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Welcome to Coldplaying.com, the internet's largest Coldplay fan community with in excess of 50,000 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's River Plate show in doubt, report Argentinian media sources
Posted by busybeeburns on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 03:23 PM (398 Reads)
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 Coldplay's forthcoming show at the River Plate Stadium in Argentina is in doubt due to neighbourhood complaints, according to various sources in the Argentinian media. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forums here and here [thanks cele & chrisprm]
The show, due to take place on 26th February is the first show of the highly anticipated Latin America tour of 2010. Coldplay's concert is not the only show in doubt - Guns n Roses' concert on 20 March may also be affected.
The complaints are not new. The judiciary decision is in response to complaints of the neighbours of the stadium who for several years have been concerned by the noise, the traffic chaos, the rubbish and vibrations from the music and crowd movement during concerts. For that reason, the public prosecutor of the area, Gallant Mario, has displayed a public 'shelter resource' notice and requesting for the closing of River for such events. notice and asked for the closing of River for recitales.
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Coldplay's success undermined by EMI's debt as label crashes £1.75bn into the red
Posted by busybeeburns on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 01:03 PM (163 Reads)
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 EMI is the latest in a long line of businesses bought with junk-rated debt where the owners face pressure to surrender much or all of their investment to banks and other debt holders, according to private equity experts, reports the Guardian this week.
Terra Firma, the buyout owner behind the troubled music group home to Coldplay and Kylie Minogue, is asking fund investors to stump up an additional £105m to shore up this ill-fated business. Without this so-called "equity cure", buyout bosses will find themselves at the mercy of EMI's lending bank Citigroup — with whom they are already locked in bitter legal dispute.
Even if investors prove supportive, the cash injection is expected to buy EMI a grace period of about 12-months before tough decisions on restructuring the balance sheet have to be addressed.
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BRITs 2010: Coldplay likely to be pipped to Best Album of 30 Years by Oasis
Posted by busybeeburns on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 10:29 AM (326 Reads)
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 Bookmakers have stopped taking bets on who'll take the Brit for Best Album Of 30 Years after a run of big money on Oasis, report The Sun this morning. They look dead certs to win it for (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - their second album released in 1995.
The band, who split last year, are up against Coldplay, Dido, Dire Straits, Duffy, Keane, Phil Collins, Sade, The Verve and Travis. However, the prospect of Oasis landing the gong has put organisers under pressure in case warring brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher both want to attend. They will have to be seated well apart and you know there's a chance of trouble.
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Apparatjik review: Guy Berryman's side project makes live debut (plus new pictures)
Posted by busybeeburns on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 10:30 AM (996 Reads)
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 What do you get when you combine Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen from a-ha, Jonas Bjerre from Mew and producer Martin Terefe? Why, a new supergroup with a Swedish name, of course. Apparatjik, which is a Swedish term for people who create bottlenecks in otherwise efficient organizations (!), first formed to provide music for a BBC show called Amazon Tribe: Songs for Survival.
Apparatjik played their first concert at the WMF Club in Berlin recently, as part of the music and art festival "Club Transmediale". You can see some short videos of the performance here and here at the World of Music forum.
The concert lasted around 40 minutes, with the band members playing inside a specially constructed cube. "This concert is as much an art performance, as a concert", Jonas Bjerre told NRK's Lydverket, which will have a TV-report about the concert next Wednesday. The Berlin concert is the only Apparatjik performance that has been planned. "We would like to continue our collaboration, but if that will result in more music or something completely different, who knows", the band says.
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Coldplay's Oracle with updates to Roadie Matt McGinn's new book
Posted by busybeeburns on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:53 AM (270 Reads)
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 More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1200 questions now answered - submit yours now!)
February 5, 2010 - submitted by Sven, Sweden
Q. Oracle, What is the new for Roadie : My Life With Coldplay by Matt McGinn? Thank You
The Oracle replies:
I'll have more news about dates from the publisher soon but they told me it's all going ahead, so that's good isn't it?
