It's odd, I was just pondering about Roadie #42 today, with his mysterious absence after the quick re-emergence.

 

As you can tell, life is quite boring. At this point, I'd even take a blog about what Miller had for breakfast and how that symbolically relates to Coldplay's busy time in the studio. Actually, scratch that, I'm so desperate that I'd take a blog about Miller cutting his nails. Stop lowering my standards, Coldplay crew.

So I ordered that shirt in L cuz they didn't have any smaller.

I want the album already! Im so bored!

I would try to not listen to coldplay to feel refreshed but im tired of the rest of my music and coldplays the only thing I have to listen to. But im gonna try to not listen for a month.

let's see how long I last :thinking:

 

I need lp5 as a stress reliever foor school!

Zzzz.

 

Blog please!

Free download from The High Wire

February 3, 2011 6:57 pm

Grab a free track from a former Coldplay support act

 

Good evening. On Monday, former Coldplay support act, The High Wire, are releasing their terrific new single, 'Pump Your Little Heart'. To celebrate, they're offering readers of Coldplay.com a free download of the song 'Odds & Evens' from their wonderful debut album 'The Sleep Tape'. You can download the track from the player below by clicking the arrow on the right-hand side (or just click the play button to stream the song).

 

soundcloud

 

You can currently also get another free track from the band's MySpace, at myspace.com/thehighwire.

 

Anchorman

Argh I was excited when I saw this thread bumped.

 

That being said, that's a pretty nice thing to do, I'll download it :D

So tried the not listening to coldplay for a month, and failed! and very miserably,

heard so many cp songs

Including AROBTTH :D

 

Ok im not gonna listen to coldplay for two weeks and at the end of those two weeks, we will get a new blog! If I fail though no blog. Let's see if the power of "the secret" can work :P

 

(Im bored...can you tell :lol:)

:lol: if you have to listen to them you have to! If we get a new Roadie 42 blog, I'll think of you :lol:

 

btw you reminded me of when I had promised I would not listen to Coldplay for 2 months if Argentina won the match against Germany in the last World Cup- we lost, at least I had something to be happy about :lol:

 

When was the last blog? :thinking: during the Crisis gigs, right? and the last one was not really a blog cause it was really short...we should be getting one soon, I think, I hope!

:lol: if you have to listen to them you have to! If we get a new Roadie 42 blog, I'll think of you :lol:

 

btw you reminded me of when I had promised I would not listen to Coldplay for 2 months if Argentina won the match against Germany in the last World Cup- we lost, at least I had something to be happy about :lol:

 

When was the last blog? :thinking: during the Crisis gigs, right? and the last one was not really a blog cause it was really short...we should be getting one soon, I think, I hope!

 

Haha. Thanks, but im sticking to the plan! I was listening to pandora radio and in my place was about to play and I immediately changed it :P

we need a new blog, if I stop now, it will be bad luck!

 

Haha did you cheat? :P

 

Yea its been so long! I think we will be getting one soon....if I keep up with this:P

it'd be hilarious (and awesome) if we get a new blog in a couple weeks like I said :lol:

Markus Dravs wins Best Producer BRIT

February 10, 2011 11:40 am

Chris Martin presents award at London ceremony

 

Good morning. We are extremely pleased and proud to report that Coldplay producer Markus Dravs last night picked up the BRIT award for Producer of the Year at the Music Producers Guild Awards in London. He was presented with the award (for his work with Mumford & Sons and Arcade Fire) by our very own Chris Martin. Markus co-produced Viva La Vida and is currently working with Coldplay on their fifth album.

 

As far as we're concerned, he is now *officially* the greatest producer in the world.

 

Anchorman

I love how their shortened url on facebook said /dravsrules :P

Coldplay to headline Italy's Jammin' Festival

February 11, 2011 10:48 am

Another summer 2011 festival date confirmed

 

Good morning. We're pleased to announce that Coldplay are returning to Italy to headline this year's Heineken Jammin' Festival on Thursday 9th June. The festival takes place in Venice's San Giuliano Park.

 

Tickets cost 55 Euros for one day or 150 Euros for the full three days. They go on sale on Thursday 17th February from ticketone.it. For more info on the festival, check out the Jammin' website.

 

For the full list of confirmed shows, head to the Live section.

Siamo Jammin', siamo Jammin', siamo Jammin', siamo Jammin', vi auguriamo come Jammin' 'troppo....

 

Anchorman

new update from coldplay.com !!!!! yihuuuuuu!!!! roadie 42 is back!!

 

 

Roadie #42 - Blog #127

February 11, 2011 5:32 pm

#42 and the first week back in the studio

 

Can we already be a week into February? Time, tide and fifth albums it seems, wait for no man...

 

The sudden spurt of "out of the studio" activity that the Christmas Lights release brought, subsided into an eerie silence for much of January. In the studio calendar, January had been pencilled as a month off. It will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, that Chris was back at it less than a week into the new year. Jonny also came in to do some guitar experimentation for a while, making a wonderful mess of the Bakery with the whole toy box spread out and plugged in everywhere you looked.

 

 

Despite now having two buildings, both Bakery and Beehive were positively bursting at the seams by Christmas. Every room had some kind of writing or recording setup on the go - you even had to time your use of the kettle carefully, as a laptop and speakers had been set up in the kitchen and Jonny was in there working on his epic lead for MTM. So, by comparison, the first few weeks of the year felt like a ghost town.

 

Suddenly though, the return of the full band was imminent and the vibe became more akin to that of a town preparing for an approaching storm. Folks were running about battening down the hatches with extra microphone cables. Drums were being tuned, headphones checked and mics "one two"-ed. Add to the approaching band the fact that Brian was to be in for a week and there was very much a sense that pretty much anything could happen.

