Coldplay News

The Viva La Vida music video is now available via the official Coldplay site. There appears to be 2 versions:   Version 1 (directed by Hype Williams, bottom left) [youtube!] Version 2 (cover version, made out of love for Depeche Mode and the genius of Anton Corbijn, bottom right) [youtube!]   Let us know what you think of the videos here and don't forget to vote for your favourite in the video poll! [thanks DGrzechu, Arazmire, Ekmi & Lore]  

The official Coldplay site have been honoured at this year's Webby Awards for their excellent content for fans. This is not the first time they have been honoured - they were also praised in 2009 during the Viva era. Well done to all at Coldplay.com for this year's selection! Read Anchorman's announcement below:   Good evening. We're very pleased to report that Coldplay.com is an Honoree at this year's Webby Awards (a bit like the Oscars of the internet world). According to the Webbys, to be an

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

The official site have this afternoon published some amazing photos from last night's Coldplay concert in Herning, Denmark, including backstage and behind-the-scenes pictures. You can discuss all the latest pictures at the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks Zeya]   Here's Anchorman with full details:   Good afternoon. We went along to Herning in Denmark yesterday to check out Coldplay's first show of the European tour. The crowd was amazing, the show was fantastic, the weather was decidedly pat

The official Coldplay site have begun a new series of news articles that focus on interviewing the designers of some of the artwork to their previous releases. You can discuss the artwork interviews series at the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks mimixxx]   First up is the Safety EP... look out for Art history #2 (Brothers & Sisters) soon...   Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews here on Coldplay.com, where we'll be talking to the designers behind the band's single and album

The official Coldplay site continues their series of news articles that focus on interviewing the designers of some of the artwork to their previous releases. You can discuss the artwork interviews series at the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks coldplayisawesome]   Art history #2 is the Brothers and Sisters EP...   We continue our new series of interviews with the designers behind Colpdplay's single and album covers, with a look at the band's second release, Brothers & Sisters. Like their

"We are really sorry to everyone who hasn't managed to get the tickets they wanted for the US Club tour.   The venues for each show are very very small and to make sure that coldplay.com fans had the first chance of getting tickets we wanted to offer them to all registered fans first.   Even though we only did this however there was still a huge demand on the tickets from the start and we know that a lot of people didn't get a chance before they were sold out. Some venues sold out in just over 1

Coldplay.com has now been updated with the new official video for Violet Hill, which you can view here.   The war based dancing politician version is also on the site here.   Coldplay’s video for "Violet Hill," the first single from the band’s upcoming album, Viva La Vida, has been added to the highest rotations at MTV (Big 10), VH1 (large), MTV2 (Elite 8), mtvU (summa cum laude) and MTV Hits (Power). It will be the first video ever to receive a simultaneous premiere on MTV, VH1 and The N. Lens

TMF (The Music Factory) showed a video featuring the relationship between Gwyneth Paltrow and her hubby Chris Martin, lead singer for Coldplay. There's a 5 year age difference between the couple. You can see the clip here   Meanwhile, you can see a clip of Chris and Gwyneth singing together on stage here [thanks bobantang]Cameron Diaz. Courteney Cox. Bo Derek. Sure, they're all super-hot, but they have something else in common: they're involved with younger men. The classic May-December romance

IQ magazine's December issue will contain a world exclusive behind the scene report on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida World Tour, entitled Life, Death And Butterflies., Coldplaying can exclusively reveal today.   Life, Death & Butterflies is a 16-page feature chronicling the Viva la Vida tour, sanctioned by Coldplay’s management and published by international live music business magazine IQ. Including exclusive interviews with management, key production personnel, booking agents, promoters and supp

IQ magazine's December issue will contain a world exclusive behind the scene report on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida World Tour, entitled Life, Death And Butterflies., Coldplaying can exclusively reveal today.   Life, Death & Butterflies is a 16-page feature chronicling the Viva la Vida tour, sanctioned by Coldplay’s management and published by international live music business magazine IQ. Including exclusive interviews with management, key production personnel, booking agents, promoters and supp

If you were to plot Starsailor on a map of Britain and Ireland’s music scene, it would go something like this. They would be east of U2: with the questing drama but showing more strain than Bono and friends. They would be slightly south of Oasis: using a pushy rock drive, but without the sneer or Slade rip-offs.   They would be west of Coldplay: piano melodies and hearts on the sleeve but not the nimble grace Chris Martin can manage. And they would be north of Suede: a hint of decadence but too

