The only times I buy music magazines is when they have a free cd and/or a top 100 list that I can get infuriated by. I very rarely, if ever, bother to read interviews with rock stars. I bought the Chrimbo edition of Q so that I could get annoyed by their top albums of the year. Job done. Last night as I went to put it in the recycling, I happened across the Ricky Gervais/Chris Martin interview, which contained a superb display of musical ignorance by Chris.
Talking about the Coldplay videos:
RG: I love that light thing, by the way [pretends to swing
something around head; as in the Fix You video].
And I like it when you jump at the end. Your little jump.
You're like Bruce Foxton.
CM: Who? What, from [fashionable London Surrey company]
Foxtons estate agents?
RG: [Screaming with laughter] From a little group called The Jam?!
CM: Oh, right. Ha ha.
RG: You know Bruce, do you? Works in Foxtons estate agents?
Which one is that? Is that the one on Chalk Farm Road? Brilliant.
Yeah. How is he? Is he still playing bass?
CM: Don't put that in.
Does it matter that Chris Martin thought that part of the biggest selling band of the punk period was some Estate Agent Executive who does guitar star jumps in between selling country mansions to twits like, er, the Martins? Probably not. Do I find it more funny because I dislike Martin's music? Almost certainly.
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