while traveling to Japan, where he was not able to communicate his options to the waiters and was served beef, finding out "he really liked it". However, he still does Meat Free Mondays along with his bandmates. In 2007, his older brother Tim founded alternative rock group The Domino State, which supported Coldplay at the O2 Arena shows from Viva la Vida Tour. He married jewelry designer Chloe Lee-Evans in 2009. The couple have two children. The family currently resides in the Hampstead area of Camden, London, but they also own two apartments in Manhattan, New York. Buckland purchased the first of them for $3.4 million in 2008, while the second was bought for $4.5 million in 2016. He is godfather to Martin's daughter Apple along with English actor Simon Pegg. During an interview for BBC Radio 2, he mentioned that his favourite non-musical activity is reading books. His great-grandfather formed a band named Big Buckland's Dance Orchestra between the late 1910s and early 1920s, a photograph of them was used as an inspiration for the album cover and vintage aesthetics of Everyday Life (2019). Discography With Coldplay Parachutes (2000) A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) X&Y (2005) Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) Mylo Xyloto (2011) Ghost Stories (2014) A Head Full of Dreams (2015) Everyday Life (2019) Music of the Spheres (2021) Solo credits Slideling (2003) – guitarist Kingdom Come (2006) – guitarist See also List of people associated with University College London List of British Grammy winners and nominees List of best-selling music artists List of highest-grossing live music artists List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart List of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by British artists Notes References Further reading External links Coldplay Official Website Coldplay on AllMusic 1977 births Living people 20th-century British guitarists 20th-century English male musicians 20th-century Welsh musicians 21st-century British guitarists 21st-century English male musicians 21st-century Welsh musicians Alternative rock guitarists Alternative rock keyboardists Alumni of University College London Atlantic Records artists British alternative rock musicians British male songwriters British multi-instrumentalists Capitol Records artists Coldplay members English male guitarists English multi-instrumentalists English pop guitarists English rock guitarists English rock keyboardists English songwriters Parlophone artists People educated at Alun School, Mold People from Islington (district) People from Mold, Flintshire Welsh guitarists Welsh keyboardists Welsh multi-instrumentalists Welsh rock guitarists Welsh songwriters