FLAMING LIPS IN MANCHESTER!

Non-Phish Shows/Meetups
#1

I’m sure no one else is going to this, but i figured this is probably the place for such an announcement…so…

i just received confirmation that i’ll be on the guest list (+1) to see:

THE FLAMING LIPS!!!

tonight at the Apollo theatre in Manchester, England.

my BOSS’S BROTHER works for a promotion company and is kynd enough to hook a brother up every now and then when i just NEED to hit a show. he has yet to let me down…i thought this may be the first time i got shut out and had sort of resigned my fate to stayin in tonight, but the MAN comes through in the end. wicked.

SO FUCKING STOKED I JUST HAD TO TELL YOU ALL

crazy photos to follow on the morrow

that is all

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

#2

Cant’ wait to read your review and see the pics. The LIPS are Oklahoma GODS!

#3

Yeah, i would love to see some pics…

I can’t wait to see the Lips for my first time this summer.

#4

I saw my first Flaming Lips show in a dingy dirty warehouse in Dallas IN 1987. The venue was called THEATRE GALLERY…it was an old theatre that hosted underground rock shows and had an avant garde art gallery in the front. Admission was 5 dollars. They played with two other Dallas bands from that time, END OVER END and the brilliant THREE ON A HILL.

I remember seeing Wayne and Michael sitting in the corner by their eqipment, chain smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes, drinking cup after cup of beer…they looked like freaks…long stringy hair and dishevelled clothing. Day glow shirts with eyeballs on fire. Really seedy looking dudes! As they set up their equipment, the chain-smoked cigarettes like mad…just totally smoking up the stage lights and atmosphere.

They were loud, obnoxious, noisy…and very very PSYCHEDELIC. I distinctly remember them playing ONE MILLION BILLIONTH OF A MILLISECOND and just being blown away by their textural punk/metal sound. Not to mention Wayne’s loud shredding guitar solos. They set a cymbal on fire at one point and smashed it. They brought in a motorcycle for the encore and filled the place with smoke and noise (as described in their documentary, THE FEARLESS FREAKS…eveidently, they did this a lot for their encore back then). I was just totally blown away by their brevity, intensity, and sheer originality.

I have been a fan since. I’ve seen them a total of 25 times in various places, with various lineups, at various times in their career. Each show eclipses the last for beauty and dynamics. Their last tour was brilliant…like a circus crossed with Pink Floyd and the Theatre of The Bizarre. I love them.

But that first show will always stick in my mind…

#5

that soundslike a sick show vern.

#6

Wow…

Vern, the way you described your first time seeing the Lips was pretty much exactly how I felt last night…obviously they’re much larger and more famous now, but that didn’t really matter… shit, even before the first note was played Wayne was already rolling around in his giant ball! (in fact it’s nice to see a band creatively invest their success back into their performance) and when they did start playing, well…EVERYONE there was utterly…well

EXACTLY!

the music was just as you described…completely over the top but nothing just for the sake of noise or out of place just to sound ‘punky’…man i can’t really describe it any better than you just did. They fucking rock.

I forget if I typed this last night or just thought it in my head, but these guys are my new favorite band to see live [bold statement given the setting and my complete obsession, but true until I hear ophishially of a return ;)].

well, i’m compiling my ‘yesterday’ into the day in the life thread, but here’s a taster:

http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c128/j…10434.flv

i will forever smile whenever i see a large orange balloon…

this one is my wallpaper at the moment:

whoa

shit, well this uploading shit is taking MUCH longer than expected and i’m in need of a few winks after last night…peace out peeps…much more to come ;D

#7

double double post post

i forgot to mention that those characters on either side of the stage were a bunch of santa clauses to the right and a bunch of aliens to the left…

wayne explained that they represented the fundamentalist christians way over there on the right and the scientologists way over there on the left…and that we (the band and the crowd) were somewhere in the middle…and that he was confident that WE would be victorious in the [color=orange][size=200]battle[/size] hint that was about to go down…

what a show.

#8

Did they do BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!!! They’ve been doing it a lot on this tour and their rendition is stunning…