In 2025, Australian rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard announced four separate tours in part to promote their new album Phantom Island, one in Europe, one in North America, a second 'techno' tour in Europe, and finally a tour in their native Australia. Besides their European Residency Tour, which took place prior to the release of Phantom Island, tours consisted of traditional rock-and-roll concerts (with the exception of the second European tour which consisted of raves) intermixed with 'orchestral' shows, playing their new album with various orchestras.
While each "leg" of this "world tour" were announced, and treated, as separate tours from one another by the band, they have also occasionally used World Tour 2025 when advertising them as a whole. Unlike World Tour 2024 which was branded as a world tour from the start, World Tour 2025 only was referred to as such well after the European Residency Tour ended.
History Europe Residency Tour
The Europe Residency Tour was announced on June 10, 2024, shortly after the conclusion of their European leg of their World Tour 2024, with tickets starting to be sold on June 13. The announcement also came alongside the naming of their 26th album, Flight b741. The tour was designed to "mirror" their U.S. Residency Tour, with the posters being of a similar design.
The band's performances were live-streamed on YouTube and released as live albums on Bandcamp for free as part of their official bootlegger program. These include: Live in Lisbon '25, Live in Barcelona '25, Live in Lithuania '25, Live in Athens '25 , and Live in Bulgaria '25. In part to promote the live-streams, the band released a "Couch Tour" t-shirt featuring a design by Jason Galea of various members of the Gizzverse sitting on a couch.
During a rendition of "Self-Immolate" on the opening night in Lisbon, frontman Stu Mackenzie shaved his head with a pair of electric clippers. During their second night in Lithuania the band performed a cover of AC/DC's "Jailbreak" as the venue was an old prison. Additionally, on the third night, the band allowed a fan named Ignas to climb onto the stage with them and play Stu's guitar part during a performance of "Dragon" with Stu taking the time to crowd surf.
American Phantom Island Tour
The tour was announced alongside the drop of the single "Phantom Island" on 29 October, 2024, to promote the then unnamed 27th Gizzard studio album. By April 9 it was revealed that the album was also named Phantom Island. The tour would consist of two types of shows, orchestral shows of Phantom Island with conductor Sarah Hicks alongside a different symphony orchestra in each city, and more classical Rock and Roll concerts capped off by a three day camping festival dubbed Field of Vision.
On the first show of the tour the band performed some songs after their performance of Phantom Island, including a rendition of Crumbling Castle with the outro which hadn't been played since 2018, and was the first time the song has ever been performed with its outro . The Band played in New Haven, Connecticut for the first time ever at the Westville Music Bowl, the former Connecticut Tennis Center. Shortly after the start of the tour the band would pull their library off of Spotify due to opposition to the investments of its CEO Daniel Ek into AI drone warfare. This announcement was coupled with the release of Demos Vol. 7 + Vol. 8.
During the first night of the Field of Vision the band would perform a cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Police Truck" with Jello Biafra, introducing him as "one of our heroes". Earlier that night during a rendition of "Oddlife" a fan, Matthew Gawiak, collapsed and despite the show stopping to allow his medical evacuation, he died en-route to a hospital. Chaffee County Sheriff Andy Rohrich announced that his death is being investigated as a potential homicide until proven otherwise due to procedure, but nobody has been arrested. Gawiak's family stated he complained of a headache before suddenly collapsing and died of "natural causes related to an undetected hereditary condition."
Setlist Unlike the typical shows performed by the band, the Phantom Island Tour orchestral shows had a relatively static setlist that did not change from night to night due to the presence of the orchestra. The show was divided into two sets, the first consisting of Phantom Island performed in its entirety and the second consisting of several key tracks from the band's back catalogue reworked to include the orchestra, with a twenty-minute intermission jam between sets performed only by the band and varying from night to night. The intermission jam typically included a unique song every night, played while the orchestra had a break.