February 5, 2010 - submitted by benjamin, United States of America
Q. Dear Oracle, Why is Coldplay's Hope for Haiti performance being called A Message 2010? Instead of A Message?
The Oracle replies:
If you listen carefully there are subtle differences to the lyrics as some were rewritten for the occasion. How You See The World is another example of a song being lyrically changed and renamed How You See The World No.2 for War Child.
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EMI's future in doubt after it records £1.75 billion losses
Posted by busybeeburns on Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 06:54 PM (359 Reads)
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The future of EMI, the British record label behind Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Madonna and Lily Allen, was plunged into doubt today when it admitted to making massive losses.
The 113-year-old company slumped to a pre-tax loss of £1.75 billion in the last financial year and is struggling to repay bank loans. Its private equity owner, Terra Firma, has been forced to demand extra money, at least £105 million, from its investors to meet terms of the deal set by lender Citicorp. If it fails to, the US bank could seize control of EMI.
EMI, also home to Kylie Minogue, David Bowie and Katy Perry, has disclosed pre-tax losses of £1.75 billion in annual accounts for the year to 31 March 2009. They were filed by its parent company Maltby Capital today.
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Chris Martin's signed Viva jacket raises almost £10,000
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 08:21 AM (576 Reads)
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 An eBay auction of pop memorabilia from some of Britain's biggest acts has raised around £50,000 ($80,000) so far for survivors of the Haiti earthquake, organizers Oxfam said on Monday. Among the top lots sold so far is Chris Martin's "Viva La Vida" tour jacket, which fetched £9,600, and three pairs of VIP tickets to the Glastonbury festival which raised around £7,000 each.
The Fender Stratocaster guitar played by Alex Turner in the Arctic Monkeys' "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" video made £4,600. The eBay auction total is set to rise significantly, with a Damien Hirst print already bid up to £12,100 and a Rolf Harris oil painting at £7,650.
The auction is one of several initiatives by celebrities to raise funds for Haiti. Last month, MTV hosted a telethon featuring George Clooney and U2's Bono among others, which raised more than $61 million, and the "Hope For Haiti Now" charity album debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart last week.
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Coldplay's Oracle discusses Moby's 'Play' album cover
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 06:50 AM (387 Reads)
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More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1200 questions now answered - submit yours now!)
February 1, 2010 - submitted by Sophia, Spain
Q. Hey Oracle, On the cover of Moby's album Play in the bottom left hand corner someone's holding something up - can you tell me what this is and what it's for? I've always seen it when they make movies etc but no one I've asked knows! Thanks!
The Oracle replies:
It's a camera lighting meter. It's used to work out the correct exposure for the photograph. As you say, it's used in movie making too to measure light levels.
February 1, 2010 - submitted by Mark, United Kingdom
Q. I had the pleasure of seeing the band perform at Sheffield Arena on Sunday 7 December 2008. However, I have forgotten the name of the special support guest that night. I think it was Tiesto - can you please confirm that my memory is still working OK? Thanks. Mark
The Oracle replies:
Although Tiesto is a DJ so the set-up might look the same you are mistaken with the identity of the support. Viva collaborator Jon Hopkins was first on during all the UK shows around that time. FYI: There was a second act after Jon and on that occasion it was Eugene Francis Jnr and the Juniors.
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Coldplay's Oracle looks closely at the band's certificates of authenticity
Posted by busybeeburns on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 06:36 PM (421 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1200 questions now answered - submit yours now!)
January 29, 2010 - submitted by Katie, United States of America
Q. Hullo dear Oracley, what's up with Guy's signatures on the End of Decade certificates of authenticity? A bit tired there, eh? :)
The Oracle replies:
Ha! I know what you mean, wasn't the clearest one of the bunch was it? That said you are right in fact, Guy was a little tired that day.
January 29, 2010 - submitted by Aimee, United States of America
Q. Dear Oracle, I've been listening to H4HN's A Message 2010. It's wonderful! I love that the whole band is playing strings. Who's the artist playing the violin? I didn't recognize him on the telecast. Thanks!
The Oracle replies:
It's the same talented guy who collaborated with the band on Viva and Prospekt's March; Davide Rossi.
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