Catching Coldplay

There’s a surplus supply of kidneys in the market right now. Coldplay has finally confirmed that it is taking on Manila on April 4. But, like the lyrics of “The Scientist” goes, nobody said it was easy. The tickets are expensive—VIP passes are worth P22,500 each (that’s more than our monthly salary)—no wonder people are planning to sell their internal organs just to catch the A Head Full of Dreams Tour.

Others, of course, are trying various methods to earn a ticket: Twitter user @cinephilliacy asked Liza Soberano if he could pawn her pretty face in exchange of tickets; netizens are asking “May RiteMed ba nito?”

People online have been comparing the Coldplay ticket prices of the Manila to the Singapore and Seoul legs. VIP tickets cost only SG$ 298 (P10,360.64) in Singapore and W154000 (P6,481.96) in Seoul.

This prompted us to compute which is more “sulit”—flying to Singapore or South Korea, or staying in, because if we’re breaking the bank just to see Coldplay, we want to make sure we’re getting our money’s worth.