Keith
Miller, co-founder and booker for Wide Awake says: “We’re
so delighted to lastly nail down King Gizz! It’ll be ten years since I first noticed them within the Shacklewell after they hit the primary stage. We’ve tried to deliver them over yearly, they usually had been our most requested acts from our followers survey. I caught them up at
Manchester Psych Fest in September and it was unreal. You is not going to be upset!”
The pageant prides itself with line-ups which have an equal gender cut up and 2023 noticed it work additional on a sustainable optimistic coverage, which was set as much as change the best way dwell music occasions have an effect on the planet. With social, cultural and environmental consciousness being key to the very make up of Wide Awake, the pageant itself is a celebration for people who need not solely the perfect dwell acts but additionally need to encourage change.
Alongside the information of their not too long ago introduced twenty fifth studio album, Silver Cord, the band unveil a trio of latest singles, “Theia / The Silver Cord / Set”, which open an album that sees maybe essentially the most thrilling rock group on the planet flip their hand to digital music.
“Theia / The Silver Cord / Set” introduces this fascinating flip and provides a glimpse at what continues to be to come back. The Silver Cord does one thing no King Gizzard album has ever tried earlier than — changing into an album with a cut up character and of divergent prospects.
The Silver Cord will probably be available in two incarnations, the primary paring its seven tracks again to their hooks, their choruses, their innate pop essence, and respecting the furnishings of conventional music type. The second model of the album, nonetheless, bulldozes the principles of the three-minute pop hit and lets these robotic tunes run free.
The Silver Cord – Extended Mix stretches the connecting tissue between every monitor so far as it could, with KGLW working as their very own disco remixers and exploring the infinite prospects contained inside these prolonged futurist anthems, building them into epics in contrast to anything within the group’s voluminous catalog.
“The first version’s really condensed, trimming all the fat,” explains Stu Mackenzie. “And on the second version, that first song, “Theia”, is 20 minutes long. It’s the ‘everything’ version – those seven songs you’ve already heard on the first version, but with a whole lot of other shit we record while making it. It’s for the Gizz-heads. I love Donna Summer’s records with Giorgio Moroder, and I’d never listen to the short versions now – I’m one of those people who wants to hear the whole thing. We’re testing the boundaries of people’s attention spans when it comes to listening to music, perhaps – but I’m heavily interested in destroying such concepts.”
