Coldplay Bassist Guy Berryman talks about life on tour, his fashion label, the future of the band and much more
met in their first-year dorm at University College London, each has, according to the band’s lore, played a certain role: Chris Martin is the creative genius, drummer Will Champion the voice of reason, guitarist Jonny Buckland the moral center, and bassist Guy Berryman the arbiter of cool. “Any coolness that Coldplay have at all comes from Guy,” confirms band manager Phil Harvey. “He’s a cool dude.
Yeah, I think we’re all acutely aware of how tough it is for people now to find an opportunity. You might be a really super talented musician but just not very good at social media. Or you might just be great at social media and you might become a star without anything of huge substance. So I guess it kind of works both ways. And I think we are acutely aware of the fact that we’re still going and we’re still played on mainstream radio stations after so long — we don’t take that for granted.
When I listen to music, I tend to listen to something that makes me want to move physically. I just really loved the rhythms of soul and funk — which went against the grain of what all of the other kids in school were listening to. All of that music is really coming from the rhythm section and the bass. If you think about Motown, it’s quite an amazing story.
So what we have is unbelievably special, the four of us. Like the other night in Melbourne, I got sick and for the first time in our history, one of us didn’t make the show.Yeah, it’s amazing. It got to six o’clock in the evening, and I was trying to rally — I mean, we’ve all done shows where we’ve been super sick with flu or COVID or whatever, and you can do it. You take a bunch of meds and you get up there and it’s tough, but you do it.
“We’re kind of dinosaurs in the way that we still approach making albums, trying to make them something really designed to be listened to from beginning to end as a journey.” I think we appreciate the fact that any great story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. So, I think the idea is really to be in control of the end, somehow, rather than just fading away or not really having your heart in it or just going on too long. I guess the concept is to kind of stop before things change in any way, shape, or form.
It took a long time to learn that three weeks is the max we can go away, and then we need a certain amount of weeks off. And even within those three weeks, we know how many shows we can do, how many days off we need to place in there. So we’ve really got that dialed in.I don’t know. Things got a little out of hand for a while. And for me, it became quite problematic, just the lifestyle and partying and going out late and really not looking after myself.
And I also feel like we’re really starting to get into uncharted territory now in terms of what we’re doing with the show and the people and the feeling and the service that I think we are providing to people.
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