Haha, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....and also the funniest :lol:

 

 

Sarcasm? What's that?

 

:blank:

Nice, Ben! Lost!

thank God I wasnt listening ! :P

Can't believe you held out. I'm so jealous.

Ian? Is that you?:stunned:

 

:P

Can't believe you held out. I'm so jealous.

 

So Mich you have listened to the whole thing?:thinking:

Yeah :disappointed:

 

I'm glad I did though, otherwise I would have missed this and the XFM (sorry Ben) show last night, both of which were fantastic!

Yeah :disappointed:

 

I'm glad I did though, otherwise I would have missed this and the XFM (sorry Ben) show last night, both of which were fantastic!

 

 

Why so disappointed? In yourself or in the album??

 

What's your favorite track so far?

Not in the album, nooooo. In myself. The album is fantastic!

 

Erm...hard question can't pick just one. 42, Lost!, DAAHF, Strawberry Swing are my instant favourites. I also love LIJ, CSC... :lol: Basically the whole album there. Is all just bloody brilliant.

Not in the album, nooooo. In myself. The album is fantastic!

 

Erm...hard question can't pick just one. 42, Lost!, DAAHF, Strawberry Swing are my instant favourites. I also love LIJ, CSC... :lol: Basically the whole album there. Is all just bloody brilliant.

 

 

Well, you held out longer than most people....*coughmecough*

 

 

I can't pick a favorite either...they are all so good!:cool:

dunno if this has been said but yesterday's interview is avaliable as a podcast.....i just looked at my recently added in itunes and theyre it was :D just search for virgin radio on itunes......it lasts about 20 mins i think

I can't believe you guys are hanging out in here & listening to Virgin whilst poor little me is sat at work :cry:

I could get away with listening yesterday as a one-off but can't play out the rest of the week :(

 

And my head is being wrecked trying to sort that flippin tour listing out. Dates have changed, some have changed, a few have appeared from nowhere and there's at least one in existence which coldplay.com still doesn't recognise. I neeeeeeeeed a dose of sanity

I wish I could have been here listening to Virgin with you too! Not a very good day @ the hospital :(

Hey Ben! Got a question for you...I listened to the whole uncut interview and am wondering if the guys really were getting on ok...what kind of feel did you get from them?? Did they seem to all be getting along or just going through the motions?

Ok still want that question answered^^^;)

 

but had to say I love this song by The Wannadies.....

Hi Ben! I'm seeing you now :P

Can I just say for the record what an unbelievable prick that bloke is from the Independent.

For god's sake! Clearly his intention was to write a negative piece on the band EVEN if this album was the next 'White Album' or 'Revolver' he was gonna write a nasty negative piece.

He is the exact reason I can't stand the pompous nature of the printed press, and why i much prefer magazines like Q, Rolling Stone, and so on. They don't appear to have a hidden agenda, which lots of the british press so often do.

I found his piece laughable. he claims he doesn't know anyone who bought X&Y or is planning to buy VLV? He clearly has no mates. I am at home at the moment, both my decorator and my carpenter both said they bought it this morning. I am lucky I get given a copy, but I know my mother, my brother and my wife's sister have plans to buy it too. As for X&Y we all know people who have it, the guys a fool! Maybe not in his snooty circle where people think the Ting Tings are good! God help us! Fine. I accept that some people won't / don't like them, the album, or the perception on CM. My advice is don't listen to them! We live in a free world and if you don't like them, don't buy the album, or turn the radio off. It really is that simple! I hate lots of bands and music, but I don't listen to them or feel the need to slag them off. (other than the above comment on the Ting Tings)

 

Why does Brian Eno want to work with the band? Because he was asked, and wanted to, I am sure he doesn't need the money you jealous, bitter hack. If you want to write sour tales slagging off bands who have done well, sold more than 3 records and are flying the British flag all over the globe then go work at the NME!

Rant over!

both my decorator and my carpenter both said they bought it this morning.

Excellent! :dance:

 

He was just after attention that's all....

Ha Ben, this made me smile. Couldn't have put it better myself. Even his own colleagues disagreed with him, (http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4394)

 

These kind of articles are ten a penny these days though, what gets you more publicity than slagging off one of the biggest bands in the world the day before their new album comes out? :dozey:

 

He was the one to review the album too, independent my ass.

Ben Jones: Right, this is Ben Jones. It is Monday’s Most Wanted. And we’ve been talking about this show for weeks and weeks and weeks. I’m very excited.

 

Chris Martin: How many weeks?

 

BJ: I would probably say no more than three.

 

CM: Right. So not that many weeks.

 

BJ: Four would be.

 

CM: That is a week and a week and a week.

 

BJ: (Laughs). Yeah.

 

CM: Weeks and weeks and weeks.

 

BJ: Well, OK. A minute and half and we’ve already started. Coldplay. Well three quarters of Coldplay are on Virgin Radio. Good evening, good to see you.

 

CM: Good evening.

 

BJ: Err, before we carrying on. I have gifts for everybody.

 

CM: Brilliant.

 

BJ: I don’t have a gift for Will, sadly.

 

CM: Well, he is not even here.

 

BJ: Exactly. That was the point. This is genuinely out of my own money as well.

 

CM: Really?

 

BJ: So, err, OK, Johnny this is for you.

 

Jonny Buckland:: Thank you very much.

 

CM: Ben, is it true you get paid £1.53 an hour?

 

BJ: Just, just under that, yeah. Do you want to describe.

 

JB : It’s a lovely green cap, with Hawaii 50 or 5.0.

 

(All laugh).

 

CM: 50.

 

BJ: We are officially the UK's coolest cap wearers, as you voted by.

 

CM: You do wear a cap well.

 

BJ: By cap wearers monthly. Err, I don’t know you very well. Well, this is a gift for you.

 

CM: OK.

 

BJ: It has been well research by me.

 

CM: Hmm, hmm.

 

BJ: I have a funny feeling you may well have this.

 

CM: I reckon it’s a record.

 

BJ: It is a record.

 

CM: Did you wrap these yourself then?

 

BJ: I did. Can’t you tell.

 

CM: I don’t want to damage it, and take it outs its sparkly wrapping paper.

 

BJ: You’re a very sweet man.

 

CM: This could be something, which could go on my jukebox.

 

BJ: That is what I hear. You have a jukebox and you like these particular covers.

 

CM: Ah, ha. Right. (laughs). I can’t open it.

 

BJ: It has been wrapped very, very well.

 

CM: You need to play some music, then stop it. (Laughs). It is pass the parcel again). Oh, it’s an oldie. That’s off. It’s the Parlophone label, of course, we know it well. And it’s the Beatles, A Hards Day Night.

 

BJ: But.

 

CM: It’s an original. Peter Sellers. Interesting.

 

BJ: It’s Peter Sellers doing

 

CM: Doing A Hard Days Night.

