Chris Martin rang Radio 1 this morning (Monday) from Ghana where he's spent the last five days with Oxfam travelling around the country.
He's been on the road in the back of a van in a dust storm highlighting their campaign Make Trade Fair. Chris has been talking to local farmers about how their lives have been affected by unfair trade deals with other countries and told us no one has a clue who he is over there:
"I think it's much better that they don't know what I do musically, otherwise they'd like me as little as everybody else does! Me and Make Trade Fair are like Beyonce and L'Oreal."
"I felt like I'd been banging on about making trade fair for two years - putting it on my hands and what have you, but it had started to become a bit hollow because I started to forget what I was really talking about. It took twenty minutes of driving in a truck through farm land in Ghana to remind me why I'm doing it."
And Chris told us he's really looking forward to getting back in the loop when Coldplay's new album is released. He said, "I can't wait now to tour, and do interviews and to promote our record - partly because I'm musically excited about and partly because I'm really passionate to talk about trade again." [Thanks Alessandra]
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