Coldplay premiered new song ‘Good Feelings’ at a show in Rome on Friday night (July 12) – check out footage of the performance below.
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The show took place at the Stadio Olimpico in the Italian capital, the first of four shows at the venue.
Towards the end of a set that was packed with the band’s best-known songs, the band launched into the jaunty, upbeat ‘Good Feelings’, the first time it has ever been part of one of their setlists. Watch fan-captured footage of the song here:
Rolling Stone reports that ‘Good Feelings’ was originally intended for inclusion on 2021’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ as a collaboration with the Chainsmokers, but now will likely appear on ‘Moon Music’, with vocals from Ayra Starr.
Coldplay’s setlist in Rome on July 12:
‘Higher Power’
‘Adventure Of A Lifetime’
‘Paradise’
‘The Scientist’
‘Viva La Vida’
‘Hymn For The Weekend’
‘Magic’
‘Orphans’
‘Yellow’
‘Human Heart’
‘People Of The Pride’
‘Clocks’
‘Infinity Sign’
‘Something Just Like This’
‘My Universe’
‘A Sky Full Of Stars’
‘Sparks’
‘The Jumbotron Song’
‘Fix You’
‘Good Feelings’
‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’
It follows on from the band’s recent single ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’, which they shared last month as the first taste of their upcoming album ‘Moon Music’. The video for that song has now been released, which you can watch here. The album is set for release on October 4 and you can pre-order it here.
It remains uncertain whether this album will be the last from Coldplay, as the band have previously hinted they would stop releasing albums in the year 2025. That rumour first emerged in 2021, when they told Jo Whiley that they were coming to the end of their time of writing new material.
Frontman Chris Martin then shared a similar sentiment with NME in that same year, when he discussed how “intense” it can be to keep releasing new material.
“We’re going to make 12 albums. Because it’s a lot to pour everything into making them. I love it and it’s amazing, but it’s very intense too,” he said. “I feel like because I know that challenge is finite, making this music doesn’t feel difficult, it feels like, ‘This is what we’re supposed to be doing’.”
The band performed a triumphant headline set at Glastonbury last month. In a four-star review, NME noted Martin’s words about the festival: “I look around and I see so many amazing wonderful people from all over the place, and that’s what makes Glastonbury the best city in the world in my opinion,” he offered, honouring “the most peace-loving, love-making people” that make up the Glasto populace. He admitted that Coldplay had “stolen so much of the ethos of Glastonbury’s vision”, and as a result they become “a band of 100,004 people”.”
He continued: “Will Coldplay top Glasto again? Five more times? Who knows? Martin revealed a few years back that the band planned to stop making music in 2025, telling NME they had a plan to make 12 albums; now number 10 ‘Moon Music’ is coming in October. There’s a question mark over the future, but tonight was a good crack at making history with a set that felt like home.”
Fox was a surprise guest during the encore on a night that also saw the band bring out an array of guests including Little Simz, Femi Kuti, Victoria Canal and Laura Mvula.
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