The Flaming Lips concert with the audience inside plastic bubbles

The Flaming Lips band held a concert on Friday, January 22 at The Criterion (Oklahoma) venue. This musical event had a new feature, the group and the audience enjoyed the show inside large plastic bubbles. The space of the room was divided with ropes in a matrix of 10 rows and 10 columns with a bubble inside.

These devices have a capacity for three people maximum, an additional speaker to improve the distortions in the sound of the group inside the bubble, a bottle of water, a battery fan, a towel to clean the condensation and a sign to indicate to the security officers that the assistant wants to go to the bathroom. Once the user has put on a mask, the workers accompany him to the services.

Up to a total of 100 transparent inflatable bubbles accommodated the audience of a premiere concert, the new album 'American Head' by Wayne Coyne's group, the singer assured that one of his concerts is safer than going to the supermarket. They also performed a cover of the song 'True Love Will Find You in the End' by the dissapeared Daniel Johnston and classics of the group such as 'Do You Realize', 'She Don't Use Jelly' and 'Race For The Prize'.

A concert tour that seems insane but could end up being a genius named after the explicit "Fuck You Covid-19". Although it is not an entirely new idea at The Flaming Lips concerts, before the coronavirus pandemic, Wayne Coyne routinely got into a plastic bubble to go among the attending public.

The question of whether this concert can be replicated by other groups has a positive answer despite the need for greater investment and trained personnel to carry it out. The oxygen in each bubble lasts more than an hour but ventilation is necessary in order to lower the temperature inside and improve the sound. At the end of the concert, the audience rolls inside the bubble to outside the room where, before leaving, they have to put on their mask again.