1 00:00:09,133 --> 00:00:12,693 Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks'd be follow 2 00:00:12,773 --> 00:00:16,213 Speaker 1: this and our wide range of podcast now on iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:16,893 --> 00:00:19,733 Speaker 2: Welcome into the show. Happy Monday to you. Hope you're 4 00:00:19,773 --> 00:00:23,293 Speaker 2: doing well wherever you're listening, and you had a fantastic weekend. 5 00:00:23,372 --> 00:00:26,693 Speaker 2: But I could almost guarantee that your weekend wasn't quite 6 00:00:26,692 --> 00:00:27,733 Speaker 2: as phenomenal as Matt. 7 00:00:28,013 --> 00:00:29,333 Speaker 3: Yeah, mine was pretty good. But I don't want to 8 00:00:29,333 --> 00:00:30,813 Speaker 3: show off. I don't want to tell the story about 9 00:00:30,853 --> 00:00:32,693 Speaker 3: meeting Coldplayer. I don't really want to go into it, 10 00:00:32,693 --> 00:00:34,213 Speaker 3: you know, but let's just say good things happen to 11 00:00:34,213 --> 00:00:38,653 Speaker 3: good people. Where was Hoskins invite? Well that's what he's asking. Okay, 12 00:00:38,693 --> 00:00:42,732 Speaker 3: Well I will tell the story then if you press me, I'm. 13 00:00:42,613 --> 00:00:43,333 Speaker 2: Twisting your arm. 14 00:00:43,492 --> 00:00:45,452 Speaker 3: If everybody wants to know, if people look, so many 15 00:00:45,452 --> 00:00:48,132 Speaker 3: people are twisting my arm. On nineteen nineteen, so I 16 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:52,013 Speaker 3: did my glowing review of the Colbe concert from Wednesday 17 00:00:52,132 --> 00:00:56,973 Speaker 3: on My Costing Breakfast show, and Chris Martin, who heard 18 00:00:56,973 --> 00:01:01,893 Speaker 3: the review, so he got management to reach out to me. 19 00:01:02,133 --> 00:01:04,453 Speaker 2: Wait, hang on, Chris Martin himself was listening to My 20 00:01:04,573 --> 00:01:06,693 Speaker 2: Costing Breakfast and heard at Life. 21 00:01:06,933 --> 00:01:10,493 Speaker 3: I'm not sure he consumed the content somehow, and through 22 00:01:10,533 --> 00:01:13,653 Speaker 3: a series of people, they tracked me down and invited 23 00:01:13,693 --> 00:01:15,813 Speaker 3: me along to the show, and I thought on Saturday, 24 00:01:15,853 --> 00:01:17,493 Speaker 3: and I thought, oh, that's very very nice of them. 25 00:01:17,652 --> 00:01:19,212 Speaker 3: I thought I was just going along to the show 26 00:01:19,453 --> 00:01:21,653 Speaker 3: to see it with free tickets. Me and my partner, 27 00:01:21,652 --> 00:01:24,732 Speaker 3: we went along. We were really happy. Lived near Eden Park, 28 00:01:24,773 --> 00:01:26,733 Speaker 3: so we wandered down and then found out that we 29 00:01:26,773 --> 00:01:28,533 Speaker 3: had friends and family invites. So then we were in 30 00:01:28,572 --> 00:01:30,853 Speaker 3: the friends and family but before the show, and that 31 00:01:30,973 --> 00:01:33,213 Speaker 3: was good. Members of the band were mingling around, and 32 00:01:33,253 --> 00:01:36,812 Speaker 3: then I met a lovely member of the management team 33 00:01:36,893 --> 00:01:39,732 Speaker 3: also called Chris, and I had a great chat with him, 34 00:01:39,773 --> 00:01:41,012 Speaker 3: and then I thought, we're just going on to thing. 