Nels Cline with The Flaming Lips, photo via Nels Cline’s Facebook page

The Flaming Lips hosted their New Year’s Freakout #5 at Oklahoma City, OK’s Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center on December 31 and January 1. The psych-rock band’s New Year’s Eve gig had something of a John Lennon/Beatles theme, thanks to opening act Yoko Plastic Ono Band featuring Wilco guitarist else Cline. At midnight, the members of Yoko Plastic Ono Band emerged during The Flaming Lips’ set to sing on the Lennon classics “Give Peace a Chance” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”

The Flaming Lips also devoted their entire first encore to Lennon/Paul McCartney Beatles favorites, running through “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “A Day in the Life,” “I Am The Walrus” and “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).” The latter song also featured some bonus guitar work by Cline. In addition, at the start of their set, The Flaming Lips nodded to another British band, Black Sabbath with a cover of “Sweet Leaf.”

Here’s a look at Saturday’s setlist via The Flaming Lips’ Setlist.fm page

Sweet Leaf
Worm Mountain
She Don’t Use Jelly
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
Give Peace a Chance (with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band)
The Process
See the Leaves
Laser Hands
Drug Chart
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
What is the Light?
The Observer

Encore:
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day in the Life
I Am The Walrus
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (with Nels Cline)

Encore 2:
Do You Realize??