The setlist used on the Phantom Island Tour went unchanged for the band's performances in Europe and Australia later in the year. Set 1 (Phantom Island) "Phantom Island" "Deadstick" "Lonely Cosmos" "Eternal Return" "Panpsych" "Spacesick" "Aerodynamic" "Sea of Doubt" "Silent Spirit" "Grow Wings and Fly" Intermission jam (played without the orchestra, varied from night-to-night) Set 2 "The River" (parts I, II, and IV) "Crumbling Castle" (performed in full, with the outro) "This Thing" "Mars For the Rich" "Dragon" "Iron Lung"
EU/UK 2025
The tour was announced on April 1, 2025, centering around content from their synth album The Silver Cord and their orchestral album Phantom Island. Tickets went on sale at 10am on April 4, London time. This was the band's second tour in Europe in 2025, as they had previously performed the Europe Residency Tour from May to June.
Due to the dual nature of their content for this tour, shows were divided into "rave" and "orchestral" sets, with British composer Chad Kelly (the original composer for the Phantom Island album) conducting and directing various orchestras during those sets. In a May 27 interview, band member Ambrose Kenny-Smith confirmed that the album after Phantom Island would be another synth album centered around eurorack although it was still unclear if it would be released before the tour.
Australian Phantom Island Tour
Announced on May 20, 2025, the Australian Phantom Island Tour was the first tour by the band in their native Australia in over two years. The shows consisted of orchestral sets including Phantom Island played in full with a different orchestra in each city, alongside traditional rock and roll sets. Party Dozen was announced as their openers in Brisbane and Sydney, while Barkaa will join them in Melbourne. Tickets went on sale at 10am AEST on May 23.
The band would announce a surprise show on October 24, 2025 in Fed Square, Melbourne, before they departed for their European tour. Opened by Mervin from Altin Gün, fans only had five days notice while the show itself was free. Several songs from Butterfly 3000 saw their first live debut, including "2.02 Killer Year", "Blue Morpho" and "Butterfly 3000" while an entirely new song "JOJAM" was unveiled.
List of concerts + European Residency Tour Date City Country Venue May 18, 2025 Lisbon Portugal Coliseu dos Recreios May 19, 2025 May 20, 2025 May 23, 2025 Barcelona SpainPoble Espanyol May 24, 2025 May 25, 2025 May 29, 2025 Vilnius LithuaniaLukiškės Prison May 30, 2025 May 31, 2025 June 4, 2025 Athens GreeceLycabettus Theatre June 5, 2025 June 6, 2025 June 8, 2025 Plovdiv BulgariaAncient Theatre June 9, 2025 June 10, 2025 + Phantom Island Tour (North America) Date City State Venue Type July 28, 2025 Philadelphia Pennsylvania TD Pavilion at the MannOrchestra July 30, 2025 New Haven Connecticut Westville Music Bowl August 1, 2025 New York New York Forest Hills StadiumAugust 2, 2025 Rock N'Roll August 4, 2025 ColumbiaMarylandMerriweather Post PavilionOrchestra August 6, 2025 Highland ParkIllinoisRavinia Festival August 8, 2025 Colorado SpringsColoradoFord Amphitheater August 10, 2025 Los AngelesCaliforniaHollywood Bowl August 11, 2025 San DiegoCaliforniaThe Rady Shell at Jacobs Park August 15, 2025 Buena VistaColoradoField of VisionRock N'Roll August 16, 2025 August 17, 2025 + EU/UK 2025 Date City Country Venue Type October 31, 2025 Manchester United Kingdom Aviva Studios Rave November 1, 2025London Electric Brixton November 2, 2025 November 4, 2025 Royal Albert Hall Orchestra November 5, 2025 Paris France La Seine Musicale November 6, 2025 Tilburg Netherlands 013 Rave November 7, 2025 Den Bosch MAINSTAGE Orchestra November 9, 2025 Gdańsk Poland Inside Seaside Festival November 10, 2025 Berlin Germany Columbiahalle Rave November 11, 2025 Prague Czech Republic SaSaZu November 12, 2025 Vienna Austria Gasometer November 14, 2025 Copenhagen Denmark Poolen November 15, 2025 Gothenburg Sweden Gothenburg Film Studios + Phantom Island Tour (Australia) Date City State Venue TypeOctober 24, 2025 Melbourne Victoria Fed SquareRave December 2, 2025 Sydney New South Wales Sydney Opera HouseOrchestra December 3, 2025 December 5, 2025 Enmore Theatre Rock December 7, 2025 BrisbaneQueenslandFortitude Music Hall December 9, 2025 Princess TheatreOrchestra December 12, 2025, MelbourneVictoriaSidney Myer Music Bowl December 13, 2025 Rock
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