35 00:01:41,053 --> 00:01:43,253 Speaker 3: And then at the end he goes, hey, the band 36 00:01:43,292 --> 00:01:45,853 Speaker 3: want to meet you. And so this was just before 37 00:01:45,893 --> 00:01:49,133 Speaker 3: the show. So they lead me backstage, Me and Tracy backstage. 38 00:01:49,413 --> 00:01:51,893 Speaker 3: We go the area just before the tunnel before they 39 00:01:52,013 --> 00:01:54,493 Speaker 3: run onto the stage, and it's like an army back 40 00:01:54,493 --> 00:01:57,213 Speaker 3: there putting that show together, because the show is incredible 41 00:01:57,213 --> 00:02:01,253 Speaker 3: and there's so many moving parts, so there's people, so 42 00:02:01,493 --> 00:02:04,213 Speaker 3: much Edmund going on, you know, so many logistics going on. 43 00:02:04,453 --> 00:02:05,853 Speaker 3: So we stand there and then I thought we're just 44 00:02:05,853 --> 00:02:07,533 Speaker 3: going to watch the band go on stage. So then 45 00:02:07,573 --> 00:02:10,453 Speaker 3: the band come out and then Chris Martin comes up 46 00:02:10,493 --> 00:02:12,493 Speaker 3: to me and he gives me a big hug and 47 00:02:12,533 --> 00:02:15,013 Speaker 3: he goes whispers him and I tell you what, that 48 00:02:15,053 --> 00:02:18,172 Speaker 3: guy is quite. He's tall and he's fit. 49 00:02:18,413 --> 00:02:19,053 Speaker 2: Good cuddler. 50 00:02:19,173 --> 00:02:21,533 Speaker 3: He's a good cuddler. He's muscular. I think he's got 51 00:02:21,573 --> 00:02:23,933 Speaker 3: a yoga body. But anyway, he gives me a cuddle 52 00:02:23,972 --> 00:02:26,573 Speaker 3: and he goes, I heard your review and thank you 53 00:02:26,613 --> 00:02:29,413 Speaker 3: so much. What you know, what you said about me 54 00:02:29,532 --> 00:02:32,293 Speaker 3: was so good and it really meant a lot. And 55 00:02:32,333 --> 00:02:34,173 Speaker 3: you know, I believe and if people do good things 56 00:02:34,413 --> 00:02:36,452 Speaker 3: and say good things, I want to and put love 57 00:02:36,453 --> 00:02:37,853 Speaker 3: out into the world. I wanted to come back in 58 00:02:37,972 --> 00:02:40,572 Speaker 3: so I wanted to invite you here and I just 59 00:02:40,653 --> 00:02:42,412 Speaker 3: wanted to say thank you to you personally. I said, oh, 60 00:02:42,933 --> 00:02:43,533 Speaker 3: thank you so much. 61 00:02:43,532 --> 00:02:43,852 Speaker 1: Wow. 62 00:02:44,053 --> 00:02:46,893 Speaker 3: And then he goes, would you like to well, would 63 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:49,333 Speaker 3: you do something with me? And I said sure anything. 64 00:02:49,373 --> 00:02:51,733 Speaker 3: You know, you're a superstar, Chris Martin. I didn't say that, 65 00:02:51,773 --> 00:02:54,133 Speaker 3: but whatever he wanted me to do, I was going 66 00:02:54,213 --> 00:02:58,053 Speaker 3: to do. So he pulled me over and the band 67 00:02:58,373 --> 00:03:01,893 Speaker 3: and the band and backing up backup singers. I'm got 68 00:03:01,893 --> 00:03:04,813 Speaker 3: in a circle around and it's obviously a thing they 69 00:03:04,813 --> 00:03:07,653 Speaker 3: do before each show, and he and then he called 70 00:03:07,653 --> 00:03:09,773 Speaker 3: over my partner as well, and he said come over here, Tracy, 71 00:03:09,893 --> 00:03:13,292 Speaker 3: come over here as well. And then we got into 72 00:03:13,333 --> 00:03:15,773 Speaker 3: the scrum, into