- Coldplay
- 2009-09-21: Coldplay are boring, middle class white kids making bland, meaningless music for white kids who have new cars. Coldplay enables those people to fool themselves into thinking they enjoy good music and have awesome experiences of live music so they can feel cool easily.
- At least .. that's what I've absorbed from the ether. I think that's the image Coldplay has. I've no idea, I honestly haven't gone near them.
- But then in its own death throes, the South Bank Show gave us an hour of Coldplay last night and the guys turned out to be beguilingly nice, self deprocating, aware of the improbability of them reaching their dizzying height. They were together, close. I liked them. I liked them a lot. I want to be one of them. I'd like to know them.
- I still think the music's bland. However, the programme showed them working with Eno, and him telling them they were OK but could be better, so perhaps the next album is worth a minute of my attention.
- So .. a couple of things. Firstly: what a PR job! By showing the reality of the band and softly showcasing their achievements, I enjoyed it all and I'm now warm to them. Wow. That was a good job well done.
- But actually I'm inspired. Coldplay are just a smidgeon over ten years old. Ten years ago, they were just some friends at uni.
- What a lot can change in ten years.
- I think I need to start thinking much bigger.
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