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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is displaying some love for Taylor Swift supporters in Austria.
On Wednesday, the band kicked off the primary of 4 concert events at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium the place Martin, together with singer Maggie Rogers, sang an acoustic cowl of Swift’s 2008 hit “Love Story.”
In accordance with video footage posted on social media, Martin additionally invited “two real Swifties” on stage whereas he and Rogers carried out the music.
“We sing this music with a lot love for Taylor and a lot love for Swifties,” Martin advised the viewers.
Coldplay seems to be the primary main act to headline a live performance on the Austrian venue since a thwarted terror assault plot induced organizers to cancel three of Swift’s Eras Tour concert events there earlier this month.
Swift was scheduled to start the three-show run on August 9 when Austrian authorities introduced that they had prevented an ISIS-inspired plot to assault one in all her exhibits there.
“The explanation for the cancellations crammed me with a brand new sense of worry, and an incredible quantity of guilt as a result of so many individuals had deliberate on coming to these exhibits,” Swift wrote in a statement posted to her Instagram web page on Wednesday. “However I used to be additionally so grateful to the authorities as a result of due to them, we have been grieving concert events and never lives.”
The Grammy-winner resumed her tour final week, performing a five-night run at London’s Wembley Stadium that concluded on Tuesday.
So far as security measures go for concertgoers attending Coldplay’s exhibits this week, Stay Nation GSA posted a news release on X outlining the venue’s security plan.
“The well-being of all attendees, artists, and workers is our high precedence and, as all the time, Ernst-Happel-Stadion is coordinating with native authorities and companions within the lead-up to the concert events, to make sure the security of everybody on web site,” it learn.
Coldplay is scheduled to carry out three extra exhibits in Vienna on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.