Hahaha...I loooooove awkwardness! This is going to be a treat when I get home! :)

im not sure "treat" is the right word ..........more a "listen" :D

Yah, I don't mind it...it probably would just surprise me, I'd be a bit shoked and then it would make me laugh. I mean it also depends on how mean the person interviewing got.

 

But, having to do with Chris, it is kind of funny. I still have to hear it. Poor Will though...he must of felt very awkward.

He's probably used to it :dozey:

That was exactly my thoughts!:laugh3: He's like, "there goes Chris again... I am here to save the day."

That was exactly my thoughts!:laugh3: He's like, "there goes Chris again... I am here to save the day."

 

SuperWill!

Chris Martin made me realise how much I love Front Row

 

Listening to Chris Martin flounce out of an interview on Radio 4's Front Row last night, I thought many things. First, how much I'd like to see Martin - if a weird mingling of existential realms were possible - in Surallun's boardroom, telling him instead of Front Row presenter John Wilson, that he really doesn't like "having to talk about things". Second, how none of us is ever going to love a fragile celebrity buckling under the pressure of nothing more than a pre-recorded interview, especially one as mild as the Front Row encounter. Third, how much I've always winced, listening to Martin in interviews, thanks to his lame attempts at kooky humour, and that it was a relief in some ways that he'd walked out. And fourth, more positively, what a fine show Front Row is.

 

It's not in the miss-it-and-listen-again radio essentials for me, but I do find myself listening to Front Row a few times a week, and paying attention especially to their reviews. Items are short enough that I can tolerate a piece about something I'm not that keen on, and contributors varied enough to complement the eclectic items up for discussion. Like the rest of radio, the programme does books especially well, but mostly I admire the relaxed tone and its particular suitability for its slot (I am usually cooking when it's on, and it's the ideal backdrop to easy-to-medium complexity dishes).

 

With the recent revamp and relocation of The Culture Show, there has been renewed discussion about the value and purpose of television arts shows. But what about radio? What do you think of the spread of arts coverage and which show(s) do you favour: the highbrow pleasures of Night Waves? The global perspective of World Book Club on the World Service? Radio 2's Weekender with Matthew Wright? Does the coverage all play too safe and cosy, or should we relish the relatively generous spread of arts programming on radio?

 

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2008/06/chris_martin_front_row.html

 

Eeek.

I actually really want to listen to the interview, see how it went down. I know Chris sometimes - it doesn't bother me - but this does really remind me of an article where he did the same thing at the Bakery, with Will. Can't remember which one now. :thinking:

 

Anyways yeah, shall post my thoughts soon!

 

Thanks for the article Mimi! Very interesting...

"Third, how much I've always winced, listening to Martin in interviews, thanks to his lame attempts at kooky humour, and that it was a relief in some ways that he'd walked out."

 

:laugh3: You have to admit, Chris does get kooky in his interviews. He usually looooves to stray off topic. It cracks me up though.

 

I wonder why he is under so much pressure...

Aww poor Chris. I felt so sorry for him. :\ :sad:

 

It wasn't as bad as I expected, although you could so tell Chris didn't want to be there.

 

(and also damn the DJ playing parts of songs I hadn't heard. quickly muting/unmuting my computer was crap :lol:)

Hmmm... If I'd listened to the interview without first reading the comments here, I would've thought the interviewer was simply expressing a type of dry humor as far as the "sexist" and "morbid" comments, not unlike what Chris usually says. Maybe, I'm wrong... But it seems like an overreaction that will only blow-up in Chris's face.

Sigh.. we all have our bad days.. and when we're confronted with such people/questions, it gets even harder..

Sounds like the interviewer isnt much of a coldplay fan nor has he listened to the full album. Looks like he just read through the songs and thought: 'Hmm Cemeteries of London...Death and all his friends...Lost...sounds rather emo'. At least he gives his honest opnion by calling it morbid. Can't hate him for sharing his opinion. Chris must be mad frustrated at this moment as well. Can't really blame either.

Yah, I would have probably been mad if the accused me of being sexist...but the morbid part...not so much...

 

I mean some of their previous songs have been on the more depressing side... some...

 

I haven't heard the new album so I can't talk though...

I feel like Chris had a bad day AND felt offended by someone not understanding his music but pretending like he does.

 

To be honest, the longer I listen to it, the more I'm pissed off by the interviewer. He has that arrogant sound in his voice, and in the end Chris might have thought he was meant by "the dictator leading it", facing that constant statement of "Chris is the lead and the others don't matter, Chris is a diva, blah blah".. I'm sick of it, too, and so is he.

this is going to sound bollocks, but i genuinely understand how chris feels

when you get probed too much about something you've done, or people pick at it too much and question you about specific things, you sometimes reach breaking point

i've done it afew times when i've been continuously questioned about my artwork

the best thing to do is to walk away or maybe just say 'well, what do you think about it?'

i feel sorry for chris but at the same time, he's famous so he'll have to deal with any shit that gets thrown at him

from the off he sounded like he didn't want to be there, maybe he should've let Jonny or Guy go instead of him.

:( we all have off days.

Perez Hilton posted something nasty about this today. Called Chris "Diva".

true - and these few days are toooo stressful for the lad. he should go to some remote country house and chill out with his family, away from the media and all external pressure.

 

he needs to decompress

Perez Hilton posted something nasty about this today. Called Chris "Diva".

 

I ventured onto his site to read that.

 

What a dickhead, he clearly just went out and read an article on the net and put it in his own words, then all the shitty comments below like they know Chris.

 

:( :angry:

perez hilton is an asshole.

 

had to be said.

Perez is a bitch though.

its on bbc news now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7452341.stm

not on tv

Urgh they've put the clip up too.

And of course, the clip doesn't include hardly any of the assy things the interviewer was asking...grrrrr:veryangry:

ugh i just love him. He's only human.

This will probably blow over quickly - he has already left an interview recently (with The Observer, I think), when the reporter started asking about his personal life, and that's had a short lifespan as gossip news. The only differences are that this happened on the day of release and that, because it was radio, the awkwardness was captured in all that soundwave glory. It's a bit more dramatic than reading a transcript in the paper, after all.

 

I can't imagine this will have any major effect. They're doing so many promos, interviews and such that this will soon be brushed away as an unfortunate one-off.