He Crowdsurfed in a Wheelchair to the Stage and Coldplay Pulled Him Up to Play Harmonica (Watch)

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It’s straightforward to assume that being in a wheelchair means the top of actions that contain intense bodily actions—like massive wave browsing or, in Rob O’Byrne’s case, crowdsurfing.

Rob shouldn’t be somebody who thinks this, nonetheless, and regardless that he misplaced all management of his physique from his chest down, he nonetheless loves going to gigs, a favourite event from earlier than his accident.

Rob has not let his incapacity influence his attendance at gigs. Being that he can sing however can solely transfer one arm, he has taken up karaoke with a specific like of emulating the voice of Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

One among his favourite bands, they have been in Dublin lately for a tour. Rob simply needed to be there. At a sure level, he instructed the Guardian, they launched these massive bouncy balls into the group. Concertgoers have been having a riot taking part in keepie-uppie, and within the pursuit of this frivolity, two very massive males fell over Rob attempting to succeed in one.

The lads have been very apologetic, and determined to raise Rob, wheelchair and all, into the air to see higher. A smaller stage sat simply in entrance of the principle stage related by a causeway, and shortly the 2 males started to hold Rob nearer to the small stage, with the group both parting or pitching in to hold him.

“I raised my arm within the air,” Rob remembers. “Eighteen months earlier, I wouldn’t have been in a position to try this—I’d had a tendon switch, which helped me get again some muscle that I misplaced in my arm. I used to be the primary individual in Eire to have that operation.”

Despite the fact that the safety guards have been screaming to place him down, Chris Martin helped pull Rob up onto the stage—in entrance of 80,000 individuals. Martin apparently requested him a number of questions on his age and occupation, then requested Rob to hitch with him in a easy tune.

“He handed me a harmonica. I don’t play, however he mentioned he’d look down when he wished me to blow on it. He made up a tune on the spot: ‘We’re in Dublin with Rob, he’s a PT,’ stuff like that,” says O’Byrne, who’s a private health coach for individuals with related accidents. “It was brief however candy.”

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After the present, he and his mates have been elated going up Dublin’s O’Connell Avenue, Rob taking part in the harmonica—through which Martin had stuffed 50 euro—the entire approach.

The information went viral and world, with a musician mates as far-off as New Zealand calling to precise their jealousy that their wheelchair-bound pal had performed music with Coldplay in entrance of extra followers than that they had cumulatively performed for throughout their entire careers.

WATCH the video under, courtesy of Coldplay and the BBC…