Coldplay News

Who could possibly be mean enough to attack the angelic frontman of the world’s most inoffensive band - Coldplay?   You can find out here

There may have been no Coldplay action at the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa on Sunday, but that didn't stop Coldplayers from making a day of it in the Florida sunshine. In true Coldplay-shaped puppet style, Helena, Dianne, Kelly and Denise treated us to some sights of their travels, and a peek inside the empty Ford Amphitheater, where Coldplay may yet play their final US show, on a date to be announced. The also visited St. Petersburg Pier where the video for 'The Hardest Part' was filmed. Here's t

Portishead's Geoff Barrow has hit out at Coldplay and the "fucking fireworks" they let off during their live appearances, an article on Pitchfork (via NME) has revealed. Portishead played before Coldplay at Rock Werchter in Belgium earlier this month (July 2) and then occupied the same slot at Main Square Festival in Arras, France the following evening (July 3), with the fireworks putting them off their stride.   We reported that Primal Scream were asked to turn their sound down during the T In

Further to our article published yesterday rounding up the media furore over the 'alien' Xylobands, the Guardian have responded with their own blog, headed by the caption, "Nine days after a gig, my Xyloband spontanously lit up. Are Coldplay trying to tell me something?" We're surprised the battery lasted that long, but it's definately not aliens. Let us know at the Coldplay forum if you can beat this record. Read on for their blog entry...   Nine days had elapsed since the Coldplay show. Throug

Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs, reports Yahoo today.   Satriani's copyright infringement suit, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, claims the Coldplay song "Viva La Vida" incorporates "substantial original portions" of his 2004 instrumental "If I Could Fly."   The 52-year-old guitar virtuoso is seeking a jury trial, damages and "any and all profits" attributable to the alleged copyright infringement.

Coldplay star Guy Berryman has split from his wife - six months after they celebrated the birth of their daughter.   Bassist Guy, 29, is said to be devastated after agreeing to a separation from childhood sweetheart Joanna, 30. He has moved out of the couple's £2million home in Hampstead, North London, and is now living in a rented flat a few miles away. A source close to the couple said Guy has stayed in constant touch with yoga instructor Joanna, who gave birth to their daughter Nico in Septem

Guy Berryman has finished co-producing The Pierces' new album with Rick Simpson, which also features Coldplay's drummer, Will Champion. The Pierces are two sisters from Alabama, and the new album will be their fourth. More on this news is at the Coldplay forum here [thanks iriden]   Talking on their MySpace, the Pierce's wrote: So one day they said, "We're done, this isn't working..." and decided to split up. "When you pour your heart into a record and see its potential, and you also see that it

A reminder that BBC2 will run the second part of its major new TV series, Amazon. The show will follow presenter Bruce Parry as he travels the length of the Amazon, from its source to the sea. For an exclusive preview of the second programme, here (UK only).   The music which will soundtrack the end credits is a song called Ferreting, which was recorded by a new band formed especially for the project, Apparatjik. That group features Magne F from A-ha, Jonas Bjerre from Mew and Coldplay's very ow

Coldplay’s Guy Berryman [pictured] and Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell have contributed tracks to a new fundraising album collated by Bruce Parry called Bruce Parry Presents Amazon Tribe - Songs for Survival.   Parry, star of BBC’s ‘Tribe’ and the forthcoming ‘Amazon’, has teamed up with some of music’s legends for a fundraising album for Survival International, human rights organisation for tribal peoples.   All tracks were created exclusively for the album:   Disc: 1 1. Apparatjik (Guy Berryman /

Guy Berryman has been included on a list of great bassists, along with legends like Paul McCartney, Flea and John Paul Jones. The list is courtesy of HUB. Here is Guy's excerpt:   5. Guy Berryman - Coldplay. For me, Berryman is very unique with the fact that you will see him playing an upright bass and be really good with it.   Read the full list here [thanks mimixxx]

Coldplay, A-ha and Mew have teamed up for a one-off supergroup, Apparatjik.   Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen and Jonas Bjerre perform the theme to Bruce Parry's new BBC2 series Amazon.   The series starts on September 22, and an album will be out to coincide. Songs For Survival includes exclusive songs about the series by Johnny Borrell, Hot Chip, The Go! Team, Mystery Jets, Mike Oldfield, Jazon Mraz and Yusuf Islam.   More on Guy Berryman collaborations with members of A-ha here

As reported in the latest issue of Hello Magazine, Guy Berryman is expecting a child.   Read the full story here [thanks cpfan50]

Coldplay.com has a chat with Guy in Budapest during their tour there yesterday (23rd September). (Enjoyed this interview? Click here to vote for the official site in the latest BT DMA Awards!)   Hello Guy. How's it going? It's going really well, thanks. I'm in Budapest right now, which is uncharted territory for me. It's very exciting to be in a new country.   Will you have time for a look around? Well, we're leaving at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to go to Vienna, so I'm going to have the morni

