Coldplay Wembley

[Doc Lynam]

I'd imagine they're sick of playing their back catalogue; still you reap what you sow.

 

[Icy Gull]

I don’t listen to them much on my ipod/iphone but I always really enjoy the live shows that are shown on TV. Really good live band and I like their anthems, they certainly get the crowd going and it all seems to be good fun, what’s not to like

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59766719

Oh, but I want it now!

 

[zefarelly]

Oh, but I want it now!

backdated would be best

I only found out Eno worked with them, and U2, he's gone right down in my estimation.

 

[Glawstergull]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59766719

Best news i've had in ages!

Whinney Tw@T

 

[METALMICKY]

Not my cup of tea and no big deal. There is little money to be made in releasing new albums and all the money is in touring. Accordingly, they have a big enough back catalogue to just do the odd greatest hits tour.

 

[hart's shirt]

Can't they bring that forward a few years?

This could be para-para-paradise.

 

[Wozza]

Chris Martin has, of course, been saying s*** like this for at least a decade now - which is why uber-troll Crodonilson mentioned it on here.

(Shame on the Beeb for reporting the nonsense)

 

[zefarelly]

Not my cup of tea and no big deal. There is little money to be made in releasing new albums and all the money is in touring. Accordingly, they have a big enough back catalogue to just do the odd greatest hits tour.

We had this exact conversation in the office yesterday . . . . out my end of the scale we make our money back on recording an album if we're lucky . . . the fact someone in the band decided to give our music away via spotify means I have several hundred LP's in storage unsold and we do not make our money back . . . especially with no gigs to sell anything at. I have no interest in financing another album, its just a vanity project.

The likes of spotify are stifling creativity and killing music.

It's still a paying hobby in covers bands, or self funding at worst, but forget it being original.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

^ there is never any excuse for using 'office' when 'orifice' can be substituted in its place.

Personally I've never minded a slice of 'The Play' and I'm a total music snob. I'm possibly just too thick to realise how crap they are in reality.

 

[zefarelly]

^ there is never any excuse for using 'office' when 'orifice' can be substituted in its place.

Personally I've never minded a slice of 'The Play' and I'm a total music snob. I'm possibly just too thick to realise how crap they are in reality.

CP, like U2 and a few others hit the nail on the head once and stuck to a winning formula, ad nauseum. (IMHO) For the love of cash.

THere are good examples of musicians who hit a formula, cashed in then used the lifelong funding to do what they love regardless of whether its commercially succesful. Anyone creative gets bored after a while and moves on.