Chris Martin from Coldplay rang Radio 1 yesterday from Ghana where he is currently travelling with Oxfam. He has been on the road for five days now lending his support to Oxfam?s ?Make Trade Fair? campaign.

He has been talking to local farmers about how their lives have been affected by unfair trade deals with other countries and enjoying the anonymity that being in a different country gives him.

"I think it's much better that they don't know what I do musically, otherwise they'd like me as little as everybody else does!"

"Me and Make Trade Fair are like Beyonce and L'Oreal."

"I felt like I'd been banging on about making trade fair for two years - putting it on my hands and what have you, but it had started to become a bit hollow because I started to forget what I was really talking about."

"It took twenty minutes of driving in a truck through farm land in Ghana to remind me why I'm doing it."

Chris is also really looking forward to the release of Coldplay?s new album:

"I can't wait now to tour, and do interviews and to promote our record - partly because I'm musically excited about and partly because I'm really passionate to talk about trade again."