As they say in showbiz, “The show must go on.” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin learned this lesson in a way that left him a little red in the face.
Martin wiped out by falling into a trapdoor while performing in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday.
Martin Falls Onstage
During a concert at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, Martin was telling his fans some stories from Coldplay’s international Music of the Spheres World Tour. Suddenly, the 47 year-old frontman shocked everyone by falling through a trapdoor.
Videos of the fall show Martin walking backwards down a raised runway as he talks to the crowd. Suddenly, he topples backward through an open trapdoor as the crowd gasps in shock.
“I don’t know who caught me, but thank you so much. Who was that?” he asked as he looked beneath the stage while someone fixed his mic pack. “Oh wow – I did not know that hole was there…I have the jitters.”
“That’s not planned!” Martin said after he regained his footing. “Holy […], that was nearly a YouTube moment!”
Sorry, Chris, but now it really IS a YouTube moment! But thankfully, he wasn’t very seriously injured.
Check it out for yourself in the video below.
Coldplay Breaks Record
After the concert, Marvel Stadium took to Instagram to say that Coldplay “officially broken our all-time largest attendance record for a band at Marvel Stadium, with 227k people attending across the four Music of The Spheres World Tour shows held at the Stadium.”
Coldplay’s international tour has been ongoing ever since March of 2022. It is set to end in September of 2025 with a 10-day run at Wembley Stadium in London.
Martin will next be heading to Sydney to finish the Australian leg of the tour with guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion. Coldplay will then move on to New Zealand for more tour dates.
Coldplay is additionally getting ready to release some new music. Back in June, Coldplay dropped their 10th studio album Moon Music. This came along with the single “feelslikeimfallinginlove.” Afterwards, Martin dropped a bomb when he revealed that Coldplay only plans to release 12 “proper albums” as a band before they go their separate ways.
“We are only going to do 12 proper albums, and that’s real,” Martin said back in September.
“So if we do something together after that creatively beyond touring, then it’ll be something different, or it’ll be a side thing, or it’ll be a compilation of things we hadn’t finished,” he added at the time.
Olivia Rodrigo Falls
This comes one month after the singer Olivia Rodrigo suffered an eerily similar fall while performing in Melbourne. Unlike Martin, however, she was performing at the Rod Laver Arena.
Rodrigo was running from side to side onstage hyping up her own audience when she suddenly fell.
“Oh my God, that was fun! I’m okay,” she told her fans after regaining her composure. “Sometimes there’s just a hole in the stage.”
Check out that fall for yourself in the video below.
It seems that performing might come with some serious pitfalls…literally!
In all seriousness, we’re glad to see that both Martin and Rodrigo appear to have bounced back from their respective falls uninjured. Indeed, it seems that these tumbles could easily have ended very badly for them both!