Coldplay News

Over the bank holiday weekend 96.4 BRMB were counting down the top 100 must-have albums and playing tracks from them. See where your favourites, including Coldplay, were ranked...   View the 100 list here [thanks Ondes Martenot}

Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Aniston have teamed up to dismiss rumours that the talk-show host and media magnate is going to stage a wedding for the former 'Friends' star.   Winfrey invited Aniston [pictured], rumoured to be close to tying the knot with fellow actor Vince Vaughn, to call into her show to mock media reports about the nuptials.   According to reports, Winfrey was going to throw an $8-million reception, featuring performances by Coldplay and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, at her Santa Barbara e

During a recent sit-down with ChartAttack prior to his opening gig for Coldplay at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, Ashcroft rattled off a host of songs by Al Green, Marvin Gaye and The Beatles as part of his own personal pop vanguard.   “I was saying to Chris Martin that the difficulty with us [as musicians] is that we are, essentially, just painters. But unlike most painters, we have to keep looking back at our work all the time and hear it reflected back to ourselves. Whereas normally, you finish

Greenhouse-gas emissions are clogging up the atmosphere. Children are forced to work in mines using dangerous machinery. Tomatoes are being modified to look more tomatoey.   One night you get fed up. You can't just watch everything go down the tubes. It's time to take a stand; every choice you make tomorrow will be environmentally friendly and socially responsible.   It's a very chic goal. Coldplay's Chris Martin would be proud. His band is featured on Sound Environment, two CDs whose proceeds

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

The Irish band U2 has given Britain its favourite song lyric, according to a survey released today. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" from the 1992 song One topped a poll conducted by music channel VH1.   Runner-up was the downbeat "So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die" from The Smiths' How Soon is Now. A line from Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit -- "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now,

First pictures of Moses, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's second child, have surfaced online.   You can view them here [thanks Alex22]

Singer Nerina Pallot is headed for hits at the age of 30 - but says she'll be snubbed by bigger acts for slagging them off.   Nerina's first single from new album Fires - Everybody's Gone To War - seems set to be a hit. She has compared Coldplay's lyrics to "bad A-level poetry" and slated Green Day and Live8. She said: "I always think I'm the arbiter of good taste, so you have to take me with a pinch of salt."   Her album - out May 22, the same day she plays Edinburgh's Liquid Room - is alread

Bob Geldof has been voted the best celebrity dad in an online poll.   The Boomtown Rats singer turned Live Aid campaigner – father to Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie – gained 23 per cent of votes. He has been praised in the past for adopting the child of his ex-wife Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence after they died.   David Beckham came a close second in the vote with 20 per cent, while dad-of-two Jamie Oliver came third on 17 per cent. The poll was carried out by remind4u.com, a service whic

There are certain things in life that stay with you for the rest of your days. No matter how far you get away from them, the moment you encounter items intractably connected with them, that's it: you're thrown back decades as memories come flooding back. I had such a moment late last year; while Proust had his Madeleine bun, I had an advert. I had my back to the telly, but the music - a full orchestra intoning great dark chords - was enough. "Dah Dah Dah! Dah Dah Dah!" A mixture of terror and ex

Music to my ears: Coldplay, Kanye West and Kelly Clarkson are slated to perform at the "2006 Brit Awards" (5 and 8 p.m. today, BBC America).   Source: calendarlive.com  

This quote from Britain's Maxim magazine was a bit of a surprise. Turns out Noel Gallagher thinks Radiohead are now more important than Oasis.   The Oasis guitarist has conceded the albums released by Radiohead have surpassed anything his group have released. Noel also believes Coldplay could yet match the achievements of him and brother Liam.   Noel Gallagher said: "I think I could have said, without any argument, till the year 2000 Oasis were the most important British band since The Beatles

Up to 59,999 people, including artists and staff, will be able to attend the event at Seaclose Park on June 9, 10 and 11.   Headlined by The Prodigy, Foo Fighters and Coldplay, organisers said they expected to sell around 50,000 tickets.   Following concerns from some residents about noise, anti-social behaviour and drink-related crime, organiser John Giddings agreed to end the event at 1am on Monday, June 12, not 2am as initially applied for. He also agreed to a condition banning alcohol sales

Damon Albarn, formerly of Blur and creator of Gorillaz, takes a swipe at Coldplay and Chris Martin in a German MTV interview, calling the Coldplay frontman 'possessed' during the Grammy's performance, amongst other things.   Listen to the full interview and discussion on it here [thanks Ondes Martenot]

Virgin Radio have just launched their ‘Best of the Guests’ Podcast featuring the interview which Chris and Jonny gave to Virgin Radio DJ Ben Jones just before X&Y was released.   It also features all the out-takes from the interview which never made it to air.   For more details, and how to download it to your MP3 players, click here

During Coldplay’s lengthy hiatus to record ‘X&Y’ there emerged a slew of bands that, if we’re being charitable, felt inspired enough by ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’s potent blend of pianos, yearning vocals and communal choruses to get out and make their own music.   Though if we’re being cynical, record companies saw a gap in the market and thought “Money, we like it’s smell…” So you had the likes of Thirteen Senses (vaguely political, zero record sales!), Keane (look, no guitars!) and Emb

Just in time for Passover, the world has a new Moses. Moses Martin, the first-born son of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, was delivered in a New York City hospital over the weekend, Paltrow's publicist reported Monday. No other information was provided about the 33-year-old Oscar winner or her new baby boy, but fans suggested that his name had been taken from a song written by Paltrow's husband, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.   "Moses," which appeared on the band's Live 2003 album, was reportedly

PeopleBot.net users can look up the phone number, address, and satellite photo of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin who hit the Top Celebrity list on Google™.   Peoplebot.net, a major player in the Free People Finder and Free People Search Industry, allows users to easily and inexpensively find addreses, phone numbers, birthdates, and satellite photos via Peoplebot.net.   “When Chris Martin hit the Top News list of Google News, we asked ourselves, if a ColdPlay fans wanted to congratulate Chris Mar

Kylie Minogue could headline next year's Glastonbury festival, event organiser Michael Eavis has said.   "Kylie is coming back hopefully. Her people are quite confident. She really wants to do it," said Mr Eavis.   The singer had to pull out of last year's festival after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Mr Eavis was speaking at the London launch of a documentary film about the 35-year-old event, told through the eyes of festival-goers."Kylie doesn't fit the Glastonbury festival image with Ne

Tim McGraw (music) and Faith Hill (music)'s "Soul2Soul II" tour was Ticketmaster's "most requested event" during the first quarter of 2006, based on online page views, information requests and ticket sales from Jan. 1 through March 31. (Ticketmaster is LiveDaily's parent company.)   According to a Ticketmaster press release, the Top 5 was rounded out by Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett, David Gilmour and Bon Jovi.   Ranking at Nos. 6 through 10 were Coldplay, Kenny Chesney, Michael Buble, George Strait

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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...

New dad Chris Martin tries to remain incognito during a stroll through New York City on Sunday.   Wife Gwyneth Paltrow gave birth to their son Moses (who joins daughter Apple, who turns 2 on May 14) at Mount Sinai Hospital over the weekend.   Read more for the picture below...

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A movie documenting the Glastonbury Music Festival, simply entitled 'Glastonbury', will hit the big screens this week, with its premiere taking place in London tonight.   The world-famous festival is taking a break this year, but will be back for 2007, and organisers had recorded 1,500 of amateur and professional footage of the last few festivals to make the film.   "For such a long time I've been scared of becoming involved in making a film about the festival, because it could be so wrong," Eav