[German interview] "Don't forget, we're English"

[Larry]

Hey,

 

just found an up-to-date (Feb 14th) interview with Chris and Jonny. Unfortunately it's only in German. But perhaps someone will translate it sooner or later, otherwise I will try to do so this week. ;)

 

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Coldplay: «Vergessen Sie nicht, dass wir Engländer sind»

 

 

Aachen. Ihr aktuelles Album «Viva La Vida» wurde kürzlich mit knapp sieben Millionen weltweit verkauften Exemplaren offiziell zum bestverkauften Album des Jahres 2008 gekürt. Bei den Grammys wurden Coldplay mit drei Trophäen bedacht und bei den Brit Awards, die am 18. Februar 2009 vergeben werden, steht die Band ebenfalls hoch im Kurs.

 

Im Juli 2009 startet die englische Band ihre allererste Stadiontournee, im Rahmen derer sie in Hannover, Düsseldorf (27. August LTU Arena) und München den zweiten Teil ihrer «Viva La Vida»-Tour präsentieren wird. Michael Loesl sprach mit Sänger Chris Martin und Lead-Gitarrist Jonny Buckland.

 

Lastet gerade eine schwere Bürde auf Ihrer Band, weil Sie just zu den Superstars des letzten Jahres gekürt wurden?

 

Chris Martin: Ich will nicht arrogant klingen und natürlich freuen wir uns in Zeiten, in denen kaum noch jemand CDs kauft, auch über sieben Millionen verkaufte Exemplare unseres aktuellen Albums. Aber wenn die Rekorde und Awards eine Bürde für uns darstellten, würden wir sie überhöhen. Für uns war schon immer der Weg das Ziel und im Moment läuft der Motor unserer Band so geschmiert wie nie zuvor. Wir sind hungrig darauf, uns an unseren eigenen Maßstäben zu verbessern.

 

Wie sehen die konkret aus?

 

Jonny Buckland: Sich nicht mit dem zufrieden zu geben, was man in kreativer Hinsicht geschaffen hat. Wenn man eine bestimmte Form von Erfolg erreichen konnte, fragt man sich meistens erstaunt, wonach man nach der zigsten Million noch streben soll. Wir haben uns dazu entschlossen, nicht nach noch mehr Erfolg, sondern nach dem Ausleben unserer Kreativität zu streben.

 

Sie galten bislang nicht als besonders aufregende Bühnenakteure. Was hat den zunehmende Unterhaltungswert Ihrer Band während der letzten Tour bewirkt?

 

Chris Martin: Frank Zappa sagte mal, dass man als Künstler ein gesittetes Privatleben führen solle um in seiner Arbeit wild und extremistisch agieren zu können. Er hatte vermutlich absolut Recht, denn in den ersten Jahren unserer Karriere waren wir auf der Bühne ein wenig zu gesittet. Jetzt, da wir alle Kinder haben, macht das Ausleben der Extreme auf der Bühne viel mehr Sinn und Spaß. Man strebt halt immer nach dem, was man gerade nicht hat. Zuviel Heimeligkeit im Privaten führt zu Ausbruchsversuchen, was unserer Musik und unserer Präsentation auf der Bühne offenbar zuträglich ist.

 

Manifestiert sich demnach in den portraitierten Rockstarklischees in Ihrem Video zur neuen Single «Life In Technicolor II» eine geheime Sehnsucht?

 

Chris Martin: Warten Sie ab bis sie unsere Konzerte im Sommer erleben können! Nein, ich scherze nur, aber Coldplay wird nach unserer Sommertour sicher noch mal anders wahrgenommen werden. Andererseits ist es doch besser die eigene zerstörerische Kraft in einem Video als im normalen Leben auszuleben, oder? Warum hätten wir ansonsten wohl einen Helikopter Fenster zerstören lassen?

 

Setzt das Bewusstsein des eigenen Alterungsprozesses bei Ihnen Energien frei?

