Articles

The stars were shining at Coldplay's Saturday-night concert at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA. Spotted backstage coming and going throughout the show and at the VIP afterparty were Tom Cruise, Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin and, of course, frontman Chris Martin's wife Gwyneth Paltrow, writes E! Online.   Meanwhile, director Jon Favreau hosted the Iron Man sequel wrap party last night for about 400 people at new celeb hot spot Playhouse in Hollywood. Favreau spent most of t

A row has broken out over plans to fence off parts of Crystal Palace Park for weeks at a time to stage rock gigs and show movies.   The London Development Agency (LDA) wants to attract more people to the area and has applied to Bromley council for a licence to stage an unlimited number of events including concerts,dance performances,circuses and film screenings.   Coldplay played two packed nights at the neighbouring National Sports Centre in June 2005, two years after Bruce Springsteen did the

For 20 years, the Cubs have played the same pregame song while the pitcher is warming up, but on Friday and Saturday, it was "Have a Nice Day" by Bon Jovi.   The Cubs now will rotate four or five songs in an attempt to be more contemporary. Among the other titles are "Clocks" by Coldplay and "Beautiful Day" by U2.   Read the full article here

For 20 years, the Cubs have played the same pregame song while the pitcher is warming up, but on Friday and Saturday, it was "Have a Nice Day" by Bon Jovi.   The Cubs now will rotate four or five songs in an attempt to be more contemporary. Among the other titles are "Clocks" by Coldplay and "Beautiful Day" by U2.   Read the full article here

DISBELIEF greeted the revelation that Jonathan Ross gets £720,000 a year - for just three hours work a week. But Wossy's whopping wage seems like chickenfeed compared with the earnings of others in our Showbiz Rich List.   We can reveal that the top earner on TV is 46-year-old Simon Cowell.   He is joint ninth overall and the highest-placed non-musician in the Daily Mirror's Rich List of stars whose finances are based in Britain and Ireland.   Rock/pop Bands Annual income from records, tours et

DISBELIEF greeted the revelation that Jonathan Ross gets £720,000 a year - for just three hours work a week. But Wossy's whopping wage seems like chickenfeed compared with the earnings of others in our Showbiz Rich List.   We can reveal that the top earner on TV is 46-year-old Simon Cowell.   He is joint ninth overall and the highest-placed non-musician in the Daily Mirror's Rich List of stars whose finances are based in Britain and Ireland.   Rock/pop Bands Annual income from records, tours et

No matter who may be the top selling act this year, alternative rock band Coldplay puts on the best show. On Sunday, Nov. 16. the band played at a sold-out Ford Stadium in Oklahoma City. Tonight they play in Dallas at the American Airlines Center.   Coldplay's concert bombards the senses with visual effects, incredible music and even massive amounts of confetti that pour from the ceiling. More importantly, the band is entertaining, especially when front man Chris Martin uses his humility for com

Dallas Friday night, Coldplay began at the end. More precisely, the convergence of a confetti deluge, enormous balloons, columns of smoke, blitz of lasers and thousands of vivid, blinking lights adorning the wrists (a LED-powered freebie known as a "xyloband") of a sold-out American Airlines Center felt like the climax of an epic performance, the culmination of two hours' worth of music and sensory overload, writes the DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) website today, in a review article of Coldplay's firs

It was a magical evening at the American Airlines Center on Friday night as fans filled the sold-out arena for the first night of Coldplay’s two day stay in Dallas, writes the Pegasus News website this weekend, in a review article of Coldplay's Dallas shows (on Friday and Saturday night - 22nd & 23rd June). Catch up on the latest tweets, pictures, videos from the shows at the Coldplay Live forum here (22nd - Friday) and here (23rd - Saturday) now. Read on to see what Pegasus News thought of

DALLAS — Coldplay’s ambitions are finally being matched by its sound. While the British quartet has always aimed to be among the top arena-dominating rock acts, its sensitive, occasionally maudlin and delicate ballads hadn’t made the strongest case.   That said, the group’s live shows have been raved about for years. Goopy tunes or not, Coldplay is nothing if not audience-pleasing. Yet Wednesday night at American Airlines Center, there was a different air about the Grammy-winning act, almost as

British rocker Dani Filth wants to go head-to-head with Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin in a boxing match.   The founding member of extreme metal band Cradle Of Filth has branded indie frontman Martin a "sap" saying he would be his first choice to have a fight with. He says, "Probably that c**t Chris Martin from Coldplay. I wouldn't even wait for the bell. "Absolutely everything about him makes me want to puke. He's such a sap, and the way that he wrote that s**t about 'freedom' on his hand was p

Add to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin’s talent that of tightrope walker. Monday, before what appeared to be a full house, the Coldplay singer deftly managed to be both arena-rock ringmaster and earnest songsmith. If you think that’s an easy wire to walk, well, then you’ve never tried to do it yourself, reports The Buffalo News.   Coldplay has been touring its Gram-my- winning, multi-platinum “Viva la Vida” album for more than a year, which means that the band should by now be both bushed and sic

