The Flaming Lips + The Beta Band

Triple GRAMMY Award-winners The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma in 1983 and are one of the most iconic, influential, unpredictable, and vital forces in American alternative rock music. Q Magazine named them one of their 50 Bands to See Before You Die. 

The band has collaborated with artists including Miley Cyrus, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Kacey Musgraves, Yoko Ono, The Chemical Brothers, and many more, and their spectacular interactive audio-visual events have legendary status.  

Their latest LP, 2020 release American Head marked a return to a more melodic and song-oriented works and was hailed as their best work in years featuring on Year End/Best Of lists around the world. The Flaming Lips remain in a creative apex that has no bounds – within a genre all to themselves. 

Folk, psychedelia and trip-hop inspired The Beta Band have recently reunited for the first time in 21 years – playing a series of shows across the UK and North America this autumn, following the rerelease of their classic The Three EPs in the summer. 

The four-piece formed in Fife in 1996, releasing a string of acclaimed EPs and albums parting ways in 2004.Their unique musical and aesthetic approach to everything they did set them far apart from their musical contemporaries. Together for a relatively short period of time, their three albums, The Beta Band (1999), Hot Shots II (2001) and Heroes To Zeroes (2004), would help define them as one of the most exciting and cherished bands of their generation.