Q302 - September 2011 - 'Laughing Boys' article (Coldplay) - Scan and transcript on pg. 8

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

Sorry but I won't believe anything until I see an announcement by the band themselves.

[rafaelchampion]

I love Major Minus like it is

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

Hmm. Not sure if this is good or bad news...

 

I also found this:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a331788/coldplay-scrapped-lots-of-material-for-new-album.html

 

So they abandoned the stripped down sounding album last year. Fine by me but not those boring lot who only want to hear Parachutes reproduced over and over and over again.

[kittybitty]

LP5 is going to be great. Viva, we all speculated would be called Prospekts March, and it wasnt. Glass of water, Poppyfields , left right left were all speculated to be on Viva and they were not. So calm down they are the biggest band in the world for a reason, they know what they are doing.:lol:

 

Agree with this 100%.

 

We really don't know anything yet. I think we should all take a breath and not worry until Oct 23. If they are going to be tweaking it until the minute it gets taken from their hands then we can't really worry at this point.

[Lauriane]

So they abandoned the stripped down sounding album last year. Fine by me but not those boring lot who only want to hear Parachutes reproduced over and over and over again.

 

I'd like them to keep a stipped down sound because I think it's the way they sound the best. Doesn't mean I want them to do Parachutes again and again :dozey:

[Mimixxx]

Laughing Boys

 

Scan:

 

 

 

Full size in the spoiler:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript:

 

They're skating close to deadlne, but Coldplay are confident that album number 5 will tickle you...

 

The Lowdown

 

Album Title: TBC

Recorded at: The Bakery and The Beehive, London

Producers: Coldplay, Rik Simpson, Markus Dravs, Brian Eno, Dan Green

Release Date: Autumn 2011

Featuring: Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, Charlie Brown

 

It's one week before Coldplay perform their headline spot at Glastonbury and in their North London studio hideaway all is not calm. They should by now have done and dusted their imminent fifth album, due this autumn. Except they haven't. The title is among an

undecided "shortlist of three", the tracklisting "isn't quite there" and they're still mixing and overdubbing extra bits as they think of them. It is, in fact, exactly the same nail biting scenario Q encountered in 2008 when visiting during the 11th hour stages of what became Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.

 

"Yes, typical Coldplay fashion," laughs drummer Will Champion. "We're leaving it to the last minute. We'll keep going until it literally has to leave to get mastered and pressed. They'll have to wrestle it out of our hands."

 

Album five didn't start "in earnest", says Champion, until last March only to be scrapped and started afresh three months later. Early pledges by Martin that this record would be "acoustic" and 'subdued" fell by the wayside. "We're prone to saying things before we write an album that prove to be totally wrong," the drummer explains. "There came a point last summer when we realised we had different types of songs in various styles, so rather than make an album that's all stripped down we decided to throw everything into the one basket. It's true we scrapped stuff, but a lot of those songs became antecedents of what you'll hear on the finished album. It's all part of our musical evolutionary process."

 

While still based in The Bakery, their "secret" studio down a back alley in Hampstead, for this record they expanded their operations to a new rehearsal space over the road nicknamed The Beehive. "It's like an old village hall," describes Champion, "a big space where we can play together. Often when you're making an album you can become alienated from each other in a studio environment. The Beehive was a deliberate move to get us playing together so we could get a feel of how the songs would sound as a live band as we were recording, instead of waiting until the record was done and then going out on the road. Thursday nights were our Beehive nights. We'd be in there playing, almost like a gig. It was, literally, a hive of activity. We were all worker bees."

 

Recording between The Beehive and The Bakery, the album preserves the winning formula of Viva La Vida's production team including Markus Dravs, the group's regular soundmen Dan Green and Rik Simpson, and studio Midas Brian Eno. "For this album Brian's more of a collaborative writer than producer. He was with us more in the early stages when the songs were being created, though his influence is everywhere. He's omnipresent, even when he's not in the building he leaves his aura around for inspiration. Brian is great sewer of seeds whereas Markus is the farmer. He has amazing powers of concentration, way beyond ours."

 

June's preview single, Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, offered the first taste of what Champion promises to be a "vibrant" album, swinging its hips to salsa rhythm cribbed from Peter Allen's 1976 hit I Go To Rio via a dance remix first heard by Martin in the Mexican film Biutiful. Other confirmed songs include the U2-alike Major Minus, the acoustic ballad Us Against The World, Hurts Like Heaven (a likely single thumping to the echoes of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark), the dubby Princess of China and instant classic Charlie Brown. "That was singled out very early on as a dead cert," agrees Champion. "At one point there was a lyric that alluded to Charlie Brown, the Peanuts character, but it's just a name, really."

