6898Coldplay Coldplay scorches with polished blowout

As you can see, Coldplay really went drab on the stage production. Photo credit: Robb D. Cohen/ www.RobbsPhotos.com Coldplay just might be the hardest-working live band of the past decade – at least of the arena variety.  They want you to have fun, to sink into their often-elegant pop-rock and feel the emotion seeping out of Chris Martin’s furrowed brow.  They want you to cheer with delight at the showers of confetti whooshed in the air and nod approvingly at their neon-graffiti stage backdrop, thinking, “Huh, that actually looks really awesome.”  They hope… >>

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