Flaming Lips to carry out ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ in full on UK tour

The Flaming Lips have added two extra UK exhibits to their 2023 tour, the place the US psych-rock band will play their seminal 2002 album ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ in full to have a good time its twentieth anniversary.

Together with their beforehand introduced, sold-out present at London’s Eventim Apollo on April 28, the band will carry out at London’s Troxy on April 25, in addition to the O2 Apollo in Manchester on April 29. Tickets go on sale this Friday morning (December 9) at 10am.

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Along with their UK dates, The Flaming Lips will likely be enjoying ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ at North American headline dates in Chicago and Washington in Could, in addition to their look on the Shaky Knees Competition in Atlanta, Georgia.

Final month, the band launched a twentieth anniversary reissue of ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’. Launched digitally and a six-CD field set, that model contains 50 beforehand unreleased tracks, the ‘Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell’ and ‘Flight Take a look at’ EPs, plus B-sides, demos, remixes, stay variations of tracks, and hard-to-find covers of Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Kylie Minogue songs.

The Flaming Lips initially launched ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ in July 2002. In a four-and-a-half-star evaluate on the time, NME described the album as “assured and imaginative”.

“‘The Gentle Bulletin’ might stay their final masterpiece – in the best way that it referenced each different report within the Lips’ profession – however attempt to identify one other band who've lasted ten albums, every yet one more visionary than the final,” it learn.

The Flaming Lips’ most up-to-date album of unique songs was 2020’s ‘American Head’, which NME referred to as “a gentle, reflective second of taking in and appreciating the vista as soon as the journey has worn off… and the mud has settled” in a four-star evaluate.

Final 12 months, the band launched a Nick Cave covers album titled ‘The place The Viaduct Looms’ in collaboration with younger Canadian musician Nell Smith, performing ‘Pink Proper Hand’ collectively on Colbert earlier this 12 months.