This previous weekend (October 6), the band shared a lacking particular person’s discover after 16-year-old Charlotte was final seen on the Seattle Area Needle on Saturday, October 5 at 11:30am. She was described as “5’7” with brown eyes and lengthy brown hair. She was seen sporting khaki color shorts and pink footwear”.
On Tuesday night time (October 8), the band’s Wayne Coyne took to social media to share that Charlotte Drozd had been present in a secure situation. Coyne wrote on social media, thanking followers for his or her re-posts and spreading the phrase on the preliminary lacking particular person’s announcement: “She’s discovered and is secure… her mom has spoke along with her… THANK YOU everybody for all of your posts and all of your networking and all of your assist and all of your abilities and all of your belief and all of your LOVE!!!”
Thus far, no causes have been shared for why she went lacking within the first place, or the place she was discovered.
The information of Charlotte being discovered gives some respite to the Flaming Lips camp after a tough weekend. In addition to saying that Charlotte had gone lacking, the band additionally needed to take care of the dying of their collaborator, the younger Nell Smith.
It was revealed earlier this week that Smith – aged simply 17-years-old – was killed in a visitors accident. Previous to her dying, Nell was engaged on her debut album, which was being deliberate for launch someday in early 2025.
Smith first struck up a relationship with The Flaming Lips in 2019 after the band had seen the then-12-year-old dressed as a parrot within the entrance row at a number of of their concert events alongside her mother and father. They later met and saved in touch earlier than Smith started laying down the inspiration for the Cave cowl album in 2021.
Smith – aged 14 on the time – despatched the album to The Flaming Lips, who supplied additional instrumentation on the file. ‘The place The Viaduct Looms’ was launched in November 2021.
After the discharge of the album’s first single, a canopy of Unhealthy Seeds’ 2016 observe ‘Lady In Amber’, Nick Cave himself shared his love for the model, saying: “This model of ‘Lady in Amber’ is simply pretty, I used to be going to say Nell Smith inhabits the tune, however that’s mistaken, quite she vacates the tune, in a means that I may by no means do. Nell exhibits a outstanding understanding of the tune, a way of dispassion that’s each stunning and chilling. I simply adore it. I’m a fan.”
The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne remembered the younger musician throughout their Portland present on October 7, saying between tears: “We now have a really unhappy announcement to make tonight. We now have a Canadian pal, her title is Nell. We recorded a tremendous album along with her three years in the past, an album stuffed with songs by Nick Cave. We now have some very unhappy messages at this time – she was killed in a automotive accident final night time (October 6). We’re reminded as soon as once more of the facility of music and the way encouraging it may be to be round individuals that you just love.”
