A band has played what is being called the 'World's First Space Bubble Concert'. The psychedelic-rock group the Flaming Lips played to an audience who were all giant, inflatable plastic bubbles. The bubbles are called Zorb balls. The band played two concerts their native city Oklahoma. All band members were also inside their own Zorb bubble. There were 100 bubbles the shows. Some the bubbles contained three people. The bubbles may be one way concerts to go ahead the pandemic. Each bubble has a special speaker, a water bottle, a battery-operated fan, a towel and an "I gotta go pee/hot here" sign. Workers refill the bubble cool air if it gets too hot.
The idea the bubble concerts came the band's lead singer Wayne Coyne. He often uses a Zorb ball to roll the crowd during his concerts. He decided that concerts would be COVID-safe if everyone was a Zorb. He said attending a space bubble concert is "safer than going to the grocery store". He told the Rolling Stone magazine: "It's a very restricted, weird event, but the weirdness is so we can enjoy a concert putting our families and everybody risk." He added: "You see people excited, people being happy, and people really having fun....I think it's a bit a 'new normal'. You might go to a show, you might not, but I think we're going to be able to work it ."
