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The past 24 hours have been exuberant for many Coldplayers, as news broke of Chris Martin performing at a Cafe/Bar in New Delhi, India! Not only did footage of the intimate solo performance appear online but rumours of Coldplay appearing in India for the first time, were rife. It's believed that the British band could choose the Indian capital as a venue for their next tour. Here's a summary of everything we know, in a nutshell: The Coldplay frontman performed at the Summerhouse Café in New

KARACHI: Almost every young person in Karachi laments one thing: we don't host proper music concerts. Madonna will never come here to gyrate her hips at the National Stadium, Coldplay will not sign copies of their biography at Liberty Books and System of a Down would rather go Down Under than make a pit stop at the PACC.   This is precisely why the Bryan Adams concert on Jan 29 is such a big deal. "The only thing that sucks is that Shehzad Roy is going to open the show," said an ungrateful A'Le

With their creative straitjacket cast off, Coldplay are now playing their best ever shows whipping the stage crew at football. Smart arses.   Nineteen thousand thoroughly satisfied customers are still pouring out into the night after the first two sold-out nights at the Manchester Evening News Arena by the time Coldplay's bassist Guy Berryman is back at his hotel bar – import lager in hand, cadging a smoke on the balcony.   Only guitarist Jonny Buckland, who's “sort of from the North” according

They are the biggest-selling band in British rock today but also one of the most criticised. Have the slings and arrows stopped us from getting to know the real Coldplay? The Sunday Times joined Coldplay in Japan to find out - and we now have the full transcript of the article entitled "They've Got A Ticket To Stride" below - which is also over at WikiColdplay in protected archive format. Enjoy!   If you are going to mess up a song - and I mean really balls it up to the point where you have to

Oasis are top of a bizarre new chart to find out which artist is selling the most unofficial concert tickets in the UK.   Tixdaq.com are company behind the new chart which officially starts next week. They gather ticket information based on quantity and vastly over-inflated ticket prices on websites such as eBay, Get Me In and Viagogo. Unsurprisingly, the top 5 is made up of big names with Oasis at 1, Kings of Leon at 2, Stevie Wonder at 3, Kayne West at 4 and Coldplay at 5.   Kings of Leon are

Coldplay have announced this week the digital release of its Mylo Xyloto comic book series, based on the 2011 album. The series is published by Matt Groening's Bongo Comics Group.   Written by filmmaker Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) with help from Coldplay, the six-part saga depicts an Orwellian society ruled by a supremacist government that controls the population via fear tactics and over-stimulation through media and propaganda.   Issues 1-3 are now available

As we take a short break in the Mylo Xylotour proceedings (next show is Toronto on 23 July - already on 31 pages of discussion!), we focus on a nicely written article from the guys over at Inteference (a U2 blog) who have blogged an article this month entitled "Coldplay Inch Closer to U2 in Achieving Authentic Arena Rock Spectacle," which, as the title suggests, Coldplay are getting ever nearer to achieving parity, in a 'live concert production' sense, with their Irish counterparts. Read on for

Clear Channel has launched KPTL (Capital 106.3) in Des Moines, which will focus on triple-A as well as local Iowa acts. The station will target a 25-54 audience.   KDBR (the Bus), which previously occupied the 106.3 frequency, will move to a stronger signal at 100.3. The top 40 station known as "My 100" was dropped at the locale last month and until the flip to Capital, the Bus was being simulcast at 106.9 and 100.3.   "People who liked KFMG, and before that KDMG, would like this station," said

Clear Channel has launched KPTL (Capital 106.3) in Des Moines, which will focus on triple-A as well as local Iowa acts. The station will target a 25-54 audience.   KDBR (the Bus), which previously occupied the 106.3 frequency, will move to a stronger signal at 100.3. The top 40 station known as "My 100" was dropped at the locale last month and until the flip to Capital, the Bus was being simulcast at 106.9 and 100.3.   "People who liked KFMG, and before that KDMG, would like this station," said

It is the afternoon of Coldplay's feverishly anticipated concert at Metro last weekend, and singer Chris Martin is for the first time hearing a blow-by-blow description of the ticket sale that preceded it.   Hundreds of fans waited in line at the club's box office for hours the previous weekend, only to be shut out of tickets when the show sold out in mere seconds. Within hours, the $23 tickets were being auctioned by scalpers for $700 or more on eBay.   Martin tilts back on a footstool in his h

Warner Music Group has finalized the integration of Parlophone’s roster into its U.S. label structure following the acquisition of the record label from Universal Music Group for £487 million (about $765 million) earlier this year, Billboard are reporting today.Under the new structure, Atlantic Records will distribute new releases from three additional artists – Coldplay, Tinie Tempah and, through dance imprint Big Beat, David Guetta.Warner Bros. Records will inherit the majority of the Parlopho

Is it theft, borrowing, unconscious plagiarism or sheer coincidence? Coldplay is being taken to court over allegations it pinched a tune by US guitarist Joe Satriani. Satriani claims Coldplay's song Viva la Vida is a direct rip-off of his melody If I Could Fly and he wants any and all profits from the Coldplay hit.   The two songs have been overlayed on the video sharing website YouTube just to prove the point. Coldplay says any similarity is entirely coincidental and that Satriani did not write

