It’s not like they’ve ever had trouble connecting with their audience: being loved up by the crowd like intimates rather than idols and then making the return of that love seem dorkly natural rather than slickly professional is what Coldplay do best. And whatever else is said – and bitched, moaned and waspishly pronounced – about the four Englishmen, they have learnt how to put on superior shows.
Still, putting Coldplay, who on their last tours have been giant arena or stadium fare, into the Enmore was guaranteed to make the 1500 or so inside feel pretty damn special and very well disposed.
So well disposed in fact that the material from the new album,
