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When Coldplay took the stage at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on October 22nd to film a performance for Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music, the 200 fans in attendance found themselves in the midst of an unusually intimate set — the Ballroom usually holds 2,000 or more people, and Chris Martin and Co. were in the midst of an arena tour, report Rolling Stone.   The performance and two-part question and answer session premiere online today in 13 countries, but not everything made the final cut, so

Long before he took to selling it on the TV, John Lydon used to take delight in smearing butter on his face to aid the growth of any emerging spots. On the first night of Coldplay’s British tour, Chris Martin had skincare issues of a different nature. Sitting at an upright piano while his band took a breather, the singer bemoaned the luck that brought “a spot the size of the Isle of Wight” in time for their grand homecoming.   Veterans of the punk wars – indeed, anyone who feels that pop music

Fog and freezing temperatures proved no deterrent to the Coldplay legions, who were equally indifferent to the fact that Sheffield Arena is a feat of grim anti-design that makes your local Ikea look like York Minster. The band's three-year absence from British stages had made hearts grow fonder, and the crowd's enthusiastic singalongs were often stirring. "Holy s---, that was good," boggled Chris Martin, after the audience had displayed noteworthy zeal in Fix You.   Martin doesn't look quite rig

First night of their first UK tour in two years and Chris Martin had one thing on his mind. Well, it was actually more on his face. "I've got a spot the size of the Isle Of Wight," chirped the amiable singer at his piano on a stage extension. Appropriate then that he should tinkle into early gem Trouble.   Like said blemish, the quartet spread themselves well about the place at this sold out encounter – including strolling to the back of the venue to play an acoustic stint on a stairwell. Chasin

Despite the global fame of Chris Martin’s group, Liam Gallagher insists Oasis is still the best band on the planet! “I think their fans are boring and ugly and they don’t look like they’re having a good time,” he told Times Online.   Liam doesn’t like any ‘modern’ bands. Not interested. “I play the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, Neil Young, and the Pistols. Maybe a bit of the Roses. Don’t like modern bands.”   Liam, in a recent interview on Loaded Magazine said they aren’t as big as they could

Coldplay's frontman has rediscovered his passion - he may even be enjoying himself. He talks about coming to terms with celebrity, and being just a little bit ‘gangsta'   Two hours before showtime in Denver, a crack team of feng shui masters have been working around the clock to make Coldplay's “family area” a haven of zen security. Or that's how it seems. Low pastel lights, fine wines and wooden bowls with artfully scattered fruit adorn the place. If it weren't all being dismantled and recreate

Looking back at 2008’s major releases, it is safe to say that British rockers Coldplay had one of the biggest albums of the year with “Viva La Vida.” The album has the most paid download sales of all time, and it generally received favorable reviews. They had one of the most memorable iPod commercials in recent memory that got everyone back aboard the Coldplay bandwagon once again. Coldplay were never strangers to success, but with “Viva La Vida” it became cool to like Coldplay once again. Well,

The band's uplifting Honda Center show was the stuff of legend   "Dad. Dad. Dad!"   The kid behind me, who couldn't have been much more than 10, just wasn't getting his pop's attention Tuesday night, a half-hour or so before Coldplay took the stage at Honda Center for the first time in close to three years. His father, who would later holler out a fist-pumping "yes!" every time another smash started, was busy chatting in the aisle. So the kid kept firing, machine-gun-style: "Dad. Dad! DAAAAD!!!"

With this year's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay tried to be cool. They brought in Brian Eno to refine their bombast. They tried Bowie-style funk and shoegaze. They wore military duds that made them look like Arcade Fire, report Pitchfork.   Everything seemed to be in place. But there was a problem: Coldplay's idea of cool and the cultural reality are two different things. This eight-track stopgap EP-- which doubles as a bonus disc on the obligatory Viva fourth-quarter deluxe

Seemingly another unnecessary release by a record label in order to simply cash in; 'Prospekt's March' does little to dissuade from this statement with three of it's eight tracks having featured on the 'Viva La Vida..' album albeit in a slightly different guise, report Altsounds.   Firstly we get 'Life In Technicolor ii' which is simply the lead track on the latest album which was instrumental but this time we get Chris Martin crooning over the top 'I can hear it coming/I can hear the siren soun

