BIG PICTURE
THE FLAMING LIPS
There are doubters around who claim that the music by this trio of fortysomething Oklahomies’ is now coming a distant second to their elaborate and magically silly stage shows. What this kind of grumpy, dismissive thinking fails to grasp is that without a gleeful soundtrack of pure liquid hedonism, all the tossing about with giant animal suits and fake blood would be irrelevant. They may have loaded a bit more rock’n’roll into their cannon for new record At War With the Mystics but at heart this is weird, sweet pop. I Usher Hall, Edinburgh Wed 19 Apr.