coldplay a head full of dreams tour setlist

As Chris Martin said: “We’re enjoying playing really old songs. Perhaps more importantly for the band themselves, it’s a way of dusting off the old songs they’ve performed endlessly, or perhaps have fallen out of love with, and placing them in a new context. It helps create that all-important sense of a shared emotional experience among 70,000 people. As a stadium proposition, it’s a neat way of making a gargantuan venue feel slightly more personal, even if it is only pleasing Derek and Helen from Bolton. “So for example, if 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 bad example and not a real one.”įor a band like Coldplay, this kind of move makes a lot of sense. “I think we want to make it like a passport photobooth, so you go in and say, ‘I am Derek, I would like you to play The Hardest Part,’” he explained to the Sun.

While the specifics are still being finessed inside frontman Chris Martin’s mind – 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. 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, Beyoncé-collaborating mature students. Perpetual people-pleasers Coldplay have come up with the ultimate Coldplay move for their forthcoming stadium world tour in support of their current album, A Head Full of Dreams.

Coldplay a head full of dreams tour setlist