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Eddino Abdul Hadi. Share gift link below with your friends and family. Link Copied! Copy gift link. Sign up or log in to read this article in full. Sign up. Already have an account? Log in. So we don't have any argument against that. He admitted there was always the question of "why tour at all?
But we want to tour and we want to meet people and connect with people - so try and do it in the cleanest way possible. Martin said their goal for a few years' time is that they will have "slightly shifted the status quo of how a tour works". The British group announced a world tour on Thursday, starting in March in Costa Rica, which has one of the highest rates of renewable energy generation in the world.
But the singer admitted they had not figured out how to cut the environmental impact of some some parts of touring. That's still really hard," he said. But in terms of the show itself, the whole show is powered from renewable energy, which is amazing. By entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson. Amman, Jordan I am perched on wall in an ancient citadel interviewing Chris Martin about their latest album "Everyday Life". About half-way through, I throw out a fairly innocuous question about "How difficult is it to be an environmental band and do global tours?
His reply rather took me by surprise. He revealed that they would not be touring again until they had worked out to do so in a way that was "not only sustainable but also be actively beneficial" to the environment. By the next day his comments were making headlines around the world.
Fast forward two years and I'm sitting with the singer in a 15th-floor restaurant looking over London's rooftops. He has asked to speak to me as Coldplay are announcing an end to their self-imposed ban on touring, with their first tour in four and a half years.
He laughs as he explains, "Well last time we spoke, I sort of made that up when we were talking, because I was trying to think of something cool to say. And then it sort of became a headline. And then we thought, "Well that's actually what we really feel. He explains how in the following days, the band started to be contacted by organisations and businesses with ideas and offers on to help them achieve their goals. Within weeks, they were employing two people full-time to work on how to make it happen.
In , Martin said he "would be disappointed" if their next tour was not carbon neutral. Martin said: "We wouldn't be announcing a tour unless we felt like we're far enough along that it's OK in our hearts, but we're definitely not finished. Chiara Badiali from Julie's Bicycle, a charity that advises the music industry on sustainability, said she was "very encouraged to see this level of commitment and a plan that is as comprehensive as the one they have pulled together".
She said: "They have looked at every area of the tour. I think that decision to trial out the battery technology is going to really help make a huge change. But also, we don't always know what's going to work yet. Transformation is always trial and error. Coldplay announce new 'eco-friendly' tour.
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