the huddle beforehand and he goes, this 73 00:03:15,813 --> 00:03:18,933 Speaker 3: is Matt Heath and his partner Tracy, and he wrote 74 00:03:18,972 --> 00:03:21,293 Speaker 3: a fantastic review and they were like, yeah, they read it, 75 00:03:21,653 --> 00:03:23,293 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. And they all said thank you. 76 00:03:23,493 --> 00:03:25,333 Speaker 3: And then they were like, okay, this is what we do. 77 00:03:25,532 --> 00:03:29,012 Speaker 3: And then he said some words about you know, beautiful 78 00:03:29,733 --> 00:03:32,412 Speaker 3: sort of words, hype up the band words, and we 79 00:03:32,453 --> 00:03:35,533 Speaker 3: all put our hands into the middle real and went 80 00:03:35,613 --> 00:03:39,093 Speaker 3: way and then he said thank you again, gave me 81 00:03:39,133 --> 00:03:41,933 Speaker 3: a hug, and ran on stage. And then we were 82 00:03:41,973 --> 00:03:44,413 Speaker 3: handed balloons and we were sent around the side to 83 00:03:44,493 --> 00:03:46,173 Speaker 3: the front of the audience and we were throwing the 84 00:03:46,173 --> 00:03:48,973 Speaker 3: balloons out into the audience. Although I think I missed 85 00:03:49,013 --> 00:03:51,293 Speaker 3: up the throwing of the balloons. At some point I 86 00:03:51,373 --> 00:03:53,653 Speaker 3: was I need to duck down anyway. There was a 87 00:03:53,653 --> 00:03:56,213 Speaker 3: few people doing that, and then we were led in 88 00:03:56,293 --> 00:03:59,013 Speaker 3: to watch the show from from from a very very 89 00:03:59,053 --> 00:04:00,973 Speaker 3: good seats that were sort of a couple of a 90 00:04:01,013 --> 00:04:02,933 Speaker 3: couple of seats away from Chris Martin's dad. 91 00:04:02,813 --> 00:04:04,373 Speaker 2: And what was going through your head? 92 00:04:05,093 --> 00:04:08,413 Speaker 3: I yeah, it was. It was so surreal, and that 93 00:04:08,493 --> 00:04:10,813 Speaker 3: was really good because there was no cameras back there, 94 00:04:10,893 --> 00:04:12,653 Speaker 3: so it wasn't one of those situations where you meet 95 00:04:12,653 --> 00:04:14,573 Speaker 3: a starr and you're trying to get something from them 96 00:04:14,613 --> 00:04:16,973 Speaker 3: like a photo or a signature. It was just a 97 00:04:17,013 --> 00:04:20,133 Speaker 3: real genuine experience and he had a really good chat 98 00:04:20,133 --> 00:04:21,452 Speaker 3: to me, and you could just tell this is a 99 00:04:21,533 --> 00:04:25,933 Speaker 3: really good guy that really preaches what he lives what 100 00:04:25,973 --> 00:04:28,373 Speaker 3: he preaches, you knowunds like about you know, you know 101 00:04:28,693 --> 00:04:30,773 Speaker 3: that the love you make is equal to the love 102 00:04:30,813 --> 00:04:31,933 Speaker 3: you take kind of situation. 103 00:04:32,013 --> 00:04:34,053 Speaker 2: The review was glowing, no doubt about that, and if 104 00:04:34,053 --> 00:04:35,293 Speaker 2: you want to listen to it, you can get it 105 00:04:35,293 --> 00:04:37,813 Speaker 2: on week on demand on the ZIB website. But there 106 00:04:37,853 --> 00:04:41,333 Speaker 2: was part of that review where and you mentioned Mike 107 00:04:41,413 --> 00:04:44,093 Speaker 2: that you you thought Chris might have been a bit 108 00:04:44,093 --> 00:04:45,173 Speaker 2: of a punishable