 

BJ: A Hard Days Night.

 

CM: And Peter Sellers doing Help.

 

BJ: Do you have that? Please tell me.

 

CM: I don’t have that.

 

BJ: You don’t have that?

 

CM: I don’t have it. Thank you very much.

 

BJ: You do now. And Chris, this is for you.

 

CM: Oh, thanks Ben.

 

BJ: There you go.

 

CM: Thanks Ben. Oh, it’s got a little card. With nothing written on it.

 

BJ: (Laughs).

 

CM: Honestly.

 

BJ: Just in case you didn’t turn up and Will did.

 

CM: All the action and none of the thought.

 

BJ: (Laughs).

 

CM: So first of all let me describe what is happening here. Because this is radio. I am opening the wrapper, as you can hear. This lovely silver paper.

 

BJ: That is the only wrapping paper that Tesco’s had this morning.

 

CM: Really? Well, thanks Ben. We’ve… outside we’ve got you a beautiful Ferrari.

 

BJ: (Laughs).

 

CM: Oh, thanks, thanks a lot man.

 

BJ: OK. Do you want to describe what it is?

 

CM: It is a book called The Journal of Eugene Delacroix. Who’s a painter. One of his paintings, we used for the front of our album. And he did write in… that’s very sweet man.

 

BJ: There you go. That is my gift to you three.

 

CM: Just a small token of my thanks for that million pounds you gave me. When I asked you to bribe me. Wishing you all the best, and asking if I can please marry your daughter. Yours Ben. (Laughs).

 

BJ: There you go. Three gifts, so enjoy.

 

CM: Thanks Ben.

 

BJ: If Will asked you where you got those things from.

 

CM: I will deny everything.

 

BJ: Deny everything. So let’s, let’s start with the questions then.

 

CM: All right.

 

BJ: I’m going to be nice.

 

CM: That’s all right, you can be nasty. I don’t mind.

 

BJ: Why don’t we start this time though? This is your masterpiece and this time I think you know it. Don’t you. Yeah.

 

CM: Actually we don’t, and it’s very nice to hear. Because err, we’re in that dreadful stage between finished the record and putting it out. And, you sort of have to run it through the filter system. People who don’t necessarily like your band that much. So. We, we, we know that we couldn’t have done any better. But we’re not necessarily sure if that makes it any good.

 

BJ: When someone who does a normal job for a living, has a tough day at the office, they are physically exhausted.

 

CM: Hmm.

 

BJ: They just want to go home and put their feet up on the sofa and do nothing.

 

CM: Hmm.

 

BJ: How do you feel now, that you’ve done this? The job?

 

CM: Erm. Well, it’s quite a strange time. Because, you know, it hasn’t come out yet. Or, so it doesn’t quite feel finished. It doesn’t feel real even.

 

BJ: Yes.

 

JB : I think once it’s out, then that kind of ends it for us. We can’t do anything about it then. We can’t do anything about it now. We can’t change anything. But once it’s actually out.

 

CM: God knows, we’ve tried.

 

BJ: Was there a point where people were literally dragging it away from you?

 

CM: Yup.

 

BJ: To say, look, it’s got to go, it’s got to go.

 

CM: About seven weeks ago.

 

BJ: That is kinda scary.

 

CM: You know, when you make a record, you record it, then you mix it, then you master it. Which is the last phase, the last chance to change anything. And we went to master the record, sort of the last polish. We were mastering in May in America. In Maine in America. Portland, Maine. And, we, we kept mastering until, you know, two seconds before our label, our record label said, you’ve got to give it to us.

 

BJ: You mastered it until you could master it no more?

 

CM: Yes. We tried and tried and tried and tried and tried. Then eventually it was… in fact Phil got… Phil our fifth member, no one sees, got angry with me and said, just please, just say it’s finished. Because we, otherwise we’re in big trouble.

 

BJ: I think it’s a fair comparison to say this record is your… and I haven’t been describing this album as your Achtung Baby. And by that I mean, that the change in sound from X and Y, to Viva La Vida is as different.

 

CM: Hmm.

 

BJ: From.

 

CM: Do you think so?

 

BJ: The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby.

 

CM: Yeah.

 

BJ: Is that right? Is that a fair comparison?

 

JB : It’s a very nice thing to hear.

 

CM: A very nice man.

 

BJ: Is being different the prime objective in going into the studio and making another album?

 

CM: No, the prime objective is to make songs that people want to sing along to. But how to present them and what the colours you put around them are, we want, well we hope we’ve tried to make it different colours and things that excited us. You know, we don’t want to fall back on any old tricks.

 

BJ: Hmm.

 

CM: As tempting as it is sometimes.

 

BJ: Let’s play some music. Let’s play something that is you’re a Coldplay fan, you would probably have heard this already.

 

CM: Right.

 

BJ: This is the title track to the album. Before I do play it and err, I’m not going to blow smoke up your backside, although you know I am a massive Coldplay fan.

 

CM: Yes. Well you’re a very intelligent person.

 

BJ: This… Thank you. Although I did get a D for maths at GCSE.

 

CM: That’s all right. We, we got two out of ten for one of our albums.

 

BJ: (Laughs). From who?

 

CM: I don’t know.

 

BJ: Someone, somewhere. This, this track Viva la Vida is, is stunning. You must know that.

 

CM: Err, it’s, it could be a U2 B side.

 

CP: Oh, shut up. You drive me mad.

 

BJ: OK. This is Viva la Vida.

 

CM: In Drive Time, that is good.

 

BJ: No, I don’t do Drive Time.

 

CM: You don’t do Drive Time.

 

BJ: This is the Most Wanted.

 

CM: Oh sorry, OK.

 

BJ: Do you know what? The very last super star show I did was the last one I did with you.

 

CM: Really? Then you could say we ended your career.

 

JB : They axed it after that.

 

CM: Oh, God.

 

(All laugh).

 

JB : We keep doing that to people.

 

CM: Ben, I’m so sorry.

 

BJ: Do you know what? What can I say?

 

CM: Crikey.

 

JB : Do you know how many magazines have folded after we’ve been on the cover?

 

CM: That is actually true. That is true.

 

JB : We were on the last cover of Smash Hits. Then after that.

 

CM: We were on the… there was magazine called Select, I think we were on the last cover of that. We killed that.

 

JB : Melody Maker, did we do that?

 

CM: I think we might have tanked that.

 

(All laugh).

 

BJ: Play some music for God’s sake. This is Viva la Vida, which is the title track to the album. If you’ve never heard this before, stop what you’re doing. You’re going to want to take this in. Here we go. Thanks for coming in.

 

CM: Bye.

 

JB : Thanks for being so nice.

 

CM: Yes, Ben listen, if any band needs a bit of reassurance right now, it’s us, so thank you.

