29 January 2009: Chris Martin at XFM - Ian Camfield show - 3.30pm GMT
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Chris Martin Live At Xfm
The Coldplay frontman came into Xfm Towers to play a very special acoustic set for a select few competition winners. Listen again here...
Here at Xfm Towers, we always like to have a bit of a house party. You know, get a few drinks in, have some chums 'round.... but what if one of those chums was none other than Chris Martin of Coldplay? And what if he decided to play some songs for the rest of your chums? And those chums were lucky competition winners?
Wonder no longer, because that's exactly what happened. Chris stopped round the Xfm offices and delivered stunning 'Viva La Vida', 'Life In Technicolor', 'Talk' and 'Fix You', while Ian Camfield asked the questions that mattered... What are Coldplay up to in the studio at the moment? Are they still gutted that they never won the Xfm Demo Clash? And why does Chris get mistaken for an insurance salesman?
Listen to the entire session and interview here
http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2009/chris-martin-live-at-xfm
Chris Martin: "Stage Invasions Are Banned At Coldplay Gigs"
Playing a special acoustic set at Xfm yesterday, the superstar claimed that he'd like Coldplay shows to be more raucous... but it's not going to happen.
Yesterday (January 29), Chris Martin played a special, intimate acoustic set for a mere 30 people at Xfm Towers. The Coldplay frontman reeled off a four-song set featuring such classics as 'Talk' and 'Fix You' and newies 'Viva La Vida' and 'Life In Techicolor II'. Chatting to Xfm's Ian Camfield, Martin also explained that he's keen to add a more rock'n'roll slant to Coldplay shows, but that it wasn't very likely.
"We asked our tour manager if we could have a stage invasion at the end of [our December tour]. He went away looking away very serious, but we could see them in a room, giggling. He came back and said, 'This is the stupidest idea you've ever had'. I'd love a stage invasion, it's not very Coldplay, but it would be great. And I've always liked to leave the stage in a hot air balloon... but it's not possible."
The multi-million album selling superstar also paid tribute to Coldplay's humble origins... when they'd enter a regular demo competition in the early days of Xfm. "We made this demo and we took it in every week to try and get on Gary Crowley's Demo Clash," Martin remembered. "And every week on Saturday morning, he'd say, 'Next up is a four piece from North London' and we'd think, 'Oh! Maybe it's us this week!' And it'd always be this band called The Llama Farmers."
Sadly, The Llama Farmers split up in 2001, but Xfm insiders can reveal the former members of the band are not bitter about Coldplay's subsequent enormousness.
http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2009/chris-martin-stage-invasions-are-banned-at-coldplay-gigs