 

Martin's previous comments about finding inspiration in the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose have indeed left an imprint. "There are a handful of songs on the album about trying to express yourself in a bleak world," confirms Champion. "A lot of Chris's lyrics refer to people standing up for themselves, even though they're being oppressed."

 

It should also please Adam Ant to learn that Coldplay have ditched Viva La Vida's "French revolution look" he insisted they'd stolen from him in favour of an '80s New York graffiti gang image, albeit one which this time round might raise a few eyebrows among the surviving members of The Clash. "Erm it does look a bit Clash, doesn't it?" blushes Champion. "When I saw the press shots the first thing I noticed was how much Chris looked like Joe Strummer."

[Mimixxx]

Full scan to follow tomorrow :)

[FJK_12]

anyway, it's happening guys! LP5 fuzz it's here again and I think this time is back for good.

 

yes yes yes yes yes yes :D

[flickahidalgo]

I think the major problem with people who are disappointed by ETIAW being on the album again is that they want to hear more new songs. Otherwise known as being greedy. Seriously, let's be thankful for the new songs that are going to be released.

[Lauriane]

Full scan to follow tomorrow :)

 

Thank you :)

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

They're skating close to deadlne, but Coldplay are confident that album number 5 will tickle you...

 

The Lowdown

 

Album Title: TBC

Recorded at: The Bakery and The Beehive, London

Producers: Coldplay, Rik Simpson, Markus Dravs, Brian Eno, Dan Green

Release Date: Autumn 2011

Featuring: Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, Charlie Brown

 

It's one week before Coldplay perform their headline spot at Glastonbury and in their North London studio hideaway all is not calm. They should by now have done and dusted their imminent fifth album, due this autumn. Except they haven't. The title is among an

undecided "shortlist of three", the tracklisting "isn't quite there" and they're still mixing and overdubbing extra bits as they think of them. It is, in fact, exactly the same nail biting scenario Q encountered in 2008 when visiting during the 11th hour stages of what became Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.

 

"Yes, typical Coldplay fashion," laughs drummer Will Champion. "We're leaving it to the last minute. We'll keep going until it literally has to leave to get mastered and pressed. They'll have to wrestle it out of our hands."

 

Album five didn't start "in earnest", says Champion, until last March only to be scrapped and started afresh three months later. Early pledges by Martin that this record would be "acoustic" and 'subdued" fell by the wayside. "We're prone to saying things before we write an album that prove to be totally wrong," the drummer explains. "There came a point last summer when we realised we had different types of songs in various styles, so rather than make an album that's all stripped down we decided to throw everything into the one basket. It's true we scrapped stuff, but a lot of those songs became antecedents of what you'll hear on the finished album. It's all part of our musical evolutionary process."

 

While still based in The Bakery, their "secret" studio down a back alley in Hampstead, for this record they expanded their operations to a new rehearsal space over the road nicknamed The Beehive. "It's like an old village hall," describes Champion, "a big space where we can play together. Often when you're making an album you can become alienated from each other in a studio environment. The Beehive was a deliberate move to get us playing together so we could get a feel of how the songs would sound as a live band as we were recording, instead of waiting until the record was done and then going out on the road. Thursday nights were our Beehive nights. We'd be in there playing, almost like a gig. It was, literally, a hive of activity. We were all worker bees."

 

Recording between The Beehive and The Bakery, the album preserves the winning formula of Viva La Vida's production team including Markus Dravs, the group's regular soundmen Dan Green and Rik Simpson, and studio Midas Brian Eno. "For this album Brian's more of a collaborative writer than producer. He was with us more in the early stages when the songs were being created, though his influence is everywhere. He's omnipresent, even when he's not in the building he leaves his aura around for inspiration. Brian is great sewer of seeds whereas Markus is the farmer. He has amazing powers of concentration, way beyond ours."

 

June's preview single, Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, offered the first taste of what Champion promises to be a "vibrant" album, swinging its hips to salsa rhythm cribbed from Peter Allen's 1976 hit I Go To Rio via a dance remix first heard by Martin in the Mexican film Biutiful. Other confirmed songs include the U2-alike Major Minus, the acoustic ballad Us Against The World, Hurts Like Heaven (a likely single thumping to the echoes of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark), the dubby Princess of China and instant classic Charlie Brown. "That was singled out very early on as a dead cert," agrees Champion. "At one point there was a lyric that alluded to Charlie Brown, the Peanuts character, but it's just a name, really."

