Chris Martin tumbles through stage at Coldplay concert in Australia: Watch the video
Chris Martin experienced a fall on stage, a mishap that seems to happen to many performers, during a recent concert.
On Saturday, while addressing the audience in Melbourne, Australia, Martin, 47, was walking backward and inadvertently stepped into an open trapdoor. Despite some fans attempting to signal him, he didn’t catch on to the danger, leading to gasps from the audience as he fell.
Fortunately, crew members were positioned near the trapdoor and managed to partially catch him. Martin, unharmed, climbed back up the trapdoor and humorously told the audience that his fall was “not intentional.”
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Coldplay is currently on the extensive “Music of the Spheres” World Tour, which kicked off in Costa Rica in 2022 and is now making its way through Australia and New Zealand, with plans to perform in Abu Dhabi in 2025.
Martin’s fall comes as several other celebrities have faced similar incidents, including Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Ian McKellen.
The “Birds of a Feather” singer posted a video on her Instagram story last month revealing she fell down some stairs during her concert at Madison Square Garden while on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour, resulting in a bruise on her thigh. The video captured Eilish waving at fans, and as she picked up speed, she stumbled and fell forward.
In June, 85-year-old Ian McKellen took a tumble off the stage during a performance of “Player Kings,” a reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.” In the following months, he shared that he was wearing a neck brace and a splint on his right hand due to the incident.
“I’ve replayed that fall in my mind countless times. It was dreadful,” McKellen recounted to Saga Magazine. “My chipped vertebrae and fractured wrist are still healing. I avoid going out because I get apprehensive about bumping into people, and I have excruciating shoulder pains linked to my body being jolted.”
In another recent incident, Olivia Rodrigo also fell on stage while performing in Melbourne last month during her Guts World Tour, though not at the same venue as Martin’s fall.
Social media footage showed the “Obsessed” singer running around when she accidentally fell through a trapdoor. However, she quickly assured the audience that she was fine, saying, “Sometimes there’s just a hole in the stage. It’s all good.”