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The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips


Background information
Origin Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Genre(s) Alternative Rock
Indie Rock
Neo-psychedelia
Space Rock
Experimental Rock
Years active 1983—present
Label(s) Restless Records
Associated acts Beck
Mercury Rev
Stardeath and White Dwarfs
Peaches
Steven Burns
Website Website
Members
Wayne Coyne
Michael Ivins
Steven Drozd
Kliph Scurlock
Former members
Ronald Jones
Jonathan Donahue
Mark Coyne
Dave Kostka
Richard English
Nathan Roberts
Jon Mooneyham



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Wayne Coyne Apologises For Calling Arcade Fire 'Pr**ks'

May 5, 2009
Wayne Coyne Apologises For Calling Arcade Fire 'Pr**ks'Wayne Coyne has apologised to Arcade Fire for his vitriolic attack on the band earlier this year that sparked a war of words between himself and Win Butler.

As previously reported, Coyne called the band “pricks” in an interview with Rolling Stone over the way he thought they treated people and their audience.

In response Butler was equally mature saying: “I hope I was less of a "prick" then telling Rollingstone that a bunch of people I don't know at all are really assholes.”

In a new interview however, Coyne has said he wished the whole argument had never happened and says that what he said wasn't necessarily aimed at the band members themselves.

He told Entertainment Weekly: "I didn't necessarily mean it about the people in the Arcade Fire. I meant it about the guys that were running their stages at a couple of festivals.

“I wish whatever had been said wouldn't have been taken as such a defiant statement from the Flaming Lips, because it wasn't...I really feel bad about it. I like enough of their music. The idea that I'm somehow against them...I'm not!"

Worst retraction ever?

(by Daniel Melia)



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