Archived News Relating To The Flaming Lips |
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| 26 July 2000 Me |
For those wondering why the band didn't appear at the Rockwave Festival in Greece a couple
of weeks ago, this was because the show was cancelled for a brief time period and by the time
the Lips were told it was back on they had already changed their flights and made alternative
plans.
I guess the brief 'cancellation' was to do with the freaky heatwave weather they've been having. Or possibly fall-out from the Roskilde situation? Anyway, the band are genuinely sorry if anyone was disappointed they couldn't make it in the end. |
| 19 July 2000 Bradley Beesley |
The Flaming Lips Have Landed, has been selected for screening at the
7th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
The festival will be held August 18-24 at The Fine Arts Theater, 418 South Michigan
Ave. Screening time for the Lips documentary: Sunday August 20 4:30pm
This year the festival received nearly 1,100 submissions.... |
| 19 July 2000 Geoff |
News on that DVD business - for the details of the latest rumours, go to
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/00-07/18.shtml
There's not actually a date here, so you'll just have to wait a little longer for that. |
| 18 July 2000 Scott Booker |
Summer Festival update - there will be a show at a festival in France on 11 August. Not many details on this one yet, but they'll come.... keep your eye on the tour news. |
| 11 July 2000 Me |
This weeks rumours: David Holmes did a remix of some Lips track or other Steven is opening a sports injury clinic Zaireeka is definitely/probably/possibly coming out on DVD this year The next US tour will involve livestock onstage, a la ZZ Top in the late 70s I'm thinking about opening a book on that little lot. |
| 1 July 2000 Me |
Check the new issue of Select - Wayne is in there talking about his favourite records, and how
he keeps the 'Wizard of Oz' Soundtrack in a prominent place so he can rescue it in the case of
fire.
You should also check out the recent cover story in Magnet - pretty informative and refreshingly accurate!! |
| 24 June 2000 Me |
A reminder that you can check out Bradley Beesley's documentary,
"The Flaming Lips Have Landed" at Campusvibe.
People have been saying great things about this - check out the info at the Norman Transcript
and read this letter to Bradley: Hi- I'm Steven Garnett from Orlando, and a writer for Ink19.com covering the Florida Film Festival. Wanted you to know that the Flaming Lips Have Landed had folks cheering at Saturday's Midnite Shorts series. Outstanding work. Having seen them play in '87 and '88, it was cool to see transformation documented. If only they'd bring their latest gig to Central Florida... Thanks for making the film. Steven Garnett Check out Ink19.com - it's pretty interesting... |
| 24 June 2000 Me |
Glastonbury went well - big crowd at the Tent In The Middle Of Nowhere (NME reported the Lips
as savng the day at the 'New Bands Tent'). Also, word on the Race remix is that it's kinda
disco - crazy and more than a little bit fun!!
No details on release of the remix yet - still maybe coming in August... the new song is good too - very mellow. |
| 21 June 2000 Me |
James says, "The Flaming Lips have contributed music to the film DEAN QUIXOTE."
No details but other artists who have music in the picture include: Olivia Tremor Control, Apples In Stereo, Pavement, the Minders check out http://www.deanquixote.com |
| 19 June 2000 Me |
This from Dave Fridmann's site: "June 16, 2000 Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev
at Tarbox Road Studios recording a remix of Race For The Prize for UK radio.
The Flaming Lips worked on a B-side for the Flaming Lips single called
Summertime."
Don't know much about this except that a remix has been talked about for a while, maybe coming in August. |
| 13 June 2000 Me |
Select says this site is #13 Music Site out there. Cool huh? Well, it'll be a lot better if I ever get around to fixing it and adding the backlog of pictures, links, and the UK1999 tour minisite. Ah well. |
| 11 June 2000 Me |
Who's been watching BBC1s Euro 2000 football coverage?? Recognise that song in the background
when they do the first montage in the program? Yep.... Race For The Prize. I never thought I'd see that day. |
| 7 June 2000 Scott Booker |
The Flaming Lips will hopefully be playing a Halloween show in OKC this year - the weekend just
before Halloween (which is on a Tuesday this year I think). Not only that, but they're aiming to
do US dates throughout the preceeding month, starting around about 28 September.
I think the Make-Up are a possibility to open for these shows, if it all gets sorted out. Dates and details will come when there's something concrete to tell.... |
| 2 June 2000 Me |
Some news on earlier rumours - yes there are some plans to try and make a Christmas
record, starting this year. Wayne wants to do an entire album with music by the band and
'celebrities' doing the vocals/telling stories - most of the songs would be 'holiday standards'.
