Coldplay help flood hit school

 

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Coldplay have donated £3000 to a school hit by last summer's floods.

 

The band gave the cash to St David's School in Moreton, Cotswalds to buy a new piano after the school's instruments were destroyed in the floods.

 

Christina Windridge, a teaching assistant at St David's, said everyone was "so grateful" for the £3072 cheque, reports dotmusic.

 

She added: "The money that we would have had to use to pay for the piano has been used to buy other keyboard equipment."

 

Meanwhile singer Chris Martin has revealed that Kylie Minogue wrote a track for their forthcoming album 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' but it was cut from the final tracklisting.

 

http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/36688

i thought it meant that coldplay caused the flood :lol:

Coldplay buy piano for school

 

From the BBC website (http://www.http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7409149.stm)

 

 

Chris Martin is the lead singer with Coldplay

Pop giants Coldplay have bought a £3,000 piano for a Gloucestershire primary school that lost its musical instruments during the floods of 2007.

Bassist Guy Berryman heard about the school's plight from his neighbour.

It led to the Grammy-award winning group, who had hits with Speed of Sound and Yellow, buying the Kemble piano for St David's School in Moreton-in-Marsh.

Head teacher Bob Forster said: "It is fantastic. I was impressed they cared enough to want to help."

It is believed the band acted after seeing pictures of the school's piano floating in the water-filled hall.

Mr Forster added: "Music is important to St David's and gives huge pleasure to people inside and out of the school.

"We didn't ask for the money, but Guy Berryman is a neighbour of one of our teaching support workers and that's how they heard about us."

All the school's instruments - keyboards, drums, recorders, and handbells - were wrecked when water swept through the corridors last July.

The band, whose singer Chris Martin is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, has sold 30 million albums making them one of the world's biggest acts.

The 320-pupil school has now sent a thank you letter to Coldplay and will also send photos of the piano being used.

 

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What lovely boys they are! :)

I guess Guy doesn't live in Hampstead anymore...

Great story, love hearing when celebs actually do REAL good deeds.

Coldplay donate piano to school!

 

heres the link, coldplay are so nice!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7409149.stm

They are really great people.

Yeah haha. Try wording the thread title better! Coldplay hoses down school in attempts to drown the students, or coldplay helps a school that was hit by a flood. haha

VIDEO: PUPILS PLAY WARM TRIBUTE TO COLDPLAY

 

Star-struck children shone as they sang a special thankyou to super band Coldplay.

 

Pupils at St David's recorded their version of the group's hit song Yellow.

 

They wanted to thank the band for its £3,000 gift of a new piano after floods ravaged the Moreton-in-Marsh church school on July 20.

 

Chris Martin and the rest of the band (:dozey:) came to the rescue when they heard all the children's musical instruments had been wrecked.

 

The band, whose hits include Speed of Sound and Fix You, want to promote music in schools.

 

And now the pupils are their biggest fans.

 

Twinkling in bright yellow star headdresses and waving mini stars, they sang their hearts out in their touching thankyou.

 

Twenty-two grateful youngsters - headteacher Bob Forster's choir - gave their new red oak Kemble piano pride of place.

 

Bursting with gratitude, they couldn't wait to sing the words to hit song Yellow.

 

Senior teaching as sistant Christina Windridge said: "It's cool to say Coldplay bought your school piano."

 

Teacher Karen Harding, who helped co-ordinate the session with teacher Ally Pedley, said: "This has really raised the profile of the band within the school - now they've got a load more fans.

 

"The old piano was well-used and well-loved and it was hard for people seeing it upside-down in the hall after the flood."

 

Grace Clare, eight, said: "I'd give Chris Martin 10 out of 10."

 

Charlotte Davies, eight, said: "It's nice of Coldplay to do this. The new piano helps our singing and makes it more joyful."

 

And Joella Manley, nine, added: "My favourite song is probably Yellow and I felt really happy singing it."

 

The school lost all its instruments, including keyboards, drums, recorders and handbells, when a 5ft torrent of water raged through the building.

 

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=231771&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231774&contentPK=20704213&folderPk=108867&pNodeId=231888

 

There's a video on the link too :D

I'm sorry but that video seemed very awkward, I figured maybe they would play it ON the piano, not sing along, lol :P