Coldplay asked fans to “send love” to Charlie Kirk’s family during a concert at London’s Wembley Stadium.
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The moment took place on Friday (September 12), when frontman Chris Martin took some time before their performance of ‘Fix You’ to encourage fans to raise their hands and “send love anywhere you wanna send it in the world.”
“There are so many places that might need it today,” he continued. “You can send this to your brother or your sister, you can send it to the families of people who have been going through terrible stuff, you can send it to Charlie Kirk’s family.
“You can send it to people you disagree with, but you send them love anyway… You can send it to peaceful people in the Middle East, in Ukraine and Russia.”
The right-wing activist was shot in the neck and killed at Utah Valley University campus, where he was hosting his first event as part of his America Comeback Tour. Kirk was 31 years old.
A 22-year-old Utah native identified as Tyler Robinson has since been arrested and charged with suspicion of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily harm, and obstruction of justice.
A couple people asked me if there’s a video of Coldplay suggesting that fans send love to Charlie Kirk’s family.
Here it is. pic.twitter.com/yy3E8ta6QW
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 14, 2025
A South Park episode mocking Kirk was removed from schedules following his murder. The episode featured the character Eric Cartman becoming a conversative commentator who debates students on colleges, mimicking Kirk’s hairstyle and mannerisms. The episode also featured a prize called the Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters.
Coldplay’s UK tour saw them donate £1 from every ticket sold to support grassroots venues. Friday was the final show, after it was rescheduled due to a London Underground strike.
They’ve also teased a huge 2027 leg of their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour, which is already the most-attended tour of all time and only the second to gross over $1billion in revenue.
During the penultimate Wembley show last Saturday (September 6), Martin said: “This tour has 138 more shows to go. We have a break coming up, and we’ll announce the shows for 2027 soon. But we only have two more this year, and then we’re gonna go and make this really special thing that we’ve been making for years and years, and it’s really good. But shush! I’m telling you that because I want to tell you something I haven’t told anybody else. That’s what it is, OK?”
Ahead of the release of the band’s latest album, ‘Moon Music’, last year, Martin told NME about the importance of live venues and their influence on his band. “Playing live is an important connection,” he said. “It doesn’t bother me that there might not be another Coldplay, but it does bother me that there might not be acts that are free to start on the bottom rung and work all the way up – so that by the time they get to stadiums, they are really good.”
