Coldplace, Mr Kyps

USUALLY a popular pull at Kyps, Coldplay's most convincing tribute act suffer for the Wimborne Folk Festival taking place at the same time.

But despite a venue only three-quarters full, the band still manages to impressively convey the power of their idols' music.

Maybe the slightly underwhelming crowd knock their confidence, but considering watching tributes requires something of a leap of faith, the opening doesn't do much to inspire confidence.

It's a shame as Square One is arguably one of Coldplay's most thunderous epics, but it drowns in technical problems and lethargy.

Thankfully, all the necessary brooding menace is instilled into Politik and things are soon back on track.

Shane Crofts pulls off a remarkably convincing Chris Martin, who has to be one of the harder frontmen to impersonate.

His versatile voice hits all the larynx-busting high notes in Trouble and Yellow.

There's even the trademark Make Trade Fair symbol painted cheekily on the back of his hand.

The backing is pretty much faultless, if inevitably lacking the fireworks of the real thing, and by the time Coldplace reach their encore, you're pretty much sold.

Fix You, in particular, is touched with the kind of emotion that inspired Martin's "tears stream down your face" lyrics.

You could do worse than save yourself £50 on the real deal with these boys.