There have been all sorts of suggested names flying around from the outside world, but
a lot of them are way off the mark... it's all still in the sorting out stage right now,
so you'll just have to wait and see!
We'll tell you more as and when things get sorted out - but rest assured it's going to be very interesting... |
| 29 May 2000 Scott Booker |
The Lips will be appearing at the Summersonic Festival in Japan. 5 August in Fuji (Tokyo)and
6 August in Osaka.
See tour news page for full list of summer dates. |
| 23 May 2000 Scott Booker |
Some Swedish dates, while the guys are in the area: Malmo on 3 July and Stockholm on 5 July There's more touring to come too... watch this space.... |
| 20 May 2000 Scott Booker |
More Euro festival appointments for the Lips: Werchter Festival, Belgium (30 June) Quart Festival, Norway (6 July) Rockwave Festival, Greece (12 July) See tour news page for full list of summer dates. |
| 16 May 2000 Me |
Round-up of the top 5 current Flaming Lips rumours: 5) There's going to be an orchestral show sometime in the next few months. The variation of this rumour being the one about the 5-piece band with more guitar and live drums. 4) There's going to be a Flaming Lips Xmas EP this year. 3) MABD2 is going to happen in September. Bands suggested to be appearing are: Super Furry Animals, Six By Seven, Yoshimi, Wheat, Squarepusher, Home, Add N To X, Broadcast, Mogwai, Bonnie Prince Billy and Mercury Rev. 2) Wayne is going to put his proposed film into production later this year. The one about the first Christmas on a newly colonised Mars. 1) Race For The Prize is going to be remixed by a Beastie Boy and released in the UK this summer. You know, some of the above could even be true, but then it's always so hard to tell.... nothing from the official sources yet, so I wouldn't hold yer breath too long. Still, if any of them happen to be true, you heard it here first!! |
| 13 May 2000 Me |
Rocking show at the very sold out Royal Festival Hall last night: balloons everywhere
during Jelly and plenty of delerious people all round. Support from Wheat and Built
To Spill was good too. Present were songwriting legend Lee Hazelwood and minor indie pop
luminaries like Stephen Jones (Babybird), Pete Voss (Campag Velocet), and some bloke
out of Embrace.
The aftershow party featured a suitably insane mariachi band. Happy Birthday City Slang! |
| 11 May 2000 Me |
Site maintenance is back online as of today - I have a place to live again. To celebrate,
Entertainment Weekly reviewed the site in the 12 May edition. We got an A-. Not bad eh?
I was lying about the celebration bit. But it was a happy coincidence.... |
| 1 May 2000 Me |
The band will be doing a few dates in Scandanavia and so on, inbetween Roskilde and T in the Park.
No details yet - keep an eye on the tour dates page for info. |
| 26 April 2000 Me |
The Flaming Lips will be appearing at the T in the Park festival at Kinross, in Scotland on 9 July.
Go to the tour dates page for other festival info. |
| 7 April 2000 Eric Morrison |
HOME will be the opening act for the Hamburg, Cologne and Amsterdam shows in May.
While on the subject of live stuff, Pop-Culture-Corn Magazine did a live review |
| 7 April 2000 Me |
The band will headline the 'New Bands Tent' at Glastonbury 2000 this year. This will be on
the Saturday night, and comes a week before they play at the Roskilde Festival.
They're in the New Bands Tent because they need a covered area in order for the screen to be fully effective... |
| 7 April 2000 Bradley Beesley |
"We shot the Cubby Bear show in Chicago last month. It was a four camera shoot
with a switcher and all that jazz. It looks and sound neato! It will be webcast by
campusvibe.com starting April 10th. Also of note, campusvibe.com will be streaming the 30 minute documentary 'The Flaming Lips Have Landed'. They have ads running in several college newspapers and next week the ad can be seen in Billboard." 'The Flaming Lips Have Landed' screened twice at this years SXSW Film Festival. Apparently it went down well... you can see some reviews at indiewire. |
| 5 April 2000 Scott Booker |
"Watch CNN Headline news - they are showing a bit about us on the news..."
Apparently this is being shown at 53 mins past the hour at the moment (CNN repeats stories continuously) and there's some kind of internet story too.... |
| 3 April 2000 Me |
This month's Q has a list of "The 100 Greatest Acts of Rock'n'Roll Folly: A Celebration" -
The Lips make it in at No 30 with releasing Zaireeka.......