 

BJ: Well, I went away buzzing from Abbey Road when I heard it for the first time.

 

CM: Oh that’s great.

 

BJ: Not only had I, never been to Abbey Road before.

 

CM: Well the Beatle’s made a few there.

 

BJ: I even left a little mark on the wall.

 

CM: Really?

 

BJ: That is Viva la Vida, from the album which is out on, is in out on the 12th, which is.

 

CM: The 12th June.

 

BJ: Is that a Thursday? Yes, it’s a Thursday. It’s a very ambitious.

 

CM: Why are we doing that? Why are we releasing it on a Thursday.

 

CP: I have no idea.

 

CM: It was your idea.

 

JB : It wasn’t my idea.

 

CM: What! No.

 

JB : That is what I got told.

 

JB : It was nothing to do with me.

 

CM: Why is it called Viva la Vida? Or (inaudible 09:48-09:49).

 

BJ: We will come onto that a little later. That, I think I might know the answer to.

 

CM: Yeah. We you came up, it was your idea. Do people know that you’re secretly pulling all the strings?

 

BJ: The sixth member… I wish, just for the day, (TC: 00:10:00) I’d love to.

 

CM: Really?

 

BJ: I’d love to. Yes. I’ve got Guitar Hero, ‘cos, because I just wanted to play. I tried to play a guitar and I couldn’t. I couldn’t even do Wonder Wall, which is apparently… or, or House of the Rising Sun.

 

CM: Wonder Wall is harder than you think.

 

BJ: Oh, really?

 

CM: It’s four… because it’s four fingers.

 

BJ: But I, I tried and I couldn’t. But now when I play Guitar Hero, at least I feel like.

 

CM: What is your favourite. I mean, you can’t go wrong with Sweet Child of Mine. What is your favourite track to do Guitar Hero on?

 

BJ: I would say, at the moment, Pat Benetar and hit me with your best shot.

 

CM: (Laughs). What difficulty rating it that?

 

BJ: Easy.

 

CM: It’s easy.

 

BJ: Yeah.

 

CM: You’ll progress. What is difficult? Give me an example of a difficult one.

 

BJ: A difficult song?

 

CM: To do Guitar Hero on.

 

BJ: I would say. There is another Guns and Roses on the current one I’ve got. Legends of Rock, which I can’t nail.

 

CM: What Mr. Brownstone.

 

BJ: No, I think it’s Welcome to the Jungle.

 

CM: That is hard.

 

BJ: That is quite tricky.

 

CM: (Makes sound effect of guitar). We can’t play that.

 

BJ: I’m sure you probably… well you can’t, probably the other guy.

 

JB : No, he can’t play it.

 

CM: He is not quick enough.

 

JB : I’m rubbish.

 

(Laughs).

 

BJ: This is a very ambitious project. It’s a very ambitious album. What happens if?

 

CM: It fails.

 

BJ: It doesn’t sell as many as the previous albums?

 

CM: I don’t think it anyway. That is one of the great things about the music industry changing so much. ‘Cos records don’t sell so many copies, you have a bit less pressure. You know, you can always blame it ‘a lot of people don’t buy records anyway’.

 

JB : It’s not just us, it’s everyone.

 

(Laughs).

 

BJ: Isn’t that just part and parcel of though, of being in a band for a long period of time. That you will always have, you know, career highs, albums that sell a little bit less, but are more personal to you. Rather than full of big radio friendly singles and that kind of thing?

 

CM: I think the key thing is, we’re just concerned with… away from all the palaver and the distractions, we’re concerned with whether someone who, who hears it for the first time, or likes something we’ve done before, whether they’ll enjoy listening to it. And, I think we could have done a lot worse. And, so, we don’t know how many people there will be, that will enjoy it. You know, we, we know it definitely isn’t terrible and it isn’t lazy. So that is the only two things we can do, we can’t be worried about whether it sells two copies or 20 million copies.

 

BJ: Are you nervous?

 

CM: Always.

 

BJ: See, I’m nervous, I even brought two shirts today.

 

CM: Really?

 

BJ: Just because.

 

CM: Why? Because you’re interviewing Alanis Morrisette?

 

BJ: Yeah.

 

CM: She is lovely.

 

BJ: She is a terrifying lady.

 

CM: No.

 

BJ: No, no. I was… I had to do some work and I thought I don’t want to be all sweaty when I interview Coldplay. So I’ll bring another.

 

JB : The funny thing is we can’t actually see you. Other than your head from where we are sitting.

 

CM: It’s a nice shirt though.

 

BJ: Thank you very much.

 

JB : A nice collar.

 

BJ: Thanks.

 

CM: I was doing an interview the other day. Someone told me I didn’t smell very good.

 

BJ: Really?

 

JB : What? Who told you that?

 

CM: I don’t know.

 

JB : Someone like.

 

CM: It was a girl.

 

BJ: Someone said to you… how do you bring that up in an interview?

 

CM: I think I was waving my arms about. And I probably hadn’t changed since doing exercise or something.

 

BJ: That’s very nice, isn’t it?

 

JB : Was it somebody you knew very well? Or?

 

CM: I don’t know. I can’t remember. I blocked it out of my brain.

 

BJ: The rudeness of some people.

 

CM: I don’t think it’s rude, it’s honest. I think you should always be honest. If somebody’s breath is bad or something like that, just say, I don’t mean to be a dick head but your breath isn’t so good.

 

BJ: Mint.

 

JB : I think you stink.

 

(All laugh).

 

JB : That is what you would say.

 

BJ: Do you know what?

 

JB : That is what you’d say.

 

BJ: I’ve got too many questions to get through.

 

JB : Pay attention.

 

CM: Well let’s just sing some songs.

 

CP: Pay attention class.

 

BJ: You… I can’t believe this. When I spoke to you about X and Y.

 

CM: Hmm, hmm.

 

BJ: It was.

 

CM: Why did you speak to us about that?

 

BJ: Because.

 

CM: We’d never heard your radio voice before.

 

BJ: You wanted to.

 

JB : Stop that! You wanted to come on and talk about X and Y. So we talked about X and Y. You describe it now, with hindsight, as problematic and a little bit flabby. Which I’m a little bit disappointed by. Because (a) it’s the third fastest selling album in UK history. And thirdly, or secondly, because we didn’t have a third, second one.

 

CM: Yeah. Well I think Peter Andre would describe himself as being a tiny bit flabby. If you watch that show Katie and Peter.

 

BJ: Yeah.

 

CM: He is brilliant though. I mean, hand on my heart, I will express my undying respect and love for Peter Andre. I think that show is amazing.

 

BJ: I love that show.

 

CM: But he, he would say, he’s not in his peak condition, in terms of, you know, he’s got a couple of pounds to lose, he would say.

 

BJ: Hmm.

 

CM: So when we say that about our record, we love that record, and we’re very, very proud of it. We would admit… OK, maybe two songs too long or three songs too long, but that’s all we said.

