★★★★ Once a slightly gawky and awkward presence, Chris Martin is now the consummate frontman 🖋️ Joe Goggins
Once a slightly gawky and awkward presence, he is now the consummate frontman, one deeply engaged with the audience.
He’s an incredibly likeable showman. He beams through a tribute to Tina Turner, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”, on which Lauren Mayberry of support band CHVRCHES joins him.
More recently, Coldplay’s love affair with the city has been marked by tragedy; perhaps the defining moment of the One Love Manchester concert, organised in the wake of, was a particularly cathartic “Fix You”, which Martin led into with a cover of a local classic, James’s “Sit Down”.
The song’s most famous line goes, “If I hadn’t seen such riches, I could live with being poor”, which perhaps explains this unassuming band’s ongoing love affair with stadium shows. In theory, they might be just as happy playing to a handful of people in the Northern Quarter. In practice, the thrill of euphoric singalongs is nearly impossible not to be swept away by, for both band and audience.
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