FLAMING LIPS AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS

The Flaming Lips are in the final stages of finishing their full length movie, ‘Christmas on Mars,’ Michael Ivins gives a full update.

The Flaming Lips have released their new studio album ‘At War With the Mystics’ and the band, which consists of Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins, has been together since 1983. The band has built a strong fan base with their energetic and captivating live performances.

We caught up with Michael Ivins to discuss the new album and the bands ever inventive and unique song writing ability.

“We’ve been at it really so long at this point we just do stuff. Some ideas work and some don’t but we don’t sweat the, ones that don’t we just come up with different ideas and try to execute them and if they work, great and if they don’t we just think of more.”

And thinking of more ideas has never been a problem for The Lips. The band’s first single, ‘The Wand,’ which was originally slated as a segue between two other songs was expanded into it’s own song because the band just new they had something bigger.

“What we had was like a minute long or something and we were going to use it as a bridge between another song and people heard it and we thought the same thing it seemed like something was going to happen and we just lived with it for a little while and thought ‘Well we should just turn this into a song.'”

The Flaming Lips will next hit the road in support of ‘At War with the Mystics’ beginning October 29th at the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans, La. The band will next tour Great Britan and Ireland until performing November 19th in Dublin, Ireland. The Flaming Lips have finished work on their movie debut, ‘Christmas on Mars’ and the film, which the group started shooting in 2000, centres around scientists preparing to celebrate their first Christmas in space. The movie stars The Flaming Lips and Elijah Wood. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne directed the project which as of press time is planned for a premiere at Austin’s South by Southwest in March of 2007. (Pictured Wayne Coyne photo Brian Yates)