Five things you might not know about Coldplay as countdown begins to their Hull concerts

THERE ARE SOME LESSER-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE BAND THAT EVEN THEIR BIGGEST FANS MIGHT NOT BE AWARE OF...

- By DEBORAH HALL

HERE is less than a week to go now to one of the world’s biggest bands appearing in Hull.

Coldplay will be rocking the Sewell Group Craven Park next Monday and Tuesday nights.

The city concerts will mark 25 years since Coldplay released their debut album, Parachutes. At the time, Sean Hughes, for a BBC Inside Tracks of summer 2000, called them “my favourite best new band” and predicted the track Yellow, now one of Coldplay's best-known songs, would chart “in a couple of weeks”.

The rest, as they say, is history as Coldplay have garnered fans across the globe during their meteoric rise to fame. With over 160 million records sold worldwide in the past quarter of a century, Coldplay are one of the bestselling music acts of all time.

Here are five things you possibly did not know about Coldplay ...

Music to make your bread rise

Celebrity baker Paul Hollywood, of Great British Bake Off fame, swears by Coldplay music to get the best rise out of his bread.

Hollywood, known for his piercing blue-eyed stare and the “Hollywood handshake” for a bake well done, usually bakes himself, every other day.

In an interview for PA news agency, he said: “I put a bit of Coldplay on and then make a bit of bread. When it’s fully risen you knock it back and gently shake it. I find that extremely relaxing.

“I can picture how that bread’s going to come out the oven before it’s even gone in the oven. You just know it’s going to be a good loaf.”