These concert cruises are becoming all the rage — Jam Cruise, Rock Boat, Blues Cruise are a few of the more prominent — and now we have "Xingolati, (pronounced Zîng-gō-läh-ti) – Groove Cruise of the Pacific," headlined by the tuneful and mysterious Flaming Lips, fresh off their piratical SpongeBob soundtrack appearance.
Xingolati will feature:
· The Flaming Lips (review here)
· G Love and Special Sauce
· Medeski Martin and Wood (interview with Billy Martin here)
· John Popper Project Featuring DJ Logic (Blues Traveler review)
· Slightly Stoopid Acoustic
· The Everyone Orchestra featuring Vince Herman, Rob Wasserman, Joe Craven, Jamie Masefield and Jamie Janover conducted by Matt Butler
· Particle (reviews here and here)
· Tea Leaf Green
· DJ Greyboy
· R.E.D. featuring Rob Wasserman and members of Particle
· The Mutaytor
· DJ Laird
· Rob Cantrell from NBC's Last Comic Standing
· Perpetual Groove
· Delta Nove
· That One Guy
· Soul Rebels Brass Band
Article comments
1 - Mark Sahm
Your title brought back memories of my 5th grade teacher who used to warn us when we misbehaved with "You better zip your lip, or I'm gonna sink your ship."
But seriously, I caught the Lips this past NYE at the Garden, and they played a great set (I heard it's the same one they've played for almost 2 years). Although I'm sure the guy dressed in a bunny suit enjoyed them slightly more than I did. But for those thinking of going, the Lips don't dissapoint.
Are you going on the cruise, Eric?
2 - Eric Olsen
would love to go, however unless I am asked to be one of their circus freaks and go for free, it is highly unlikely. I'm also nowhere near Long Beach
3 - Tom Johnson
It used to be cruises were like one step lower than Las Vegas. Now Vegas is the place to play, and I guess cruises are going to be the next step up from there. It's a weird world.
That said, I'd love to go just to see That One Guy play his "magic pipe." And no, that's not a euphemism. Check out the video. The rest of the album's just as weird and fun as the songs shown on those two videos.
4 - Eric Olsen
cool Tom, thanks
5 - J.Tonal
I was glad to see that along with the great live music Xingolati brought on board, they paid some attention to what was going to happen after the live shows were over... namely the dance-music-based late night parties.
This cruise will be rocking all night long.
I probably wouldn't be attending if I wasn't performing, but with some of the discounts they've been offering I have a lot of friends who couldn't refuse!
J.Tonal
Lowpro Lounge
http://lowprolounge.com
6 - Nathaniel Winn
The Lips are incredible live. The joy and energy were comparable to that of a Pentecostal church service. Except with boobs and blood and "Happy Birthday".
7 - Eric Olsen
so, you think you're pretty smart with that quiz showing, eh?
8 - Eric Olsen
and yes, I would very much like to go on this. That's another reason we need to keep the traffic going up: at some point we'll (meaning "I'll") start to get some REAL swag
9 - Phillip Winn
Eric, I live with the guy, and he's been truly insufferable since his showing, I tell ya.
Or not. But it sounds better to say that he's smug.
10 - Eric Olsen
I have pretty good excuses for the ones I missed: the only ones I got right were art and audio