With their creative straitjacket cast off, Coldplay are now playing their best ever shows whipping the stage crew at football. Smart arses.
Nineteen thousand thoroughly satisfied customers are still pouring out into the night after the first two sold-out nights at the Manchester Evening News Arena by the time Coldplay's bassist Guy Berryman is back at his hotel bar – import lager in hand, cadging a smoke on the balcony.
Only guitarist Jonny Buckland, who's “sort of from the North” according to Berryman, has remained behind with the red wine and white Maltesers in the venue's hospitality lounge, joking with young friends and family. Drummer will Champion has similarly scarpered, and no one has seen Chris Martin - though all bar Berryman will convene again tomorrow for Coldplay's monthly Band vs Crew football match, at which the band are comfortably leading by four games to one.
Read the full Q article at the Coldplay forum here [thanks maljave & ravrat]
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