Wednesday Video Spotlight: Tickets for Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout #5 now on sale
Tickets are now on sale for The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout #5, the Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers’ annual hometown NYE spectacular, at www.ticketstorm.com.
Several significant changes have been made to this year’s event:
Now a two-night extravaganza, the fifth Freakout is set for 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31 and Sunday, Jan. 1 at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center, 425 E California.
The Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band will play both nights, with Ono performing at midnight “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” the famed holiday anthem she wrote and recorded with her late husband, John Lennon.
“In honor of our fantastical guests The Flaming Lips will perform some classic cover songs with Sean Lennon,” the Lips posted recently on Twitter (@theflaminglips).
In addition, Neon Indian will join the lineup for the Jan. 1 show, the Lips wrote on Twitter.
Tickets for this year’s Freakout are pricier than past years: This year, tickets are $100 for one night or $150 for both shows. All ticket buyers get into the afterparty at The Womb, Lips frontman Wayne Coyne’s new art gallery in downtown OKC.
“The after party at the Womb will go till sunrise and will feature naked movies inside the Womb room and New Fumes from Dallas doing paranoid soundscapes and Star Death and White Dwarfs playing an electric sunrise,” the band posted on Twitter.
Even with two shows, this year’s Freakout is bound to be a much more exclusive affair, not only because of the higher ticket prices but also because of the lower ticket availability. The Bricktown Events Center seats approximately 1,500, compared to 8,000 to 10,000 at the Cox Convention Center, where the Freakout took place the past four years.
“The new venue The Coca Cola events Center in Bricktown is a much cooler venue than the old Cox Center which became increasingly less accommodating to the beautiful Flaming Lips Fans,” the band posted on Twitter, citing cheap and easy parking and good but inexpensive food and drink vending at the Bricktown Events Center.
The Cox Convention Center won’t be empty on New Year’s Eve: The OKC Barons hockey team will face off against divisional rivals San Antonio at 7 p.m. Dec. 31.
For those who want to get an idea of the sheer spectacle of The Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve Freakout, check out these fan-shot YouTube videos from previous years:
-BAM
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