Coldplay News

Coldplay will play an MTV2 $2 Bill Show on August 2nd in Chicago at the Vic Theater before the launch of their intimate U.S. club tour on August 6th in Boston.   The group has also been booked to perform on Late Show with David Letterman on CBS on August 22nd and is working out plans for a full North American tour for this September.

The band are due to play a show at the Wembley Arena on October 20 as part of their massive arena tour. That show has now almost sold out, so a second show has been added for the following night (October 21). Tickets for the extra show go on sale tomorrow (July 9). The full tour calls at:   Glasgow SECC (October 4) Newcastle Telewest Arena (5) Birmingham NIA (7) Nottingham Arena (8) Manchester MEN Arena (11) Brighton Centre (14) SOLD OUT Bournemouth International Centre (15) SOLD OUT Plymou

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

These Coldplay dates are on sale NOW:   BRIGHTON Centre - Mon 14 October BOURNEMOUTH International Centre - Tue 15 October PLYMOUTH Pavilions - Thu 17 October PORT TALBOT Afon Lido - Fri 18 October WEMBLEY Arena - Sun 20 October   The remaining dates on sale at 9am on Saturday 6 July:   NEWCASTLE Arena - Sat 5 October BIRMINGHAM NIA - Mon 7 October NOTTINGHAM Arena - Tue 8 October MANCHESTER Arena - Fri 11 October   All shows cost £18.50, except for the London gig which is priced at £19.50. Tick

New US & UK tour dates announced for 2002! For the full tour information page click here. Please ensure you are a member of the official site in order to pre-book advance tickets for these gigs.   AUGUST US CLUB TOUR: August 6: Boston - Paradise August 7: Philadelphia - TLA August 10: Washington DC - 930 Club August 12: New York - Bowry August 14: Minneapolis - 1st Avenue August 18: San Fransisco - Bimbos August 20: LA -El Rey   OCTOBER UK TOUR: October 4: Glasgow S.E.E.C October 5: Newcastl

Coldplay rounded off the first day at Glastonbury 2002 with a set showcasing songs from their new album.   Frontman Chris Martin thanked the audience for making the festival so special as they watched the band headline the Pyramid Stage. He said Coldplay had effectively been preparing for this concert for 25 years.   Chris was in good humour on stage, apologising several times for not being Rod Stewart - who is due to play at the festival later in the weekend. He also jokingly referred to the st

Chris Martin tells Q about the new Coldplay songs we can expect to hear at the festival. "It's all we've been talking about for a year," says Coldplay’s Chris Martin about the band’s headlining slot at the Pyramid Stage on Friday night.   "This concert for us has been the motivation for everything we've been trying to do. It's the most important evening of our lives."   Is he getting over-excited? Not necessarily, because for Martin, Coldplay’s appearance at Glastonbury is the latest in a long l

Coldplay singer Chris Martin says their new LP is about 'getting things done now' and 'a fear of dying'.   He says it's good to feel life is short because is makes you live each day to the full. Coldplay's new LP A Rush Of Blood To The Head is out this summer, preceded by a new single In My Place.   He told NME: "The record's about how you must do things now because time is short. Whether it's falling love or stopping evil global corporations, you've got to do it now, not put it off. "Part of th

NME.COM are offering a reward - can you help us contact the COLDPLAY fan who sung Yellow at the band's Royal Festival Hall show over the weekend?   There was drama towards the end of the gig (June 22) as the band began their hit 'Yellow'. Huge swathes of the all-seated auditorium suddenly stood up and ran to the front of the stage with one young man breaching security and jumping up next to the band. As security guards attempted to catch the stage invader and haul him off, the band intervened a

Chris and Johnny brought the new Coldplay single into the Radio One studio for the world's first exclsive listen to their new single. They spoke about the new album and the build up to headlining Friday at Glastonbury.   Listen to a clip of In My Place Listen to the interview   "Its a world exclusive but all I hear is pain." ~ Chris Martin jokingly commenting on hearing "In My Place"

In February Coldplay were guests at Stefan Raab's German late night comedy show "TV Total" (Pro7). More excellent pictures from TV Total have surfaced.   Click here to see them [thanks Larry]

Courtesy of MarioCast - The Piano Podcast, you can learn how to play 'Clocks' on the piano.   Watch the podcast here

