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It's not released on DVD until Monday, but if you live in the Uk you can watch director Julien Temple's film tonight. According to ITV.com, Glastonbury will air on BBC2 at 22:30 GMT.   The 2-disc DVD contains plenty of extras including an interview with Coldplay.   Join the discussions and check out the tv listings here

The Viva La Vida tour may be over for 2009 but IQ magazine’s December issue is still available in a free PDF format if you haven't already seen it (or lost it on your hard drive!) and contains a world exclusive behind the scene report on the early stages of Coldplay’s World Tour, entitled Life, Death And Butterflies. To save the online magazine, right click then save as here. You can also get the previous versions of the magazine (issues 1-20 also online here). Here's the synopsis of the Coldpla

IQ magazine’s December issue is now available in a free PDF format and contains a world exclusive behind the scene report on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida World Tour, entitled Life, Death And Butterflies. To save the online magazine, right click then save as here. You can also get the previous versions of the magazine (issues 1-20 also online here). Here's the synopsis of the Coldplay article:   Life, Death & Butterflies is a 16-page feature chronicling the Viva la Vida tour, sanctioned by Coldpla

Live music to give your day a kick   British-born but New York-based DJ Mark Ronson is live in the 6 Music Hub playing tracks from his forthcoming second album, Version.   Featuring covers of tracks including: Kaiser Chiefs' Oh My God (with guest vocals from Lily Allen), Coldplay's God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, Britney Spears's Toxic and The Smiths' Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before.   More on this here

A pair of Chris Martin’s black and white Adidas trainers, signed and worn on the Twisted Logic tour 2005/2006, go on sale on internet site eBay at 12 noon today (Tuesday 28th November 2006) in a charity auction to raise money for MAG (Mines Advisory Group).   Shoes have been donated by 60 high-profile male and female celebrities, from the world of pop, film, TV, sport and the arts.   MAG employs more than 2,500 people worldwide to help provide safer futures for lives affected by conflict in coun

A pair of Chris Martin’s black and white Adidas trainers, signed and worn on the Twisted Logic tour 2005/2006, go on sale on internet site eBay at 12 noon today (Tuesday 28th November 2006) in a charity auction to raise money for MAG (Mines Advisory Group).   Shoes have been donated by 60 high-profile male and female celebrities, from the world of pop, film, TV, sport and the arts.   MAG employs more than 2,500 people worldwide to help provide safer futures for lives affected by conflict in coun

A pair of Chris Martin’s black and white Adidas trainers, signed and worn on the Twisted Logic tour 2005/2006, go on sale on internet site eBay at 12 noon today (Tuesday 28th November 2006) in a charity auction to raise money for MAG (Mines Advisory Group).   Shoes have been donated by 60 high-profile male and female celebrities, from the world of pop, film, TV, sport and the arts.   MAG employs more than 2,500 people worldwide to help provide safer futures for lives affected by conflict in coun

Hong Kong was blasted into summer by three mega music events over ten days in July when the international sell-out tours of Coldplay and The Black Eyed Peas hit town, along with the MOOV Party extravaganza.   The new Arena at AsiaWorld-Expo drew this unprecedented glut of talent to Hong Kong for the first time, and tens of thousands of people crowded into the city’s largest purpose-built entertainment venue to see and hear live some of the hottest acts on the planet.   With four Grammys and as m

Carey Ott's melodic pop is catchy and appealing   Former Chicagoan Carey Ott's new LP is one of a good-sized handful of anticipated 2006 releases from Nashville's rock and pop community — and judging by early tastes of it, might be one of the discs with the widest appeal.   Due out in May on Nashville label Dualtone, Ott's Lucid Dream straddles a couple of melodic lines comfortably, with sounds that fit in the pop singer-songwriter landscape with fellow Nashvillian David Mead and former Nashvill

Back in 1970, Michael Eavis, a young farmer, opened his 150-acre farm to 1,500 people who paid a pound each to watch a handful of pop and folk stars perform for a weekend. The Glastonbury Festival was born. Last year, 153,000 people paid £125 for the privilege of making hay in the mud and rain.   Julien Temple's minutely researched rockumentary concentrates mostly on these exhausted but happy campers who have travelled to Worthy Farm over the years to enjoy a kind of micro-city far removed from

Back in 1970, Michael Eavis, a young farmer, opened his 150-acre farm to 1,500 people who paid a pound each to watch a handful of pop and folk stars perform for a weekend. The Glastonbury Festival was born. Last year, 153,000 people paid £125 for the privilege of making hay in the mud and rain.   Julien Temple's minutely researched rockumentary concentrates mostly on these exhausted but happy campers who have travelled to Worthy Farm over the years to enjoy a kind of micro-city far removed from

One knows it's not a run-of-the-mill, overly serious Britpop show when, 10 minutes before the band goes on, the crowd launches into a terribly giddy version of the wave.   Is that what Coldplay's career come to: playing to American arenas full of people who don't know they're supposed to take this band more "seriously?"   Yes and ... yes, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if you aren't one of the music snobs who clung to the band after its first two albums. Coldplay's career arc ha