 

 

 

It's a strange thing to witness, when the band are working with Brian. Just his presence affects the way that they play. And even more than that, it affects the way that the band listen. For starters, the volume goes way down, which you would expect to take all of the excitement out of things. It very definitely has the opposite effect, though. Suddenly, every tiny sound, every nuance in the timing of the notes becomes audible and begins to burst with possibilities. It's a little as though he encourages everyone's antennae to open up higher and wider.

 

 

Brian also treads a careful line between being almost allergic in his opposition to the obvious ("Well, it's in three four time, so the natural thing is to try to put the emphasis on this beat and that one - we should do a run through without being allowed to even play there") and, on the other hand, supporting simplicity ("It's absolutely beautiful as it is and we shouldn't be afraid of just having a beautiful song"). I guess it all boils down to exploration.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris suggests playing the aforementioned gorgeous melody as though they are a metal band. The first stab at this is predictably (and intentionally) comedic. They pursue it though, playing one section over and over in a loop, varying the dynamic from pin drop quiet to aggressive and bolshy. They move through the transitions as one unit, as though someone is pressing their foot smoothly on some huge gas pedal somewhere.

 

Often, when talking about working in studios, people say "God, I couldn't stand it, listening to people playing the same bit of music over and over and over again all day". In reality, when you're amongst it and privy to the "Why don't we try..?" conversations, it becomes nothing like that. The best way I can describe it, is to compare it to one of those montage sequences in an eighties movie where the main character is taken clothes shopping. In the montage, you'd see the star emerging time after time from the changing room in radically different outfits, pulling faces, striking poses. Here of course, the song is the star and the outfit is the arrangement, the sound, the instrumentation. The song will eventually emerge with a stunning and perfectly stylish outfit that will define it forever.

 

 

 

They're also joined for an afternoon by Mr Tim Wheeler from Ash. He straps on a guitar and jumps into the day's tune. The raised antennae pretty quickly catch a signal. He's fiddling around at the top of the neck, looking for melodies, just throwing out streams of notes. Chris starts to call over the mic "What was that?". He sings a tiny snippet of something that Tim played only once - almost as something to just get his fingers moving. It's such a tiny cluster of notes that for a while it's unclear where they should fall in the chord sequence until finally they drop into place and twinkle like they've been there all along, just waiting to be discovered.

 

 

All of these gems of course, don't come without trying on a lot of very ill-fitting and unsuitable outfits first. In a rather lovely role reversal, Brian becomes artist and Chris the producer. After some considerable time experimenting with right hand rhythms on his acoustic guitar, Brian has successfully avoided the obvious, whilst not quite landing on anything desirable to replace it. Chris sits listening and allows Brian time to try a few things out before finally pondering, "I'm not sure this is going anywhere - how about trying that chaotic birdcall generator you had? That might be perfect here...." Brian actually seems to revel in being given direction from the artist he's supposedly producing. And for the record, the chaotic birdcall generator was indeed just the ticket.

 

By the end of the week, the antennae are expanded to their full and highly tuned. Guy fiddles around with an acoustic instrument called the "inspiration". It's part banjo and part mandolin. He's playing it in a most peculiar way though, through his bass rig and foot pedals. The sound kicks off a jam that levitates the room by several feet. It's almost symphonic, despite being almost entirely played by abusing regular rock instruments. It's come from nowhere, yet will doubtless become a major part of the track in question from this point forwards.

 

 

Markus, meanwhile, is almost like a personal trainer. Every day, he is putting the songs through their paces - getting them into peak condition. He makes them sweat and often has to play the bad guy - but they end up without an ounce of fat and enough muscle to take on the world. These specimens then get shown a thing or two about heading out into the world with the Eno sense of style. The band of course, are in the song's very genes. They've given birth to them, nurtured and encouraged them - they are their very own flesh and blood. They just look to their collaborators to help them become their best selves.

 

 

 

 

Brian says his goodbyes and heads off into the Friday evening, leaving a set of songs very well dressed and looking a good deal sharper than when he arrived. Almost as soon as he's left the room, there's an almightily silly jam session to conclude the week. Exactly the kind that every single band in the world has when they're just goofing off. There's ridiculous jazz, there are heavy metal riffs played in a funk style and there are beaming faces all round. It's a huge release - almost as though in the days being in a heightened state, everyone had forgotten to exhale.

 

So that's the first official week back of the year. Judging by what they got done, 2011 is shaping up rather well…

 

R42

 

 

 

*WE MISS YOU GUYS*

...Jonny was in there working on his epic lead for MTM

I wonder if MTM = "Moment to Moment"...

MTM? new song? :uhoh: :bomb: :dead:

:bomb: :awesome: :dance:

FINALLY! :dead::freak::dance:

Woohoooo!

 

FINALLY !:dozey:

Gosh I hate 42 for just throwing in the name of a song so casually and only using the initials like we should all already no what it means!

:cry: BUT....it's not sounding as if they are near done yet.

 

*cries*

LP5 sounds like it has some folk roots.

 

THANK GOD.

 

Anyways, it seems to be going great. R42 is a savior amongst Coldplay fandom.

Yay I can listen to coldplay again! :dance:

 

See it worked!:D

 

You're very welcome everyone :P :lol:

MTM?

 

Didn't Chris said that the name of the album had two letters "M"...???

 

Judging from R42 blog, there's plenty of stuff to be done until they enter post-production...maybe it will be late 2011 after all...

:angry:

 

This gave me the impression they still have a lot of work to do .

 

And mtm whats that :dozey:

 

 

 

Come on roadie,tell something about the release date/tour

sounding like even August is too early....

Come on Coldplay, i Need it it before june.

 

It makes no sense all those festivals without new songs