OMG, the first post I saw was yours Coeurli and judging from the excitment I thought a new R42 blog had been posted... And then, no.:(

More is coming soon...

 

 

I'm afraid to seem stupid, but when i watched this video i cried...:smug:

Mylo Xyloto Live eBook out on 19 November

30 October 2012 2:00 pm

Pre-order the interactive book from iTunes worldwide now

 

 

Good afternoon. We're pleased to announce that, on 19 November - the day that Coldplay's new Live 2012 film is out on DVD, CD and Blu-ray - an interactive Coldplay eBook will be released on iTunes for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Mylo Xyloto Live is an in-depth audio-visual companion piece to the Live 2012 film. It tells the inside story of the band’s world tour, via interviews with all four members, including never-before-heard audio interviews. It features exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and photos, hand-written lyrics for Mylo Xyloto, plus a gallery of Chris's studio journal and a full Coldplay discography.

 

The book also includes specially-recorded audio interviews with many of the band's closest touring personnel, including their tour manager, production manager, audio crew chief and live video director, giving a unique insight into Coldplay's touring life.

 

Mylo Xyloto Live is available to pre-order now from iTunes worldwide, costing £4.99 / €6.49 / $7.99, . Click here to pre-order and to see a detailed list of the book's features.

 

Anchorman

Roadie #42, come out come out wherever you are! Please?

Those R42 blogs that are in that ebook.....they aren't exclusives, right ? :|

 

 

I mean....that little thing isn't the reason we haven't heard of him in months.....RIGHT ? :angry:

 

edit: they don't have the "exclusive" mention as opposed to other stuff on the list, so I'm gonna believe Apple that those blogs aren't exclusive and that we've read them already :nice:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=plcp&v=HPx2nT4TYbo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHPx2nT4TYbo%26feature%3Dplcp

 

He is an awesome person.

So happy for him!

More countries now screening Live 2012 in cinemas

2 November 2012 1:40 pm

List of countries showing film on 13 November now stands at 55

 

Good afternoon. Since Monday's announcement that Coldplay's upcoming concert film / live album, Live 2012, is to be screened in cinemas all over the world on 13 November, several more countries have been confirmed. The full list is currently as follows (more may still be added):

 

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UAE, UK, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela.

 

Confirmed listings and links to book tickets can be found at coldplay.com/cinema now.

 

Live 2012, is released on DVD/CD/Blu-ray on 19 November. Click here to pre-order it from your local store.

 

 

Anchorman

Unlock exclusive Live 2012 previews

3 November 2012 8:05 pm

Get a preview of Us Against The World from the upcoming concert film

 

Good evening. Head over to live2012.coldplay.com and you can unlock an exclusive preview of Us Against The World from the upcoming Live 2012 concert film / live album by selecting your favourite track from the setlist (which will also post a clip of that track from the film to your Facebook wall). You can also add your tour photos to the Mylo Xyloto tour map.

 

Live 2012 is out on 19 November on DVD/CD/Blu-ray - click here to pre-order from your local store.

 

Anchorman

Watch Paradise from the Live 2012 film

5 November 2012 11:33 am

With two weeks until Live 2012 is released, here's a sneak preview

 

Good morning. Here's a Monday treat - the full version of Paradise from the upcoming Live 2012 concert film, which is out on 19 November on CD/DVD/Blu-ray/Digital. Order it from your local store.

 

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcxhQZxvdw[/ame]

 

Anchorman

No thank you, A :snobby:

 

Stop tempting us Anchorman, damn it! :angry:

No thank you, A :snobby:

 

Stop tempting us Anchorman, damn it! :angry:

 

THIS :angry:

Roadie #42 - Blog #183

6 November 2012 10:02 am

#42 writes from his plane to New Zealand

 

Greetings from 30,000 feet, folks.

 

I’m going to move swiftly past jokes about the mile high club and welcome you to my first blog sent from a comfy chair moving through the air at 500 miles an hour. I’m heading down to New Zealand a little ahead of the main party to see some friends of mine and there’s wifi on the plane. The future has truly arrived!

 

Before take-off, I was sitting in the airport lounge musing at the wonder of another piece of technology - namely my iPhone. I’d been sent some photos by “Mystic”. If you’ve been to see a Coldplay show, you may have seen Mystic onstage before the show, pottering about getting things ready. (He’s a right potterer…)

 

 

Mystic has sent me some photos of Tony Smith for the upcoming Digital Tourbook. I’m forwarding these to our digital editor, Anchorman. He’s finalising material for use by our design-and-build ninjas Slender Fungus in LA.

 

Tony is on the email chain and wants to make it very clear to me that I should choose the image that he likes from the three options. He doesn’t want people seeing the one of him looking rather camp. He wants nobody to see that. Nobody at all. I promise to make sure it doesn’t go in the book.

 

I didn’t say, though, that I wouldn’t put it in the blog…

 

 

(Photo by “Mystic” Nick Davis).

