ET Canada

Coldplay Set To Take Song Requests On 2016 Tour

By ETCanada.com Staff.

Longtime Coldplay fans will get the chance to request their favourite songs when the band hits the road in March of 2016.

The band is set to introduce a “request segment” into the daily set list, Chris Martin recently revealed. The newest element of the tour allows fans to dedicate songs to loved ones or share why a particular song held particular meaning to them.

RELATED: Kacey Musgraves Covers Coldplay’s “Yellow’ At Royal Variety Performance

“We’d ask people to give us a reason why they want us to play that song so there is a purpose behind why we play it,” Martin told the Sun (via Rolling Stone). “I think we want to make it like a passport photobooth, so you go in and say, “I am Derek, I would like you to play “The Hardest Part.'”;

Martin went on to explain that the band is already preparing to incorporate their older catalog of songs into their new setlist. “We’re enjoying playing really old songs,”; he said. “This tour will finally have a set list where we feel good about it from start to finish. So for example, if we are going to play a song like “Spies’ off Parachutes, it will be lovely to play it and say, “This is for Helen from Bolton as this reminds her of her dad.’ That is a bad example and not a real one.”;

Story continues below
Ad Choices