{"id":358454,"date":"2025-08-20T03:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358454\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:44:10","slug":"coldplay-review-after-12m-tickets-sold-this-tour-is-still-a-mindblowing-spectacle-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358454\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldplay review \u2013 after 12m tickets sold, this tour is still a mindblowing spectacle | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fireworks explode, lasers shoot, giant balls bounce and a sea of LED wristbands pulse in synchronicity as a rugby stadium in Hull is turned into an exploding candy shop of colour. Now in its third year and approaching a final 10 nights at Wembley Stadium \u2013 though it\u2019s expected to return from 2027 \u2013 Coldplay\u2019s Music of the Spheres tour is now the highest attended in rock history with more than 12m tickets sold.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see why. Over the Springsteen-esque shimmer of Higher Power, Chris Martin and co offer up a dizzying dose of Technicolor funk-pop with a level of production that is as impressive as it is overwhelming. At times it\u2019s like being plugged into a VR version of a \u201cgood vibes only\u201d LSD trip, including sections with the band dressed as cute aliens and the audience wearing 3D glasses that turn everything into lovehearts.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no kiss-cam drama<\/a> tonight and Martin is in effusive form, gushing praise for Hull and the crowd to almost sycophantic levels. It\u2019s arguably futile to criticise the cloying earnestness and heavy-handed sentiment of Coldplay, given how baked into their DNA and appeal it is by now, but it\u2019s laid on so thick it can feel exhausting.<\/p>\n

Eruptive energy \u2026 Coldplay at Craven Park. Photograph: Andrew Benge\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, it is lapped up thirstily. When Martin tells the audience to \u201cdance like nobody\u2019s watching\u201d over the EDM stomp of A Sky Full of Stars, to wave at someone in the crowd as if they are \u201ca best friend you\u2019ve not met yet\u201d during the eruptive surge of Yellow, or to send positivity to the people of Sudan through wiggling their fingers as pyrotechnics pop, they do just that.<\/p>\n

Fix You is turned into an almost candlelit mass-type singalong as the audience\u2019s wristbands turn into a warm yellow glow, and from a pounding version of Clocks to the gentle acoustic hum of Sparks, the band command, control and own every inch of the vast space as they move around it.<\/p>\n

An attempt at a karaoke-style singalong with the crowd to All My Love as a finale falls flat but it matters little. Fireworks are soon exploding again, bookending an evening that is pure visual extravaganza and intoxicating spectacle \u2013 like a rush of sugar to the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fireworks explode, lasers shoot, giant balls bounce and a sea of LED wristbands pulse in synchronicity as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-358454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115059036155102992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}