Particularly chatty tonight, he’s here to explain songs in typically esoteric terms: the hypnotic Always There In Our Hearts is, to paraphrase, about the battle between our free will and genetic predetermination the “mystically magic” Dinosaurs On The Mountain attempts to recapture the innocence of childhood, which, Coyne reveals, is encapsulated in Drozd’s guitar solo. Impeccably dressed in a snappy suit, he doesn’t just angelically deliver lyrics like “She puts diamonds on her forehead, They remind her how the animals and, Trees and insects call”. Over the next 90 minutes, while the confetti keeps coming and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Drozd leads the musicians through one feel-good psychedelic anthem after another, Coyne plays the ultimate ringmaster of this psychedelic circus. Within the first four songs they’ve fired up the confetti cannons, lasers, smoke machines, and blow-up rainbow when not inside his bubble, Coyne’s shot off streamers and danced with a towering robot (during Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, of course) and the six men on the overcrowded stage have already performed two of their biggest hits: Yoshimi and Do You Realize?. They don’t disappoint - visually, musically, or, least of all, emotionally.Ĭlearly, the concept of holding back is completely foreign to the band.
So expectations are high as The Flaming Lips take to the stage at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. Singer Wayne Coyne has fired lasers from giant rubbery hands, strapped puffy white wings to his back, and crowd surfed inside a bubble (not all simultaneously - yet).
NEIL AND THE FLAMING LIPS PLUS
Over the years, they’ve shared their stage with fantastical inflatable creatures resembling wolves, butterflies, and slugs, plus a UFO big enough to feature in Star Wars. They’ve released music on flash drives embedded inside gummies, a 24-hour song streamed on a non-stop loop, and one album across four discs intended to be played simultaneously. They came up with the “headphone concert” more than 20 years ago, transmitting their live performance to audiences wearing headphones. Legend has it they were signed after a record label rep caught a show where they almost burnt down the venue “with some questionable on-stage pyrotechnics”. The Flaming Lips have a reputation to uphold.
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