Flaming Lips

What No Encore? Flaming Lips Make Six Hour Song

What No Encore? Flaming Lips Make Six Hour Song

Just when you thought the Flaming Lips couldn’t get any weirder, well just think again. Not too long ago the band released music inside of a fetus and gummy skull as well as collaborated with Lightning Bolt and Neon Bible. Currently, the band is hard at work on a song which is nearly as long as an eight hour day at work.

Wayne Coyne, Flaming Lips frontman, on Twitter said that band has been hard at work recording a song that is six hours long. No other details have been released about it other than that the song is very long. However links to the song previews have been posted on TwitVid. Enjoy!

Flaming Lips Book 2-Night Cemetary Gig in Hollywood

Flaming Lips Book 2-Night Cemetary Gig in Hollywood

The Flaming Lips shows in the cemetery, which have been dubbed “Everyone You Know Some Day Will Die” are scheduled to run in Los Angeles on June 14 and 15. The name of the concerts is derived from lyrics in the group’s 2002 hit song “Do You Realize” which is also known to be Oklahoma’s official rock song.

Many famous people are buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, including actors, composers, singers, directors, writers, cinematographers, and musicians. The cemetery is where Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Jayne Mansfield, Douglas Fairbanks, Cecil B. DeMille, and Rudolph Valentino are all buried.

The playlist for the June 14 concert will include the Flaming Lips’ 1999 album entitled The Soft Bulletin. The concert on June 15 will feature their rendition of the 1973 Pink Floyd album, The Dark Side of the Moon. This concert will bring to mind their 2009 album named The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon.

The group is also scheduled to tour in the United States beginning on May 13 and continuing until September 10. There are several concerts scheduled in Canada and Europe during this time as well.

The band is planning to appear at several festivals this spring, summer and fall. They will be at Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Festival on May 14; Gulf Shores, Alabama’s The Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival on May 21; Barcelona, Spain’s Miguel Primavera Sound on May 26; Quincy, Washington’s Sasquatch! Music Festival on May 29; Dublin, Ireland’s Forbidden Fruit Festival on June 4; Atlantic City, New Jersey’s Dave Matthews Band Caravan on June 24; and Raleigh, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Music Festival on September 10.

In addition to those dates, they will also be playing The Soft Bulletin on May 19 and 20 in Atlanta at The Tabernacle and on July 7 and 8 in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom.

And, although specifics have yet to be released, the Lips will also be performing The Dark Side Of The Moon at one of the performances at Chicago’s Dave Matthews Band Caravan on either July 9 or 10.

Two-day passes, priced at $80, to the “Everyone You Know Some Day Will Die” concerts are going to be on presale on Friday, May 6 via Ticketfly.com. One-day passes will go on sale the following day and will be priced at $40.

Only two tickets are allowed per household to the shows. Animals, chairs, tents, and coolers will not be allowed at the shows. In addition, fans will not be allowed to camp out overnight. Items that are allowed include blankets, beverages, food, and pillows.

Flaming Lips Pucker Up for Spring Concert Dates

Quirky rockers Flaming Lips will be hitting the road this month in support of last year’s release ‘Embryonic.’ The band will launch the tour on March 12 in Austin, Texas and carry through to the end of March before taking on some summer festival dates including Bonnaroo. Opening duties for the coming tour have fallen to Stardeath and the White Dwarfs whose lead singer just happens to be nephew of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.

The Flaming Lips latest original album ‘Embryonic’ was a double album, recorded with Dave Fridmann. In December, they also released a remake of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ which included vocals from the likes of Peaches and Henry Rollins. Originally, the work was only available in digital format, but the band has plans for a vinyl release on April 17 and to CD shelves May 4.

The full Flaming Lips tour schedule is listed below.

2010 Flaming Lips Concert Tour
March 2010
12 – Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall
13 – Denton, TX – Hickory Street Stage
15 – Charlottesville, VA – Charlottesville Pavilion
17 – Poughkeepsie, NY – Mid-Hudson Civic Center
18 – Ithaca, NY – Cornell University
19 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theatre
21 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
22 – Bloomington, IN – Indiana University Auditorium
23 – Kansas City, KS – Sandstone Amphitheatre

May 2010
15 – Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Music Festival

June 2010
6 – Houston, TX – Free Press Fest
11 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival

July 2010
3 – Oxford, ME – Nateva Music & Arts Festival
22 – Lewiston, NY – Artpark
26 – New York, NY – Central Park Summerstage