Noisy chaos is due to hit Upper Sydenham as Coldplay open their UK concert tour playing to 60,000 people at the Crystal Palace Athletic Stadium in June. While many of us appreciate concerts in the park at weekends - the scheduling of these concerts for a Monday & Tuesday evening will cause severe rush hour disruption and ruin our rest after a hard day's work. Presumably because the stadium is located in the Bromley salient - it has been licenced without reference to the long suffering surrounding residents.

According to their website Coldplay are very excited by the prospect of these huge shows. "We’ve spent a long time in the studio and haven’t played a gig for eighteen months says Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland. We can’t wait to get out on tour and play our new songs live". The UK date marks the start of Coldplay’s biggest ever world tour.

If you think the best solution to not being able to get home or hear yourself think is to attend the event - then tickets went on sale on March 5th from: http://www.gigsandtours.com or you can call 0871 2200 260 (which can be expensive from a mobile phone).

For those of a certain aged disposition Coldplay is part of the Brit-pop phenomena who dominated the charts in 2000. The line-up is Chris Martin (vocals/piano), Jon Buckland (guitar), Will Champion (drums) and Guy Merryman (bass guitar) who got together while studying at University College, London (UCL).

Coldplay have released two albums 'Parachutes' and 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' and were hailed as the next Travis. Rumours about the group splitting have come and gone.

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