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Are Coldplay milking the LGBT+ demographic?
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This weekend I was at a Coldplay demonstrate in Vienna with some friends. We were excited about the concert and were not unhappy. Even with ticket prices well over € , I would not acquire expected such a spectacular event featuring laser shows, pyrotechnics, fireworks and loooooaads of glitter and confetti. This article won’t be a review of the show, I just wanted to note beforehand that I had a amazing time. Coldplay played a lot of new material and most of their classic tunes. They had great assist bands (Lyves and Tove-Lo), three stage, three huge monitors (though I was lucky enough to be close enough to see the band at most times) and every attendant got a LED bracelet which lit up to the rhythm of the music. On the downside, the plastic bracelets appear like a enormous waste as there were no containers to recycle them. Also, the management sucked – the cheapest non-alcoholic slurp was water at € 4 (~ US$ ) and free drinking liquid wasn’t provided! I believe that this practice is ill
During a recent video interview with Rolling Stone, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin opens up for the first time about struggling with his sexuality as a boy, homophobic bullying he experienced as a kid, and realizing he carried some homophobia of his own.
“When I went to boarding school, I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit,” said Martin. “And I was also very homophobic, because I was appreciate, ‘If I’m gay, I’m completely f*cked for eternity’ and I was a kid discovering sexuality.”
“‘Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I can’t be this,’ so I was terrified,” the year-old added.
He described his classmates at boarding university in the UK as “a bunch of quite hardcore kids” saying “for a few years, they would very much utter , ‘You’re definitely gay,’ in quite a full-on behavior, quite aggressively telling me that – and it was weird for me for a few years.”
That “terrible turmoil” led Martin to discover his personal escape &#; music &#; especially “classic soul, British shoegaze rock and cathedral music” which would all ultimately find its way into the sound that
Conservative Muslims in Indonesia protest Coldplay concert over the band's LGBTQ support
JAKARTA, Indonesia — More than conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia’s capital on Wednesday, calling for the cancellation of a Coldplay concert that night over the British band’s support for the LGBTQ community.
The protesters, marching about 1 kilometer (half a mile) away from the concert venue in Jakarta where the band was set to perform, held a large banner that read: “Reject, cancel and disband Coldplay concerts.” It described the band as an LGBTQ “propagandist,” saying its stance damages “faith and morals.”
The same protest group also staged demonstrations last week at several locations in Jakarta, including the British Embassy.
Indonesia is secular and has a long history of religious tolerance, but a small extremist fringe has grow more vocal in recent years.
Coldplay is renowned for interlacing its values with its shows, such as the band’s push for environmental sustainability. Lead singer Chris Martin has been known to wear rainbow colors and wave male lover pride flags during
Coldplay's Chris Martin says he was "very homophobic" and "worried" about being lgbtq+ as a kid
4 December , | Updated: 4 December ,
The Coldplay frontman has given an intimate interview, where he's talked about growing up, his sexuality, religion and more.
Chris Martin has opened up about growing up and admitted he was "very homophobic" when he was younger.
The Coldplay frontman has given a rare warts-and-all interview with Rolling Stone, where he talked in-depth about everything from religion to his insecurities, to his fight with growing up in boarding school.
Speaking to the magazine's founder and director Jann S. Wenner about his relationship with God, the Orphans singer revealed: "When I went to boarding school, I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit, and I was also very homophobic because I was like, 'If I'm gay I'm completely fucked for eternity'.
"And I was a kid discovering sexuality and thinking 'maybe I'm gay, maybe I'm this, maybe I'm that? I can't b