Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Flaming
Lips
New Bands Tent
23:00 Saturday 24th June 2000
In
all that Glasto madness, we forgot about poor ol' Fran Healy….sorry
Fran, the Flaming Lips won out. We saw them do their thang at the
New Bands tent…
New Bands?!!! What?! They've had more albums than all the falafels
in the Greenfields…
It
was the third time I'd seen Wayne and co play in the last year,
I've only just written another review of their Festival Hall gig.
I suppose I should be suffering Lips over-exposure by now, but they
give it something new each and every time. You've probably heard
all about the mad back-projection. The weird films that play along
to their experi-mental music in obscure harmony. But could you ever
have been prepared for watching Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, La-Laa and Po
dancing about behind Wayne's haunting vocals?! Only at Glastonbury
could you have believed the sight of the Teletubbies and Flaming
Lips in one tent together…
The
atmosphere was warmer than a winter night by the fire in your toe-socks.
The tent at the top of the hill, overlooking the rest of Worthy
Farm gave the perfect setting. The whole thing passed far too quickly,
and once again we enjoyed hundreds of balloons, bouncing over our
heads throughout She Don't Use Jelly. The Lips never disappoint-
they give you everything you want to hear.
Wayne's
sentimental words to the audience summed it all up…
"I
hope you are finding all the drugs you wanted to find, and having
all the sex you want to have. And if not, well, there's always tomorrow…"
review by Suzanne Azzopardi
photos by Suzanne Azzopardi
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