During their QVC appearance, the band played several of their new songs, with accompaniment from Soweto’s Mzansi Youth Choir.
They also attempted to take calls from the audience – but their phone handsets failed, leaving host Jennifer Coffey to relay messages through an earpiece for part of the show.
Among the callers was a Florida fan called Candy, who told the band she’d bought tickets to see them in 2008, but had to miss the show when her father passed away.
Martin quickly improvised a song in her honour, singing: “I’m sorry we missed you back in 2008, but some things are better when you’re forced to wait.”
Within 10 minutes of the segment airing, Coffey said 31,000 people were shopping for copies of the album on the QVC website.
For context, the current number one album in the US, Future’s Mixtape Pluto, sold 129,000 copies in its first week on the charts.
