The lead singer of the British rock band Coldplay has fallen into a hole in the stage while performing in Melbourne.
Chris Martin was talking to the crowd at the fourth and final Melbourne show at Marvel Stadium as part of the Music of the Spheres tour when he walked backwards into a large open hole in the thrust stage.
Footage captured by fans throughout the stadium shows Martin reading and pointing to posters in the crowd just before the fall. A person could be seen standing inside who caught Martin at the last moment and appeared to cushion his landing.
A shocked gasp was heard from the audience before Martin said: “That’s uh, not planned, thank you for catching me, so much. Thank you guys, holy shit.”
He then thanked the person who caught him and said he had “the jitters”.
“Yeah I’m OK, thank you,” Martin added, as he was checked over by a staff member, before continuing with the show.
The mishap comes just three weeks after the US pop star Olivia Rodrigo also fell through the stage while performing at a different venue in Melbourne, the Rod Laver Arena.
During the final night of the Melbourne leg of her Guts tour, she was running across the stage, pointing to cheering fans, when she ran straight into a hole in the ground and fell.
In a video posted to social media at the time, Rodrigo did not appear injured and got straight back up after the dramatic fall, saying: “Oh my God, that was fun!”
“I’m OK. Woah. Sometime’s there’s just a hole in the stage,” she said. “That’s all right. OK. Where was I?”
After taking a few days off, Coldplay will continue their tour this week in Sydney with shows from Wednesday to Sunday at Accor Stadium.
Source: theguardian.com
