

“Do you buy the front row? Do you buy by the row? And would people even know what a row is? It’s such an unknown world,” he says.
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And I think the Flaming Lips audience is the perfect audience to say ‘We’ll help you do this, we can make this work,’ because they’re a very smart, caring, giving kind of an audience.”Ĭoyne said they’ll announce the next show in November, with a December date, in order to give them a few weeks to figure out how to do it. “Let’s start with a little bit of an audience, and if we have to spread it out and play multiple nights, well, great. “I thought even the amount of audience we had for the video shoot was a little scary,” Coyne admits. There’s also the question of how big the crowd should be. Next up, because the bubbles are so big, Coyne is figuring out how many people to allow inside (there’s room for three) and whether, during a longer show, there should be a break to allow for air refreshing and restroom visits. “They’re getting drunk and they’re losing their minds and before you know it, they’re grabbing onto each other and they’re screaming in each other’s faces.” “Part of the dilemma of doing loud concerts is that it gets people excited,” Coyne says. (For the record, none of the 116 attendees needed to go during this show.) Among the logistical issues the band was looking at: How to safely assemble the audience outside, without it becoming a tailgate party getting the crowd inside the balloons and blowing them up, without it becoming a super-spreader event and even figuring out how many people might need to unzip and go to the bathroom during the show.

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Now it feels absolutely wonderful.”Ĭoyne said the event this month was a dress rehearsal for perhaps a full concert that he’d like to do December in the same location. “I worried mostly that something embarrassing would happen or it would look like it wasn’t safe. Comment on your partner’s paper.“It turned out more spectacular and more positive than I could have ever thought,” Coyne told Variety. You might go to a show, you might not, but I think we're going to. He told a magazine: "It's a weird event, but the weirdness is so we can (10) _ before putting our families and everybody at risk." He added: "You see people excited, people being happy, and people really having fun.I think it's (11) _. He said a space bubble concert is "(9) _ to the grocery store". He thought Zorb concerts would be COVID-safe. He often uses a Zorb (8) _ the crowd at his concerts. The (7) _ bubbles came from lead singer Wayne Coyne. Workers refill the bubble with cool air if it (6) _. Every bubble has (5) _, a water bottle, a battery-operated fan, a towel and an "I gotta go pee" sign. The bubbles may allow concerts to (4) _ the pandemic. The band played two concerts in the city of Oklahoma. The (1) _ rock group the Flaming Lips were all in giant, plastic bubbles called Zorbs. Please enjoy :-)Ī band played the 'World's First Space Bubble Concert'. Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. /news/flaming-lips-concert-perform-inflatable-bubbles-oklahoma/./news/the-flaming-lips-bubble-concert-could-be-a-blueprint-to-revolutionise-the-live-music-circuit.Space Bubbles - Level 0, Space Bubbles - Level 1 or Space Bubbles - Level 3 Sources You might go to a show, you might not, but I think we're going to.work it out." He told a magazine: "It's a weird event, but the weirdness is so we can enjoy a concert before putting our families and everybody at risk." He added: "You see people excited, people being happy, and people really having fun.I think it's 'new normal'. He said a space bubble concert is "safer than going to the grocery store".

He often uses a Zorb to roll over the crowd at his concerts. The idea for the bubbles came from lead singer Wayne Coyne. Workers refill the bubble with cool air if it gets too hot. Every bubble has a special speaker, a water bottle, a battery-operated fan, a towel and an "I gotta go pee" sign. The bubbles may allow concerts to go ahead during the pandemic. All band members were inside their own bubble.

The audience of the rock group the Flaming Lips were all in giant, plastic bubbles called Zorbs. A band played the 'World's First Space Bubble Concert'.