 

Chris Martin: Als Sekundärfolge auf jeden Fall. Wir haben das Alter hinter uns gelassen, in dem wir vor allem cool rüberkommen wollten, was wiederum die Energie respektive den Mut freigesetzt hat, sich jetzt auf der Bühne und in den eigenen Songs viel organischer, authentischer präsentieren zu können, was bis hin zur Absurdität führen kann.

 

Warum wollten Sie denn überhaupt ursprünglich als coole Band gelten?

 

Chris Martin: Vergessen Sie nicht, dass wir Engländer sind! Wir schämen uns regelrecht für alles, was dem wirklich freien Ausdruck eines Individuums entspricht. Wir mussten diesen angeborenen Habitus erstmal ablegen, bevor wir als Privatmenschen und Künstler wir selbst sein konnten. Wobei unser neues Selbstbewusstsein eher in unseren bunten Bühnenklamotten als in uns selbst steckt.

 

Die Bühnenuniformen sind also eine Art Maske, durch die Sie ein höheres Maß an Authentizität gewinnen?

 

Jonny Buckland: Ganz sicher sogar. Masken erlauben einem immer das zu sein, was man entweder sein möchte oder ist, wenn man es unmaskiert nicht ausleben kann. Vermutlich sind wir, wie viele andere auch, ziemlich gehemmte Typen.

 

Chris Martin: Die Uniformen sind auch eine Aufforderung an die Leute, die wenig Geld haben, sich selbst etwas zu schaffen, mehr Selbstrespekt beispielsweise, um damit eine Art Bewegung in Gang zu setzen, die der momentanen weltweiten Krise trotzt.

 

Mal ganz ehrlich: Ist das angesichts Ihrer vielen Millionen, die Sie als Band mit Ihrer Musik verdient haben, nicht eine leicht zynische Aufforderung?

 

Chris Martin: Geld zu haben bedeutet nicht automatisch das Recht auf den Wunsch nach einem empathischen Miteinander bei seinem Bankier abgeben zu müssen. Ich sage ja auch nicht, dass jeder danach streben soll reich zu sein und kann vielleicht an dieser Stelle als Zwischenergebnis mitteilen, dass ich jetzt, nach zehn Jahren erfolgreicher Musikerkarriere, wenn überhaupt, nicht glücklicher bin als vorher. Die Bewegung, die uns vorstrebt, trotzt den turbokapitalistischen Auffassungen von teuren Warengütern als äußerliches Bekenntnis zur Zugehörigkeit zu bestimmten gesellschaftlichen Klassen. Was denken Sie wohl warum der Song «Viva La Vida» ein so großer Erfolg geworden ist?

 

Weil er bei Ihren Konzerten mehr als jeder andere Ihrer Songs eine Einheit schafft?

 

Chris Martin: Exakt. Die meisten von uns denken, dass es da draußen irgendwo eine Mehrheit gibt, zu der sich der Einzelne nicht zugehörig fühlt, nur weil sich viele von uns bestimmte Etiketten nicht leisten können. Es gibt diese Mehrheit gar nicht und wenn doch, dann besteht sie aus lauter Menschen, die sich nicht zugehörig fühlen. Ein Song wie «Viva La Vida» schafft tatsächlich ein Zugehörigkeitsgefühl und deswegen sind wir wirklich stolz darauf ihn geschrieben zu haben.

 

Ein Popsong kann also immer noch gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz haben?

 

Jonny Buckland: Ich will mich dabei nicht zu weit aus dem Fenster lehnen, aber woran liegt es wohl, dass Konzerte und Fußballspiele einen immer höheren Andrang erleben? Es ist das Bedürfnis des Individuums, sich in einer Gemeinschaft wieder zu finden.

 

Was wiederum direkt die Frage aufwirft, warum Coldplay-Konzerte in der Regel doch eher relativ kurze Angelegenheiten sind.

