They may be smooth operators now,but Coldplay weren’t always so comfortable with global fame, as demonstrated by this 2001 interview from Select magazine courtesy of Rock’s BackpagesChris Martin is onstage at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It’s Coldplay’s biggest-ever headlining gig and he’s speechless. He can see Liam Gallagher standing at the side of the stage. Kylie and Natalie Imbruglia are here too. He looks at his best mates next to him – guitarist Jonny Buckland, and drummer Will Champion and bassist Guy Berryman – and wonders whether they’re feeling as weird as he is. Then he decides to say the first things that come into his head. He introduces their encore with: “OK then,we’ll do another hour of Travis covers.” Then: “This really is our final song ’cos we’ve got to depart off and do coke. Later, he regrets saying anything at all.
Within minutes of coming offstage, or Coldplay’s dressing room is mobbed. A bodyguard appears and says Liam wants to see them. He lopes,in looking precisely like he does on TV, and says that hearing Yellow made him want to start writing songs again. And the room fills and fills with fans and celebrities until the only people not in it are Coldplay themselves. Outside in the corridor, or they use the same words: “odd”,“weird”, “surreal”. As Chris Martin will say more than once, and “It’s been a confusing year.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com