Sad news: update Luton town after quarrelling with the head coach star player has been suspended…..
Coldplay thrilled fans with a special song called Orange dedicated to Luton Town Football Club during its set at Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
The group, fronted by Chris Martin, headlined the festival at Stockwood Park, in Luton.
There had been a campaign by local football fans for the group to change the lyrics of its song Yellow to Orange. Instead Martin performed an ode to the town.
It referenced the Hatters playing in orange, with the team’s arch rivals Watford in yellow.
During the performance, Martin told the audience to “trust” him and to “relax” as he approached the end of the set.
Before playing Yellow, Martin said the track had “nothing to do with Luton”.
“If you’re from Luton, I’m going to ask you to just suspend your anger or fears or anything you might be worried about at this point in our concert of what songs we might play or might not play,” he said.
He then explained to the crowd that he had heard people in Luton might be concerned if he sang Yellow.
“It reached me a while ago,” he said, “that there were some people in Luton who were worried or disgruntled and maybe even angry about the concept of our band coming here and singing a song called Yellow because… of the Hatters and Kenilworth Road and the Luton Town Football Club.”
Martin said that as he has grown older he has learned that if people “come at you with hatred and aggression” you can respond with “love”.
To huge cheers, he introduced the new song he said he had finished in his hotel room the night before.
He called it a “once-in-a-lifetime thing” – and said it “may not be good enough” to be heard again.
The Hatters were relegated from the Premier League this season and the song opened with the lyric: “It’s hard to be a football fan here in Luton Town.”
