Almost three times in Manchester in as many weeks :lol:

Poor Hoppy I seriously pitied him yesterday, can't believe he was working considering he can't basically walk

can't believe he was working considering he can't basically walk

:laugh3:

Under 1 Roof pre-sale at 9am / Abu Dhabi on sale

23 November 2011 8:23 am

Get tickets for Coldplay's two new shows in December

 

Good morning. Our 48 hour pre-sale for Coldplay's Under 1 Roof charity show for Kids Company at London's O2 Arena on 10 December begins at 9am this morning - click here to access it.

 

Also, we've just been informed that tickets for Coldplay's Abu Dhabi show on 31 Decemeber will now go on sale on Monday 28 November (sorry - not today, as originally posted). Go to www.thinkflash.ae and Virgin Megastores outlets across the UAE to purchase tickets, which start from 325 AED. Travel packages will be available at www.volvooceanraceabudhabi.com if you fancy a bit of a new year's eve adventure.

 

Anchorman

Also' date=' tickets for Coldplay's Abu Dhabi show on 31 Decemeber have gone on sale this morning. Go to www.thinkflash.ae and Virgin Megastores outlets across the UAE to purchase tickets, which start from 325 AED.

 

According to the the thinkflash website tickets go on sale 28 November :confused:

Photos from yesterday's Oslo show

24 November 2011 11:11 am

We took some snaps as Coldplay performed for Nordic fans

 

Good morning. Yesterday, we went along to see Coldplay perform a Nordic album launch show in Oslo, Norway. Naturally, we took some snaps...

 

Hello and welcome to the Sentrum Scene in Oslo, where Coldplay will perform at 3.45pm, by which time it will already be dark

 

Chris and Jonny head onto the stage for a look at the venue before doors open

 

Will joins them and they pull faces. Not exactly sure why

 

Chris graffiti'd piano

 

The view from the mic. Sentrum Scene has a capacity of around 500. It is, therefore, "intimate"

 

Will has a little bash on his drums, while Bash checks his cymbal

 

There are probably some really cryptic messages in here

 

The front row arrives, they're very pleased, and we celebrate by taking a terrible photo

 

The Viva bell, fully MXified

 

And so to the dressing room...

 

The dressing room

 

The band have a quick warm-up before the show

 

 

 

Then it's time for the traditional pre-show huddle

 

And the post-huddle thing where they all throw their hands into the air

 

Standing by the door to the stage

 

After you, Mr Martin

 

 

The show was being filmed for broadcast on TV in Scandinavia, so there was no photographers' pit to stand in (yes, we're getting excuses in early for these live pictures...)

 

 

 

 

 

The view from where Jonny's guitar tech, Matt McGinn, stands

 

Pretty sure that's a mid-drumming face

 

At this point we decide to go and take some pictures from the balcony, which involves having to leave the venue by a side door and walk around the side to the front entrance

 

The cloakroom gives you an idea of the temperature in Oslo (brrrrr)

 

The view from the balcony. No, you're right, it wasn't really worth the walk

 

That's quite an angle Chris has got himself into

 

Viva from the balcony

 

Back at the front (again, having wandered around outside for a bit)

 

We'll let those of you in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark know when the show is being broadcast

 

The front row, having a lovely time

 

There are an awful lot of corridors at Sentrum Scene. A monster apparently lives at the end of this one

 

And you thought backstage was glamourous (that's the door to the stage again)

 

Oslo gives a mighty roar of approval as the band finish what's been a rollicking, hour-long set

 

Here's what they played

 

It might be cold outside, but as you'll gather it's pretty blooming hot inside

 

Careful Jonny, there's a monster down there

 

After the show, the band do a few filmed interviews for the various Nordic TV stations which will be broadcasting the gig. This one was, we're told, based on Twitter and was quite amusing...

 

It's time to head home, but first the band sign some autographs for the folks who've waited in the cold and helped make it an extremely enjoyable visit for Coldplay

 

Anchorman

Some hilariousness in that blog. :lol:

and this one only adds to the Chris/Jonny love story

 

 

 

 

*whispers* Hey, you wann go make a BuMaby after the show?

 

1. that picture of Chris and Jonny... :bomb:

2. "There are probably some really cryptic messages in here" A-man is trying to bait us! :P

or he's one of us. :wideeyed:

 

also, A-man writes the best captions, hands down...

