Coldplay named "Best Act in the World Today"

24 October 2011 3:18 pm

Band win Q Award following public vote

 

Good afternoon. We're very pleased to report that Coldplay have just been named Best Act In The World Today at this year's Q Awards ceremony in London. Enormous thanks to all of you who took the time to vote for the band in the online poll.

 

Anchorman

Watch tomorrow's UNSTAGED Madrid performance live

25 October 2011 4:47 pm

See the show on your computer - or in Times Square!

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLUsNU5Hpg&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - American Express UNSTAGED Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

 

Good afternoon. A reminder that Coldplay's American Express UNSTAGED show in Madrid will be broadcast live on YouTube in countries around the world* tomorrow (Wednesday, 26 October).

 

The show, directed by Anton Corbijn, will stream live at http://www.youtube.com/coldplayVEVO at 10pm Spanish time / 9pm UK time / 4pm ET / 1pm PT (click here to find out what time that is where you are). It will also be available to watch live on mobile devices via VEVO and YouTube apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android.

 

If you're in New York City, you will also be able to watch the show on four large LED screens, with built-in sound, placed in Times Square.

 

After the show, if you Like American Express's Entertainment tab on Facebook, you'll be able to download three tracks from the concert. The performance will also be rebroadcast for 48 hours and selected clips will be on the Coldplay Vevo page on YouTube.

 

The special guest artist opening the show will be Fedde Le Grand, who recently remixed Paradise.

 

And Coldplay.com is going along for the ride - so keep an eye here on the site for news and pictures...

 

Anchorman

 

* The Unstaged show be available to watch in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korean Republic, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States. (Apologies to those of you in other countries.)

PHOTOBLOG, PHOTBLOG, PHOTOBLOG! :awesome:

Prepared to die, dear F5?

YES PHOTOBLOG PLEASEE!!!

I missed the last one so this will be awesome :awesome:

Unstaged show - live build-up

26 October 2011 6:32 pm

We're blogging the pre-show news from tonight's Madrid show

 

Tonight's American Express UNSTAGED show tonight will be webcast live in countries around the world at http://www.youtube.com/coldplayVEVO. The show starts at 10pm Spanish time / 9pm UK time / 4pm ET / 1pm PT (click here to find out what time that is where you are). This our build-up blog.

 

10.45pm: Hopefully you're enjoying the show. Those of you in countries who can't see it, don't forget you'll be able to listen to tomorrow night's Norwich show live on BBC Radio 1's website, wherever you are.

 

Here are a couple of pics from the show...

 

 

 

 

 

And with that, we'll bid you goodnight (the band are doing a runner to the airport straight after the show). Enjoy the live stream. And we'll see you tomorrow in Norwich...

 

10.16pm: OK, the show has now begun. It sounds like there were a few load issues with YouTube, which we're told are now sorted. So tune in at http://www.youtube.com/coldplayVEVO now!

 

We'll leave you with the traditional pre-gig huddle...

 

 

9.55pm: Final preparations...

 

 

9.53pm: Here's Will

 

 

9.30pm: Here's Jonny*

 

 

* Yes, we do that same joke every live photoblog. Apologies.

 

9.22pm: Here's Mr Christopher Martin doing keepy ups in the dressing room just now (talking of football, there's talk of several very famous players coming along to the show tonight...)

 

 

9.11pm: "At what time will the stream on youtube start?" asks Colin to [email protected]. Not sure, actually. The show starts in 49 minutes, but not sure when they'll be turning on the stream. Guess we'll have to wait and see...

 

9.08pm: And here's a slightly wider shot of Fedde doing his thing (the venue is filling up now).

 

 

9.05pm: So, 55 minutes until stage time and Fedde Le Grande is warming the crowd up in some style (he was playing Missing by Everything By The Girl when this picture was taken).

 

 

8.54pm: Natalie has asked how long the band are playing for tonight. Well, we've just a setlist and there are 19 songs on it...

 

8.48pm: Lots of the Coldplaying massive have been asking for a photo of the band giving them a shout of. And so here is one. Sort of.