 

Tony, by the way, works at the opposite end of the signal chain to Mystic. Broadly speaking, Mystic deals with all the microphones onstage that suck in the noise the band makes. Tony is where the buck stops on all how all that noise gets blown back out at the audience. Dan Green, of course, is somewhere in between, making decisions on the balance, but Tony and Mystic deal with the art and the science of the big machinery.

 

Moving back again to my musings on the wonders of technology, I can’t help but think that it’s amazing that the phone in my pocket is bouncing an image from the north of England off to LA, all the while being watched over by the photo’s subject, who lives in Spain.

 

As the email conversation broadens (as emails with more than one person on the cc list have a tendency to), I mention that I’m about to get on a plane. Suddenly it becomes clear that Tony isn’t in Spain - in fact he’s at the same airport as me, in the lounge next door.

 

 

Had the email chain not started, we’d have simply got on two different planes on two different airlines and met up on the other side of the planet, none the wiser. We celebrate the chance meeting by disappearing off for a beer.

 

He’s flying via Dubai and heads off first. I’m going via Singapore. We’ll arrive within an hour of each other at the Auckland end. I’m delighted when we get in the air, to find that my plane does indeed have wifi. I email Tony to ask if his plane does. I suggest we could have a superbly ridiculous game of battleships by email as we race each other 20,000 feet over the planet down to Auckland.

 

Sadly, it’s not to be. There’s no reply from Tony, so he’s either asleep or in the digital darkness. I decide to write a blog instead.

 

I’m looking forward to the upcoming shows, it has to be said. I adore New Zealand and Australia, I genuinely do. The schedule looks quite agreeable and six weeks off usually puts the entire touring party in the best possible frame of mind. After the year or so of Mylo that we’ve had, it’s a nice final lap - perhaps a chance to take it all in properly before it disappears. It ain't over yet though!

 

R42

He's back! :awesome:

57 countries now screening Live 2012

6 November 2012 10:59 am

More cinemas showing the new concert film on Tue 13 Nov

 

Good morning. Even more countries have been added to the list showing Coldplay's new concert film / live album, Live 2012, ahead of its release on 19 November (pre-order from here). Here's the full list as it stands - get more info / buy tickets via coldplay.com/cinema.

 

 

Anchorman

Roadie #42 - Blog #183

6 November 2012 10:02 am

#42 writes from his plane to New Zealand

 

Greetings from 30,000 feet, folks.

 

I’m going to move swiftly past jokes about the mile high club and welcome you to my first blog sent from a comfy chair moving through the air at 500 miles an hour. I’m heading down to New Zealand a little ahead of the main party to see some friends of mine and there’s wifi on the plane. The future has truly arrived!

 

Before take-off, I was sitting in the airport lounge musing at the wonder of another piece of technology - namely my iPhone. I’d been sent some photos by “Mystic”. If you’ve been to see a Coldplay show, you may have seen Mystic onstage before the show, pottering about getting things ready. (He’s a right potterer…)

 

 

Mystic has sent me some photos of Tony Smith for the upcoming Digital Tourbook. I’m forwarding these to our digital editor, Anchorman. He’s finalising material for use by our design-and-build ninjas Slender Fungus in LA.

 

Tony is on the email chain and wants to make it very clear to me that I should choose the image that he likes from the three options. He doesn’t want people seeing the one of him looking rather camp. He wants nobody to see that. Nobody at all. I promise to make sure it doesn’t go in the book.

 

I didn’t say, though, that I wouldn’t put it in the blog…

 

 

(Photo by “Mystic” Nick Davis).

 

Tony, by the way, works at the opposite end of the signal chain to Mystic. Broadly speaking, Mystic deals with all the microphones onstage that suck in the noise the band makes. Tony is where the buck stops on all how all that noise gets blown back out at the audience. Dan Green, of course, is somewhere in between, making decisions on the balance, but Tony and Mystic deal with the art and the science of the big machinery.

 

Moving back again to my musings on the wonders of technology, I can’t help but think that it’s amazing that the phone in my pocket is bouncing an image from the north of England off to LA, all the while being watched over by the photo’s subject, who lives in Spain.

 

As the email conversation broadens (as emails with more than one person on the cc list have a tendency to), I mention that I’m about to get on a plane. Suddenly it becomes clear that Tony isn’t in Spain - in fact he’s at the same airport as me, in the lounge next door.

 

 

Had the email chain not started, we’d have simply got on two different planes on two different airlines and met up on the other side of the planet, none the wiser. We celebrate the chance meeting by disappearing off for a beer.

 

He’s flying via Dubai and heads off first. I’m going via Singapore. We’ll arrive within an hour of each other at the Auckland end. I’m delighted when we get in the air, to find that my plane does indeed have wifi. I email Tony to ask if his plane does. I suggest we could have a superbly ridiculous game of battleships by email as we race each other 20,000 feet over the planet down to Auckland.

 

Sadly, it’s not to be. There’s no reply from Tony, so he’s either asleep or in the digital darkness. I decide to write a blog instead.

