{"id":83092,"date":"2021-01-27T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=83092"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:51:13","slug":"flaming-lips-socially-distance-gigs-by-putting-fans-inside-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/flaming-lips-socially-distance-gigs-by-putting-fans-inside-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Lips socially distance gigs by putting fans inside inflatable balls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@thanhy_99\">Image&nbsp;Credit:&nbsp;Thanhy&nbsp;Nguyen<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><span style=\"color:#3366FF\"> Two Flaming Lips shows in Oklahoma featured everyone in \u2018space bubbles\u2019. <\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Have rock band Flaming Lips solved the problem of social distancing at <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/uk-music-releases-new-report-outlining-strategy-to-restart-live-music-industry-when-safe\/\">live gigs?<\/a> They\u2019ve found a resourceful way to keep everyone in the crowd safe \u2013 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKZOrsIJ7jT\/\">encasing themselves and the audience in giant inflatable balls. <\/a><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flaming Lips stage unique gigs in Oklahoma, with band and audience inside inflatable balls <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DxMDd5kM2r\">https:\/\/t.co\/DxMDd5kM2r<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1353640029118201858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sight of singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/waynecoyne5\/\">Wayne Coyne <\/a>rolling about in a Zorb ball is a familiar one to Flaming Lips fans \u2013 for years he\u2019s jumped in a plastic bubble at their gigs to spin madly over the crowd. The idea of putting the audience in balls as well is a new one, however. The band had trialled the use of the bubbles for Covid-safe gigs back in October 2020, teased some more by playing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nprmusic\">NPR Tink Desk concert<\/a> in Zorb balls, but the pair of shows in Oklahoma City was the first time the plan had been seen in action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Flaming Lips: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MkKYLILiSDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-55804860\">Coyne told the BBC<\/a>: \u2018it is kind of absurd, I\u2019d be the first to say that. I\u2019ve been doing it as part of our theatrical freak out stuff at our concerts since I started doing it in 2004. We\u2019re probably the only group in the world that probably would embrace this.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each \u2018space bubble\u2019 is big enough for three people and contained water, a cooling fan and a speaker. Audience members were armed with \u2018I Have to Pee\u2019 signs, a signal to staff that they need help exiting the ball to use the facilities, which when flipped read \u2018It\u2019s Hot in Here\u2019, asking the staff to pump the ball with new cool air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flaming Lips, who formed in 1983, released their latest album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/33TKncIRzXg1IVjD1hjTH9?si=K_vqBWpISzqMRYfU9fYbUA\">American Head<\/a> <\/em>last September. Aside from appreciating the safety aspect, Coyne said that the band\u2019s fans \u2018like the adventure\u2026 it\u2019s not just another concert, you\u2019re part of this thing that\u2019s never been done before, and they\u2019re quite up for it being different.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on how well you cope with enclosed spaces, the prospect is either a dream or a nightmare. It depends how desperately you&#8217;re missing live music. Would you willingly trap yourself in a plastic ball if it meant that you could <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/liveurope-study-young-musicians-touring-europe\/\">watch your favourite band<\/a> again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Flaming Lips shows in Oklahoma featured everyone in \u2018space bubbles\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":83107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8614,1048],"tags":[15840,21632,12745,21627,21631,21630,21629,6098,92,16049,21628,21626],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Flaming Lips socially distance gigs by putting fans inside inflatable balls - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/flaming-lips-socially-distance-gigs-by-putting-fans-inside-balls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flaming Lips socially distance gigs by putting fans inside inflatable balls - 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