Three years ago Coldplay singer Chris Martin told the Record their fourth album would be "the greatest piece of music ever made".   Thirteen days from now the world will find out as Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends is released on a Thursday no less. The last time a huge Brit band did this was Oasis in 1997.   Viva La Vida was made in the band's new permanent HQ, a former bakery tucked down an alley opposite a north London estate. Brian Eno, the long-time U2 producer and Markus Dravs, wh

As announced on the official site today, on 31 October, Coldplay are performing a special, intimate gig at la Cigale in Paris for Orange/NRJ. For those of you in France, there is a contest to win tickets at coldplay.orange.fr - NRJ will also be giving away tickets on air from 10 October. You can read more discussion on this new event at the Coldplay Live forum now.   In addition there were four short videos to watch when the news was announced. You can download the lot at the Multimedia forum no

Rumours that Coldplay would be releasing a country album were dismissed today by bassist Guy Berryman.   Speaking to BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq, Berryman [pictured] said: "We're all big fans of Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and Willie Nelson - but I don't think we could ever get away with doing a country album."   Berryman did give some indications of where Coldplay would go with their fourth album.   "I know a lot of bands say this all the time, but our next record is going to be really quite diffe

Apparatjik’s debut album We Are Here was released exclusively on theoutland.com back in February, and the album has now been released worldwide via iTunes this week. The video for Datascroller is now available to watch on Vimeo and it has become the free single of the week in 10 countries.   There will be a deluxe version of the album available in some countries. The deluxe version of We Are Here will be available in the following countries in iTunes: United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, F

Apparatjik, Guy Berryman's side project with Magne from A-Ha, Jonas from Mew and Martin Terefe from Kensaltown Records will make their very first live performance at next year's Club Transmediale, an annual festival in Berlin, due to take place between 28th January and 7th February 2010.   Inspired by the Bauhaus movement, the 'Bauhaus Bühne', and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's work 'Light-Space-Modulator' from 1930 in particular, the first ever performance of Apparatjik will take place inside a specially

Apparatjik, Guy Berryman's side project with Magne from A-Ha, Jonas from Mew and Martin Terefe from Kensaltown Records has sent out a new a track from their forthcoming album to 30 lucky people ahead of the official release.   Apparatjik is releasing the first track on November 30th, entitled 'Electric Eye' via their website Apparatjik.com, and links to a one minute sample of the song are available now. You can discuss the lead vocals and decide whether it's Guy Berryman at the Coldplay forum he

Guy Hands has 12 days to persuade investors to stump up fresh funds for EMI or risk losing control of the troubled music group, home to top acts such as Coldplay and Katy Perry, The Times Online are reporting today. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum here onwards.   A handful of the largest backers of Terra Firma, Hands's investment vehicle, have given verbal commitments to contribute £105m - enough to plug the latest breach of its borrowing agreement with Citigroup. But Hands stil

Guy Hands will step down as chief executive officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd., two weeks after the leveraged buyout firm reported a 1.39 billion- euro ($1.8 billion) loss for 2008.   Hands, 49, will remain chairman and chief investment officer, the London-based firm said in a statement today. Tim Pryce, 43, the firm’s lawyer, will replace Hands as CEO. Terra Firma raised 5.4 billion euros for its latest fund in 2007, and invested about 30 percent of it in EMI, the record label of Col

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Guy Hands has written to EMI recording artists, saying they are 'at the epicentre' of his plans to turn around the struggling music company, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.   The boss of the private equity group Terra Firma circulated a letter last month to EMI's artists, which include Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Coldplay and Gorillaz, following reports the group would axe acts who do not work hard enough.   Hands wrote to artists: 'Firstly, let me

Who does Gwyneth Paltrow have to bang to get to hear Coldplay's new album, Mylo Xyloto? Well nobody anymore, because according to The Sun, she's already heard it. Gwyneth confessed via Twitter back at the end of July that she has yet to listen to the new album. "Who do I have to bang to get an advance copy of the new @coldplay album? I mean, really," Paltrow said online.   Gwyneth also has to put on Coldplay albums when her husband Chris Martin is not at home because he has banned her from liste

Gwyneth Paltrow refuses to interfere with her husband Chris Martin's band Coldplay, because she's scared of becoming his 'Yoko Ono'.   The actress can sing, and even performed in the 2000 movie Duets, but she fears if their careers cross paths it could cause problems within the band and their marriage reports IMDb.com. Paltrow said: "People ask if I will sing with the band or do a duet, but always in the front of my mind is the Yoko effect. I don't want to be known as the girl who split up Coldp

Gwyneth Paltrow is being paid £2million to sing one three-minute song in a movie.   It will make her the highest paid actress or female singer ever for a tiny cameo appearance. The two million deal is a lot more than the £2,000 cut husband Chris Martin gets for singing one Coldplay song.Gwyneth's pay cheque comes for just one day's work on new film Every Word Is True which is being shot next year reports The Sun.   Gwyneth plays American singer Peggy Lee and will sing What Is This Thing Called L