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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard reveal ‘Catching Smoke’ video
Lifted from June’s ‘Butterfly 3000’.
After sharing their most recent album ‘Butterfly 3000’ last month, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are releasing a new video for the record’s tracks every week, and up next is ‘Catching Smoke’!
“‘Catching Smoke’ is about chasing the feeling that’s impossible to catch,” the band’s Stu Mackenzie says. “You’ll never get your hands on it, but you’re gonna try anyway…”
Director Danny Cohen adds of the video, “Here’s a clip that might feel like the past, or the future, maybe both, the present? It’s set wherever you want it to be, whenever too, in a time that’s everyone’s. It’s a story of a fleeting fleet, straying the course to inhabit their inner instinctual insect, I think. Or maybe it’s precisely what it is, Sgt. Pepper’s Bug’s Life Matrix Band but more fun.”
Watch it now below.
See King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard live at the following dates:
OCTOBER 2022
02 - Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre
04 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
05 - Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum
06 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
10 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
11 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
14 - St Paul, MN @ The Palace Theatre
15 - Chicago, IL @ RADIUS
16 - Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple
18 - Toronto, ON @ TBA
19 - Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia
22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
23 - Washington, DC @ The Anthem at The Wharf
24 - Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit
26 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
31 - Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have been nominated for the AIM Independent Music Awards 2021, which takes place as a global livestream on 25th August. For more information on the event, and to check out the other nominees, head to their website.
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