Hahahaha, that's so cute! I can almost picture Chris writing that and trying to make it look festive :lol:

I'm glad they added Phil :nice:

 

Huh? :wtf:

 

 

:D

 

 

 

:uhoh:

 

good god, look at that handwriting :stunned: how does Chris read what he writes?!

 

 

 

It's very simple but they meant well in wishing us a merry Christmas so I love it. And if that's all we are going to get, then it's okay with me. :heart:

Well they did already give us a video for the ebay sale.

 

Let's not be greedy.

 

Right, Right!:D

We should keep being the best fans in the world! :heart:

*proud*

 

:D

 

Lol! They are in an advertising mood this holiday:P First the auction vid which was advertising and now this:P lol

 

:D

Ohh, ok, got it :D

Thanks Michie! :nice:

Cute message!!!

 

Thx for explaining the beer reference (Guy's idea??! XD) I didn't get it!

 

 

 

:uhoh:

 

Haha! Yeah, nice reference to Carlsberg.

 

Well they did already give us a video for the ebay sale.

 

Let's not be greedy.

 

Agreed cause that video was hilarious ;)

 

Extra supports for Mexico and Colombia

December 28, 2009 8:55 am

New acts added to the bill for upcoming dates

 

Good morning - and hope you had a nice Christmas. We're pleased to report that local acts have been added to the bill for Coldplay's upcoming Colombian and Mexican shows (with Bat For Lashes also still playing at all dates),

 

Bogota's Estados Alterados (pictured, above) will make a hometown appearance at the Parque Simon Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia on March 4. Click here to check out Estados Alterados' MySpace.

 

Meanwhile, Mexican act Le Baron will kick things off at these dates:

 

March 6 - Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico

March 7 - Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico

March 9 - Estadio Tres de Marzo, Guadalajara, Mexico

March 11 - Estadio Universitario, Monterrey, Mexico

 

Click here to head over to Le Baron's MySpace.

 

For more details on Coldplay's Latin American tour, including ticket links, please click here.

 

Anchorman

 

http://coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=562

I'm gonna have to check them out, never heard of them before :thinking:

*Puts stalking hat on :hat2:*

 

Would you like a letter with a Coldplay stamp?

January 7, 2010 5:19 pm

42nd person to email us gets one, post-marked with today's date

 

 

Good evening. We visited our local post office earlier and bought some of the Coldplay stamps. Very nice they are too. Now, we thought it'd be nice to send one of you a letter using a Coldplay stamp, post-marked with today's issue date. (It won't be signed by the band or anything, just us.) So, the 42nd person to email [email protected] with their full postal address will be sent the letter/stamp. Hurry, the last post goes in about 40 minutes...

 

Anchorman

UPDATE: Crikey, that was a bit bonkers - we had more than 1,700 emails in 30 minutes (a stamp-ede, perhaps?). The 42nd person to send us their address was Kirstin from Ocoee in Florida, USA. Congratulations Kirstin, your letter from Coldplay.com with Coldplay stamps is now in the postbox and on its way (in fact, it needed 3 stamps with you being on the other side of the Atlantic). Thanks very much for taking part folks. That was fun.

 

 

Anchorman

wow!! imagine the inbox they have to delete? i tried and it was fun to do, sarah walked in the door andi was like , "hi, hold on one second im trying to win this and she totally got it, what a rude hostess i am! hahah

"The people of Haiti will be desperate for help and assistance"

January 13, 2010 4:24 pm

Chris writes about the Haiti earthquake

I visited Haiti with Oxfam a few years ago. It's a country of extreme poverty and brutal living conditions. Most people in Port-au-Prince live in tin shacks. The earthquake that has struck Haiti will have turned the city into an unimaginable hell. The people of Haiti will be desperate for help and assistance. You can make a donation towards Oxfam's Haiti Earthquake Appeal at the following website:

 

http://www.oxfam.org.uk

 

Chris

Roadie #42 - Blog #110

January 14, 2010 6:25 pm

#42 and the Beehive's clean slate

 

Happy New Year folks! Somewhat fittingly for the season of fresh starts and new beginnings, we're finally installed in The Beehive. The builders have been in here for months, but last week, we got word that they were all but finished. Obviously, the band are chomping at the bit to get in and get started. So, in typical Coldplay style, the process of building a working recording environment - something that would normally take a solid few weeks - has been achieved in mere days.

 

 

Myself, my involvement has been modest. I plugged some cables in and built the Pro-Tools recording rack with Dan Green, but mainly I've been assembling a media headquarters on the top floor. For the first time, I have my very own office right at the heart of things (or at least above them). Pleasingly, my room is right next to the kitchen. I can't wait 'til we get round to buying a kettle...

