Coldplaying Charity Club

Coldplay, Pearl Jam, U2, and R.E.M. are among the artists donating tracks to a new benefit album for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese humanitarian, pro-democracy leader. The new album, snappily entitled ‘For the Lady: Dedicated to Freeing Aung San Suu Kyi and the Courageous People of Burma’ has been arranged to raise awareness of Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been imprisoned (many times) by the Burmese government. The record features previously released songs by Coldplay, Bright Eyes, Travis and (oddly) Avril Lavigne, alongside exclusive, unreleased live tracks from Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Damien Rice and Better Than Ezra. http://www.coldpl…

A Coldplay charity auction is being held by Rollingstone.com, and proceeds will benefit victims of the recent California fires. Coldplay has donated an autographed guitar - the auction just began today, and ends at 3pm PT on Dec. 22nd. Here's the listing at Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3371208684 And here's the page with info on all the Rollingstone.com auctions: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rollingstone_charity/ Thanks to Ginger Nance from Capitol for the info.

FEATURE - A Rush Of Words To The Mouth 27th April 2003 Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has garnered a bit of a reputation among journalists for being a difficult and at times reticent interview subject, but when he met with LAUNCH's managing editor Lyndsey Parker in Oslo, Norway, just before playing the final date of a European tour promoting Coldplay's astonishingly great sophomore album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, the man simply couldn't stop talking. Slipping in off-the-wall film and television references, reflecting on September 11, promoting his favorite charity project (Make Trade Fair), and doing his best Ian McCulloch impression, the animated and chatty M…

The following article was emailed to me by a fan who went to the Red Rock concert recently. I had a quick enquiry regarding the suposed political statement Coldplay was trying to make at the concert: 'Support Fair Trade'. This is obviously quite a complexe topic, and merely telling people to support it because your Coldplay and you think people will listen to you is silly (or naive) in my opinion. 'Fair Trade', just like 'Peace on Earth' is one of those concepts that we are bred with in the West and that we arrogantly impose on the rest of the world. The realities of 'Fair Trade' is that unless governments around the entire world impose an international minimum wage, '…