Mr. COYNE: I beg the audience to just play along and as a group, we can all do this thing that really makes for a marvelous moment and we hope at a Flaming Lips show that we've just said, whatever you do in this room, you can do it here.

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"We were doing things in Glasgow like odd gigs in pubs that we'd book and just invite friends along too and play some songs to see how they were going, " says Hardy.

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"I've taken pelters in the last couple of seasons, but I knew I could do it all along and it was just up to the gaffer to play me, " he said.

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"The Carpels came along and played and we're really into them and we just said come and play another gig and then it kind of snowballed from there, " he said.

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