Coldplay News

Read the full story on Coldplay's new video for their single 'The Hardest Part'. Coldplay used footage from a previous dancing contest and overdubbed themselves behind the dancers using CG.   More on this here

Coldplay have been confirmed by the organisers as headliners for this year's Osheaga Music and Arts Festival in Montreal on 1st August 2009, just a day before they play the recently announced All Points West Festival in New Jersey.   The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival is a two-day rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, that is held annually at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène in September. The 2006 festival attracted a crowd of around 25,000 people. The second edition was held on September 8

It was supposed to be the year of the one-two punch. And it still may be. But Osheaga Music and Arts Festival director Nick Farkas was thrown for a loop last week when he got word that one of two high-profile headliners for the fest’s fourth edition (Saturday and Sunday at Jean Drapeau Park) was pulling out, writes The Gazette (Montreal).   Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in his salivary gland, leading the band to cancel all upcoming tour dates, including Sun

Coldplay have been around long enough to know how to work an arena better than Jason Spezza, reports the Ottawa Sun.   But last night, the current kings of British pop brought a bagful of tricks to their gig at Scotiabank Place that only the very best can. The band that might be the next U2 -- singer Chris Martin, drummer Will Champion, guitarist Jonny Buckland and bassist Guy Berryman -- launched their North American tour here last night and judging by their show, few bands even come close to C

Coldplay will be hitting the UK radio stations in London today and then finish the day on telly. In order, they will appear on: Absolute Radio, BBC6 Music, XFM and then finish with a performance on Later With Jools Holland. We will try and get them all up as soon as they become available, in the Multimedia forum!   1) First up, is Chris and Jonny who will be heading for Globe Square, home of Absolute Radio for an interview with Christian O'Connell (and guests!). The unedited interview - warts an

NowPlayit.com - the website created by Outside Line, who also created Coldplay.com have won at this year’s BT Digital Music Awards!   Best Digital Service in association with BT Total Broadband Winner: Now Play It - www.nowplayit.com   You may remember recently we posted information on the services they provide. Meanwhile both coldplay.com and coldplayzone.it were both runners up in the official and unofficial site categories respectively. Congratulations to all!   The next awards we'll be annou

Coldplay fans have been petitioning in their droves for Coldplaying.com's petition to revive the Toronto DVD from the EMI grave.   You have given your thoughts on how it has been revealed that the already planned and scheduled Coldplay live in Toronto Twisted Logic Tour DVD won't be released after all. Over 1,000 (and counting) signatures and comments have been registered.   You can sign the petition anonymously. Every signature helps - add to the petition here.   Maybe all you want is an explan

2008 Concert Volunteer Application - Support Oxfam at the new Coldplay shows!   Oxfam America are looking for volunteers to help out at Coldplay shows in the US - there are still spots available for most Coldplay US shows - inlcuding the following newly announced ones:   Wed Oct 29 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Gardens Fri Oct 31 - Washington DC - Verizon Center Sat Nov 1 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center Wed Nov 5 - Altanta, GA - Phillips Arena   Fill in the form here for your application.

Oxfam America have posted an update in the forums on the Oxfam volunteering for the forthcoming Viva La Vida US tour. Here are some of the FAQ that have been answered so far:   -- Yes, you'll get to see the show for free! You'll interact with other Coldplay fans up until a few minutes before the show, then you'll get to enjoy the concert. Just before it ends, you'll meet back up with all the other volunteers to reach-out to folks as they leave the building.   -- Pete (Lusby) won't be traveling

Oxfam is launching a music download service to help raise money to fight poverty around the world.   The charity is backing the 'Big Noise' Music website, which launches on Wednesday and will offer 300,000 songs to download. Tracks will cost between 75p and 99p, with 10p going to Oxfam. Acts featured include Coldplay.   "Artists will see their music help some of the poorest people in the world," Oxfam's Adrian Lovett said.   The service - backed by digital music firm OD2 - will be available acr

Coldplay.com: For the next five months, Oxfam will join us as we take the Viva La Vida tour around the world. To keep you up to date with life on the road from an Oxfam perspective, they'll be posting a regular blog at http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/. Head over there now to read what they made of last night's first show... (here's an excerpt of the latest entry below):   What a show. Lights, cameras, and action. The band and the crew did a fantastic job tonight. As if the crowd weren’t exci

Gwyneth Paltrow has said she has no intention of leaving London and heading back to the United States.   The Oscar-winning actress, who is married to the Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, said she considered herself more European these days.   "I've always been drawn to Europe. America is such a young country, with an adolescent swagger about it," she told the Toronto Globe and Mail. "But I feel that I have a more European sensibility, a greater respect for the multicultural nature of the globe.

