Review: Lots of love for feelgood Coldplay as Hull embraces kisscam
The audience focused camera caused a controversy when it caught an adulterous couple in its glare at a concert in Massachusetts in July, but it certainly didn't make their Yorkshire audience wary.
'If life gives you lemons you've gotta make lemonade,' joked frontman Chris Martin about their continued use of the kisscam, as he picked out a very willing bunch of locals to serenade. One woman conspicuously thrust her chest towards the camera while Martin improvised a humorous ditty about being confronted by a '36 treble double D', then joked 'I don't think that's a real size. I've never bought a bra!'
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