Coldplay have scored several firsts on their current Music of the Spheres world tour. But on Wednesday night (October 30) in Melbourne, Australia, the band did something they've never done in their entire quarter century together: They played a show without one of their four founding members.
In an Instagram post uploaded after the concert at Marvel Stadium, the band announced that Bassist Guy Berryman was forced to sit out the gig, noting: “Tonight was the first time in our band's history that we played a show without all four members on stage. Guy unexpectedly fell ill shortly before the show. Thank you for getting us through this.”
So instead singer Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland and drummer Will Champion continued, with Martin telling the crowd before the concert properly started, “I have to say, thank you so much for coming to our show today. It's a shame, but we waited until the last minute to tell you that our handsome bass player Guy is very, very ill. And it won't (play) for the first time. I feel sorry for you guys down here waiting to see Guy. He won't be able to play today. We're going to have a slightly different show and we're going to do our best to make it amazing, and I know it's going to be amazing because we're in Melbourne with all you beautiful people.”
He added, however, that if people noticed some “mistakes and some problems, it's because we don't have our bass player. And we only had an hour to figure it out. And we understand that. We have a strange, alien, strange character friend who plays bass or looks like he plays bass. So you'll hear Guy, but you won't see him. Why is he vomiting.”
Instead, Martin revealed that the band's co-producer and engineer, Bill Rahko, would be participating wearing the space helmets that are part of the spectacular spectacle that has crisscrossed the globe for nearly three years to date. grossing more than $1 billion.
Coldplay recently celebrated their first Billboard top 200 album No. 1 for 10 years. After wrapping up their four-night stand at Marvel Stadium, Coldplay will continue with four nights at Accor Stadium in Sydney and three nights at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand before taking time off and resuming the tour in January with shows in the United States UAE and India en route to round off the tour with a 10-night stand at London's Wembley Stadium.
Watch fan footage of Rahko on stage in Melbourne.
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