I havent seen howard stern a long time,but well he can be intrusive and rude! I mean why is chris going alone? He is much better with jonny around!

To be fair, the amount of time he spends in America, there's no way he doesn't know who Howard Stern is or what he's like. He agreed to go on it so he must know what he's letting himself in for. He'll probably be hilarious.

Oh wow, Coldplay do get told about the interviewers by their PR folks before they even agree to do the interviews, right? :stunned:

You make me a little worried for this Howard Stern. :uhoh:

 

Edit: Mich beat me by seconds with the same concern. :)

Coldplay now on Google+

7 November 2011 7:23 pm

Check out the band's official profile on Google's new social network

 

Good evening. If you're a Google+ sort of person, then you can now check out Coldplay's official Page on the site (and add us to your circles) by clicking here.

 

Anchorman

Coldplay now on Google+

7 November 2011 7:23 pm

Check out the band's official profile on Google's new social network

 

Good evening. If you're a Google+ sort of person, then you can now check out Coldplay's official Page on the site (and add us to your circles) by clicking here.

 

Anchorman

 

in my circles :smug::smug:

^ I'd already done it before Anchorman wrote it :awesome:

Upcoming on US TV/radio

7 November 2011 5:08 pm

Tune in for Howard Stern, Sirius, Jimmy Fallon and SNL appearances

 

Good evening. There are some notable US TV and radio appearances coming up for Coldplay over the next couple of weeks. Details are as follows:

 

Wednesday, 9 November

8am ET: Chris will be on the Howard Stern show on SiriusXM, Wednesday at 8am Eastern.

12noon ET: SiriusXM Town Hall with Coldplay, in which the band sit for an intimate Q&A session with fans, from 12noon ET.

(If you're not a SiriusXM subscriber, we're told you can get a free 7-Day online trial at http://www.siriusxm.com/freetrial).

 

Saturday, 12 November

11.30pm / 10.30c: Coldplay will be the musical guest on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

 

Wednesday, 7 December

12.35pm / 11.35c: The band will perform on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

 

Anchorman

 

i made an event time announcer for Howard Stern, Is it true ?

 

8am ET: Chris will be on the Howard Stern show on SiriusXM, Wednesday at 8am Eastern.{ GMT-5 } : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20111109T08&p1=179&sort=0

 

but i didn't understand 10.30c. Is it central standart time zone {GMT-6} or what ?

Mylo Xyloto - Side B lyrics

8 November 2011 8:04 pm

The official lyrics to Major Minus, U.F.O., Princess Of China, Up In Flames, Don't Let It Break Your Heart and Up With The Birds

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgT8WnRSeg&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto album sampler (Side B) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Following our recent posting of Mylo Xyloto's Side A lyrics here on Coldplay.com, we're back with the lyrics to the songs on Side B.

 

MAJOR MINUS

 

They got one eye watching you

One eye on what you do

So be careful who it is you’re talking to

They got one eye watching you

One eye on what you do

So be careful what it is you’re trying to do

And be careful if you’re walking into view

Just be careful if you’re walking into view

 

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on

 

They got one eye watching you

One eye on what you do

So be careful 'cos nothing they say is true

No don’t believe a word

It's just us against the world

And we just got to turn up to be heard

Hear the crocodiles ticking round the world

Hear the crocodiles ticking, they go ticking round the world

 

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and

You could hear them climbing the stairs

Got my right side fighting while my left hides under the chairs

 

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

 

-----------------------

 

UFO

 

Lord I don’t know which way I am going

Which way the river’s going to flow

It just seems that upstream I keep rowing

Still got such a long way to go

Still got such a long way to go

 

And that light hits your eyes

I know I swear we’ll find somewhere

The streets are paved with gold

 

Bullets fly split the sky

But that's alright sometimes sunlight comes streaming through the holes

 

Ohohoh

 

-----------------------

 

PRINCESS OF CHINA

 

Once upon a time somebody ran

Somebody ran away saying ‘fast as I can

I got to go, got to go’

Once upon a time we fell apart

You’re holding in your hands the two halves of my heart

Oh oh oh, ohohohoh

 

Oh ohohohoh, ohohohohoh, ohohohoh, oh

 

Once upon a time we burned bright

Now all we ever seem to do is fight

On and on, and on and on and on

Once upon a time on the same side

Once upon a time on the same side in the same game

Now why d’you have to throw

Have to go and throw water on my flame?

