Coldplay News

Coldplay will be appearing on 'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross' on BBC1 on Friday 2 December, 10.35pm.   Jonathan [pictured] welcomes Coldplay to talk about their global success and perform Talk from their album X&Y.   The line-up also includes Patsy Kensit and Harry Hill.   [Thanks Jenjie]

As previously annouced here, Coldplay have been included in this year's NME yearbook, featuring their Glastonbury 2005 diary.   Click read more for the full article. "a very long long long time ago i got on a train from exeter to london. i had just been to the dentist and he had given me braces; big, heavy, metal things that couldn’t help but catch the eye. i felt like a cross between robocop and the worlds ultimate nerd™. i hid as far away from everyone else as possible and tried to eat a sandw

Coldplay have been joined onstage by some stunningly talented people. Chris duetted with Noel Gallagher many moons ago, Elton John has graced the Coldplay piano stool and more recently, Michael Stipe shared the mic with the guys.   Today, however comes an event that seems difficult to ever top. Today, Coldplay will be performing with The Muppets. Apparently, The Muppets are still going strong in Spain, going under the name ‘Los Lunis’. The fellas are joined onstage by three of ‘Los Lunis’ for a

Madonna can add another #1 album to her resume, as Confessions On A Dancefloor debuted at the top of the sales chart this week.   After 47 years and after 13 previous albums, Madge apparently still knows what it takes to connect with both the dancefloor and consumers. However, her latest effort is second only to Coldplay's X&Y when it comes to first-week sales this year.Last week's chart-toppers, popera act Il Divo, dropped one spot with Ancora in the face of the Madonna onslaught. But they

After the Asian Tsunami of Boxing Day, 2004 a group of people got together to support an established project working with differently abled children in Batticaloa, North Eastern Sri Lanka. Through a personal connection to one of the band members, Coldplay got to hear about this fundraising, and donated this disc to raise money to assist these projects. All money raised will go directly to a registered charity in Sri Lanka, called Mencafep, run by Chris and Ranji Stubbs, to further their essentia

Gwyneth Paltrow [pictured] has reportedly set up a hotline to local police after becoming concerned about the threat of stalkers.   The Hollywood actress has set up a speed dial on her mobile phone that will enable the local North London police, where she now lives with husband Chris Martin, to respond instantly. She reportedly called the cops last year when she was harassed by a man outside her old Belgravia home in central London. Now the family have settled in North London, they still maintai

Due to popular demand, the shows for Vancouver, Toronto and Uniondale have all rolled over for an extra date, coldplay.com have announced.   Coldplay will now play at Vancouver, BC at the GM Place on 26th & 27th January, Toronto, ON at the Air Canada Centre 22nd & 23rd March.   The band will also perform at Uniondale, NY at the Nassau Coliseum on both 26th & 27th March.

Coldplay have set up their own auction website so fans who are left ticketless don't have to be "ripped off" buying online.   The group say that whenever they announce tour dates, "an enormous amount" end up being sold on via auction websites, and in some cases, "scalper sites". To combat this, the band are auctioning off some tickets for their forthcoming North American dates, with some of the money being donated to charity.   A statement on the band's official website reads: "Whenever we put

Bored of reading every single ticket sob story? Sick to the back teeth of presale complaints?   The only way that some fans will be happy... is here   [Thanks Crius]Meanwhile, coldplay.com have issued this statement on the pre-sale:   We just wanted to do a round up of the pre-sale promos this week as we know there may have been some confusion over them and we want to outline what has happened to hopefully help explain it a bit.   Firstly, we run a presale lottery system on coldplay.com for most

'Talk' will be available as a two-track CD, a DVD and 7 inch, coldplay.com has revealed. The CD includes the brilliant new song 'Sleeping Sun'.   The DVD contains Coldplay's version of 'Gravity', a song they wrote whist on tour in 2003 that became a huge hit for Embrace last year. The DVD also includes the Anton Corbijn-directed video for 'Talk', the Mark Romanek-directed video for 'Speed Of Sound', and some new behind-the-scenes footage of Coldplay on the ‘Talk’ video shoot.   'Talk' single tra

Good news for UK fans, the video for talk will be shown on Tuesday 22nd November at 11:05 on Channel 4 [uK].   [Thanks coldplay_no1_fan]

Jon Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay were special guests at Angelo Moratti Sports Centre this morning. Accompanied by several members of the band's staff, they had a run around the central pitch, played a quick match and practiced taking penalties.   Chris Martin couldn't make it to Inter's training ground as the Coldplay frontman was guest on a radio programme in Milan. After this morning's training session the Coldplayers greeted Roberto Mancini, their great friend Luis Fig

Some of the biggest names in modern rock, including Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, the White Stripes, System Of A Down and Korn, have signed on for Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Xmas show.   The event takes place December 10-11 at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk.   The first night will feature NIN, System Of A Down, Korn, Fall Out Boy, Thrice, Rise Against and Avenged Sevenfold. The next evening will boast performances by Depeche Mode, the Whi

Coldplay are to release a live version of Gravity as a b-side on their single Talk which is due out on December 19th. Gravity, which was originally penned by Chris Martin, was a big hit for Embrace in 2004 and launched a major comeback for the Yorkshire band.   Talk is the third single to be taken from X&Y, the year’s second biggest selling album in the UK.  

