Coldplay’s Chris Martin is due to play with The Weirdos for the alien puppet band’s debut TV performance on Friday (June 10).The singer will lead the group, which is a creation of Jim Henson’s Creature Show, on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, broadcast live on NBC at 10.35 CT (4.35am BST on Saturday, June 11).
They will perform ‘Music Of The Spheres‘ song ‘Biutyful’.It follows news yesterday (June 7) of The Weirdos landing a historic recording contract with Atlantic and Parlophone Records.The Weirdos’ manager Bruce Cakemix described the band’s deal as “the biggest step forward in human-alien relations since Close Encounters“, according to a press release.Angel Moon, the band’s lead singer, has been a regular performer on Coldplay’s current world tour, singing to more than a million people across the US and Latin America over the past three months.
She will be joined by bandmates Donk, Sparkman and The Wizard for Friday’s performance.Martin spoke to Billboard about the group in May: “The Weirdos are a band who we’re trying to help out.“I think we thought that we’ve sort of come to the end of doing singles as Coldplay.
I think we’ve probably basically finished doing that, in general. We can’t go more poppier or single-y [than their BTS collaboration ‘My Universe’] than that and that felt good and we’re a bit older now.
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