 

BJ: Is that something you only realise with hindsight though?

 

CM: Yeah.

 

JB : Yes.

 

CM: Absolutely. Because we, we thought we should put on as many songs as possible, because people would just download the ones they like. Then we realised that was probably now how we would do it, if we did it today. We don’t… if you ask our personal opinion that record is a glowing masterpiece. (Laughs).

 

BJ: I agree.

 

CM: We can say it now because that is not the one we are talking about. (Laughs).

 

BJ: If I’m honest though, this new album Viva la Vida, is, is quite dangerous. It’s quite a dangerous album, in the sense that there are not too many of the obvious radio friendly hits on there. There are quite a few of what I describe as Band on The Run songs. i.e. and I remember when I started at Virgin Radio, on my play list I had play, Band on The Run.

 

CM: Yep. Have you done it?

 

BJ: I went blah, blah, this was years ago. It was seven years ago. I went, la, la, here is Band on The Run, and of course it starts, completely different.

 

CM: (Sings back inside these four walls).

 

BJ: I didn’t know any of these songs.

 

CM: Yeah.

 

BJ: I thought, oh god, I’ve just gone on national radio and introduced a song I thought was Band on The Run and it isn’t Band on the Run.

 

CM: But it is.

 

BJ: But it is Band on the Run.

 

CM: Well there are four songs in that song.

 

BJ: And there are quite a few of these songs.

 

CM: Yeah.

 

BJ: These tracks that are several songs isn’t there?

 

CM: Yeah. Well, we did that once with Nikita by Elton John. We were in Atlanta doing a radio show. And they said what song would you like to play, and I said Nikita please by Elton John. And I hadn’t heard it for 19 years. And the beginning was not what I remembered. Then eventually it became Nikita, (sings oh, Nikita you will never know). It’s great.

 

BJ: Well, I played the other night… we were talking about you guys coming on. I played Ah Ha, Hunting High and Low.

 

CM: Brilliant. Lovely.

 

BJ: I only remember that as (sings I guess we’ll be hunting). It starts a bit different.

 

CM: (Sings here I am within the reach of your hand).

 

BJ: I’m not so keen on that bit.

 

JB : What? Oh come on man.

 

CM: It’s brilliant.

 

BJ: You see, that is why I’m not in a band.

 

CM: That is the best bit.

 

BJ: Is it?

 

CM: Yeah. (Sings beyond the reach of your hands)

 

BJ: Touchy was a better song.

 

CM: (Sings oh, touchy, touchy, you, touchy me). Are you a big Ah Ha fan?

 

BJ: Well I was back in the day. My mum always said to me, do you know what? When you grow up, you’re going to grow up and look like Morten Harkett. Liar, liar.

 

(All laugh).

 

JB : Lying sod.

 

CM: He is a handsome fella, but he takes the biscuit.

 

BJ: But now… I met him a few years ago, and he is still, I mean, he is still a good-looking guy.

 

CM: Well Guy sees him more than us, so.

 

JB : I know Mags better than Morten. Mags was the… well he still is the keyboard player of Ah Ha.

 

BJ: I like the Analogue album. I thought that was good.

 

JB : Yeah, yeah, there are some good songs on there.

 

BJ: So we were talking about this, this album. This new CD, Viva la Vida. I would like to play another song from it.

 

CM: OK then.

 

BJ: I would like to play a track called Lost.

 

CM: OK.

 

BJ: Which has a beautiful sound to it. I, I read quite a few sort of, odd and bizarre things about this album, and about the err, construction of this album, when you were doing it. Saying, you were thinking of maybe getting Timberland to produce and all that kind of thing. So when I, when I remember that story and then I listen to Lost, I wonder whether the, the baseline or the whatever the right terminology is…

 

CM: The drumbeat.

 

BJ: The drumbeat. Erm, is taken from that period. When you were thinking about doing that kind of record.

 

CM: Erm, probably. We wouldn’t… that was never actually true that Timberland thing, but it was a nice rumour. And.

 

BJ: Well I know you like to throw people off scent a little bit, don’t you?

 

CM: Well, I never said that.

 

BJ: Oh, didn’t you?

 

CM: No.

 

BJ: Oh right.

 

JB : We didn’t.

 

CM: We didn’t say that. That is one rumour we didn’t start. But we, we, we, erm, yes I think you might be right. Well, we were always inspired by that kind of stuff, because it is so good. I think one song we’re always trying to chase is Cry Me A River by Justin Timberlake. You know, in terms of the beats and everything.

 

BJ: Hmm.

 

CM: And I know that is one of Will’s favourite songs. And he did all the drums on this obviously. So, anyway, I’m yacking on.

 

BJ: Let’s play it. Yeah.

 

(All laugh).

 

BJ: This is track three from the album. It is called Lost. Enjoy.

 

CM: With an exclamation mark.

 

BJ: So it is.

 

CM: Lost!

 

BJ: So, I’ll do it that way. It is called LOST! There we go. They love the old radio voice. Right that is Lost! Backed me head on the microphone. That is Lost! from Coldplay's new album Viva la Vida. Which is out on Thursday and I don’t why they put it out on Thursday, but that is when you can buy it.

 

CM: It was your idea.

 

JB : Shut up.

 

CM: I thought we established that.

 

BJ: It is a seminal album. It’s your seminal album. You can’t get much bigger.

 

CM: It’s my semolina album.

 

BJ: You can’t get much bigger. I’m just going to carry on. I’m going to ignore… fade him down. You can’t get much bigger, you can’t get much better than this. So where do you go now?

 

CM: Where? Tesco’s. Ben where do we go… Ben I really love you, because you’re making us feel good and we haven’t had the best of days. So it’s just… we’re going to sit here and lap it all up. We can’t get much bigger and we can’t get much better, how many bands hear that?

 

JB : No, come on for god’s sake. I mean, look at the facts my friend.

 

CM: OK.

 

BJ: You’re a great band. You’re a fantastic band, this album is good, everything you’ve done in the past is good.

 

CM: That’s true.

 

BJ: I’m asking honestly, where do you think you can go?

 

CM: Well.

 

BJ: From here on in?

 

CM: Well, however good you get in 2008, you’ve got to chase Bob Dylan and the Beatles and U2. So however good you think you are, or people say you are, or bad they say you are.

 

JB : You’re always miles away.

 

CM: You’re always miles away from… and that is only pop music and rock music. You know, we haven’t even started on the great hip-hop artists. And then the great classical artists. I mean, whenever you get a little bit big headed, you just, you can put your record on, of something, and put right back to the beginning. And that is what keeps us going.

 

BJ: Sometimes I could just listen to you talk. (TC: 00:20:00). Sometimes I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

CM: (Laughs).

 

BJ: But I just like listening to you anyway. You know, that whole last, what, 2 minutes of that.

