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Welcome to Coldplaying.com, the internet's largest Coldplay fan community with over 42,000 members. Your definitive online resource for latest news, releases, pictures and tour archive, with concert reviews, setlists and videos. Our sister site, wikicoldplay.com, is the the world's biggest encyclopedic archive dedicated to Coldplay.
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Coldplay Live Review & Setlist - Main Square Festival, Arras, France (2nd July 2009)
Posted by busybeeburns on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 11:20 PM (162 Reads)
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Coldplay's Viva La Vida tour continued into Europe once again as they played the Main Square Festival in Arras, France tonight. Plenty of tweets from Roadie #42 who captured pictures of the crowd and the band shortly before the start of the set. See those images after the jump. A shortened version of the normal setlist for the festival was inevitable.
[discussion] [photos] [videos] [wiki reviews/setlist] (updated over the next 24-48 hours)
Setlist: [thanks coldplay12]
Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
42
Fix You
The Hardest Part
Viva La Vida
Lost!
Green Eyes
Politik
Lovers In Japan
Life In Technicolor ii
well, I come back home for minutes and I'm completely exhausted, there was too much sun and not enough water moreover it rained 15-20 minutes at the beginning of the show. But it was so great. All my photos are blur (?)(floues en francais) so I won't post them... [thanks shini]
More on this concert including reviews, videos, pictures and tweets here onwards.
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Blue skies as Roskilde music festival opens
Posted by busybeeburns on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 05:03 PM (99 Reads)
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 Copenhagen - US hip hop star Kanye West was the top act Thursday on the opening day of the annual Roskilde music festival, near the Danish capital Copenhagen, with some 65,000 visitors enjoying the festivities under blue skies.
The lineup during the four-day festival that ends Sunday includes Coldplay, Pet Shop Boys, Nick Cave, Oasis, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails and some 150 other acts. Organizers said US hip hopper Lil Wayne had been forced to cancel his appearance on Saturday 'due to doctor-mandated rest.' The music festival also conducts fund-raising, generating funds mainly through bottle deposits.
Efforts to tackle climate change was a theme for the 2009 festival, not the least since Denmark is in December to host a United Nations conference where countries will seek to agree on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Live Coldplay blog from Roskilde festival on Sunday
Posted by busybeeburns on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 01:52 PM (152 Reads)
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 The official Coldplay site will this Sunday be providing fans with pictures and live blog updates from Denmark's biggest festival, Roskilde, ahead of Coldplay's headline performance in the evening. Here's Anchorman with more details:
Good morning. This coming Sunday (5th July), we'll be tagging along with Coldplay for their headline slot at Denmark's legendary Roskilde Festival. Join us from Sunday afternoon for live pictures, updates, interviews and videos from the journey to Denmark, backstage at Roskilde and then during the show itself. Should be fun. To get you in the mood, you can see previous Coldplay.com live blogs from Lyon here and Birmingham here (read them from the bottom up).
You can keep track of the discussion to the live blog at the Coldplay forum here onwards. You can also discuss Coldplay's performance at Roskilde in the Coldplay Live forum too.
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Coldplay to play in Tel Aviv, Israel in late September?
Posted by busybeeburns on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 06:18 PM (349 Reads)
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 Rumours are sweeping the internet about Coldplay coming to Israel this September. This comes not long after Chilean media sources predicting that Coldplay will return to play in South America in November.
There is a long-standing campaign, including online petitions, to bring Coldplay to Israel where they have a huge fanbase. Now Israeli radio sources (Good Morning Israel) are suggesting that they will be playing there for the first time in late September.
If the rumours are true, the group will play in Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, on September 30th. They will possibly be playing in Israel in the same month of Leonard Cohen and Madonna. We'll keep you posted on this but in the meantime you can discuss the latest on this at the Coldplay Live forum here onwards[thanks sharono]
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Coldplay's Oracle on Politik-induced Goosebumps...
Posted by busybeeburns on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 03:30 PM (208 Reads)
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 More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)
July 1, 2009 - submitted by Siobhain, Australia
Q. Hi Oracle, I was wondering why/how we get goose bumps? More specifically how can music cause the reaction?
The Oracle replies:
I'll start with the latter part of your question. Music evokes an emotive response which triggers a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. It controls many reactions in the body including goosebumps. There's been some research which concluded that it's usually melancholy thoughts that send a chill when we hear music that may remind us of a particular sad moment. I myself experience them with happy memories associated with music or at live concerts (especially during Politik) so not sure about that theory. As human hair is very fine, it stands on end and as they pull up they cause the appearance of goose flesh.
