Coldplay News

The full set of videos from Coldplay's Chris Martin's Absolute Radio Zoo Sessions is now online following the upload of the fourth and final acoustic track - Life In Technicolor ii. Chris Martin played four tracks and recorded an interview on Friday 30 January. Chris's setlist for Absolute Radio was: 1. Viva La Vida (piano) 2. The Scientist (piano) 3. Life In Technicolor ii (piano) and 4. Violet Hill (guitar).   You can watch all the videos at the Absolute site now at here. As well as Life In Te

Singer Nelly Furtado stunned a journalist quizzing her about her friendship with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin - by losing her temper.   The singer - who gave birth to her daughter in September 2003 - enjoyed a string of romantic dates with the Chris Martin before he went on to find happiness with new wife Gwyneth Paltrow.   So when the roving reporter asked if Nelly had remained in contact with Martin - who is now the proud father of baby Apple - Nelly happily replied, "Yeah, we speak all the

Canadian singer Nelly Furtado has slammed old rumours she romanced British rocker Chris Martin before he met current-wife Gwyneth Paltrow.   The I'm Like A Bird singer was briefly linked to the Coldplay frontman, but insists all they've ever been is friends and work colleagues.She says, "We used to be friends when we were doing our first albums in England. "Everyone thinks that's (the rumours are) true, but no, we were just friends."   More on this story here [thanks alyssa]

Brian Wilson has been confirmed to be headlining the Sunday night at this years Glastonbury festival. The former Beach Boys member is joined by Coldplay as headliners and rumors persist that the White Stripes will headline the Friday night. [thanks Josh]

Fuse will welcome some star power to in-depth interview series 100%, the network said Tueday.   Kanye West, The White Stripes and Coldplay will be featured on episodes of 100% this fall. Past 100% subjects have included U2, Green Day, Usher, Black Eyed Peas, Ludacris, 50 Cent, Audioslave, Beastie Boys and Blink 182.   "100% is like hanging out with your favorite musician," Fuse head of entertainment Robert Weiss said in a prepared statement. "It's very exciting to continue to have the most popul

As reported recently, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, and Will Champion sat down for an exclusive conversation with fuse's marquee interview show, 100%.   There are a couple of out-take video clips here. Once inside, just click TV Shows > 100 Percent. There's also a TV schedule on there that lists the repeat airings [in case someone does want to record it!]   [Thanks Freeplay]

Thousands of people crowded into Bitts Park in Carlisle yesterday for pop2thepark headlined by the Sugababes and G4.   The crowd cheered, danced and partied away to the support bands before the main stars came on stage after 4pm.   Next up was G4 who played Carlisle’s Sands Centre last year. Sporting jeans and black shirts the classic quartet burst into Elton John’s song Circle of Life. They also played Coldplay’s Yellow, and Frank Sinatra’s My Way and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.   Read the full

Album featuring Coldplay, The Shins, Iron & Wine and more to be released 10 August 2004   Garden State: Music From The Motion Picture, the companion album to the upcoming Fox Searchlight romantic comedy starring, written and directed by Zach Braff (of TV's Scrubs), will be released by Epic Records on Tuesday August 10th, 2004.   Music plays a prominent role in Garden State and Braff hand-picked the songs featured in the film. The songs he chose serve to lend additional emotional depth and c

Gary Barlow has vowed to improve Take That's live show after his mother told him she prefers Coldplay to Take That and enjoyed Coldplay's concert more, writes ContactMusic today.   The 'Greatest Day' singer has revealed Marjorie loved his group's spectacular 'Circus' stadium tour - which they undertook earlier this year and which featured elaborate stunts, a 60 ft mechanical elephant and carnival performers - but has now told him they need to improve after watching the 'Viva La Vida' tour concer

Gary Barlow thought Chris Martin was "taking the piss" when he said he wanted Coldplay to support Take That. Gary, 37, was amazed when the usually serious musician revealed his love of the boy band. He said: "It's amazing! I think Chris wrote it on his website. We thought he was taking the p**s, but he wasn't. He's genuinely a fan!"   Chris' original posting read: "I would open for Take That. We were in the dressing room the other day and, for whatever reason, we started singing 'Back For Good'.

Saw Blythe Danner coming out of Tiffany’s with a package. On the way to her car she was stopped by some passersby (myself included) who congratulated her on the birth of new grandson Moses.   She was very gracious and looked real happy...

