Flaming Lips sideshows and world firsts
The Flaming Lips playing Harvest Festival and Sideshows… ?! Hell Yeah! Bring this on!
The Flaming Lips hit our shores back in 2004 for the Big Day Out, famously clashing with Metallica. The fortunate few opting to bypass the main-stage found themselves experiencing something words can’t quite do justice. The Flaming Lips were putting on shows so profound and refreshing, those who bore witness still talk with fondness about the year they turned their back of one of the biggest acts in the world for something else… something different...
With many thinking that this was their only chance to witness The Flaming Lips live they show, we were excited to have them return for Splendour in 2009. With frontman Wayne Coyne birthing himself onstage from giant sized “lady parts” in a giant inflatable ball, it was the east coast only who were lucky enough to score the shows.
Well, hats off to the Harvest Festival for adding them as a headline act for The Harvest festival and some very special sideshows around the nation – this time taking in Adelaide as well as Melbourne.
With tremendously complex albums such as The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in the can, to the more obscure latest releases of 6 and 24 hour long songs (?!) how could anyone not want to see The Flaming Lips?
The much talked about and highly anticipated performance of the four disc opus Zaireeka being played in its entirety in Brisbane for the first time ever, with Wayne personally overseeing and conducting the experiment - there’s a lot to get excited about on this tour.
The band's elaborate live shows are stuff of legend - featuring costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, fake blood and 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".
Don't mess around, as these shows are close to selling out. In fact, if they're not already, we’re sure they will be gone very, very soon. Get your tickets now!
Adelaide – Thebarton Theatre Wednesday 16th November (tickets from Venue-Tix)
Melbourne – The Palace, Melbourne, Thursday 17th November (tickets from Ticketek)
The Flaming Lips hit our shores back in 2004 for the Big Day Out, famously clashing with Metallica. The fortunate few opting to bypass the main-stage found themselves experiencing something words can’t quite do justice. The Flaming Lips were putting on shows so profound and refreshing, those who bore witness still talk with fondness about the year they turned their back of one of the biggest acts in the world for something else… something different...
With many thinking that this was their only chance to witness The Flaming Lips live they show, we were excited to have them return for Splendour in 2009. With frontman Wayne Coyne birthing himself onstage from giant sized “lady parts” in a giant inflatable ball, it was the east coast only who were lucky enough to score the shows.
Well, hats off to the Harvest Festival for adding them as a headline act for The Harvest festival and some very special sideshows around the nation – this time taking in Adelaide as well as Melbourne.
With tremendously complex albums such as The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in the can, to the more obscure latest releases of 6 and 24 hour long songs (?!) how could anyone not want to see The Flaming Lips?
The much talked about and highly anticipated performance of the four disc opus Zaireeka being played in its entirety in Brisbane for the first time ever, with Wayne personally overseeing and conducting the experiment - there’s a lot to get excited about on this tour.
The band's elaborate live shows are stuff of legend - featuring costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, fake blood and 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".
Don't mess around, as these shows are close to selling out. In fact, if they're not already, we’re sure they will be gone very, very soon. Get your tickets now!
Adelaide – Thebarton Theatre Wednesday 16th November (tickets from Venue-Tix)
Melbourne – The Palace, Melbourne, Thursday 17th November (tickets from Ticketek)