 

I’m looking forward to the upcoming shows, it has to be said. I adore New Zealand and Australia, I genuinely do. The schedule looks quite agreeable and six weeks off usually puts the entire touring party in the best possible frame of mind. After the year or so of Mylo that we’ve had, it’s a nice final lap - perhaps a chance to take it all in properly before it disappears. It ain't over yet though!

 

R42

What I felt when I noticed the tweet earlier today:

 

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:awesome:

personally, i like these kinds of blogs better than the ones where he tells us about how great certain concerts were :P

the Coldplay team are all a bunch of smart-asses, it's great

agree. Really enjoyed this one.

It's like getting a letter from home :loveshower:

^ Exactly! :wacko:

"After the year or so of Mylo that we’ve had, it’s a nice final lap - perhaps a chance to take it all in properly before it disappears."

 

Final lap? So does that mean there will be no South America shows? :confused:

No thank you, A :snobby:

 

Stop tempting us Anchorman, damn it! :angry:

 

I'm not looking either, its like sneaking around trying to find the Christmas Prezzies before the big day! I am not taking any sneak peaks!

I am so excited , looking forward for the Auckland show this Saturday!!

I'm not looking either, its like sneaking around trying to find the Christmas Prezzies before the big day! I am not taking any sneak peaks!

 

Exactly, but it's SO so tempting.. it's like your parents saying.. 'hey kids come and FEEL your presents!' LOL :laugh3:

 

I am so excited , looking forward for the Auckland show this Saturday!!

 

Oh congrats.. you will love it SO much! :lol:

Pre-order Live 2012 from iTunes

7 November 2012 11:34 am

Film and audio available in UK, Ireland, France, Germany, US & Canada

 

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-NbV4JTjU[/ame]

 

Good morning. You can now pre-order Coldplay's upcoming concert film / live album, Live 2012, from iTunes in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, US and Canada, ahead of its release on 19 November.

 

- Click here to pre-order the film

- Click here to pre-order the album

 

Anchorman

Interview: The Temper Trap

9 November 2012 8:24 pm

We hear from the band's support act for the NZ/Australia shows

 

Australian band the Temper Trap are supporting Coldplay on the New Zealand/Australia tour which begins on Saturday night in Auckland. We dropped frontman Dougy Mandagi a line to find out more about them.

 

 

Hi Dougy, how are you?

Fantabulous.

 

Are you looking forward to the shows with Coldplay?

Very much so.

 

For any Coldplay fans who haven't yet heard the Temper Trap, what do you sound like?

Coldplay.

 

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN7HQrgakZU[/ame]

 

You're more used to playing headline dates these days - will you approach the support slots any differently to a normal show?

Yes, less ballads, keeping things punchy, direct, familiar and big.

 

The second show is a hometown gig - presumably that should be a standout for you guys?

It's always good to come home to where it all started. We're an Oz band and always will be no matter where we may base ourselves.

 

Australasia is a big old place, how are you guys getting between the shows?

My mom's station wagon that we used to drive for band practice.

 

Please tell us one thing that Coldplay - or anyone - should do in each of Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane?

New Zealand is kinda out of our element but apparently Mordor is quite menacing and hot this time of year.

Melbourne: Cherry Bar on AC/DC Lane (that's right, AC/DC Lane!!); Chin Chin on Flinders Lane for an amazing Asian fusion dinner/cocktails. St. Kilda, Fitzroy (if you like watching hipsters being all hip and shit). The list goes on and on.

Sydney, go to Shady Pines for drinks if you can find it. Bondi is a must (north side by the rocks is better) the neighbouring beaches like Bronti, Tama are quieter and more "local." Sydney harbor overlooking the opera house is the most beautiful harbor I've ever seen in my travels.

Brisbane... No idea. Sorry. Don't swim in the canals. There's hungry bull sharks!

 

What should the band expect from Australian crowds?

Australian accents.

 

Do you have any idea how you came to be on the tour?

Well, I sincerely hope that it's because Coldplay like us.

 

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0uYfq3VLU[/ame]

 

Are you guys generally fans of Coldplay?

Yup. I played the first 2 records to death and Fix You is one of those songs that I listen to and think, "why didn't I write that!!!?"

 

Have you seen them live before?

Ages ago at Rod Laver in Melbourne. This was before I even started the band.

 

According to Last.fm, there is "medium similarity" between the Temper Trap and Coldplay. Does that sound reasonable?!

Refer to question 3.

 

Coldplay always have a cricket bat and ball in their dressing room. Australians are usually annoyingly good at cricket. Do you think you could take them in a mini-Ashes?

We can take anyone on at any sport. Joseph our multi instrumentalist is particularly good at mixed martial arts. We're very competitive! It's all about winning, not having fun!

 

What else have the Temper Trap got coming up in the next few months?

Writing and more shows. The usual.

 

Finally, what's your favourite Coldplay song?

Fix You.

 

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BU-1ukQ3vo[/ame]

 

Thanks very much!

You're welcome very much.

 

For more information on the Temper Trap, head to http://www.thetempertrap.com.