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For Chris Martin, the upbeat goes on (recent Coldplay Winnipeg article)
Posted by busybeeburns on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 07:56 AM (646 Reads)
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 An hour before showtime, Chris Martin lopes about the concrete backstage of Winnipeg's MTS Centre in cyan socks and baggy warm-up pants. All around him, roadies bark into headsets, and security guards clench their fists. He seems oblivious. A song is looping in his head – Nickelback's If Today Was Your Last Day – along with thoughts of Marco Polo, a recent obsession, writes The Globe And Mail.
A week earlier, Forbes magazine had named Martin and his bandmates the world's most powerful British celebrities. Here in the home of the Manitoba Moose, the rock star appears detached, and a little alone.
Martin has blue eyes like spotlights, a diffident smile and an unfailingly affable air, but his hands are most mesmeric of all. Staring at his long, gangly piano fingers, one can't help but think these genetic aberrations form the heart of the whole hit-making, Grammy-winning schmaltz factory that is Coldplay.
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Coldplay's Oracle on backstage 'Viva La Vida Love'
Posted by busybeeburns on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 01:05 AM (219 Reads)
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More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)
June 30, 2009 - submitted by James, United Kingdom
Q. Dear Oracle, In Roadie #42's latest blog (number 88), there's a rather nice photo of the band with Dave Holmes the manager man. It certainly makes a pretty picture but I was wondering what is written on the tag around his neck. I normally wouldn't be too interested but I thought it looked like "Viva la Vida With Love" meaning "Live Life... With Love". Now, though, I'm not so sure. Can you please help me out of this calamity? Cheers!
The Oracle replies:
All their passes have Viva La Vida Love on them. It's from a section of a Reign of Love illustration by Jonny.
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Abrams Brothers Put Bluegrass Spin on Coldplay's Viva La Vida
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 07:59 AM (448 Reads)
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 Last winter a young bluegrass group called the Abrams Brothers filed off their bus at the CMT offices after a long and snowy trip from their home in Canada.
Groups or artists stop by and perform here once in a while, but this band of two brothers and a cousin was especially memorable. They were definitely a bluegrass group and had the type of chops that would be at home on the Grand Ole Opry stage — which they played in 2005 — but being teenagers, they were also very eager to experiment with the genre.
One song in particular showed that — a well thought-out arrangement of Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida.” I’m glad to see that now they have a video to go along with the track, so enjoy as they walk crowded city streets singing about a once-powerful king on the verge of losing it all.
Watch the terrific new version of Viva La Vida here at the Coldplay forum.
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Coldplay's Oracle speaks on Mince Spies and Kanye West collaborations
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 02:10 AM (215 Reads)
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More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)
June 29, 2009 - submitted by Benjamin, United States of America
Q. Is there such a thing as Mince Spies?
The Oracle replies:
There is if you mean a limited edition CD that the band gave away to fans at Christmas 2001. It featured two tracks: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Yellow (Alpha Remix).
June 29, 2009 - submitted by Christina, United States of America
Q. Dear Oracle.. Did Chris write the piano riff in Homecoming, a song in which he collaborated with Kanye West?
The Oracle replies:
The song originally featured vocals by John Legend. Chris met Kanye at Abbey Road Studios in February 2006 when the band were recording a special BBC Radio 2 show. They jammed together as Kanye was recording his album there. This led to the re-recorded version which Chris' vocals and fingers appear on.
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Bruce Springsteen took Glastonbury advice from Chris Martin
Posted by busybeeburns on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 11:02 AM (532 Reads)
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 Bruce Springsteen revealed that Coldplay's Chris Martin had told him of the unique atmosphere at the Glastonbury festival, ahead of The Boss's headline slot on Saturday. Springsteen told BBC's Steve Lamacq: "Chris Martin said it was very special and it's very close to the English heart. I'd read quite a lot about it before. Every year when you get the British music magazines it's always a big feature so I know it's a special gig."
Bruce Springsteen became The Boss of Glastonbury after a two-and-a-half hour crowd-pleasing headline set last night. Hits like Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days and Born To Run got fans moving as the star made his first UK festival appearance at the Somerset event. Springsteen got close to his British fans with repeated runs from the stage to sing right next to the front row.
Earlier, The Boss had made a surprise appearance on one song with The Gaslight Anthem during their slot on the John Peel Stage, the traditional home of new bands at the festival.
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