Archived News Relating To The Flaming Lips
| Date | News | Source | Probability/Comment |
| 21 March (98) | Rumored to open for the OKC boombox show is tyson meade of the chainsaw kittens doing an acoustic show... | Tyler | could be kinda cool! |
| 20 March (98) | More dates - see the tour news page for details... | George | Be quick, stuff is selling out. |
| 13 March (98) | lips bbx at chicago metro 4/17 - on sale this sat. at 10 am. | Scott Judd | Sorry I didn't know earlier... |
| 5 March (98) | Just wanted to write and let all of you know how the show went in portland
oregon, monday march 6. It was at the crystal ballroom which is a big restored
dance hall probaly the nicest place they have played! It was 40 boomboxes
(20 on each side) with wayne conducting the right side and steven on the
left michael was in the middle running the soundboard. It went off without a hitch with wayne and steven really giving brillant proformances the set list was 1. test; 2. test; 3. the big ol'bug is the new baby now; 4. a winters day car accident melody; 5. realising the speed of life; 6. heralding in a better ego; 7. altruism (that's the crotch calling the devil black). any of you feel free to write... |
Standard7@aol.com | Two new songs to the Boombox Experiments there (6 & 7) - although Altruism has been performed in a different version at some of the Parking Lot Experiments... |
| 3 March (98) | Steven did do some demos with Kim Deal, and is probably recording soonish... | Out There | Should be interesting. |
| 2 March (98) | Addicted To Noise has a report on the San Francisco boom box experiment. | Sean McCoy | It sounds pretty good.... |
| 21 February (98) | Steven has apparently done some recording with Ms Deal... Also, note that the new album may be a while longer than expected in its appearance. |
Notyep | Matt says that, apparently, the new album might not be out until the end of the year, or even next year! |
| 17 February (98) | The London Boombox Experiment will be at the Forum on the 16th of May, and will cost ya a well spent £9.50 to get in. | Melanie | You gotta be there if you're in England - lots of exciting people will be.... |
| 16 February (98) | More new album news... the band just came back from the studio with a couple more new tunes ('Buggin'', 'Suddenly Everything Has Changed') and another version of one they did before ('1000ft Hands'). | Scott Booker | By my calculations, the band have now created a total of 15 tracks (including some 4 mixed down versions
of some stuff from Zaireeka). Suffice to say, it's not far from done now - but they gotta decide what to use and what to leave behind..... those already talked about on this page will (bar the Zaireeka songs) most likely be on there. |
| 15 February (98) | Steven is currently off practicing with Kim Deal... writing a few songs, maybe for Kim's next album. | Around | Not sure what this is for... maybe a new Breeders thing, maybe something else entirely. Maybe not actually anything at all. Possibilites, eventualities...... |
| 12 February (98) | Look out for a new compilation on Restless records of older Lips stuff, coming sometime this year. | Someone | This will have a few rarely heard extra moments and so forth - a lot of em are flying around on tapes, but this promises to be a nice package with all cool stuff on it. So, for those of you without the Sub Pop single - worry no longer! |
| 10 February (98) | For those fo you in the UK unable to find Zaireeka as of yet, rest easy... Warner Bros UK will be bringing a few into the country in the next three weeks or so! | Scott Booker | It may even eventually get a full release here - vote with yer feet! |
| 9 February (98) | The Portland show is at the CRYSTAL BALLROOM on Mon. March 2. Each show is
$8.00 admission. Boombox operators will be a mix of audience members and
"invited guests". If anyone has questions about the shows they can email
me. jason fitzgerald: showbox1@email.msn.com |
Showbox (Jason Fitzgerald) | Don't miss out kids - it might not be happening forever you know..... |
| 8 February (98) | The Boombox Experiments are heading to England... In early May, the Forum in London will be hosting the UK's first Boombox Experiment. No details as such at the moment but it's set to be something of an event.... |
Scott Booker | I may have to set up a page especially for this show... so you can see exactly who'll be operating what boombox..... |
| 7 February (98) | The band are back at Tarbox Road doing some more work on the new album. | Dave Fridmann's morning news | When this is finished, you'll be impressed. A lot. |
| 5 February (98) | News on the San Francisco Boombox Experiment:
"The show was listed this week in the paper. It's Saturday 2/28 at Bimbos. |
Roger Anderson | Roger says, "Their address is 1025 Columbus @ Chestnut St. It's in North Beach. Phone is (415) 474-0365. It holds around 300 I think, I'm sure it'll sell out w/in the next couple weeks." |
| 4 February (98) | Some articles for y'all to check out:
Dallas Observer. |
Matthew K. Whittaker/Sean McCoy | More stuff to check out... will eventually be in the press links page (when I get it done!) |
