The Flaming Lips
THE FLAMING LIPS – Tour Dates 2026
The eccentric fairy-tale rockers THE FLAMING LIPS, led by their psychedelic
priest Wayne Coyne are around since 1983 (oh my, I had no clue it was that long).
They have fascinated their fans with 17 albums (so far).
As a longtime fan myself, I dare to say that their concerts are even better than their records, as I experienced once more last year in Antwerp, Belgium. A visual and sonic spectacle.
They just announced new tour dates for 2026.
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Photos by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, Belgium – June 2025
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 10 BEST CONCERTS OF 2025
Where: Wembley Stadium, London
When: 3 August 2025
Biblical.
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Where: Lokerse Feesten, Belgium
When: 5 August 2025
Still a dog with lust for life.
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Who: Post-punk misfits
from Brighton, UK
Where: Wintercircus in Ghent, Belgium.
When: 23 November 2025
Flabbergasting.
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Who: Future guitar pop
stars from Australia.
Where: Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium
When: 12 November 2025
Pop bliss.
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Who: British shoegaze celebs.
Where: L’Aeronef, Lille, France
When: 23 April 2025
Dreams in motion.
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Who: Oklahoma‘s pyschedelic
fairytale eccentrics.
Where: Roma, Antwerp, Belgium.
When: 30 May 2025
Surreal.
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Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Who: Welsh rock and pop heroes.
Where: Rock Zottegem Festival, Belgium
When: 12 July 2025
Melancholic pop manics.
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Band: HINDS
Who: Spanish guitar pop sheros.
Ecstatic.
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Who: Welsh noizz legends.
Where: Botanique Festival, Brussels, Belgium
When: 16 May 2025
Chop! Chop! Chop!
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Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: Welsh indie pop punk Amazons.
Where: Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
When: 19 November 2025
Party! Party! Party!
All photos by Turn Up The Volume
Image Of The Day – THE FLAMING LIPS 31 December 2025 In WASHINGTON D.C.
Psychedelic pop wizards THE FLAMING LIPS will play
a New Year‘s Eve concert in Washingthon D.C. tomorrow.
The show announcement on their social
media is vintage Lips. Showy and flashy.
Click and see.
Image Of The Day – Flaming Lip WAYNE COYNE And His Family
The Flaming Lips mastermind WAYNE COYNE
and his lovely family in their Xmas outfit.
I wonder if they walk the streets dressed like this.
THE FLAMING LIPS – Pyschedelic Eccentrics Impress (Again) With An Eye-And-Ear Catching Spectacle In ANTWERP BELGIUM
5 June 2025
Every single time I saw THE FLAMING LIPS perform (about 10 times now) it was a special spectacle, visually and sonically. And the over the years expanding visual attractions that fit the theatrical music perfectly, make every concert, an even more spiritual and unforgettable experience.
Exactly what happened again last Friday in Antwerp, Belgium when the Lips played their magical 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full, followed by a fan favorites set.
The whole bombastic extravaganza includes two huge (plastic) pink robots, massive confetti raining, multi-colored balloons, a lasers-directed light show, gigantic eyeballs, goblins, puppets, an inflatable rainbow and lost of other bedazzling attributes. In the middle of it all, glam & glitter magician Wayne Coyne, conducts the psychedelic rock opera.
He doesn’t stop to encourage the willing audience to scream, scream and just scream.
His keyword is LOVE. “Scream it, c’mon, scream it”. Get the loud picture? I bet you have.
The Lips are all about putting on a carnival-esque, ear-and-eye catching raree-show
filled with orchestral epicness, ecstatic highs and 60s cinematic romanticism where demons and dragons get floored and love conquers all. It’s phenomenally entertaining
and extremely mind-boosting. I only saw happy faces, and adrenaline-elated, dancing people. MAGIC! PURE MAGIC! Come back soon.
The set’s fantastic closer.
Part 1 – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album in full
Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2
In the Morning of the Magicians
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Are You a Hypnotist??
It’s Summertime
Do You Realize??
