Flaming Lips plan Yoshimi musical

Oklahoma band reveal stage musical based on their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is ‘in early stages of production’ Could the Flaming Lips’ acid trips be heading to London’s West End? The Oklahoma band have revealed plans for a psychedelic stage musical based on their 2002 album, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. “It’s a big deal,” singer Wayne Coyne said this week. “It’s hokey and wonderful and poignant and powerful.” “We’ve done 14 or so records, and you’re always scrambling around trying to do something different,” Coyne told Billboard. And so the band are collaborating with director Des McAnuff, co-creator of the stage version of The Who’s Tommy. “It’s really become a perfect combination of my fantastical robot-world vision and [McAnuff's] little, internal, humanistic version of what that music is,” Coyne explained. The show will integrate about 30 songs, “a big chunk” of the Lips’ discography, taken from Yoshimi as well as 1999′s The Soft Bulletin and 2006′s At War With the Mystics. “I really believe it could work,” he added, “and luckily I don’t have to do much.” While the Flaming Lips have always been unconventional, the past year has seen them announce one daft project after another: a gig at a radio telescope , an iPhone gizmo , and a collaboration with Neon Indian . Next week they release four songs on a USB drive, buried in a life-size gelatin skull. And their future plans are stranger still: a movie with Justin Timberlake , an issue of Mad magazine, flexi-discs for cereal boxes, a life-size “Gummi version” of Coyne, with a hard-drive of music at its heart. “I’d just like to release music all the time and just put it out in all kinds of weird formats rather than just collect it until we’re ready to put out [an album] every two years or so,” he said. Currently, the Yoshimi musical is “in the early stages of production”. But Coyne expects the show to start workshopping soon; before we know it, Do You Realize?? could be the talk of Broadway and the Strand. The Flaming Lips Pop and rock Indie Musicals Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk

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