Summoning the forces of heaven and earth, the eco-friendly, carbon footprint-reducing, sneaker-wearing, rock n roller delivered a series of cathartic, hook-laden choruses against swelling sonic tapestries that are so grandiose and epic that it would make Cecil B. DeMille feel inadequate.
A message of ‘good will to all’
No longer considered a poor man’s U2, Coldplay has certainly arrived and it’s their time to shine.
And, for Martin, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
How nice, you ask? Martin stopped the show twice because he was worried someone in the audience was having a medical episode. The first scare turned out someone was proposing to their girlfriend, while the other time, turned out to be not a big deal.
Touring behind their ninth and tenth studio albums, 2021’s “Music of the Spheres” and 2024’s “Moon Music,” Coldplay’s two-hour-plus set was a Kubrick-esque spectacle of sound and vision with the inherent message of universal love and acceptance and good will to all.
After a two-minute PSA about the band’s devotion to sustainable energy and reducing earth’s carbon footprint, Coldplay — which also includes lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion — came barreling out of the starting gate with so much unabashed enthusiasm, arena-size excess and gusto that it was impossible not to get sucked in, hook, line and sinker, even for the band’s most harshest critic.
