The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips @ Westville Music Bowl, New Haven, US, August 8, 2025,
Aug 10, 2025
Pictures by Matthew Berlyant
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After a number of years of touring the world for a number of years for the twentieth (now nearer to twenty fifth!) anniversary of their landmark 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips got here again to the East Coast on a co-headlining tour with fellow ‘90s/’00s indie-rock survivors Modest Mouse on a ravishing night time in New Haven.
On this night time, The Flaming Lips headlined and performed a short-ish however very satisfying, career-spanning set. Opening with the instrumental “Sleeping on the Roof,” they touched on every thing from 1989’s In a Priest Pushed Ambulance (“5 Cease Mom Superior Rain”) to their largest chart hit (“She Don’t Use Jelly” from 1993’s Transmissions from the Satellite tv for pc Coronary heart) alongside a number of different songs from their 1999 magnum opus The Smooth Bulletin (specifically “Waitin for a Superman”) and 2006’s At Struggle with the Mystics (“The Yeah Yeah Yeah Tune”).
Along with picks from their catalogue, the band performed “The Golden Path,” their 2003 Chemical Brothers collaboration, earlier than saving one thing much more particular for his or her encore. Paying tribute to the lately departed Ozzy Osbourne, the band performed a canopy of Black Sabbath’s “Struggle Pigs” that electrified the viewers and introduced some (myself included) to their ft, a pleasant, albeit momentary, distinction to the comparatively chill vibe on this stunning summer time night. Earlier than their present tour, they hadn’t performed it since 2006, so it was good to see it trotted out, its well timed message sadly by no means being irrelevant as properly.