I could have been a princess, you’d be a king

Could have had a castle and worn a ring

 

I could have been a princess, you’d be a king

Could have had a castle and worn a ring

But no o o o oh you let me go o o o oh

You stole my star

La, lalala lalalala, lalalalalalala, lalalalalalala,

You stole my star

La, lalala lalalala, lalalalalalala

 

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

 

-----------------------

 

UP IN FLAMES

 

So it’s over

This time I know it’s gone

Sal****er

Been tasting it too long

 

I only know I’m wrong

Now I know it’s gone

 

Up in flames

We have slowly gone

 

So it’s over

This time you’re flying on

This time I know no song

Can stop its lonely burn

Can stop it slowly going

 

Up in flames

We have slowly gone

We have slowly gone

 

Can’t we pour some water on?

 

-----------------------

 

DON’T LET IT BREAK YOUR HEART

 

And if I lost the map

If I lost it all

Or fell into the trap

Then she’d call

‘When you’re tired of racing

And you find you never left the start

Come on baby

Don’t let it break your heart’

 

Though heavily we bled

Still on we crawl

Try to catch a cannonball

And a slowly burning tide

Through my veins is flowing

From my shipwreck I heard her call

 

‘When you’re tired of aiming your arrows

Still you never hit the mark

Even in your rain and shadows

Still we’re never going to part

Come on baby

Don’t let it break your heart’

 

-----------------------

 

UP WITH THE BIRDS

 

The birds they sang, break of day

'Start again' I hear them say

It's so hard to just walk away

 

The birds they sang, all a choir

'Start again', a little higher

It’s a spark in a sea of grey

 

The sky is blue, dream that lie 'til it's true

Then taking back the punch I threw

My arms turn wings oh those clumsy things

Send me up to that wonderful world

And then I’m up with the birds

 

Send me up to that wonderful world

And then I’m up with the birds

 

Might have to go where they don’t know my name

Float all over the world just to see her again

But I won’t show or feel any pain

Even though all my armour might rust in the rain

A simple plot, but I know one day

Good things are coming our way

A simple plot, but I know one day

Good things are coming our way

Oh yeah!

 

Anchorman

 

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

Side A:

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

 

:|

Side B: "oh" appears 71 times

 

 

So that's a total of 156 OH's on MX.

 

my OH my

U.F.O. lyrics CLEARLY WRONG!

U.F.O. lyrics CLEARLY WRONG!

 

it seems like a few of the songs are not entirely accurate. :P

To be fair, the amount of time he spends in America, there's no way he doesn't know who Howard Stern is or what he's like. He agreed to go on it so he must know what he's letting himself in for. He'll probably be hilarious.

 

 

Howard is HUGE in America, and I think this is gonna be very funny, and Howard WILL ask some very personal questions, even if he tells Chris ahead of time he won't:D He's a ball buster, but very funny... Meh, some people don't like his humor tho:thinking:

Mylo Xyloto - Side B lyrics

8 November 2011 8:04 pm

The official lyrics to Major Minus, U.F.O., Princess Of China, Up In Flames, Don't Let It Break Your Heart and Up With The Birds

 

 

Following our recent posting of Mylo Xyloto's Side A lyrics here on Coldplay.com, we're back with the lyrics to the songs on Side B.

 

MAJOR MINUS

 

They got one eye watching you

One eye on what you do

So be careful who it is you’re talking to

They got one eye watching you

One eye on what you do

So be careful what it is you’re trying to do

And be careful if you’re walking into view

Just be careful if you’re walking into view

 

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on

 

They got one eye watching you

One eye on what you do

So be careful 'cos nothing they say is true

No don’t believe a word

It's just us against the world

And we just got to turn up to be heard

Hear the crocodiles ticking round the world

Hear the crocodiles ticking, they go ticking round the world

 

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and

You could hear them climbing the stairs

Got my right side fighting while my left hides under the chairs

 

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Got one eye on the road and one on you

 

-----------------------

 

UFO

 

Lord I don’t know which way I am going

Which way the river’s going to flow

It just seems that upstream I keep rowing

Still got such a long way to row

Still got such a long way to row

 

The that light hits your eyes

And I know I swear we’ll find somewhere

The streets are paved with gold

 

Ohohoh

 

-----------------------

 

PRINCESS OF CHINA

 

Once upon a time somebody ran away

Somebody ran away saying ‘fast as I can

I got to go, got to go’

Once upon a time we fell apart

You’re holding in your hands the two halves Of my heart

Oh oh oh, ohohohoh

 

Oh ohohohoh, ohohohohoh, ohohohoh, oh

 

Once upon a time we burned bright

Now all we ever seem to do is fight

On and on, and on and on and on

Once upon a time on the same side

Once upon a time on the same side in the same game

Now why d’you have to throw

Have to go and throw water on my flame?

