Coldplay frontman Chris Martin was recently photographed with his lookalike son Moses, 18, in New York
Chris Martin with his son
Meanwhile, Coldplay recently took a break from selling out stadiums across the world on the highest-grossing rock music tour in history and perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Monday for just 600 or so lucky fans.
One of those fans was Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav, who was escorted through the VIP line and asked for his T-shirt size.
The concert, thrown by SiriusXM, began just after 5 p.m. and aired on Coldplay Radio and Alt Nation at 6:30 p.m. As frontman Chris Martin began to thank the crowd for showing up, he corrected himself. “Because it’s a Monday afternoon, I don’t feel like I have to thank you that much,” he quipped and he noted that usually his audiences are sacrificing a Saturday night to sing along to “A Sky Full of Stars.”
“So, uh, you’re welcome,” Martin joked.
He added, “Getting the band Coldplay to perform before 9 p.m. is one of the most difficult things to do.” The reason for the early start time was that the band did the “Today” show on Tuesday, which meant waking up just a few hours past midnight.
Martin opened the SiriusXM show with “Moon Music,” from the band’s new namesake album before Coldplay threw it way back to 2002 with “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face,” as Jonny Buckland sent his guitar into overdrive.
The band invited Elyanna and TINI to perform their new song “We Pray,” and Martin humbly joked about playing songs that the audience might not know yet. He acknowledged that while it can be frustrating for the audience to hear non-hits, every song, even the massive hit “Viva La Vida,” was once a new song. Martin pointed out that the songs people may groan about can become “worldwide super classic smashes” 10 years later. He added that some of them go on to become hits, while others remain “terrible.”
