Coldplay News

Coldplay delighted fans in Exeter as the city played host to their final gig of the decade, writes the Express & Echo today. The one-off event was a homecoming concert for frontman Chris Martin, who was brought up in Whitestone, just outside Exeter.   Music lovers had travelled from as far away as Italy and Australia for the Mencap Big Noise charity concert at Exeter Castle, with an audience of just 500 guests, including friends and family of the band. Others had queued for up to two days to

Fans are still coming down to earth after witnessing what has been hailed as one of the "greatest concerts of the decade". As the grounds of Exeter Castle begin to return to normal after Coldplay's memorable homecoming concert on Saturday, many fans faced a long journey home as they travelled from all over Europe for the event.   Reaction to the performance has been universally positive and its success and intimacy has put Exeter on the international showbiz map. There has been no official word

This weekend Coldplay - supported by Lily Allen and La Roux – headlined Mencap’s Big Noise gig in Exeter Castle, to raise money and awareness for people with learning disabilities. This genius annual event is curated and hosted by Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, who is an ambassador for Mencap.   When Grazia Daily discovered that Whiley’s daughter India is an up-and-coming photographer, (who at 17 already has an amazing live music portfolio), Grazia couldn’t resist commissioning her to take some exclusive

The year 2005 was quite a good one for music. Coldplay released the lush X&Y [pictured], with biggest-band-in-the-world written all over it. Kanye West dropped Late Registration, an over-the-top, self-indulgent, yet somehow musically sophisticated record. Late Registration encapsulated the highs and lows of the savior of what I like to call “hip-pop” music. Smaller groups like Arcade Fire and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, as well as not-so-small-anymore rockers The Killers, saw their musical car

Gwyneth Paltrow beams with pride as she shows off newborn son Moses, the Mirror reports today.   The smiling actress cradled the six-day-old baby as they left New York's private Mount Sinai Hospital at the weekend. But little Moses wearing a pair of cute blue bootees and snuggled in a white shawl - slept through it all. Gwyneth, 33, and husband Chris Martin, below, gave the tot his unusual name after the title of a love song the Coldplay frontman wrote about her. It includes the line: "Like Mos

Extra Coldplay have become available for their originally sold out shows at London’s Earls Court. Seating and standing tickets are on sale now for their shows on the 14th, 15th, and 16th December.   Coldplay release a new single called Talk on December 19th, the third single to be lifted from their hugely successful X&Y album.   Source: albumvote.co.uk  

Due to popular demand, the shows for Vancouver, Toronto and Uniondale have all rolled over for an extra date, coldplay.com have announced.   Coldplay will now play at Vancouver, BC at the GM Place on 26th & 27th January, Toronto, ON at the Air Canada Centre 22nd & 23rd March.   The band will also perform at Uniondale, NY at the Nassau Coliseum on both 26th & 27th March.

THE AWARD WINNING COMEDY SERIES ON DVD DOUBLE DISC OF SERIES TWO RELEASED ON MONDAY 26TH MARCH 2007   As previously reported, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant co creators of the multi award winning BBC series Extras, launch the double disc DVD of series two, complete with exclusive extra clips, including behind the scenes footage, a video diary and lots more unseen exclusives. The double disc DVD will be available from Monday 26th March 2007. The box set of series one and two is also availabl

Watch the entire episode here   It really couldn't possibly get any worse for Andy Millman. Seriously.   Following on from last week's Down Syndrome debacle, Andy kicked-off tonight's show with a charity video appeal, only to subsequently find his entire BBC sitcom hijacked by a shamelessly self-promoting Chris Martin.   However, the Coldplay front-man's repeated attempts to hawk a forthcoming greatest hits album was really only the start of Andy's problems, as he ended up nominated for a BAFT

As announced first via Coldplay's Messenger this evening, the official site has confirmed details of a live photo and video blog from Liverpool and Newcastle from this Sunday (and Monday) with the official behind-the-scenes view at the two hidden Crisis gigs. You can join in with the customary mammoth discussion with your F5 buttons at the ready over in the Coldplay forum during the live blog. [thanks Technicolor Sparks]   Will the discussion generate as big a thread as the Wembley and Mencap bl

As announced first via Coldplay's Messenger this evening, there will be a live blog from the Heineken Jammin' Festival, San Giuliano Park, Venice, Italy on Thursday (9th June) as the band continue their festival tour in Europe. You can join in with the customary mammoth discussion with your F5 buttons at the ready over in the Coldplay forum during the live blog. This is also in conjunction with the [9-June-2011] Coldplay @ Heineken Jammin' Festival thread in the Coldplay Live forum.   This blog

Schoolgirl Sarah Sainsbury asked pop stars Coldplay for their autographs to sell for charity - and got a triple platinum disc worth £4,000.   Sarah, 17, wrote to the rockers requesting help with her school’s appeal to aid Breast Cancer Care. She was astonished when the band sent her the signed disc of their album A Rush Of Blood To The Head. Sarah, of Farnham, Surrey, sent the gift to a London fashion event, where it was auctioned for £4,000.   She said: “I was amazed and delighted when I heard

Click here for the Fairtrade gig videos featuring Chris and Jonny performing acoustic duets with Noel Gallagher and with Ms Dynamite.

