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
album careful cent english-musician hundred per selection sick stuff sure
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.
not-good-enough stuff i-can
I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
against ben control good heck hits lose stuff throwing
Ben was throwing a heck of a game. He had good stuff and then he'd lose control and then he'd be good again. You can't try to do too much against him. That's why a lot of the hits were the other way.
changed english-musician great
I don't think it's changed a great deal.
english-musician good happy playing proof songs sort
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.
hole somewhere sort studio trying
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.
album career english-musician musical though
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.
english-musician january played time
The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
critical english-musician music
We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
english-musician people played weeks
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
cells decide english-musician hopefully left music
I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
accused countries english english-musician language melancholy
A lot of times when we play in countries where English isn't the first language we get accused of being melancholy and miserable.
last learn learnt loads mistakes ready record songs stage terms together
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.
mad trying the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.