3 d. ago 'Coldplay's Wembley setlist and sad confession left me torn after getting tickets'

Coldplay's long-running Music of the Spheres World Tour finally reached London's Wembley Stadium in August, and it did not disappoint fans many of whom struggled to get tickets

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7 d. ago Coldplay Wembley: full setlist for the Music of the Spheres tour in London

Coldplay Wembley: full setlist for the Music of the Spheres tour in London  Time Out Worldwide

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1 week ago Coldplay at Wembley: What time will they perform and what is the setlist?

With Coldplay set to play a massive 10 nights across 17 days at London’s Wembley stadium, here’s what you can expect in terms of timings and songs.

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2 w. ago Coldplay review – after 12m tickets sold, this tour is still a mindblowing spectacle

Craven Park, HullThey may be as cloyingly earnest as ever, but even amid an overwhelming production full of fireworks and lovehearts, Chris Martin and co are in total controlFireworks explode, lasers shoot, giant balls bounce and a sea of LED wristbands pulse in synchronicity as a rugby stadium in Hull is turned into an exploding candy shop of colour. Now in its third year and approaching a final 10 nights at Wembley Stadium – though it’s expected to return from 2027 – Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour is now the highest attended in rock history with more than 12m tickets sold.It’s easy to see why. Over the Springsteen-esque shimmer of Higher Power, Chris Martin and co offer up a dizzying dose of Technicolor funk-pop with a level of production that is as impressive as it is overwhelming. At times it’s like being plugged into a VR version of a “good vibes only” LSD trip, including sections with the band dressed as cute aliens and the audience wearing 3D glasses that turn everythin...

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2 w. ago Coldplay review, Hull – Chris Martin delivers shameless crowd

Band’s record-breaking Music of the Spheres tour seems to raise the bar for stadium shows with each new performance

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2 w. ago ‘The Black experience is more than just London’: Chiedu Oraka, the Hull rapper handpicked to support Coldplay

When Chris Martin called, the MC saw an opportunity to rep his city, pursue his goal of being rap’s next ‘king of the north’ – and expand perceptions of Black British identity‘When I say ‘Hull’, you say ‘City’! Hull  ” Chiedu Oraka grins, pointing his mic towards the middle of a near-empty recording studio. Silence – for now, at least. Next week, that pause will be filled by 20,000 voices at Craven Park stadium, where the local rapper will open Coldplay’s latest UK run of Music of the Spheres tour dates. And he is determined to make that crowd his own. “There’s going to be people there who haven’t seen me before, so I want to give them everything – new songs, old ones and a party,” he says. “I’m proper buzzing for it.”Last year, Oraka played Glastonbury, opened for Skepta at South by Southwest and supported the Brit-award-winning rapper Casisdead. But these Coldplay shows are the 37-year-old’s biggest gigs yet – and Hull’s most high-profile music events in years. The gigs ...

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