This feature is a mix of complimentary and derisory - the Lips get a nice bit, Michael Jackson (at No 6 - apes Christ at the Brit Awards; at No 1 - sails giant statue of himself down the Thames) gets some serious hatchet... |
| 31 March 2000 Me |
For those thinking about V2000, the Lips play Chelmsford on the Saturday (19 August), and
Weston Park (Staffordshire) on the Sunday (20 August).
If you're looking for camping, check out: http://vcamping.co.uk... |
| 22 March 2000 Scott Booker |
For those fans wanting to go to the Boston show, the show is FREE!
All you have to do is get a card from WFNX to get in. The way to do
that is to go to www.fnxradio.com and fill out
the form and they will mail you a card... Simple."
I think the venue is pretty small, so get on the case! |
| 22 March 2000 Scott Booker |
Some more European Dates have been set up. These dates precede the festival season - the band will be going home inbetween! |
| 21 March 2000 Jason Fitzgerald |
"On 3/24/00, The Flaming Lips will be Webcast live from the Showbox in Seattle: web
address of broadcast: www.realguide.com (head for
the music page on the site) Also, there will be a 15 minute interview broadcast approximately at 5:30 pm PST (Lips show broadcast at 7:45 - 9:00 pm PST)" The details are subject to change, so keep yer eyes peeled... |
| 21 March 2000 Randy Bookasta |
"You might want to check out this little video feature AtomicPop.com did with
Wayne Coyne. It's avaialable to view on Atomic Pop at:
http://atomicpop.com/atomictv/APTVxray-archive.html"
Yet more good stuff from out there in the ether! |
| 15 March 2000 Me |
For those in the US (well, certain bits of them), you could really help out the Flaming
Lips by getting onto your local radio station and requesting they play the Lips!! Try:
KGSR; Austin, TX - Phone: 512-390-5477 email: jdenberg@kgsr.com
Important: don't go emailing all of these with one email or anything
like that - spam requests of that kind are never welcome! |
| 13 March 2000 Scott Booker |
The rest of the tour dates have now been confirmed. See
tour news for details. There are a few venues at the end to be totally confirmed, but the dates are all happening! |
| 8 March 2000 David Thorpe |
For those in the UK, the Lips performance for 'UK Live' (originally broadcast on Japanese Fuji
TV) is airing on ITV2 this Thursday 9 March at 5pm. This was the free show at the Astoria last October... |
| 7 March 2000 George |
Re: the short film at SXSW - "The Flaming Lips Have Landed" - showtimes George says this should be up on www.campusvibe.com soon too, along with footage of the Chicago show. |
| 6 March 2000 Me |
For those asking about Headphones on the current
tour, there will be 150 pairs of headphones for use at each of the
shows.... so get there early!! If you decide to bring your own, you'll need an FM receiver and some 'open' headphones that don't cover/totally block your ears - you want to hear the PA mix as well as the broadcast one, for maximum effect.... |
| 5 March 2000 George |
An appeal regarding the upcoming tour:
"Bring hand puppets and/or wear costumes to the shows! Make it an event! ...and let everybody
know ...ray guns, moon jumps, balloons, flowers, whatever... go nuts."
This began in London, then OKC and George says there was lots more going on in Japan. It makes it a really cool atmosphere - so get in the party spirit!! |
| 3 March 2000 Joe Wilkie |
Joe went up to Chigago with the Lips last week for the Cubby Bear show and the
WGN television show, "They did the WGN morning show at 7 AM. They played
Superman as well as all of the outro spots to commercials. Everyone was
amazed with the band's performance. People were especially interested in
Wayne's use of the Theremin. The performance was pretty scaled down with no
backing tape or video projection. Lips collectors will definitely want to
get a copy of this."
Scour thy friends' video collections.... |
| 3 March 2000 Joe Wilkie |
Joe went up to Chigago with the Lips last week for the Cubby Bear show and the
WGN television show, "They did the WGN morning show at 7 AM. They played
Superman as well as all of the outro spots to commercials. Everyone was
amazed with the band's performance. People were especially interested in
Wayne's use of the Theremin. The performance was pretty scaled down with no
backing tape or video projection. Lips collectors will definitely want to
get a copy of this."
Scour thy friends' video collections.... |
| 27 February 2000 Scott Booker |
Conan O'Brien show on March 3rd!!
This was recorded on Friday 25 February - they're playing Waitin' For A Superman |
| 26 February 2000 Me |
The Webcast is running another week, until 3 March.
