The Fearless Freaks

Oklahoma City’s Flaming Lips have been producing thoughtful art-rock records for two decades, continually challenging themselves and their critics. Led by charismatic, workaholic frontman Wayne Coyne, The Flaming Lips continually push the boundaries of modern music. In 1991, Bradley Beesley was bandleader Wayne Coyne’s art school neighbor in Norman, Oklahoma. The Lips, in need of a willing and competent cinematographer, and Beesley, constantly on the hunt for action-packed stories and oddball characters, developed a relationship built of geographic convenience and a mutual desire to create themselves. In this documentary, 15 years in the making, Beesley combines never-before-seen footage of the band with new interviews and performances to chronicle the band’s journey from their early punk/noise phase through the endless tours and bizarro live shows that led up to the critical breakthrough for the albums ‘Soft Bulletin’ and the Grammy-winning ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.’