 

 

8.42pm: We spotted some new items on the merch stand - which, we're told, will be going into the Coldplay Online Shop very soon.

 

 

8.41pm: Update on the band's whereabouts. Will is playing a football game on his phone. The others are not in the dressing room. Here endeth the update on the band's whereabouts. (Sorry.)

 

8.37pm: Take all this in and you'll be fine...

 

 

8.36pm: Apologies for the delay - we got a new blog from Roadie #42 - so we obviously had to post it.

 

8.14pm: Just been for a little wander outside the venue. It's a stunning old building.

 

 

7.52pm: There is a cricket bat in the band's dressing room. We haven't seen anyone playing with it, but it's nice that it's there.

 

 

7.43pm: A few of you have been emailing [email protected] from countries which won't be able to watch tonight's show online. We are genuinely sorry about that - it's not something in our control. But you will all be able to listen to tomorrow night's Norwich show live on BBC Radio 1's website, wherever you are.

 

7.39pm: Two of Mylo Xyloto's three producers in one picture - it's Dan Green and Rik Simpson! (Don't think the third, Markus Dravs, is coming tonight. He'll be watching online. Probably.)

 

 

7.38pm: Lots of you asking [email protected] what the band are up to at the moment. Last we saw, they were just chilling in the dressing (it's been a very busy few days/weeks).

 

7.35pm: And we're back. Here's what was on the menu:

 

 

We had the soup (warming) and the pork (tasty). The "eggs in green sauce" seemed to be going down well with others.

 

7.05pm: Right. Meal voucher has just arrived. Off to grab something to eat (taking camera...). Back soon.

 

7.03pm: Leticia has emailed [email protected] to ask how many people Coldplay will be performing in front of tonight. We're told 16,000 are expected (and that came from The Oracle, so it must be true).

 

7.00pm: Here's the view Chris will have tonight (well, it'll a bit darker - as the sun sets in 21 minutes, according to a sign on the wall in the office we're in).

 

 

6.58pm: And the first person with the correct answer (which was, amazingly, Hurts Like Heaven) was Laurie Maine. Well done Laurie! :-)

 

6.47pm: QUIZ: email [email protected] if you can guess which song this will be used on tonight...

 

 

6.41pm: A sign which confused us considerably earlier (which way? How about an arrow?)

 

 

6.38pm: Here's Coldplay's soundman (and Mylo Xyloto co-producer) Dan Green during the rehearsals.

 

 

6.31pm: And here's a photo of the band during rehearsals. As you might gather from their attire, it is *properly* chilly in Madrid today.

 

 

6.24pm: Phil Harvey - Coldplay's fifth member, and the subject of some kind words from the band in today's press conference - has just sent us this photo of Anton Corbijn directing the rehearsals for tonight's show, which have just been taking place.

 

 

6.18pm: After the press conference, the band were presented with gold discs for Mylo Xyloto by the Spanish label (which is pretty impressive given that it only came out this week). They've certainly set a high bar for the label in other countries to follow with the quality of their presentation - the spray can is a particularly nice touch.

 

 

6.16pm: Having arrived from the UK this morning, the band went straight to a hotel in Madrid, where they held a press conference for the world's media. It looked a little like this...

 

 

6.12pm: We'll only be blogging until the show starts, by the way. As then you'll be able to watch it online. But that still gives us almost four hours of live photoblog fun. If you'd like to say hello, we're on [email protected].

 

6.09pm: Hello! You join us backstage at Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, where Coldplay's American Express UNSTAGED show tonight will be webcast in countries around the world at http://www.youtube.com/coldplayVEVO. The show starts at 10pm Spanish time / 9pm UK time / 4pm ET / 1pm PT (click here to find out what time that is where you are). It will also be available to watch live on mobile devices via VEVO and YouTube apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android. And if you're in New York, you can watch it on big screens in Times Square.

 

The Unstaged show be available to watch in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korean Republic, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States. (Apologies to those of you in other countries, there will be other big events which you'll be able to watch soon.)

