by Heather Nash and Andrew Trendell | Photos by Robbie Jay Barratt
16 crazy photos of Flaming Lips at Liverpool Sound City
Check out the best shots from Flaming Lips' colourful set
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23 May, 2015: The Flaming Lips dazzle Liverpool with an incredible mind-melting set of space-rock and fantasy. Check out our stunning, exclusive photos from the show here.
"Come on, motherfuckers," teases Wayne Coyne as he stalks the stage in his frogsuit during a seemingly never-ending soundcheck. The sun sets and drones fly overhead as swathes on Liverpudlians in the true Saturday Scouse spirit start baying for action. Kicking off with 'The Abandoned Hospital Ship' into 'Fight Test', all that follows is a carnival of colour and celebration of life, complete with crowdsurfing in a balloon and even an on-stage marriage proposal. Masses sway and weep to 'A Spoonful Weighs A Ton' and 'Do You Realize', flanked by monsters and robots. It's a fantasy spectacle of freedom, one that hometown boys The Beatles would have been proud of. As the chorus of Coyne's balloon of 'fuck yeah Liverpool' is repeated well into the early hours, tonight alone is proof that all you need is love.
Flaming Lips played:
The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Fight Test
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
Vein of Stars
Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
Encore:
Do You Realize??