Note that streaming quality will vary according to your connection, load etc. If it doesn't work too well, try going back at a quieter time!! |
| 25 February 2000 Scott Booker |
More tour dates.
There will be more in due course; Scott is working on finalising the rest of the dates. |
| 24 February 2000 George |
News of some irons in the fire: "This Saturday, Bradley (Beesley, creator of the Toyota webcast) and I are flying up to the Chicago show to video the whole [show at Cubby Bear]. The footage should end up on campusvibe.com & a short film for SXSW!!! - details later..." I also hear that George is working on another CR-ROM... what, though, I have no idea! |
| 21 February 2000 George |
The Webcast is running now via the following URLs:
http://www.wbr.com/flaminglips/isthistoyota/
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ Tell your friends!!! You will need QUICKTIME 4! - see http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ |
| 14 February 2000 Me |
The Oklahoma City show that was recorded on 5 February is being
Webcast from 18 February to 25 February, 24 hours a day.... go to
http://www.flaminglips.com/isthistoyota
to get linked up!
This was a great show by all accounts, so I think you'll be liking the webcast.... meantime, the site may go quiet for the next week or so. Unavoidable interruption in service! |
| 11 February 2000 Joe Janecek |
Some dates for the first leg of the US tour...
Not sure how totally confirmed these are. More as it comes... |
| 6 February 2000 Me |
There's a webchat with Wayne tomorrow, 7 February, at Yahoo! chat.
See Launch for details - it begins
7.30pm EST.
You need to sign up for the Yahoo! stuff beforehand, so don't leave it too late!!! |
| 1 February 2000 Me |
Today at the NME Awards show the band picked up two gongs for best
album - one voted by the NME critics, one by the NME readers.
Pictures will follow.... |
| 30 January 2000 Me |
The NME Awards show will be webcast
on Tuesday 1st February (this week!) at 3pm GMT.
I've been hearing rumours - the Lips have a central table, and you may wish to tune in to see this..... |
| 19 January 2000 Me |
See NME today for
Readers' Poll shortlists - the Flaming Lips have been nominated for Best Live
Act and Best LP in 1999.
The NME Brat Awards are on 1 February. We shall see what occurs! |
| 18 January 2000 Particle |
The lips are going to tape a show Feb 5th here in
OKC at Will Rogers... it's for a webcast.
Rest of the info as it comes. Rumours are flying about that this may be a show with a 5-piece band. |
| 17 January 2000 Scott Booker |
The release date for the US CD5 of "Waitin' For A
Superman" is now 8 February.
As previously mentioned, this comes with all three versions of the title track, as well as STEREO mixes of "Riding To Work In 2025" and "35,000ft Of Despair". PLUS both Superman videos AND the "Race For The Prize" and "Be My Head" videos. |
| 9 January 2000 Joe Janecek |
Check out the cover story interview with Wayne
at Addicted to Noise. It's very interesting, despite the odd factual editorial error! I almost forgot - the Lips did rather well in the Amazon end of year ratings too - #4 album and Artists of the year!! |
| 9 January 2000 Adam Ramadan |
Adam has set up the newsgroup alt.music.flaming-lips so get on
over and do some discussing!!
Sorry for the break in service... been wrapped up in a trip home to Lincoln! |
| 20 December 1999 Me |
The Xmas double issue of the NME came out today. The Flaming Lips at number one in the
albums of the year with The Soft Bulletin. Amusing
comments from Wayne feature alongside.
It's about time eh?? Keep voting in the NME readers poll too!! |
| 13 December 1999 Me |
Guestbook back online again folks. All old entries were lost,
Guestworld extend their apologies. Such is life. I will fix the backdrop etc in due course. |
| 13 December 1999 Michael Ivins |
"Everything went splendidly well in Japan. Soon, we get to slow
down and relax round the Christmas tree as soon as we get home."
Emails to me suggest it was loved by all. Nice. |
| 11 December 1999 Me |
I've been magazine-spotting. The Lips are doing pretty well in
the end of year polls. So far: 1st in Uncut; 3rd in Select; in Top 50 in Q (no ranks there,
just alphabetical Top 50); 7th in Spin.
Rumour has it that it's gonna be number 1 in NME too - the big one over here in the UK... |
| 5 December 1999 Me |
The Guestbook is having some problems at the moment.
This seems to be a problem with the Guestworld server.
Nothing I can do about this one... sorry folks! But I did make it easier to
join the Onelist email group. I think.
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