Coldplay has mastered a winning formula that has made the Brit band one of the most heralded rock acts of the day, with quality hit after hit.   The third single from 2005's 'X&Y' maintains the trend, as 'Talk' is already making noise at modern rock and triple-A. Now it is primed for top 40 success. With introspective lyrics, beautiful melodic orchestration and the band's signature sprinkle of melancholy, 'Talk' is everything Coldplay fans have come to love. Borrowed bits from Kraftwerk's '

A new review of Coldplay roadie Matt McGinn's book has been found online. The very latest discussion on the book release is at the Coldplay forum now. Here is the most recent review, courtesy of Express Nightout below...   There's something impressive about a band that's so big even its roadie can publish a book. That band is Coldplay, and the group's roadie (and guitar tech) Matt McGinn spills tons of tales from tour in "Roadie: My Life on the Road With Coldplay" (Anova Books).   The book is an

When they met during university, in London, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion simply wanted to make music. Something that, once they became Coldplay, was transformed into a form of full-time job.   It is now almost ten years and thirty million records since then and no album, in 2008, is awaited with more anxiety than 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends', the ambitious fourth piece of work of Gwyneth Paltrow's husband and his three companions, produced by Brian

When Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt hit the road with Coldplay for a recent Viva la Vida gig, the band gave him unprecedented access into their behind-the-scenes world — opening up about their sets (”We’re not going to be Springsteen and play for three hours”), stage outfits (”Are we gonna look ridiculous?”) and why Chris Martin is frontman (”He’s like the sort of engine of us”).   Click here for exclusive photos of the band prepping to go onstage, rehearsal shots and live photos, complete with com

London, England - Lead singer for the English rock band Coldplay stunned the music industry Wednesday when he announced that the band was breaking up in 2009.   There have been rumors swirling about why the band decided to split. Those rumors were answered when it was discovered that Chris Martin's life is going to mirror the song "Viva La Vida", which was Coldplay's enormous hit this year. Martin dressed in regal attire explained to the reporters gathered outside his London flat that the song "

In the media blitz last year preceding the release of their hotly anticipated album "X&Y," the guys of Coldplay made their mission quite clear: They want to be the best and biggest rock band in the world.   And, for better or worse, the British quartet (Chris Martin on vocals and piano, Jonny Buckland on guitar, Will Champion on drums and Guy Berryman on bass) may be well on its way to realizing that goal.   It took just two albums, the highly acclaimed "Parachutes" (2000) and "A Rush of Blo

If ever a show was a perfect fit for KeyArena, it was Coldplay's huge extravaganza there Wednesday night.   Opening a world tour, the British band went all out with busy lights, a massive curved video screen with impressive visuals, and an enormous, semicircular stage that matched the curves of the Key's interior.   Lead singer Chris Martin, rock's master of mellow, used everything in his bag of tricks to excite and involve the adoring crowd, which filled every seat in the house. He could barely

Summertime is here, but the living is far from easy. It’s sticky. And sweaty.   Usually a little Sly Stone can fix anything, but not this week. Right now “Hot Fun in the Summertime” is probably the last thing you want to hear.   With temperatures climbing close to 100 over the next few days, it’s time to erase all those hot tunes from your iPod and download something more chill. Put your Red Hot Chili Peppers and Hot Hot Heat on the backburner in favor of something a little more calm, cool and

When anxious mum-of-two Mandy Sellers watches hubby Piers blast off to space from the roof of the Kennedy Space Center today she will take comfort that her husband is carrying a little reminder of home.   For each morning, as Piers is woken by Houston controllers, the song Clocks by Coldplay will be played in to the shuttle Discovery.   The track was chose for him by his family - Mandy, Imogen, 21, and Tom, 18. "All four of us love it," says Mandy.Going into space was a boyhood dream for Piers

They are one of the hottest bands right now and wowed a full-house this week at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Having sold over 50,000 records world-wide - not to mention picking up a couple of Grammys along the way - Coldplay is on top of the world.   But the UK band isn't settling on any formula for success but constantly evolving their sound. The UK band took a very different direction for their fourth album - Viva La Vida - and many said it's the most experimental offering from Coldplay. Tho

Singapore will always hold special meaning for Coldplay, said drummer Will Champion. They’ve performed here three times and Champion said the band have always had “good memories of Singapore”.   That’s probably why they put on a supercharged show on Monday night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. They gave an “impossibly charming” performance that was, according to Today’s Genevieve Loh, “worth every single superlative and every single cent”. Read her gushing review exclusively online at www.toda

Coldplay’s fourth single from X&Y, The Hardest Part is catchy and easy to listen to, but unfortunately in exactly the same way as any other Coldplay single is.   The song lives up to the band’s usual high standard of radio-friendly sublime ballads. It’s excellent mellow music to have in the background and wind down to, it’s instantly accessible to the listener and has almost universal appeal.   Somehow sounding familiar on even the first listen, it takes us through with the same mid-tempo

Rating: 1/5 Single Review by: http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk   With a title like that, you've got to be ninety percent in love with Death In Public before you even play the track.   So imagine our bitter disappointment when 'I Really Hate Coldplay' turns out to be a not-so-good Mansun style tune with an irritating high-pitched male whining over a grubby goth backing. It's like someone trying to be an indie Marilyn Manson, but not half as intoxicating as that sounds on paper.   We're not quite su