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Flaming Lips gloss over ‘split’ rumours

By | Published on Monday 28 October 2013

Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips aren’t splitting, just in case anyone thought otherwise. And you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise, because the band announced it via their official Twitter account last week. Or did they?

Well, no, they claim they didn’t, and that actually their feed was hacked by someone or other who issued the false split announcement. Which all sounds like a very likely story. In that it’s very likely to be true, particularly given the band have a split EP with Tame Impala, and a new “extended play six song thang” based on a track they taped for new film ‘Ender’s Game’, both on the way.

To recap the confusions, it all started with a tweet sent, as I said, via the Lips Twitter feed last Thursday, which read: “We have sad news. We’ve broken up…” This was followed shortly after by another message that ran “lol just joking guys”.

A third tweet, permitted to stay on the band’s tweet page, states: “That last announcement was a bit premature”. It’s accompanied by an image that appears to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary.

And meanwhile, Wayne Coyne allayed fans fears’ a bit more by saying: “The Flaming Lips Twitter has been hijacked!”

And that’s that. Now let’s not mention any of this silliness ever, ever again.



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