Posted on 10/14/2021 11:40:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) - Coldplay outlined plans Thursday for an eco-friendly world tour in which fans will power the shows using "kinetic flooring" and cycles.
But frontman Chris Martin admitted to the BBC that they risked criticism from fans, given that they still enjoyed the use of private jets.
"The people that give us backlash for that kind of thing, for flying, they're right. So we don't have any argument against that," Martin said.
The announcement came with a list of "sustainability initiatives" including a plan to cut their overall emissions in half compared with the last tour in 2016-17.
The kinetic flooring will generate electricity as fans move.
"You know when the frontman says, 'We need you to jump up and down'? When I say that, I literally really need you to jump up and down. Because if you don't, then the lights go out," Martin told the BBC.
They will also plant a tree for every ticket sold.
Some 5.4 million people bought tickets to their last tour.
Martin said in 2019 that they were taking a break from globe-trotting concerts in order "to work out how our tour can not only be sustainable (but) how can it be actively beneficial".
"We've spent the last two years consulting with environmental experts to make this tour as sustainable as possible, and, just as importantly, to harness the tour's potential to push things forward," the band said on their website Thursday.
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Just play in open spaces. There’s nothing green about arena beer.
Virtue signaling madness.
They are going to plant trees!
Oh, my! (swoon). Aren’t they just the greatest ever!?
Now they use drones to plant.
Wern’t they just a one hit wonder in the 90’s kind of like Dexy’s Midnight Runners in the 80’s?
Oh, Well, OK then, as long as you have ‘kinetic flooring’.
:RollsEyes:
>> kinetic flooring
There’s that word again...
Then go acoustic with no amps and use candles.
Lord, I thought it was the Bee...
cleaning up the puke after will be fun...
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