During a Coldplay concert in London, Chris Martin encouraged fans to “send love” wherever it’s needed, specifically mentioning Charlie Kirk’s family. Kirk, a Trump ally and conservative commentator, was tragically shot dead at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10.
‘Send it to Charlie Kirk’s family’
Martin, during the last leg of Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour, asked fans to raise their hands and direct positive energy towards those in need.
“For the final time for a few years in London, let’s raise our hands like this, and send love anywhere you want to send it in the world. There are so many places that might need it today,” he said on stage as he raised his arms over his head.
Martin added, “So, here it comes from London. You can send this to your brother or your sister. You can send it to the families of people who’ve been going through terrible stuff.”
“You can send it to Charlie Kirk’s family. You can send it to anybody’s family. You can send it to people you disagree with, but you send them love anyway,” he went on to say.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Coldplay’s Chris Martin STOPPED his concert in London and asked the 80,000+ people in attendance to “SEND LOVE” to Charlie Kirk’s family
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 13, 2025
And people were cheering!
The left does NOT understand the scale of what they’ve done here
Our movement just got MUCH bigger🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/syHblcjE0d
‘Rather be dead than at Coldplay concert’
This comes even as Charlie Kirk, around two months back, said that he would rather be “caught dead than attend a Coldplay concert”. He further tagged the band and their performances “boring, banal and a waste of time”.
“I would rather be caught dead than be at a Coldplay concert. I would rather go to a WNBA game than go to a Coldplay concert. Couldn’t think of something more boring, banal and a waste of time,” he had said, before adding, “But it’s fine, it’s a free society, you can do whatever you want.”
Kirk even admitted that listening to Coldplay’s music was “very hard to endure”.
His criticism followed a viral incident at Coldplay’s concert in July, where then-Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot were caught sharing a romantic moment, which social media named “Kiss cam”. He, on his show, titled “The One Word That Perfectly Explains Viral Coldplay CEO Cheater,” made these remarks. According to Kirk, the one word is “shame.”