Chris Martin is the music industry’s very own golden retriever: curly-haired, indefatigable, eager to please. The Coldplay frontman gambols around the stage at Hull’s Craven Park as though it’s his first time off the leash. But stadiums are, in fact, his natural habitat and have been for over a decade – tonight, he and the rest of his band prove exactly why that is. “This is our 212th concert out of 360,” he tells the crowd, flirting shamelessly: “Which to me basically means that we’ve had 211 rehearsals for Hull.”
Thankfully, this is the only flirting taking place on the big screen tonight. “Thank you for coming here after that debacle,” Martin jokes with one fan waving a sign that says they were in Boston last month – when a CEO was seemingly rumbled on the band’s “kiss cam” while in a clinch with his company’s HR officer. “We don’t want any more viral moments,” Martin later pleads.
