Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin has made it clear that the band has no plans to ditch the kiss cam at its concerts.
Setting the record straight on the massive scandal that emerged from that band’s concert jumbotron that took the internet by storm, Martin said, “We are going to keep doing it.”
Martin was addressing the crowd at the band’s “Music of the Spheres” World Tour stop in Hull, England, on Monday.
The incident, which took place during the band's July 16 show at Gillette Stadium, saw Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR chief Kristin Cabot getting caught on camera in an intimate moment. Byron and Cabot resigned from Astronomer amid widespread media coverage of their alleged cheating affair.
"You were at that Boston gig! OK, well, thank you for coming again after that debacle," Martin said in reaction to a fan's sign, according to videos and reports from the band's first night in Craven Park on August 18.
"I'm going to say this once and once only. It's not, never will be, and never was a kiss cam. … We put one couple and you're branded a kiss cam for the rest of your life. It's unbelievable," Martin said, according to fans' videos from the England show.
"This is called a jumbotron, and we've done this for a long, long time," the singer continued. "We pick people out to say hello. And sometimes they turn up to become an internationally massive scandal, sure. But most of the time we're just trying to say hello to some ... people, that's all!"
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Martin added. "Life throws you lemons and you’ve got to make lemonade."
As the singer wrapped his public service announcement, he shared a sweet message to the people who were caught canoodling on July 16. "Anyway, we send pure love to those people, and I wish them so well," he told the crowd.
Coldplay wrapped its North American leg of the long-running tour in Miami Gardens on July 27 and took a three-week break before launching into its final leg in the UK.
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