b741 (2024) was followed by the orchestral Phantom Island in June 2025, which reached number 5 in Australia, and by Alien Metal in August 2026. In July 2025 they removed their catalogue from Spotify in protest at the company's chief executive's investments, and they continue to let fans record and release bootlegs of their shows.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne nights

Melbourne is home, and it shows in the numbers: 33 of the documented Australian concerts on this page took place there, a third of the total. The rooms range from tiny to vast. At one end are the Night Cat in Fitzroy, Bakehouse Studios in Richmond, Howler in Brunswick, the Wedding Chapel and the Brunswick Ballroom; at the other are the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, Federation Square and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, which the band played in February 2021, October 2021 and December 2025.

The Croxton Park Hotel in Thornbury appears again and again: in February and May 2018, in February 2020 and twice in February 2021. On Friday 21 February 2020 the setlist runs to 33 songs, from 'Planet B' to 'Float Along – Fill Your Lungs', the longest set in the Australian archive and close in spirit to the three-hour marathon shows the band were planning overseas at the time.

The two most recent Melbourne shows in the archive show the range of the band in 2025. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Friday 12 December was an orchestra night opening with ten songs from Phantom Island; the next evening, at the same venue, was a 20-song rock show that started with 'Field of Vision' and finished with 'Motor Spirit' and 'Gila Monster'.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: residencies and marathon sets

King Gizzard like to stay put. The seven Night Cat shows in March 2017 were followed by two Forum Theatre nights in June 2019, four nights at The Princess Theatre in Brisbane in December 2021 and the paired orchestra and rock nights of December 2025 in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. During the 2021 Princess Theatre run the archive shows set lengths from 9 to 19 songs, a sign of how much the band let a night's material change.

Wikipedia mentions three-hour marathon shows planned for big American venues such as Red Rocks and the Greek Theatre. At home, the clearest example is Return of the Curse of Timeland on Saturday 5 March 2022 in Melbourne, a 25-song set that took in 'Mars for the Rich', 'The Dripping Tap', the Murder of the Universe sequence, 'Gaia', 'Perihelion' and 'Rattlesnake'.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

New Zealand has seen ten documented King Gizzard concerts. In January 2017 they played Albert Park in Auckland, and in December 2017 they came back for four nights at the Whammy Bar on Karangahape Road from Wednesday 6 to Saturday 9 December, then the San Fran in Wellington on Monday 11 December 2017, where the 12-song set ran from 'The River' to 'Lonely Steel Sheet Flyer'.

They returned to Albert Park in January 2020 and then played a summer of outdoor shows over New Year 2022-23: Wharepai Domain in Tauranga on Thursday 29 December 2022, Robrosa Station at Cardrona in the Southern Alps on New Year's Eve and the TSB Stadium in New Plymouth on Friday 6 January 2023. Those sets, nine or ten songs each, leaned on 'Magma', 'Ice V' and 'The Dripping Tap'.

The band have not played New Zealand since January 2023, and the Phantom Island tour of December 2025 stayed in Australia. Christchurch and Dunedin have not had a King Gizzard show in the archive.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: touring the regions

Few international-scale bands play as many small Australian towns as King Gizzard. The archive includes the Barwon Club in Geelong, the UniBar in Wollongong in 2016 and 2021, Hazelberry Park in Berry, the Bar on the Hill in Newcastle, the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine in 2018 and 2023, Bambra in the Otways and Deniliquin in the Riverina.

Deniliquin is the most personal of these. Wikipedia notes that band members grew up and went to school in the Deniliquin, Melbourne and Geelong areas, and the band played a ten-song festival set in the town on Saturday 9 March 2024 that included the early song "Willoughby's Beach" alongside 'Gila Monster' and 'Dragon'.

The October 2026 shows in Thirroul, a coastal town in the Illawarra, fit the same habit of playing outside the capital cities. It is too early to say whether a future tour would include regional dates, but the band's history suggests they are as happy in a country hall as in an arena.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

There is no such thing as a standard King Gizzard set. The documented Australian shows range from short festival slots of six to ten songs to the 33-song Croxton Park night in 2020, and the band change the running order every night. Songs that keep returning include 'Rattlesnake', 'Gila Monster', 'Mars for the Rich', 'The Dripping Tap', 'Gaia', 'Perihelion', 'Iron Lung' and 'Crumbling Castle', often stitched together with long improvised passages.

The 2025 Australian tour split the catalogue by format. The orchestra nights in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne opened with ten songs from Phantom Island in album order, from 'Phantom Island' and 'Deadstick' to 'Grow Wings and Fly', then moved to orchestral versions of 'The River', 'Crumbling Castle', 'Mars for the Rich', 'Dragon' and 'Iron Lung'. The rock nights drew on the whole back catalogue, and the Federation Square rave set in October 2025 used electronic material from The Silver Cord and Butterfly 3000.

Songs from Alien Metal are not in the Australian archive yet. The tables on this page show the songs the band have played most often in Australia and New Zealand, drawn from the documented set lists.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

As of 9 October 2026 there is no King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard tour of Australia or New Zealand announced for 2027, so there is no presale, general sale or ticket price to report. Any website selling 2027 tickets or a 'presale code' for these shows is offering something that does not exist.

When dates are announced, tickets are sold through the agent named by the promoter and the venue, sometimes with a fan presale first. Many Australian venues now issue name-locked mobile tickets, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name. Buy from the official seller or the venue box office, and if you can no longer go, use the authorised resale service at face value.

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard touring Australia in 2027?

Not as of 9 October 2026. No Australian or New Zealand dates have been announced for 2027.

When did King Gizzard last play in Australia?

Their most recent Australian dates were shows in Thirroul and Sydney in October 2026. Before that, the Phantom Island Australia tour ran from 2 to 13 December 2025 in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

What is King Gizzard's latest album?

Alien Metal, their 28th studio album, released on 14 August 2026. It reached number 26 on the ARIA albums chart.

Have King Gizzard played New Zealand?

Yes, ten times in the archive: Auckland in 2017 (Albert Park and four nights at the Whammy Bar) and 2020, Wellington in December 2017, and Tauranga, Cardrona and New Plymouth over New Year 2022-23.

What was the King Gizzard Night Cat residency?

Seven shows at the Night Cat in Fitzroy, Melbourne, between 18 and 25 March 2017, a month after Flying Microtonal Banana was released. Each documented set had 23 songs.

Do King Gizzard play orchestra shows in Australia?

They did in December 2025: orchestra nights at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall (2 and 3 December), The Princess Theatre in Brisbane (9 and 10 December) and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne (12 December), alongside rock shows.

How long is a King Gizzard concert?

It varies a lot. Festival sets in the archive run to six to ten songs, headline shows usually 17 to 23, and the longest Australian set on record, at the Croxton Park Hotel on 21 February 2020, had 33 songs.

Why did King Gizzard pull out of Bluesfest 2023?

In February 2023 the band withdrew from Byron Bay Bluesfest in protest at the festival's booking of Sticky Fingers.

Is there a presale code for King Gizzard Australia 2027?

No. There is no announced tour, so there is no presale. Sign up below to be alerted if dates are announced.