Leave it to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to say he is uncomfortable with an interview and quietly walk out, leaving band mate Will Champion answer the remaining 90 percent of the questions.
Lead singer Chris Martin and drummer Will Champion were doing a pre-recorded interview with the BBC’s Radio 4 arts show Front Row, when after a short 9 minutes he said he was not enjoying his time in the studio.
The two band mates were promoting their newly released album, “Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.”
The interviewer’s first questions, regarding comments Martin made at an awards show back in 2005, when he said the group would be away for a very long time, caused the singer discomfort.
“I always say stupid things, and I think Radio 4 is the place that will most remind me of that,” he answered. The rest of the interview fared no better.
When asked about the meaning of the new album’s title and its connection with the band’s presumed fascination with death, the 31-year-old replied, “I wouldn’t agree with you there at all, no.”
Apparently having reached the end of his patience, Martin commented, “I’d say you’re journalistically twisting me into saying something I don’t really mean.” Saying he was “not really enjoying this” and that he did not really like “having to talk about things,” he eventually walked out of the studio.
When the interviewer, John Wilson, asked Champion whether he had unwittingly said something upsetting, the drummer said this was not the case and proceeded to answer questions.
Martin did return to the studio to answer one final question, regarding the exploration of “new territory” on the new album, with a succinct “Um...yes, yes, yes...exactly.”
Martin, Champion and band mates Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman worked on “Viva La Vida” with Brian Eno and Markus Dravs, who co-produced the album and, according to a Billboard report, “adorned it with grandiose embellishments the likes of which have never been heard before on a Coldplay album.”
“We’re still obsessed with making songs that can be sung to the rafters. We just wanted to present them differently,” Martin told Billboard.
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