Coldplay

Megan Thee Stallion, Coldplay and Future are among a group of artists and music industry figures calling for restrictions on the use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence in US court.A new open letter titled Art on Trial: Protect Black Art includes signatories such as Post Malone, Alicia Keys and 50 Cent, alongside the three major record labels, Warner, Sony and Universal, and companies such as Spotify, TikTok and YouTube Music.The letter, which was written and published by Warner and published on 1 November in the New York…

Over the weekend Coldplay interrupted their concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to invite exiled Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani on stage to join them as they sang the anthem of the Iranian protest movement Baraye. After giving a tribute to the arrested Iranian pop singer Shervin Hajipou who wrote the song, Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin, said his band would like to do something to support 'all the women and everyone fighting for freedom in Iran,…

An Iranian protest anthem that has become the soundtrack to the national uprising was again thrust into the international spotlight over the weekend when Coldplay performed a cover and broadcast it live around the world.The British band played the song, Baraye, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday and Saturday night at the start of their world tour, with the exiled Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani on stage and singing in Farsi.Friday’s concert was streamed via satellite to cinemas in 81 countries, although not in Iran,…

Last week, BTS fans in Argentina got an unexpected but joyous piece of news. Kim Seok-jin, more commonly known as Jin, the oldest member of the South Korean K-Pop group, would be performing his new single “The Astronaut” for the first time as a special guest at a Coldplay concert in Buenos Aires. As excited as fans were, they also faced a challenge: How would they welcome Jin and show their support for him at the concert when many of them didn’t have the expensive and hard-to-get ARMY bombs?For the uninitiated, a BTS ARMY…

Coldplay has announced it is postponing several shows in its latest world tour after singer Chris Martin contracted “a serious lung infection”.In a statement posted on its social media accounts and its website, the band expressed “deep regret” and said the eight postponed shows, all in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, would be rescheduled for early 2023.Martin, 45, had been diagnosed with the lung infection and “put under strict doctor’s orders to rest for the next three weeks”, the band wrote.“We’re working as fast…

Coldplay has been forced to postpone eight shows in Brazil due to a “serious lung infection” afflicting singer Chris Martin. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, the group wrote, “With deep regret, we’ve been forced to postpone our upcoming shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo until early 2023. Due to a serious lung infection, Chris has been put under strict doctor’s orders to rest for the next three weeks.” At press time a spokesperson for the group said no additional information was available on…

Coldplay postponed its forthcoming shows in Brazil because of singer Chris Martin‘s health issues.In an Instagram post Tuesday, the band announced that Martin had been ordered by his doctor to rest due to a “serious lung infection.”“With deep regret, we’ve been forced to postpone our upcoming shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo until early 2023,” the statement read. “Due to a serious lung infection, Chris has been put under strict doctor’s orders to rest for the next three weeks. We’re working as fast as possible to…

The morning after completing their triumphant run of six sold out nights at London’s Wembley Stadium, Coldplay have announced further European and UK stadium shows for their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour in summer 2023. The dates include the tour’s first visits to Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, alongside UK shows in Manchester and Cardiff. The tour has also been heralded for its groundbreaking set of sustainability initiatives which include a show powered by 100%…

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the production meetings for Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour, currently winding up a run of six sold-out nights at London’s Wembley stadium. Umpteen stakeholders would have pondered the tour’s environmental aspects in the wake of Coldplay’s 2019 announcement that they would stop touring while they worked out how to make it less worse for the planet.Sceptics should note that the band’s light-up wristbands, always magical, are now made of compostable plastic. Anyone with any passing…

“You’re never quite sure when you go home how people are going to receive you,” says Chris Martin from Wembley’s stage. It’s the kind of thing that hugely successful rock stars say to get a cheer from a home town crowd, but perhaps there is a hint of disquiet in Coldplay’s world in 2022. What is, presumably, the most environmentally friendly tour in rock history – energy generated by stationary bikes and a kinentic dancefloor in the audience, a backstage generator that runs on cooking oil, and souvenir T-shirts priced at…