There's also video of Chris and Jonny being interviewed from Singapore in the link below

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainmentfeature

 

Coldplay want you to sing along

 

SINGAPORE : British band Coldplay broke onto the international scene with their debut album “Parachutes” and hit single “Yellow” in 2000. Led by Chris Martin on vocals and piano, Jon Buckland (guitar), Will Champion (drums) and Guy Berryman (bass), Coldplay has sold over 50 million albums to date and has become one of the biggest rock bands in the world.

 

Despite their phenomenal success with their first three albums - “Parachutes” (2000), “A Rush of Blood to the Head” (2002) and “X&Y” (2005) - Coldplay decided to take their music in a different direction with their fourth studio album “Viva La Vida”.

 

And their gamble paid off.

 

Drawing influence from bands such as Blur, Arcade Fire and My Bloody Valentine, Coldplay’s groundbreaking comeback album was not only extremely well-received, it became the world's best-selling album of 2008, according to London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

 

Dubbed as Coldplay’s most “experimental” album, “Viva la Vida” also sold more downloads than any other album in digital history within a month of release.

 

“When you’re a band these days, or any musician or film maker or writer, people have a lot of choice of entertainment. And so when you’ve made three records, you need to give everyone a very good reason to buy a fourth record because they’ve already heard the sound of your group three times,” Martin told Primetime Morning.

 

“I think as we go on, we have to try and shift our sound as much as possible to keep people interested, and ourselves as well. And also, we get braver the more we go on to try things we might not have tried before.”

 

The band who described their music as "very heavy soft rock" clinched three Grammy Awards this year including Best Rock Album and Song of the Year for their hit single "Viva La Vida". But for Coldplay, Grammys are not the best reward.

 

"The best reward is people singing along [at our concerts]... enjoying songs," said Martin. "The Grammys are like our Olympics."

 

Judging by their sell-out concerts in their current Viva La Vida world tour, Coldplay must feel greatly rewarded. But response from the home crowd has been, ironically, underwhelming.

 

“In Britain, at the moment, some people are a little funny about us... I don’t know why, said Martin, recalling one of their shows in December. “We’d been all around the world and we’d done okay. We came back to the centre of Britain, Birmingham, and after two songs, the audience went quiet... the whole room of 15,000 people was completely silent.

 

"That was, for me, a big moment because part of me wanted to start crying and walk off. But the other part said ‘okay, this is a challenge’ and so we tried to make them happier. So when an audience isn’t so responsive, it’s painful but it’s also more rewarding eventually.”

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainmentfeatures/view/417609/1/.html

what happened in Birmingham? was the crowd really went quiet? i'm curious.

 

 

“In Britain, at the moment, some people are a little funny about us... I don’t know why, said Martin, recalling one of their shows in December. “We’d been all around the world and we’d done okay. We came back to the centre of Britain, Birmingham, and after two songs, the audience went quiet... the whole room of 15,000 people was completely silent.

 

"That was, for me, a big moment because part of me wanted to start crying and walk off. But the other part said ‘okay, this is a challenge’ and so we tried to make them happier. So when an audience isn’t so responsive, it’s painful but it’s also more rewarding eventually.”

 

 

 

Yeah that was weird when they had to have that cheering/screaming match just to get people excited. It's sad that they're not even appreciated in their home country. :(

The bit about the Birmingham show is so sad!

Yeah that was weird when they had to have that cheering/screaming match just to get people excited. It's sad that they're not even appreciated in their home country. :(

 

What the FUCK are you even talking about?! Not appreciated???????? Don't go there.

 

I was at one of these Birmingham shows and it was perfectly loud and everyone got really into it.

 

Maybe the boys should remember that when they do all standing GA floor, the atmosphere is a hundred times better.

What the FUCK are you even talking about?! Not appreciated???????? Don't go there.

 

I was at one of these Birmingham shows and it was perfectly loud and everyone got really into it.

 

Maybe the boys should remember that when they do all standing GA floor, the atmosphere is a hundred times better.

 

Dude calm down, Chris said it himself in the article that the audience was oddly quiet. It's not a personal attack against you.

 

 

Anyway, I read the article 3 times and still don't see where Jonny says anything was he even there? :laugh3:

edit: Ah nevermind you meant in the video :runs to watch:

I wasn't intending it as a personal attack against me :laugh3: .......but more as an offence to be taken by the British fans.

It seems to me that he always puts British fans down. They always meet their fans in other countries, yet never here.....they think everyone in the public eye hates them here, or they hide away/rush off like a-listers or something.

What the FUCK are you even talking about?! Not appreciated???????? Don't go there.

 

I was at one of these Birmingham shows and it was perfectly loud and everyone got really into it.

 

Maybe the boys should remember that when they do all standing GA floor, the atmosphere is a hundred times better.

 

From a roadie 42 blog.

 

 

the crowd were a little dissapointing

 

;)

It's sad that they're not even appreciated in their home country. :(

 

You just can't make a blanket statement like that.

 

Rather sad the way you had to dig up a R42 article. :laugh3:

the people at that birmingham show should be ashamed of themselves.

 

don't worry, coldplay! i sing!! :kiss:!!

Since the album is out they been hardly at their home country...:) so, sometimes it's also good to get remind that you need to work a bit harder if needs be.....

 

P.

cool. i love coldplay.

I was there on the 2nd show in which chris said be could have heard a pin drop. It was so quiet after violet hill bit it picked up after he gave a speech about something! Also told us about how the hardest part was written about a young girlfriend called Victoria :)

 

But yeah was very quiet at first he seemed so down at that point

can someone upload the video in MM? It's freezing up for me, and I can't watch the whole thing.

"That was, for me, a big moment because part of me wanted to start crying and walk off. But the other part said ‘okay, this is a challenge’ and so we tried to make them happier. So when an audience isn’t so responsive, it’s painful but it’s also more rewarding eventually.”

 

Awww!

 

From a roadie 42 blog.

 

 

 

 

;)

 

Roadie #42 is stuck behind the stage. The boys wear earplugs.

 

Plus, you weren't at that concert! How can you make a judgement like that if you weren't there? Tsk tsk.

:thinking: you just quoted it right there yourself! Chris said that they were so quiet that he wanted to cry and walk off. I don't have to make assumptions, Chris just said exactly what I was trying to point out by posting that R42 blog.

can someone upload the video in MM? It's freezing up for me, and I can't watch the whole thing.

 

I've been trying to rip it all day(yes, I have no life) and it's doing the same thing for me:veryangry2:

I wish I knew how to rip things, because I would try... but clearly I have no idea. :cry:

maybe someone else will be able to get it to work.

:thinking: you just quoted it right there yourself! Chris said that they were so quiet that he wanted to cry and walk off. I don't have to make assumptions, Chris just said exactly what I was trying to point out by posting that R42 blog.

 

And as I said, he had earplugs in, as did the whole band! Sheesh. If my point didn't get through there I don't know how it will. The crowd members know how loud it is, and as ducky said, it was loud. However, he could just be referring to a certain moment where it went quiet, as it happens. That doesn't mean it's quiet all concert :rolleyes:

 

"That was, for me, a big moment because part of me wanted to start crying and walk off.

 

:( He's so sensitive - I would have given him a cuddle!:hug: and wiped his tears