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Some of them will be here especially for Coldplay without a doubt, but many won’t. It dawns on me that this could easily be a mistake. With the audience in place and the cameras ready to roll, it’s explained that they shoot the last song of the show first.
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Soundcheck takes far too long, everything gets fiddled with and changed, but finally, everyone is satisfied and we’re deemed ready to go. Understandably, then, the mood is a little tense. Famously, the band have referred to this period between album completion and release as like the gap between finishing your exams and getting your results. Waiting to see what the world makes of it. No more trying things out in one more different way. This means no more fiddling, no more comfortable hiding in the studio saying “it’s not quite ready yet”. Not only has the promo schedule been heavy, but the album has been declared officially “done”. When they arrive for soundcheck, the weight of the day is beginning to show. The band of course, are in promo mode, so they spend the afternoon at a hotel in the heart of the city fielding a barrage of questions from a horde of European press.
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Keeping busy is the best way to take your mind off the fact that in a few hours, you’ve got to get it right, but right now, there’s not actually anything you can do about it. Long days with long stretches where other parts of the show are being attended to, so all you can do is sit and nurse a coffee, or bury your head in the laptop.
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TV shows are always a “hurry up and wait” affair. No surprise then, that folks are keen for today to go well. If there’s an uncomfortable silence when the track ends and tumbleweed rolling across the floor, it would surely bode rather badly for the imminent release on Monday. Admittedly, it’s in a closed TV studio, for broadcast at a later date, but the point is that there’s a crowd of people here that are going to hear the song for the first time. Quite fitting then, that it’s the first city in the world to get a public airing of the tune. Add a few more letters and you get “Paradise”.