Coldplay Studio diary entry 20/04/2007
The control room is tiny. Literally smaller than my bedroom. The live room isn’t much bigger. About the size of the rehearsal room we used to have pre-record deal.
Brian Eno sits behind his laptop towards the back of the control room. A benevolent schoolmaster with the unquestioning respet of his charges. When he speaks, we listen.
Markus Dravg [sp] prowls around the room like a big cat in a zoo. A heavyweight boxer with a paintbrush.
Two very different people, both equally formidable. Together Brian and Markus have introduced a sense of discipline that never existed in previous album sessions. The atmosphere is tense and urgent.
I’ve never seen the band so willing to be led, to be pushed. Chris just burst into my little room upstairs at the studio. He’s been working on lyrics. Much more abstract, much more visual than before. This is reflected in the music too: less straightforwards, more oblique.
There’s a long way to go, but the initial [???] are good.
Prospekt