Coldplay took a moment to play something different during their concert at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, and we think the band aced their cover of the Pearl Jam song, "Nothingman. Before Coldplay plays the Pearl Jam cover frontman Chris Martin shared, "So because we're here in Seattle, we wanted to pay tribute to one of the bands that we fell in love with when we were just young teenagers in the '90s. He says it's a cover version and urges people to not upload it to YouTube since it won't be the best, which is funny because you can watch the YouTube performance of the song below.
Chris Martin goes on to joke that this isn't Adele covering "Make You Feel My Love" he says instead it's him remembering how much he fell in love with Pearl Jam in Coldplay drummer, Will Champion, then comes down to play the song on the piano, and Martin says he only learned how to play the song about 25 minutes ago. That, it seems, is about to change. Credit: Dave Meyers. The song opens with a bone-crunching guitar riff — the band collectively cite Muse , Depeche Mode and Rammstein as inspirations — as it segues between serene, spacey chords and plenty of opportunities to let the hammer drop.
For years, that song had been their Moby Dick. This is the politics that believes that everyone on the planet has a right to be themselves. Coldplay on the cover of NME. Photography by James Marcus Haney. Credit: James Marcus Haney. W e last found the band at a delightfully experimental juncture. Instead, there were sprawling compositions and collaborations with Femi and Made Kuti son and grandson of Afrobeats pioneer, Fela and Palestinian oud group, Le Trio Joubran.
This album — the big one — is one they had an inkling would be next for years; in fact, as bassist Guy Berryman mentions on Zoom the day prior, the band often have a title and concept in mind before the music arrives. That freedom of location allows us to speak about what it means to be human. Credit: Getty Images.
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