Andy J Ryan Apr 25, 2023

Flaming Lips Hordern Pavilion - 28 July 2009

Honestly, it is impossible to describe a Flaming Lips concert with just mere words. If I was to say that three-quarters of the band entered the stage by means of being birthed through a magnesium-strength neon-strobing, pulsating big-screen vagina, and that singer Wayne Coyne emerged within a large-plastic space ball and rolled out atop and across the crowd, it probably wouldn’t mean anything to you unless you actually saw it. A Flaming Lips show isn’t really like any other concert though, its more a pre-packaged ninety-minute dose of aural and visual happiness stimulation. On one side of the stage jig a dozen or so exstatically chipper frog-costumed dancers, flanking the other white-cape-clad cat women, all abounds coloured balloons, confetti and streamer guns were launched over an already deliriously raptuous crowd, and all this before we’d even got to a chorus.