 

Chris Martin: Diese Kritik hören wir seltsamerweise nur in Deutschland. Andererseits hat sie vielleicht auch etwas Gutes, denn schlimmer wäre es, wenn man uns nachsagen würde, dass unsere Konzerte zu lange dauern würden. Ich persönlich mag Konzerte nicht besonders, die mehr als 90 Minuten lang meine Aufmerksamkeit fordern. Aber im Sommer werden wir ohnehin zehn Minuten länger spielen, oder vielleicht sogar 20 Minuten mehr speziell für das deutsche Publikum.

 

Jonny Buckland: Oder wir spielen unsere Songs hier einfach ein bisschen langsamer.

 

Source: http://www.az-web.de/news/kultur-detail-az/809584?_link=&skip=&_g=Coldplay-Vergessen-Sie-nicht-dass-wir-Englaender-sind.html

 

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Hehe so obviously only people in Germany complain about the short setlist. Glad their upcoming gigs in Düsseldorf, Hanover and Munich will be 20 minutes longer according to Chris. :wacky: :laugh3::P

[lndnsky]

I would love to understand it, but my German is very very very weak...

[aniskywalker]

Thank you!

[Pris]

I would love to understand it, but my German is very very very weak...

Mine is nonexistant :\

[Mimixxx]

Google translate isn't toooooo bad:

 

Coldplay: "Do not forget that we are Englishmen»

 

 

Aachen. Their latest album "Viva La Vida" has been recently restored with almost seven million copies sold worldwide to officially best album of the year 2008 award. The Grammys were Coldplay with three trophies care and the Brit Awards, on 18 Be awarded in February 2009, the band is also very popular.

 

In July 2009 the English band launched their first ever stadium tour in which they are in Hanover, Dusseldorf (LTU Arena August 27) and Munich, the second part of their "Viva La Vida 'Tour will be presenting. Michael Loesl spoke with singer Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland.

 

Just bear a heavy burden on your belt, because you are just about the superstars of the past year have been chosen?

 

Chris Martin: I do not want to sound arrogant, and of course we are happy at a time when hardly anyone buys CDs, including over seven million copies sold of our current album. But if the records and awards a burden for us, we would increase it. For us it was always the way the goal and at the moment the engine is running so our band lubricated like never before. We are hungry to us at our own standards to improve.

 

How do the practice?

 

Jonny Buckland: Not happy with to give you in creative ways has created. If you have a certain form of success was achieved, one wonders mostly surprised that after the umpteenth one million still aspire to be. We've decided, not according to even more success, but by the desire to strive for our creativity.

 

They were so far not a particularly exciting stage actors. What has increased the entertainment value of your band during the last tour cause?

 

Chris Martin: Frank Zappa said times that we as artists civilized life should lead to work in his wild and extremist act them. He was probably absolutely right, because in the first years of our careers we were on stage a little too civilized. Now that we all have children, does the desire of extremes on the stage much more meaningful and fun. It strives always halt after what they just did not have. Too much Cozy in private will lead to the outbreak Try what our music and our presentation on stage is obviously beneficial.

 

Thus manifests itself in the rock star clichés portrayed in the video for new single "Life In Technicolor II" a secret longing?

 

Chris Martin: Wait until our concerts in the summer experience! No, I joke only, but Coldplay is for our summer tour will have a different perception. However, it is better to own a destructive force in a video than in normal life act out, right? Why we would have otherwise probably a helicopter window can destroy?

 

Implies an awareness of one's own aging process in your energy?

 

Chris Martin: As a secondary consequence in any case. We have the age behind us, where we especially wanted to cool across, which in turn the energy or the courage to release himself now on the stage and in the songs much more organic and authentic to be able to present what to absurdity can lead to.

 

Why did you get on as a cool band originally apply?

 

Chris Martin: Do not forget that we are Englishmen! We are downright ashamed of ourselves for everything that the expression of a truly free individual is. We had this innate habit first drop before we as private individuals and artists themselves, we could be. And our new self-confidence in our more colorful stage clothes than us in itself.

