Will Champion
Will Champion
William "Will" Championis an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the alternative rock band Coldplay...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth31 July 1978
CitySouthampton, England
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Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
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It all depends on how you drive the vehicle. We run them the way people really drive in the city.
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I don't think people get the full perspective of how in-depth we go into cars from the small amount of press that we get. We try to allay some of the fears that people have. Our No. 1 customer is the consumer. We try to get them the best information we can get so they can make the best decision on what they're buying.
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The Japanese manufacturers have great attention to detail, they make cars people want to buy. Their cars have great reliability.
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I don't think it's changed a great deal.
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So, if we're happy playing the songs we have written, for as long as we can, then that is sort of the proof that they're good songs as well.
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We're trying to find somewhere we can set up and work. In all these years we haven't got a HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere that we can sort of hole up and see what happens.
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It is worrying, but we feel as though our first album is a representation of our musical career of the first years up to this point.
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Well, the stuff on the album we are a hundred per cent sure that we'll never get sick of because that was a very careful selection process.
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The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
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We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
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I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
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A lot of times when we play in countries where English isn't the first language we get accused of being melancholy and miserable.
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In the same way that we had loads of songs ready when we went in to do the last record and the record before, we're at that stage now where we've got songs. I think they will need a lot of work, we need to learn how to play them. We've learnt from mistakes on the last record in terms of the idea that it's most important for us to play the songs together and to have them as live as possible.