The latest remote episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert featured a very special live performance from the Flaming Lips which might just double as a window into the future of live music. The band opted against the type of multi-cam, remote rendition we’ve become so familiar with of late, and instead got themselves into some of frontman, Wayne Coyne’s signature bubbles to perform a socially-distant version of 1999’s “Race For The Prize” to a small audience who were also safe, dancing inside their own individual bubbles. Watch below.
Giant bubbles keep @theflaminglips at a safe social distance for this performance of “Race For the Prize” #PlayAtHome pic.twitter.com/kJfZch8uQz
… A Late Show (@colbertlateshow) June 11, 2020
With the band taking the extra caution of also wearing masks and gloves, it looks like a scene that would have belonged only in the most avant-garde of art-house movies until a couple of months ago. Now it makes for a perfectly captured moment in time. For Wayne Coyne, life inside the bubble is nothing new. The singer has been crowd surfing inside of one during Flaming Lips concerts for the better part of a decade, and just last year Coyne married his partner, Katy Weaver at a rooftop ceremony – inside a giant bubble.
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