Chris Martin comments and more

Coldplay went on stage for the second of the four concerts at Rogers Stadium in Toronto on Tuesday evening (July 8), and the show set the distinction of being the third concert in the general classification during the brand new place of 50,000 inhabitants in Downsview in the North End of the city.

If you ask the president of Music of Live Nation Canada, Erik HoffmanColdplay was also one of the main reasons why the stadium was built. In the first two shows of the group, Chris Martin did not have exactly flattering things to say about it. The first night, he called this a “strange stadium in the middle of nowhere”, and the second night, he went even further, calling the place of “very bizarre stadium a million kilometers of the earth”.

“We only test the premise:” If you build it, they will come, “Martin told his piano intro to” The Scientist “.

Martin may have had his language a little in his cheek, but it was not a good PR for the place, which supported the complaints of fans concerning moving seats, the lack of water stations and long expectations to leave. The stadium has already made improvements on all these things, although getting out of one of the two outings is always a test. There are now more personnel who lead crowd control lights, red lights and flashing green to prevent curls of strangulation at the Downsview public transport station nearby.

However, the somewhat isolated location benefited these Coldplay programs, while the famous music on the celestial theme of the world tour of the Spheres built an entire world; Traveling 45 minutes from the city center to get there increases the feeling of entering a connection and positivity pocket. The production was impeccable, and that made the night majestic.

It was the 203rd program of the Record tour of Coldplay, which is the most sold and profitable rock tour of all time. At one point, Martin told the crowd that previous tours were only “202 repetitions for you”. During its first night at Rogers Stadium, the group delayed its time defined to repair a lighting tower, but everything worked gently on Tuesday.

Many people in the crowd brought flags, and Martin welcomed them all: countries such as Brazil, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Finland and India. He also welcomed a fan who brought an LGBTQ + flag and then draped in one for a song expressing his support for all sexes and sexual identities.

A night after a fan brought a Palestinian flag on Tuesday, another brought a flag from Israel. “We welcome everyone,” said Martin. “It makes me happy that the two groups can come.” Later, he celebrated the crowd full of nationalities and religions and said that it shows that “all these conflicts we remain told are really too died by the power of love and unity”.

It is perhaps a vague platitude, but it is a unique message of unity that the group has preached throughout its career. On Tuesday, Martin said that the program was the first time that the 50,004 people (including group members) would never be in the same place and asked the public to feel the connection.

Coldplay has two other shows at Rogers Stadium this weekend, July 11 and 12.

Find the complete protruding facts of the concert here. – Richard TRAPUN

Tiktok Canada Interrupt the sponsorship of the Toronto International Film Festival, Juno Awards, Adisq and Plus

Tiktok disconnects its artistic sponsorships across Canada.

The social media platform plans to withdraw as a sponsor of several Canadian artistic institutions, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Juno Awards, while it is preparing to comply with a federal order to close operations nationwide.

Steve de EyreThe director of public policies and affairs of the government of Tiktok Canada, said Canadian press The Canadian government is now applying its order from last November to complete the country’s platform operations in relation to national security problems. Tiktok has promised to combat order, but the video sharing application now plans to stop its Canadian initiatives.

The entering judgment affects some of Canada’s artistic communities, including Junos, with whom Tiktok Canada has been a partner since 2020, especially as a recently added Juno Fan Choice Prize sponsor. Tiktok Canada has also supported the Charité de l’Éducation Musicale de Caras, Musicounts, the platform that provided $ 500,000 to date to support high school music programs.

Since 2022, Tiktok Canada has also sponsored shortcut programs and special TIFF presentations and sustained industry panels featuring Canadian creators.

The Tiktok accelerator of the National Screen Institute for Aboriginal creators, which has worked with nearly 400 participants since 2021, will also lose funding.

Last year, the Canadian government ordered the liquidation of Canadian operations in Tiktok (including its two Canadian offices) after “a national security process in several stages”, but said it would not block the use of application in Canada.

Without concrete calendar, however, of Eyre declared that the company still disputes the order before the courts and pushed the government to find a better way to follow.

“It breaks my heart that we are forced to cancel [these programs]”Said Eyre Canadian pressAdding that due to the establishment of the order, the company cannot commit to renewing its partnerships in the country. “The reality is that you must have local staff to develop these things and manage these things. These programs cannot be built.”

Read the rest here. – Heather Taylor-SINGH

Arts & Crafts is launching a new country label

The famous independent Canadian music label Arts & Crafts is becoming country.

After having a major impact in the country and abroad with artists such as Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars and Dan Mangan, the label launched a new craft campaign imprint and announced the signing of the Housed Group Winner of Juno and selling the Platinum The Washboard Union.

“Arts & Crafts prides itself on a universe of diversified music built on the main pillars of creativity and the community.” Independent music made with care “- we have always been motivated by inventiveness, without regard to the limits of the genre,” said Kieran RoyPresident of Arts & Crafts, in a press release. “It is on this note that we are delighted to announce our partnership with the Union of La Planche à washing, to mark the foray for arts and crafts in country music and to sign with our new, newly struck country imprint.

Together for more than a decade, the British Columbia trio includes Aaron Grain, Chris Duncombe and David Roberts. The group’s first album, Washing board unionwas released in 2012 and produced by the heavy goods vehicles Garth Richardson and Bob Ezrin. The group signed for the first time with Slaight Music and Warner Music Canada before joining Universal Music Canada for its latest album, West.

Direct favorites on the country circuit, the union of washing plates won nine CCMA awards, including three consecutive victories for the group of the year and the album of the year for Quite (2020). He also marked history as the first country group to receive a Juno award for the breakdown group of the year. The group has accumulated more than 400,000 radio laps and more than 85 million watercourses, and marked a platinum and four singles certified in Canada.

The Washboard Union plays certain festival dates across Canada this summer and is also in the studio to record the new music, with a new single that will be released this fall. The group recently signed with ABC Music (for Australia and New Zealand) and heads for Australia in October for its first series of shows. Its future version will be the first under the new partnerships of the group’s label with Arts & Crafts and ABC Music.

“The Arts & Crafts team is, above all, music fans and innovators,” said Duncombe in a press release. “From our first conversations, it was clear that they understood who we are as an artists. We have always believed in the creation of truly authentic music, to associate with a label which values artistic talent and creativity is energizing. We are delighted to be the first country act to join what we have put in store in the next chapter of the union of washing panels. ” – Kerry DOOLE