Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin falls through trapdoor on stage while performing in Melbourne
- 05 Nov 2024
Coldplay’s Chris Martin fell through a trapdoor on the stage while performing in Melbourne.
Martin was speaking to the crowd when he walked backwards and fell into a large hole on the runway on Sunday (3 November) as the British band was wrapping up its fourth and final show in Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium.
In videos posted on social media, the frontman can be seen walking towards the crowd reading signs and all of a sudden falling through the trapdoor as he starts to walk backwards. The crowd can be heard gasping as a crew member – who was standing inside the gap – breaks Martin’s fall, and helps him back up.
“That’s uh, not planned, thank you for catching me, so much. Thank you guys,” Martin said.
“Holy s***, that was nearly a YouTube moment,” he said.
Martin can be seen getting back up, and did not look visibly injured.
This comes just three weeks after US singer Olivia Rodrigo also took an unfortunate tumble through the stage during her concert in Melbourne.
The “Brutal” singer was playing to the Australian crowd by running up and down a dimly lit stage at Rod Laver Arena before the fall.
After emerging from the seemingly hidden stage trapdoor, Rodrigo addressed the shocked crowd.
“Oh, my god! That was fun. I’m OK. Sometimes there’s just a hole in the stage. That’s all right. OK. Where was I?”
Coldplay’s international Music of the Spheres world tour has been on since March 2022 and is scheduled to run till September 2025 with two shows in Hull and 10 in London’s Wembley Stadium.
In a major statement to the wider music industry, Coldplay also announced that 10 per cent of the band’s proceeds from ticket sales would be donated to the Music Venue Trust, a charitable organisation that supports UK grassroots music venues and emerging artists.
Early in October, the band, comprising Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion, revealed the milestone they aimed to reach before the band retired.
The Independent