Coldplay News

Tomorrow (Wednesday) night, the Shaun Keaveny show on BBC 6Music will be playing a bunch of live Coldplay tracks from the BBC archive.   They will go out between 00:20 and 00:50 on Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Click here for more info and to listen to the show online.   Source: Coldplay MySpace

Live updates from Coldplay at the Grammy Awards from the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles are now filtering through. The twitters are coming thick and fast courtesy of Prospekt, otherwise known as Phil Harvey, Coldplay's 5th member. You can see the updates feed on the right hand side of the main Coldplaying.com site. This from the official site:   On an exciting day for Coldplay, it's over to our LA correspondent, Mr Phil Harvey (Coldplay's fifth member) for behind-the-scenes updates from

Coldplay have visited countries around the world but it seems they forgot latinamerican fans. They only had visited Mexico. All latin fans are waiting for a tour around the South America countries like Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Brazil etc.   All latin fans of Coldplay who want to see them live should sign the online petition letter. Maybe this could to be in their hands someday and they decide to visit South America. Please sign with your name and your country.   http://www.petitiononlin

While the proposed merger of Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and concert promoter Live Nation Inc. hasn't yet affected how the public will buy tickets, Live Nation has announced a new ticketing system that will replace Ticketmaster for Verizon Wireless Amphitheater concerts.   Tickets to the July 24 Coldplay concert at Verizon go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, and with that comes the first run of the new system. Ticketmaster can still be used for other venues, including Scottrade Center and the Pa

This is an exerpt from an article about Madonna's world tour:   Arthur Fogel, a one-time Torontonian now based in L.A. as Live Nation's CEO of global touring and chairman of global music, says this year's Madge tour will do extremely well, what with no other major tours in the works from such acts as U2 and the Rolling Stones, although he points out the Coldplay tour "will be huge in a different way."   More on this here [thanks Fixed]

Live Nation have been sending out emails to those with unused tickets for the Tampa Coldplay show that never was last month. It reads:   Dear Live Nation Customer, regarding Coldplay in TAMPA, Ford Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds, please be advised of the following: It was announced today the postponed Coldplay show at Ford Amphitheatre has been cancelled. Refunds of the face value of the ticket and the per ticket convenience charge will automatically be processed to the credit car

As announced first via Coldplay's Messenger yesterday evening, Anchorman has confirmed details of the live photoblog from Exeter today - the official behind-the-scenes view at today's special show. You can join in with the customary mammoth discussion at the Coldplay forum during the photoblog (already 25 pages long and the blog hasn't even started yet!). F5 keys at the ready folks! Here's Anchorman will all the blog details:   Good morning. Later today, Coldplay are playing a very special show

UPDATE: This event has finished - you can download the concert in MP3 audio at the Multimedia forum now!   A reminder that Coldplay's first concert at the huge Emirates Stadium in London on Friday will be broadcast live and uninterrupted on Absolute Radio. Join us now for all the build up and commentary on this show here at the Coldplay Live forum! [thanks hps]   You can listen to the Absolute webstream via the Coldplaying toolbar - which you can download here prior to the live gig.   Previous C

Grammy voters are wack. Coldplay (tickets | music) is arguably today's most important rock band, currently touring in support of arguably the best mainstream rock record of last year, and the group deserves to go head-to-head with the likes of Kanye West and Mariah Carey in the major categories.   Coldplay, which is nominated for three trophies in the rock field, certainly came across like a band for the ages during its Monday night (1/30) concert at Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA.   The quartet d

The “Countdown To Coldplay” is almost over for Australian fans, and Coldplay will be performing to 17,000 fans at Perth’s Burswood Dome tonight. They will be supported by both Sydney outfit Decoder Ring and Mercury Rev on their eleven massive Arena shows across Australia, making this one of the biggest rock concerts the country will see in 2009.   There are live updates now from tonight's show via twitter in the Coldplay Live forum here onwards courtesy of those inside the arena, and full discus

An extra 55,000 free tickets are to be released for Saturday's Live 8 concert in London after city authorities agreed to allocate more audience space at the Hyde Park venue.   Live 8 organizers said on Monday that the concert, headlined by Coldplay, U2 and Pink Floyd, would also be extended an extra 90 minutes to close at 9:30 p.m. (2030 GMT). The extra tickets will be distributed to first-comers at four ticket offices in London as well as in six locations across Britain from 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) o

Live8 organisers have vowed to track down hoaxers who tricked charities into paying $95,000 (£50,000) to advertise at the star-studded London concert.   Several British charities were contacted by a firm offering them fake 30 second commercials on the giant TV screens at the Hyde Park gig on 2 July (05). But Live8 organisers are determined to punish the those seeking to illegally capitalise on the buzz surrounding the huge showbiz event.   Spokesperson Bernard Doherty says, "We haven't even got

Following great success of Madonna concerts, Live Nation announces two popular rock bands to perform in Holy Land some time next summer   Madonna's successful shows in Israel last week have paved the way for more major international artists to follow her lead, and now, Irish rock band U2 and Coldplay are expected to perform in the Holy Land next summer, according to Ynet news, an Israeli-based media source. Both groups are represented by the Live Nation events company, which represents most of t

