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After impressing singer Wayne Coyne with her fandom (and her penchant for wearing a parrot costume), the pair became pen pals, and Coyne encouraged Smith to begin making music herself. Smith, a teenage Flaming Lips fan from the UK, connected with the Oklahoma rockers in 2018 after becoming a front row regular at the band’s shows. At the end, drummer Matthew Kirksey pulled his blazer aside to reveal a T-shirt that read “Bad Seed,” in tribute to Cave’s longtime band the Bad Seeds. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne displayed his trademark humility, fading into the background and only stirring to sing the occasional supporting vocal or bang on a single drum. Smith took center stage with the veteran rockers arrayed behind her, as a projection screen brought the eye into a whirlpool of psychedelia. Meanwhile, Coyne has also been dabbling in entrepreneurship by launching his own cannabis brand.The post Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips Cover Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand” on Colbert: Watch appeared first on Consequence.ġ4-year-old musician Nell Smith and psych rock veterans The Flaming Lips took their unlikely friendship to television last night, covering Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The track comes from Where the Viaduct Looms, an album of Nick Cave covers that Smith and the band released in November. In Novemeber, the Lips will be embarking on a massive world tour. Listen to it below, and read more about how this collaboration came to life via CBC News.Įarlier this year, The Flaming Lips approached live music in the time of COVID the best way they knew how: by dividing themselves and their audience members into human-sized hamster balls. She flips Cave’s original ballad into a hushed bedroom-pop jam, embellished with the band’s psychedelic guitars. “Girl in Amber” was the first track Smith and the Flaming Lips recorded together, with Smith taking the lead vocals. It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.” It was a really steep learning curve. I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. Smith added, “I still really can’t believe it, it was hard to get through all the songs but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of them that I kept going. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.” With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. In a statement, Coyne said, “It is always great to meet excited, young creative people. Their shared passion spawned the idea of a covers album, which was recorded remotely due to the pandemic. Just like that, Smith and her father exchanged contact information with Coyne and stayed in touch. It didn’t take long for her to become a regular at their typically over-the-top performances, and after nabbing front-row spots a number of times, she caught the attention of the band’s frontman Wayne Coyne. Smith first became enamored with The Flaming Lips when she attended her first show of theirs about three years ago.
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That album, Where the Viaduct Looms, arrives October 25th, and today, Smith and The Flaming Lips offer a preview with their rendition of the 2016 Bad Seeds track “Girl in Amber.” For 13-year-old Nell Smith, however, that dream came true by way of an album of Nick Cave covers, recorded with none other than The Flaming Lips. It’s not every day that youngsters get to collaborate with some of their biggest musical heroes.