LIPS SERVICE
May 26, 2020
4 minutes
Words: Rob Hughes
The annual Coachella Festival in California has a habit of throwing up memorable moments: Roger Waters’s disappearing pig; 2Pac’s hologram; Axl Rose perched on a throne with his busted foot; and of course Wayne Coyne’s enormous plastic bubble. It was in 2004 that the Flaming Lips frontman first rolled his way over the open-mouthed crowd from inside a transparent ‘zorb’ ball.
“I was in the front row of the audience that night,” recalls Lindsey Troy, one half of Californian garage-rock duo Deap Vally. “When Wayne came out in that giant ball I was so blown away, because I’d been a big fan of theirs
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