On Friday, January 22nd, and Saturday, January 23rd, Flaming Lips performed concerts in Oklahoma City in “space bubbles.” At the shows, both the band members and all audience members were quarantined in inflatable bubbles.
There were 100 bubbles for audience members, and each bubble held a maximum of 3 people. The concerts took place at Oklahoma City’s The Criterion.
The lead singer of the Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne, talked about the space bubble concert-style with Rolling Stone back in December saying, “We collect everybody and then we take them row by row to their bubbles. [In October], the whole thing happened in 20 minutes from everybody being inside to everyone being blown up in their space bubble, and that’s the part of it that we wanted to work on. Once you’re in the bubble you can do whatever the fuck you want, and that’s the beauty of it. That’s what we spent most of the time figuring out. The music part of it, we got that shit down.”
He added “I don’t want anybody to think this is some kind of fucking freak party. It’s a very restricted, weird event. But the weirdness is so we can enjoy a concert before putting our families and everybody at risk. And I think it can actually work, but just not when it’s this serious here. I think it’s a bit of a new normal — you might go to a show, you might not, but I think we’re going to be able to work it out.”
Coyne posted numerous photos from the concerts, both from the shows themselves and behind the scenes on the process of making it happen. Check out Wayne Coyne’s Instagram here to see photos from the Flaming Lips space bubble shows.
The Flaming Lips’ OKC shows were originally scheduled for December 2020 but were postponed to this past weekend because of the ongoing COVID-19 situation in the area.
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