I LOVE the photoblogs yay ::dazzled::

Photoblog thread can be found here

Roadie #42 - Blog #152

26 October 2011 7:20 pm

#42 catches up on the whirlwind that has been the last seven days

 

So there we are - the record is finally out there.

 

For me, it mainly means I can stop worrying about having the files on my laptop. For others hopefully, it means being overjoyed that they finally have them on theirs.

 

It also means that (praise the lord) the pre-release-promo phase is coming to a close. It’s been a white knuckle ride for all concerned and not a little exhausting. I’m constantly amazed by the way that the band can not only function throughout this schedule, but actually be cheery and engaging with the relentless round of interviews that they get on top of what we’re dealing with.

 

The schedule was shuffled crazily at the last moment last week to accommodate the Steve Jobs memorial ceremony at Apple Headquarters. We of course, were very much on the periphery of it. The event and those that were gathered were literally at the very heart of the Apple organisation. The love, respect and sense of loss clearly palpable in the stillness and quiet.

 

The speeches were both moving and at times very very funny. (Jony Ives: “we worked together for fifteen years and he still laughed at the way I said Aluminium”). In the midst of a corporate campus so dedicated to the cutting edge of technology, it was a deeply emotional human experience.

 

By the time we reached New York for the Colbert Report and the Today show, the fatigue was running full tilt. Good performances from what I recall, but I have to admit to recalling little else…

Coldplay have played the Jools Holland show at BBC TV centre several times now. It always feels very comfortable and familiar. There’s the inevitable nerve-jangle of live telly, but it’s more than made up for by the chance to stand twenty foot from The Waterboys as they do their thing.

There’s a performance of another kind going on in Madrid. The album-launch show is to be webcast live, so there is a complete run through being undertaken to a tape of the stadium show in Johannesburg. The web-stream is being tested, so the band stand huddled around a laptop in the TV studio in London, as hundreds of miles away, four bored looking crew stand on the stage pretending to be them for the cameras - completely unaware that their doppelgang-ees are looking in, grinning.

 

I’ve a feeling that tonight’s version may be somewhat more dynamic. Well, you can see for yourselves, I guess...

 

R42

Relive last night's Unstaged show

27 October 2011 11:07 am

Watch highlights from last night's Madrid concert

 

Good morning. We hope you enjoyed last night's American Express UNSTAGED show from Madrid (the band certainly did). You can watch the full performance on-demand below (and you can also see three individual tracks beneath that).

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAOIp41UOM&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - UNSTAGED (Full Show Rebroadcast) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhKxtv1FiUM&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Charlie Brown (UNSTAGED) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ldOuVuas1c&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Viva La Vida (UNSTAGED) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXFWiwU09aI&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Violet Hill (UNSTAGED) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Anchorman

Norwich R1 show - live photoblog

27 October 2011 3:47 pm

Join us live backstage from tonight's Radio 1 show

 

On Thursday 27th, Coldplay played a special live show for BBC Radio 1 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Our live blog is below. You can listen to the show on-demand on Radio 1's website by clicking here (UK) or here (rest of the world - skip to 1 hr) until 3rd November.

 

21.35: So, here are some pictures from after the last song of the main set. Hope you enjoyed it wherever you were listening. The band actually came back on to do an encore of Green Eyes, Shiver and Us Against The World - which was a real treat for those in the audience (and what an audience they were). And with that, folks, goodnight. Hope you enjoyed the blog, and thanks for all your emails. Anchorman

 

 

 

The elephant made an appearance too...

 

 

21.30: Right, we're in a people carrier on the way to London. Pictures coming...

 

20.48: We've got to go and ready to jump in the car back to London. Will try to post some more pictures once we're on the move (the joys of mobile broadband...)

 

20.43: Chris and Will during Up In Flames.

 

 

And, to give you an idea of how intimate this venue really is...

