Flaming Lips host COVID-safe ‘space bubble’ concert
Innovative indie act the Flaming Lips performed two shows in Oklahoma this month, protecting their fans and themselves from one another by placing everyone inside their own inflatable bubble so as to make the concert “safer than going to the grocery store,” said frontman Wayne Coyne.“We collect everybody and then we take them row by row to their bubbles,” Coyne, a long-time bubble enthusiast, told Rolling Stone last month of the strategy. “Once you’re in the bubble you can do whatever the f–k you want, and that’s the beauty of it.