Bangkok Post – Coldplay across the universe

The latest Coldplay concert in Bangkok was a feat of photogenic spectacles designed to bedazzle, complete with light-blinking wristbands, sci-fi-warped animation on spherical screens, balloons in the shape of planets and exploding fireworks above the roof of Rajamangala National Stadium (“The football field not often used to play football on,” as a Thai national squad member noted.)

The 60,000-strong crowd was decidedly international, heavy on the Far East side plus a fair contribution from the subcontinent, and spanning demographic generations, led, of course, by Gen X-ers present at the Parachutes breakthrough and rounding off with teenagers (!), the latest converts to the group normally favoured by their cool uncles after Chris Martin made the savvy move to feature the Korean boy band BTS in My Universe. He even thanked “the Army” — fanspeak for BTS loyals — for…