character to that. 109 00:04:45,893 --> 00:04:47,813 Speaker 3: I started my review by saying, you know, I'm a 110 00:04:47,853 --> 00:04:50,373 Speaker 3: cynical guy, and you know, I always knew Chris Martin 111 00:04:50,373 --> 00:04:52,573 Speaker 3: was talented, but there's some sort of slight punishable nature 112 00:04:52,573 --> 00:04:55,493 Speaker 3: about him, and he did mention that. He said, he said, 113 00:04:55,613 --> 00:04:57,253 Speaker 3: I loved your review, even though he described me as 114 00:04:57,293 --> 00:04:59,373 Speaker 3: punchable at the start, But then I see it after 115 00:04:59,413 --> 00:05:02,733 Speaker 3: seeing him live. And I've always loved their music. Music's fantastic, 116 00:05:02,973 --> 00:05:05,173 Speaker 3: But after seeing them live, I said in the review, 117 00:05:05,173 --> 00:05:07,493 Speaker 3: I would follow this guy into battle, and I would 118 00:05:07,533 --> 00:05:08,973 Speaker 3: follow that guy into bad. I think he's one of 119 00:05:09,013 --> 00:05:12,013 Speaker 3: the best front man I've ever seen. And people see 120 00:05:12,053 --> 00:05:13,653 Speaker 3: that's crazy to say that he's up there with Mick 121 00:05:13,733 --> 00:05:16,893 Speaker 3: Jagger and and Freddie Mercury, even though they're very different frontmen, 122 00:05:17,413 --> 00:05:19,493 Speaker 3: And now I stand by it. He can hold the 123 00:05:19,973 --> 00:05:22,413 Speaker 3: fifty thousand people in the palm of their hands and 124 00:05:22,613 --> 00:05:27,053 Speaker 3: everyone's smiling, and the guy can sing like nothing else. Yeah, 125 00:05:27,093 --> 00:05:30,293 Speaker 3: it's incredible, you know. And the band's fantastic. So that 126 00:05:30,373 --> 00:05:31,973 Speaker 3: was a really good experience. And then we had took 127 00:05:32,053 --> 00:05:32,893 Speaker 3: us to the after party. 128 00:05:32,933 --> 00:05:33,693 Speaker 2: How was that? 129 00:05:33,693 --> 00:05:34,413 Speaker 3: That was a good time? 130 00:05:34,493 --> 00:05:35,453 Speaker 2: Yeah? How long were you there for? 131 00:05:35,693 --> 00:05:35,813 Speaker 1: Ah? 132 00:05:35,973 --> 00:05:39,053 Speaker 3: Is there for ages? Just ripped it up deep into 133 00:05:39,053 --> 00:05:41,173 Speaker 3: the night. Yeah, yeah, you're And Chris Martin, Yeah, no, 134 00:05:41,173 --> 00:05:42,693 Speaker 3: not so much. I actually went home but early. But 135 00:05:43,933 --> 00:05:46,573 Speaker 3: but you know, my son's just turned eighteen. And somehow 136 00:05:46,613 --> 00:05:48,373 Speaker 3: he'd got an invite there, so you know, he was 137 00:05:48,653 --> 00:05:49,733 Speaker 3: It's kind of weird to be. 138 00:05:49,693 --> 00:05:52,293 Speaker 2: How the hell are the heats getting all these blood invites? 139 00:05:53,013 --> 00:05:55,053 Speaker 3: But it was a special it was a special experience 140 00:05:55,093 --> 00:05:56,693 Speaker 3: and it was great to see, you know, you know, 141 00:05:56,733 --> 00:06:00,293 Speaker 3: the sort of backstage workings of an incredible band. So 142 00:06:00,413 --> 00:06:03,213 Speaker 3: and look, Chris Martin, what a top Blokekay. 143 00:06:03,333 --> 00:06:05,173 Speaker 2: Good things happen to good people. Whe As you say, 144 00:06:05,213 --> 00:06:07,133 Speaker 2: you see. 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