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Magnificent Coldplay at Casino De Paris Coldplay completed yet another wonderful show as part of their short, but sweet Ghost Stories intimate tour. The crowd of French Coldplayers were on top voice last night and it certainly impressed "Coldplay's 5th member", Phil Harvey who expressed his delight on Twitter below. If you can read French or have simply just used Google translator, you would have seen in the title that A Rush of Blood To The Head album track, Green Eyes made a surprise return d

Young creative people from all over the world have the opportunity of a lifetime with the launch of a global new media competition in support of Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign.   ‘Make a Big Noise for Make Trade Fair’, calls for anyone under the age of 30 to dream up a non-traditional campaign idea for Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair cause. The winning idea will then be brought to life on a global scale across non-traditional media channels with the support of some of the world’s greatest creative tal

A Paulsboro man pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated assault, admitting he threw a bottle into the face of another man during a confrontation in the parking lot of the Tweeter Center in Camden after a concert on Aug. 7, 2005.   In his guilty plea, James McNulty, 46, made no reference to the acid that was in the bottle and caused burns on the face, back, shoulders and chest of the 19-year-old victim. Police at the time said McNulty then used a long lighter to set fire to the victim.   Assistant

A city resident who admitted he planned to sell counterfeit tickets to a rock concert at the Tweeter Center last summer pleaded guilty Monday to attempted theft by deception.   Warren admitted that he planned to sell bogus tickets for the Coldplay concert on Aug. 7, 2005. Before any sale could be made, Warren was arrested by Camden police as the result of another crime in which he was not involved.   Read more here

Going back a couple of weeks, there have been some exceptional reviews and photos of the Coldplay concert at Lancashire County Cricket Club on the 12th September 2009, posted at the Coldplay Live forum. Here is the second part of the Manchester fan reviews. The first part was published a few days after the concert. There will be another episode soon. Pictures below are by Jayzo...   Gig was incredible!! Was right by the C-stage and they ran straight past us. That Jackie security woman was manic,

Well, here is it is then, the last big outdoor gig of the summer. Oasis were both ramshackle and resurgent at Heaton Park (the last time we’ll see them? I’m not so sure…), while Doves positively shimmered at Delamere, writes the Manchester Evening News tonight. [thanks mrman78]   But undoubtedly the most innovative, awe-inspiring and just plain joyous outdoor gigs of yet another meagre summer came from Take That and their sold out run at Old Trafford. Bursting – centre stage – from a flurry of a

That Chris Martin, he’s a dark horse. Actually, what are we saying? No he isn’t. He’s a man who usually screams up for what he believes in and uses the back of his hands like portable billboards for worthy causes.   But apparently, he was capable of keeping one little secret – the band’s crush on Take That, and their desire to be the Manchester four piece’s warm up act. “We were in the dressing room yesterday and, for whatever reason, we started singing Back For Good,” Chris told Coldplay.com la

Coldplay raised the bar and raised the roof at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday night - and in a stunning assault on the senses, the world-famous foursome did not disappoint with a performance which will live long in the memory of those lucky enough to witness it. writes the Mancunian Matters website this week, in another review article of Coldplay's Manchester shows on Saturday and Sunday night (9-10 June) at the Etihad Stadium. Catch up on the latest tweets, pictures, videos from the shows at t

Coldplay's UK arena tour arrived in Manchester last night (December 11th) – and you can see exclusive photographs on Gigwise here (a taster is below...)   The band wowed a sold out crowd at the Manchester Evening News Arena. Dressed in their distressed military uniforms, the group rattled through tracks from their new album 'Viva La Vida and Death and All His Friends'.   But it was Coldplay's more established hits such as 'Yellow' and 'Fix You' that created the biggest response from the crowd. T

They may be one of the most successful bands in the world, but Coldplay still really, really want us to love them. Playing their first and biggest British date of 2009 to more than 50,000 people, the singer Chris Martin and his fellow Fair Trade rockers deployed every weapon in their arsenal, from fireworks to flattery, and from Simon Cowell to Jay-Z, writes The Times Online.   Four emphatically English public schoolboys touring with a Brooklyn-born gangsta-rap mogul may seem incongruous, but th

Jay Z showed steely confidence while Chris Martin turned personal anxieties into communal prayers at the Coldplay gig at Old Trafford   For the opening night of Coldplay’s live return to the UK it was hard to know what was more incongruous: the cloudless blue Manchester sky or the booming rap music vibrating across the open pitch of Old Trafford. Denied a part in the Ashes, the cricket ground was perhaps determined to prove it was still a fine place for a celebration, just as American rapper Jay

We've said it before but it bears repeating: Coldplay are unfairly maligned. Just because they make popular songs, are hugely rich and yet don't conform to every rock-band cliche in the book (OK, we'll pass over the one about the frontman marrying a film star), it seems necessary to mock their every move. No wonder they've been taken to American hearts: there they actually like and encourage success.   Perhaps all those who denegrate Coldplay as being whiny bedwetting cohorts of Keane and Snow

Liverpool Confidential's Jonathan Schofield had a good sing-along to classic tunes during Coldplay’s gig at Old Trafford Cricket Ground. “Billie Jean is not my lover,” we caterwauled, “she's just a girl who claims that I am the one. But the kid is not my son.”   Given the lyric was from the late Michael Jackson this was an eminently believable statement. More believable than nice Mr Chris Martin ever going for anybody called Billie Jean. “La, la, la, la. People always told me be careful of what

