Coldplay To Big To Hang Out With Their Support Bands

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Coldplay, the immensely popular mega band with the hit album “Viva La Vida”, may be forgetting where they came from. Coldplay just completed a stadium tour with the support band White Lies, who have the hit song “Farewell To The Fairground”. Jack Laurence-Brown, drummer for White Lies, talked of how performing with Coldplay wasn’t the most fun they have had on the road and stated, “Coldplay are obviously the biggest band in the world. They had a gig two nights in a row at Wembley stadium – they don’t have time to come and talk to the support band for an hour. It was no big deal.” Perhaps Coldplay has forgotten what it is like to be a support band. Headliner bands should help motivate support bands as they are a major part of any concert. Jack went on to describe White Lies tour with the band “Kings of Leon” when he said, “We all really liked Kings of Leon beforehand and the chance to tour with them was a big deal for us. It was right across the middle of America where we’d never been and, because of the way the tour worked out, we got lots of time to hang out with the band. They were really keen to show us lots of the cities that they’d been to before by taking us out.”