When Is Coldplay Touring?
Coldplay Touring: When will the Band go on Tour?
Coldplay is among the most beloved and famous bands of the modern rock scene, which enchants listeners with its unique sound and bright performances. The British rock group, led by passionate leader Chris Martin, has toured the world several times and performed for millions of fans. However, Coldplay has not done a world tour since 2017, which raised some questions: when is Coldplay going on tour again?
The Band's Touring History
Since the release of their debut album ‘Parachutes’ in 2000, Coldplay has been quite an active band, and touring is one of the many things they have been involved in throughout their more than two-decade-long career. The next significant tour was in 2002 for the follow-up album ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’ with performances across North America, Europe, and Australia. This was a move from small and local venues such as clubs to big theaters and even arenas due to increased popularity.
In the following several years, Coldplay toured more and more extensively as the standard bearers of arena-ready alt-rock. These included a speedy 10-month trek for X&Y in 2005/2006 that saw them play their first stadium shows. They toured the globe in 2008–2010 in support of the record Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends, filling stadiums as large as Wembley Stadium. Other massive tours were also done after Ghost Stories and A Head Full of Dreams as the years in the 2010s went by.
By this time, Coldplay’s tours were famous for epic concerts involving beautiful visuals, elaborate confetti, and a fireworks display at the end of the show. Other artists who have also performed as opening acts for them include growing talents to rock artists. The band’s acclaimed live show and their continued touring policy have been instrumental in ensuring Coldplay’s journey from college radio darlings to one of the world’s biggest bands alongside U2 and their role models, Radiohead.
The Recent and Upcoming Touring Gap
Nevertheless, Coldplay has not been an active touring band for more than three years now. The most recent serious tour was the A Head Full of Dreams tour, which started in 2016 and ended in 2017, based on the album of the same name. This enormous stretch of 114 shows on five different continents was accompanied by stage designs inspired by rainbows and butterflies. It remains one of the most successful concert tours of all time, further solidifying Coldplay as a unique force in concert-going.
Following the end of that set of big-budget dates, Coldplay was mostly inactive on the road in 2018 and 2019, apart from a string of solitary festival shows. Most of their tours have been dedicated to recording their latest album. For most of the past couple of years, they’ve been honing their eighth studio album, Everyday Life which came out in late 2019.
The band did say that they would tour to support Everyday Life in 2020 but the coronavirus pandemic put an end to those plans for most artists. While pandemic anxiety has extended to the beginning of 2021, Coldplay has not yet figured out a complete plan for touring again.
Still, everything suggests that the band is preparing for their first proper run of dates in four years sometime soon. Coldplay themselves have suggested they wish to go on tour as soon as the physical distancing measures are reduced enough to make large-scale concerts feasible again. This means their millions of fans may indeed get a chance to see those songs from Everyday Life performed on stage later in the year if conditions allow.
Things You Need to Expect on Their Next Tour
All in all, when Coldplay starts its next tour, it is possible to predict great stage performances as usual. Their shows have dared to go further and further in the last twenty years in terms of, among others, lighting, video screens, culmination effects, and confetti. The next concerts will inevitably be filled with high-tech creativity suitable for one of today’s top bands.
The song lists are bound to be heavily dominated by Everyday Life since it presents the band’s first chance to bring the funkier, more experimental tracks on tour. But fans are well aware that Chris Martin and Co. like to go all out and perform all their popular songs and album favorites throughout their entire discography during live performances. It would not be a Coldplay arena show without massive choruses for ‘Viva La Vida’, ‘Paradise’, ‘Fix You’, and ‘Yellow’.
Full routing and dates are still tentative since the final confirmation to go on tour globally is being awaited with massive stars and performers; however, Coldplay ensures that their shows are globally located. Over the years, North Americans, South Americans, Europeans, Asians, and Australians have all been regular strongholds. One would hardly have any rationale to believe that is possible whenever the band prepares to fund Everyday Life. There is already much anticipation for its next live concert, expected in the three years Coldplay waits before releasing another one.
The desire to tour still burns.
However, as everyone knows, Coldplay continues to create hit songs and sell-out albums, as well as accumulating loads of accolades; in the end, they are passionate about performing and playing music for the audience through touring. Sometimes even groups that are still active may reduce their levels of touring after they have been actively performing all over the world for more than two decades.
However, Coldplay has reiterated time and again in interviews that they still enjoy the process of translating new albums to life on the road, which they consider crucial for the soul of the band. The reception they always receive on stage from the audience is always a sight to behold. It enables them to touch the common experience of music during the shows, one with the pyrotechnic show and the next with the acoustic one.
Of course, the details are still sketchy but do not worry that Coldplay still wants to go on their next tour as soon as it is feasible. Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, and Will Champion may be planning a rather unconventional album-tour cycle this time around, potentially not touring for several years after the release of Everyday Life expected in the last quarter of 2019. However, one of the most adored bands of the modern era still understands that concerts make up their core business. It enables them to reach out to listeners in a unique and unreplaceable manner through generations.
When the sun comes out again post-COVID, expect Coldplay to be right on that to promote their tour dates. It is challenging not to remain captivated by their stellar, rainbow-soaked performance, and one can assume they will be back to swift drops of enchantment and chaos around the globe in no time. And while the quotidian has plucked every one of our feathers over the last year, Coldplay’s uplifting, gentle anthems are necessary to bring the world closer and more tranquil.