I could have been a princess, you’d be a king

Could have had a castle and worn a ring

 

I could have been a princess, you’d be a king

Could have had a castle and worn a ring

But no o o o oh you let me go o o o oh

You stole my star

La, lalala lalalala, lalalalalalala, lalalalalalala,

You stole my star

La, lalala lalalala, lalalalalalala

 

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

'Cos you really hurt me, no you really hurt me

 

-----------------------

 

UP IN FLAMES

 

So it’s over

This time I know it’s gone

Sal****er

Been tasting it too long

 

I only know I’m wrong

Now I know it’s gone

 

Up in flames

We have slowly gone

 

So it’s over

This time you’re flying on

This time I know no song

Can stop its lonely burn

Can stop it slowly going

 

Up in flames

We have slowly gone

We have slowly gone

 

Can’t we pour some water on?

 

-----------------------

 

DON’T LET IT BREAK YOUR HEART

 

And if I lost the map

If I lost it all

Or fell into the trap

Then she’d call

‘When you’re tired of racing

And you find you never left the start

Come on baby

Don’t let it break your heart’

 

Though heavily we bled

Still on we crawl

Try to catch a cannonball

And a slowly burning tide

Through my veins is flowing

From my shipwreck I heard her call

 

‘When you’re tired of racing

Still you never hit the mark

Even in your rain and shadows

Still we’re never going to part

Come on baby

Don’t let it break your heart’

 

-----------------------

 

UP WITH THE BIRDS

 

The birds they sang, break of day

'Start again' I hear them say

It's so hard to just walk away

 

The birds they sang, all a choir

'Start again', a little higher

It’s a spark in a sea of grey

 

The sky is blue, dream that lie 'til it's true

Then taking back the punch I threw

My arms turn wings oh those clumsy things

Send me up to that wonderful world

And then I’m up with the birds

 

Send me up to that wonderful world

And then I’m up with the birds

 

Might have to go where they don’t know my name

Float all over the world just to see her again

But I won’t show or feel any pain

Even though all my armour might rust in the rain

A simple plot, but I know one day

Good things are coming our way

A simple plot, but I know one day

Good things are coming our way

Oh yeah!

 

Anchorman

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

WAIT Up In Flames...why is the one word "Sal****er" ?? What's this???

WAIT Up In Flames...why is the one word "Sal****er" ?? What's this???

 

Because the board has censored out the word salt.water in the middle :P

t.wat[/color]er in the middle :P

 

 

 

:confused:Am I missing something, or is it a mistake or something that is bad and I am clearly missing the boat:lol:

:confused:Am I missing something, or is it a mistake or something that is bad and I am clearly missing the boat:lol:

The board has default censorship that doesn't allow certain words to be displayed. So even though SaltH2O isn't a bad word, when you spell it out indirectly contains a bad word, hence the middle part won't show even if you type it out. :D

 

(That particular phrase is more offensive across the pond than it is over here, if that helps.)

The board has default censorship that doesn't allow certain words to be displayed. So even though SaltH2O isn't a bad word, when you spell it out indirectly contains a bad word, hence the middle part won't show even if you type it out. :D

 

(That particular phrase is more offensive across the pond than it is over here, if that helps.)

 

 

:facepalm: Geez.... How stupid of me, I typed it out and was looking for the word, like :uhoh2: and it dawned on me:lol:

Interview: Director Mat Whitecross on the Paradise video

10 November 2011 9:11 pm

Mat tells us the inside story on the video he made with the elephants...

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4isv_Fylg&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Paradise - YouTube[/ame]

 

Hi Mat, how are you?

I’m good, thanks. Although I’m in the process of packing to move house, which isn’t much fun.

 

So, the Paradise video. How did you come to direct it?

