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On this day, 22 June 2000, rock band Coldplay played Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach.
The band were just about to release their debut album Parachutes the following month.
The album was a commercial success and was met with positive reviews. Upon release, it quickly reached number one in the United Kingdom and has since been certified 9× Platinum.
It won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2002, the British Album of the Year award at the 2001 Brit Awards and many other accolades.
Parachutes is also the 22nd best-selling album of the 21st century in the United Kingdom. As of 2020, it has sold over 13 million copies worldwide.
Coldplay were apologetic during their Principality Stadium gig in Cardiff 17 years later that they had not performed in the capital sooner.
In 2000 the band brought their Parachutes tour to the city twice, one in on June 22 to Clwb Ifor Bach and the second time, they performed to a larger crowd at Cardiff University's Great Hall on October 25.
Lead singer Chris Martin told the Principality Stadium audience: "We haven't been in Wales for a long long time and that's because we've been rehearsing for 17 years to make the best show we've done."
SETLIST
Don't Panic
Shiver
Spies
Sparks
Yellow
Trouble
Parachutes
High Speed
We Never Change
Everything's Not Lost
Help Is Round the Corner
