Coldplay perform without one member ‘for first time ever’ after health emergency

Coldplay played their archetypal performance without bassist Guy Berryman aft helium was struck down with unwellness connected Wednesday evening.

The Fix You hitmakers were forced to enactment successful their co-producer and engineer, Bill Rahko, astatine their Melbourne amusement aft the 46-year-old instrumentalist was ‘taken sick unexpectedly’ astatine the ‘last minute’.

Frontman Chris Martin explained Guy was virtually ‘vomiting’ and promised to bash the champion they could with his replacement.

He told the assemblage astatine the Marvel Stadium: ‘I person to say, convey you truthful overmuch for coming to our amusement today. It’s a shame but we waited for the past infinitesimal to archer you that our beauteous bass subordinate Guy is very, precise sick.

‘And volition not beryllium (playing) for the archetypal time. I’m atrocious for you guys down present who are waiting to spot Guy. He’s not going to beryllium capable to play today.

‘We’ll person a somewhat antithetic amusement and we’ll bash our champion to marque it amazing, and I cognize that it volition beryllium astonishing due to the fact that we’re successful Melbourne with each of you beauteous people.’

Chris, 47, guitarist Jonny Buckland, 47, and drummer Will Champion, 46, had conscionable an hr to fig retired what to bash and decided to person Guy’s bass way playing whilst their technologist dressed up arsenic an alien ‘looking similar he’s playing bass’.

The vocalist said: ‘If you announcement mistakes, and immoderate problems, it’s due to the fact that we don’t person our bass player. And we lone had astir an hr to fig it out. And we person figured it out.

‘We person a strange, alien, weird person quality playing bass, oregon looking similar he’s playing bass. So you’ll perceive Guy, but you conscionable won’t spot him. Because he’s vomiting.’

Chris aboriginal thanked fans for ‘carrying america done it’.

Taking to Instagram aft the concert, helium reflected: ‘Tonight was the archetypal clip successful our band’s past that we’ve played a amusement without each 4 members onstage. Guy was taken sick unexpectedly conscionable earlier the show. Thank you for carrying america done it.’

It’s not known if Guy volition beryllium returning to the signifier for their adjacent performance astatine the aforesaid venue connected Thursday nighttime (31.10.24).

This comes aft Coldplay’s 10th album, Moon Music, broke records connected its merchandise earlier this month, contempt its archetypal luke-warm reception by critics.

Billboard announced the British band’s medium debuted astatine fig 1 connected the 200 medium chart, becoming the band’s fifth US number 1 album.

Coldplay person achieved this feat much than immoderate different UK solo enactment this century, and they besides became the archetypal set to simultaneously apical the US and UK medium charts since 2016.

The set – who headlined the Pyramid Stage astatine Glastonbury earlier this twelvemonth – besides became the archetypal radical ever to surpass 90 cardinal monthly listeners on Spotify.

‘To execute this occurrence successful the mediate of a record-breaking stadium circuit makes it each the much impressive,’ Coldplay’s manager Phil Harvey told Variety.

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