Fantastic interview there! I really do think Paradise is the best video they have ever done. I absolutely adore it in every way.

Great interview! I love to know this behind-the-scenes details and how the concept behind something is developed.

 

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.

 

:nod:

 

In the end, when they're all running, it even seems like he's a very pissed-off elephant :lol:

That was a great read, knowing the in's and out's of how it came about:)

2012 UK stadium tour announced

11 November 2011 7:00 am

Dates in Coventry, London, Sunderland and Manchester confirmed

 

 

Good morning. We're very pleased to announce that Coldplay will play five UK stadium shows in summer 2012. The dates are as follows:

 

MAY

Tuesday 29 - Coventry Ricoh Stadium

 

JUNE

Friday 1 - London Emirates Stadium

Saturday 2 - London Emirates Stadium

Thursday 7 - Sunderland Stadium of Light

Saturday 9 - Manchester Etihad Stadium

 

Tickets, costing from £49.50, go on sale at 9am on Friday 18th November through gigsandtours.com / 0844 854 1360, ticketmaster.co.uk / 0844 847 2312, ticketline.co.uk / 0844 888 9991, ticketfactory.com / 0844 581 9900.

2012 UK stadium tour announced

11 November 2011 7:00 am

Dates in Coventry, London, Sunderland and Manchester confirmed

 

 

Good morning. We're very pleased to announce that Coldplay will play five UK stadium shows in summer 2012. The dates are as follows:

 

MAY

Tuesday 29 - Coventry Ricoh Stadium

 

JUNE

Friday 1 - London Emirates Stadium

Saturday 2 - London Emirates Stadium

Thursday 7 - Sunderland Stadium of Light

Saturday 9 - Manchester Etihad Stadium

 

Tickets, costing from £49.50, go on sale at 9am on Friday 18th November through gigsandtours.com / 0844 854 1360, ticketmaster.co.uk / 0844 847 2312, ticketline.co.uk / 0844 888 9991, ticketfactory.com / 0844 581 9900.

 

:cry: Europe gets 3 legs of tour dates between summer festivals, Nov-Dec arenas and now stadiums, and the US got 3 festivals, plus a handful of promo appearances. I'm hoping there's a BIG announcement coming for US, very soon...

We'll have some news for those of you in North America and Europe soon…

 

And so, I wait . . .

I just hope that this time around by Europe they don't mean only 5 countries out of 50 :dozey:

WHY ARE THEY ON SALE NOW?! :bigcry: I don't have any money.

 

They should've announced a proper European tour first. And America too for that matter.

There were rumors several months ago that they were going to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympics (late July)... any more word on whether that will actually happen?

Chris denied it in an interview a while ago...it escapes my mind which one at the moment. But that doesn't neccessarily mean its not happening. Nothing more has been mentioned in the press though.

O2 UK ticket pre-sale opens

16 November 2011 9:05 am

Customers can get tickets for the 2012 stadium shows now

 

 

 

UPDATE: The O2 pre-sale has now completely Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets. The general sale begins at 9am on Friday morning. Click here for all the info on that.

 

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Good morning. The pre-sale for next year's UK stadium shows in Coventry, Sunderland, London and Manchester is open. Subscribers to O2 can click here to get tickets now.

 

Tomorrow, members of Coventry City FC, Arsenal FC, Sunderland AFC and Manchester City FC are eligible for a special pre-sale beginning at 9am on Thursday, 17 November. Head to their websites or contact the clubs for info.

 

The general sale then begins on Friday morning. Click here for all the info on that.

 

Finally, a reminder of the dates...

 

MAY

Tuesday 29 - Coventry Ricoh Arena

 

JUNE

Friday 1 - London Emirates Stadium

Saturday 2 - London Emirates Stadium

Thursday 7 - Sunderland Stadium of Light

Saturday 9 - Manchester Etihad Stadium

 

Anchorman

Chris denied it in an interview a while ago...it escapes my mind which one at the moment. But that doesn't neccessarily mean its not happening. Nothing more has been mentioned in the press though.