Chris Martin and Win Butler’s musical troupes “make me want to do better” says Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers.   Brandon Flowers [pictured] has admitted that the only bands who’ve pushed The Killers to greater heights are Coldplay and Arcade Fire. Speaking to London’s daily free paper Metro, Flowers also revealed that today’s bands are too ego-driven to take tips from their peers. “I think artists of my generation have too big egos to be inspired by each other”, he said. “Although I’m not afr

What you don’t want to do, if you’re as big as Coldplay, is to suddenly start writing new material just when you’ve agreed the release date for your album and the world tour has been slotted into everyone’s diary, reports the Sunday Times.   The wheels of big business are rolling and they won’t wait for your new songs. Coldplay’s way of dealing with this is Prospekts March, an EP that rounds up the material that wasn’t finished in time to get onto Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. There

For one of the largest crowds at EnergySolutions Arena in recent memory, the British rock quartet Coldplay packed as much punch as they could in a surprisingly short set Saturday night.   The show aspired to be one of the biggest spectacles Utah had ever seen, as frontman Chris Martin said himself during the show. While it ultimately fell short of fulfilling Martin's prediction, it was nevertheless a performance with moments that would make even Bono envious.   The 100-minute show, with two enco

Number 1 in 36 countries, a punctuation innovator and an incorrigible flirt, Coldplay's Chris Martin is featured in an article in the January 2009 edition of Q Magazine which hit the shelves recently.   How was 2008 for you? [Confusing the issue already] See we've just been trying to finish this EP, Prospekt's March, so we're completely in the same zone that we were the last time we spoke to you.   You mean, with your head in your hands with worry, mere weeks before you had a Number 1 album in 3

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

It was anyone's guess where Coldplay would pop up at the EnergySolutions Arena on Saturday. Sure the band — vocalist/keyboardist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, drummer Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion — cranked it out on the main stage, but they also grouped together on one of the stage extensions and even appeared in the middle of the crowd in the back corner of the arena.   Regardless where the band played, the nearly sold-out audience loved every note and nuance. Not only did t

Coldplay is such an enormous earner for record label EMI that the company's share price took a beating in the UK when the band delayed the release of its previous album, X&Y. Martin has spoken openly about the pressure that has put on him, but appears to have relaxed about the financial side of the music business, Australia's Herald Sun reports.   "I tried getting wrapped up in it for a while and really thinking about business, but it really didn't fit as a hat to be wearing," he says. "If p

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

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

In this age of media hype, when it seems as if any doofus willing to embarrass himself or herself on TV can get at least the beginnings of a music career, too many events elicit no reaction stronger than "muh." So it was great Wednesday night at American Airlines Center to actually go to an undeniably Important Rock Show.   The air at the sold-out show was charged with anticipation as fans of Coldplay, perhaps the biggest British band currently touring, milled about and texted each other excite

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

Pete Lusby is currently touring the world with Coldplay, promoting Oxfam's campaigns to concert-goers. Joined by teams of dedicated volunteers, Oxfam are raising awareness of, and advising of how we can all take action to overcome, poverty. Coldplaying.com caught up with Pete, via email, to find out more about life on tour, volunteering and Oxfam.   Hi Pete! Thanks for sparing some of your time to answer some questions. How did you become involved with Oxfam? I'd always known about it from the O

Rather than seeing her husband in concert in Oklahoma, Gwyneth Paltrow journeyed instead to the reopened Fontainebleau hotel, in Miami Beach, where she attended the Victoria's Secret fashion show.   The hotel's owner, Jeff Soffer, a billionaire bachelor, flew her to the event aboard his private jet. The 35-year-old actress did visit Chris Martin in Dallas on Sunday after leaving Miami. Chris's spokesman, for his part, assures the media that the couple's marriage is strong enough to withstand th

Before last night, Houstonist may have told you, "Eh...they're OK live, but we haven't been blown away" if you'd asked whether or not you should go see the show. But, that was before last night. Although we weren't blown away (think David Bowie at The Woodlands in 2006), we gained a much better appreciation for Coldplay as live entertainers, report the Houstonist.   The crowd was immediately engaged as the band took the stage playing Life in Technicolor. The energy continued to mount sending a t