 

 

20.34: And here's Dan doing his soundman thing (this one is "arty" too)

 

 

20.32: "Hi Anchorman! Do you know how long the concert is going to be this time?" asks Yasmin. Tonight's live broadcast is an hour. Which means we're just past halfway already...

 

20.32: Live photoblog rule #276: any bad/blurred/out-of-focus/overly dark live pictures are not bad, they're "arty".

 

 

20.28: This is how it's looking from where soundman Dan Green is. As you can probably gather from the radio broadcast (link above) there's a pretty amazing atmosphere down there.

 

 

20.20: "Just having brekky in Australia, listening to the boys live in Norwich, where I come from...sounding great!" says Jon to [email protected]. Ah, the wonders of technology...

 

20.15: Some pictures from the show so far (this was during Yellow)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

20.02: A final huddle in the corridor and they're on! Listen live right now by clicking here

 

 

19.52: Will reminds Phil of that time he danced at a disco in Exeter (it's a long story...)

 

 

19.48: 11 minutes until stage time...

 

 

19.38: Fearne Cotton and Greg James have popped in to say hello. It's Radio 1 DJ central in these parts today.

 

19.35: Will, Jonny and Guy are busy doing their vocal warm-ups (which essentially involve going "Weeee-eeeee-eeeeee" and "Ahhhhhh-ahhhhhh-ahhhhhh" and the like). Here's an action shot of Jonny mid-flow...

 

 

19.25: It's Mylo Xyloto co-producers Dan Green and Rik Simpson!

 

 

Was it really only last night we were in Madrid with them? Feels like ages ago.

 

19.15: Are you folks all listening online then? Presumably you are? Does it sound good? Here's a picture of Zane Lowe doing his DJ thing...

 

 

19.06: Quite a few of you have been emailing [email protected] asking for a picture of Guy. Here he is, strumming on a mandolin just now....

 

 

18.52: Here's another shot from today's dressing room football match...

 

 

18.51: Sorry for the gap in photoblog service. We went to grab some dinner. But we are BACK.

 

18.10: Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe is here for an interview now. They're talking about the time that Will threw a drumstick at him. Listen out on Radio 1 tonight for the interview before the show.

 

18.05: Doors are about to open, and you can hear the fans outside singing the Viva chant already. Feels like it's going to be a good night.

 

17.58: We just had an impromptu game of dressing room football: Jonny and Phil vs Chris and Anchorman. The goal posts were a chair at either end - you had to get the ball between the legs of the chair to score, which was decidedly tricky. It was a titanic struggle, which ended 1-1 (when some more journalists arrived for an interview).

 

 

17.41: Here's some photos from last night which we didn't get a chance to post. A little pre-show cricket. This was literally less than 10 minutes before the band went on stage...

 

 

 

Jonny would like to make it clear that Will was being bowled LBW in this shot (by Jonny).

 

17.37: Chris is in the dressing room, having some dinner and doing an interview with some student journalists from the university which houses tonight's venue. They're asking some good questions, too. He's currently explaining to them why Coldplay love Glastonbury Festival so much ("It's all the positive things of life").

 

 

17.30: Coldplay's radio plugger Kev doesn't always dress like this...

 

 

17.19: Thanks to Darren who's just emailed [email protected] with a link to this amazing picture of five Coldplay fans in the queue outside, dressed as elephants. Amazing effort!

 

17.10: Here's another couple of photos from the Live Lounge performance - where Coldplay played Hurts Like Heaven, a terrific cover of Rihanna's We Found Love and Paradise. You can listen on-demand to all that at Radio 1's website by clicking here - just after 2 hours in.

 

 

 

17.00 Exactly three hours until stage time. And here's a photo of Chris chatting to Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton at the Live Lounge recording in a UEA student bar earlier. There are more photos from that available at Radio 1's site here.

 

 

16.57: Those who have gone before...

