The Flaming Lips have lately been playing around with the idea of space-bubble concerts. For many years, a highlight of the band’s live show has been Wayne Coyne climbing into a massive plastic bubble and running around on everyone’s hands. In the quarantine era, the band has played to a few live audiences, pulling off [&...

More than most bands, the Flaming Lips are prepared for a moment when a global pandemic is keeping people away from live shows. For more than a decade, the band has been experimenting with giant-plastic-bubble technology, making it a big part of their live shows. Of course, most of those shows just featured frontman Wayne…

For many years now, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has been using a giant plastic "space bubble" as part of the band's live shows. As the pandemic started, an idea hatched: Could the Flaming Lips play live shows if everyone wore bubbles like that? During a couple of recent Fallon and Colbert performances, the band…

One of the definitive images from Flaming Lips concerts over the years is the Wayne Coyne rolling across the crowd in a giant "space bubble." When the COVID-19 pandemic began, this bit inspired an ingenious Coyne doodle that then became a T-shirt in the Flaming Lips webstore, in which the entire audience was now in…