The Flaming Lips - The Teardrop Throbs Tour

The Flaming Lips bring their The Teardrop Throbs Tour to the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London, with the Oklahoma City rock band performing their own material. The concert is a chance to hear a long-running alternative act in a London venue.

The Flaming Lips are an alternative rock band formed in Oklahoma City in 1983, led by Wayne Coyne, with Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins among its longest-serving members. Their album The Soft Bulletin (1999), with its single "Do You Realize??", brought them wider attention, and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) is another of their best-known records.

This London date forms part of The Teardrop Throbs Tour. The band's studio work often combines psychedelic rock with orchestral and electronic textures, a sound that suits listeners who already follow their albums as well as newcomers curious about that catalogue.

O2 Shepherds Bush Empire is a London venue that hosts concerts and shows, and it is the setting for this stop on the tour.