Coldplay: "We Feel Like Supply Teachers"

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher once described Chris Martin as a geography teacher with a gawky bird. Yesterday the Coldplay singer confessed he and bandmates Will Champion, Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman felt like supply teachers in the absence of rock heavyweights at the bash.

The modest star – who along with the rest of the lads picked up the Album Of The Year award and were named Best Act In The World Today – performed his usual tactic of putting himself down when he and the boys deserve every honour that comes their way. He said: “Well this is fucking awesome. It’s like doing a wedding speech because everyone here is our friend. I’ve got so much to say I’ll probably bore your pants off, which would be no bad thing if you were Girls Aloud.”

He added: “The other three guys have more brains than the enthusiasm I offer. I’m just one twat with three great blokes behind me. We’re not trying to be cool, we’re just trying to be the best band in the world. While all the others are off, we feel like substitute teachers.”

Chris also took a trip down memory lane, checking out snaps of the band over the years in The Sun showbiz photographer Dave Hogan’s new book Access All Areas. I also caught up with bassist Guy and my fellow Scot insisted I smell the armpit of his Viva La Vida French Revolution-style army jacket to prove they were keeping themselves clean.

I had previously reported that the lads only had one outfit each to last the duration of their world tour. But Guy told me: “We’ve got more than one of these jackets, you know, and we get them dry cleaned regularly. I want that to be made perfectly clear in the pages of Bizarre.”

So here it is in black and white. The UK leg of their tour starts at the end of November and the band will cram in 16 dates before the end of the year. In total the boys will be cracking out a massive 150 shows on the world tour.

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