Coldplay News

Later...Cool Britannia: 11.35pm, BBC2, Fri 18th June 2004 (TONIGHT!)   There will be an archive selection of British Rock Favourites, including Coldplay, on this programme tonight. For more information on the line up, please click here.

Coldplay are rumored to be returning to the UK in september. The news fuels speculation that by then the band will be ready to mix their third album, currently being recorded in New York.   Chris Martin and co flew out to the Big Apple with producer Ken Nelson at the beginning of July to record songs for the follow up to A Rush Of Blood To The Head, which is set for release at the start of 2005. It's their third studio session after demoting the album in Chicago and recording in London earlier t

Over six months on from Coldplay's Latin America tour, where are we up to with the 4th album? Here is Coldplaying.com's round-up of what's happened since early 2007...   On January 26, 2007, during an interview on BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row'', musician and producer Brian Eno revealed that he would be the producer for Coldplay's fourth album. The band confirmed this through a Question and Answer section on their official website.   In March 2007, famed producer Timbaland told GQ Magazine that he w

Several little bits of Coldplay information to update you with today here at Coldplaying, starting with the news that Lost! is #94 in US Hot 100 singles but Viva La Vida drops from 1st to 6th on the same Billboard chart. Violet Hill is somewhere in the #60's.   Good news for X&Y though, Coldplay's third album has made it to #1 album on a U.S. pop chart this week with sales of 27,000 worldwide in a week. Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head are also on that list. As for Viva La Vida Or

New scans have been uploaded from Italian magazines Rockstar and XL Repubblica here and here (the latter being a translation of the recent English Q Magazine article from June). In case you missed them, a reminder that the Spin Magazine Coldplay scans are here.   Nearly 1000 photos have been uploaded to the Coldplaying gallery so far from Coldplay's set (and soundcheck) at the Today Show last Friday in New York (thanks to all the VIP Coldplayers who took some fantastic shots). Coldplay have upda

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Check out the 2007 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Friday, 21 September - London   This is the album I always dreamed they would make. It's the sound of a band realizing their own strength. The sound of four men with total confidence in themselves and one another.   It's the sound of a songwriter at the peak of his ability. Lyrically and melodically, Chris seems to have broken through past constraints. There's a new confidence to venture beyond the limit of the known and comfortable. A

Tickets for Coldplay's two Crisis hidden gigs in Liverpool and Newcastle go on sale at 2pm local time today, and a word of warning for scalpers hoping to strike lucky in the tout market. Unfortunately this comes at a cost to the hoardes of Coldplay fans around the world also hoping to get their hands on the tickets...   In order to buy a general sale ticket for either gig your billing address must either be based in Liverpool for the 19th December gig or Newcastle for the 20th December gig OR yo

There have been countless reviews of Coldplay's new album, and in case you missed some here they are from the last few days:   Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida': 10 track-by-track reactions (20080614)‎ Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - The Times Review (20080614)‎‎ Album of the week: Coldplay (20080613)‎‎ On 'Viva,' Coldplay explores new sonic universe (20080613)‎‎ Viva le Coldplay! (20080613)‎‎ Coldplay Improves With 'Viva la Vida' (20080613)‎‎ Brian Eno treads softly in sprucing up

As you already know by now, Coldplay have confirmed they are set to play an intimate charity show. Taking place on December 19 at Exeter Castle, the gig is in support of Mencap's Big Noise Sessions. Due to take place inside a marquee transformed into a Christmas winter wonderland, tickets for the show will be released in three stages.   The first batch of tickets will be made available to paying subscribers on the Little Noise Sessions website on December 8th. The second batch will be sold at HM

All tickets for all 3 shows in Argentina are now sold out.   There's a limited number still available for Chile & Brazil but these are expected to sell out soon.   Tickets for Mexico go onsale today (Wednesday) and due to already high demand, an extra night has been added for 4th March.  

Eight lucky Latin American fans will win a trip to Miami to watch Coldplay's show and twelve more will win a Viva La Vida album CD in a competition courtesy of Warner Brothers Latin America (WBLA).   To enter, visit wbla.com then choose your country, and click on the 'inside the music' icon. Fill the form with your personal information, and then answer approximately 20 Coldplay-related questions. The winners chosen will be the eight people who answer questions correctly in the quickest time. Win

Eight lucky Latin American fans will win a trip to Miami and Houston to watch Coldplay's shows and twelve more will win a Viva La Vida album CD in a competition courtesy of Warner Brothers Latin America (WBLA).   Miami: To enter, visit wbla.com then choose your country, and click on the 'inside the music' icon. Fill the form with your personal information, and then answer approximately 20 Coldplay-related questions. The winners chosen will be the eight people who answer questions correctly in th