1. that picture of Chris and Jonny... :bomb:

2. "There are probably some really cryptic messages in here" A-man is trying to bait us! :P

or he's one of us. :wideeyed:

 

also, A-man writes the best captions, hands down...

 

you took the words straight out of my keyboard! lol! :lol:

he as the greatest captions ever

Apply now for Radio 2 Dingwalls tickets

24 November 2011 5:21 pm

The BBC has 100 pairs to give away

 

Good evening. As previously announced, Coldplay are to perform a special show for BBC Radio 2 at Dingwalls in London, to broadcast on Thursday 15 December.

 

Radio 2 has just announced that the show itself will take place on Tuesday 6 December at 8.00pm. The station has 100 pairs of tickets to give away - you can apply for some now by clicking here. You have until 5.20pm on Monday, 28 November to apply.

 

If you don't make it along, the show will be broadcast 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.

 

Anchorman

Under 1 Roof in London tickets on sale now

25 November 2011 2:42 pm

Get your tickets for the charity show featuring Coldplay and special guests

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOBITR95w8&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay present Under 1 Roof (10 Dec 2011, London O2 Arena) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Good afternoon. Tickets are now on sale for Coldplay's Under 1 Roof fundraising show for Kids Company at London's O2 Arena on 10 December 2011, alongside Steve Coogan (as Alan Partridge), Rob Brydon, Tinie Tempah and Emilé Sande. Click here to buy tickets. Coldplay are due to play for at least one hour, plus special collaborations are promised...

 

Anchorman

Roadie #42 - Blog #155

26 November 2011 9:01 am

#42 reports back from Chris and Jonny's Little Noise Session for Mencap

 

It strikes me as I arrive at The Church Of St John in Hackney that there is quite a lot going on in the world of Coldplay today. We’re in East London getting set up for this acoustic show tonight, whilst on the South Bank, all the gear is going into a TV studio to record an appearance on the Graham Norton show. Meanwhile, somewhere in a vast hangar-like warehouse in West London, production rehearsals for the upcoming arena shows are already in full swing, with truckloads of lights, sound, staging and video getting up and running ready for the band’s arrival after the weekend. Given that the Bakery and the Beehive will be grinding away up in North London, I’d say Coldplay pretty much have London covered today.

 

 

The venue for the charity acoustic session is an old church. Huge stained glass windows, wooden floors, hymn books and wooden benches. Outside, the queue is already forming when I arrive. I learn that they’ve been out there since 7am. These are the same folks that were in the front row at Norwich UEA and that were queuing all day for the iTunes session in Camden, so you could call them dedicated. You could call them a lot of things, but you can’t help but take your hats off to their dedication…

 

Chris and Jonny have decided not to soundcheck. As we give things a quick once over, it turns out to be a pretty good thing, really. The huge, curved high ceiling makes for a pretty good echo chamber and there’s little you can do, but raise your eyebrows and say “it’ll sound completely different when the punters are in” - and perhaps pray that it’s true.

 

 

We whizz over to the TV studio, which is the same place we did the Jonathon Ross show last month. We've done so much TV in the past few months that it’s long since become a blur.

 

 

Soundcheck passes very quickly and the musical segment has been moved to the start of the show to let us get out and move the piano and guitars back over to Hackney. I’m the first to arrive and am immediately bombarded with questions from the Hackney crew. I explain that there isn’t really a plan. It’s Chris an Jonny only and they’re pretty much just going to turn up and busk.

 

Showtime comes around and they’re up in the dressing room, which fittingly, has that musty church smell and rather wonderfully a wall of photos of all the vicars who have served here. At the Fillmore, you get photos of the Grateful Dead…

 

In the corner of the room, Kevin McCabe, who navigates the band through all of their UK TV and radio is frantically scribbling in Sharpie on a sheet of copier paper. It turns out that it’s the setlist. This sets the tone for the whole night pretty much. It’s not the vast juggernaut of the regular touring shows. No radios crackling the setlist through to the production office who print dozens of copies to be circulated to all departments.

 

On stage too, the guys are completely stripped of all the machinery. No lasers, no video screen, no pyro - hell there’s only half the band here. Perhaps in reverence to the acoustic nature of the performance, the guys are dressed in outfits that wouldn’t have been out of place in the Christmas Lights video. Indeed, Chris has a watch on a chain that makes an appearance late on in the show when he’s trying to work out how much time they have left.

