Bid on VIP North America tickets, help Oxfam

April 24, 2009 10:52 am

Do your bit for Oxfam and get some posh seats

 

 

 

Good morning. Coldplay have given Oxfam America a pair of VIP tickets for every show on the upcoming North American tour. The charity are now auctioning them, with the proceeds going towards their work creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice around the world.

 

If you'd like to bid for a pair, then click here. http://www.charityfolks.com/cfauctions/auction_verticalngo.asp?slrid=111

 

Anchorman

argh, why do they start so high!

Oddly enough, I don't see one for Carson or Irvine. :confused:

 

Not that I'd pay that much anyways for a price that will probably skyrocket. :P

It's for charity and I guess there are surely people who are able to spend so much money ;)

Maybe you should search for a sponsorship :laugh3:

Free download of Jon Hopkins' Viva track

April 27, 2009 4:41 pm

Download the track which bookends Coldplay's album

 

Good afternoon. At either end of Coldplay's current album, you can hear a snippet of a track called Light Through The Veins

by Jon Hopkins, the band's friend, collaborator and frequent support act. That track will be released in full on Hopkins' terrific

new album, Insides, on May 4th. But its nine minutes of electro loveliness are currently available to download for free

by clicking here.

 

Enjoy!

 

Anchorman

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Insides-Jon-Hopkins/dp/B001U7FWLY]Amazon Link[/ame]

And in the end we lie awake and we dream of making our escape

 

Etheral and serene. A message from the stars ?

 

A collaboration on the next album could be very interesting.

It is amazing! Absolutely lovely! MUSICAL HEAVEN, Listened to it twice already and listening to it for a third time :P

this song is from "Jon" but..why coldplay has to be in it? :D

 

appart from being similar..

 

can someone explain me :D

I just listened to that...

 

:wacky:

 

aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It won't dowload for me:( How did you guys?

Oooh, *downloads*

It won't dowload for me:( How did you guys?

 

Same here, i can´t find the link, i ´ve insert my e-mail but then did not see anything :wacky: only the video he has on website

I also got no email with the downloadlink til now.. but the song is very loveley!!!

*listening on the website* :nice:

That happened to me. You need to click on the little yellow bar REALLY fast. Or you can just go download it over in the Multimedia section.

That song is awesome! :wacky:

Same here, i can´t find the link, i ´ve insert my e-mail but then did not see anything :wacky: only the video he has on website

 

 

same here...:\

That happened to me. You need to click on the little yellow bar REALLY fast. Or you can just go download it over in the Multimedia section.

 

Where did you see the little yellow bar? I didn't see one and am just trying to figure out how to download such an awesome song for free. Thanks!! :)

 

 

 

Chris writes about Michael Eavis for TIME

April 30, 2009 3:14 pm

"Michael is one of the people to whom I owe my life and career," writes Chris

Good afternoon. Earlier today, TIME magazine announced its annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. In that list is Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis. His inclusion is accompanied by a very nice piece written by our very own Chris Martin. Click here to read it. (And congratulations Mr Eavis!)

 

Anchorman

Michael Eavis

By Chris Martin

 

 

I went to boarding school a short hop from Michael Eavis' farm, the bucolic setting of the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, or Glasto. It's the equivalent of living next to Yankee Stadium and saying, "One day, when I grow up, I'm going to play there." For three days each summer, Michael and his daughter Emily give up their lives as dairy farmers and set up a city purely around music. Anyone who's ever picked up a guitar dreams of playing Glastonbury. It's the biggest rock cathedral in the world.

 

Everyone wonders why this man and this festival are different. Firstly, Glastonbury is rooted in ancient history; legend has it that King Arthur was buried nearby. And when the festival sets up, 150,000 people flood in to form a very happy metropolis. But Michael, 73, is so good at tapping into the zeitgeist months before anyone else. You'll wonder, Why are the Kings of Leon headlining this year? Inevitably, six months later the Kings of Leon are the biggest thing going.

 

Michael is one of the people to whom I owe my life and career. Every year he does a thank-you for the surrounding village where the festival takes place. He asked Coldplay to play this little fete and picked us up at the airport. It was like being met by a friendly uncle. We were sitting in the back of his farm vehicle that smelled of cheese and cattle when he said, "Maybe you'd want to headline next year?" We spat out our drinks! It remains the biggest event in our band's life. It changed everything.

 

We've headlined other festivals, but Glastonbury is the only one that feels like — and is — a family event. It's also the only one where we received some handmade cheese as a thank-you.

 

Martin is the lead singer of Coldplay

 

I love how personal that review is..

"We've headlined other festivals, but Glastonbury is the only one that feels like — and is — a family event. It's also the only one where we received some handmade cheese as a thank-you."

 

Chris, always so funny :lol:

^haha yes! just by reading that part you can tell that Chris wrote it :laugh3:

Aww that's nice :nice: And the hand made cheese part is funny :P

ahh, the last line is so chris :lol:. i love him :wacky:

aaaww.That's cute :)

^ Someone ban that thing, please!