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Coldplay fans demand a replay for ruined gig
Gerard Couzens9 Sep 2009
Coldplay have incurred the wrath of fans after sound problems marred a concert in Spain.
Thousands of people have signed an internet petition demanding the band performs a free gig or gives them a refund.
Frontman Chris Martin's wife Gwyneth Paltrow was among the 63,000 fans at the sell-out show on Friday at Barcelona's Olympic Stadium.
But sound problems began 30 seconds in following the failure of three amplifier towers.
By today more than 2,200 concert-goers had signed an online petition calling on Coldplay to perform a free gig or refund the £60 ticket price.
Fan Juan Manuel Ramos said: "I spent a lot of money to get from Tenerife to Barcelona to see this, and it was the worst concert."
The band today admitted the problem, but claimed it had been put right by the third song.
Reader views (5)
I'm not an idiot. More respect, please, because really you were not there. The best band in the world can not have these serious problems and sound in a concert in a stadium where you want to burn a DVD. It seems they were more concerned with burning the DVD to the public ... I was there, and more than half the fans left disappointed.
- Josep, Vic, Barcelona, 11/09/2009 09:41
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So, as one of the best groups in the world can not afford such failures. (Which were not only in the first 3 songs, but the whole concert). Dan: I'm not an idiot, but a person of 49 years ago many who go to concerts and this was the worst of my life. For me and many, like it or not. I guess you were not at the concert, right? I would also like to ask you that would have made if he had been in a Coldplay concert in London ... Do not say anything? What would happen? Or would record his disappointment, which is what many fans have done?
- Josep, Vic (Barcelona), 11/09/2009 09:19
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ye they are only one of the biggest and best bands in the world. Idiots
- Dan, Llanelli, 10/09/2009 19:35
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Nobby, my thoughts exactly. You couldn't even pay me to see that lot.
- Dom, London, 09/09/2009 17:33
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Would have been a darn sight worse if they had turned up.
- Nobby Clark, Perth, the Scottish one, 09/09/2009 16:30
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