Well, I think there were a couple of other attempts at videos which didn’t quite work out, for whatever reason.

 

And you’re the emergency number for last-minute Coldplay videos?

I think I must be! The video hotline! I got a call from Chris, who was in South Africa, at just after midnight. He just said, “What are you up to?” And weirdly I was in the middle of cutting some live footage for them for something else, so I said, “Well actually, I’m working for you.” He was like, “OK, is there any chance you might be able to hop on a plane to South Africa tomorrow morning?” And, weirdly, I had a clear week until starting work properly on the Spike Island film I’m working on.

 

So you said yes?

I asked him what it was for. He said they had a bit of a video emergency and needed to make a video for Paradise within the next day or two. He asked if I could come up with an idea in the next couple of hours, then let him know what the idea was and get on a plane to South Africa in the morning to make it. They had two days off and they wanted to shoot it during those.

 

That’s bonkers.

I know! But on every single video we’ve done, I think it’s been pretty last minute, so I suppose I’m used to it. This did take that to a new level, though. The video for Paradise was already two weeks overdue and we still didn’t know what the idea was. So I sat down for a couple of hours trying to come up with an idea, which felt quite tricky under that pressure! I wrote down a couple of ideas and emailed them to Chris. And just as I pressed Send, I got the longest text I’ve ever had in my life.

 

From Chris?

Yes. It was about 400 lines long and it was saying, “Don’t worry about it, I’ve come up with the idea, I’m going to dress up as an elephant on a unicycle. You need to bring four elephant suits and a unicycle with you”. And then he fleshed out the story. He seemed to have it all in his head already. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if he was winding me up. I knew he was jetlagged. So I texted back asking if he was serious, and he replied saying he totally was.

 

So then you had to find a unicycle and four elephant suits, in a hurry?

Exactly. We had the whole Coldplay team helping out - Vicki and EJ and Phil - just trying to get hold of everything and, of course, the plane tickets to South Africa. I called up Chris Ross, a really good friend of mine who shot Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and asked if he was available to get on a plane with me in four hours’ time. Luckily, he’d just had a shoot postponed in Manchester, so he was able to come. We got a lot of weird looks in customs because of the elephant suits.

 

 

Where did you get those from in the end?

Well, I’d kind of imagined it would be quite a sophisticated, realistic elephant suit. I’ve worked with this guy who does special effects and prosthetics, so I rang him and asked if he could design an elephant’s head that looks real and beautiful and everything. He said, “Sure, that’ll probably take about two months to build, how long have you got?” So I was like, “Um, about three hours. I’m on my way to the airport now.”

 

What did you do?

EJ had found this suit on the internet and Chris sent over a pic. I was like, “Don’t be ridiculous! That’s totally naff!” But he was convinced it was perfect. Which is when I realised he wanted it to look as lo-fi and spontaneous as possible. So we bought that one from a costumes website. We managed to hire the one Guy was wearing - which was a bit more expensive - and even though it’s much better quality, it is actually far less expressive.

 

And Chris rode the unicycle himself, right?

Yes. I’d asked him about finding a local unicyclist and he said that he’d done it as a kid, so he’d do it. He hadn’t done it for 20 years, but he seemed to think it’d be like getting back on a bike. Even if he was dressed as an elephant. So we drove out into the middle of the savanna and he got on the unicycle and I was ready for him to fall on his arse and that be the end of the video! But he was amazing. The rest of the crew were still setting up somewhere else, so me and Chris just started filming.

 

A lot of people have assumed it wasn’t Chris the whole time.

Oh it totally was. There was definitely something quite perverse about having one of the most recognisable faces in music covered up by an elephant’s head. I kept asking if he could take the head off from time to time to make it clear that it was him, but he was really reluctant. He said the whole point was that people couldn’t see it was him. But I told him that some people would just assume he was too busy to film the video. Eventually, after a lot of persuading, me and Phil managed to get him to take it off for one shot, which is the one in the video.

 

But at all other times in the video, it is him?

Yes. He insisted on it being him. I kept telling him that nobody would ever know if it wasn’t, and he just said, “I’ll know”! So, yeah, he did the whole thing. Even when we did the bits back in London on the tube, that was all him.

 

 

How did people react to that?

