Here’s a look at one of the bands coming to SunFest, April 28-May 2 — The Flaming Lips, who played an amazing show in Austin this past weekend:

By MICHAEL HOINSKI

Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips plays among tons of confetti at Austin Music Hall. (Jordan Smotherman / Austin American-Statesman)

Not 10 minutes into the Flaming Lips show Friday at Austin Music Hall, the five members of the Oklahoma psych-rock group had reached such a fever pitch with the sold-out crowd that the show could have ended there and people would have left satisfied.

More confetti was strewn about than at a Super Bowl celebration. Numerous white, orange and yellow inflatable balls were dispatched into the audience. Strobe lights flickered in pandemonium. Dozens of dancers, flanking both sides of the stage in neon orange and fuzzy conehead hats, danced and pumped their fists. And smoke machines made thick, thick fog.

Frontman Wayne Coyne was already in his signature clear blow-up bubble, risking limbs and lungs traversing the upraised arms of the crowd. Santa, Dorothy and the Tin Man were among those helping. Indeed, the full spectrum of the scene was a riot—exhilarating no matter your first or 100th time.

“We’ve played some of our greatest shows in Austin,” Coyne would later say, after finishing up that intro song, “Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear.”

Read more about Flaming Lips’ Austin show at our sister site, Austin360.com.