By Reuters Staff
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(Reuters) - American rock band The Flaming Lips have come up with a creative way to put on live shows in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - putting themselves and their audience in protective “space bubbles”.
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.
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By Mark Savage
media captionThe Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told the BBC what it s been like to embrace a new kind of gig during a global pandemic
The Flaming Lips have staged a unique pair of gigs in Oklahoma, with both the band and their audience inside individual inflatable balls.
Each show accommodated 100 bubbles, holding up to three people each, with the band inside their own capsules.
The concept came from frontman Wayne Coyne, who often rolls over the crowd in a Zorb ball during the band s gigs.
Speaking ahead of the concerts, Coyne said they would be safer than going to the grocery store .