 

 

16.55: And here's the setlist from that night in January 2000 - according to Songkick:

 

1. Don't Panic

2. Shiver

3. Spies

4. Sparks

5. Yellow

6. Trouble

7. Parachutes

8. High Speed

9. We Never Change

10. Everything's Not Lost

11. Help Is Around The Corner

12. Bigger Stronger (Encore)

 

16:52: Here's tonight's dressing room - which, according to the band, is the very same room they had as their dressing room (sharing with Campag Velocet) when they played the UEA on 29 January 2000 as part of the NME tour, which they opened.

 

 

16.50: Sorry, that journey took a little longer than expected (seems we hit Norwich rush hour), so the band went straight into soundcheck. Here's a photo - taken almost from the back of the UEA, which gives you an idea of how big it is (1,500 capacity).

 

 

15:50: Off to the venue now (we had a few hours in a hotel) - lots more pics when we get there. Until then, catch up on last night's show here.

 

15:43: Hello! Yes, we begin a second day of live photoblogging, ahead of Coldplay's show in Norwich tonight. We'll start with a picture taken at last night's in Madrid which we didn't post yet. This shows the band coming off stage after Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall provided a mighty climax to a thrilling show.

 

yay! another photoblog :dance:

http://www.coldplay.com/cologne.php

 

^enter your details to win tickets!:-)

Tickets für Radiokonzert in Küln zu gewinnen / Win tickets to the Cologne show

10x2 Tickets für Radiokonzert in Köln zu gewinnen! Fölle einfach das Formular aus, und Du hast die Chance, mit einer Begleitung zum Coldplay Radiokonzert am 2. Nov im Kölner E-Werk zu gehen. Einsendeschluss: 15 Uhr am Freitag den 28.10.

 

Enter your details below for the chance to win one of 10 pairs of tickets to Coldplay's radio concert at the E-Werk in Cologne on November 2nd. Closing date, 2pm on Friday 28 October.

 

Falls Du nicht gewinnst, kannst Du das Konzert live bei diesen Sendern verfolgen / If you miss out, you'll be able to listen to the show live on the following stations:

 

1LIVE, SWR3, BAYERN3, HR3, DAS DING, JUMP, SPUTNIK, SR1, NJOY, FRITZ, RADIO EINS, BREMEN 4, Ö3, DRS3, Coleur3, Rete3

Two minutes until stage time in Madrid...

28 October 2011 5:28 pm

A dressing room warm-up video from the UNSTAGED show

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1g6lnuUFNA&feature=player_embedded]Hurts Like Heaven (Madrid dressing room) - Coldplay - YouTube[/ame]

amazing...i'd watch a whole gig of them doing their songs like this

Tonight's Paris show streaming to 172 countries

31 October 2011 4:39 pm

Watch live in all the countries that couldn't see the UNSTAGED show

 

Good afternoon. If you live in one of the countries that wasn't able to watch last week's UNSTAGED show live from Madrid, you might remember that we promised you'd have another chance to watch Coldplay live online soon.

 

And here it is - because tonight's show for Orange/NRJ from the Cigale in Paris is streaming live in 172 countries which didn't have access to the UNSTAGED show. If you live in one of the countries listed below, simply head to http://www.dailymotion.com/sas/coldplay at 9pm French time (find out what time that is where you are here) and enjoy the show!

 

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahamas, The

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burma

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

Colombia

Comoros

Congo (Brazzaville)

Congo (Kinshasa)

Costa Rica

Cote d'Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia, The

Georgia

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Holy See

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Jamaica

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macau

Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Palestinian Territories

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Sudan

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Syria

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

 

But not in the UK. Which means we can't watch it here at Coldplay.com HQ. (Boo hoo, poor us, etc.)

 

Anchorman

Chris and Jonny to play London Mencap fundraiser

2 November 2011 9:39 am

Little Noise Sessions show on 24 November

 

 

UPDATE: The presale has now sold out. The link for the general sale, which begins at 10am on Monday, 7 November is here.

 

Good morning. We're pleased to report that Chris and Jonny will be headlining a special show for Jo Whiley's Little Noise Sessions to raise funds for Mencap on Thursday, 24 November. The show will take place at St John-at-Hackney in London. Also on the bill are Ben Howard, Emile Sande, Michael Kiwanuka and Bebe Black.