Big, glorious rock concerts are like magic shows. You don't want to look too hard for the invisible wires and trap doors. Just watch and listen. So it was Monday night at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, with Coldplay and 12,000 people lustily cheering all of the tricks, as familiar as they may be, reports the Democrat and Chronicle.   There was the confetti-filled balloon drop, retina-searing lasers, beery sing-alongs by the audience and the entire band exiting and re-appearing on a tiny sta

When you walk into Darien Lake’s Performing Arts Center on Monday evening for the highly anticipated Coldplay concert, you’ll be handed a free copy of the band’s live album, “LeftRightLeftRight", reports Buffalo News today, in an exclusive new interview with Jonny Buckland. Here's their article:   Of course, you might already have the album; the band has been offering it for free download via its Web site for the past few weeks. At a time when the mantra in the music business seems to be “Get wh

David Bowie has been getting arty in the name of charity, designing a personalised mug for charity artwork project, Whatever It Takes.   The singer's artistic, personalised mug features a self-portrait and his interpretation of a symbol of hope conveys his message of 'Peace Thru Art.' Monies raised will be donated to Bowie's choice of charities, including Trade Plus Aid and Save The Children.   Bowie is a supporter of Whatever It Takes, whose aim is to "sell merchandise with a meaning." The char

In 1966, David Gilmour was a struggling musician playing tiny Paris venues such as Le Bilboquet with his band, Flowers. Forty years on, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd is playing the third date of his solo tour in the French capital to promote his No 1 album, On an Island. Fans are begging for tickets outside Le Grand Rex, a very plush equivalent of the Brixton Academy.   Just when you think you're drifting into coffee- table wonderland, the guitarist jolts you with the menacing "Take a Breat

Top violinist Davide Rossi was exclusively interviewed by Coldplayzone.it in which he answers questions on working with Coldplay on their last album 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends'. The musician talks also about coming back to the studio, to record the forthcoming Prospekt's March EP.   Rossi revealed that the EP would contain three songs featuring his Violectra and the EP itself is a quality release, full of fresh and powerful songs. He said in his interview, "In my opinion... the

Thanks to elguig13, you can view his tribute videos to Daylight and Politik.   You seem to be having a few difficulties with the lyrics there my friend, let me help you with a couple of useful links ;)   Daylight lyrics Politik lyrics

Further to our earlier news story, Technology giant Apple has reached a deal with the Beatles to end the dispute over the use of the Apple name.   Apple Inc will now take full control of the Apple brand and license certain trademarks back to the Beatles' record company Apple Corps for continued use. The two companies have been wrangling over the use of the Apple name and logo for more than 25 years. The legal battle over the trademark will now end.   Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said the co

December 3rd, 2007   In 2003… It was announced that Chris Martin of Coldplay was about to become a dad. His girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow was pregnant.   Source: MTV.ca  

What is it with April 14th and baby talk? Exactly one year ago we reported that Chris Martin might have to start thinking about changing nappies/daipers in the middle of the Viva tour after The Sun reported that Gwyneth Paltrow planned to have another baby.   Well, fast forward exactly 365 days (no leap year this time) to April 14th 2010 and exactly the same headlines are being written. Despite revealing her baby blues torment after the birth of her second baby Moses, it seems that it hasn’t pu

DENVER - For those of you just joining us from 1999, allow us to introduce you to Coldplay-one of the biggest bands in the world, reports 9News Colorado.   Their sensitive pop singles are ubiquitous across generational lines, their first three albums sold tens of millions of copies, and the fate of a gigantic record label (Capitol/EMI) is said to pretty much rest in their hands. But what the band really wants, of course, is to be taken seriously as artists.   "Viva La Vida" is their latest albu

They're a punching bag for critics and a punch line for comedians. Pick the put-down, and they've been on the receiving end: insufferable, unoriginal, pompous, arrogant and - worst of all - boring, reports Rocky Mountain News.   And yet they've sold 40 million albums, routinely pack arenas and once even affected a company's stock by changing a record's release date. That's the dichotomy of Coldplay, which has a date at the Pepsi Center, Denver tonight.   At best, their critics have slammed the e

At Coldplay’s not-quite-sold-out concert at the Pepsi Center on Friday night, Chris Martin was manic and playful and athletic and weird and animated and, yes, a little bit over-the-top.   It was refreshing to see that the once-stiff Martin has evolved as a performer – a performer who plays and dances and jumps on stage when he’s not sitting at his piano stool, rocking back and forth like a possessed idiot savant. Yes, this is the same Martin that has been pegged as a pretentious, sometimes-ridic

At the risk of echoing past reviews of Coldplay, it's really easy to forget what a good band it is. The songs all over the radio and on the group's four albums are so neatly tailored that it's always a refreshing surprise to see Coldplay live and be rocked, be it the early years at the Fillmore Auditorium or Friday night's show at the Pepsi Center, reports Rocky Mountain News.   Granted, Coldplay salted the set early with hits, including the classic Clocks, which has become more muscular with ag