"Crikey," spluttered Coldplay singer Chris Martin. "We usually play to more people at our soundchecks." .
Right now, Coldplay are the biggest band on earth. Their third album, X&Y, topped the charts in the United States as well as Britain and their mammoth tour in support of it is not scheduled to finish until June.
Last night's intimate, full-length set (to be broadcast on Radio 2 on 8 April) was their last British sighting for the foreseeable future. Rapper Kanye West (namechecked in Politik's re-modelled lyrics), and jazzer Jamie Cullum to DJ Chris Evans and queen of the musicals Elaine Paige were sprinkled among the competition winners to see what was effectively a stadium show in a living room.
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