Coldplay News

Grammy-winning British band Coldplay will play at this year's Juno Awards, alongside Canadian rockers Nickelback and the crooning Michael Buble.   "Our celebration of the Canadian music industry and its talent continues to attract world-renowned artists to our stage," Melanie Berry, president of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, said in a statement Tuesday.   The academy organizes the event, and will be announcing more performers as the date draws closer.   "Wait until you se

Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon has reportedly been approached to present an award at next month’s Brit Awards.   The Legally Blonde star could be joining the likes of Madonna, Take That and Paris Hilton to dish out the gongs. Reese is movie world hot property at present. Last week she picked up a Golden Globe for Best Actress in Walk The Line - the biopic of country legend Johnny Cash. When organisers for the Brits discovered her love of guitar bands and that she would be in the UK to promo

It's been far too long since we've had any real new releases to talk about, but that all changes this week. In fact, if anything, there are too many new records to talk about.   The list begins with Cat Power's newest effort, The Greatest. Clearly inspired by Feist's Let It Die and Smog's A River Ain't Too Much To Love, the new Chan Marshall disc isn't as biting as You Are Free, but the indie queen's new direction is a solid one.   Richard Ashcroft [pictured] is back with Keys To The World. Thos

Billboard's Money Makers chart brings together Nielsen Music data and our Boxscore numbers to create a master top 20 chart of acts that generated the most income during 2005. The list includes album and digital sales as well as accumulated box-office receipts. These artists are at the top of their game and range from legacy acts to pop stars to hip-hop phenomenons.   14. Coldplay: $51,705,752.25   Although it divided critics, Coldplay`s third album, ‘X&Y’ [pictured] was an immediate smash ar

Animated band Gorillaz have been signed up to play at this year's Brit Awards.   Damon Albarn's band are the latest act to be announced along with US artist Jack Johnson. Jack, whose music combines blues, folk and hip-hip, is a huge name over in the States and the Brits is where he will be making his UK debut trying to wow British music lovers.   BPI and Brit Awards organising committee chairman Peter Jamieson said: "The addition of Gorillaz and Jack Johnson to the bill means this year's show w

Kaiser Chiefs, Oasis, Franz and Bloc Party amongst the nominations   After weeks of number crunching your votes the nominations for the ShockWaves NME Awards 2006 can finally be revealed... and Coldplay have been dumped by NME fans.   Worst Band Babyshambles Coldplay The Darkness McFly Son Of Dork   Worst Dressed Pete Doherty Justin Hawkins Chris Martin Jack White Robbie Williams   Leading the way on the shortlist are the Kaiser Chiefs, who have bagged nominations in key categories Best Briti

This weekend's Sundance Film Festival in Utah sees the long awaited first showing of the documentary film 'Glastonbury', which features footage from the last 30 years of Europe's most famous festival.   The film's director Julien Temple has spent the past few years collecting footage from every single Glastonbury Festival, ranging from professional outtakes from the film Nicolas Roeg made about the 1971 event to amateur home videos collected from the attendees themselves, often retrieved from fo

"Coachella," a documentary on the Coachella Valley's most important two-day tourism event, arrives at the Regal Palm Springs Stadium 9 on Tuesday for a one-night-only screening of a film that is generated raves.   Variety calls it, "An excellent overview of the ambiance and showcased talent at arguably the best annual U.S. rock festival."   The film, which premiered Thursday at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, features some of the most important artists to play in the Coachella Valley Music a

Halton Council have given permission for a three day music event to take place at the Spike Island park in Widnes this year.   Councillor Rob Polhill said: "This event is set to be the biggest concert here in ten years and it is appropriate that it is taking place at Spike Island, where the Stone Roses played their famous concert."   The festival is believed to be taking place on 27-29 May with former Stone Rose Ian Brown (pictured), Oasis and Coldplay rumoured to headline.   Spike Island, a fo

The Black Eyed Peas were the big winners at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France, on Saturday night, scooping the Best International Group and Best International Album accolades.   However, the Where Is The Love hitmakers' triumph was over-shadowed by the absence of Madonna who was scheduled to attend the ceremony, and even failed to record a video message to accept her Best International Female Artist gong.   British singer Robbie Williams was named Best International Male Artist and performe

Radio 1 [uK] have announced that The Hardest Part will be Coldplay's 4th (and final) single, from X&Y.   Radio 1 played it on the album chart and announced that it was to be released on 3rd April.   More on this here   [thanks sparky17]

More Coldplay wallpaper for your desktops available, thanks to alyssa, this time it's White Shadows.   You can download both 800x600 and 1027x78 here

