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Gordon in the morning: Sit down, there's some reporting
It's not all writing about breasts, you know: Gordon's actually got a proper, decent story this morning:
COLDPLAY are being paid a whopping £1.2million to play a festival in Japan later this year.
If they gig for 75 minutes on both nights, they will trouser a jaw-dropping £8,000 A MINUTE.
If they gig for 75 minutes on both nights, they will trouser a jaw-dropping £8,000 A MINUTE.
We don't know where he's got the figure from, but assuming it's true and he's not merely dressed up a story he read in Billboard with a made-up figure, the scoop - and the accompanying picture of a very-smug looking Chris Martin - is a pretty solid one.
Of course, Gordon thinks this is brilliant news, and then spends some time getting excited - excited - over the prospect of a new Coldplay album before ending on a weak pun:
They should change their name to Goldplay.
And, with long lens shots of Cheryl Cole's ring finger and Pussycat Dolls in "undercrackers", it's quickly back to business as usual.
4 comments:
A valid story it may be (I'm shocked too!), but it makes very little sense without any context. I suspect that it's roughly the going rate for any other band of their stature to play two gigs at a festival.
Good point - after all, Glastonbury do make much of their ability to pay less than the going rate for festival headliners...
And I seem to remember that in 2004 The Darkness apparently demanded £1m to play Glastonbury (although it was probably a case of Glastonbury asking if they'd play, them saying "we'll do it for £1m", Glastonbury saying "no" then The Darkness's people saying "alright". Or perhaps entirely made up.) then getting that much to headline Reading and Leeds.
They should change their name to ColdPAY.
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