A massive landmark in Coldplay's history, as their 2005 and 2011 performances at the historic Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, UK took place 10 and 4 years, to this day!   To celebrate, Coldplay's official Youtube channel posted an interview with Emily Eavis, daughter of organiser, Michael Eavis and Coldplay's lead guitarist, Jonny Buckland on 2005's event:     We would like to know your highlights from those two special days.   Please let us know, here   Here are some very memorab

2001 - Coldplay take two of the biggest prizes: Best British Group and Best British Album for Parachutes. Lead singer Chris Martin thanks the teacher who encouraged him to take up music instead of cricket.   With British acts at an all-time low in the U.S. charts, Craig David and Coldplay, along with David Gray and Dido, will be the major British exports across the pond over the next two years.

2002: U2 singer Bono and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin back international agency Oxfam's Big Noise campaign to point out corruption in trade agreements with Third World nations.   Read the others here

One Republic have apparently let the cat out of the bag live on Radio One to confirm that Coldplay will be playing at this year's V Festival.   It is unconfirmed by official sources, but this news will come as a surprise to many, and of course V Festival organisers who have already lined up The Verve and Muse as headliners.   A slip of the tongue or not? More on this here [thanks coldplay1986]

Friday night, ONE volunteers in Des Moines joined Oxfam at a Coldplay concert to create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice around the world, writes one.org. Volunteers talked to over 1,000 people to encourage them to tell President Obama the make a fair deal when the global climate conference occurs in December.   Natural disasters are known to hit the poorest populations the hardest, but this can be prevented by building stronger foundations and infrastructure. ONE members gave

Coldplay London tickets sell out Tickets to see the Coldplay concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London on July 1st as part of their intimate Ghost Stories tour went on sale at 9.30am UK time this morning. The demand was very high as predicted. If you think back to how fast stadium tickets sold out for the Mylo Xyloto tour, it would be accurate to predict there will be tens of thousands of fans trying to snap up the tickets for only a few thousand spaces. There was a series of tips posted on th

Bertelsmann's BMG music label, home to such artists as Outkast and Dido, will start selling song downloads through European digital music store Wippit later this week, the companies said.   With the BMG deal, London-based Wippit has signed two of the world's five largest music labels. Earlier this month, EMI announced it will begin selling downloads this month for such artists as Coldplay and the Rolling Stones to Wippit's European customer base.Europe's piracy-battered music industry has been a

The number of songs downloaded from the internet in the UK during 2005 have topped the 10 million mark.   The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said the figure was almost twice the level for the whole of 2004. Meanwhile, sales of seven-inch vinyl singles have also enjoyed a revival - up 87.3% on last year.   BPI chairman Peter Jamieson said: "Despite the incredible growth in download sales it would be wrong to write-off physical formats just yet." He added that the music industry was beginnin

MTV have released a new clip from Coldplay's recent performance at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo on 12th February for the forthcoming MTV World Stage screening, which you can download in avi, flv or MP4 format here and see screenshots at the Coldplaying Gallery here. The clip shows the performance of the full song 'Life In Technicolor ii'. [thanks Lore]   MTV Networks International announced the launch of MTV World Stage and MTV Push, two new music initiatives aimed at demonstrating MTV's uni

Since yesterday's exclusive release of Coldplay's new video for 'Life In Technicolor ii', blogs and media sources have watched and inwardly digested the puppet video and posted online reviews. Here are a few picks:   Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying that the new Coldplay video for Life In Technicolor II is pretty great. The video makes for the coolest puppet show ever. We love the sound guy (er, puppet) manning the boards over at the snack table. The puppet show performance is complet

In one of several end-of-the-decade mega polls underway at Coldplaying, we're asking you to post between 20 and 100 of your favourite albums of the noughties in Coldplaying's Album Of The Decade thread. Deadline for entries is 28th February (this Sunday!)   It's been an action-packed ten years for the music industry and it's your opportunity to pinpoint your standout albums since 2000. For example, NME's top 50 albums of the decade list was topped by the Strokes album 'Is This It'. Meanwhile, Sp

Remember, it's 'The Sun' after all... personally I think it's rubbish but who knows.   I have some chilling news for Coldplay fans - Gwyneth Paltrow is to sing on the band's third album.   Oh dear, the name Yoko Ono springs to mind. The Oscar-winning actress has convinced fiancé Chris Martin to let her record backing vocals and is even taking singing lessons. Gwyneth enjoys singing and has actually impressed critics in the past with her voice, performing with Huey Lewis in the movie Duets three

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