| 30 January (98) | Richard Davies releases his second solo album since the demise of Cardinal with Eric Matthews. 'Telegraph' comes out on March 23rd, co-produced by Ronald Jones (formerly of the Flaming Lips), and Richard visits the UK for a one off London show on February 19th at 100 Club. | Scott Traffas | Ronald played guitar on the album, but parted company with Richard shortly before the project was completed. |
| 27 January (98) | Yes, the LIPS will be performing the BOOMBOX EXPERIMENTS in Portland, Oregon on TUES. MARCH 2 (venue is still TBA) and Seattle, Wash. on WED. MARCH 3 (The SHOWBOX Theatre) | Jason Fitzgerald | These will be similar to the last Boombox Experiment in Norman, OK. There will be 40 Boomboxes and one PA, as before... |
| 21 January (98) | Non-official news on the Boombox show in San Francisco: It will happen at Bimbo's on Columbus St, Saturday February 28th. |
Scott (not Booker) | This will (apparently) have 60 boomboxes. |
| 19 January (98) | Latest news on the proposed San Francisco Boombox Experiment: "99% sure that is happening on the 28th as well as March 2 in Portland and March 3 in Seattle..." | Scott Booker | The newest show on earth is indeed hitting the road for what is, presumably, a test tour... |
| 16 January (98) | Seeing as y'all keep asking, Zaireeka will AT NO STAGE be issued as a one CD album. PERIOD. Two songs will appear on the next album (due March-ish time) but that's it for now. | Me (Drew) | Just making it clear so I don't have to answer any more email on it... The reason it'll never happen is that there really is no point - it defeats the object of presenting music in a new format. That format is supposed to be a true listening experience that you become involved in more than you might do usually. Of course no-one really owns four CD players, but get your friends round and really get into it. Something this cool may never happen again.... |
| 15 January (98) | I've just added a gadget! You can now sign the 'guestbook' for this site. I want it to be more of a posting board if you wanna use one... | Me (Drew) | Well, it saves me answering all the questions by email!!! And it should be fun.... If you just wanna view it, that's possible too! |
| 14 January (98) | The (new conventional) album is nearly complete - they're into the final mixing stage... This will feature mixed down, and changed, versions of 2025 and OK, I'll Admit It. |
Scott Booker | From what I know (and heard back last summer) this is gonna sort you out.... It's VERY different, and EVEN MORE cool...
I know that some of the other songs (tentatively titled) include: Full report to follow! |
| 11 January (98) | I didn't see a Lips tour page but thought I'd let you know they're gonna be playing at the Noise-Pop Festival here on Saturday, Feb. 28. It's gonna be the Boombox Experiment. They'll be playing as The Flaming Lips Experiment. I'll let you know how it goes. Bye. | Roger from San Francisco | Ahh.. so it begins..... |
| 8 January (98) | Joe Janecek has finished his Flaming Lips site - this concentrates on recent happenings and progress..... you can find it here. | Joe Janecek | There's already links to this, but Joe's tied it all up quite nicely now... a much more understated and tasteful world than that which you find here.... |
| 2 January (98) | Zaireeka seems to finally have got some attention in the UK. NME reviewed it, gave it 10 out of 10 and 3/4 of a page. The word genius was used twice. Huzzah! Keith Cameron wrote the review, and it appears on page 32 of the New Musical Express in the issue dated 3 January 1998. | Me (Drew) | Here's a coupla quick quotes, must ask Mr Cameron if I can print lots of it....
"The song titles alone betray the presence of visionaries..." |
| 16 December (97) | Here's a little
site documenting The Boom Box Experiment No.3 The snapshot page may change as more photos come in. |
George Salisbury (Particle Design) | This puts some images to the words..... nice one! Great site too.. naturally - George, of course, did the design for yer Zaireeka |
| 14 December (97) | Drew...I thought they had taken it to the limit...I thought the boys were through...I thought Zaireeka was the tip of their career there was no way in hell that I thought they could pull something even more amazing off...well lets just say they did and this next stuff has soooooo much potential that who knows where they are going to go with it... | Tyler Ley | That's part of a review of the boombox experiment... Now I have four reviews of this so it's new menu time!! |
| 13 December (97) | Here's a link to an animated version of the boombox flyer Plus download the handout from the event, as a pdf file |
George Salisbury (Particle Design) | This is fun, and get the pdf - very interesting reading (commentary from Wayne, and so on) that you'll need Adobe Acrobat to read.... |
| 6 December (97) | Boom Box Experiment #3 -- Norman, OK 12-13-97 A smaller version of this was conducted at VZD's in OKC about two weeks ago, my friend told me that it was a combination of the Parking Lot experiments and the Zaireeka discs. From what I understand the upcoming experiment will involve 100 people who are to play tapes in seperate boom-boxes. I believe the room will be split into two groups of fifty, conducted by Wayne and Steven. |
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