 

It was on Ryan Seacrest on June 30th. But as you say, you never know with Chris. He was just coming back from Sweden and very tired.

FB update:

 

The O2 pre-sale for the 2012 UK stadium tour has now sold out. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets. The general sale begins at 9am on Friday - full info at http://cldp.ly/ukstads

 

http://www.facebook.com/coldplay/posts/175957739163877

FB update:

 

The O2 pre-sale for the 2012 UK stadium tour has now sold out. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets. The general sale begins at 9am on Friday - full info at http://cldp.ly/ukstads

 

http://www.facebook.com/coldplay/posts/175957739163877

 

Probably UK only because this is what I see

 

London Dingwalls show for BBC Radio 2 announced

17 November 2011 12:31 pm

Band to return to the venue of their 1998 show

 

Good afternoon. We're very pleased to announce that Coldplay will perform a special Christmas show at London's Dingwalls venue for BBC Radio 2 In Concert, which will be broadcast on Thursday, 15 December (it will be recorded a few days earlier). The show will be broadcast live on Radio 2 (which you can listen to online worldwide). The performance will also be filmed and shown live via the Red Button and on the Radio 2 site, where it will be available to watch until 22 December.

 

The free tickets for the show will be given away via bbc.co.uk/radio2 from 24-28 November.

 

Dingwalls is the Camden venue which was hired by Coldplay's first manager (and now fifth member) Phil Harvey while he was still a student, for a Coldplay show on 25 May 1998. The money raised that night helped pay for the recording of the Safety EP.

 

Anchorman

Tonight's Children In Need performance on TV/online

17 November 2011 4:42 pm

Manchester show will broadcast on BBC1 and on the web

 

 

Tonight in Manchester, Coldplay will perform at the city's M.E.N. Arena as part of the Children In Need Rocks event. As well as being broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD between 8pm and 10pm, the event will also simulcast on BBC Radio 1 - so you can listen online, worldwide, here. Click (here to find out what time 8pm GMT is where you are.)

 

For more information on tonight's show - or if you enjoy it and wish to give something towards Children In Need's amazing work with disadvantaged children - head to bbc.co.uk/pudsey.

 

Anchorman

how long will each set be? :wink:

put it this way lets hope gaga is on for a while that means Coldplay might be too

UK stadium shows on sale now

18 November 2011 9:00 am

Get your tickets for the dates in London, Manchester, Sunderland and Coventry

 

10.39 UPDATE: The Coventry show has now sold out. Official hotel packages for all the summer 2012 UK shows are available from mct-tickets.com.

 

9.53 UPDATE: The first Manchester show has now sold out. A second Etihad Stadium show has been added for Sunday, 10 June. The tickets will be on sale from the links below from around 10.30am

 

9.32 UPDATE: Due to incredible demand, a third show has been added at the London Emirates Stadium (the first two have already sold out). The new date is on Monday, 4 June, which is a bank holiday. Tickets available from the links below.

 

Good morning. Tickets for Coldplay's 2012 UK stadium shows are on sale now. Get them from the links listed below:

 

- Gigsandtours / 0844 854 1360

- Ticketmaster / 0844 847 2312

- Seetickets

- Ticketline / 0844 888 9991

- Ticket Factory / 0844 581 9900

 

A reminder that the dates are...

 

Tuesday, 29 May - Coventry Ricoh Arena

Friday, 1 June - London Emirates Stadium

Saturday, 2 June - London Emirates Stadium

Thursday, 7 June - Sunderland Stadium of Light

Saturday, 9 June - Manchester Etihad Stadium

 

Tickets cost from £49.50. There is a limit of six tickets per person. In the interests of safety, any young person under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult and no children under the age of 5 will be allowed.

