Chris Martin — as famous for being Gwyneth Paltrow's husband as for leading Coldplay, one of the biggest bands in the world — has bitter memories of his last visit to Australia.

 

In 2003, with Martin and Paltrow endlessly pursued by paparazzi in Byron Bay, he blew his cool and was charged with malicious damage for attacking a photographer's car.

 

"I didn't want to come back here, to be honest," Martin conceded yesterday afternoon at Southbank, prior to his band's second Melbourne show. "Particularly for me, it was horrible. I didn't want to go through another three weeks of hatred and aggression."

 

Martin's fears have so far been allayed, with the band "meeting more cool people" this time around.

 

With Paltrow and children Apple and Moses staying in London, a question regarding his wife was met with a blank stare. But he was more forthcoming about the troubled gestation of Coldplay's latest album, X&Y.

 

"We actually didn't throw away enough songs," he said. "We should have auctioned off at least three of them."

 

When asked about the band's off-stage activities, he listed ping-pong, soccer and "relentless masturbation", before bantering about underwear thrown onstage: "It's like being given the chocolate wrapper without the chocolate."

 

He deadpanned that he didn't really care about England's World Cup loss, despite avidly watching the tournament and alluding to the Socceroos throughout this tour. Drummer Will Champion acknowledged the other band members' anonymity was something of a blessing, telling of a cabbie in Southampton who didn't believe he was in the band.

 

Saturday night's show included a nod to the most conspicuous audience member, Shane Warne: "I was just trying to think of a nice way of giving him props," Martin said. "We love Shane to bits."

 

They also plan to cover Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out Of My Head tonight. "We wouldn't have heard of Melbourne without Kylie," Martin said.

 

He hinted that the band's sound is about to be revamped considerably. "We've become the mouth that ate itself," he said. "We've become so good at being Coldplay, that now we've got to stop making that sound. Whether we'll sell any records or not is another question."

 

Coldplay play their final Melbourne show tonight at Rod Laver Arena.

 

Source: http://www.theage.com.au

When asked about the band's off-stage activities, he listed ping-pong, soccer and "relentless masturbation", before bantering about underwear thrown onstage: "It's like being given the chocolate wrapper without the chocolate."

Thats hilarious!!!!!!! :lol:

Nice new photo :)

:laugh4: Great quote!!!!! :lol:

 

And I love the piccy too :nice: Cheers!

 

 

edit: Just looked at it again, and it sorta looks like Jonny has farted and the others are all looking away in disgust (especially Will!!! LOL) :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

edit: Just looked at it again, and it sorta looks like Jonny has farted and the others are all looking away in disgust (especially Will!!! LOL) :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

LMAO :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3: haha

It does look like that!!!

where's chris's silly hat?

ha!! poor Will!! i bet that cabbie went home and googled his name :p. nice interview.

Vhris totally dosen't look like himself.

 

And nice article. Thanks!

thanks for that! Great picture hehe

Chris looks like he's gonna collapse! :sleep:

 

That quote is pretty hilarious. It's like he's never heard of "TMI." :laugh4:

edit: Just looked at it again, and it sorta looks like Jonny has farted and the others are all looking away in disgust (especially Will!!! LOL) :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

OMG I just laughed so hard I almost died :laugh4: