Night review by Krone+

How Coldplay’s first concert in Vienna went

Frontman Chris Martin during Coldplay's performance at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium on Wednesday.(Bild: Andreas Graf)

Four completely sold-out concerts, a total of 240,000 fans: the Vienna guest appearance of the successful pop combo Coldplay, which started on Wednesday, put everything that had gone before in the shade. Krone+ reveals how the first performance at the Happel Stadium went and whether the British quartet lived up to expectations.  

At the beginning of their career, Coldplay were regarded as a widely respected indie band that mixed powerful emotions with equally powerful melodies in songs that were as small as they were delicate. While the quartet once followed in the footsteps of early U2, they now pay homage to brightly colored electropop with a dance edge. The band around frontman Chris Martin demonstrated their penchant for opulent staging and low-threshold music at the first of four completely sold-out concerts at the Ernst Happel Stadium on Wednesday evening.