Coldplay is interested in universals, not small statements.
The U.K. chart-toppers take a beating in some quarters for desperately wanting to be all things to all folks, but in a way, they are: they're almost impossible to dislike when placed in front of you, no matter how cool you think you are.
Personality helps, of course. At the Air Canada Centre last night for the first of two sold-out Toronto shows, pathologically energetic frontman Chris Martin and his rather more heads-down bandmates – guitarist Johnny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion – managed to project an air of slightly awkward, everyman affability even while multicoloured lasers carved the air in front of them and black-lit confetti butterflies rained down in the thousands from the ceiling.
Read the full article here and pictures from this show here [thanks jenjie]
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