CM: Right.

BJ: No idea what you are talking about.

CM: I am just saying that when you think you are good, you should listen to something that makes you realise that you have still got a lot to learn.

 

BJ: Yes, you see, for me, I have always got to try and be Dr Fox.

CM: Yes.

BJ: Yes.

JB: But is it like you were saying with Guitar Hero.

CM: He is the king of radio.

CP: It is like your Guitar Hero thing, you know. Was it you that was talking about Guitar Hero?

CM: Yes, it was.

JB : It was, yes.

BJ: That was only a few minutes ago.

JB : I know. I know, sorry.

CM: His brain has gone.

BJ : But, you know, you have got different levels to try and get onto now, don’t you?

JB : True.

CM: Yes.

JB : It is the same with us.

BJ: Life is a game of Guitar Hero.

CM: It certainly is. You know we had an idea for our concert that we wanted to and we still might, but I am not telling you the idea, so someone else might do it, but we wanted to have a song where we played it in Guitar Hero. Do you know what I mean?

 

BJ: Yes.

CM: So, instead of playing weird instruments, we wanted to play Guitar Hero with guitars on stage.

BJ: We have got the new one upstairs, Rock Band, have you seen that?

CM: No.

JB : Is that like drums and stuff?

BJ: That is like with drums and a singer and everything else.

CM: So you can be any part.

BJ: You can be anybody you want to be.

CM: Great.

BJ: What song on this record took the most blood, sweat to make and maybe you have all got a different opinion.

JB : Probably.

C M : All of them.

JB : Either Viva La Vida or Lost, I think.

CM: Yes.

BJ: So, the ones we have already heard?

JB : Yes.

CM: Well, any of the songs that we think is catchy takes longer.

BJ: Why is that?

CM: Because we have to work out how to put it in a way that does not make it cheesy. So, both those songs are good sing-a-long songs and they mean a lot to us as what they are talking about. So, we did quite a few different versions and went round the houses a bit and eventually settled on those treatments for it.

 

BJ: How different did the Viva La Vida that we have just played sound on the first proper sort of? When you first thought you were happy with it, how different is it now?

 

JB : Erm, well I suppose it was not miles away before, but the difference between listening to something which is obvious and something which is not so obvious is sometimes not a very big thing, you know. I mean we Will just plays a bass drum on that song.

 

CM: And a bell.

JB : And a bell and before it was, you know, it just had a more regular sort of drum kit. So, all we really did was take out a snare drum and that just took it away from something very obvious. So, sometimes it is a small change. You know sometimes it is a big sweeping chance you need to make to things but.

 

CM: You know, we are finding more and more especially working with the producers we work with Marcus [ph Travs 00:22:31] and Brian [ph Enowen 00:22:31] and another guy called Rick Simpson and lots of great people. Brian instilled in us as well that, you know, as long as the 3 or 4 key elements of the song are good, you do not need to put tons and tons of layers on top of it, which is something we were starting to fall into and I think a lot of people were with the way that recording operates with pro-tools and stuff. You just put tracks on tracks on tracks on tracks and tracks and so it makes a very dense sound. So, part of the challenge for us this time was to what we did not put on things as much as what we did.

 

BJ: To simplify it you mean? But then this is not a particularly simple album.

CM: No, but there is not actually very much going on when you listen to it. It is not like 80 tracks at once. Some of the parts are quite complicated or the sounds, but really it is only 5 people playing, you know. Maybe I am not making any sense at all.

 

BJ: No, no, no. I understand what you mean. I am just thinking.

CM: Yes. We did not just put drums, bass guitar on everything regardless, you know. We thought well, what is best for the song. Shall we take that away? Shall we, you know, try a church bell instead of a snare drum and things we had not tried before.

 

BJ: So, how will this album work on tour? When you take this album out of the studio and have you actually played this live? You know, in The Bakery, for example, have you played it live?

 

JB : Yes. We have spent the last few weeks just trying to translate everything so it makes sense live and it is representative and, you know, it has been quite challenging but, you know, I think the overall feeling is that we are getting there and we are, you know, starting to get really excited about going forward and playing these new songs live. We have to try, you know, new instruments that we have not played live before or,

 

CM: Terry Vision.

JB : Yes.

CM: We have a new band member called Terry Vision who is actually a TV on a stand.

BJ: Wow!

CM: But we call him Terry, because anything we cannot play, he plays on his little screen.

BJ: And he will be at the show?

CM: He is going to be at all our shows, yes, so.

BJ: Does he have a rider as well and is he demanding?

CM: He is not that demanding.

BJ: Is he as insecure as you?

CM: Yes.

BJ: Thank God he is not here today.

CM: He is worried that most VHS’s will not want to work with him. But we have him on a stand, you know, like in French class at my school; I think most schools have that sort of TV stand on one pole that they wheel between classrooms. So, that is what Terry looks like.

 

BJ: You could also have an OHP on it as well.

CM: Exactly.

BJ: I miss OHP’s. PowerPoint has ruined OHP’s.

CM: It’s true, yes.

BJ: Disastrous. You also seem to be singing in a lower voice. My wife, I took the album home the other night, I got back about 10.30 and we sort of crashed out on the couch and my wife was very excited about hearing it.

 

CM: Were you snogging?

BJ: There were tongues involved.

CM: Yes.

BJ: She is really heavily pregnant, so it is that sort of.

JB : Extra great.

BJ: Phew! She was alright before let me tell you. What was I going to say? You seem to be singing, I am just thinking of something else. You seem to be singing in a lower voice and what my wife said was, ‘That’s sexy.’

 

CM: Really?

BJ: She liked it a lot.

CM: Oh, that is great.

BJ: I mean she has always thought you were pretty sexy.

CM: But she is pretty hormonal because she is pregnant.

BJ: So, she would probably go for anybody, but the voice is lower. Why go for the lower voice? I mean Lost, is it Lost or Yes?

 

CM: Yes, that is very low, yes. Well, if you want the honest answer it is because I thought it would be fun to try it. It is quite a boring answer.

 

BJ: Is your voice, well, your voice is as much an instrument as any other part of the band.

CM: Yes and it is hard, you know, I think, when you are an established band, I am sorry for talking so much, it is hard, the more that you become well known as a band, the less easy it is to be original with the singing because everybody knows what it is going to sound like, you know. So, when a new band comes out, partly what people are responding to is the fact that they have never heard that human voice before, you know. You know, unless you are someone like Amy Winehouse who people will never get tired of that voice because it is so brilliant, somebody like me it is good to try and change it up and try new things and go different places and sing about different things, otherwise people will just get fed up if you always sang the same way and same thing.

 

BJ: Well, fair play for trying it.

CM: Yes.

BJ: I think it works.

CM: I love it. I love singing low and I love shouting up high, which are the 2 things we have introduced.

