Coldplay News

The current tour of Australia is underway and they have so far played Brisbane and Sydney. This coming Monday (3rd July) the popular TV programme ‘Enough Rope with Andrew Denton’ will be showing an exclusive with Chris.   The show will be transmitted on ABC at 21.35 (local time). If you are unable to watch the show, they have an official website with archived interviews available as videos, audio and transcribed text, so check http://abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/ for more information.   There will a

Members of Coldplay insist World Cup soccer has kept them sane on their international tour, because they have something to watch in the middle of the night when they are jet-lagged.   After playing in Sydney, Australia last night (26JUN06), Chris Martin led the charge to the North Bondi Beach Returned And Service's League (RSL) to watch the Australian team's effort to remain in the World Cup.   Guitarist Jonny Buckland said jokingly, "This has been the best time of our lives to have jet-lag, bec

Coldplay front man Chris Martin, also known as Mr Gwyneth Paltrow, is a devoted football fan and revelled in the World Cup fever gripping Australia when his band played at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Monday night.   He referred repeatedly to the Socceroos' upcoming do-or-die clash with Italy during the gig and even dedicated the song Yellow to the green and gold army.   Afterwards, the down-to-earth rock god went looking for a place to watch the match and turned up at North Bondi RSL bef

Tune in to Mix FM to win Coldplay tickets for the Singapore gig next month:   We're giving away tickets to Coldplay's - Twisted Logic Concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on the 10th of July. Listen out for a coldplay song and call us with the title of the song and you'll win 2 tickets to watch COldplay in concert!   More on this competition here

Relive (or enjoy for the first time) video clips of both of Coldplay's gigs in Brisbane recently.   Download the files from both nights here   [Thanks SteveM and Dave S]

British rock outfit Coldplay today backed the Socceroos to make it to the World Cup semi-finals.   Speaking before its final 16 clash with Italy tonight, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said there were plenty of lessons to be learnt from Australia's performance in the World Cup.   "Australia are going to get to the semi-finals," Martin said in Sydney today. "The thing about Australia is they play that game in particular like life should be lived. They attack it, and they just go for it so heavy.

Six-year-old Ria Malik has got to be Coldplay’s youngest fan — she’s heading all the way to Hong Kong to watch them perform. “She prefers them to Disneyland,” says her dad Subir Malik.   Like the Maliks, more people are heading to destinations abroad to be part of an event — be it the World Cup, an F1 race or a music concert.   “We’re going to Hong Kong only to watch Coldplay perform. It’s just a two-day trip and it’s worth it. Last year I had everything ready for the Live 8 concert in London w

Not only has the Australian teams' valiant World Cup campaign kept the world's biggest band entertained as they battle jetlag on tour but it has inspired frontman Chris Martin to pay tribute to the team in song.   "If it's there milk it, I say,'' Martin joked yesterday, as the band prepared for their three-night stand at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.   "It's a gift for a frontman to arrive in a country and find there's lots of yellow jerseys and the team is doing really well. You don't hav

No more angst… Coldplay members enthuse yesterday about their evolution to big-arena gigs. Last night the band performed its first Sydney concert in three years at the Entertainment Centre.   At first sight, Coldplay look like sensitive, middle-class English boys who studied humanities at university and pined hopelessly after dangerous, arty girls.   On second sight, they do, too.   But they are also the world's biggest-selling band, with over 8 million copies of their third album X&Y sold l

Despite major differences of opinion, the marriage between Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow is thriving -- and that's because the stubborn musician wins most of their battles.   When Gwen talked of their daughter, Apple, becoming an actor, Chris said a firm "No, over my dead body." It was a similar negative when she hinted living in New York would be nice. Insiders say he told her, "Sure, you can go back to America, but the baby stays with me." Gwyneth coos: "I love being married to a strong man

Chris Martin is making poverty history by hiring a private helicopter this summer to keep popping in to the recording studio, where he is making another epic record.   Coldplay have an album's worth of new material and are planning to set up their own HQ in London to record it - despite tabloid reports they're going to split. After sampling Kraftwerk on last single 'Talk' the band are set to take their approach to recording. Inspired by the German group's Kling Klang studio where no outsiders ar

On Thursday morning I had to go into the city before work to pick up some dress pants & some dress shoes because I had a business dinner that night that I’d only found out about the day before. So I’ve gotten into the city about 10am & rushed around to find pants & shoes which I did, so went over to Borders books to have a look around, I’ve walked out & gone to cross the street at the intersection to head over to the Myer shopping centre.   I’ve crossed the street & as I’ve g

British supergroup Coldplay charmed Australian fans with a tribute to the Socceroos and a Shane Warne [pictured] joke when they opened the Down Under leg of their world tour in Brisbane.   Engaging frontman Chris Martin donned a Socceroos' scarf and marvelled at Australia's sporting credentials as Coldplay last night won over 12,000 enthusiastic fans at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.   "As English people we just have to ask is there anything you can't do?" he said. "The answer is 'no'."  

