
Having talked the talk of the climate emergency, Coldplay, of all bands, had to not burn the aviation fuel. In 2019, Martin announced that, until the band could fill arenas from Belgium to Venezuela in carbon-neutral fashion, the jaunts that had turned Coldplay from a successful band of the Anglosphere into a vast global concern had to pause. It’s a reflex that underlines the special circumstances of this one-off gig.īefore the pandemic forced the whole world to stop touring, Coldplay presciently put their own globe-straddling juggernaut up on blocks.

A t the end of Coldplay’s greatest-hits set, Chris Martin’s thanks come in a Babel of languages – Spanish, Japanese there might be Korean in there too.
