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The slightly more polished full-length Stars of CCTV was released last July and went straight into the top 10 of the album charts. It earned the band a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize.   "First, we were playing in New York when we heard about the Mercury. We were just about to play a gig in a venue called The Mercury Lounge, so we thought we were being given some sort of award just for playing the gig. It was weird. Then, o­n the night of the awards, we lost out by just o­ne vote o­n winn

Have you heard about the weekly gig that’s going down a storm with music fans and attracting record company representatives?   It doesn’t take place in a venue in Manchester city centre, but at Bar Amp in Sale. Most of the bands who play on a Thursday night are unsigned and organisers Simon Williamson and Alex McCann say they always try to give priority to acts from the Greater Manchester area. But the event has also attracted artists from as far away as Belgium and the United States. Why has th

Coldplay's fifth album - Mylo Xyloto - has been released worldwide today (including the US now we've heard!) some three and a bit years after Viva La Vida, to another huge wave of media and Coldplayer reviews. Read on for some more of your first impressions of the new album - including the latest poll results on what you thought of it. So far 44% of visitors to the main site and 30% of people on the messageboard gave the album full marks - but there are votes right across the board. Read on for

In between the chaos and excitement of the festival headlining appearances, Coldplay's album will be finished by around the end of July, according to Guy Berryman on Twitter. Guy was quoted as saying, "Only a few more weeks left before we have to finish the album. Exciting. Guy." Add to this the news that Chris Martin had already told Ryan Seacrest that it [LP5] will be done in two weeks, and details revealed in six. Following last week's release of the Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall EP, even fif

Simon Williams is the founder of Fierce Panda records, the much-loved UK independent label which released Coldplay's Brothers & Sisters EP in April 1999. Coldplay.com called him up to chat about his memories of working with Coldplay. This interview comes a couple of days after it was announced on the official site that Coldplay's former label will release Goldheart Assembly's debut album.   Back in 1999, Coldplay released the Brothers & Sisters EP, via UK independent label Fierce Panda.

Mark Ronson Drafts In Lily Allen and Robbie Williams For Album   Producer extraordinaire Mark Ronson has drafted in the likes of Robbie Williams and Lily Allen to appear on his second album. The aptly titled ‘Versions’ is released on April 16 and features 12 classic songs recreated and remashed by the acclaimed producer.   The album will be preceded by a limited edition, number 10” single on January 29, which sees samples of the late ODB layered over reinterpretations of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’

Wearing cowboy boots and riding in a jeep, Richard Tipper, 42, an environmental scientist from Edinburgh, braved Zapatista bandits and tropical rainstorms last week to check how Coldplay’s latest releases are doing in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.   Trees, not CDs. The rock band, led by the singer Chris Martin [pictured], are the latest pop stars to “carbon neutralise” their music by paying for enough saplings to absorb the carbon dioxide produced by their latest album and tour. They ha

An embarrassing pant-flashing incident live on stage has kept Coldplay’s feet on the ground. Guitarist Jonny Buckland admitted: “It was in America. Splitting my trousers on the run back from the C-stage bit was pretty hair-raising.”   And the quartet are still coming to terms with their success. Jonny, 31, added: “I had an awfully embarrassing moment with somebody, who I won’t name, when I waved to them. Then I thought: ‘Oh no, you idiot. You don’t know her. You have only seen her on TV.’”   The

Jonny Buckland, guitarist with the right-on ‘green’ Coldplay, has sent a rush of blood to the heads of conservationists in his manor.   He’s just been given the go ahead to chop down two trees at this house in leafy Hampstead, North London, so he can build an extention. Perhaps he ran out of room for all the band’s discs and awards.     Source: Daily Mirror 11/09/2007

The music of Coldplay is the most likely to send you to sleep, according to a survey held by hotel chain Travelodge.   In the poll, called The Kip Parade, the hotel surveyed 2,248 people asking them which band’s songs are the most likely to send them into a slumber. The rest of the top five was made up by James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Take That and Norah Jones. Jordon’s autobiography was voted as the book most likely to lull readers into sleep.   Leigh McCarron of Travelodge said: "The research sho

Completely unannounced - and quite possibly on the advice of Beyoncé - Coldplay decided to plonk a new track on the internet this week called Midnight, writes Digital Spy.   Okay, so Beyoncé probably didn't have a hand in it, but once we recovered from the initial shock of there being new Coldplay available for our ears, we had to try and decipher the change in sound the band have seemingly taken.     Digital Spy continue: Their previous album Mylo Xyloto heard them sprinkle pop electronics

Scotland's Sunday Mail are backstage at the Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf (27th August) when rock superstar Chris Martin of Coldplay pops the question. Billy, what do you think we should do next? Where should we go with all this?" he asks.   I almost fall off my chair, scrambling to find words of advice. It's just minutes before Coldplay are to perform before a 50,000 sell-out crowd at the home of German soccer team Fortuna. The singer fixes me a stare but seems satisfied when I tell him to cement

