The flaming lips bubble concert5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Read our interview with The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on King’s Mouth.Īlso read our 2017 cover story interview with The Flaming Lips on Oczy Mlody from our 15th Anniversary Issue. ![]() Read our exclusive interview with Wayne Coyne on his all-time favorite album, from our My Favorite Album Issue. Then in September they did a performance for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon of American Head’s “God and the Policeman,” with each band member in their signature giant plastic bubbles. And to make it even more timely, they did “Race for the Prize,” a classic from 1999’s The Soft Bulletin about two scientists racing to find a cure. In June 2020, The Flaming Lips performed for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with the entire band in separate plastic bubbles and also their audience, including some kids, in bubbles. Longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann co-produced American Head with the band. The band released a new album, American Head, last September via Warner Records ( stream it here). Below check out an earlier video of when they tested out the experience before staging a full on ticketed. CT at Wayne Coyne has been performing in giant plastic bubbles for years now, but due to the pandemic the whole band has also been performing in bubbles and now also the audience. A concert in which the lead singer of The Flaming Lips performed while inside a plastic bubble transformed, thanks to COVID-19, into an event in which everyone was inside bubbles. Tickets go on sale for both shows this Wednesday (February 3) at 10:00 a.m. They will happen on March 12 and 13 at The Criterion in Oklahoma City and follow their first such concert at the same venue last night. The band appeared on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' in protective bubbles, performing what the show called a 'socially distant concert. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.Leave it to The Flaming Lips to find an innovative way to still safely have concerts in the pandemic and now they have announced two more space bubble concerts, in which the entire audience are in their own plastic bubbles while watching the band perform. The Flaming Lips is a Warner Music artist. We’re thinking this will probably happen after the election.” The Flaming Lips perform in plastic bubbles Coyne and the band first unveiled the concept during a May visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It’s how we get the crowd in and out without cross-contamination that we need to figure out, but they’re giving us a few weeks in this venue to figure it out. The part about playing in the bubble, we already have down. Those are the things the venue is allowing us to set up so we can start to figure out how it will work. ![]() We want this to be safe and a great experience. The part that we’re trying to get down is what does the crowd do about going to the bathroom and getting drinks? We don’t want this to be like that Smash Mouth. He continued to speak about the logistical challenges with this sort of performance, saying, “We, The Flaming Lips, already know how to do space bubbles and we know what people do when they’re in the bubbles. It’s taken a while but I finally have them here, so a half-hour ago I was in a big venue where we set up a hundred space bubbles for 300 audience members to be in while we play a show.” It took us a month or two to figure out the logistics so we didn’t even really know if this would still be going on by the time it aired but that was in June, and after that I ordered 100 space bubbles to be made in China. The Flaming Lips stage rock concert in bubbles Rock band The Flaming Lips has staged unique concerts by placing the audience inside 'space' bubbles to keep everyone safe from. ![]() So we said we’d do it in the space bubbles. But The Late Show With Stephen Colbert got a hold of me and asked if we’d want to do one of these concerts where you play from home. That was at the start of quarantine in March when we thought it would be over in a month. “I made a little cartoon commentary of a Flaming Lips concert in 2019 where I’m the only one in a bubble and then a Flaming Lips concert in 2020 where everyone is in a bubble on stage and in the crowd. In an interview last week, Coyne explained how the idea came about, saying: Setlist.fm notes the band only performed two songs and played each twice: American Head tracks “Brother Eye” and “Assassins Of Youth.” The performance apparently had two purposes: To test the idea of doing a full-on bubble concert, and as a video shoot, according to Brooklyn Vegan. The Flaming Lips 'Space Bubble Concert' The psychedelic rock group Flaming Lips have established themselves as one of musics most prolific (and delightfully weird) bands. ![]()
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