Chris Martin stopped the concert and told the fan, "This is not a
tambourine song - I don't mean to be rude.
"Let me be honest with you, we tried tambourine on the recording
and had to scrap it - so we have been playing it for 10 years with
no tambourine. It probably sounds great, but I'm just used to it
without tambourine. Don't take it personally.
"I can't see what you look like, but you look lovely and sound
fantastic. Don't take this to be some kind of anti-tambourine rally
or rant against the tambourine. It's one of my favorite
instruments."
He later joked, "I promise the next song is a tambourine frenzy,
you can go crazy."