A lot of the alcohol will kind of evaporate, but some of it doesn’t. Let that sit for about an hour, and then we empty it of all the liquid that’s left. We let that sit for about an hour, then we go in and we blow it up again with the leaf blower. You can see it dripping up and down the sides and you can kind of get an idea that you’ve covered every surface in there with a good amount. “We slosh it around, and it coats it pretty well. “The next day we pour 20 ounces of the 70% alcohol right into the bubble and then blow it up,” he explains. But then there’s also the issue of keeping those bubbles clean. Thanks to the band’s nearly two-decade use of them, Coyne has become quite an expert in space bubbles - and by the time of the Criterion show, he had a pretty good sense of how and where to procure the ones that make the most sense for an audience. 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.
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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.
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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. 26: Syracuse, N.Y.“It turned out more spectacular and more positive than I could have ever thought,” Coyne told Variety. album “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” which debuted at No. The artist’s official Web site is streaming full tracks from “Sea Change,” which is the follow-up to the 1999 album “Midnite Vultures.” As for the Lips, they are touring in support of their recent Warner Bros. Beck will perform on California radio station KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show on the new album’s street date. 25 on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” during which they will perform a song from Beck’s new Interscope album “Sea Change,” due the day before. The Lips are expected to open each show with their own set, and subsequently serve as Beck’s backing band later in the evening. Beck’s official Web site will be offering pre-sale tickets to some shows beginning this morning (Sept. 30-31 stand at New York’s Beacon Theatre. The first leg of dates will close with an Oct. As tipped here last month, Beck and the Flaming Lips will set out on a fall North American tour, set to begin Oct.
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