Anyone who’s had the pleasure of stumbling across Mr. Wayne Coyne and friends will know that there ain’t no party quite like a Flaming Lips party. Investigate a little further and you will realise that it’s not all balloons and Santa costumes, these Oklahoma gents have done some interesting things in their day; gigs at the zoo, boom box experiments, and a long awaited Christmas on Mars movie (which should finally debut at 2008’s South by Southwest festival) to name but a few.
Top of the list nevertheless must be 1997 album Zaireeka. How they convinced Warner Bros to release it in the first place is an achievement, but out it came, in full four disc glory, each of which to be played simultaneously on separate cd players to create the complete sound.
The album garnered promising reviews but was never going to be a commercial success, but what, I hear my inquisitive cosmic friends does it sound like? Well that’s the thing… a young upstart from Northern Ireland called Stephen McCauley has gotten himself a show on Radio Foyle (a mighty good it is too may I add). Being a fan of the odd experiment himself, the Electric Mainline presenter enlisted the help of Radio 1’s Rory McConnell, Radio Foyle’s Mark Patterson and Jane Bradfords (they’re big in Qatar) frontman Deci Gallen for a Zaireeka experiment of his own.
Stephen treats us to two of the albums eight tracks and its well worth braving it past the minor technical difficulties of whispering Rory McConnell in the introduction to hear the tracks in full glory.
A broadcasting first? He’ll be roving the streets of Derry in a giant balloon before we know it.
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