Nick Paumgarten catches up with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the pretty-much-every-genre rock band from Australia, on its tour stop in New York.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the pretty-much-every-genre rock band from Australia, boarded a tour bus in Montreal at 2one night this month and arrived in Brooklyn nine hours later. No gig until the following night, in Queens: a rare day off. “I passed out for an hour at the hotel, grabbed a chicken burrito, and here we are,” Ambrose Kenny-Smith, one of the band’s singers and multi-instrumentalists, said that afternoon.
Galea and Kenny-Smith met at a skate park in a Melbourne suburb, when Galea was nineteen and Kenny-Smith, embarking on a teen career as a sponsored skater, was twelve. Galea, graying hair spilling out from beneath a ball cap, had on baggy corduroys, an oversized thrift-shop Kid Rock tee, and burgundy Vans. Kenny-Smith, tall and lanky, with a dark mustache and shaggy longish hair, wore all black: hoodie, dacks, socks, and sneaks.
“I don’t know at what point we’re going to start having to have music stands,” Kenny-Smith said. “It’s pretty wild to see how much your mind can contain.” It had been a breakthrough tour so far. In some cities, the audiences have been six times larger than they were the last time the band came through. They’d just played two sold-out nights at Red Rocks. In Williamsburg, everyone got a hotel room of his own. “We slogged it for ten years—we’ve done the hard yards,” Kenny-Smith said. “We’ve never been a big buzz band. No one knew where to put us. We’re too weird.
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