 

Tickets for persons with disability are available as follows:

Coventry: Ticket Factory 0844 581 0700

London; Venue Box Office 9.30 – 5pm 020 7619 5050

Sunderland; See Tickets - 0844 995 9577

Manchester; Venue Box Office 9.30 – 5pm - Wheelchair Seating call: 0161 444 1894; Ambulant Disabled call: 0844 581 9900

 

Anchorman

New Year's Eve show in Abu Dhabi

20 November 2011 2:16 pm

Band to see in 2012 in the UAE capital

 

Good afternoon. We're pleased to report that Coldplay will be performing in Abu Dhabi this New Year’s Eve.

 

Standing, Seating and VIP Tickets for the New Year’s Eve spectacular will be on sale soon at www.thinkflash.ae. Tailored travel packages will be available through www.volvooceanraceabudhabi.com.

 

Presented by the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and brought to the capital by FLASH Entertainment, the band will perform live at a unique venue adjacent to the purpose-built ‘Volvo Ocean Race Destination Village’ on the Corniche Breakwater – where the Volvo Ocean Race will take place from 31st December 2011 until 14th January 2012.

 

Anchorman

Under 1 Roof charity show in London on 10 Dec

22 November 2011 8:52 am

Coldplay host a benefit concert in support of Kids Company

 

Good morning. We're pleased to announce that, on Saturday, 10 December 2011 Coldplay will host Under 1 Roof, a benefit concert in support of the charity Kids Company at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London.

 

Under 1 Roof will be an incredible night of comedy and music with acts including Coldplay, Tinie Tempah, Emeli Sandé, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.

 

Coldplay, long-term supporters of Kids Company, have pulled together this unique line-up at London’s world-famous O2 Arena to raise funds for the London-based charity Kids Company.

 

Kids Company works with vulnerable children and young people in some of the most deprived areas of London. Established in 1996, the charity works across 4 centres and in 40 schools.

 

Kids Company Founder and CEO, Camila Batmanghelidjh commented: “Coldplay’s continuing support is fantastic. They have already provided funds to help thousands of children who have suffered violence and neglect. How amazing that they are now being joined by other generous friends for Under 1 Roof, to establish what we hope will become a regular event, generating vital support for many more children in years to come.”

 

Commenting on their participation, Coldplay said: “Kids Company is a phenomenal organisation that is very close to our hearts. We hope that people get behind the event to raise as much money for Kids Company as possible. On our side, we can promise anyone that buys a ticket that they’ll be part of a very special night.”

 

Tickets go on sale Friday 25th November at 9am, from gigsandtours.com and ticketmaster.co.uk.

 

Anchorman

Roadie #42 - Blog #154

22 November 2011 8:19 pm

In which Coldplay perform on an Italian film set and their plane home is diverted

 

It’s not uncommon for me to have little idea of where we’re going or what we’re doing. It’s actually quite easy to fall into this state and once you spot it starting, it can be fun to nurture it as a way of keeping things interesting. Conversations in the airport departure lounge this morning clue me in that we’re heading off to Italy. Well that’ll be nice.

 

Upon landing, soundman Dan Green asks me if I know what songs we’re doing.

 

“Um, just the regular set, I think or something like?”

 

In my mind it’s another album launch show, so I’m expecting a small venue, perhaps something like the hall we did in Cologne a while back.

 

“It’s a TV show isn’t it?” Dan replies, confirming that I do indeed have no idea what’s going on.

 

We head off in the van towards the gig and I’m now thinking “TV studio, blacked out warehouse, lots of lights hung from the roof”, pleased that I’m now on the right track.

 

Or, as it turns out when we arrive - not.

 

 

We’re in quite the oddest television studio I’ve ever seen.

 

 

It looks like Live At Pompeii - and indeed the driver tells us that Pink Floyd did once play here. It’s a huge film lot - Italy’s Hollywood, we’re told. Apparently many of Fellini’s films were made here. The surroundings are utterly magnificent, but turn out to be completely plastic and held up by rusty scaffolding. There’s a joke in there somewhere about working in the music industry, but I shall leave that as an exercise for the reader…

 

 

Following soundcheck, Hoppy (still living up to his name with the help of a foot-cast and crutches) quite reasonably points out that the environment feels more suited to Viva than the new album. He suggests calling Paris, the band’s graffiti artist in residence and having him Mylo the place up a little.

