Coldplay have introduced their largest ever present within the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad subsequent yr.
The band can be performing on the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium on January 25, which is the most important stadium on this planet, on their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ World Tour. They are going to be joined by a ‘thriller visitor’ who’s but to be introduced.
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, November 16 at 12pm IST.
The Ahmedabad present is one among a number of Asia reveals Coldplay can be taking part in subsequent yr on the largest rock tour of all time, having beforehand introduced gigs in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Seoul and Mumbai. It is going to mark Coldplay’s first full-length headline touring efficiency in India after their 2016 look at International Citizen Pageant. The brand new dates can even see the band return to Hong Kong for the primary time since 2009. Coldplay’s Abu Dhabi dates are additionally the primary since 2016, and Seoul since 2017.
✨ 2025 AHMEDABAD DATE ANNOUNCED
The band will play their largest ever present, on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 25 January, 2025.
Tickets on sale Saturday, 16 November at 12pm IST.
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Later in 2025, Coldplay will head over to North America for 10 new gigs within the US and Canada between Might and July. They may then return to the UK for the following leg of the tour in August and September.
For Coldplay’s UK stadium leg, the band can be donating 10 per cent of proceeds to the Music Venue Belief, in a bid to assist shield the UK’s reside music sector and safe the way forward for grassroots venues.
“Coldplay are the proper instance of a UK band who got here by the grassroots circuit on their technique to worldwide stadium-filling success,” stated MVT CEO Mark Davyd of the choice. “It’s incredible to see them celebrating their very own pathway to Wembley by giving again to the grassroots music venues that supported them and recognising the artists and promoters that are struggling greater than ever to construct their very own careers.”
Davyd added that the cash will “go straight into work that ensures communities proper throughout the nation will proceed to have entry to nice reside music on their doorstep”.
Frontman Chris Martin shared that he put his plan into motion when he turned conscious of the present scenario with grassroots venues struggling to remain open on the tail-end of final yr. “I’d simply assumed The Leicester Charlotte can be high quality,” he instructed us. “I didn’t suppose there was a problem as a result of I didn’t give it some thought. It was round COVID that you just began to listen to about this or that venue having to shut. I assumed, ‘Oh, we performed all these venues, Oasis performed all these venues – these are vital’.”
When requested if it bothered him if venues proceed to vanish, the world might by no means see one other Coldplay, Martin stated: “I feel lots of people can be glad about that! The reality is that taking part in reside is a vital connection. It doesn’t trouble me that there may not be one other Coldplay, however it does trouble me that there may not be acts which can be free to begin on the underside rung and work all the best way up – in order that by the point they get to stadiums, they’re actually good.
“You possibly can’t simply bounce into that. With the entire artists which can be taking part in stadiums subsequent yr, it’s no coincidence that every one of them began in a van, driving round and taking part in pubs: Oasis, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, the reality is all there. Taylor Swift has in all probability performed greater than anybody in tiny Nashville venues and county gala’s.”
Elsewhere, Martin spoke to NME just lately in an unique interview in regards to the band’s present place on this planet. He stated: “Proper now, and since about 2008, if one thing lands in me as a track or as a good suggestion and it feels genuine, we’ll do it. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. It’s very liberating, and it was in all probability began by Brian Eno’s philosophy when he got here in to rebuild us. Since then, if I discover one thing true and thrilling, then we’ll go for it. It has led us to some actually bizarre and wonderful locations.”
As for whether or not the group are nonetheless planning on ending their recorded catalogue after 12 albums, he instructed NME: “The 12 album factor could be very actual, and it’s a pleasant feeling. It doesn’t imply we gained’t tour or end some compilation issues or outtakes or no matter. It simply implies that the principle story is instructed. That’s simply what feels actually proper. Simply realizing that’s occurring supercharges all of the work we’re doing now.”
In different information, Travis Scott has shared his response to Coldplay taking part in a canopy of his hit track ‘Goosebumps’. He wrote on X together with a goat emoji – used to suggest the Biggest Of All Time: “This received it.”
