Coldplay News

Coldplay's UK arena tour 2008 may be a distant memory, but new photos of various concerts have been published online by photographer Peter Hill.   A few of his photos are below, to see them all visit his website here. The photos are from the following venues: Sheffield Arena, Birmingham NIA (x3), Liverpool Echo Arena, Glasgow SECC (x2) and the London O2 Arena.    

This photo says it all really! More on this and tonights concert in Bologna here     Photocredit: volabologna.it

Pictures courtesy of blesk.cz of Coldplay arriving in Prague, Czech Republic today ahead of their concert at the O2 Arena.   More on this here onwards [thanks Marty McFly]           Cast your daily vote for Coldplaying.com in the Best Unofficial Music Site at the 2008 BT Digital Music Awards

Here are exclusive pictures of Coldplay singer Chris Martin arriving at a hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, before two concerts at the city's Globe Theater last week. Also arriving was Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman and guitarist Jonny Buckland.   An insider says: ‘The Coldplay frontman never rests and he is the most active person. CHRIS doesn’t sleep and he couldn’t sleep any better before he got success. That’s just what he’s like. If you plugged him in you could power a small Scottish town with all

Good afternoon. Here are some pictures which we didn't have time/space/fast enough connection for from yesterday's live blog.   Figuring out how to play the new version of Talk in the soundcheck Chris, pondering   Warming up for the show...   Moments before taking the stage   Chris on guitar   Chris on piano   Chris on fire   It's fair to say the refreshments stall wasn't very busy during the show   The crowd (which the band all agreed were absolutely amazing last night)   The Lovers

Coldplay and their staff are making an extra special effort for their online fans today with a live Lyon photoblog throughout the day. Here's what coldplay.com had to say:   8.45am: Good morning. We're pleased to announce that we're heading to Lyon with Coldplay today, from where we'll be updating the site with behind-the-scenes footage throughout the afternoon and evening. So keep it locked (as they say) to Coldplay.com. Anchorman   You can keep in touch with discussions on the live Lyon photob

Coldplay performed an intimate gig for Radio 2, featuring songs from their album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, along with some of their classic hits, on Saturday 30 August 2008. BBC have now released pictures from the gig, some of which are below.   See all the pictures here [thanks Lore & mimixxx]  

The KIIS FM website have now uploaded some pictures of Chris Martin’s visit on 17th July - you can view them here. You can also listen to the whole interview or download it in the multimedia forum.  

Coldplay.com: A few snaps from Coldplay's 'Tonight Show' appearance:          

New pictures of Coldplay's Chris Martin signing autographs for fans when the band were in Barcelona, Spain, where they performed a live free concert in the Palau Sant Jordi, to promote the new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends on 17th June 2008. See the rest of the pictures at the Coldplaying Gallery.  

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: SEPTEMBER (4 heading for Las Vegas?)   Continuing our 2010 review, in September, after rolling out a new lineup of iPod models, Chris Martin took the stage to perform Wedding Bells on piano [download], as well as Viva La Vida and Yellow, at the end of a press conference for Apple's new company products at the Yerba Buena Centre in San Francisco. Introducing Wedding Bells, Chris who was wearing a white Flaming Lips t-shirt, joked: "This is a new s

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: AUGUST (5 Crests of Waves) [thanks aniskywalker]   In August, Coldplay extended their publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group to cover future song writing. Financial terms or the length of the contract was not revealed. Universal has been the band’s publisher since 2007 when the music major acquired BMG Music Publishing, the group's original publisher. Dave Holmes of 3D Management, the band's manager added: "Coldplay and myself are

As part of Coldplaying's Erasmus boat trip excursion for Coldplay's Christmas Lights video last month, Coldplay roadies Matt McGinn and Miller, along with fifth member Phil Harvey were able to provide some excellent online Q&A to Coldplayers who were on the boat (and some who weren't). In the final installment of our Q&A session, last but not least to answer our questions is popular roadie Miller, who answers questions on soundchecks, online future of Coldplay, instrumentation and much m

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: JULY (6 articles for the month) [thanks Destrokk]   From the Bakery to the Beehive to the Greenhouse! In July, The Sun reported that Coldplay had crammed so much plant life into new studios that their support staff have labelled it "The Greenhouse." The Sun continued, "Frontman Chris Martin is taking a keen interest in horticulture at the moment. And at a recent garden party at his north London home he bored, sorry, told pals, including Richard A

