Stu MacKenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) // ON AIR backstage @ Grape Festival 2023

In the new format of our main interview program ON AIR with the epithet "in the backstage", this time we went outside the Prague studio, namely to the Slovak Grape festival, which this year took place at the airport in Trenčín on August 11-13.
There we recorded interviews with Nik Tendo together with nobodylisten, Stu MacKenzie from the band King Gizzard & Lizard Wizzard, and Yungblud. Interviews in English can be found on our international KZbin channel Kytary Worldwide:
YUNGBLUD interview: • Yungblud // ON AIR Bac...
ON AIR is a talk show by music columnist Pavel Kučera with musicians and people from the music industry. A new episode is published every week on the KZbin channel kytary.cz.

[@matthewfischer3312]

There are so many interviews that have the same cliche questions and this one was done a lot better than those. Stu always seems awkward with them as well and he seemed pretty at ease and thoughtful with his answers here. Good job.

[@choclatenacho]

this is a good interview idk what the comments are talking about. its clearly an interview not meant for gizzheads and more so the general public. some genuinely interesting questions and answers here

[@big_ol_ball838]

that’s the thing tho, the interviewer just doesn’t know how to show anything more than a surface level interest. doesn’t really feel personal at all.

[@pineapplebaron2308]

As always Stu comes off as a really humble and likable person. Because he is.

[@CallMeVlork]

Knowing Stu grew up surrounded by lefty guitars explains some of his riff voicings, very interesting!

[@frankiesunswept]

Stu is such a kind, generous, thoughtful dude. Love his interviews

[@Columbine621]

So cool to see my dad interviewed!

[@whatrtheysayininyem]

Woo!

[@LnOfDmex]

Stu should listen to " La leyenda del tiempo" by Camaron if he wants to hear something that was ahead of its time, I'm sure it would blow his mind. ^^

[@AlessioDiTuri]

Dude that song is amazing! I need that record. Thanks for the tip fam!

[@atharvachoudhary6974]

As a lefty guitarist I feel so nice to see Stu being around left handed guitars and hear Stu acknowledging left-handed guitarist problems :D

[@ded9600]

Great interview. Thanks!

[@stmboat]

"Snout of a Jackal and tail of a snake. Slinks and slithers through the desert awake." "I'm rolling thunder, power rain. I'm coming on like a hurricane." Its uncanny.

[@etheraelespeon1986]

small correction: it's "slithers and slinks," and "rolling thunder, pourin' rain"

[@stmboat]

@@etheraelespeon1986 I've gone wrong for too many years etheraelespeon

[@dirttrackdemons5396]

what a nice guy

[@mentallyradical]

What’s the name of the Turkish band he was talking about?? Edit - never heard of Erkin Koray, good stuff!!

[@Man_Ray78]

Music from Australia seams to have been brewing for a long time, and now it all pops up the last few years, thanks to King Gizzard, Amyl & The Sniffers and others. I am always pumping into on recommendations lists.

[@Japanda92]

Interesting thoughts about air. I loved his monologue on oxygen.

[@bisket2003]

Stu is a groovy dude.

[@jordansmall5137]

Stu!

[@beatvampire]

The interview was great . Straight forward questions demand straight forward answers when you are honest and it appears Stu is

[@paulojara837]

Dude keep repeting some questions in different words, poor Stu, anyway hes always so polite.

[@michaeldevers4861]

Stu rules

[@beefsteak444]

stuueddd😭😭

[@addison_deez]

OOMF??😭😭

[@beefsteak444]

@@addison_deez GET OUT

[@hibuhemu2311]

do you wear wigs? WHEN will you wear wigs??

[@chrys996]

🤣🤣🤣

[@OG-giku-zb8nj]

STUART ... babba booey

[@miroslavtomka988]

To mě poser! Frontman mojí nejoblíbenější kapely dělal rozhovor s mým nejoblíbenějším moderátorem a já to nevěděl?

[@krizmarek]

Same! Vynikající.

[@emshaw27]

Ginger Hitler you are tooooooo much. I’m howling. Well done for this painful interview Stu you lovely human

[@AyyyGabagool]

LMAO where the hell do they keep getting these wonky interviewers?? ALL Gizzard interview questions have been so obscure in 2023. I'm really surprised he didnt ask anything about the Silver Cord. Have a feeling he had no idea a new album was even coming out loool

[@sentriesband]

From the description I gather this was recorded in August

[@jayholt]

19:02 Onyx the Fortuitous 😂 idk

[@forgettablelisa]

These guys rule, you can tell they are influenced by _everything_

[@trevorcarlisle5447]

Was Stu not the guest? The credits have him as the host..

[@jakuboravec8041]

Host is a word that means guest in Czech language

[@trevorcarlisle5447]

@@jakuboravec8041 ah yes makes sense and audience member really means cameraman

[@gooddonuts9450]

stu is kind of kind of kind of

[@slandersir7255]

7:00

[@egek]

Interviewer didnt even answer to Stu's "how are you" and kept asking the same shit over and over again lol

[@aaronkirkland212]

No, he doesn't look like a german leader from the 1940's at all. He doesn't emphasize it at all. Its all in your mind,

[@gunnar368]

What an awkward interviewer. I feel for Stu.

[@owwwkinky]

Tim and Eric interview,,,,, actually enjoyed this lot 🙏

[@big_ol_ball838]

i’m too high for this interviewer

[@pendragon6207]

I was the right amount of high to just focus on Stu's eloquent answers! o/

[@big_ol_ball838]

@@pendragon6207 where i’m tryna be. i’m just super over analytical all the time weed just makes it worse and everything becomes cringe to me lol

[@araalkbasschronicles2762]

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