Coldplay in 2013: Review

Do you feel like writing a review of Coldplay/Coldplaying for a specific month of 2013? Just some of the things that happened this year: 15 year anniversary of the first Coldplay show Latin America tour cancelled Clocks voted 6 Music's Greatest Hits Mylo Xyloto comics Brit Award for Best British Live Act In My Place film for Oxfam AROBTTH named Radio 2's Favourite Album Record Store Day release Silver Clef Award New merchandise Atlas release Coldplay wine Stamps for Phil Viva La Vida Pudsey Under 1 Roof Christmas concert Grammy nomination for Atlas You can apply on your own or as a pair. If you are interested, post a reply in this thread with your…

December turned out to be a ridiculously busy month for the band with live performances, award nominations and both The Oracle and Anchorman getting back on their soapboxes. It felt like every day more news awaited us... The Oracle Answers A Lot of Questions: December Edition I // II // III Potential Goldware for Coldplay in January: Nominations for the 56th Grammy Awards were announced and all our jaws hit the floor when Coldplay were nominated for not one, but two GRAMMYs! Atlas was nominated for 'Best Song Written For Visual Media' whilst Live 2013 was nominated for 'Best Music Film'. The guys see themselves going up against the likes of Mumford & Sons …

NEW ITEMS IN THE COLDPLAY STORE november 1st ---- On Novemer 1 there were some awesome new items added to the online Coldplay store, cases for you iPhone5 and some cute clothes! ---- FIX YOU FROM LIVE 2012 november 2nd ---- the Anchorman on Coldplay.com: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvofiXHbUI]Coldplay - Fix You (Live 2012 from Paris) - YouTube[/ame] ---- CHRIS MARTIN AT HOTEL CAFE, A SECRET GIG, LA november 5th ---- At November the 5th our Chris Martin did a secret gig at Hotel Café, Los Angeles. According to fans who were there, the night was pretty intimate. Some Chris quotes from that night: Vids of the night: At…

October 2013 was another month full of Atlas-news, a lot of Chris news and very little news of the other members of Coldplay. Atlas At the 15th of October Coldplay places an announcement at the website and Twitter that they will be honored with the Hollywood Song Award. Atlas will be played for the first time live at the Hollywoord Film Awards, held at the 21st of October at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Chris will performing Atlas alone. The other bandmembers won’t be joining him. Fans were spamming Anchorman with all kinds of question about this performance, like, will there be a live stream. Unfortunally there was only a live stream of the red carpet c…

September 2013 (in which we DID explode….) September found the Bakery and the Beehive in Camden uncharacteristically quiet as the members of Coldplay scattered, some for holidays and some for life-changing events. But among Coldplay fans life was far from peaceful! Around the globe, we were scouring the Web and waiting impatiently for the event we’d been anticipating since the release of Mylo Xyloto almost two years before – a new song from Coldplay. The Release of Atlas It was Coldplay’s first time writing and recording a song for a motion picture, which made the release doubly exciting. The announcement had been made weeks before that “Atlas,” written for the u…

August (About to explode – but not just yet) As far as Atlas was concerned, August was a month of highs and lows for Coldplayers, as the song was announced, only to have its release date delayed in a few days. As we will see tomorrow though, excitement reached a new high when the song was finally released. But before we get to that, let us remember some events in August. Tinie Tempah on receiving music advice from Chris Martin When GQ (August 7th interview) asked him why there was a three-year gap between his last two albums, Tinie Tempah said he got the idea from our own Chris Martin: Well, that might explain some things in Coldplay too… (:P) Guy fea…

July (in which Bakery discussions get rather hot) Continuing March's full month of charity work, in July, Chris took part in two charitable events. July is also the birthday month of our dear Will. In 2013, this month also saw the celebration of Parachutes’ 13th birthday. The highlight of the month though was Bakery-related discussion and visiting reports. A Curious Night at the Theatre (July 1st) Keeping the band’s long-term involvement in charity work, July kicked off by Chris taking part in the fundraising gala A Curious Night at the Theatre, an event organized by the English actor Luke Treadaway and director Katy Rudd, along with the The National Autistic…

With the cancellation of the Latin American tour at the very end of January, February could have only been a month of mourning for many many Coldplay fans, but a few cool things happened that month! Feb 1st: Clocks voted BBC 6 Music's Greatest Hit Will: “Our manager said ‘I’ll eat my hat if that is a hit’” Clocks isn’t only one of Coldplay’s biggest hits and the winner of the 2004 Record of the Year Grammy award. It is also radio 6 Music’s listeners’ Greatest Hit of the last decade! To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the station, 6 Music launched a poll for everyone to vote for the greatest hit of the last 10 years, which cast 100 000 votes. On Coldplay’s top…

JUNE Even if it was a quiet year, June had a couple of things going on… June 2nd: Will makes a (brief) appearance in Game Of Thrones After waiting for around seven months, we were finally able to see Mr Will Champion make a quick cameo in the infamous Red Wedding. The episode called ‘The Rains of Castamere’ had our favourite drummer, even if it was for just a few seconds, doing what he does best: drumming. :will: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV0qdSLvJbU]Will Champion in Game of Thrones (sound version) - YouTube[/ame] June 6th: Chris performs at the Ormeley Dinner A very sharp-looking Chris Martin performed in the Ormeley Dinner in London (it is o…

April 2013 A Rush Of Blood To The Head tops BBC Radio 2 favourite album poll (download Jonny interview) April 2013 started off with BBC radio listeners choosing Coldplay's second album as their favourite record of all time. <strong>A Rush Of Blood To The Head</strong>, released in 2002, beat the likes of Pink Floyd and The Beatles to top the Radio 2 poll. DJ Jo Whiley revealed the winner on Monday afternoon following a countdown of the favourites throughout the day. Discussion on this is at the <a href="http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97299" target="_blank">Coldplay forum</a> and a download the interview between Jonny Bu…

March 2013 was all about charity and that shouldn’t be a surprise to you since Coldplay is known to be one of the most charitable music acts in the world. They first partnered with Oxfam and gave them an acoustic recording of their classic hit In My Place and encouraged fans worldwide to take part of the video. This campaign was to fight land grabs. The film was directed by renowned director Mat Whitecross who is also behind some of the most iconic Coldplay videos. You can watch the film here [ame= ] [/ame] Then, band pianist, lead vocal and ultimate cutie, Chris Martin joined the #LHandSign Lupus Awareness Campaign. If you want to check them out, here is their…