It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record." Frontman Wayne Coyne spotted her at one point as she attended several gigs with her father. I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. Artists: THE FLAMING LIPS and NELL SMITH Nell is a 13-year old fan of Oklahoma’s eccentric Lips. Red Right Hand Lyrics: Take a little walk to the edge of town / Go across the tracks / Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom / As it shifts and cracks. Smith said, "I still really can’t believe it, it was hard to get through all the songs but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of them that I kept going. It’s comprised of nine Cave cover versions with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old Nell Smith and instrumentation and production by the Flaming Lips. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music." The Flaming Lips and 14-year-old singer-songwriter Nell soundtrack an expedition across a frozen tundra in the new video for their cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s The Weeping Song. Is anyone else amazed, confused, exasperated, intrigued, or otherwise overwhelmed with the new collaboration album 7 comments. This inspiring and heartwarming story begin when Smith, originally from Leeds (UK), moved to Canada and first met Wayne Coyne at the age of 12 at The Flaming Lips’ headline show at the Sled Island Festival, Calgary, in 2018 with her family. "With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. "It is always great to meet excited, young creative people," Coyne said of working with Smith. The covers album was recorded remotely during the pandemic after Smith formed a musical bond with frontman Wayne Coyne after attending a number of their shows over the past three years. Where the Viaduct Looms was originally announced in September with a cover of " Girl in Amber" ( which received praise from Cave himself), and now The Flaming Lips and Smith have shared details of their collaborative covers album, alongside a new cover of "The Ship Song".
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