Almost six months after the initial batch of tickets went on sale, Coldplay will finally play some concerts in Hong Kong this month, with a four-night run of shows kicking off on 8 April. The venue? None other than the new Kai Tak Stadium. This will be the first time the stadium has hosted an international concert, but it has warmed up nicely with the a huge Rugby Sevens weekend in late March. Read on to find out more about the shows and the band!
Coldplay Concert Fast Facts
What: Coldplay’s Music of The Spheres World Tour
When: Four nights, 8, 9, 11, 12 April 2025 (8pm)
Where: Kai Tak Stadium
Why: Because Coldplay are one of the biggest-selling British bands of all time, racking up over 100 million record sales worldwide. That puts them in company with the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Adele.
How: Unfortunately, you’ll need to be holding a ticket already, because all four shows are sold out. If you don’t have a ticket, we suggest keeping a close eye on socials for a friend (or friend of a friend) who suddenly has to pull out and needs to offload theirs. (It does happen!)
8 things you might not know about Coldplay
#1 Coldplay’s Hong Kong history
The upcoming tour won’t be the first concert performance by Coldplay in Hong Kong. They played a single show here back in 2009, in front of 11,000 punters at AsiaWorld-Expo in Chek Lap Kok. That was part of the Viva La Vida Tour, which saw a massive 34 different artists fill the slot of support act; in Hong Kong, it was American rock band Mercury Rev.
#2 What’s in a name?
Coldplay’s original name sounded more like a brand of protein shake: Pectoralz. This was the moniker devised by Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland when they first formed at University College London in 1996. When Guy Berryman and Will Champion later joined, they changed to the less muscular Starfish, before finally settling on Coldplay.
#3 Creepy cameos
Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland play cameo roles as “zombie sympathisers” in comedy horror film Shaun of the Dead. The pair are good pals with UK actor Sean Pegg who wrote the cult film.
#4 Shout-out to Devon
If, during one of the Coldplay concerts in Hong Kong, you overhear Chris Martin saying to the crowd, “Yoom es ma-dde as a bar-bed wire Badd-ger!”, don’t mistake it for his attempt at Cantonese. Apparently, the lead singer can speak the local dialect of his UK home of Devon. (Agatha Christie was also born in Devon, by the way.)
#5 Everything in reverse
If you’ve not seen the music video for “The Scientist” from arguably the band’s best album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, it’s worth having a look. Released in October 2002, the video (which centres around a car accident) employs a quirky visual technique where everything around Chris Martin goes in reverse, while he continues to sing the song normally. The effect was achieved by Martin learning the whole song backwards and singing it that way then reversing the footage.
#6 Half-time heroes
Coldplay are one of the small handful of artists who have had the opportunity to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. They featured in 2016, with guest appearances by Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson and others. (American news entertainment website Vulture recently ranked it the 9th best half-time show of all time, besting the likes of Michael Jackson, Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga.) Speaking of halftime shows, the band has allegedly been brought in to help organisers curate just such a show for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final in New Jersey next year. It’s the first Super Bowl-style entertainment at a World Cup football final.
#7 An even split?
Coldplay is big on social awareness and the values of fairness and equality. You’ll often read that this is reflected within the band itself, with all profits (and there are lots of those, trust us!) split equally among the four members, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion. In fact, Chris Martin has suggested in more than one interview that the split is 40 percent for him and 20 percent for all the other band members. Hard to argue against that, as he’s the writer of almost all of the band’s songs. (And he doesn’t just write songs for Coldplay; he has also penned numbers for other artists, including Nelly Furtado, Dua Lipa, Avicii and Kylie Minogue.)
#8 Going green
Coldplay is big on green credentials, and has pledged to plant a tree for every ticket sold on the current tour. Another first on this tour is the use of kinetic dance floors, which sees some sections of the general admission areas in stadiums laid with kinetic tiles that harness the energy from dancing fans.
About the Music of the Spheres tour
The numbers around this tour are astonishing. It began back in March 2022, in Costa Rica, and will finish in London’ Wembley Stadium in September this year. By the time the last notes ring out on 8 September, Coldplay will have played to almost 11 million people in dozens of countries across four continents, from the Philippines to India, to Poland and Peru. In the process, they’ll have notched up ticket sales in the vicinity of US$1.2 billion.
Coldplay concert logistics
The shows are likely to begin at around 8pm each night, but if you’ve not been to the brand new Kai Tak Stadium, give yourself plenty of time to get there. Doors are expected to open from around 5pm. Support acts are Cantopop artist Marf Yau (from Hong Kong group Collar) and Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna.
If you’re planning on taking the MTR, you can get off at any of the following stations:
- Kai Tak Station
- Sung Wong Toi Station
- To Kwa Wan Station
The walk from those stations is between 10 and 20 minutes; Sung Wong Toi is probably your best bet. You could also take the ferry from North Point to Kowloon Ferry Pier. (It’s a 15-minute walk to the stadium from the pier.)
Find out more about the Coldplay concert in Hong Kong and the tour at the band’s website.
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