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The group performed two concerts over the
weekend in Oklahoma, where audience members danced along while
enclosed in plastic bubbles.
In pre-show posts, photographer and cameraman Nathan Poppe
tweeted pictures of the venue, saying there were 100 bubbles,
each capable of holding a maximum of three people.
The capsules were equipped with a speaker, fan, bottle of water,
towel and a sign reading "I gotta go pee/It's hot in here" to be
shown to stewards, who escorted revellers or refilled the
bubbles with cool air.
Attendees had to wear masks when outside their bubble, but could
take them off inside, an instructional video shared by lead
singer Wayne Coyne, showed.
"I think we're quite lucky that the fans of The Flaming Lips
kind of like this ... adventure," Coyne, who has long been known
to crowd surf in a bubble, told the BBC.
"It's not just another concert ... you're part of this thing and
it's never been done before ... They're quite up for it being
different."
The group had held a practice bubble show run last year, when
the global pandemic forced most concerts to be cancelled or
postponed.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Alexandra
Hudson)
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