Jonny Buckland Speaks Out On Live Shows

Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland says Eno's presence definitely had a hand in the band's latest Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.

"He kind of had an influence on the psychology of it if that makes any sense, of how to create an album," Buckland says prior to a Philadelphia show last Friday. "It's not like he sits there and makes you get the right drum sound. He's much more interested in the broader strokes of production. It's not that he doesn't have ideas about drums sounds, but he's an incredible fountain of ideas."

And as for the new material, Coldplay perform a good chunk of the record live. Buckland says he's quite surprised at how well Chinese Sleep Chant fares and Lost! comes off in concert. "I think it works the best of anything of the new ones really," he says of Lost!. "But you never really know when you get to a live arena and things that you thought were sure things just sound rubbish. But Lost! is something that really has worked."

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