Photos: The Flaming Lips and Mac DeMarco at the Shrine

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The Flaming Lips at the Shrine (Photo by Ashly Covington)
The Flaming Lips at the Shrine (Photo by Ashly Covington)

The Flaming Lips and Mac DeMarco teamed up Saturday night at the Shrine Expo Hall for varying degrees of madcap shenanigans that ended in a deluge of confetti, with the Lips driving home their traditional themes of love and togetherness and their 56-year-old frontman riding through the crowd on a unicorn, then atop it in a plastic bubble.

After experimental electronic artist Geneva Jacuzzi performed her opening set while encased in plastic, DeMarco and gang took over for feel-good 17-song set came with plenty of energy and a big smile, wrapping up with “Moonlight on the River,” “Chamber of Reflection” and “Still Together.”

Frontman Wayne Coyne and the Lips were greeted with a roar when they took stage, Coyne conducting and controlling the lights with his arms, leading up to an explosion of confetti so thick it often obscured the stage. They performed a few tracks from their new album “Oczy Mlody” (their 14th), covered “Space Oddity” and ended the night with their ecstatic existentialist anthem “Do You Realize?”

Photos by Ashly Covington