Coldplay returns to Spain with two concerts in Barcelona seven years after their last performance

Coldplay is back. It has now been six years since the last time the band led by Chris Martin passed through Spain. And in May 2023 they will serve a double portion, with concerts on the nights of the 24th and 25th at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, ​​under their new tour announced this Monday, Music Of The Spheres World Tour. It will be the live presentation letter of their latest album, with the same name, and the group’s return to stages around the world.

Among his latest work, Music Of The Spheres (2021), and the last one they performed live in Spain, A Head Full Of Dreams (2015), there has been another interlude, Everyday Life (2019). But environmental impact of the trips led Coldplay to decide not to get on the stage. “We are going to take some time to see how our tour can be beneficial,” Martin said then. So they contented themselves with two symbolic concerts in Jordan—with the intention of playing in a country where they did not usually do so—one at dawn and one at dusk. The outbreak of the pandemic, moreover, did not help his return.

The last time they hit the road was in 2016, with a tour in which they gave 122 concerts in countries around the world. Now, to that of their new album, which began on March 18, they have added new dates for 2023, with which they will add 45 performances. The band’s double concert in Barcelona marks their return to the Catalan capital after seven years, when they played in the same venue on the tour A Head Full Of Dreams.

The band’s first confirmed summer 2023 tour dates include Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, alongside new UK dates. Since they started in Costa Rica in March 2022, they have sold more than four million tickets. Tickets for the newly announced concerts will go on sale on Thursday, August 25 at 10 a.m.and will start at a price of 50 euros.

The British are now making up time with the shows they haven’t given for years. For this they surround themselves with artists and collaborations, in addition to their own songs. For your date at Wembley, one of the temples of live musicwere attended by Jacob Collier and singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia, with whom they performed their hit Torn.

Consistent with their past words about the environmental impact of touring, Coldplay have designed this tour to be far less polluting. “We are committed to reducing direct emissions from the tour by more than 50% compared to the previous one (2016-17), and to working with our partners and suppliers to reduce their impacts and emissions as much as possible”, they sign. in a statement on its website.

In addition, the band has proposed to do some shows more accessible, which will include local sign language interpreters “so that our guests who are deaf or hard of hearing can feel a greater connection to the music.”