After winning two "NME" Carling Premier Awards earlier this week, the Flaming Lips will return to the U.S. on Saturday, February 5 for a special homecoming show at the Will Rogers Theater in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The performance marks the Lips' first American concert in quite some time, as the band spent much of the last half of 1999 touring the Europe and U.K. to support its newest LP, "The Soft Bulletin." The Flaming Lips' homecoming gig will serve as a preview of the group's upcoming American tour with Looper, and the band is filming the concert for broadcast via the Internet beginning on February 18 and running through February 24 at isthistoyota.com. During ceremonies at London's Mermaid Theatre on Tuesday, "The Soft Bulletin" won the Premier Awards for Best Album of 1999, as determined by an "NME" readers' poll, as well as Album of the Year, which was voted on by the editors of the British music weekly. The Lips' newest single, "Waitin' For A Superman," will be issued as a CD maxi-single on February 8 and features remixes of "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" and "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair," both from the group's 1997 "Zaireeka" box-set, which is already out of print. Prior to the start of next month's tour, the Flaming Lips will appear as musical guests on "Late Night With Conan O' Brien" on March 3.
