For the nth time this tour, year, or whatever other metric of time, I found myself walking out of a King Gizzard show with my jaw on the floor. This show had a lot of tour debuts and rare gems but as always it's the places they took these songs that left me in awe. Plastic Boogie -> This Thing is all time. I love the way Slow Jam I and Sense teased each other even outside of the transition. Cavs was fired up and gave a super inspired Gaia solo and ridiculous The Book drum break. The b741 block was my favorites of the tour so far save for Detroit save for Detroit and the final sequence really speaks for itself. One for the ages, shows like these are why I end up in places like Newport, KY. Don't sleep on Fayetteville this November.

This was my fourth show, and musically, it was my favorite one to date. The bootleg is extremely re-listenable, and the crowd was amazing to be a part of, I even got to find someones phone on the ground and take some videos for him before finding him in the crowd later! The first three songs were cuts I hadn't listened to as much as others before this, and they blew me away, especially the book was killer. The pit opening up with me in the middle and having to pivot my friend, who I was just getting into gizz, was definitely a fun moment going into the metal run of songs, which ending with Mars for the Rich, was legendary. To end the first half of the show, the sing-alongs with Fishing for Fishies were fun as hell.

For the second half, there were a lot of fun crowd interactions and pig gags for B741, which, coming after the slow jam, flowed surprisingly well. Continuing the energy, the polygon run was fun per usual, and the People Vultures to Iron Lung interplaying teases really made the entire night my favorite so far. Definitely made my friend a Gizz fan and made me LOVE this show. Funnily enough, my previous favorite show at Red Rocks also had Iron Lung as a closer, which makes that much more sense (which they also had an amazing mini jam of). 

This Newport show was my first time seeing King Gizzard in person, but I have been listening to King Gizzard since Nonagon Infinity released in 2016. I just unfortunately live in Indiana and I didn't really enjoy travelling until recently. I'm thankful that Newport was one of the rare no table shows of the past two years in the US. The table sections have grown on me, but my first show was still mainly a rock and metal show like it had been in the previous years that I missed out on.

I wore a shirt with the Gumboot Soup album cover to manifest any song from that album, so I went balistic with All Is Known was the opener. The friend I went with was hoping for a O.N.E. as well so the setlist started out being exactly we were hoping for. The Book bustout ended the microtonal section and I was blown away with Cavs performance on the track. Motor Spirit > Gaia was the metal combo I was hoping for, but besides that I really thought the metal section was the weakest part of the show. Converge > Witchraft had become a bit to samey for me listening to the 2023 shows and all of the 2024 shows leading up to the US tour. 

The Plastic Boogie bustout pulled me back in and I was pretty much entranced for the whole show. The combinations of Plastic Boogie > This Thing and Sense > Slow Jam 1 were amazing and showed off the only electric Sense of the tour. I enjoyed the new tracks, but the section with B741 tracks really just felt like a break before we got to the closing section of the show. 41 minutes of face melting Nonagon Infinity with Work This Time sandwiched in between a in-and-out People-Vultures / Iron Lung jam. Call it first show bias, I think I was just lucky enough to catch the peak show of the year as my first show attended in person.