 

I don’t catch what Jo Whiley says in her intro. Perhaps it’s something to do with that, perhaps it’s a private joke, or perhaps it’s because they’re genuinely shitting themselves, but Jonny and Chris walk up the steps to the stage holding hands.

 

 

Things get underway and it’s clear that they’re enjoying themselves immensely. Some songs work better than others, some are a complete train-wreck, but when there’s a weakness in what a piano, a guitar and one voice can produce, the crowd’s enthusiasm bridges the gap. It’s a hugely warm audience and it feels a bit like the backroom of a pub. I’m half expecting someone to walk up to the front edge of the stage with a couple of plastic glasses full of beer. It’s that kind of an evening.

 

 

 

 

I’ve long maintained that gigs at their most fundamental, are a communal celebration of the songs. All these people gather together to share their excitement for this music that means so much to them. When Chris and Jonny kick off Viva, the chant takes off and the noise of all these voices in the room together is completely overwhelming. The fellas stop for a good few seconds and just take in the immensity of the noise - their contribution now no longer even necessary.

 

 

 

They smile, they laugh and then they join back in. For me, it’s the highlight of the night and a total moment to file away for when I look back on all of this one day.

 

 

 

Of course, down in the front row, the 7am posse are giving it loads and having a great time. It’s over in a flash, but it’s been a great blowout to end the promo frenzy before the arena shows kick in. I guess stripping it down to the tiniest of tiny is about the best thing you could do before it all gets very, very big again….

 

R42

*sells O2 and Emirates tickets* :uhoh:

I don’t catch what Jo Whiley says in her intro. Perhaps it’s something to do with that, perhaps it’s a private joke, or perhaps it’s because they’re genuinely shitting themselves, but Jonny and Chris walk up the steps to the stage holding hands.

 

Now, why exactly is it you didn't take a picture of that, Roadie 42? :P

Pfft, like he doesn't know why they held hands! :P

Pfft, like he doesn't know why they held hands! :P

 

maybe it's just a strange typo, and what he meant to say was: "Perhaps it’s something to do with that, perhaps it’s a private joke, or perhaps it’s because they’re genuinely IN LOVE and SOUL MATES FOR ETERNITY, but Jonny and Chris walk up the steps to the stage holding hands." :P

Now, why exactly is it you didn't take a picture of that, Roadie 42? :P

 

My thoughts exactly! That would have been so cute lol

Guy produces new James Levy & The Blood Red Rose album

29 November 2011 11:14 am

Check out a track from the upcoming record now

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_2n9iVAZk&feature=player_embedded]James Levy And The Blood Red Rose - Sneak Into My Room - YouTube[/ame]

 

We're pleased to report that Guy has produced the upcoming album for James Levy & The Blood Red Rose, which is released on 6 February, 2012. Check out a track, featuring Allison Pierce, above.

 

Says Guy: “The songs document romance in all its guises; dark, twisted, hopeful and joyful. The sounds, drawing upon classic arrangements from the '50s and '60s, are melodic and lush and are hopefully a breath of fresh air in a world dominated by urban electronica.”

 

For more information on James Levy & The Blood Red Rose, click here.

Coldplay NYE Austin City Limits special in U.S.

29 November 2011 4:59 pm

Those of you in America can see in 2012 with a 90-minute special

 

Good evening. We're pleased to report that Austin City Limits (the world's longest-running live music television series) is ringing in the new year with a performance by Coldplay.

 

The first-ever ACL New Year’s Eve special - a rare 90-minute episode - will be viewable on PBS stations across the U.S. on Saturday, 31 December 2011 at 11pm. If you're in America, you can also view Coldplay New Year's Eve: An Austin City Limits Special on pbs.org starting at 11 p.m. ET on 31 December.

 

Anchorman

Squeeee, hope my family & friends won't mind if we don't watch Dick Clarke's Rockin Eve this year :P

So, is it a live performance, or just a pre-recorded performance that will air on NYE? (i.e., the one recorded a couple of months ago)

It was taped while they were in Austin for the ACL Festival.

^Yea, thats what i thought! They are going to be in abu dhabi while the new year rolls in!

It was taped while they were in Austin for the ACL Festival.

 

Yep, and several of us from the board were there :) First time I ever time travelled to the future :laugh3: