Date: January 18, 2025
As a fan of Coldplay since A Rush of Blood to the Head, seeing them live has been a bucket-list item for well over 15 years. Heck, back in 2011 I even went to see a tribute band play in UB City. X&Y (my favourite Coldplay album) had the stadium anthem “Fix You” and Viva La Vida and Death and All His Friends had its stadium anthem with “Viva La Vida”. But we’re now in the era where a “Sky Full of Stars” going viral on social media alone has marketed Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres concert series better than ever before, and introduced the 25-year-old British band to a new stadium anthem.
The album Music of the Spheres was released 2 years ago — Coldplay’s first album produced by my all-time favourite music producer — Max Martin. But the popularity of the concert has made Coldplay continue to tour for so long that it is now, officially, the most attended tour of all time and the second highest grossing tour of all time (first is Taylor Swift’s Eras tour)!
I won’t go into the ticketing headache that was the BookMyShow experience, so I will just talk about the Coldplay experience.
I wanted to get inside the venue early so as to avoid last minute rushes.
From my hotel, I then walked to Turbhe railway station.
A ticket to Nerul station was Rs. 5 ($0.05/€0.05) and the train would arrive in 15 minutes.
