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Don’t miss your chance to see The Flaming Lips live at the ‘HARVEST’ music and arts festival (taking place in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in November 2011) |
Wayne Coyne – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
Steven Drozd – Drums, guitar, backing vocals
Michael Ivins – Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Kliph Scurlock – Drums, percussion
Derek Brown – Guitar, keyboards
The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Norman in 1983.
Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles”, “Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)” and “Yeah, I Know It’s a Drag… But Wastin’ Pigs Is Still Radical”. They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne’s signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die”.
The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with “She Don’t Use Jelly”. Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999’s ‘The Soft Bulletin’ (which was NME magazine’s Album of the Year) and 2002’s ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the “Best International Act” category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
On October 13, 2009 the group released their latest studio album, titled ‘Embryonic’. On December 22, 2009, the Flaming Lips released their interpretation of the Pink Floyd classic ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. In 2011, the band announced plans to release new songs every month of the year through means of unusual mediums such as gummy skulls, a gummy fetus, and special hand-colored vinyl.
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Harvest Dates Saturday November 12 – Harvest Presents “The Gathering”, Melbourne, Werribee Park Sunday November 13 – Harvest, Sydney, Parramatta Park Saturday November 19 – Harvest, Brisbane, Botanical Gardens Tickets ON SALE NOW via: www.harvestfestival.com.au, Oztix www.oztix.com.au & Ticketek www.ticketek.com.au |