The visual show takes precedence over Flaming Lips music in the Melkweg

A dose of megalomania can not be denied to singer Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips . Like Elvis Presley, he begins his show with Also Sprach Zarathustra who played a leading role on a synthesizer and an electric guitar. He finished with a light coming from behind under a rainbow created by himself, his arms extended in a pose of Jesus. The 25th Anniversary tour of the Oklahoma City group brings little news musically, but an abundance of visual spectacle. The Flaming Lips started with other bands that only used the confetti gun during the festive finale. Balloons, silver papers and garlands from party items photographed by Coyne were then bombarded by the public on a carpet of colorful fleas.

At "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots", a huge pink robot is exploded, as a throne of Coyne's futuristic moral narrative. We already knew the thing with the transparent plastic sphere in which it must lift over the head; this time, he easily scored with a "Space Oddity" borrowed from David Bowie. Totally ridiculous was "There Should Be Unicorns" in which the singer covered in material lurched across the room onto a real-sized luminous unicorn, with his text warped by a vocoder about butterflies you eat with ketchup and ride in a love generator .

In a room that brings together many American Americans, it has become a surrealist party with exuberant colors, simplified music and a shamanic master of ceremonies. "Do You Realize," voted the official rock song of the state of Oklahoma in 2009, has become a celebration of life with the worrying fear that we will all die. The fact that The Flaming Lips has not made any more relevant discs in recent years could not maintain the atmosphere of this best of-show. The overabundance of clownish visual means has ultimately reduced the fact that the group behind this facade may seem better than ever.