Why I Love John Lennon... Q Magazine, November 2005, Page 88   LIAM GALLAGHER 'OUR KID':   "For his voice. My top tunes would be Imagine and Gimmie Some Truth or I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama. Not for what he said or stood for, because half of what he said is what these other dicks like Chris Martin are saying. Lennon's a bit right on for me, to be honest. I don't want to fuc*king save the world, I want to live in my world. I do my bit. I am not fuc*king going around the world blowing people

DIRECT flights from Scotland to Geneva make it easy to dash off for a ski weekend in the Alps - just make sure you bag the best chalet .   Le Chardon is far removed from the cheap and cheerful (ie basic and cramped) end of the market. It offers the high levels of comfort and service demanded by well-heeled skiers, and since 1995 has played host to corporate clients from investment banks, as well as families from more than 50 countries. It was also pleasing to learn, as Charlie the chalet girl po

EMI Music UK puts pop stars in your pocket with launch of mobile music store wap.the-raft.com bringing together music downloads, ringtones & videos from EMI Records, Virgin Records, Parlophone, Angel and Catalogue http://wapinfo.the-raft.com   Calling all music fans… Fancy going home with a Brit tonight? EMI Music UK extends ‘The Raft’ online music store from web to mobile with the launch of its mobile music site. By texting ‘GO RAFT’ to 85080 (free text from all networks), music lovers will

José Mourinho [pictured] has given his backing to a comedy record that impersonates him, because part of the sales proceeds will go to Chelsea Football Club's official charity CLIC Sargent.   DJ Mario Rosenstock is famous in his native Ireland for mimicking leading football personalities, which he puts to music. Angel Records have decided to release one of these, ‘José & His Technicolor® Overcoat’, on February 20th. The song features Mario’s uncanny impression of Mourinho against the tune of

Coldplay (Music) Starting: 18:00 on Wednesday 25th January. Duration: 30 minutes Showing on Biography Channel.   Coldplay: MTV Live (Music) Starting: 20:00 on Wednesday 25th January. Duration: 1 hour Showing on MTV Hits.   Coldplay (Music) Starting: 00:00 on Thursday 26th January. Duration: 30 minutes Showing on Biography Channel.   Coldplay (Music) Starting: 09:00 on Thursday 26th January. Duration: 30 minutes Showing on Biography Channel.   Coldplay Vs. Keane (Music) Starting: 09:

The polls are closed, the votes are counted, and the results are in!   Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall is Queen of The Raft Awards with an historic four wins including Best Female, Best Album’, Best Newcomer, and Best Website. Not bad for an artist who just over a year ago was relatively unknown!   Since her career defining performance on Later With Jools Holland, KT has gone from strength to strength, firstly being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and now receiving three nominations in the

Saturday 21st January sees the NRJ Awards to be held in France. Coldplay have been nominated in 2 categories, Best International Group and Best International Album.   Not only will the band be attending the ceremony, but they are all set to perform.   For more information click here

Record company EMI Group plans to provide content for German media giant Bertelsmann's new Internet platform for downloading and sharing music, movies and games, it said on Friday.   EMI signed the first pan-European deal with arvato mobile, a unit of Bertelsmann's services and technology arm arvato, to offer end customers access to 300,000 music tracks from artists including Coldplay [pictured] and Norah Jones.   The software platform, called GNAB, allows makers and distributors of music, games

Coldplay will officially be releasing their brand new remix of 'Talk' tomorrow.   Remixed by Stuart Price, the download will be available from 9am (GMT) on Saturday.   You can get it online tomorrow - click here

Coldplay are set to headline a music festival at Spike Island, scene of an infamous concert by The Stone Roses, according to reports.   The band have apparently been approached to play the three-day event in Widnes (near Liverpool), as have Oasis and former Roses frontman Ian Brown. Apparently Halton Council have approved an application to put the festival on, with organisers scheduling the three-day event for this coming May.   Local councillor Rob Polhill commented: "This event is set to be th

Coldplay [pictured] have been left fuming after learning tickets for their shows in Las Vegas has been selling for a whopping £700 ($1,260) online.   Ticket prices for the February 3 concert at Sin City's MGM Grand started at £28 ($50), but some internet sites have been selling seats for up to 25 times their face value.   A source said: "Coldplay never charge much for gig tickets because they want them to go to genuine fans. They are very strict about it. They could charge loads more for them,

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS // 11 p.m.-midnight, MPT, Channels 22, 67 / The Grammy-winning band Coldplay performs. PBS.

Chelsea Football Club is believed to be considering a £400m bid for the Earls Court exhibition centre in order to relocate from their Stamford Bridge home. A move to a new site would help the champions compete more seriously in revenue terms with Arsenal, who moves to their new 60,000 Ashburton Grove home at the beginning of next season, and Manchester United, whose Old Trafford capacity will shortly be increased to 75,000.   According to sources close to the club, the Premiership leaders have b