 

The top floor is also pleasing for the fact that both the stairs leading up here and the floors when you get here are superbly wonky. The fact that I'm somewhat sleep deprived at the moment combines with this to mean that any walking about up here makes me feel mildly drunk. Strangely, I feel right at home.

 

Downstairs, the main studio room is looking utterly wonderful. It's all high ceilings and bright winter daylight. The walls are freshly plastered white, the floor sanded and stained. Very significantly, before me, Chris is kneeling over a whiteboard brought here from The Bakery. He's just pulled his sleeve over his wrist and wiped the whole thing clean. Fresh starts and statements of intent all around...

 

The room itself has excited everyone that's walked into it. It has a gorgeous reverb all of its own and the fellas have already been wandering around the room stamping on different sections of floorboard in search of the ultimate bass-drum sound. As ever at the beginning of recording, it's a tangle of microphone stands and cables right now. Already, though, it has the feeling of a warm, comfortable and very inspiring space in which to create.

 

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Despite all the freshness and "Happy New Year", it actually feels in many ways as though we've not stopped. This is my first time being involved in the recording phase. I remember on tour thinking "great - nice and relaxed, sitting about watching the tape go round". I figured that only touring happened at a blurry fast-forward pace and the studio would be more gently paced.

 

The creative phase, though, means ideas of all kinds can bubble up and appear at any moment. On tour, the work is in constructing and executing the massively complex show accurately day after day. Here there is little repetition nor idea of what's coming next.

 

The work here is in turning a glimmer of thought into something real. Ideally, the time between an idea's conception and its completion should be minimal. Instantly, is obviously ideal. I remember when I was putting together the Coldpay.com Timeline, constantly being convinced I'd got the dates mixed up. "They can't have gone from first rehearsal to record deal that fast?" "No wait, from first gigs out of London to Manchester Apollo in HOW LONG? - no, that is actually correct..."

 

I'm now beginning to understand how things happen so quickly. It's difficult to quantify the way in which an idea can go from not even existing to bulldozing your entire to-do list in a carnage of urgency. It can produce some mildly terrifying moments, especially when the word "impossible" gangs up with its older brother "deadline". It can be tortuous, but it does give one a completely fresh education in what can be achieved.

 

The Exeter show before Christmas was a hilarious case in point. Spoken about for weeks as "just an acoustic show, like that thing at Capitol Records", it all seemed pretty simple. Just days before the event, though, word came round that it was going to be the full shebang. All electric and the complete backline.

 

Cue massed scurrying and cursing of roadies up and down the nation, as gear and crew was pulled together at a moment's notice. As with many things that seem like nothing but a huge pain during the lead-up, the event itself was utterly wonderful. The insanity of pulling out the gear that had last been used at Wembley Stadium in front of eighty thousand punters and ramming it into a tent for a few hundred people was the perfect way to round out a year of similar madness.

 

My own favourite recollection of the Exeter show came at soundcheck. Chris arrived late, having been wandering around his old town. Clocks was in full swing and he bounded up onto the stage, diving onto the piano stool to join in. As they powered into the bridge, he leaned into the mic and grinned, "We've still got it". As a justification for doing this gig, I'd say that phrase pretty much covers it.

 

 

Finally, I can't end this without mentioning the End Of Decade Clearance Sale. Charity efforts fall squarely into the bracket of things that are very difficult to talk about without sounding cheesy, so I'll keep this brief. It was, though, an astonishing result which has blown both the band and everyone involved clean away. What an utterly incredible turnout from you folks! It was also gratifying to watch the fan forums (yes, I'm looking at you Coldplaying.com) and see that a good proportion of the gear went to truly fanatical Coldplay fans.

 

 

So then, we're back. It's a new building, a new decade, new recording and new songs. Judging from what I'm hearing downstairs, I'd say the best may well be yet to come...

 

R#42

 

http://coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=571

 

:dance:

He mentioned Coldplaying :dance:

another shout out! :cheesy:

 

 

I hope next blog will be from Argentina :D :dance: :heart:

yey! a shout-out! "yes, I'm looking at you Coldplaying.com" :laugh3::laugh3:

Oooo is R#42 on colplaying too? :o

 

I knew Debs and Phil come here, but R#42 too?

 

Wow, that is so great :dance:

i hope he was only here checking on the Sale thread :uhoh::P

hello stalkers :wacky:

That's funny! Literally 1 hour ago I sent a aquestion to the Oracle asking when we'd hear from Roadie 42 again!! I wonder if she'll still answer it later today or tomorrow, making me look like an idiot who asked it AFTER he posted something!

i hope he was only here checking on the Sale thread :uhoh::P

 

Hahahaaa good point :lol:

woo, Roadie #42 is on here too! :dance: that's great! :D I'm so excited for the new album!!!

He follows Coldplaying on Twitter so probably saw Ian's tweets :D