How did Coldplay become the biggest band in the world? Take four unassuming London uni students, create anthems with soaring high notes and add guitars and lashings of emotion.   You are a bit perplexed. You know the song Yellow and that other one, the slow, sad one with the bit where the vocalist goes all high and vulnerable as he sings about a scientist. Or something. You're pretty sure there's a celebrity actor connection and maybe an oddly named child, too.   Coldplay ­- that's it. Yeah, yo

Coldplay begin their Australian tour tonight (23rd) in Brisbane. Check the Coldplayer for updates and exclusives from the tour.   For more information on the support band, Youth Group, click here   Source: coldplay.com

[All Brisbane first night reviews are here]   British supergroup Coldplay paid tribute to the Socceroos when they opened their Australian tour in Brisbane on Friday night.   Frontman Chris Martin made reference to Australia's qualification to the second round of the World Cup following the 2-2 draw with Croatia. Martin changed the lyrics in the song Politik with a verse saying, "Give Harry Kewell Australia's second goal".   In front of 12,000 fans, at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre complete w

I am Waiting For My Man, except I don't have $26 in my hand, this isn't Lexington, 125, nor do I feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive. I am in Gateshead, feeling excited, because I am about to meet Lou Reed, who wrote Waiting for the Man for the Velvet Underground. I'm also as nervous as I have ever been.   Reed's curmudgeonly reputation precedes him. The last time the Guardian attempted to interview him, he declared: "I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says," before a

The band party are arriving by helicopter today, which is unusual. Not just one, mind you - but five. Unfortunately, everyone is coming from different locations at different times, rather than ‘in convoy’, so vision of the bands arrival looking like a scene from M.A.S.H. are not to be realised. Shortly after they arrived, I’m asked over the radio if I can get a piano into the dressing room for them to learn a new song. Looks like there might be a cover tune tonight after all.   Trying to learn a

Popular music's first lady, the stunning Gwyneth Paltrow, is tipped to visit Melbourne within weeks because her husband, Chris Martin, is hitting the stage with his band, Coldplay, at Rod Laver Arena.   Paltrow and the couple's two children -- two-year-old Apple and two-month-old Moses -- are joining the Australian leg of the tour, but it's not yet known which cities her visit will include. Martin and his bandmates flew into Brisbane last night for a rest stop ahead of their first gig tomorrow n

Coldplay is taking its "Twisted Logic" Tour Down Under next week.   The band's sold-out Australian tour in support of the its latest album "X&Y" kicks off tomorrow, June 23rd, with a two-night stand in Brisbane. The outing wraps up July 7th in Perth.   A few days later, Coldplay completes the final leg of the Twisted Logic Tour with six shows in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan.   Going to a show? Preview it and review it in the Coldplay Live forum.

Becks hefts the cup as top pop with more than a quarter of UK dads and 30 per cent of mums voting the England captain the best example of modern fatherhood. In true Becks style, he thrashed the opposition, netting 20 per cent more votes than second-placed Chris Martin.   But brand new starry dads Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fell by the wayside in the poll, carried out by top toy firm Smoby – the blockbusting pair managed just three and four per cent of the vote respectively. Top dads:   David Beckh

Coldplay lead singer singer Chris Martin will be Andrew Denton's Enough Rope guest on July 3.   Married to actor Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin is father to daughter Apple and newborn son Moses. So, baby names will surely be covered, but what of Martin's recent comment to Rolling Stone that despite Coldplay's zillion record sales, "We haven't done anything better than (Michael Jackson's) Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough"?   Denton will also chat to three cabbies (from Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coas

The MuchMusic Video Awards take place later today. To vote for Coldplay in the People's Choice award for Best Interantional Group, click here   The ceremony airs at @ 9pm ET. To get full timings of all related programmes including the show, click here

MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch is back!   Chris fights Bono!   See the action here [thanks nightsurfer]

Chris Martin angered members of the Foo Fighters' camp at the Isle of Wight festival.   Tensions over the billing at the Fuji Rocks festival in 2005 continued last weekend, leading to Martin [pictured] being branded a "cry baby".   "Comments were made by Chris and it's really hacked off some of the Foos people," a source told the Daily Star. "Apparently he mentioned something about the billing again and he was seen as being a bit precious. Now he's being referred to as a 'cry baby' and a 'bit of