Coldplay's gig at the Filaforum in Milan were given an added bonus on the setlist - Trouble and Shiver.   Trouble was played for the first time on the current Twisted Logic tour. Shiver was also a newcomer to the tour, making up part of the encore. Full details of the setlist and multimedia are here   Meanwhile a new 2006 tour date has sprouted on talkthetour.com - Coldplay will play at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, ON on the 17th March [thanks Owen].

50 Cent, Coldplay, Cream and Paul McCartney are among the nominees for the second annual DEMX Awards honoring vision, innovation, entrepreneurship and brand development in 21 digital entertainment categories. Winners in the fields of games, music, film, television and video will be revealed during a Dec. 1 gala dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.   Rapper 50 Cent is nominated in the best use of technology by an artist category with Vivendi Universal Games for their collaboration o

After teasing fans with a web-based tour announcement system, Coldplay's finally made its winter itinerary public.   In an apparent bid to fuel egos, Coldplay announced an upcoming tour, but directed fans to its talkthetour.com site for routing. Once there, visitors learned that the site would need to rack up 33000 hits to reveal each tour date to support this year’s X&Y, aversion.com has reported.   Thanks to a combination of obsessive fans and script-kiddies running neutered denial-of-serv

Coldplay have unveiled the full early 2006 US tour itinerary, as well as the tour's support acts.   The 26-date run gets underway Jan 25 in Seattle, and subsequent stops are lined up through early April. Fiona Apple will serve as the show-opener from the tour's kick-off through its March 5 stop in Tampa, and Richard Ashcroft will take over from March 20 through April 6.   Tickets for most shows are scheduled to hit the box office Nov. 19, while those for the remaining stops will go on sale eith

As first reported on billboard in August, Coldplay will return to North America for a spring 2006 tour, beginning Jan. 25 in Vancouver. Set to run through early April, the trek is gradually being unveiled on the Web site Talkthetour.com, where a new show is confirmed for every 33,000 hits. At deadline, half of the 26 shows had been announced.   Fans who register with the site will have the opportunity to win a phone call from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, front row seats to a show and tickets

Justin Hawkins [pictured] has sensationally slammed Chris Martin and Bono, saying that the Coldplay frontman should burn in hell.   In the outspoken interview, he also said that he hates Bono’s egotistical ‘holier than thou’ attitude. Asked which star should burn in hell, Hawkins replied, “Chris Martin. What are those seven deadly sins again? Greed? Sloth? Calling your child Apple? He’s terribly vain. I think he has a narcissism complex. He wants to be Bono, but he bleats in interviews about wo

Coldplay Contribute to World AIDS Day Auction BID 2 BEAT AIDS Begins December 1, 2005 to benefit LIFEbeat   Eight Special Coldplay Items Among Hundreds in Massive Online Auction   LIFEbeat, the Music Industry Fights AIDS honors World AIDS Day on December 1, 2005 with BID 2 BEAT AIDS, an auction on eBay featuring hundreds of autographed and rare items from stars in music, film, theatre and television. Proceeds benefit LIFEbeat with a portion of the money earmarked to help rebuild AIDS related ser

New shots from Coldplay's recent concert in Copenhagen are available to view at rosenauer.dk. Brilliant quality, take a look here   Coldplay received a Platinum Disc in Denmark on Sunday for selling 40,000 copies of X&Y.   Thanks to Martin for the use of the picture icon.

David Bowie and Coldplay's Chris Martin are set to appear in the second series of Ricky Gervais's 'Extras'.   Ricky has admitted he is "in negotiations" with the rockers to have cameo roles in the hilarious show. The funnyman has been friends with Bowie since they filmed a sketch together for charity show Comic Relief earlier this year, so he is hoping the legendary singer will agree to send himself up on 'Extras'.   Meanwhile, Ricky approached Chris when they met at this summer's Live 8 concer

New Coldplay US tour dates for 2006 have been posted on the internet. The latest schedule is as follows:   1/25/06 - KEY ARENA Seattle, WA - On Sale: 11/19 1/26/06 - GM PLACE Vancouver, British Columbia - On Sale: 11/21 1/30/06 - ARCO ARENA Sacramento, CA- On Sale: 11/19 1/31/06 - OAKLAND ARENA Oakland, CA - On Sale: 11/19 2/1/06 - HP PAVILION @ San Jose - San Jose, CA - On Sale: 11/19 2/3/06 - MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA Las Vegas, NV - On Sale: 12/3 2/19/06 - PEPSI CENTER Denver, CO - On Sale

The NME Yearbook 2005 is out now - it's the ultimate souvenir of the year in rock 'n' roll. 132 all-new pages including:   THE YEAR IN REVIEW Oasis to Arctic Monkeys: the year's biggest music stories   SUPERSTAR EXCLUSIVES Coldplay's handwritten Glasto diary Bloc Party's private photo album How Green Day changed the world Razorlight, Monkeys, Kaisers and Hard-Fi on how to write an indie anthem Pete Doherty: the musical!   COLLECTOR'S PICTURE SPECIALS World's coolest man shoots your favourite ban