Flaming Lips to open pop-up store, do MySpace Secret Show in L.A.
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne performs at the 2008-09 New Year’s Eve Freakout in Oklahoma City. (Photo by John Clanton/The Oklahoman Archives)
Warner Bros. Records is celebrating today’s release of The Flaming Lips’ new, long-awaited album “Embryonic” with special events in Los Angeles.
On Thursday, for one day only in Los Angeles, The Flaming Lips Pop-up Store will open at the Nike/Ricardo Montalban Theater, 1615 Vine St. in Hollywood, according to a news release. The store will be open from noon to midnight local time.
Not only will fans have the opportunity to get their hands on unique artifacts available on this day and location only, but the Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers have planned a very special, intimate MySpace Secret Show performance just for tickets winners at this small venue guaranteed to blow the minds of the lucky few.
According to the release, this might be the only opportunity to see the band in full-blown, maximum hysteria in a minimal space ever again. You won’t get the change to see the LIPS live again until 2010!
Tickets for the event will be made available on a first come, first served basis at the opening on Thursday. Additional tickets will be available at Amoeba records with purchase of the Lips CD today. KCRW 89.9 FM and the LA Weekly will also participate in ticket give-a-ways so play close attention.
Ticket holders are not guaranteed seating. All ticket holders will need to be in the venue by 7:30 p.m. L.A. time. Theater doors will be open 6:30.
The Flaming Lips Pop-up Store will house unique, limited edition, one-of-a-kind merchandise, CD’s and much more. Among the exclusive goodies will be the special direct-to-consumer “Furry Package,” currently available only via FlamingLips.com and a very limited, one-time only vinyl pressing that will only be sold at the store.
While the news release implies that this will be the last chance to see the Lips live until 2010, that isn’t true for Oklahoma fans. The Lips are planning their March of 1,000 Skeletons later this month in OKC.
And for the third year, the band will perform a New Year’s Eve show at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center. For more information or tickets, go to www.coxconventioncenter.com.
-BAM
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