According to Music Week and Radio 2 chief Jeff Smith, Coldplay will play an intimate gig at Dingwalls on 15 December for Radio 2.

 

However Coldplay are scheduled to perform in Germany that day so...??

 

"Meanwhile, Music Week can today reveal that Coldplay’s In Concert special will take place at intimate London venue Dingwalls on Thursday, December 15 – a space the Oxford band first played in 1998 as they tried to fund their 2000 debut, Parachutes.

 

That will be followed on Thursday, December 22 by a Christmas special In Concert with Michael Bublé, with support from X Factor finalist Rebecca Ferguson.

 

“With Coldplay, it’s taking them back to kind of where they came from. Although it’s not their hometown, it will have the same feel as Elbow in Manchester,” said BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music head of music Jeff Smith.

 

“Michael Bublé will end this year’s season of 12 In Concert events. The pretext is that it will very much have a Christmas feel.”

 

Will Young will play Radio 2’s first December In Concert gig on the 1st of the month."

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1047517&c=1

 

It could be that it's being broadcast on the 15th and recorded before, as the lovely Denise just pointed out to me. We'll see!

So I checked out the listings for Dingwalls.

 

The only days that both the venue and CP are both free are Thur 8, Sat 10 or Tues 13.

 

Although Tue 6 is listed as "private event" which could be it

 

http://www.dingwalls.com/listings/

Just confirmed :)

Title changed!! :D

 

London Dingwalls show for BBC Radio 2 announced

17 November 2011 12:31 pm

Band to return to the venue of their 1998 show

 

 

Good afternoon. We're very pleased to announce that Coldplay will perform a special Christmas show at London's Dingwalls venue for BBC Radio 2 In Concert on Thursday, 15 December. The show will be broadcast live 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.

 

The free tickets for the show will be given away via bbc.co.uk/radio2 from 24-28 November.

 

Dingwalls is the Camden venue which was hired by Coldplay's first manager (and now fifth member) Phil Harvey while he was still a student, for a Coldplay show on 25 May 1998. The money raised that night helped pay for the recording of the Safety EP.

 

Anchorman

 

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=853

But they're playing in Germany that day! :thinking: Unless it's before...

But they're playing in Germany that day! :thinking: Unless it's before...

 

I hope that doesn't cause great exhaustion in Cologne...

But they're playing in Germany that day! :thinking: Unless it's before...

sometimes I think they've got a teleporter with all the travelling they've been doing, maybe they can use that! :lol:

I hope that doesn't cause great exhaustion in Cologne...

Yeah I was thinking the same... :\

sometimes I think they've got a teleporter with all the travelling they've been doing, maybe they can use that! :lol:

 

:lol:

 

Maybe it'll be suspiciously dark and we won't really be able to see anyone's faces, just the sound of the band live (from Cologne) and Coldplay shaped people mincing about. :P

From twitter

 

To clarify, the London Dingwalls show for @BBCRadio2 will broadcast on 15 Dec (and be recorded a few days earlier) http://cldp.ly/cpbbcr2 A

14 seconds ago

Please let it be between 8 and 12 December!

They should rephrase the announcement text then... that says "live broadcast".

^ They did :P

 

Good afternoon. We're very pleased to announce that Coldplay will perform a special Christmas show at London's Dingwalls venue for BBC Radio 2 In Concert, which will be broadcast on Thursday, 15 December (having been recorded a few days earlier). 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.

Oooooh, Christmas show :wacky:

 

Too bad I've used a lot of my karma and am not very lucky with lotteries :P

I just hope it's not the 13th, we want a fresh and fine band in Paris the 14th :D

I think that "Private Event" listed for Tue 6 Dec is most likely.

Coldplay to return to their roots

 

Coldplay are set to play an intimate gig at a venue where they first played 13 years ago, it has been announced.

 

The band, who are scheduled to perform a string of stadium dates next summer, will play Camden's Dingwalls venue next month in a free show for BBC Radio 2.

 

The group, fronted by Chris Martin, first played at the venue in May 1998, to raise money for the recording of the band's first release, The Safety EP.

 

The gig takes place on 6 December and will be broadcast a week later.

 

Flyers for the 1998 London show introduced the band as The Coldplay, with tickets costing just £4.

 

Two years later they released their debut album.

 

Since then Coldplay have had several chart-topping hits and played hundreds of sold-out concerts across the world.

 

Tickets to see the group on their stadium tour next summer, which go on sale tomorrow, will cost upwards of £49.50.

 

Meanwhile Radio 2 has announced that its annual Folk Awards is set to move to The Lowry in Salford next year, marking the first time the event has been staged outside London.

 

link

Aha, called it! :P

Free BBC R2 show at Dingwalls

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15773734

"... the free tickets will be given away..."

 

They don't really describe how they will be given away. First 500 callers? Enter your name in a hat a certain amount of time beforehand? People camping outside the BBC Radio studios for the longest amount of time? Hmmm...

I'll happily camp out! I'm quite the woodsman :P

I'll happily camp out! I'm quite the woodsman :P

Yes, but would you be a happy concreteswoman?

 

/ totally invented that term just now

sometimes I think they've got a teleporter with all the travelling they've been doing, maybe they can use that! :lol:

 

nope, they've stolen Hermione's hour glass thingy and are now able to be in 2 places at once

nope, they've stolen Hermione's hour glass thingy and are now able to be in 2 places at once

 

All the time-turners were destroyed during the the battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996. Maybe they made new ones :wacko:

This sounds like an amaaaazing thing to go to :wideeyed:

:freak: