How Chris Martin Prepares For A Coldplay Stadium Show | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

what do you do to get yourself in the. right space before you go out there and. do a show well I'm getting older so it's. a lot of uh. I I think it would be the same thing. that you would imagine a retired. footballer would do if you said you have. to play this afternoon a lot of creaking. and stretching and yeah. asking people to manipulate this and. loosen that and you know it's that kind. of thing I've gotten into trouble asking. people that yeah please could you. manipulate this and please manipulate me. why am I being sued uh as the venues.

become the same. as Sports so the preparations do too. that makes sense to me. um when I think when we were playing in. bars I don't drink but the rest of the. band were drinking. when we were playing in arenas the rest. of them were doing you know Arena type. stuff and when you're playing stadiums. it's like preparing for a big soccer. game or a big NFL game and you know. you're gonna. get some muscle issues and yeah oh I. also think even though I I've I have had.

people make fun of me because I'll be. about to do a show where I'm sitting and. chatting with someone and I'm stretching. and people say what are you stretching. for you're not gonna in any way do. anything slightly athletic and I say. it's something about preparing I need to. do something for myself that gets me to. a slightly elevated yeah I think that. comes from physical stuff and from. uniforms I think that. we see it all around the world anyone. that's given a uniform to to.

um enforce a rule yeah can do it very. very firmly when they have their uniform. but if they were wearing shorts and a. t-shirt you wouldn't take them seriously. right in the same way that I could not. go on stage dressed like this I would. not be able to do it I have to put on my. uniform which looks pretty similar looks. pretty similar but I know it's my band. uniform yeah that makes sense to me. though too because I've always felt. it isn't it's a perform a performance. has to be slightly you get to a slightly.

different place than we're sitting here. I'm wearing jeans you're wearing sweats. we're chatting if there was an audience. here. I sometimes even if I'm I'll put on a. tie even if it's not required I just. feel that I need to do something that. shows that I'm an ice cream man and I. put on my ice cream man uniform yeah. well this is a cool I don't know if this. is interesting but it's been on my mind. because I I got told that I got in. trouble for not dressing up enough for.

the Grammys. although my partner said you did dress. up you put shoes on. I wish which was a true and being really. kind yeah. but I was thinking about. I am happy to. feel like I have to wear an outfit if it. helps me perform better but I don't. agree with telling people what they have. to wear yeah maybe that's a hangover. from school where you're told you have. to wear this or. I I. um. I was I was I need to write A Treatise.

on this like. the sort of clothing uh. rules yeah well it seems like it it it's. it's. because well first of all it's the. Grammys and it's representing all. different kinds of music and free. expression so the idea that you need to. dress up for the Grammys. does clothing show respect and and I. would never want to show disrespect so. because I love the Grammys so. so I was interested maybe I was wrong or. maybe.

maybe we're sort of brainwashed to. thinking if you're not wearing a tuxedo. you can't get married kind of thing. right right of course you can if you're. hot you know what what if you're an Ax. Murderer and you're dressed correctly. are you a better groom than Woody. Harrelson over here who loves you with. all his heart but is wearing board. shorts right right right no you're not. but they didn't know the answer. and I think Woody is very violent uh in. my experience I I I'm going to give a. big shout out to Woody Harrelson because. he was at a concert of Oswald he was so.

kind to my brother when he had no reason. to be that he just became an extra hero. in my eyes well that's nice when. obviously people are nice to you. but. it's it's so delightful when you find. out who someone really is when they're. being when you find out later on that. they talked for 20 minutes the person. who is installing cable you know it I. don't know I love that when when people. reveal their true kindness through just.

uh well he did another thing too it. wasn't performative yeah something I. learned from my dad is that you. everybody is interesting if you ask them. questions everybody. and my dad is amazing at that and he. comes out on tour a lot. and he doesn't necessarily know who. people are from movies so he talks to. our crew a lot and a lot of them have. names like bash or hoppy Mystic things. like that and then he met this guy. called Woody. and he started talking about you know.

what do you do do you fold the cables. and it was Woody Harrelson. and. hello Woody. like this. and then he told you I met this lovely. fellow named Woody yeah and uh and again. Woody Harrelson was cool as and. well I was uh many years ago had a party. and Jim Carrey was there and my mother. was there and at one point my mother I. see my mother talking to Jim Carrey and. I'm thinking oh God what's happening and. then she came over to me and she went I.

just talked to the loveliest young man. his name's Jim. and I said oh oh you talked to Jim and. she was like yes and I told him if you. want to be in comedy you stick with it. and they're gonna try and put you down. but you keep of course he had had like. nine he was the biggest star in the. world at the time and I said Mom all I. want you to do is go back to Boston and. tell your friends you told Jim Carrey to. stick with comedy that's great and uh. she did and got laughed out of town. that's amazing I had I was visiting my.

friend who had cancer at the time in New. York in hospital and I was coming down. in the elevator with a nurse in all her. glory like six pens in the pocket like. you know. and um I was singing it not loudly not. like hey check this out yeah but I was. mumbling or something and she said oh. you have a beautiful voice. and I said oh thank you so much. she said you know you should uh you. should do something with that and I and. I said and I said oh yeah well maybe and. she said also you look like the guy from.

Coldplay. this is really true and I said okay yeah. people say that and she said you know. what you should do you should call. restaurants and say that you're him. because you would get really good tables. and then she left. foreign.