Where is the love? Coldplay has it   Centric, The Agency of Change, believes that the Oracle of Coldplay.com fame is artificially intelligent, and that Coldplay spread more love than, well, love itself. Here is their article:   I may be the only one here thinking that you never see the word l-o-v-e in business discussions. You don’t hear it in meetings or in elevators. And that’s a shame because if you think about it, love matters. And it makes me angry when companies who have the love but don’t

Phil Harvey is a member of Coldplay, one of the most popular rock bands on the planet. He also is an aspiring psychologist and a volunteer for a small mental health charity in London. Phil talks exclusively to Psychminded's Adam James in an online interview published today:   Six years ago an application to do voluntary work dropped through the letterbox of Upbeat, a small community mental health project in Camden, London. But this request was different. It was from someone called Phil Harvey. A

Hotpress.com got a sneak preview of Coldplay's musically adventurous new EP, which is due for release from November 19th. Read on for the full verdict...   For a long time Coldplay seemed determined to live up to Alan McGee’s snide “bedwetters music” jibe, making a succession of albums that affirmed their reputation as the go-to guys for tear-stained indie-rock introspection. On occasion they’ve flirted with change, but really it has been little more than a subtle batting of the eyelids, gestur

The morning after four bombs detonate in London, Chris Martin climbs aboard a Number Twenty-nine red double-decker bus and up its winding stairs. As we slowly putter south down Camden Road, Martin whips back the top of his hooded sweat shirt, smiles and says, "I haven't done this in so long."   He's not talking about riding public transportation but rather about a visit to his old neighborhood, where he and Coldplay first started writing, rehearsing and performing the songs that would shape the

British rock band Coldplay, who burst onto the music scene with its 1999 (2000 actually - ed.) album, Parachutes, is often compared to a little rock band called U2.   With lead singer Chris Martin and the songs that the band writes, I can understand the comparison.   Martin, like U2's Bono, sings with great compassion and with that it is no surprise that Coldplay's latest single, "Talk," is about having compassion for others. Band members Guy Berryman and Jon Buckland (lead and bass guitar) pr

OK, OK, I take it all back. Having endured both of the Rivers of Mud Glastos I suddenly find myself feeling quite happy to be sat on dry land here in the sweltering heat of London.   And while there may well be storms brewing here, there's no way it can ever be as bad as this. This makes those previous wet mudfests look postively Saharan. In fact, it's making a laughing stock of Coldplay's Solio gadget/iPod charger.   Yes, the country's most inoffensive tune crooners have got together with Solio

To the tunes of “How Long'’ from Coldplay [i think they mean ‘Speed of Sound’] Audi took the wraps of the second generation TT coupe. When it was released seven years ago the original TT helped revive both the sports coupe and convertible markets.   Company designers readily admit freshening an icon such as the TT was no easy task without straying from the design that several manufacturers have copied since.   When it goes on sale in Australia next month the TT coupe will be available with a 2.0

EMI is the latest in a long line of businesses bought with junk-rated debt where the owners face pressure to surrender much or all of their investment to banks and other debt holders, according to private equity experts, reports the Guardian this week.   Terra Firma, the buyout owner behind the troubled music group home to Coldplay and Kylie Minogue, is asking fund investors to stump up an additional £105m to shore up this ill-fated business. Without this so-called "equity cure", buyout bosses w

Stepping way out of their comfort zone earned them big sales and an Album of the Year nomination - Coldplay's Album of the Year Grammy-nominated Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends is fairly remarkable, report MTV.   And not just because it was the most commercially successful rock album released in 2008 (it sold more than 2.2 million copies here in the U.S.), or because it topped the charts in something like 17 countries worldwide. Though, in today's doom-and-gloom industry, those stats

This week only, stream the entire Last Kiss Soundtrack, including 'Warning Sign' by Coldplay.   Check it out here:   http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds?defaultTab=4&ncid=AOLMUS00050000000012   [thanks Jessie]

He's been banging on about his love of Saints for years. Now one of the city’s most famous sons, Coldplay’s Will Champion is happy to beat the drum and lead fellow fans in the fight to save the club in its hour of need, reports the Southern Daily Echo.   The drummer – pictured left with youngsters from Cantell School in Bassett, Southampton – is backing the Daily Echo’s Save Our Saints campaign, calling on all fans to pull together to ensure all is done on and off the pitch to avoid the disaster

On the eve of Coldplay's Australian tour, drummer Will Champion has come out fighting over allegations the band plagiarised a Joe Satriani tune.   Coldplay, who are being sued for copyright infringement by the guitar geek, have labelled the accusation as "ridiculous" and "totally unfounded". In an interview with Confidential about their impending Australian tour, Champion was initially reluctant to speak at length about the accusation (no doubt at the behest of the band's lawyers). "I don't real

Matt Bellamy, Vladamir Putin, Jennifer Lawrence and an elegant arena at the Ace Hotel Theater for a wonderful Coldplay show in downtown Los Angeles. No, the controversial Russian prime minister wasn't present at the show but Chris Martin dropped an amusing reference about Vlad smoking a cigar while listening to Coldplay on his wireless radio! He also gave some love to the Muse frontman, Matt Bellamy who was a guest at the show. Jennifer Lawrence, who is rumoured to be dating Chris Martin was spo