NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release March 12, 2010

Contact: Maria Costello, PR and Communications Coordinator 716-754-9000 ext132

mcostello@artpark.net

ARTPARK ANNOUNCES THE FLAMING LIPS AS SPECIAL CONCERT EVENT

The psychedelic rockers ignite their elaborate stage show on July 22

(Lewiston, NY) Three-time Grammy Award-winning The Flaming Lips will bring their "bigger/brighter/louder" live show to Artpark's Mainstage Theater on July 22 at 8pm featuring their latest album, Embryonic.  Tickets go on sale Friday March 19 at 10am. The Flaming Lips, known for their innovative music and brilliantly bizarre live performances broke onto the scene in the mid-90's and have become one of the most respected bands of the 2000's.

The Flaming Lips was formed in Oklahoma in the 80's (The band's single "Do You Realize" serves as the official rock song of Oklahoma). Named one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die," by Q Magazine, the Flaming Lips have been acclaimed for their live shows featuring costumes, complex lighting configurations, confetti, balloons, puppets, giant hands, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he navigates above the audience.

One of their early albums, In a Priest Driven Ambulance, was recorded with their friend, producer David Fridmann for $5 an hour in a studio on the SUNY Fredonia Campus in New York. After touring the nation in a Ryder truck, the Flaming Lips found themselves on the Top 40 charts with the hit, "She Don't Use Jelly." The band maintained critical success and a cult following with albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

The Flaming Lips concert goes on sale Friday March 19^th at 10:00AM. Mainstage Tickets for this show are $42.50 for Prime seating, $37.50 for Sections A, B, and C; and $25 for lawn seats. To charge by phone call 1-888-223-6000 or in person at the Artpark Box office and Tops Markets, and online at http://www.tickets.com/ or http://www.artpark.net/.  For information call the Artpark Box Office at (716) 754-4375 or http://www.artpark.net/.

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Artpark's entire 2010 Season will be unveiled May 5, 2010!

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