Singer and campaigner Bob Geldof has denied reports he plans to stage a Live Aid gig to coincide with the UK hosting July's G8 summit of world leaders.   Geldof, who was at the Rose d'Or TV festival in Switzerland, said: "It is kite flying, that's all it is. It is just talk.   "Why would I possibly repeat something I did 20 years ago?" he told TV Plus.His spokeswoman confirmed discussions are taking place about holding shows to raise awareness about Africa. The gigs would coincide with the 20th

BOB GELDOF is drawing up plans to organise a Live Aid-style concert to highlight world poverty during the G8 summit in Scotland this summer.   Organisers of the famous Live Aid concert held in 1985 believe that a televised pop extravaganza featuring world-famous groups would help focus the G8 leaders’ attention on suffering in poor countries. Heads of G8 nations will meet at Gleneagles hotel in Perthshire on July 6.   Plans for the concert are at an early stage, but it is believed that Geldof f

Band Aid pioneer Sir Bob Geldof has hit out at internet bootleggers who are downloading the new version of Do They Know It's Christmas? without paying a penny to charity.   Thousands of people across Britain and the United States have already copied the new single ahead of its official release on November 29. The Mail on Sunday said it counted 583 people downloading the track in less than an hour from just one internet site. They said the track was available to download in mp3 format within m

Despite being the adored, much analyzed and fantasized about lead singer of one of the planet’s biggest rock bands, Chris Martin of Coldplay is practical, even humble about his role, writes The Olympian.   “It just comes from pure gratitude at being given this job, particularly in a period of time when music is hard to be employed by,” Martin says of the free CDs that Coldplay is giving to concert- goers on their U.S. tour, which kicked off in Florida in May and stops at The Gorge Amphitheatre o

Three new unconfirmed Coldplay dates have been added to the European tour diary for October/November in Germany.   For more information click here

British funnyman Ricky Gervais has used his new series of his star-studded TV show Extras to take a good-natured swipe at Coldplay singer Chris Martin.   The 'The Office' star [pictured] interviews Martin, who plays himself in the show, and he promptly sends up his image as a socially responsible do-gooder. Gervais' character asks Martin questions such as, "You prefer clothes made in Third World sweatshops because they're cheaper. Do you prefer Chinese or Indian?" When Martin tries to explain he

Here is a run down of some of the Community activities currently happening in the world of Coldplaying that deserve a special mention...   Over 70 Coldplayers have now signed up to the Coldplaying Secret Santa 2010 project where Coldplayers will be paired up to send and receive Chrismas cards/gifts/things. If you're interested in taking part, make sure that you don't get left out by ensuring that you've posted your interest here and added your name to the poll as soon as possible. When you've do

Coldplay's Lost! EP has been released digitally today, as a four-track, download-only product. Here is the exclusive news from Coldplay.com:   Good morning. The Lost! EP is released digitally today around the world. You can buy it from all good digital retailers. Click below for some iTunes links:   iTunes UK | iTunes France | iTunes Germany | iTunes Spain | iTunes Italy | iTunes Australia   Folks in the UK can also download the whole EP on MP3 from 7 Digital for just £1.50 here. We'll add the N

Tonight (Saturday 27th March), WWF is hoping a billion people around the world will switch off their lights for one hour on behalf of Earth Hour, to show their support of climate change. Just turn off the lights, and you're in. We'd love to see your city's photos of Earth Hour in whichever city you're in - simply post photos to the Coldplay forum or just join in the discussion so far.   Coldplay's Fix You is the featured music track behind the official video for Earth Hour and you can watch the

The start of the Glastonbury Festival was postponed today following violent storms that brought Britain's week-long heatwave to an abrupt end.   The delay was caused by fears for the health and safety of musicians appearing on the Somerset festival's outdoor stages.   The morning deluge was in stark contrast to the scorching conditions yesterday, when Britain recorded its hottest night since 1959 as temperatures never dropped lower than 21.9C.   Bands at Glastonbury were due to begin performing

Ghost Stories sales - Coldplay dominate the world album charts Its been a week and a half since the new Coldplay album, Ghost Stories has risen to the fore to be crowned as the fastest selling album of 2014 in the US and the UK, probably in most of the world actually! It has been well publicized on our own Twitter and Facebook pages in addition to the official Coldplay one, that the band achieved their sixth UK #1 album on Sunday! More on that shortly but what we have been waiting for is the Bi

In a handwritten tracklist found via people.com, Coldplay will reveal "All Your Friends," "Ghost Story" and "O (Part 2)" as the three added tracks to the forthcoming album Ghost Stories.Coldplay have teamed up with Target for an exclusive deluxe edition of their sixth studio album. The album hits stores on May 19th and the deluxe edition is available for pre-order at Target.com. New sub-forums for these tracks have been added in the Ghost Stories sub-forum.More on this to follow...

And it’s quite positive…   It’s been out for a total of three hours, but that’s been plenty long enough for Gigwise readers to say exactly what they think about Coldplay’s new single ‘Violet Hill’. Taken from the band’s forthcoming fourth album, ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’, the song sees the band take a new, more experimental direction compared to previous releases.   Music fans started sending us their feedback within minutes of the song airing on BBC6 Music and the majority of

Full of the stadium grandeur you might expect from the likes of Coldplay, Chris, Jonny, Will and Guy dazzled at an explosive show at France's Stade Charles Ehrmann in Nice last night, writes Gigwise, as Coldplay edge closer to the UK dates with last night's show in France.   Supported by Marina and the Diamonds and current UK chart topper Rita Ora, the band staged a show packed full of confetti explosions, laser shows and plenty of onstage lunacy from frontman Martin. Coldplay return to the UK a