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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I think it's desperately time for a change.
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Every time it gives you hope, a big old nasty cloud rolls over you and hails on you in April. It dumped 40 gallons on our field, so we switched it over to North and then 20 minutes later it drops 40 gallons over there.
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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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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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I don't think it's changed a great deal.
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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.
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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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And as we back up, it actually shows you where you're going to go.
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Nobody panicked and everybody just stayed poised and confident and we played the game. With Brad on the hill, the kids are going to feel confident.
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The automobile has probably got the worst environment for electronics. They're very dry, very dusty; or very hot and humid; or very cold and wet.
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It's an unrealistic sales and marketing tool that they are actually using. They are saying you're going to get 35 miles per gallon and you're really only going to get 21.
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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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If the car skids out of control it brings the car back into line.
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It goes as far on a gallon of french-fry oil as it does on a gallon of diesel. But, of course, the french-fry oil is a lot cheaper.