It has been announced that Coldplay will open this year’s BRIT Awards. The group will kick off the awards show with a live performance from a platform on River Thames in London. The band will perform their latest single, “Higher Power” which will premiere this Friday. The performance will take place atop a pontoon located near the O2 Arena, where the night’s festivities are being held.
Higher Power, the new single, out Friday!
Pre-order / pre-save / CD single: https://t.co/f26MzzGUxO pic.twitter.com/z17r6cMSU8
— Coldplay (@coldplay) May 4, 2021
This will be the first time that Chris Martin and company will have performed live in over a year. They join the likes of Arlo Parks, Dua Lipa, Griff, Headie One, and Olivia Rodrigo who are also due to perform over the night. Rag’n’Bone Man and P!nk are also set to perform new single “Anywhere Away From Here” with the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Choir.
Tuesday, May 11: We are performing at the 2021 @BRITs. pic.twitter.com/Hh56iXPaUX
— Coldplay (@coldplay) May 4, 2021
Coldplay have recently been teasing the possibility of a new album rumoured to be called ‘Alien Radio’ through social media and a mysterious website alienradio.fm. This performance at the BRITs could give fans further insight into the band’s future releases. This is not the first time Coldplay have performed at the BRIT’s, the band shared the stage with The Chainsmokers in 2017 and also performed in 2016. Coldplay are in fact the most nominated group in the history of the BRIT’s with 28 nominations and nine wins in total.
The Brit Awards will be on 11 May, 2021. The ceremony will be one of the first major indoor and in-person live music events in the UK in more than a year as part of a government pilot scheme. The event will take place before an audience of 4,000 people, 2,500 of which will be key workers from the Great London area. Comedian Jack Whitehall is set to return as host. Winners this year will be presented with not one but two statuettes, with stars encouraged to share with someone important to them as an “act of kindness”.