Apparently Chris read the review of the Liverpool gig (by JJ at www.shakenstir.co.uk) and thought it was so good that they are going to use it as part of the press release for the new album. I'm sure the fans would love to read it as well.   Lets wait and see!   "What is there left to prove for this act? They've released a classic debut album, critics love them, fans adore them, and they need not try anymore! But that would not be in their make up, for as vocalist Chris martin said to me after

An nme.com reader has explained how he nudged Chris Martin out of a job by evading London Royal Festival Hall security and stormed the stage at the band's Meltdown gig to take over the mic for ‘Yellow’.   So who was this interloper - a budding star or a pissed-up twat? He was tracked him down via a manhunt posted on nme.com and it turns out he is a bit of both! Patrick Harvey, 26, from Birmingham told NME he’d spent an afternoon drinking wine to give him the Dutch courage to upstage Martin and s

In My Place in my row @ ACC - Thurs March 23rd Concert   I had a great time at the Thursday concert, we were in section 104 (in the back), during In My Place he ran to our row, and sang the rest of the song there, it was awesome, luckily i had my phone and recorded as much as i could... check them out...   Watch the videos from the concert here [thanks razor_ro]  

If you're are interested in Fan Videos of Coldplay in San Diego on 9/9/02, please contact Michael at [email protected] who will advise you on availability.   Screen shots below:  

If you live in the UK you're in luck. Tonight at 7pm VH2 will be showing non-stop Coldplay until midnight. Your chance to see videos that you haven't come across before.   More on this here and here   Set those video recorders folks!

About 60 Coldplay fans saw red at the multiple Grammy-winning band's sold-out concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Monday.   They had paid the top-tier $251 tickets for the first and second rows, only to be told at the venue on the day that both rows did not exist. Ticketing agency Sistic had made a mistake. Ticket buyer Ahmed M. Didi, a marketing manager from Maldives, is fuming mad at being left in the cold.   The 39-year-old Coldplay fan, who works in Singapore, had bought five of the

Several major sites - including those of Ticketmaster and Seetickets - appeared to have sold out all three of the UK Coldplay shows shortly after they went on sale at 9.30am. Coldplay are due to play Glasgow SECC on December 3rd, Manchester's MEN Arena on December 4th and the O2 Arena in London on December 9th - all were sold out this morning in just a few seconds as an estimated 100,000 fans flocked to the Internet to try and get their hands on scarce tickets for the shows. Did you get tickets

Coldplay have postponed Sunday's scheduled concert at the Ford Amphitheatre [pictured] and although the official news wouldn't go into detail it is known that band cancelled due to 'artist-related medical reasons'. We also now know that it is Chris Martin who has fallen ill. Here are some of the recent comments from Coldplayers, some of whom were due to travel to Tampa's Ford Amphitheater tomorrow:   Well here I am in Raleigh-Durham airport, was about to fly to Tampa when a friend tipped me off

In a video interview for the show Fantastico broadcasted last night for TV Globo in Brazil, Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland confirmed that they hope to release the next Coldplay album at the end of 2010. Watch the full Fantastico Coldplay interview in the first post of the thread here at the Coldplay forum. You can find links to download the full interview in the Multimedia forum here [thanks SueDeNimes]   "Hopefully this Christmas", Chris Martin said in the interview, when asked about releasin

Just over one month to go before the English Premiership starts - JOIN THE 'COLDPLAYING V' FANTASY LEAGUE NOW!   You can now join the new 'Coldplaying V' Fantasy Football League at http://fantasy.premierleague.com and create your own team, then use the code 2197-898 to join the Coldplaying league. Previous teams can be re-registered with the Coldplaying league by simply logging in and refreshing your settings. For full details on how to register, create a team and join the Coldplaying.com league

Fatherhood has spurred campaigning Chris Martin to do even more work for charity.   Chris has always been passionate about causes like fair trade and the third world debt - but has become even more committed about making the world a better place since his actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow gave birth to baby daughter Apple in May last year.   He explains, "Being a new father has made me look at the world differently. I'm a father who travels a lot and has seen how rich nations like ours exploit poorer

Viva La Vida is by far and away your favourite Coldplay track from the new album, results from our latest poll have found. 42 and Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love are also faring well.   You can still vote in the poll here, and it will remain open until long after the album has been released worldwide.