 

I take a photo of the scene on my iPhone so I can email it to Paris with a wind-up message of “This all needs doing by stage-time which is 9.30 - can you get on a plane asap?”.

 

 

I remember though, that he got a call with genuine brief not dissimilar to this just before Saturday Night Live a week or so ago (and came through in grand style!) - so I think better of it.

 

There’s a scramble in the run-up to showtime as the fellas have decided to throw in a few off-air numbers to warm up themselves and the crowd. Yellow gets a belting as do Clocks and Every Teardop. There’s some confusion over time limits and they sneak in Fix You before things have to stop to make sure that the broadcast timing works out.

 

 

 

Come time for the live segment of the show and nobody quite knows what’s going on. The host of the show is going to “throw” to the band from in the studio and they’ll start playing. I’m not sure if he’s off behind the ruins somewhere, or if he’s even in the same city as us - he’s just a disembodied voice yabbering manically in Italian down all of our earpieces.

 

The allotted time comes and goes and he shows no signs of introducing the band. The crowd have started the Viva chant and the band are distractedly playing along with them while the stage manager runs around frantically trying to keep everything from slipping further into chaos.

 

Suddenly, the yabbering in my ear starts to contain words I recognise. One of those words is “Coldplay”. The crowd erupt, the stage manager is waving his arms around like he’s just stubbed his toe in the night and Paradise comes to life on the stage.

 

As the song finishes, it transpires that the crazy presenter is in a building a hundred yards from the stage and they’re to be interviewed down there.

 

 

I follow them in the back door for a look. All I can make out from the TV monitor is that Chris has a somewhat insanely snazzy jacket on, which it seems once adorned the crazed presenter.

 

 

Finally, it’s vans and airport. We sit in a small room whilst the passports are dealt with. The makeup artist was in something of a rush it seems, getting the band ready in the moments between the stage and the TV studio. Will is sporting a quite hilarious two tone face where she finished halfway across his neck.

 

“Does anybody have some makeup remover or perhaps a garden implement?” he enquires gesturing towards the thick layering of foundation.

 

Besides make-up removal, there’s a more serious issue afoot. I’ve somehow ended up on an email cc list for the flight information between the travel agents and Franksy. There’s no real reason for me to be on this list and it feels a little like eavesdropping for much of the day.

 

What I have picked up though, is that fog is a huge problem back in England. The London airport we took off from is completely pea-souped and we will definitely not be landing there. This is a shame, as that’s where my car is. It seems that we’re heading for Gatwick instead, which could make for a late night.

 

As we get ready to take off, more emails come in and it sounds like Gatwick might be similarly out of the question. Plan C is being bubbled up. We’re a good way into the flight when Franksy is summoned by the captain for a chat up front. This can’t be good news.

 

I raise an eyebrow as Franksy heads back down the plane. “Manchester” he says rolling his eyes. At this rate, we’ll be in Scotland when we get wheels down.

 

We eventually descend and while we taxi across the tarmac, I’m trying to work out exactly how we’re going to get home from Manchester to London. It’s a four hour drive and it’s knocking on 1am already. As we cross the tarmac, I look up to read the sign on the tower which reads “Welcome to Birmingham”. Now I really am confused.

 

Still Birmingham is a good chunk closer to home than Manchester, so that’s good news. We bundle into some hastily assembled cars here waiting to take us home via a very foggy Motorway.

 

 

Never a dull moment…

 

R42

This is a very lovely picture :)

^ yes but it is screaming to have somebody photoshop some big creepy monster to the right of them (or otherwise cool and/or hilarious item)

 

 

edit: how long has Guy had that coat?

Hoppy (still living up to his name with the help of a foot-cast and crutches)

 

:laugh3: