London listeners will be particularly delighted by news of the live summer show considering all scheduled UK and Ireland tour dates were cancelled in 2020. The loss and lack of their famous live performances led The Flaming Lips to early release new music for the fans, through UK’s Bella Union, on September 11, 2020.

.@theflaminglips are back to tour their impressively beautiful album ‘American Head’. Pushing the boundaries for more than three decades, there’s nothing quite like a #flaminglips show. They’re here on Fri 23 Jul 2021.

On O2? Priority Tickets on sale 10am Wed 14 Oct #o2priority pic.twitter.com/3b0xfbEZqO

— O2 Forum (@O2ForumKTown) October 12, 2020

The new album, titled American Head, has received positive reaction from fans and critics and this is in no doubt because of their return to American rock roots through songs that express nostalgia for the pre-pandemic American dream and moreover for the longing of better days.

While this is The Flaming Lips’ sixteenth studio album, their experimental music and connection to modernity is more prominent then ever and continues to arouse excitement in all generations. The Flaming Lips made their mark on younger generations more recently in the last decade when this quasi-rock band played with Miley Cyrus in 2015 for the co-collaborated album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz. Collaboration with Cyrus at the height of her popularity kept The Flaming Lips relevant, just as releasing the wistful utopian album American Head is fitting now for isolated listeners wishing for the return to pre-covid life.

Considering the relevance of their new studio album, as it pertains to Covid-19, frontman Wayne Coyne is eager to perform this album live in the coming year despite continued world-wide safety concerns. Coyne recently discussed his views on scheduling new live-shows during the global pandemic saying in an interview with Brooklyn Vegan, I mean, I’m not suggesting the whole world should do it this way. I’m just saying The Flaming Lips can try it this way, and if you like our music, you can come see us. You’ll have to be in one of these space bubbles, but maybe that’ll be a good thing.

When Coyne uses the phrase ‘space bubbles’ he is not referring to the metaphorical social-distancing bubble coined by the UK’s covid-19 safety guidelines, but rather a large physical blow up bubble that crowd members would enter in order to attend in-person concerts.

 

 

 

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These space bubbles have been used by The Flaming Lips in the past as a show-prop but the Oklahoma rock band is planning to use them for safety at their upcoming home-town show in Oklahoma City. Whether it will be incased in a bubble or not, tickets for the newly announced summer show by The Flaming Lips will go on sale this Friday, October 16th at 10 am.

UK and Ireland tour dates for 2021 are as follows.

The American rock band will return to Scotland after a four-year absence, and will take to the stage on Saturday 17^th August at Bellahouston Park. This is the second big announcement for the festival, as the Foo Fighters will be joined by The Cure who are also making a return to Scotland, after a long 27 years.

The announcement of the Foo Fighters at Summer Sessions comes after a run of successful stadium shows in England in 2018, and this is their return to the Scottish live scene.

The supporting acts who have been announced so far are Mogwai, The Twilight Sad and The Joy Formidable. However, support acts for Foo Fighters have yet to be announced. Geoff Ellis, Chief executive of organisers at DF Concerts said: ‘To welcome Foo Fighters to Bellahouston Park for the first time is so exciting for music fans all over Scotland, as they are, to this day, one of the best festival headliners in the world.’

 With their outstanding back catalogue, this is bound to be an un-missable show.

Glasgow Summer Sessions, now in its seventh year running seen this year – Kings of Leon, Catfish and The Bottlemen and Kendrick Lamar play at Bellahouston Park. These artists headlined three nights of the festival at the end of August, this year. This year added the new Edinburgh Summer Sessions, which saw artists including Kasabian, Paloma Faith, Sir Tom Jones and more perform against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.

The cure who last played on Scottish soil back in 1992, will also be headlining Glasgow Summer Sessions on Friday 16^th August 2019, with support from Mogwai, The Twilight Sad and The Joy Formidable. Organisers at DF Concerts described the return of The Cure as ‘One of the most anticipated Scottish shows of the year.’

Tickets will be priced roughly at around £60 for Foo Fighters which will feature a full supporting line up, 2 day tickets for Friday 16^th and Saturday the 17^th will also be available for purchase. The Cure tickets, plus support from Mogwai, The Twilight Sad and The Joy Formidable are available now for £66.70 + an extra £4.95 booking fee.

This is the second festival announcement involving Foo Fighters, after the band were named as one of the four headliners at Reading & Leads 2019 along with, The 1975, Post Malone and Twenty One Pilots.

Tickets for Foo Fighters at Glasgow Summer Sessions will go sale this Friday, November 23 at 9am – and you can purchase them here.

Glasgow Summer Sessions 2019 at Bellahouston Park

Friday 16^th August 2019

The Cure + Mogwai + The Twilight Sad + The Joy Formidable

Saturday 17^th August 2019

Foo Fighters + more acts to be announced