Jonny Buckland

Throughout this 2014 TV special, taken highlighting the creation of Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories” album, we can see Johnny with what looks to be an early 1960s, pre-CBS Fender Mustang in Olympic white.

In this photo taken from Coldplay’s 2020 livestream supporting Every Vote Counts, we see Jonny performing with an early 60s style Fender reverb tank placed above a matching Blues Deluxe amp in tweed

In this photo taken from Coldplay’s 2020 livestream promoting Every Vote Counts, we see Jonny performing with a Fender Blues Deluxe amp in tweed, with a matching reverb tank.

Throughout this performance of “Magic” from 2014, we see Jonny playing a Yamaha DYUS1E3, an upright usually associated with Chris. The piano can be seen particularly well around 0:46.

In this image, taken from Coldplay’s Christmas Lights video, we see Jonny performing with a single-pickup Gibson ES-125 in sunburst

Throughout this video from 2022, we see Jonny playing a Fender Rhodes Mark I. The electric piano can be seen particularly well from around 0:46 onward

In this photo, taken from a 2021 MusicTech interview with Coldplay’s longtime producer, Rik Simpson, we get a good look at Jonny’s Sequential Prophet 6, set up for the band’s 2019 “Live in Jordan” performance. Jonny uses the Prophet several times throughout the performance, but most notably on the track “Daddy”, providing the song’s lush ambient swells in a live format.

In this photo, taken from a 2021 MusicTech interview with Coldplay’s longtime producer, Rik Simpson, we see Jonny’s synth setup for the band’s 2019 “Live in Jordan” performance. An MXR M108S EQ is visible atop Jonny’s Prophet 6, likely used in conjunction with the synth for more consistent live equalization.

In this photo, taken from a 2021 MusicTech interview with Coldplay’s longtime producer, Rik Simpson, we get a good look at Jonny’s live synth set up for the band’s 2019 “Live in Jordan” performance, which seems to be all running through a Radial J48 DI Box, visible in the bottom center of the photo.

In this screenshot from Coldplay’s old Q&A feed, Jonny’s head guitar tech Matt McGuinn describes using a 1978 Roland GR500 the recording setup for Violet Hill:

“A lot of the recorded version was done with a Roland GR500 Guitar Synth from about 1978 which was so temperamental it only worked about twice; we both refused to take it on the road as a result, and at gigs we just turned the Rat up really loud and used an Electro Harmonix Micro Pog pedal for the solo.”

In this photo from the "C" Stage during The Music of The Spheres tour in Zurich, July 2023, Johnny's guitar tech is prepping his guitars pre-show. His "C" Stage rack is visible under the stage, containing a couple of Neural DSP Quad Cortex units, a Boss TU3S Chromatic tuner, and a Radial Tonebone BigShot ABY pedal.

"Jonny Buckland is shown using the Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay in a magazine list from 2002, as seen in the user-uploaded photo."

In a 2002 magazine interview, Jonny Buckland discusses using the Boss DD-5 Digital Delay pedal.

In this photo from Coldplay's Glastonbury 2024 rehearsals (with the legendary and inspirational Michael J. Fox), Jonny's Audio Kitchen 2x12 stage speaker cabs can be seen behind.

In this photo of Jonny's rig backstage at a Coldplay gig, a iConnectivity mioXM 4x4 Midi Interface can be seen.

In the image in this article, you can see a Guyatone Micro Chorus on Jonny Buckland's pedalboard, and based on the content of the article, it's likely that he used this pedal on the 2011-2012 Mylo Xyloto Tour.

This article titled "Playtime: Coldplay Live" from October 2013 details Coldplay's live show setup, and contains this photo of Jonny Buckland's rack, which contains two of everything for redundancy. Below his Shure wireless receivers, Boss tuner pedals, TC2290 delays, and Line6 processing, an Eventide H7600 Harmonizer can be seen at the bottom.