JB : Bob Dylan virtually changed his voice every hour.

CM: Yes, he did, yes.

BJ: Let us have a listen to this, then. This is Track 6, this is Yes from Viva La Vida, Coldplay are here, well ¾; Will just could not be bothered.

 

CM: He is playing Guitar Hero.

BJ: This is Yes with no exclamation mark.

CM: It is funny, because it did used to have an exclamation mark.

BJ: Did it really?

CM: And then Phil said, ‘You have to get rid of it.’

BJ: Do you know what we were talking about on the show last night? We were talking about why are brackets in songs the most pointless thing.

 

CM: Let us talk about that right now or have you already talked about it?

BJ: Well, we already talked about it the other night. Like Simple Minds, Don’t You Forget About Me. It is not Don’t You Forget About Me. Green Day, Good Riddance is Good Riddance, Time Of Your Life. Do you know what I mean?

 

CM: Where are the brackets on those?

BJ: Good Riddance. I mean we call it on the radio Time of Your Life, but it is actually Time of Your Life in brackets Good Riddance or the other way round.

 

CM: I thought it was Good Riddance Time of Your Life.

BJ: You probably know more than I do. Anyway.

CM: What is the Don’t You Forget About Me one?

BJ: Simple is Don’t You and then in brackets Forget About Me.

CM: Really?

BJ: Sweet Dreams in brackets Are Made of This.

CM: Really?

BJ: Yes. Don’t you think that is pointless? I think brackets are.

JB : I think it came from a time when people would sort of talk about songs from the, you know, the main lines of the song, I guess. They want people to know that that was the song that they had heard on the radio.

 

BJ: True. The brains of the outfit I can see.

JB : Yes.

CM: And the looks.

BJ: Well, I was going to say that. Do you know what? I have been on the, we will talk about this in a second, right.

CM: Right.

BJ: That is Yes from Coldplay’s new album Viva La Vida which is out on Thursday. I know you are going love it, go buy it and download it as well.

 

CM: Yes.

BJ: I say. Why not?

CM: Why not? Why not? Because, you know, there are better things to do with your time.

BJ: Shut up. I hear different themes, different sounds in this album.

CM: The Neighbours theme? The Jaws theme?

BJ: I am going to carry on, God, St Peter, religion and also the video for Violet Hill, the other video that you did, the dancing politicians.

 

CM: Oh yes.

BJ: Which is just the greatest video I have ever seen.

CM: Yes, that is the best video we have ever made.

BJ: I have ever seen. It is brilliant.

CM: Yes.

BJ: This is you doing things I do not think you have ever done before, yes, obviously politics.

CM: Yes.

BJ: Featured politics or it was about certain events.

CM: Yes.

BJ: But I hear different themes, stuff you have never touched on before.

CM: Yes.

BJ: On this album, is that right?

CM: Yes, a hundred percent. We worked really hard on all our lyrics without being too crude about it, not crude at all.

 

BJ: It is more profound as well, isn’t it, this album?

CM: Well, I cannot say that, but it would do better in English class. My English teacher was always very down on anything I wrote like creative writing, but I think he would have to give this at least a C.

 

BJ: C+. It is quite a religious album as well, there are religious tracks on here. Do you see what I am saying or was that not intentionally done, just part of the song writing process?

 

CM: Well, Johnny has a good take on that.

JB : Well, I think, you know, we all kind of grew up going to school assembly, singing hymns and it is kind of all the stories and things around are ones that we all know and can relate to and so they are kind of important stories in our lives, I think.

 

(Timecode: 00.30.00)

 

JB : They are kind of important stories in our lives, I think.

 

CM: Yeah. I think if we’d made this album in Ancient Greece then we would be singing about Zeus.

 

BJ: No one’s ever sung about Zeus as far as I’m aware.

 

CM: Yeah, you haven’t heard any of our B-sides baby.

 

BJ: Really? Well, I hear there is other stuff to come, because there are a lot of songs which I read about that were gonna be on this album that never made the final tracklist.

 

CM: The truth is that there’s four great songs that we haven’t quite finished, and a few others that we haven’t quite started yet.

 

BJ: So is that another album to come kind of quickly, or will you do another sort of side project?

 

CM: Who knows? I don’t think we’d do that but I think we’ll wait and see if anyone wants anymore and then we’ll react accordingly.

 

BJ: I’m sure they will. I’ve been on to the – I dunno whether you ever use this website, I’ve been onto the Coldplaying.com website and I’m a member of the forums and I put an announcement that you guys were coming on and they’re a nice bunch of people. So I’ve got some questions here from the fans. First of all: ‘Hello Ben, hello band, it is my birthday today. If Coldplay could give me a shout-out that would make my day’ says Nettie, who is the webmaster of MyColdplay.com. So I was wondering whether you could wish Nettie a happy birthday.

 

CM: Yeah, we’d love to.

 

JB : Happy birthday, Nettie!

 

CM: Happy birthday. Thank you for being great.

 

BJ: That will make her day. I presume it’s a her – you never quite know do you, with these names from the internet? This is from Chelsea, ‘Hello boys, hello Ben. Every Coldplaying forum member has their all-time favourite Coldplay song. What is the song in your entire catalogue of work that you are most proud of writing?’

 

CM: Old song?

 

BJ: Could be any song. Could be on this album.

 

CM: Um... I would pick Viva La Vida, the song we just played. Clocks, Yellow and Fix You. I’m quite obvious with my choices.

 

(laughter)

 

BJ: All the hits.

 

CM: Well, one of them hasn’t come out yet...

 

BJ: It’s gonna be a hit.

 

CM: I dunno about that, man, but those are the four that I would say. And Politics.

 

JB : I would say, I always keep going on about this song to the others but it was a B Side from the last album called Crests of Waves, and I remember fighting its corner, trying to get it on the record...

 

C M : Stop banging on about it!

 

JB : I know, they get very bored of me saying it but I really, I really love that song.

 

BJ: You were always a fan of White Shadows as well, weren’t you? Is that right?

 

JB : Yeah.

 

BJ: White Shadows was my favourite song on the last album. Love that track. Johnny?

 

JB : Erm, I really like Fix You, I think.

 

CM: See, that is a classic example of a ‘Band on the Run’ thing. You know, because the end of that song gets very exciting.

 

JB : I can’t turn on a light anymore without wanting to swing it round my head.

 

CM: But I think a lot of radio stations were annoyed that they had to get through the beginning of that song to get to the end. Because it’s obviously a big song for us.

 

BJ: I never even thought about it like that.

 

CM: The beginning is very slow, and very funereal. Funeral? Funereal? Funerelesque?

 

JB : Funerelesque. Funerelly.

 

CM: Funerelly. So, that’s like what you were saying about Band on the Run, but we’re very proud of it.