 

Said Chris: "Jo does amazing work for Mencap, we are thrilled she asked us to play and are honoured to be part of this special night."

 

Tickets, priced at £50, go on general release from 10am on Monday, 7 November, but we have 300 tickets available to Coldplay's online fans which we'll be selling via a presale at 10am on Friday, 4 November - check back to the site for the link. Little Noise Sessions also have a presale allocation, which they'll be selling to their subscribers via http://www.littlenoisesessions.org.uk, also at 10am on Friday, 4 November.

 

Anchorman

Watch Coldplay's Ellen performances

2 November 2011 8:55 pm

Check out performances from last week's appearance

 

Good evening. Here are a bunch of great videos from Coldplay's appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show last week.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO2Dv0TpLew&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay Performs 'Paradise' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPdjGuG1Fp0&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay Performs 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDEB0F-EAo&feature=player_embedded]Web Exclusive: Coldplay Performs 'Clocks' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECZck6WVco&feature=player_embedded]Web Exclusive: Coldplay Performs 'Viva la Vida' - YouTube[/ame]

 

A very funny rehearsal...

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htKAYiMG-RM&feature=player_embedded]Web Exclusive: Ellen Rehearses with Coldplay - YouTube[/ame]

 

And a very funny interview...

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKELIx9LETQ&feature=player_embedded]Ellen Talks to Coldplay - YouTube[/ame]

 

Anchorman

Watch Coldplay's Ellen performances

2 November 2011 8:55 pm

Check out performances from last week's appearance

 

Good evening. Here are a bunch of great videos from Coldplay's appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show last week.

 

Coldplay Performs 'Paradise' - YouTube

 

Anchorman

 

 

You can see me in this picture from Paradise. Look over Will's left shoulder, and I am the blur in front of that white wall piece. I was next to the cameraman the whole time so I wasn't in any of his shots. So amazing to have been there.

^^^Dianne, I could see the back of your head a bunch of times from the other angle:D

Coldplay is on Ellen again tomorrow. Saw it advertised today. I suspect it is the unaired songs from last visit...MAybe some other taped messages with the band we haven't seen yet too???

Coldplay is on Ellen again tomorrow. Saw it advertised today. I suspect it is the unaired songs from last visit...MAybe some other taped messages with the band we haven't seen yet too???

 

 

 

Hey I checked my T.V. guide and YES they are on this time with Eddie Murphy... It most likely a song or 2 from the last broadcast, like you stated. Thanks for sharing this!!!!!!

Mylo Xyloto - Side A lyrics

3 November 2011 6:29 pm

The official lyrics to Hurts Like Heaven, Paradise, Charlie Brown, Us Against The World and Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wjfjkJ84f8&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto album sampler (Side A) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Good evening. Lots of you have been asking for the official Mylo Xyloto lyrics. So, here are the lyrics for all the songs on Side A. We'll post Side B soon.

 

HURTS LIKE HEAVEN

 

Written in graffiti on a bridge in a park

‘Do you ever get the feeling that you’re missing the mark?’

It's so cold it's so cold

It's so cold it's so cold

Written up in marker on a factory sign

‘I struggle with the feeling that my life isn’t mine’

It's so cold it's so cold

It's so cold it's so cold

See the arrow they shot

Trying to tear us apart

Take the fire from my belly and the beat from my heart

Still I won’t let go

Still I won’t let go

 

Of you- ooh ooh

Cos you do

You use your heart as a weapon

And it hurts like heaven

 

On every street every car every surface a name

Tonight the streets are ours

And we’re writing and saying

Don’t let em take control

No we won’t let em take control

Yes I feel a little bit nervous

Yes I feel nervous and I cannot relax

How come they’re out to get us

How come they’re out when they don’t know the facts

So on a concrete canvas under cover of dark

On a concrete canvas I’ll go making my mark

Armed with a spraycan soul

I’ll be armed with a spraycan soul

And you ooh ooh

You ooh ooh

Cos you use your heart as a weapon

And it hurts like heaven

 

