Natural History Museum, London
Flanked by Femi Kuti, Arabic singers and a whale skeleton, Coldplay are successfully reinventing themselves but their politics remain too vague
For all the grandeur of the 25-metre whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling, the Natural History Museum’s atrium is a relatively intimate venue for stadium stalwarts Coldplay. As Chris Martin himself acknowledges partway through a piano-driven take on A Sky Full of Stars: “Normally we have some fireworks at this point, but they said this building was too precious.”
From his repeated references (including some dreadful puns: he’d wanted the gig “near Wales, not whales!”, etc), Martin can’t seem to believe his luck in having secured the “non-conventional venue” for one of the first shows in service of Coldplay’s new release, Everyday Life – tonight, set against skeletal life.
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