Hollywood's Gwyneth Paltrowhas hinted she would like to have a boob job after suffering the effects of breast feeding.   The 33-year-old mother of daughter Apple, nearly two, and wife of Coldplay star Chris Martin, claims she will have to find some way of perking things up again, especially after giving birth to her second child, expected in May 2006.   She says, "I think women who have breast-fed will understand what I'm saying - that if you get a boob-job, it's more reconstructive surgery. If

Gwyneth Paltrow [pictured with Chris Martin] has denied reports that she criticised Britain and that she had plans to return to the US.   According to hollywood.com, Paltrow insists she loves living in London. She had moved there when she began dating Chris Martin in 2002.   Last week Paltrow had reportedly said in an interview: "My husband thinks I'm way too obsessed with cleanliness and germs. I'm just like, 'The street is filthy, could we take off our shoes before we come into the house?' He

Despite major differences of opinion, the marriage between Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow is thriving -- and that's because the stubborn musician wins most of their battles.   When Gwen talked of their daughter, Apple, becoming an actor, Chris said a firm "No, over my dead body." It was a similar negative when she hinted living in New York would be nice. Insiders say he told her, "Sure, you can go back to America, but the baby stays with me." Gwyneth coos: "I love being married to a strong man

Gwyneth Paltrow thrilled fans when she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's daytime chat show yesterday and rapped her husband Chris Martin's pregnancy ode to her.   The Coldplay singer filmed a hilarious short video, as 'The Nappies', and presented to his wife just before she gave birth in May. The lyrics of the personal novelty ditty have been kept under wraps until Gwyneth decided to share them with Oprah on her show.   She rapped, "Sometimes you're happy, sometimes you frown/With your hormones bounci

Chris Martin is disappointed his marriage to movie actress Gwyneth Paltrow has ruined the novelty of meeting Hollywood superstars.   He blames his Oscar-winning wife for making his once showbiz idols seem boring and ordinary.   He says, "After being with Gwyn I've realised everyone is human. We really build people up as if they are from Mars. Hollywood seems as accessible as Mars. When I started meeting celebrities it was depressing because you can't believe in the mythology of people any more."

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has put her New York home up for sale.   The Hollywood star has made London her permanent base since she married Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The couple have a nine-month-old daughter, Apple.The couple bought Kate Winslet's home in the exclusive Belsize Park area of the capital last July for a reported £2.3 million. And now the Oscar-winner loves life as a Londoner so much she is selling up.   The four storey townhouse in Manhattan's trendy Greenwich Village has gone

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken about her plans to have more children.   The star – widely rumoured to be expecting her second baby – says she is looking forward to having a brother or sister for 17-month-old daughter Apple.   “Yes, definitely, I would love to have a whole bunch of children,” she tells this month’s Glamour magazine. “I don’t mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset because I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous.”   Paltrow and her husband, Coldplay singer Chris M

Popular music's first lady, the stunning Gwyneth Paltrow, is tipped to visit Melbourne within weeks because her husband, Chris Martin, is hitting the stage with his band, Coldplay, at Rod Laver Arena.   Paltrow and the couple's two children -- two-year-old Apple and two-month-old Moses -- are joining the Australian leg of the tour, but it's not yet known which cities her visit will include. Martin and his bandmates flew into Brisbane last night for a rest stop ahead of their first gig tomorrow n

As reported earlier, Gwyneth Paltrow has broken her husband Chris Martin's computer, almost destroying new Coldplay songs stored on it.   The actress accidentally knocked the computer over at their London home, reportedly causing the outer casing to be badly damaged and rendering it difficult to turn on. A source told the Daily Mirror: "The hinges broke and the screen was hanging off. It wouldn’t turn on. Chris does a lot of work on there and the computer is his baby."   Luckily for the 33-year-

Canadian actress and star of Fox TV's Stacked, Pamela Anderson, Monday was named host of the 2006 JUNO Awards ceremony in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The April 2 awards ceremony at the Halifax Metro Centre will be broadcast by CTV.   Anderson was named The Most Powerful Canadian in Hollywood in 2005 by Canadian Business magazine, CTV and the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences noted in a news release Monday.   Canadian music rocks, Anderson in a statement. No matter where I am in the world

On the eve of her Juno hosting gig, Pamela Anderson took more shots at Prime Minister Stephen Harper, urging him to get a makeover and, on a more serious note, renewed earlier calls to end the East Coast seal hunt.   "When people think of Canadian Club, they should think of a good whisky, not jerks beating pups on the ice," she told a throng of reporters during a news conference late Saturday afternoon.   She appeared far better versed on the seal hunt than on the state of Canadian music, at o

Paolo Maugeri, of MTV Italy, has written a blog about his recent access all areas accompaniment with Coldplay. You can read the blog here   The article is in Italian - if anyone out there can translate the article into English I'd be very grateful!

Coldplay are just weeks away from finishing the much anticipated follow up to their 2000 debut 'Parachutes', they have revealed.   The band, who plan to release the album later on this year, have finished recording and are now on the mixing stage of the final tracks, according to Phil Harvey their manager.   On the band's official website, he said: "The recording is all finished so at least we know we've got the songs. Now it's a question of doing the recordings justice by mixing them properly