Coldplay Is Using Technology To Reach Hearing-Impaired Fans | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I just wanted to bring up because I. don't want to you know you're been very. gracious with your time and but I just. wanted to bring up something that I. think is amazing which is you and the. band have done this very cool thing. where you want people who are hearing. impaired or deaf to be able to come and. enjoy a concert as well so you've. figured out a way where they can and. where you can enhance the enhance the. vibrations of the music a lot of our. critics say it's the best way to. experience our culture because you can't. hear the music. but what is it exactly because I didn't.

understand what it was they are called. sub packs. uh Dakota my partner gave me one as a. gift because she's she'd seen someone. online experiencing whatever they're. experiencing with this it's kind of like. body armor that you put on. and plug it in and it and it connects to. the base. uh Billy eilish's brother um Phineas. Phineas yeah where's one on stage. because if you're if you're on stage it.

can give you help you know where the one. is where the cake is yep. so she had seen this lady use it in the. in the Herring hearing impaired you know. deaf community. and she said you should use this somehow. and so we started doing that and um it's. been so amazing and should get better. and better so we have I don't know. whether it's 10 or 20 now every night um. of those packs and so if you're hearing. impaired we have an an area where we. have a signer.

and you put on this pack and you can. feel. the show that's really lovely that's. fantastic it would be great if that. caught on and more people were doing. that yeah well that you know like like a. lot of things in our show they're. expensive yeah so and until um the price. comes down you know but but they're. amazing the things that people do to. consider other people are just wonderful. yeah you don't hear about them as much. as you hear about the shitty stuff no we. had definitely okay yeah but they are. out there and so I've been I've been um.

I just worked out a way actually because. I do a little bit of sign in in our show. dressed as an alien I just worked out. how to. change the sign language to fit the. country we're in because last year I. could only do it in American. but we've been chilly or something and. I'm it would be like speaking American. on stage right so you've got to figure. out a way I've just worked out how to do. that I'm excited about it I think the. key is you keep evolving you have to. keep evolving you have to keep changing. you have to keep there's no point where. you say well. God we've done it no never yeah I.

learned from Brian Eno who came to kind. of rescue our band in 2006. he came in. like a like an excited puppy and he was. he was 59 actually when you met him yeah. and he would always be learning and. excited about learning. and I really just loved that and stole. it it's funny you say it's not stealing. it well you did steal Bruce. Springsteen's diet uh and he'll get you. for that but the and I'm gonna steal it. now too it's not stealing if something.

inspires you I'm at the exact right age. to be inspired in both directions yeah. and I love it and sometimes I have to. overcome a bit of professional jealousy. occasionally to to allow myself to be. inspired by something that's maybe more. successful or that I think is better. yeah I think we all struggle with that. um but there is inspiration everywhere. not just in music but in film and in. everything science all over the place. and then you said about not having. anything else to achieve I think that.

whether it's a combination of what what. I try and learn outside of music or. whether it's age or whatever. it doesn't really feel about trying to. achieve anything anymore yeah it just. feels like. Phil and I were talking yesterday it. feels like we got the job that we really. wanted and now it's just we can just do. it yeah. does that make sense it makes perfect. sense we wanted to be this. Stadium band that really made people. connect and sync together and not see.

the differences as much as the. similarities as Hallmark as that sounds. yeah that's that's our real. goal and now and now it is that just. it's the doing of it yeah no every day. is the doing us yeah and you realize in. a way that maybe the drive that you had. or the ego is to is to sort of rocket. boost you to a place where you can. actually be a bit more useful yeah you. know it's not about winning this and. beating that person anymore it's like no. it's just make something that some. people might like I have found in some.

of that energy that I had in my 20s and. 30s and you know I letting go of that. when you can do it is. is such a better way to live yeah I I. mean if you can let go of it that's. you're better than me I have to. consciously override I mean I have to. consciously. listen to a lot of weird feelings and. luckily have some tools to help me these. days to not be owned by that feeling. yeah and one of the hardest ones is that. oh man Harry Styles's new song is better.

than our new song or something like that. right luckily I've been taught how to. very quickly be just inspired by it I. feel like you know what it's awesome and. he's awesome and I love him and I'm just. going to work harder I just saw him at. Coachella last summer and he was dancing. and turned around and I saw that he had. an H on the left butt cheek and an s on. the right butt cheek and I thought. Jesus. that's an innovation I need to steal I. need to walk around outside the O takes.

care of itself. I'll get a little apostrophe put over my. okay my anus. um this uh this was really a blast we're. gonna finish on that I do you think. there's a better place. um I love talking to people who are. insanely talented uh but also. uh interested in connecting and. interested in the journey because we're. all just trying to figure it out and. you've been really lovely and I do want.

to say you gave me a remarkable gift. when I walked in the door that I is. gorgeous and I'll cherish it no problem. yeah it's a Rolls-Royce. 1958 yeah Silver Shadow yeah we give. them to everyone. That's The Power of soft rock. you're so self-centered and you're. giving out rolls royces it's just a bit. of a clash anyway thank you so much. thank you and thank you all for coming. I'm so happy and we love you man it's I. think we came on your show 20 years ago.

you came on many times and just uh. absolute pleasure yeah on you know the. first few times and you just like how. did we get here on American you know so. right magical and mystical and you were. kind to us and that doesn't ever go away. oh that's so nice well thank you well. God I mean we were honored honored to. have you yeah but you could have been a. dick and you were really kind and it was. a good example I mean on a Wednesday. then yeah. all right thanks everybody thank you.