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The wand the flaming lips12/18/2023 ![]() But I think we could do something where it’s in the new world, where we go a little slower with a little less people, and be a little bit more aware of who’s breathing on whom and stuff like that.” That’s just too many people having to help - too many flights, too many trucks. “I don’t think we’d want to take it on a fly-by-night tour like we’re used to doing before COVID. “I think we can definitely take it to other places,” he said. And then if they did, we’d try another one and go from there.”Ī space bubble tour is possible, but Coyne said it would have to be on a very small scale. “I feel like we would put one show on sale, and see if anybody wants to go. “Do you buy the front row? Do you buy by the row? And would people even know what a row is? It’s such an unknown world,” he says. And I think the Flaming Lips audience is the perfect audience to say ‘We’ll help you do this, we can make this work,’ because they’re a very smart, caring, giving kind of an audience.”Ĭoyne said they’ll announce the next show in November, with a December date, in order to give them a few weeks to figure out how to do it. “Let’s start with a little bit of an audience, and if we have to spread it out and play multiple nights, well, great. “I thought even the amount of audience we had for the video shoot was a little scary,” Coyne admits. There’s also the question of how big the crowd should be. Next up, because the bubbles are so big, Coyne is figuring out how many people to allow inside (there’s room for three) and whether, during a longer show, there should be a break to allow for air refreshing and restroom visits. “They’re getting drunk and they’re losing their minds and before you know it, they’re grabbing onto each other and they’re screaming in each other’s faces.” “Part of the dilemma of doing loud concerts is that it gets people excited,” Coyne says. ![]() ![]() (For the record, none of the 116 attendees needed to go during this show.) Among the logistical issues the band was looking at: How to safely assemble the audience outside, without it becoming a tailgate party getting the crowd inside the balloons and blowing them up, without it becoming a super-spreader event and even figuring out how many people might need to unzip and go to the bathroom during the show. Now it feels absolutely wonderful.”Ĭoyne said the event this month was a dress rehearsal for perhaps a full concert that he’d like to do December in the same location. “I worried mostly that something embarrassing would happen or it would look like it wasn’t safe. “It turned out more spectacular and more positive than I could have ever thought,” Coyne told Variety.
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