All We Have Is Now
Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
Part 2
She Don’t Use Jelly
Flowers of Neptune 6
The Spark That Bled
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
Waitin’ for a Superman
The Golden Path
(The Chemical Brothers cover)
Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
Encores
True Love Will Find You in the End
(Daniel Johnston cover)
Race for the Prize
All photos by Turn Up The Volume
BEN KWELLER And THE FLAMING LIPS Get Together For Heartbreaking Ballad ‘KILLER BEE’ For The Late 17 Year Young Talent NELL SMITH
Reveries for Sundays
4 May 2025
Artist: BEN KWELLER
Who: Renowned San Francisco-born
singer-songwriter.
Track: KILLER BEE
Last year, highly talented 17-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter
Nell Smith, was hit by fatal fate, when she died in a car crash accident.
A couple of years ago, as a dedicated The Flaming Lips fan she got in contact
with the Oklahoma band and they recorded a Nick Cave covers album together
in 2021, she was just 14. Her solo album Anxious was posthumously released
2 weeks ago.
Unfortunately, Kweller knows the pain of losing a teenage child. His 16-year old son
also passed away after a car accident. It happened two years ago. Via the Flaming Lips,
Ben met Nell‘s family, and afterward he wrote this goosebumps song for her. It’ll be on
his new album Cover The Mirrors, that appears on 23rd May, on his lost son’s birthday.
Heartbreaking.
BEN KWELLER Dedicates New Ballad ‘KILLER BEE’ To The Unfortunate 17-Year Old Songstress NELL SMITH
13 April 2025
Press
Back in 2021, highly skilled UK-born and US-based, musical teenager NELL SMITH recorded at the age of 13-year an album, named Where The Viaduct Looms with Oklahoma’s eccentric legends The Flaming Lips.
Frontman Wayne Coyne spotted her at one point as she attended several gigs with her father. They got in touch with each other and after Coyne found out that she’s a singer he proposed her to work with the band on a Nick Cave tribute album he already had in mind for some time.
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Last October, the worst happened when Nell died in a vehicle motor crash,
only 17. Her debut LP, titled Anxious was released posthumously last Friday.
Also now, San Francisco songsmith BEN KWELLER has shared a goosebumps ballad, named KILLER BEE. A track from his upcoming 7th full-length Cover The Mirrors. It features backing vocals by The Flaming Lips.
His first new music since the sudden passing
of his 16-year-old son Dorian Zev in 2023.
Kweller: “Today we release the song ‘Killer Bee’ in memory of Nell Smith. Nell was
a gifted artist who marched to the beat of her own drum. Like my son Dorian, she was
taken from us out of nowhere, driving alone, freak car accident, 17 years old. Grief makes
us feel isolated and the weight seems too heavy to carry alone. Community reunites and
lifts us up. Love on your people today and every day.”
Heartbreaking.
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THE FLAMING LIPS And MODEST MOUSE Join Arms For American Summer Tour
26 March 2025
Two major, longtime-running indie giants THE FLAMING LIPS (16 LPs) and MODEST MOUSE (7 LPs) will go on the road together this summer. Before that The Lips come to Europe, UK and Ireland to play their magnificent 10th album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full.
Wayne Coyne, frontman The Flaming Lips in Amsterdam – photo by Turn Up The Volume
SUMMER TOUR DATES
8/01 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
8/02 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
8/03 – Richmond, VA @ Brown’s Island
8/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for the Performing Arts
8/07 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
8/08 – New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl
8/09 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
8/11 – Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater
8/12 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
8/14 – Madison, WI @ Breese Stevens Field
8/15 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
8/16 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed – Fairgrounds
8/19 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
8/20 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
9/03 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
9/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
9/05 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
9/07 – Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre
9/10-11 – Troutdale, OR @ McMenamins Edgefield
THE FLAMING LIPS Will Fight The Pink Robots In UK/Ireland And Europe In 2025
31 December 2024
Amsterdam, 2018 – photo by TUTV
Oklahoma‘s psych-rock heroes THE FLAMING LIPS‘ 10th longplayer YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS turned 20, already two years ago, but they still keep on celebrating the anniversary. They did it in the US last and this year and in 2025 UK/Ireland/Europe will enjoy the Lips‘ spectacular live rhapsody.
The Flaming Lips are among my all-time favorite bands (on/off stage),
so I just bought my first concert ticket (Antwerp, Belgium) for 2025
UK/Ireland
EUROPE
ALBUM
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The Lips: Instagram – Spotify