Coldplay's Chris Martin encouraged the audience at Monday's Teenage Cancer Trust concert at the Albert Hall to stand up and sing along saying: "Most of us here are English and everyone has got a fear of singing in public, tonight abandon your Englishness and you can feel the sound of the song. Sing against the war, pop music and Simon Cowell and all that shit."
Martin, who has a habit of adding snippets of other songs into his, played a verse of what he called "the best song around", Oasis' 'Songbird', at the end of 'Everything's Not Lost', and sang the chorus of TaTu's 'All The Things She Said' during 'In My Place'.
During 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' he changed the lyrics to "Buy a gun and start a meaningless war" in a subtle anti-war protest.
Meanwhile the Coldplay boys have announced that Canadian MOR artist Ron Sexsmith and Dallas-based pop group Eisley will support them when they tour the US later this year.