Long live the kings. And you too, Coldplay. The world's biggest band hit Toronto's Air Canada Centre for the first of two sold-out concerts on Wednesday, leaving the impression that while its members are a nice young foursome of Englishmen capable of writing gorgeous anthems and performing them wonderfully, they just aren't the conquering types.
Appearing as if they hadn't cleaned the dust from Sunday's Pemberton Festival in B.C. off their raggedy military garb, the CD-selling giants starting grandly, entering with the swelling instrumental Life in Technicolor that ushered them to an audience that greeted its heroes with something like a soccer-stadium chant.
Ninety minutes later, after a sweeping, grandiose show of it, the band left with a brief encore of an unexpected older hit – "We haven't rehearsed this,” singer Chris Martin said of 2000's Don't Panic – and a happy new jig apparently called The Dubliner.
Read the full article here and pictures from this show here [thanks mimixxx]
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