Coldplay’s Chris Martin thanks Indian fans for forgiving British colonialism at Mumbai concert

Coldplay’s Chris Martin thanked his Indian assemblage connected Saturday for “forgiving” the British, arsenic the band’s circuit kicked disconnected successful Mumbai.

The British band, successful India for the Asia limb of its highly anticipated Music of Spheres satellite tour, performed astatine Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium, attended by astir 75,000 people. This was Coldplay’s first show successful India aft the 2016 amusement astatine the Global Citizen Festival successful Mumbai.

Band frontman Martin, 47, expressed his gratitude for the lukewarm invited of fans, contempt the British assemblage regularisation successful India successful the past.

“This is our 4th sojourn to India, and the 2nd clip to play. First clip we played a agelong amusement and we could not person asked for a amended audience. Thank you for coming contiguous everybody!” helium said.

“Thank you for welcoming america adjacent though we are from Great Britain,” helium said. “Thanks for forgiving america for everything Great Britain did.”

Fans responded with some gratitude and a bid of jokes, with 1 responding connected an Instagram video of Martin’s speech, writing: “Pls escaped performance adjacent clip arsenic reparations.”

A fewer different fans saw the cleanable accidental to inquire for the instrumentality of the Kohinoor diamond, present portion of the British Crown Jewels.

“CEO of fixing what helium didn’t break”, a instrumentality wrote, portion different said: “Chris healing intergenerational trauma with a mic, signifier and immoderate tunes.”

Coldplay volition execute successful Mumbai connected 21 and 22 January and caput to Ahmedabad for concerts scheduled for 25 and 26 January, which are besides going to beryllium streamed unrecorded connected Disney+ Hotstar.

The set was primitively acceptable to execute 2 shows successful Mumbai but added different aft the tremendous demand.

The circuit has been arguable successful India, arsenic fans had to grapple with a monolithic request for tickets, issues with the ticketing site, as good arsenic terrible terms gouging.

The ticketing website BookMyShow crashed seconds earlier the merchantability was acceptable to spell unrecorded successful September, incapable to grip the postulation from implicit 700,000 users. Fans complained astir having to hold successful agelong integer queues, which reportedly went up to 11 million.

Shortly aft the merchantability ended, tickets went unrecorded connected different websites astatine respective times the price. Scammers excessively sprung up each implicit societal media, offering tickets arsenic portion of a fortunate gully for radical who would stock their post.

Coldplay volition besides beryllium performing successful Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Seoul, successful summation to their India shows. They volition beryllium returning to Hong Kong for the archetypal clip since 2009 and past performed successful Abu Dhabi successful 2016 and Seoul successful 2017.

Last year, Martin revealed that Coldplay would discontinue aft they reached a definite milestone.

“We are lone going to bash 12 due albums and that’s real,” the frontman told Zane Lowe successful an Apple Music interview.

Martin said having this bounds would guarantee the aforesaid prime power arsenic Coldplay’s erstwhile albums, which see 2000’s Parachutes, 2008’s Viva la Vida, oregon Death and All His Friends, 2015’s A Head Full of Dreams, and 2021’s Music of the Spheres.

“Where we could beryllium benignant of coasting, we’re trying to improve,” helium explained.