Woah oh oh oh, woah oh oh oh

Yeah it’s true

When you

Use your heart as a weapon

Then it hurts like heaven

And it hurts like heaven

Oh oh oh-oh

 

And it hurts like heaven

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

 

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PARADISE

 

When she was just a girl

She expected the world

But it flew away from her reach so

She ran away in her sleep

And dreamed of

Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise

Every time she closed her eyes

 

When she was just a girl

She expected the world

But it flew away from her reach

And the bullets catch in her teeth

Life goes on, it gets so heavy

The wheel breaks the butterfly

Every tear a waterfall

In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes

In the night the stormy night away she'd fly

 

And dreams of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

She'd dream of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

 

Lalalalalalalalalalala

And so lying underneath those stormy skies

She'd say, "oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise"

 

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

 

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CHARLIE BROWN

 

Wooh, ooh ooh ooh

 

Stole a key

Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet

Took a car downtown and took what they offered me

To set me free

I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene

Saw the lights go down and standing in front of me

 

Poh ooh ooh

 

In my scarecrow dreams

When they smash my heart into smithereens

Be a bright red rose come bursting through concrete

And a cartoon heart

Light a fire a fire a spark

Light a fire a flame in my heart

We’ll run wild

We’ll be glowing in the dark

Oooh ooh ooh

We’ll be glowing in the dark

A-woo-a-wooooo

 

All the boys, all the girls, all that matters in the world

All the boys, all the girls, all the madness that occurs

All the highs all the lows, as the room a-spinning goes

We’ll run riot, we’ll be glowing in the dark

 

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh

So we’ll soar

Luminous and wired

We’ll be glowing in the dark

 

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US AGAINST THE WORLD

 

Oh morning come bursting the clouds amen

Lift off this blindfold let me see again

Bring back the water let your ships roll in

In my heart she left a hole

 

The tightrope that I’m walking just sways and ties

The devil as he’s talking to those angel’s eyes

And I just want to be there when the lightening strikes

And the saints go marching in

 

And sing

Slow it down

Through chaos as it swirls

It's us against the world

 

Like a river to a raindrop I lost a friend

My drunken hazard daniel in a lion's den

And tonight I know it all has to begin again

So whatever you do, don’t let go

 

If we could float away

Fly up to the surface and just start again

Lift off before trouble just erodes us in the rain

Just erodes us in the rain

Just erodes us and see roses in the rain saying

 

Slow it down

Through chaos as it swirls

It's us against the world

 

Through chaos as it swirls

It's us against the world

 

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EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL

 

I turn the music up, I got my records on

I shut the world outside until the lights come on

Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone

I feel my heart start beating to my favourite song

 

And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night

Until Monday morning feels another life

I turn the music up

I'm on a roll this time

And heaven is in sight

 

I turn the music up, I got my records on

From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song

Don't want to see another generation drop

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop

 

Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees

Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes

But my heart is beating and my pulses start

Cathedrals in my heart

 

And we saw oh this light I swear you, emerge blinking into

To tell me it's alright

As we soar walls, every siren is a symphony

And every tear's a waterfall

Is a waterfall

Oh

Is a waterfall

Oh oh oh

Is a is a waterfall

Every tear

Is a waterfall

Oh oh oh

 

So you can hurt, hurt me bad

But still I'll raise the flag

 

Oh

It was a wa wa wa wa wa-aterfall

A wa wa wa wa wa-aterfall

 

Every tear

Every tear

Every teardrop is a waterfall

 

Every tear

Every tear

Every teardrop is a waterfall

 

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Look out for Side B soon....

 

Anchorman

 

Coldplay's new album, Mylo Xyloto, is out now - get it from iTunes at cldp.ly/itunescp

^ I did a word search on "oh"... it appears 85 times in those lyrics. And that's only for 5 songs.

 

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^ I did a word search on "oh"... it appears 85 times in those lyrics. And that's only for 5 songs.

 

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