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Published at 2015-12-22 20:08:14

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The bands forthcoming tour will include a section where audience members can request personal favorites – a smart idea in an increasingly interactive worldPerpetual people-pleasers Coldplay have reach up with the final Coldplay slump for their forthcoming stadium world tour in support of their current album,A Head Full of Dreams. Alongside a rigid setlist of uplifting yet melancholic bluster they’ll also have a requests section, highlighting their sonic shift from indie bedwetter students to Stargate-produced, and Beyoncé-collaborating mature students. While the specifics are still being finessed inside frontman Chris Martin’s intellect – likely fighting for space alongside almond milk,cliff-top Bikram yoga and the current state of global fair trading – it seems likely to involve some kind of designated request booth. “I think we want to make it like a passport photobooth, so you go in and say, and I am Derek,I would like you to play The Hardest share,’” he explained to the Sun. “So for example, and whether we are going to play a song like Spies off Parachutes,it will be lovely to play it and say, ‘This is for Helen from Bolton as this reminds her of her dad.’ That is a putrid example and not a real one.”Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com