Well, in classic style, Londoners are too cool for school, so they mainly refused to acknowledge that they were sitting next to an elephant on the tube or that there was a camera pointing at them. He was sat next to a nun at one point. She never once looked over, but when she got up to get off she came past and said, “I really hope I haven’t ruined your film.”

 

Was the plan always for it to be in South Africa and London?

Yeah. Chris’s idea was always that it was about an elephant that escaped from the zoo to go and meet its mates.

 

Which zoo did you film it in?

Weirdly enough, we found this place called Paradise Wildlife Park, which was just outside London and filmed it there.

 

Are you pleased with the video?

I really am. And the response has been fantastic. It was so nice to do something that fast with so little thought. It was like being back at college. When we were at uni together, if they’d recorded a track, me and Chris would literally go out that evening and I’d film him doing things like messing about in a supermarket trolley or something and then we’d cut the video the next day. When we did that, we’d just be coming up with ideas while we were filming. With proper music videos these days, everything is much more planned in advance. So it was nice to go back to literally making it up as we went along.

 

 

And the rest of the band were involved too?

Totally. Bless them, they had one day off in South Africa and we drove for three hours into the middle of nowhere, got to the spot I’d picked the day before only to be told we weren’t allowed to film there, so we got back in the car and drove for another 90 minutes until we’d almost lost the sunlight. They never once went, “Hang on, you’ve dragged us out here, driving for four and a half hours, and you’re not even going to show our faces?” They seemed to be really into it.

 

And, as you say, the response to the video has been great.

It does seem to have been.

 

A lot of people seem to have had a very emotional response to it too. There’s been plenty of talk of tears.

Aw, that’s nice. It’s definitely nice to have done something nobody else has. We were slightly worried that U2 might post a video of giraffes on pedaloes just before us, but luckily not. I think Coldplay sometimes get accused of taking themselves too seriously. They do take their music incredibly seriously, but they really don’t take themselves seriously. I think it was just nice for them to have a bit of a laugh. It was like being back at college for them. But that band dynamic still comes across, I think.

 

So it all sounds like quite an adventure for you.

It really was. At first, I thought there was no pressure, because it was all so last-minute that even if we’d completely cocked it up, it wouldn’t have made that much difference. But when you’re out there, you realise you don’t want to let them down.We had a lot of fun making it, but we had to make sure that the finished video was good too.

 

Which, happily, it was.

Thanks man. It was certainly an experience. Like, the bit where the elephant is dancing in front of a graffiti wall is in a really, really rough area of Cape Town. The security couldn’t believe we were out there, but Chris just put on the elephant suit and did his thing. And we turned up at that bike shop literally five minutes before we started shooting and asked the guy who was fixing the bikes if he’d be in the video. He was really shy, but he got more and more into it. It wasn’t until Chris took his head off that they all realised who it was. They’d even been to the gig. So, yeah, it was fun, man. It’d be nice to try and make something else in a similar way some day.

 

Finally, who played the zoo keepers in the video?

Well, we auditioned over a hundred actors for the part, but inevitably nepotism won the day and Chris plumped for Coldplay's fifth band member Phil Harvey and Tim Crompton from The High Wire. He'd been impressed by their hip thrusting Elvis impersonations on Christmas Lights, as well as their punctuality. But above all they were willing to work for free. The original intention had been to reunite them with Simon Pegg, but sadly the Tintin megastar's monstrous ego and unreasonable rider demands made this all but impossible.

 

 

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

oooh, I didn't realise Phil was in there....cool! :lol:

^ Me too! :lol:

 

Awww I did cry when I watched it... It was so... I can't even explain it! :')

whenever I'm out on the boat or at the beach i shall never think of salted water the same way again :P

 

ooh some Phil love too, it would have been fab to have Simon in the vid too!

Ah great interview, Chris sounds like a...troublesome friend :P

 

Also this photo is sooo cute! :wacky:

 

“Don’t worry about it, I’ve come up with the idea, I’m going to dress up as an elephant on a unicycle. You need to bring four elephant suits and a unicycle with you”.

I.JUST.LOVE .THIS. :heart:

^ and ^^ :wacky:

 

Love that story, love the video. And I'm afraid I cried too. That moment when he sees the other three elephants... Too adorable.

one of the best bits of news ever in Coldplay.com

 

Mat should write a book about filming that video.

 

This is one of the cases in which the video lifts up a great notch the song.