Words by Alan Smithee

While 2026 is looking to be a somewhat slower year for King Gizzard with a handful of U.S. shows and some dates in Australia, we at KGLW.net have been hard at work on some big updates across our site. There’s changes across the board, from our setlist database to our social media accounts, and we’re excited to give you a sneak peek at what’s to come this year!

Expanding Our Horizons

Since our founding in 2022 we have been working hard to provide the most comprehensive breakdown of King Gizzard’s sets and albums. We have a large team of dedicated volunteers who tune in to every show to discuss the various teases and segues, and who dig through the internet to uncover setlists from the past. It’s been an exciting and rewarding process, but there’s a problem. We feel that our scope is far more limited than it needs to be. King Gizzard just isn’t prolific enough to rely on. We want to give more updates for you all, so we’ve been discussing a path forward. After weeks of friendly debate, we have settled on a new, bold, and innovative direction for KGLW.net.

We’re excited to announce that we will start tracking the Canadian experimental yet mainstream rock group Angine de Poitrine! Known for their strange costumes and microtonal guitars, this duo has been making waves within the rock scene and the Gizz community after their KEXP performance. Our team has also fallen in love with them and we felt that they’d be a great fit for our project. Our ambitions with Angine de Poitrine will affect the Gizz side of things in a way we see as objectively beneficial.

Starting today, we will be introducing the Angina Monitor. Every show page now has a button decorated with their iconic black and white polka dots. Clicking this will increase the Angina Monitor score, indicating that the show is sufficiently Poitrine-like. We believe this is a more accurate way of understanding a show’s quality than our current rating system as we (yes, you and I) all love Angine de Poitrine and can use our neverending appreciation of them as an objective metric for King Gizzard.

We have plans to implement tracking for DOOM GONG and La Luz at some point in the future as well, though our focus now is on Angine de Poitrine’s exhaustive discography. Maybe we’ll even do Billy Squier (or whatever that guy’s name is) when the bluegrass album comes out!

Song Histories

Our song histories project continues to be one of our largest resources. Written over half a year, it documents every single song King Gizzard has ever performed, including covers, unreleased material, and demos. The project brought forward a number of previously obscure or unknown facts about the music such as the tapes used in the music video for “30 Past 7.” Yet we’ve heard from you. You want the song histories to go even deeper than before. You want more.

On that note (no pun intended) we will be publishing histories for every single note King Gizzard has played over the years. That includes all of their microtonal notes! The incredible stories behind these iconic tones will finally be available for all of us to read about, from the first open A Stu ever hit to the fifty-second low E Joey played on “Robot Stop” from 2025-06-08. If this goes over well, we will consider going deeper with extensive histories on every word and every breath heard in their discography.

Edit: I’m just remembering that we didn’t tell song history writer TimelandIsWacky about this plan. Too late to stop it now. Oops.

YouTube

We recently started a YouTube channel! We’ve been brainstorming ways to use it and we had a lot of fun with our rewatch of Gizzard’s PALP Festival show. However, some on our team felt that the experience wasn’t immersive enough, and we’re now experimenting with virtual reality to recreate what these shows would have been like in person.

Our current test is a recreation of Field of Vision. Now we couldn’t get the front row spots even in our simulation, so we had to settle for the soundboard. We’re impressed with the accuracy so far, from the delightful chomping to the one guy who caught a little too much smoke, as this level of realism is what we’re striving for. Unfortunately one of our team members is currently stuck inside the simulation and has experienced 2025-08-16 a few hundred times at this point, but can you really be upset if that is the show you have to hear for the rest of your life?

Edit: after further development, we have been able to add a second point of view from the other side of the soundboard, increasing your pseudo-couch tour opportunities. It’s a bit buggy right now and our team member in the matrix is currently experiencing the show in two places at the same time. Superposition!

The King Gizzette

Journalism has been in a precarious spot in the last few years with many publications going under, being consolidated into larger papers, or being bought out by billionaires. The King Gizzette, our blog, is no different. It was recently bought by Jeff Bezos for a landmark price (we’re not at liberty to say specifics, but we can say it's higher than $10 but lower than $20). While we understand the concern you may have towards the quality of our editorials and articles, we see this as the start of a new chapter for the blog. The King Gizzette will now require a subscription to access: Gizzette+. Our standard tier will run $50 a month and give basic access to our posts. Our gold tier, which costs a mere $100 a month, will gain access alongside special privileges like the ability to comment on any post. We believe this groundbreaking permission alone is enough to justify the rate. You can get 5% off both Gizzette+ tiers if you link your account to Amazon.

We don’t want to spoil everything coming to our blog, but we are excited to announce our biggest interview yet. It’s one that our team has been working tirelessly to get, and one that we feel blog readers will love to see as it's a band we all obsess over. It is my honor to announce that an interview with King Lizard Wizard will be coming soon. This completely real band made waves last year for their totally-not-AI King Gizzard covers on streaming services. Now, granted the only response we’ve gotten from them was long-winded with many em dashes in it, and ends with “An error occurred. If the issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com”, but we hope that means they are interested!

Newly Uncovered Setlist

For our final announcement, let’s circle back to the setlists. We’re always uncovering new information about King Gizzard shows from years ago. While these finds typically come from the years prior to 2017, we recently found a secret 2022 show that happened at a bar a few hours after their Casa MUSA show 2022-05-08 wrapped up. This show isn’t on our site just yet as we’re trying to verify information about it, but what we’ve uncovered so far is incredible. This setlist includes songs that were never played live prior, including debuts and covers! We have left what we know below.

Set 1: Road Train > Robot Stop > BIT BIT BIT BIT BIT BIT BIT, Alter Me I > Alter Me II > Alter Me III > We Are Family (Sister Sledge), I’m In Your Mind, Predator X, I’m In Your Mind, Billabong Valley, Ataraxia, Rattlesnake

Encore: Vegemite

Show notes: This show features the only known performances of BIT BIT BIT BIT BIT BIT BIT and We Are Family (Sister Sledge). Alter Me III had Thong Song (Sisqó) quotes. I’m In Your Mind was cut short after Stu remembered they had played it earlier that day, causing a brief delay as the band figured out what to do next. Predator X was cut short after Cook stopped playing and asked Stu if they could do I’m In Your Mind again, prompting another delay. The second I’m In Your Mind was cut short again after Cook changed his mind. During Billabong Valley Ambrose forgot the words and asked if they could play I’m In Your Mind instead, which was rejected. The song also contains Brass Monkey (Beastie Boys) and Smoke on the Water (Uriah Heep) teases. Before Ataraxia, Joey spoke at length about Pyrrhonism, with Lucas chiming in at times to add additional context. Rattlesnake contains Thong Song (Sisqó), MTV, Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle) (Limp Bizkit), and ABABCD quotes, as well as Hot Crossed Buns (traditional), 9TET, and Floating Features (La Luz) teases.

We hope you’re as excited as we are for these big updates to KGLW.net and we wish you a fantastic April Fools’ Day!

(Words by TimelandIsWacky, ideas contributed by Beef, Rattle, and Rowdy, technical help from Jamie, stock image by Yevhen Smyk)