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Wayne Coyne offers apology to Arcade Fire

Yahoo! Music, May 5, 2009 5:00 pm PDT
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has apologized to Arcade Fire for the derogatory remarks he made about the band earlier this year.

Coyne, who allegedly said the band were "pr*cks" who "treated their crew like sh*t," admitted he wishes the incident had never happened.

"I didn’t necessarily mean it about the people in the Arcade Fire," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I meant it about the guys that were running their stages at a couple of festivals. I wish whatever had been said wouldn’t have been taken as such a defiant statement from the Flaming Lips, because it wasn’t. I just assumed it was a joke."

When asked if he would like to apologize to the band, he said, "I would. I really feel bad about it. I like enough of their music. The idea that I’m somehow against them…I’m not!"

Meanwhile, Flaming Lips are working on a new album, which they intend to release in September and have tentatively titled Embryonic.

For more on the Flaming Lips, check out their NME.com page.

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