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: JUNE (7 Antiques Dealt?) [thanks howyousawtheworld]   So June 2010 in the world of Coldplay it is then. What happened? You'd be forgiven for putting your favourite band on the backburner as apparently June saw the entire globe go crazy for something called the World Cup which I vaguely recall come to mention it. We saw Roadie #42 return with two blogs in June. Of course for every #42 blog their surely has to one by the infamous Roadie #43, Coldpl

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: MAY (8 Copies of ROADIE) [thanks mrman78]   May was the month American Idol contestants covered 'The Scientist', Coldplay campaigned to save 6music, the much anticipated 'ROADIE' was delayed but eventually made it to us, Coldplay's fame soared, Glastonbury 2011 rumours began, Ash released 'Slash' footage, Roadie #43 debuted, the EMI drama continued and the Oracle delved into even more of our questions!   Coldplay ruled the roost when it came to c

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: APRIL (9 Old Photos for Guy) [thanks BerrymanGirl1]   In April, Coldplay.com reported that Guy Berryman wanted you to find old photographs for an art project. The article didn't specifically say it was linked to the forthcoming fifth album, but stranger things had happened. Check out who was participating and posting their old photographs they had sent in, at the Coldplay forum.   Coldplaying got a sneak peak of Roadie Matt McGinn’s book that deb

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: FEBRUARY (*almost* £11k Viva Jacket sold!) [thanks Texasluvsjonny]   In March, The Viva tour rolled into Sao Paulo on Chris's birthday. The Setlist included Shiver, Parabéns pra você/Happy Birthday (sung by Will to Chris) and Don Quixote/Spanish Rain. Roadie #42 joined the fellas for a spot of sushi on the first night in Rio De Janeiro. Outside the hotel was quite a crowd of lovely folks who were so overjoyed to see the fellas that they stood on

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: FEBRUARY (*almost* £11k Viva Jacket sold!) [thanks Showbiz]   Back in February, an eBay auction of pop memorabilia from some of Britain's biggest acts raised around £50,000 ($80,000) for survivors of the Haiti earthquake, organizers Oxfam said. Among the top lots sold was Chris Martin's "Viva La Vida" tour jacket, which fetched £9,600.   Meanwhile, for Roadie #42, the Beehive was really beginning to feel like home. The builders' dust had settled,

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: JANUARY (Twelve highest bidding Coldplayers take home nostalgia) [thanks clisaj]   Back in January, Chris Martin and Glastonbury festival organiser Emily Eavis urged people to donate to Oxfam's appeal for eathquake victims in Haiti, which was launched in reaction to the deadly quake that struck the country on January 12. Coldplay, accompanied by Viva violinist Davide Rossi, performed a stunningly beautiful unplugged version of A Message, and Chri

In December, Coldplay was featured in the Q Magazine's Artist of The Decade. The band's article was written by Glastonbury's Michael Eavis, and Coldplay were nominated for two Grammy Awards 2010 (for Life In Technicolor ii). The Categories are Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals and Best Short Form Music Video.   Wembley concerts weren't the last Coldplay shows of the decade, the band announced an intimate show in Exeter (Chris's hometown), with all proceeds going to Mencap's ama

With The 'Viva La Vida' tour over all but for several charity concerts and the long awaited Latin America tour in 2010, you would be forgiven for thinking that November was a boring year in 2009’s Coldplay calendar. The Oracle is still in residence, and the boys are in the studio.   Roadie #42 causes Beehive craziness - in his blog #109 he talks about being confused, sleeping on an air-bed below the uniforms and their smell... but also gave us the news that there would be a new studio! It's the

Coldplay joined the Twitterverse way back in January, but after a flurry of tweets from Guy and a little nudge from Anchorman at the end of May, June saw the band reach the magical 7-figure mark of 1,000,000 followers. Being fans of the 140 character social network site ourselves, Anna and I thought we’d use it as the basis for our look back at June on the Coldplay calendar.   By the time the boys got to Indiana on the 5th, it seemed as though Guy had been well and truly bitten by the Twitter bu

May kicked off with much excitement as Anchorman announced that the band would be giving away a free live concert CD. Left Right Left Right Left was made available as a free digital download beginning May 15 with hard disc copies given to each person attending non festival shows for the remaining dates on the Viva tour.   An exchange thread was set up to try and get as many of the hard copy discs to fans as possible. Board members with spares pledged to help members needing copies. It isn’t clea

In April British newspaper the Mirror reported that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin had banded together with Sacha Baron Cohen —in his guise as gay Austrian TV personality Bruno—to record a single. Martin has also developed a reputation as a musical do-gooder, particularly with his support of fair trade practices. But that didn't stop the pair from playing along with Cohen's [April Fools] spoof.   The song, which has already been partially recorded at legendary Abbey Road studios, bears the coupl