Interview with Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland

 

As the title says. Full interview coming before June 12 show at Wells Fargo Arena. Article:

 

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Yesterday, I interviewed Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland over the phone. He seemed like a cool guy, all laid back with his British accent, chilling at his home across the pond.

 

We recorded the interview, but there was some sort of interference so we won’t be able to post it online. Stay tuned for a print story coming out sometime before the June 12 Coldplay show in Datebook or IowaLife.

 

We chatted about his family — He has a fiance and an 18-month old little girl named Violet. I asked if she’ll be a future rocker like him, and he said she’s showing some signs. She likes to dance around to “Viva la Vida!”

 

We also talked about Brian Eno — Coldplay teamed up with Eno for “Viva la Vida” and they worked on some new material in the studio in January. Buckland said that Eno gives the band a sort of musical freedom. Buckland likes U2’s new album a lot (Eno worked on it along with a bunch of other U2 albums) and asked me if I liked it. I said yes (of course) and said I liked Coldplay’s new album, too! We spoke a bit about similiarities between his playing and The Edge’s. He said they both like the delay pedal . (So do I!)

 

Buckland and the rest of the band seem very removed from anything other than making music:

 

I asked him if he used the Coldplay Twitter account and he told me he didn’t quite know what Twitter was, he didn’t use it, and he wasn’t sure who from the Coldplay management used it. He was impressed though that the band has more than 739,800 followers.

 

He said he wasn’t aware of the newest plagiarism accusation by Cat Stevens, so I told him a bit about that.

 

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http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2009/05/07/interview-with-coldplay-guitarist-jonny-buckland/

Awesome, can't wait for the full thing :D

Can't wait for the full interview :D

She likes to dance around to “Viva la Vida"!

:cheesy:

^^that was adorable!! :wacky::P!!

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW :blush:

 

Violet is soooo cute :heart:

 

And 'He seemed like a cool guy, all laid back with his British accent...' :dance:

 

Can't wait till the full article is out :dance:

This is gonna be a good one :D

Aww, Violet is so cuuuute. I hope she looks like her dad :)

A fiance! Jonny's getting married:)

We've heard fiancé twice now with no actual clue what's going on :lol:

Jonnys` unaware of the twitter thing, just who in management uses it, and the plagiarism accusation?

 

Somebody needs to point Jonny out of the bedroom and onto this board;)

Violet is so CUTE

^^ Right? First we hear she dances to Bowie, now VLV. She's one hip baby.

I find this interview so absolutly adorably written! I mean, it seems like the interviewer is a really young person who is totally in awe while talking to Jonny :lol: The text is simply written in a cute way, and well I can't say that its contet is any less cuter :D