ColdplayAccor Stadium, 6 NovemberAlso, November 7, 9 and 10Reviewed by SHAMIM RAZAVI★★★★
There is more Donald Trump to Coldplay than meets the eye: neither overestimates their audience’s appetite for complexity and both deliver their simple message forcefully. But that is where the similarities end.
Coldplay’s message of love and unity is delivered with a sincerity that gives hope light will prevail in the end. Even in addressing the day’s US election results, frontman Chris Martin resists dark, divisive condemnation but rather encourages his audience to send love to America so they can overcome their differences.
That transcendence is of a piece with the band’s current fixation with the cosmic: planets, spheres, moons and aliens are the show’s unifying theme. Why this obsession is not quite clear: is it that seen on a universal level we are all one, a reminder of the climate catastrophe or just an excuse for pretty colours and shapes?