MANSFIELD - For the casual fan seeing Coldplay live for the first time since the band performed at the Paradise in Boston many years (and many millions of accumulated fans) ago, last night’s triumphant two-hour performance at the Comcast Center was like seeing your younger family members for the first time in years. You just can’t stop marveling at how big they’ve gotten, writes Boston.com.   In a set that reached back to their 2000 breakout album Parachutes, where they first sewed the seeds of

The Coldplay of 2009 favours sounds that are both soft and subtle and loud and booming. They like mixing styles, throwing curveballs, and shifting between the sublime and the silly - a massive balloon drop during “Yellow” and butterfly-shaped confetti shooting everywhere during “Lovers in Japan.” The English quartet, who played Comcast Center last night for nearly two hours, put on a full-on rock show, writes the Boston Herald today.   Which is to say, singer Chris Martin is no longer the intros

MANSFIELD - Coldplay brought their Viva la Vida tour to the Comcast Center Monday night and showed why they are probably the hottest act in music today, writes The Sun Chronicle.   Lead singer Chris Martin was in full control throughout the show and played the audience like one of the finely tuned strings on his guitar. The Brit quartet stormed through a strong sampling of their huge CD "Viva la Vida" as well as many of the hits from their relatively brief career. They rocked the main stage, hel

US pop diva Mariah Carey has been drawn into a spat involving a Kiwi musician who claims he has not been paid royalties for her use of music he helped write.     Auckland musician Dominique Leauga arranged, co-produced and played many of the instruments on eight of the 13 songs on top Kiwi vocal duo's Adeaze's chart-topping debut album, including the platinum single "A Life With You", for which he is registered as a co-composer.   The song, which reached No 5 on the local charts in 2003, was u

US pop diva Mariah Carey has been drawn into a spat involving a Kiwi musician who claims he has not been paid royalties for her use of music he helped write.     Auckland musician Dominique Leauga arranged, co-produced and played many of the instruments on eight of the 13 songs on top Kiwi vocal duo's Adeaze's chart-topping debut album, including the platinum single "A Life With You", for which he is registered as a co-composer.   The song, which reached No 5 on the local charts in 2003, was u

“I’m definitely a promoter of instinct,” said Markus Sargeant, as he recalled one of his greatest triumphs – booking superstars-in-waiting Coldplay to perform at 300-seater Birmingham venue Ronnie Scott’s, writes the Birmingham Mail this week, in a wonderfully nostalgic article that looks back on a local talent spotter filling slots in a small UK venue at the turn of the century.   Coldplay, whose album Rush Of Blood To The Head has this week been named the nation’s all-time favourite by Radio

Everyone OK out there?" asked Robert del Naja from the Roseland stage.   "Well, that's good, because this next one's about my homicidal ex-girlfriend's mum who's a crackhead."   Massive Attack's music isn't built for mass adulation. They're studio creatures, and their psychedelic dread symphonies work on grooves and eerie sonic details, not hooks or personality. Emaciated robo-skank guitars, mumble-coo vocals, muffled breakbeats: It's interior-space music, and it doesn't leave a lot of room for

Spike Island is a new coming of age comedy movie set against the backdrop of The Stone Roses' legendary 1990 Spike Island gig, and director Mat Whitecross explains how Coldplay helped the film get made.   Coldplay agreed to part-finance the movie after their friend and director told them he was struggling to get the cash together to pay for it. Mat spoke to BBC in a recent interview: "As usual in any low budget film, especially in Britain, you end up struggling to get that last bit of finance -

Matt McGinn has been Jonny's guitar tech for eight years. He's recently written a book, Roadie, documenting his time with Coldplay. We thought you might like to read an entertaining excerpt explaining how Matt came to meet the band. (Oh, and for the record, Matt is not Roadie #42.), courtesy of Coldplay.com:   A Roadie Meets A Band   As kids in the ‘70s, we all used to whisper the words "The Year 2000" as if when the new century arrived the sun would blow up and Earth’d change colour/go off cour

John Mayer says his next Columbia album, "Continuum," won't have the "pop sweetness" of current radio hits. "It's a really tricky thing making music that can appeal to everybody without certain ingredients that have proven themselves as being very effective in appealing to people," he says.   On his 2005 album "Try" with the John Mayer Trio, the singer/songwriter shifted gears from pop music to blues. Mayer said he hopes to continue that trend with his upcoming third solo album, promising no "po

Stella McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow are reportedly trying play matchmaker with their single parents, Sir Paul McCartney and Blythe Danner, following the 'Established & Sons' party.   The fashion designer and Oscar-winning actress, who are close friends, think McCartney, 64, and Danner, 63, would be perfect for each other because they are close in age and both lost spouses to cancer.   A source tells Britain's Star magazine, "Gwyneth's mom is much closer to Paul's age than (his estranged wif

Ozzfest remains one of rock's biggest juggernauts.   Generating almost $20 million a year in ticket sales - in addition to a lucrative mini-industry of souvenirs, merchandise and related CDs and DVDs - the heavy-metal music fest ranks among the top-selling tours in the nation.   But this year, Ozzy Osbourne and his tour are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rust. It's unclear how many more years he can stay with the tour. The $3-billion-a-year concert industry is worried about Ozzy and all