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Lacklustre Coldplay performance inspired Interpol’s Carlos D to quit music

By | Published on Thursday 20 August 2015

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Former Interpol member Carlos D has revealed that it was watching a particularly uninspiring Coldplay performance that made him want to quit his band. And music. And anything to do with music making in any, way, shape or form. Which I think we can all relate to.

Dengler (that’s what the D stands for, in case you wondered) told Bedford + Bowery that his band shared management with Chris Martin et al, and they offered them tickets to see the band play on US TV show ‘Saturday Night Live’. But the band’s performance just seemed so lacklustre compared to the comedy that surrounded it.

“I felt so much titillation and excitement over all the skits, and looking at how they were being performed. And then when Coldplay came on, I felt bored, quite frankly. I knew then that there was something going on with me, some kind of identity shift, really. It really troubled me”.

Though that was just the nail in the coffin. He goes on: “I was not really mentally all that well while I was in Interpol. I had many substance and process addictions that I was coping with. And I was, you know, the classic VH1 ‘Behind The Music’ story of upward rise and downward fall. The only difference was that – because I didn’t have such a good relationship with my bandmates – I wasn’t willing to be in the band with them while I experienced my crash”.

He adds: “I think as lamentable as some people feel my departure from the band was, it was the best case scenario because I think everyone involved has been better off as a result of my departure”.

Dengler has now trained as an actor and hopes to launch a second career in that discipline. And good luck to him I say. At least next time he sees Coldplay boring everyone between some comedy sketches, he can position himself on the sketching side of that fence.



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