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Coldplay Donate Ten Percent Of 2025 UK Show Proceeds To Grassroots Venues
Coldplay announced six new shows at London’s Wembley Stadium, and two at Hull’s Craven Park Stadium, for August 2025 – the only dates in Europe the band will play next year.
Fifty percent of the tickets for the Hull shows – the band’s first ever concerts in the city – will go to local fans (with HU, YO, DN or LN postcodes), via Ticketmaster on Thursday, September 26 at 6pm BST.
On Sunday evening, Sept. 15, the band placed a poster in the window of the Dublin Castle in Camden, London – the scene of the first ever Coldplay show, in February 1998 – revealing that 10% of the band’s proceeds from the Wembley and Hull shows will be donated to the UK’s Music Venue Trust.
“This will help fund the Trust’s vital work supporting UK Grassroots Music Venues and upcoming artists. Donations will also be made to Music Venue Trust by the concerts’ promoters (SJM Concerts, Metropolis Music and Live Nation), the band’s booking agent (WME), the venues (Wembley Stadium and Hull Craven Park) and the official ticket agents (Ticketmaster, See Tickets and AXS),” the press release announcing Coldplay’s 2025 UK dates reads.
Mark Davyd, CEO, Music Venue Trust, said, “Coldplay are the perfect example of a UK band who came through the grassroots circuit on their way to worldwide stadium-filling success. It’s fantastic to see them celebrating their own pathway to Wembley by giving back to the grassroots music venues that supported them and recognising the artists and promoters that are struggling more than ever to build their own careers. Through our partnership with Save Our Scene – who introduced us to Coldplay last year – this money will go directly into work that ensures communities right across the country will continue to have access to great live music on their doorstep. The band’s support really will stop venues closing, make tours happen and bring the joy of live music to thousands of people. After months of discussing Coldplay’s potential support around these UK shows with them, we’re so happy and grateful that the news is finally out there!”
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The band have also pledged to power the Wembley concerts’ production with 100% solar, wind, and kinetic energy, collected at the venue and elsewhere in the UK, and delivered by a specially-designed electric battery system. In addition, one of the satellite stages at each show will be fully powered by energy generated by the audience via kinetic flooring and power bikes.
In June, Coldplay announced that the tour has so far produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour in 2016/17, exceeding the original target of a 50% reduction.
Coldplay will make a limited number of Infinity Tickets available for the shows via Ticketmaster at 12pm on Friday, November 22. Infinity Tickets are released for every Coldplay show to make the “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” accessible to fans for an affordable price. As always, they will cost £20 ($26) per ticket. They are restricted to a maximum of two tickets per purchaser, and must be bought in pairs – which will be located next to each other, anywhere in the venue.
Since the first “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” date in March 2022, the band have sold over 10 million tickets making it the biggest tour by a group of all-time. The tour has also received rave reviews from fans and critics alike, picking up accolades including Favorite Touring Artist at the 2022 AMAs and Tour of The Year at the 2023 iHeartRadio Awards.
The band’s upcoming new album, Moon Music, is out Oct. 4, 2024. The album, just like the tour, will set new standards for sustainability, with each LP made from 100% recycled plastic bottles (nine per record).
Coldplay are just coming off a sold-out European run that lasted all summer, including a stop at Glastonbury festival, continuing to get an incredible amount of people into seats at stadiums.
From four sold out concerts at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, July 12-16, selling a total of 251,771 tickets at a $29,378,307 gross; to becoming the first act to sell out Düsseldorf, Germany’s Merkur-Spiel Arena three times in a row, July 20-23 (145,402 tickets, $19,465,043 grossed); to four sold out Ernst Happel stadiums in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 22-25 (251,399 tickets, $33,030,164 grossed).
The band is now headed to Australia and New Zealand, where they’ll perform a total of eleven stadium shows in October and November.
Coldplay is managed by the team of Phil Harvey, Mandi Frost and Arlene Moon, and repped by Wasserman Music’s Marty Diamond in the U.S. and internationally by their long-time agent Josh Javor at WME.
Coldplay’s 2025 UK Dates:
Aug. 18 – Hull, Craven Park Stadium
Aug. 19 – Hull, Craven Park Stadium
Aug. 22 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 23 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 26 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 27 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 30 – London, Wembley Stadium
Aug. 31 – London, Wembley Stadium