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Coldplay to tour South Africa

By Ruth Cooper

10 May 2011

Let me put it out there from the start, I'm not ashamed to say that I was ridiculously smitten with Chris Martin in my early teens. Seeing him moodily and earnestly strolling along a miserable-looking beach in 2000 sent quite the "rush of blood to my... head". He was nerdy, he was poetic, he was talented, he was beautiful; I wanted to marry him. Damn you, Gwyneth Paltrow, and your long legs for getting in there before me.

However, as intense as my infatuation was it was also very short-lived (as with all teen crushes, no doubt) and those Coldplay albums have gathered a fair amount of dust since the early 2000s. Chris just didn't seem to be the same; I mean he married a Hollywood movie star and named his kids Apple and Moses. WTF? His pretty shine was lost in my eyes.

But I think with the debut of Coldplay in SA in October it's time to dust off those albums, revisit those teen years and head off to the Cape Town Stadium to "Viva la Vida". Chris Martin, I think I still love you.

Tour Itinerary

Cape Town
Wednesday, 5 October, 2011
Cape Town Stadium
Tickets from R270 to R635