 

BJ: ‘Hello band, Ian Betley here, webmaster of Coldplaying.com. A question: where is the parachute globe these days, please tell me you haven’t carbooted it?’

 

JB : Interesting. I think probably we’ve got a whole massive pile of junk, well not junk, just stuff we don’t use anymore somewhere. We’ve got lots of cupboards somewhere and I would imagine it’s in there somewhere with like cricket bats and stuff like that.

 

CP: It’s like that bit at the end of Indiana Jones isn’t it?

 

CM: Which one? The new one?

 

JB : You know, Raiders of the Lost Ark, where there’s like...

 

CP: All the artefacts of the past.

 

CM: Gathering cobwebs. And also, we have booby-trapped our thing as well.

 

CP: Yeah, and there’s like a million globes there.

 

BJ: Was there more than one?

 

CM: Oh, there’s lots. There’s.... four of each band member.

 

BJ: True. We have already done this question, but say hello to Marianna DiAlba in Caracas in Venezuela, she wanted to know about the other songs which didn’t make the grade.

 

CM: Oh, okay. I’m going to say hello to Marianna in Caracas.

 

BJ: Caracas. I love that word. ‘Hello Ben, you recently had your tenth anniversary’ – not me, you, obviously – ‘did you do anything to celebrate and do you still get on as well as you did back then or has living in each others’ pockets for so long put a strain on your relationship?’ That’s from Mitch in Liverpool.

 

CM: Mitch, all I will say is there is only three of us in the room. We don’t like each other. We don’t get along. We just can’t find any handsomer replacements.

 

BJ: All I’m going to tell you Mitch is that they’re not even in the same room. Johnny is in New York, Guy is on ISDN from Sydney and Chris is on that weird TV thing that he was talking about earlier on.

 

CM: Big Brother?

 

BJ: Terry Wogan.

 

CM: Oh, Terry Wogan. He would be an even better band member.

 

JB : Did we do anything for our tenth anniversary?

 

CM: Well, I don’t actually... I don’t think we’ve got there yet.

 

JB : It was ten years since we’d done our first gig, wasn’t it?

 

CM: Yeah, but we were still kind of...

 

JB : Rubbish.

 

CM: Yeah. Some people would still say that, but I would say that at the end of the decade would be ten official years, or the end of next year. So we’re having an extended tenth anniversary.

 

BJ: Long may it continue in celebrations. What do you think of, or are you aware of, any of the Coldplay tribute bands? What do you think?

 

CP: Yes. Yes, I’m aware of them.

 

CM: Are you aware of them? I heard a U2 tribute band the other day that were amazing.

 

BJ: Because I tell you why, this band here are called Coolplay.

 

JB : Yeah, I’ve heard of them.

 

BJ: What I’m gonna do cause you haven’t got headphones on I’m gonna fade the microphones down and I’m gonna play one of their, one of their songs.

 

CM: Oh please don’t.

 

BJ: Would you like to hear a little bit of it? This is them doing, this is them doing Clocks. I was just wondering whether you’d like to hear it? If you say no it doesn’t matter, I can edit this whole bit out.

 

CM: Yes, I’d love to hear it.

 

BJ: No? Okay fine. I can do that. That’s fine, I’ll cut that out. Which member of the bands opinion counts for most? Who has the final say and also have you ever come to blows over any issues? I mean actual fisty-cuffs.

 

CM: It’s funny you should ask that.

 

JB : Will threatened you once didn’t he?

 

CM: Will, Will did. Well I think all of you have threatened me at some point.

 

JB : I don’t think I’ve ever threatened you.

 

CM: I take the credit for being the only band member that everyone else has threatened to hit.

 

(Laughter)

 

CP: Make of that what you will.

 

CM: Well that’s just the singer’s curse don’t you know? Singers tend to be really quite annoying people within, you know, it’s fine to spend twenty minutes in an interview with them but I think if asked. They are infuriating. But well there’s five of us, there’s four of us, I mean, us three and Will and then there’s Phil our fifth member. Does he have the final say?

 

CP: Well his opinions quite often the best one to listen to I think because he can, he sort of steps in and steps out when we sort of get lost and say we’re in the studio working on something and we’re not sure how well it’s going. He can step in and tell us if it’s good or bad and he’s got the sort of objectivity that we sometimes lose. So his opinion is definitely very important.

 

CP: He’s like the casting vote isn’t he?

 

CM: Yeah, cause we, there’s five of us you see so it means that every vote is always won by somebody.

 

BJ: You see that’s what I was thinking when I came up with that question, well someone is going to have to have the final say.

 

CM: No, nobody has final say.

 

BJ: But then this guy helps to sway the vote either way and you go with the majority.

 

CM: Some of us present very convincing arguments but if someone doesn’t want to do something, it doesn’t happen generally.

 

BJ: What’s the hardest song to play live?

 

CM: Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

BJ: I wanna play Strawberry Swing. Tell me a little bit about this record because I like this song a lot.

 

CM: Oh great man, well the song Strawberry Swing is inspired by this, two things, one is a band called Tinariwen, this African band and another is a band called Delacota who in the mid-nineties had a song called The Rock which we really loved and no one really knows it. So the two things combined to, and obviously it’s a bit of a Beatles tribute in the title you know.

 

BJ: It’s a beautiful record so let’s play it, this is Strawberry Swing which is track nine of Viva La Vida. Nearly done Kev.

 

CM: No hurry man.

 

BJ: Right that is Strawberry Swing on the new album, blah, that is Strawberry Swing on the new album Viva La Vida which is coming out on Thursday. This is Ben, the band are here, my favourite members of the band are here anyway.

 

(Laughter)

 

BJ: Do you still get star struck? Because as I said earlier the whole shirt business, kind of nervous meeting, I would say you, my two favourite bands in the world are the Rolling Stones and Coldplay, and I’ve interviewed the Rolling Stones a couple of times this year, and Mick a few times as well, separately, and I kind of get nervous for that. You want to do it justice – you know when you meet someone you like and you admire, you want to do it justice, and obviously I’ve got a job to do here as well so I want to do that justice, but I’m just intrigued as to who you would get star-struck by.

 

JB : I was particularly star-struck by Ronaldo.

 

CM: Yeah, you were. That’s true. And what’s the other guy, was it Figo?

 

CP: Luis Figo, yeah.

 

CM: You and Will were like little kids, do you remember that?

 

‘CP: Well they came to our gig in Madrid when they both played for Madrid and that was, yeah, that was great

 

CM: Yeah, you really were. I find that I get respect-struck, if you see what I mean. Fame doesn’t really mean so much, as if I think someone’s brilliant I get a bit nervous and a bit…

 

BJ: I think that’s the same thing with me, you know. You see famous people all the time, but if it’s someone you really admire, someone whose work you think is great, whether that’s an artist or a movie star or a musician, you just want to go “wow”. You want to tell them how great you think they are, but you don’t want to sound like an idiot.