According to WXPN out of Philadelphia, PA, A Rush of Blood to the Head is the 78th Best Album of All Time. Parachutes is at 120th, while X&Y is a lowly 295th. The Top Ten Albums are:   1 Beatles | Abbey Road 1969 2 Beatles | Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 3 Pink Floyd | Dark Side Of The Moon 1973 4 Bruce Springsteen | Born To Run 1975 5 Bob Dylan | Blood On The Tracks 1975 6 Beatles | White Album, The 1968 7 U2 | Joshua Tree 1987 8 Clash | London Calling 1979 9 Beatles | Revolver

CHRIS MARTIN has revealed how an unlikely friendship with Echo and the Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch inspired the new Coldplay album.   Speaking exclusively to nme.com, Martin revealed that he even donned McCulloch’s trademark raincoat when he recorded new single ‘In My Place’. McCulloch was in the studio with the band at the time.   The pair have recently joined each other on stage. Chris Martin performed with Echo And The Bunnymen at New Order’s Finsbury Park gig on Sunday, June 9 for a versio

Performed by Chris Martin during the soundcheck of the concert of 17th march 2006, you can download various formats of Knocking On Heaven's Door here   [thanks coldpatrix & Enoch]

After the releases of Speed Of Sound, Fix You, Talk, The Hardest Part and What If (the last two limited editions), Coldplay will release another single - White Shadows.   The confirmation arrives from Coldplay.com... as of today, date of release, tracklist and the artwork are unknown, but it's sure that White Shadows will be released for Australia only.   More on this here [thanks coldpatrix]

"World Trade Center" will have its red-carpet premiere tonight at the Ziegfeld Theater, but celebration will be kept to a minimum.   A half-hour show with Stone, co-stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena, as well as Jimeno, has been running on MTV. And a TV commercial for the film features "Fix You," a popular tune by the rock band Coldplay that's not on the soundtrack.   The film's official Web site, wtcmovie.com, and Paramount's promotional page on myspace.com feature interviews with 18 people cl

10. 'Fix You' Coldplay(2005) These British softies apparently didn't get the memo that 'Dawson's Creek' had been cancelled when they wrote this weeper. Luckily, the producers of 'The O.C.' love syrupy ballads, and frontman Chris Martin managed to outwhine the show's mighty Cohen.   Read the full list here

Magni - "Clocks"   Sheila says: Oh Magni, you are, dare I say it, better than this competition. Get together with The House Band and go on the road. I will be in the front row with the rest of your groupies. Bringing his family here renews my faith in rockers that sometimes appear like so much ego.   Raul says: If someone can pull off this song by Coldplay, Magni can. And he starts off spectacularly well. He seems to have some trouble with the falsettos near the end, but still delivers a solid a

Coldplay have now completed their 15 month World tour culminating in their recent tour of Australia & Asia and ending on July 19th in Tokyo, Japan, report the official site.   The Coldplayer has been updated throughout the tour, but keep an eye out for new entries from Miller highlighting the final dates. Penny Howle's photos document the trip fantastically. If you are not able to access the Coldplayer, join for free by signing up in the members' area [coldplay.com]. There will be more items

Glastonbury 2005, 10:30 p.m., Sunday. MuchMoreMusic.   The venerable British music festival was put on hiatus for this summer, but it went out with a bang last summer at Worthy Farm with the likes of Coldplay, New Order and the White Stripes, among others.   Source: http://thechronicleherald.ca

28 today. Celebrate here

No crappy U.S. beers, Stella Artois, or chardonnay for Chris Martin and his Coldplay mates. But there are plenty of other rock star staples like Marlboro Lights, cotton socks, and an ever-important "selection of nibbles" (we think that's food) waiting in the British band's dressing room.   As for Martin's wifey and child back home, it's easy to imagine the joy on tiny Apple's face when mama Gwyneth pulls another "Greetings From Boise" postcard from the family's London letterbox.   Read the full

COLDPLAY's New Single "In My Place" has hit airwaves over the world recently. A dead-certain, cast-iron classic built around descending melatron chords and a gorgeous riff from guitarist Jonny Buckland, "In My Place" is Coldplay's first single from their forth-coming album A Rush Of Blood To The Head.   "In My Place" will also be released as a commercial retail single on Tuesday, August 6. The single also contains a previously unreleased Bonus Track "One I Loved" that will not be included on the

Coldplay have announced the cancellation of the gig at Portsmouth Pyramids on June 25th 2002. In the run up to the new album release, demands on the bands time and energies are such that the band have deemed it necessary to remove this gig from the diary.   Coldplay offer their fullest apologies to all those who have bought tickets for this gig, but hope that they can make it to the bands appearance at Bournemouth International on October 14th where their Portsmouth tickets will be valid. Coldpl