Chris Martin has said that Coldplay plan to give away a free track with every ticket sold for their UK tour in December. Via the band's official site, the frontman said: "We're hoping to do this thing where we give away a song with every ticket. We have this song called 'The Goldrush', which Will [Champion, drummer] sings. We want to play it as part of the show, so we'd like to give it away with the ticket. That way the only people that know that song will be the people coming to the concerts".
The band are due to appear at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena, Glasgow SECC, Sheffield Arena, Liverpool Echo Arena, the MEN Arena, and London's 02 Arena. Explaining why they don't plan to tour any stadia this time (despite having done it before), Martin said "We're not a stadium band yet. I think we're still trying to figure out how to make a room full of 10,000 people as exciting as possible, let alone a stadium. To me an arena feels like the perfect size canvas, so we're trying to master that".
On the content of the live shows, he continued: "We've got some incredible balls. And I mean that in the most technological of senses. If you come to our concert, you'll see the most magical balls you've ever seen. And ours is the first concert in the world to feature them. There are lots of surprises, including butterflies and painted drums and lots of colour and probably some things we haven't even thought of yet".