Predictably, the Gauteng show was far less interesting to perform than the spectacular Cape Town one, so we’ll excuse the yawn, Chris.

Cape Town Tourism chiefs are grinning from ear to ear this week as they smugly proclaimed that just after filling Greenpoint stadium last Wednesday night, UK alt rock sensation Coldplay applied to the City authorities to record a new music video in and around the Mother City, as well as in the Klein Karoo.

Filming took place  over the weekend before the band hauled ass to Johannesburg to perform in front of 62 000 Gautengers’ cellphone cameras on Saturday night. The video will be released globally later this year, accompanying a new single from the band’s upcoming fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto.

Your correspondent hung around the AFDA campus in Observatory all yesterday to glean some deets from the shoot (come on, those rich kid film brats get into everything), but to no avail. It seems likely the shoot relied more on our precious and unique local flora than… er… fauna. Still, iKapa 1, Egoli 0.

[Source: Channel 24]