Chapter 5

To pursue a career in music

Chris realized that he would have to move to London

So in 1996, he enrolled at University College London and studied history

That's where he met future band members

Will, John and Guy

Most of our friends, people said (?)

Same mates, same mates they always said

Yeah... [laughters]

I don't think it's all uncommon

For bands to originate at school

Because like America and Great Britain alike

This happens all the time

Because I think especially a university

Because for the first time

You're completely surrounded by people

The alike minded, their searching for similar things

You know, you've got other talent and musicians around you

But yet you're completely secured in the face

In a sense that you're on campus or whatever

You've got some source of support from family

But yet you're on your own for the first time

The four of them were all housed in the same building

Although they were studying very different subject

They all shared a passion for music

And London gave them the perfect playing ground

To see what other bands were out there

Whenever possible

They were going to gigs

I can understand why Chris Martin went to London to form the band

Because (?) companies are there, record companies are there

All the big bands play there

You know, if you wanna see any band that you like

It's always better to go off and see it in London

Because no in doubt that they'll always be on tour

They were always gonna threw this

It was always a good idea to go out there

Plus, the fact you got people living there

You wanna be in bands and wanna make it big

London's like this perfect setting

For the music industry to really, you know, explode

Because you've got such a diversity, you know

Diversity of culture

It's like the culture of center for the world, you know

There's so much going on

If you wanna go to Reggae gate, you go to Reggae gate

If you wanna go to like a guitar base gate

You go to that

You can go to whatever kind of music you wanna go to

London's a great place for music

Probably the capital city of music

No matter what style that you're into

Be Punk, Goth, Indie, Rock

There's always clubs and places to play

There's all those venues and market, the stores, and the (?)

Also lots of pubs, have nice bands playing

It's at these where you can meet people

Or often into forming bands as well

When they were not studying

They would go to watch bands

Guy and John would hang out in Chris's room

And together they would write songs

A lot of the material that would end up on the band's first album

Came together here

They wrote hundreds of songs

Before finally picking with tracks

Which would become world-wide hits

To sit down with a group of peple, like

If you intended to go out and, like

Join a band and have a successful career within that band

I mean, starting from a point where you'll just sort of sit down

And have a jam with someone

I think it's more than important, it's vital

Which is why so many bands successful that come out of university

Because they've had the opportunity in a time

To just sit down together, relax, have a smoke, you know

Just sit and jam

And just pick each other's brains

And I think when you do that

And you get yourself in that sort of situation

The more you just sort of work with it and it just evolves