 

Martin's previous comments about finding inspiration in the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose have indeed left an imprint. "There are a handful of songs on the album about trying to express yourself in a bleak world," confirms Champion. "A lot of Chris's lyrics refer to people standing up for themselves, even though they're being oppressed."

 

It should also please Adam Ant to learn that Coldplay have ditched Viva La Vida's "French revolution look" he insisted they'd stolen from him in favour of an '80s New York graffiti gang image, albeit one which this time round might raise a few eyebrows among the surviving members of The Clash. "Erm it does look a bit Clash, doesn't it?" blushes Champion. "When I saw the press shots the first thing I noticed was how much Chris looked like Joe Strummer."

 

The songs that were mentioned there are all the ones which had been performed live up until Glastonbury. They may have confirmed them live but not on the record. Just a bit of lazy journalism.

[FJK_12]

They're skating close to deadlne, but Coldplay are confident that album number 5 will tickle you...

 

The Lowdown

 

 

 

It's one week before Coldplay perform their headline spot at Glastonbury and in their North London studio hideaway all is not calm. They should by now have done and dusted their imminent fifth album, due this autumn. Except they haven't. The title is among an

undecided "shortlist of three", the tracklisting "isn't quite there" and they're still mixing and overdubbing extra bits as they think of them. It is, in fact, exactly the same nail biting scenario Q encountered in 2008 when visiting during the 11th hour stages of what became Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.

 

 

 

Album five didn't start "in earnest", says Champion, until last March only to be scrapped and started afresh three months later. Early pledges by Martin that this record would be "acoustic" and 'subdued" fell by the wayside. "We're prone to saying things before we write an album that prove to be totally wrong," the drummer explains. "There came a point last summer when we realised we had different types of songs in various styles, so rather than make an album that's all stripped down we decided to throw everything into the one basket. It's true we scrapped stuff, but a lot of those songs became antecedents of what you'll hear on the finished album. It's all part of our musical evolutionary process."

 

While still based in The Bakery, their "secret" studio down a back alley in Hampstead, for this record they expanded their operations to a new rehearsal space over the road nicknamed The Beehive. "It's like an old village hall," describes Champion, "a big space where we can play together. Often when you're making an album you can become alienated from each other in a studio environment. The Beehive was a deliberate move to get us playing together so we could get a feel of how the songs would sound as a live band as we were recording, instead of waiting until the record was done and then going out on the road. Thursday nights were our Beehive nights. We'd be in there playing, almost like a gig. It was, literally, a hive of activity. We were all worker bees."

 

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dont over do it coldplay!

[Mimixxx]

The songs that were mentioned there are all the ones which had been performed live up until Glastonbury. They may have confirmed them live but not on the record. Just a bit of lazy journalism.

 

It's been written like the confirmation follows a conversation with Will though, which may be deliberately misleading...guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

It's been written like the confirmation follows a conversation with Will though, which may be deliberately misleading...guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

Crucially he hasn't been quoted though.

 

That said I do believe ETIAW will be on it. Oh and I hope they're not panicking and doing an X&Y and adding uneccessary production on it!

[Bluejay]

While still based in The Bakery, their "secret" studio...

 

This actually made me laugh :lol:

[MosesTheMarshmallow]

I have to say, I've never had a problem with Eno, but that quote about him always makes me a little suspicious. >_>

[42rock89]

I hope they are doing an X&Y!

 

Really cannot wait, tracklisting and album name next hopefully :D

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

I think this album will make X&Y fans very happy. I love X&Y but I do see it's glaring faults but I feel the synthasizer/poppy electronic sounds will be present in this new album and used to greater effect.

[Lauriane]

I have to say, I've never had a problem with Eno, but that quote about him always makes me a little suspicious. >_>

 

Same here

[FJK_12]

I have to say, I've never had a problem with Eno, but that quote about him always makes me a little suspicious. >_>

 

suspicious of what?

[Mackplay]

I think it sucks that we are going to buy the same song 3 times (4 for me because Im getting 2 copies). ETIAW is a great song, especially when working out.

[jenshack24]

okay. so oct 24 isn't TOO terribly far away. *breathes in, breathes out*

 

 

i just feel bad for my friends. i'm going to be so. annoying. around that time lol

[Mackplay]

Also if Major Minus will be a track, MTM better be one too.

MTM is GENIUS and should be a single/

[busybeeburns]

thanks for the transcript so quickly! :thumbsup:

[Mimixxx]

thanks for the transcript so quickly! :thumbsup:

 

No problem! I had a swanky new toy to write it on :charming: