Five years since their last visit, beloved US psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips are returning to Australia for a stellar run of shows. Heading to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in early 2025, fans will experience The Flaming Lips in live form like they never have before.
The alt icons will be performing their 2002 seminal record Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots played in full, + cult classics from their stellar discography. Renowned for their euphoric shows, The Guardian describe their live performances as “the purest, most potent dose of feelgood psychedelia imaginable”, with Sydney Morning Herald crowning them one of the “world’s most impressive live acts”.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots remains one of the most influential alt rock albums of all time. The GRAMMY® award-winners reached critical acclaim with the release, earning them their first RIAA certified Gold Record after the eagerly awaited follow-up to 1999’s masterwork, The Soft Bulletin, proving that singer/guitarist Wayne Coyne and multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd had yet another masterpiece in them.
Featuring revered tracks “Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots, Pt. 1” and “Fight Test”, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a profound quasi-concept album drenched in a wondrous swirl of ambient electronics, digital beats, and psychedelic splendour. The record yielded timeless stargazing track “Do You Realize??”, which was named the official rock song of the band’s native state of Oklahoma in 2009 and landed them their first-ever Grammy Award® win for the cosmic album-closing instrumental “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)”.
FLAMING LIPS
AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2025
Thursday 30 January 2025
AEC Theatre
Adelaide SA
Saturday 1 February 2025
Festival Hall
Melbourne VIC
Sunday 2 February 2025
Hordern Pavilion
Sydney NSW
Wednesday 5 February 2025
Fortitude Music Hall
Brisbane QLD
TICKETS
Early bird presale:
Wednesday 21 August 9:00AM AEST via Destroy All Lines
General on sale:
Friday 23 August 9:00AM AEST via Destroy All Lines