Ben Folds, Aimee Mann also join in special cameos, ring tone promotions   On a recent episode of CSI: NY, Detective Danny Messer's cell phone rang with a familiar tone. "Coldplay?" his partner asks. "Yeah," says Messer. "It's called 'Talk' -- something my girlfriend's really good at." In two commercial breaks that followed, CBS ran ads for the ring tone used on the show - the second single from Coldplay's multiplatinum X&Y -- before it was available elsewhere. No money changed hands for the

What does it take to draw jaded Hollywood hipsters out to the barren Southern California desert besides outlet malls, gleaming Indian casinos and the promise of cheap methamphetamines?   Six years ago, the organizers of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival bet that an enormous two-day European-style concert that bills alternative-rock heroes alongside buzz-worthy new bands and fashionable electronic artists would do the trick. Since then, nearly 50,000 music fans from all over the world have fa

Coldplay's Viva La Vida tour continued on last night as they played at the DTE Energy Music Theatre, Detroit, MI. Chris Martin apologized for the concert coinciding with Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals. The setlist was the same as previous nights.   [discussion] [photos] [videos] [wiki reviews/setlist] (updated over the next 24-48 hours)   Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Yellow Glass Of Water Cemeteries Of London 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing God Put A Smile Upon You

According to MyHeritage.com...   Chris Martin looks like:   David Spade M. Shadows Ronan Keating Roman Polanski Alan Rickman Bjorn Ulvaeus Zac Hanson Brian Eno Jonny Buckland looks like:   Vin Diesel Jacques Villeneuve Sharon Stone David Beckham Ricky Schroder Jesse McCartney Vigo Mortensen Ben Harper Al Pacino   Guy Berryman´s face is like:   Ben Affleck Jim Carrey Peter Jackson Josh Duhamel Ricky Ullman Matt Dillon Tom Welling Sebastien Loeb Gael Garcia Bernal   Will Champion looks like:   V

It wasn't to be Coldplay's night at this year's BRIT Awards, as British rock duo, Royal Blood surprisingly pipped their fellow countrymen to the award for 'Best Group'.   The Mylo Xyloto era of 3-4 years ago proved to be a fruitful time in Coldplay's rich BRIT Award's history. The often understated Ghost Stories album of 2014 has not received as much commercial acclaim as it's predecessor but the band will be hoping for bigger and better things when A Head Full Of Dreams, their upcoming seventh

As Van Andel Arena celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend, managers are well aware they must stare down plenty of competition in years ahead.   But do they also have to worry about a 15,000-seat outdoor amphitheater right in the arena's backyard? After years of kicking around the idea, the Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention Arena Authority is on the verge of a campaign to build West Michigan's largest outdoor concert venue, probably in Millennium Park.   You have to admit, it would be s

Liveplasma.com, an online site for music and, more recently, movies, graphically 'maps' shoppers' potential interests. A search for music by Coldplay, for example, brings up a graphical representation of what previous customers of Coldplay music have purchased, presented in clusters of circles of various sizes.   The bigger the circle, the greater the popularity of that band. The circles are clustered into orbits representing groups of customers with similar preferences.   "This is a way of show

Coldplay have now met the Australian band that supposedly inspired their fashion sense, reports the Courier Mail. After the group's blue, green, red and purple jackets drew Wiggles comparisons at last month's Grammy Awards in LA, lead singer Chris Martin chatted with three of the original Hot Potato singers - Jeff Fatt, Murray Cook and Anthony Field - after Coldplay's Acer Arena gig last week.   Martin and wife Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple, 4, is said to be a huge fan of the kiddies' group.

Coldplay were named the most powerful Brits in a new survey published by Forbes magazine Wednesday. They arrived on the list this year with a debut at the 15th spot, following a sold-out world tour and a smash hit album Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends.   The top ranking is based on income over the past 12 months as well as web references, press clippings, broadcast mentions and major magazine covers devoted to the celebrity, Forbes said.   Superstar actress and humanitarian advocate An

The multimedia section on our forums, the well known goldmine for Coldplay fans, was given a boost by the multimedia month we hosted during August, which is part of our monthly contributor contest, where prizes can be won such as Member of the month, deluxe editions of 'Ghost Stories' and sets of 'Ghost Stories' buttons. Everyone wins infact as we have seen a barrage of new Coldplay uploads since the start of August and now Coldplaying.com presents to you, the top 10 Coldplay multimedia posted o

It seems sweet chocolate-covered treats called goji berries could be the answer behind Coldplay's powerhouse Australian performances at the end of 2012, reports Sunshine Coast Daily this weekend.   When Coldplay touched down in Brisbane for its stadium show in December, the sweet treat was just what was needed to keep the energy levels up to play for the 50,000-strong crowd. And proprietor David Bruckner could not be happier. The band tried super-food goji berries made by Mr Bruckner's business

The Recording Academy have announced the Grammy 2014 nominations on Friday during a concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles - and Coldplay have been nominated for two awards. Put forward are Atlas for 'Best Song Written For Visual Media' and Live 2013 for 'Best Music Film'. Latest discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum now [thanks CdColdplay, oldmuckers]The 56th Annual Grammy Awards nomination presentation was given almost as much fanfare as the ceremony itself this year at LA's Nokia T

It has taken the music industry a while to catch up with changing consumer behaviour. EMI has taken longer than most. The decline of the old album model and the rise of the iPod culture hastened its takeover by Guy Hands’s Terra Firma in 2007. Last week Hands wrote off half the £2.3 billion he invested, accepting that he is likely to make a loss on the deal.   Still, Leoni-Sceti, used to selling Cillit Bang stain remover and Airwick air freshener during his 16 years at Reckitt Benckiser, believ