The Flaming Lips
If there is a band that encapsulates the spirit of all things Bestival more than any other, then that band has to be The Flaming Lips. Champions of the Psychedelic Alt-Rock scene, they first came to prominance in 1999 with the stunning album "The Soft Bulletin", a collection of melodically catchy, lyrically quirky and beautifully orchestrated tracks that immediately caught the imagination.
Follow up "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" continued the band’s ascendance, garnering huge critical acclaim and an ever growing fan base, culminating in 2002 with a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, before 2006’s "At War With Mystics" (actually their 11th album) became their most successful release to date.
But it’s as a live act that The Flaming Lips really come into their own, producing a legendary live show involving UFO’s, Giant Hands, a stage full of animal suited lunacy and in Wayne Coyne one of the most enigmatic front men around today. It’s no surprise then that Rob da Bank has been trying to secure the services of the band for many a year: "I've been after the Lips since we started Bestival and for one reason or another (most seeming to involve childbirth!) I've never managed to book them. But now we couldn't be more chuffed to have Wayne Coyne and his bunch of merry men headlining our new show Camp Bestival!" Expect the unexpected as The Flaming Lips bring Saturday Night at Camp Bestival to a suitably cosmic finale.
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