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.