 

The stage uniforms are a kind of mask, giving you a higher degree of authenticity to win?

 

Jonny Buckland: Surely even. Masks allow an always to be what you want to be either or, if you desire it can not be unmasked. Presumably we are, like many others, rather inhibited types.

 

Chris Martin: The uniforms are also an invitation to the people who have little money themselves to create more self-respect, for example, so as a kind of movement to trigger the current global crisis defying.

Time, quite honestly: Is this the face of your millions, you are as a band with your music have earned, not an easy call cynical?

 

Chris Martin: money does not automatically have the right to wish for an empathic interaction with his banker to submit them. I did not say that everyone should strive to be rich and can perhaps at this point as an intermediate result to announce that I now, after ten years of successful music career, if ever, am not happier than before. The movement, which we vorstrebt, defying the turbokapitalistischen views of expensive goods as goods external commitment to belonging to certain social classes. What do you think probably why the song "Viva La Vida" such a great success yet?

 

Because he is at your concerts more than any other of your songs creates a unit?

 

Chris Martin: Exactly. Most of us think that somewhere out there are a majority, to which the individual does not feel to belong, just because many of us certain labels can not afford. There is such a majority does not and if they do, then it is made louder people who do not feel belong. A song like "Viva La Vida" actually creates a sense of belonging and that is why we are really proud to have written it.

 

A pop song can still have social relevance?

 

Jonny Buckland: I am not too far from the window lean, but what is it well that concerts and football games becoming ever more crowded experience? It is the desire of the individual, in a community once again to find.

Which in turn directly raises the question of why Coldplay concerts in the rule but rather are relatively brief affairs.

 

Chris Martin: The criticism we hear strangely only in Germany. However, it has perhaps something good, because it would be worse if we were after would say that our concerts would take too long. I personally do not particularly like concerts for more than 90 minutes, calling my attention. But in the summer anyway, we will play ten minutes longer, or maybe even 20 minutes more specifically for the German audience.

 

Jonny Buckland: Or we play our songs here just a bit slower.

[Larry]

Where there's a will there's a way!

 

Great idea! Thanks Mich! ;)

[mc_squared]

^It's total gobbledygook!!:P

[Mimixxx]

It's not. You get the gist and it's better than nothing

[Carla]

Mine is nonexistant :\

 

you and me both :cry:

[melanieau]

Google translate isn't toooooo bad:

 

Coldplay: "Do not forget that we are Englishmen»

 

 

Aachen. Their latest album "Viva La Vida" has been recently restored with almost seven million copies sold worldwide to officially best album of the year 2008 award. The Grammys were Coldplay with three trophies care and the Brit Awards, on 18 Be awarded in February 2009, the band is also very popular.

 

In July 2009 the English band launched their first ever stadium tour in which they are in Hanover, Dusseldorf (LTU Arena August 27) and Munich, the second part of their "Viva La Vida 'Tour will be presenting. Michael Loesl spoke with singer Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland.

 

Just bear a heavy burden on your belt, because you are just about the superstars of the past year have been chosen?

 

Chris Martin: I do not want to sound arrogant, and of course we are happy at a time when hardly anyone buys CDs, including over seven million copies sold of our current album. But if the records and awards a burden for us, we would increase it. For us it was always the way the goal and at the moment the engine is running so our band lubricated like never before. We are hungry to us at our own standards to improve.

 

How do the practice?

 

Jonny Buckland: Not happy with to give you in creative ways has created. If you have a certain form of success was achieved, one wonders mostly surprised that after the umpteenth one million still aspire to be. We've decided, not according to even more success, but by the desire to strive for our creativity.

 

They were so far not a particularly exciting stage actors. What has increased the entertainment value of your band during the last tour cause?

