There are few acts as distinctive and idiosyncratic as The Flaming Lips, which is less of a rock band and more a perpetual motion machine flipping the finder to our expectations. But even in a 36-year career of self-reinvention, this 1999 release stands out as a high point in musical innovation.

Led by charismatic frontman Wayne Coyne, this 20th anniversary concert will see The Soft Bulletin performed live, and given the band’s penchant for performances as unexpected as their songs, we’re ready for anything.

The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin live performance
28 September 2019
Fortutude Music Hall, Brisbane
www.flaminglips.com

The Flaming Lips, headed up by enigmatic front-man Wayne Coyne, are no strangers to Australia; their most recent trip was in 2012/13 to headline Falls Festival and Southbound. Undoubtedly a festival favourite, they have headlined a number of major music festivals in Australia such as Splendour In The Grass, Big Day Out and Harvest, plus a string of major international festivals including Iceland Airwaves, Coachella, Lollapolooza, Firefly, Primavera Sound, Sasquatch! and Hopscotch, to name a few.

Rolling Stone declared of their 2014 Iceland Airwaves performance “The Lips prize audience participation in a way many bands promise but few deliver… Coyne took his traditional see-through-sphere ride beyond the stage, rolling across a tide of hands to the back, and donned a billowing, silver cape… The foil was rolled out through the audience which grasped and shook it, creating a turbulent sea of shimmer in front of Coyne, who was literally in it up to his neck, singing like an excited, disembodied pharoah.”

Best known for their hit singles ‘Do You Realize??’ and ‘She Don’t Use Jelly’, The Flaming Lips have released more than 16 albums including acclaimed ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ (2001) and ’Embryonic’ (2009) and have collaborated with innovative artists from Nick Cave, Yoko Ono, Henry Rollins, Peaches, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Sean Lennon, and Erykah Badu to the recent 2015 MTV Video Music Awards performance with close friend Miley Cyrus.

The group’s latest studio album is 2014’s With a Little Help from My Fwends, which is a track-for-track tribute to The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Prior to that, The Flaming Lips’ latest all-original album is 2013’s The Terror.

Don’t miss your chance to catch The Flaming Lips’ only Australian headline show at the iconic Palais Theatre, Friday January 8, 2016!

The Flaming Lips Australian Tour
Friday 8th January – Melbourne, Palais Theatre
Saturday 9th January – Sydney, The Domain
Friday 15th January – Hobart, MONA FOMA
www.flaminglips.warnerbrosrecords.com