Coldplay‘s Chris Martin has made a surprise appearance in Dublin with Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI – check out the moment below.
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Martin made the appearance last night (August 28) on Dublin’s Grafton Street for an impromptu performance of the band’s new track, ‘We Pray’. The band gave the song its live debut during their headline set at Glastonbury 2024 in June, with Simz and Elyanna joining them for the performance.
The Coldplay frontman drew a huge crowd by performing the song alongside rapper Little Simz, Burna Boy, Palestinian-Chilean R&B musician Elyanna and Argentine musician TINI.
Coldplay are currently in Dublin where the group will play four sold-out concerts at Croke Park, as part of their ongoing ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour.
Watch the moment here:
WE PRAY. Grafton Street, Dublin. Magic moment with @burnaboy, @LittleSimz, @Elyanna, @TiniStoessel. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to TikTok for helping to make it happen. pic.twitter.com/e6aCr5rUTp
— Coldplay (@coldplay) August 29, 2024
Earlier this month, Coldplay confirmed the tracklist for their upcoming 10th studio album ‘Moon Music’, which will be released on October 4 (pre-order it here). The band had already shared the lead single ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’ in June and have also previewed another track, ‘Good Feelings’, on stage in Rome.
In other Coldplay news, Chris Martin and Maggie Rogers covered Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’ on stage in Vienna last week, after the latter’s ‘Eras Tour’ concerts in the Austrian city were cancelled following a foiled terror plot.
“This is something we never do, but we have to do it today,” Martin said last Wednesday night (August 21).
“Of course, we haven’t mentioned that Vienna was in the news all over the world for all the wrong reasons. But what reached us was the beauty and the togetherness and the kindness of all of Taylor Swift’s fans.”
It has also been recently confirmed that the band’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour is the highest-grossing rock tour of all time, grossing around $950million (£725million) and selling 8.8million tickets since it launched in March 2022.
Their Glastonbury return this summer also earned rave reviews. In a four-star review of that record-breaking Worthy Farm headline slot, NME wrote: “With a run of guest turns, some dad banter and an emotional Michael J. Fox collab, Chris Martin and co. reach to make their fifth headline set one for the books.”
“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.”
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