 

Chris Martin: Frank Zappa said times that we as artists civilized life should lead to work in his wild and extremist act them. He was probably absolutely right, because in the first years of our careers we were on stage a little too civilized. Now that we all have children, does the desire of extremes on the stage much more meaningful and fun. It strives always halt after what they just did not have. Too much Cozy in private will lead to the outbreak Try what our music and our presentation on stage is obviously beneficial.

 

Thus manifests itself in the rock star clichés portrayed in the video for new single "Life In Technicolor II" a secret longing?

 

Chris Martin: Wait until our concerts in the summer experience! No, I joke only, but Coldplay is for our summer tour will have a different perception. However, it is better to own a destructive force in a video than in normal life act out, right? Why we would have otherwise probably a helicopter window can destroy?

 

Implies an awareness of one's own aging process in your energy?

 

Chris Martin: As a secondary consequence in any case. We have the age behind us, where we especially wanted to cool across, which in turn the energy or the courage to release himself now on the stage and in the songs much more organic and authentic to be able to present what to absurdity can lead to.

 

Why did you get on as a cool band originally apply?

 

Chris Martin: Do not forget that we are Englishmen! We are downright ashamed of ourselves for everything that the expression of a truly free individual is. We had this innate habit first drop before we as private individuals and artists themselves, we could be. And our new self-confidence in our more colorful stage clothes than us in itself.

 

The stage uniforms are a kind of mask, giving you a higher degree of authenticity to win?

 

Jonny Buckland: Surely even. Masks allow an always to be what you want to be either or, if you desire it can not be unmasked. Presumably we are, like many others, rather inhibited types.

 

Chris Martin: The uniforms are also an invitation to the people who have little money themselves to create more self-respect, for example, so as a kind of movement to trigger the current global crisis defying.

Time, quite honestly: Is this the face of your millions, you are as a band with your music have earned, not an easy call cynical?

 

Chris Martin: money does not automatically have the right to wish for an empathic interaction with his banker to submit them. I did not say that everyone should strive to be rich and can perhaps at this point as an intermediate result to announce that I now, after ten years of successful music career, if ever, am not happier than before. The movement, which we vorstrebt, defying the turbokapitalistischen views of expensive goods as goods external commitment to belonging to certain social classes. What do you think probably why the song "Viva La Vida" such a great success yet?

 

Because he is at your concerts more than any other of your songs creates a unit?

 

Chris Martin: Exactly. Most of us think that somewhere out there are a majority, to which the individual does not feel to belong, just because many of us certain labels can not afford. There is such a majority does not and if they do, then it is made louder people who do not feel belong. A song like "Viva La Vida" actually creates a sense of belonging and that is why we are really proud to have written it.

 

A pop song can still have social relevance?

 

Jonny Buckland: I am not too far from the window lean, but what is it well that concerts and football games becoming ever more crowded experience? It is the desire of the individual, in a community once again to find.

Which in turn directly raises the question of why Coldplay concerts in the rule but rather are relatively brief affairs.

 

Chris Martin: The criticism we hear strangely only in Germany. However, it has perhaps something good, because it would be worse if we were after would say that our concerts would take too long. I personally do not particularly like concerts for more than 90 minutes, calling my attention. But in the summer anyway, we will play ten minutes longer, or maybe even 20 minutes more specifically for the German audience.

 

Jonny Buckland: Or we play our songs here just a bit slower.

 

 

Thankies Mich:kiss:

[Batman]

 

Jonny Buckland: Or we play our songs here just a bit slower.

 

:laugh3:

[Larry]

If you still need a proper translation (maybe for the site) please don't hesitate to ask. ;)

[but a dream]

:laugh3:

That made me laugh out loud too :lol:

 

:D

[Gya]

20 minutes longer just for us? He better doesn't forget this :P

[Bauk]

Pff, I've heard so many complains here too about the length of the setlist.

So, please, some extra minutes in Holland too :P

[Natster]

WTF! Mwahahaha!! That's KAK funny! :laugh3:

[lara____]

longer setlist for the summer, yay!

 

i just wish we had the original transcript. Clearly they would have answered in English in the first place .... :\