Given its massive bill (six headliners included), two months offers ample enough time to formulate your Lollapalooza schedule. So right on queue, the Chicago-based extravaganza, which is set to take over Grant Park 58 days from now, has revealed its day-by-day breakdown. So what’d we got?   Friday features a clash of the UK titans as Coldplay and Muse play opposite ends of the park to close out day one. You can discuss this in the Lollapalooza thread in the Coldplay Live forum. And if that sched

Coldplay will play at the Paralympic Games closing ceremony, marking the end of the London 2012 Games, according to various UK sources today. The announcement that the group will perform at the ceremony on September 9th has been made ahead of tomorrow’s milestone of 100 days to go until the start of the Paralympic Games. More on this news is at the Coldplay Live forum now. Read on for the Daily Telegraph's article... [thanks Tash]   The band has been working with Kim Gavin, artistic director of

London Photographic Awards are 'calling for entries' for their latest conceptual photography award. Traditionally the Awards use a poem as a brief, but this year they have picked lyrics and music by Coldplay. 'Don't Panic' from their album Parachutes has been chosen.   According to the PLA's website, "this brief is in place to evoke a unique visual response to this track. You might find your work inspired by the title, a line, a verse or a feeling.   There are no constraints on how you interpre

The Chris Martin / Jay Z love-in always felt like a match made in celebdom rather than musical heaven, but at Wembley their shared ability to interpret the wisdom of crowds was obvious, writes BBC 6Music. [thanks RedGirl76]   Viva La Vida already has a Grammy and the title of the world’s biggest selling album behind it, but since the record itself is a brisk 47 minutes, the two-hour set demanded by a Wembley headline inevitably had to draw heavily on their previous three efforts. Yellow was drop

Coldplay, Sir Paul McCartney and Calvin Harris have been honoured at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards in London.   McCartney was named 'Songwriter of the Year' for 'All You Need Is Love', 'Come Together' and 'Hello Goodbye' at the ceremony, which recognises the most performed works last year by writer and publisher members of UK collecting society PRS for Music.   Coldplay won 'Song of the Year' for 'Viva La Vida' and Calvin Harris was handed the ASCAP van

Along the tradition of Ben Folds Five comes a band out of Athens, Ohio, that is gaining momentum, Longfellow.   To kick off 2006 the band played its first show of the year at Ruby Tuesday on the corner of Summit Street and 19th Avenue on Friday. Amid jokes of a stinky microphone, Longfellow engaged the audience with its unique style of indie pop, rock and amusing banter.   Longfellow played a majority of its songs from "Jangling Tea Trolley," the band's 2005 debut album, and threw in some new so

It was the best year in recent memory for live music in the Bay Area. As per my regular music critic routine, I saw more than 150 concerts in 2006. A few of those shows were stinkers, some were mediocre and a surprisingly large number of them proved to be quite memorable.   The best of the lot are remembered here, in my own highly subjective list of the top 10 concerts of 2006. All of these shows left a lasting mark on me, in one form or another, which is exactly what's supposed to happen with

Another year has passed, and it's time to look back at the past 12 months and what has happened with and around Coldplay.   The year was filled with exciting gigs & events, break-up rumours and baby news.   Gigs   From January to April, Coldplay toured the United States with 32 concerts in total, including two amazing gigs at the Verizon Wireless Theater in Toronto which were supposed to be released on a Live DVD - after all, it has only been announced to be televised around the world in the

Make a video and win a trip to see Coldplay in London!   Coldplay have just launched a new competition to find the best fan-made video for Lost? (the acoustic version of the new single). The prize is a pair of ultra-VIP tickets to see Coldplay in London in December. There are backstage passes and the best seats in the house on offer, and they'll even pay your travel and accommodation expenses. The winning entry will also be posted on the front page of Coldplay.com for all to see.   To enter the

A new video of Lovers In Japan affiliated to Capitol records has emerged online and is now available to watch on this website.   The video was shot by Matt Whitecross at the United Center in Chicago during the same show in which the official video of Lost! and Lost+ was from. The images of the video seem to be part of an alternative video of the fourth single taken from the album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, but it has since been rumoured that it could also be a footage of the eage

Earlier tonight on Q Radio Coldplay played an acoustic version of Lovers In Japan, to celebrate the unveiling of the new radio station Q Radio. You can listen to the track here. The lyrics to accompany the song are as follows:   Lovers, keep on the road you're on Runners, until the race is run Soldiers, you've got to soldier on Sometimes even right is wrong   They are turning my head out To see what I'm all about Keeping my head down To see what it feels like now But I have no doubt One day, we

Chris Martin admits he's been "playing it a bit safe" for a large part of his life, while talking to Q magazine about the almost-finished fifth Coldplay album, due to be released in 2011. Chris said the lyrics on the band's next album are inspired by New York graffiti and the White Rose Movement - a group of German children in World War II who printed anti-Nazi flyers - and he admires people who speak out and express themselves in negative environments - admitting he's not always done that himse