Eight lucky Latin American fans will win a trip to Miami and Houston to watch Coldplay's shows and twelve more will win a Viva La Vida album CD in a competition courtesy of Warner Brothers Latin America (WBLA).   Miami: To enter, visit wbla.com then choose your country, and click on the 'inside the music' icon. Fill the form with your personal information, and then answer approximately 20 Coldplay-related questions. The winners chosen will be the eight people who answer questions correctly in th

Eight lucky Latin American fans will win a trip to Miami and Houston to watch Coldplay's shows and twelve more will win a Viva La Vida album CD in a competition courtesy of Warner Brothers Latin America (WBLA).   Miami: To enter, visit wbla.com then choose your country, and click on the 'inside the music' icon. Fill the form with your personal information, and then answer approximately 20 Coldplay-related questions. The winners chosen will be the eight people who answer questions correctly in th

Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice, Canadian indie-rockers Arcade Fire and Blur frontman Damon Albarn's new band have been announced as headliners for the Latitude festival this summer.   Though there is some disappointment from fans who had hoped for performers such as Joni Mitchell and even Coldplay, estate manager Hektor Rous, son of the Earl of Stradbroke, said it was not just about the music.   Meanwhile at Glastonbury, acts confirmed for the festival include the Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chi

Coldplay's collaboration with Rihanna on 'Princess Of China' was leaked onto the internet this morning by an unknown source, so it's probably no surprise that the rest of Mylo Xyloto soon followed from someone in the world calling themselves "BriBerY".   As soon as it did, along came the expected wave of Coldplayer reviews - some good, some bad, some indifferent. Whatever your thoughts - please remember to pre-order it ahead of next week's worldwide release! Read on for some of your first impres

If you've ever wanted to know how to play your favourite Coldplay songs on guitar, a unique new digital service has just been launched with video tutorials showing you how. Now Play It has been developed to help offer a more instant and direct way of learning, for musicians of every ability.   Click here to visit the Coldplay page of the site. Five of the band's tracks are available as "Lite tutorials", where the guitar chords flash up over the song's video (as in the picture above, from 'Yello

If you've ever wanted to know how to play your favourite Coldplay songs on guitar, a unique new digital service has just been launched with video tutorials showing you how. Now Play It has been developed to help offer a more instant and direct way of learning, for musicians of every ability.   Click here to visit the Coldplay page of the site. Five of the band's tracks are available as "Lite tutorials", where the guitar chords flash up over the song's video (as in the picture above, from 'Yello

There are only two days to go before LeftRightLeftRightLeft will be released on May 15 at Coldplay's show at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in Florida's West Palm Beach, and then subsequently to anyone attending a live Coldplay show for the remaining dates of 2009's worldwide Viva La Vida tour.   The album, which mostly features cuts from Viva La Vida, contains 9 live tracks in all that had been recorded during different stops on the band's worldwide tours of the last few years. However, if you can't p

Coldplay's highly touted giveaway of a free live CD to concert goers -- a generous idea which Chris Martin announced from the stage -- was badly executed, leaving many fans empty handed, according to reports in Miami today.   The only sour spot on an otherwise excellent show, was either insufficient stocks of CDs or poor distribution, which meant they were difficult or even impossible to find. But for most people, it's likely that their memories of this show were gift enough. However, Coldplayin

John Lennon's 'Imagine' has been voted the nation's number one song - 25 years after his death.   The Beatles classics 'Hey Jude' and 'Let it Be' came second and third in the poll compiled by Virgin Radio. U2 made it to fourth place with One, while Robbie Williams followed with Angels.   Virgin Radio's Ben Jones, who will play out the top 10, said: "Its apt that Lennon is top of the poll in the year of the 25th anniversary of his death. His writing, especially with Paul McCartney, is possibly

Leona Lewis has reportedly found inspiration for her second album by listening to Coldplay. The singer, who has been recording the follow-up to Spirit in Los Angeles, is said to have been drawn to a soft-rock sound after the success of 'Run'. Last year, the 'Bleeding Love' singer admitted that she was eager to record a duet with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin in the future.   "Leona was really happy with the success of her cover of Snow Patrol's 'Run', so she thought it logical to try her hand a

Time is running out to purchase the new Coldplaying Wembley t-shirts... there are less than three weeks until Coldplay hit London baby!   The Coldplaying.com E-Shop continues with the Coldplaying Wembley tour t-shirts in stock - the current design features a Coldplaying site logo beneath a large butterfly along with the title of London 2009 - in reference to the forthcoming concerts at Wembley stadium - all on yellow fabric. See the full image of the butterfly t-shirt after the jump.   This des

Liam Gallagher has taken a pop at Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin after being advised to change his singing voice by The Who frontman Roger Daltrey. Liam Gallagher’s dig at Chris came after Daltrey told him he should change his famous gravelly voice.   Gallagher told Absolute Radio: ‘I remember Roger telling me, “Look, you’ve got to warm up”. I was like that, “Warming up, man, are you mental?”. I don’t want to sound like Chris Martin.’   Meanwhile we're sure Chris Martin will have a Friday chuc