 

CM: Yeah, but you know what, I learned something the other day which was: if you think someone’s great you should always just say it, and there’s a nice way of saying it. I went through a period of thinking “Oh, I won’t say anything to Stephen Fry if I bump into him because he doesn’t want to hear it”, but then I thought “Well actually, that’s nonsense”. I got to meet him the other day and I was very star-struck around him but it made me happy to say “I think you’re great and thanks for all the pleasure you’ve given me”. [laughter]

 

BJ: Well there’s the headline tomorrow!

 

CM: Who do you get star-struck by?

 

CP: I’m just trying to think, I haven’t really…

 

CM: You’re not impressed by that much, I’ve got to say.

 

CP: I didn’t really get to meet him but I remember we were watching James Brown in Japan, and I’m a big fan of his and I remember just being mesmerised at the side of the stage, watching him. I don’t think anyone stops being star-struck or respect-struck or anything like that. I just think it’s one of those things. I think if I met Mick Jagger I would definitely be a bit quiet.

 

BJ: He’s so cool.

 

CM: Have you met Kylie?

 

BJ: I’ve never met Kylie.

 

CM: See, she makes you feel star-struck, I think, or Beyoncé.

 

BJ: See, given the choice, I’d rather go for Dannii.

 

CM: For Dannii?

 

BJ: Yeah, I’ve always been a fan of Dannii. I don’t know why, I think Kylie’s work is infinitely better...

 

CM: Well they’re both very beautiful.

 

BJ: Maybe it’s just sort of a lust thing for me, personally.

 

CM: Have you ever met Beyoncé.

 

BJ: I have, yes, when she did the Austin Powers movie. It frightened me that she was 19, as well, at the time. Dangerously young.

 

CM: She makes me star-struck for sure, but only because she’s so talented it’s ridiculous.

 

BJ: Listen, we gotta go.

 

CM: Where have you got to go?

 

BJ: Well we’ve got to end the show.

 

CM: What?!

 

BJ: We’ve gotta go!

 

CM: I thought this was an all night one.

 

BJ: We could carry on, all night, see the morning through.

 

CM: Why don’t we come back in six months and tell you how it’s all going.

 

BJ: I’d love to. We should do the show from the bakery.

 

CM: Why not?

 

CP: Yeah.

 

BJ: That would be a good idea.

 

CM: What about a hot air balloon above London?

 

BJ: That would be nice.

 

CM: Above the bakery.

 

BJ: With one of those balloons owned by Richard Branson, of course.

 

CM: Yes, who does no longer own your radio station.

 

BJ: And finally, before we go, the big question, and this is the question from my wife. What is your favourite CSI spin-off? Do you go for Las Vegas every time? Or is it Miami?

 

CP: Miami!

 

BJ: Miami’s a glorified Baywatch these days, though.

 

CP: David Caruso…

 

BJ: Yeah, but all he does is take his glasses on and off.

 

JB : I feel I’m missing out on this program, I’ve never watched it.

 

BJ: You don’t’ watch CSI?!

 

CM: I watched Katie and Peter: The Next Chapter.

 

BJ: That I like. Glamour Girls on BBC Three’s quite good as well, have you seen that?

 

CM: I’m sure it is, but have you seen Katie and Peter’s next chapter?

 

BJ: That’s on the Sky Plus at home, yeah, we do like that.

 

CM: What’s Glamour Girls about? Is the clue in the tin?

 

BJ: It’s the Ronseel of BBC Three. [laughter]

 

CM: The Ronseel Woodstone (ph 44.01). God, that advertising worked, didn’t it?

 

BJ: Yes. So many jokes going through my head. Listen, choose one more song from the album that we haven’t played and tell me a little bit about it. What shall we play?

 

CP: What are we choosing?

 

BJ: A song from your album.

 

CP: Can’t we choose a song off someone else’s album?

 

BJ: No, because that kind of defeats the object of this hour.

 

JB : No it doesn’t! Does it? Okay. The song I would like to choose off this album is called ‘Crazy in Love’.

 

BJ: Alright, well how about we do…

 

CM: You can choose, then.

 

BJ: ‘Cemeteries of London’ – tell me about that.

 

CM: Guy’s good on that.

 

CP: I can’t tell that story again. Can’t you come up with something.

 

CM: It’s our attempt at a song with a title like The Smiths. We wanted a song that we thought Morrissey might have titled, so that’s what we came up with.

 

BJ: Intrigued, let’s play it. We’ve gotta go…

 

CM: Ben, thank you. Sorry, I cut you off.

 

BJ: Lovely to see you, I love having you on.

 

CM: Honestly, it’s been a true pleasure.

 

B : We love to be here.

 

BJ: Thank you. This is ‘Cemeteries of London’. Buy the album on Thursday, it’s called ‘Viva La Vida’. Thank you, goodnight.

 

CM: Thank you, Ben.

this must be the longest post ever! ;D

Ben I bow to thee for your post :nice:

 

I fully agree (also about the Ting Tings :P)

I accept that some people won't / don't like them, the album, or the perception on CM. My advice is don't listen to them! We live in a free world and if you don't like them, don't buy the album, or turn the radio off. It really is that simple! I hate lots of bands and music, but I don't listen to them or feel the need to slag them off.

 

I think exactly the same.

^Who is CP? :P

 

And I agree with Ben too, ofcourse!

Can I just say for the record what an unbelievable prick that bloke is from the Independent.

For god's sake! Clearly his intention was to write a negative piece on the band EVEN if this album was the next 'White Album' or 'Revolver' he was gonna write a nasty negative piece.

He is the exact reason I can't stand the pompous nature of the printed press, and why i much prefer magazines like Q, Rolling Stone, and so on. They don't appear to have a hidden agenda, which lots of the british press so often do.

I found his piece laughable. he claims he doesn't know anyone who bought X&Y or is planning to buy VLV? He clearly has no mates. I am at home at the moment, both my decorator and my carpenter both said they bought it this morning. I am lucky I get given a copy, but I know my mother, my brother and my wife's sister have plans to buy it too. As for X&Y we all know people who have it, the guys a fool! Maybe not in his snooty circle where people think the Ting Tings are good! God help us! Fine. I accept that some people won't / don't like them, the album, or the perception on CM. My advice is don't listen to them! We live in a free world and if you don't like them, don't buy the album, or turn the radio off. It really is that simple! I hate lots of bands and music, but I don't listen to them or feel the need to slag them off. (other than the above comment on the Ting Tings)

 

Why does Brian Eno want to work with the band? Because he was asked, and wanted to, I am sure he doesn't need the money you jealous, bitter hack. If you want to write sour tales slagging off bands who have done well, sold more than 3 records and are flying the British flag all over the globe then go work at the NME!

Rant over!

 

vey eloquently put :)