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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. Almost 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 expl

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 500 (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 explanat

Coldplay fans have been petitioning in their droves for Coldplaying.com's petition to revive the Toronto DVD from the EMI grave, leading up to LP4.   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. 2480 (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 i

Coldplay are among the celebrities donating gifts for an auction in aid of charity, Cancer Active. The rock group have given items including a signed t-shirt that Chris Martin wore on the Rush of Blood tour.   Other gifts include an exclusive handcrafted Julien MacDonald evening gown (below) worth £4,000, which the London designer has promised to tailor to fit the winning bidder. Sporting heroes Seb Coe and Will Carling have also contributed to the auction.   Olympic chairman Coe has put a T-shi

Sigur Ros fooled many of their fans into thinking singer/guitarist Jon Thor "Jonsi" Birgisson and keyboardist Kjartan "Kjarri" Sveinsson were working on the new Coldplay album with an April Fool's message posted on their website today (Wednesday).   "we are now happy to announce that kjartan (keyboards) will be writing and arranging strings for 4 songs on coldplay’s as-yet-untitled follow up album to 2008's acclaimed 'viva la vida'," the message reads.   "kjartan has already completed most of th

Simon Cowell has reportedly lined up Sir Paul McCartney and George Michael to appear on the final live show on December 12 to duet with this year’s finalists, the Daily Star and other media sources are reporting this week. Cowell is also in talks with Coldplay to appear on the show to duet with Stacey Solomon (if she makes the final). More discussion on this latest Coldplay / X Factor development is here onwards at the Coldplay forum now.   Simon is said to have wanted the biggest guest stars ye

Actor Simon Pegg’s wife Maureen McCann has given birth to the couple’s first child. The actor’s rep has confirmed that Simon’s wife has given birth to the couple’s daughter, but no other details are known about the birth. The couple announced that they were expecting in February when McCann was already five months pregnant.   Although this is the first child for Pegg, he does have some practice with chidlren as he is the godfather of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s five-year-old daughter Appl

Simon Pegg has released an autobiography entitled Nerd Do Well (click to view and buy via Amazon UK) which features Coldplay's Chris Martin. Read the excerpt from the book after the jump. The full book is well worth the read, and is available in the British Isles now. It will be available from Amazon US & Europe from November. You can discuss the book at the Coldplay forum now [thanks mimixxx]   Meanwhile, Coldplay.com thought now was a good time to ask him some questions. Happily, he was ki

Simon Pegg has released an autobiography entitled Nerd Do Well (click to view and buy via Amazon UK) which features Coldplay's Chris Martin. Read the excerpt from the book after the jump. The full book is well worth the read, and is available in the British Isles now. It will be available from Amazon US & Europe from November. You can discuss the book at the Coldplay forum now [thanks mimixxx]   In 2001, the then fairly fledging indie outfit Coldplay performed a small acoustic gig in the cor

In the third eventful part of Coldplay’s Xfm Residency last night, Simon Pegg once again dodged the world’s biggest band’s phone calls. Admitting they “didn’t have great radio personalities, but have buckets of enthusiasm and passion”, Coldplay tried calling the star of Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead to add spice to their show.   Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and Johnny Buckland were forced to leave a message on the actor’s voicemail as fears grew that the feud between these former friends was worsen

Simon Pegg is hoping Coldplay will let him direct one of their next music videos. The comedian, who features in the new Star Trek movie, told GQ magazine: "I'd love to direct some day. Doing a music video would be a great start. I've said to Chris [Martin, Coldplay frontman] a couple of times, if we get some time, I'd love to script a song."   The Shaun of The Dead star has collaborated with Coldplay once before, when he joined the band onstage in December 2008. Pegg played harmonica for the liv

Not only has the Australian teams' valiant World Cup campaign kept the world's biggest band entertained as they battle jetlag on tour but it has inspired frontman Chris Martin to pay tribute to the team in song.   "If it's there milk it, I say,'' Martin joked yesterday, as the band prepared for their three-night stand at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.   "It's a gift for a frontman to arrive in a country and find there's lots of yellow jerseys and the team is doing really well. You don't hav

Sir Paul McCartney has accused EMI, his former record company, of becoming boring and taking him for granted. The former Beatle, speaking to The Times, complained that the British record company had become too bureaucratic – and how he had “dreaded going to see them”.   “Everybody at EMI had become part of the furniture. I’d be a couch; Coldplay are an armchair. And Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was. But the most important thing was, I’d felt [the people at EMI] had become really ver

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has blasted Coldplay's music, claiming their current album Viva La Vida is "self-celebratory".   The singer, speaking on Zane Lowe's show on MTV 2, was asked to describe his thoughts on the band's current offering and launched into a foul-mouthed tirade against it. Pulling no punches, Taylor said there was absolutely nothing about Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends that he liked. "That is one of the most self-celebratory pieces of **** I've ever ******* hear

After Coldplay's sound check in Oklahoma City, frontman Chris Martin and guitarist Johnny Buckland jumped into the green Ford F-150 owned by hometown hero Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, report our friends at The Smoking Section. "They just got in the back of the truck," Coyne tells the Smoking Section. "I really didn't know what they wanted to see.   "So Coyne took them on the grand tour, hitting the Long John Silver's where he worked for eleven years, the Blue Note (site of the Lips' first gi

OK. 2005 sucked ass, huh? Not for us.   In 2005, the Smoking Section caught Neil Young's historic gigs at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, polished off a bottle of Crown Royal with Dave Grohl on a private jet, sang drunken karaoke with Coldplay in Tokyo, saw Bob Dylan eight times, was mistaken for a male porn star by Perry Farrell, drank Scotch at Roger Waters' ridiculous Manhattan apartment, sat poolside at the L.A. Four Seasons with Al Green, surfed with Jack Johnson and late on the night of

"Such a night, such a beautiful night". Avicii's new song with Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin (Apparently called - Forever has already been played at the Future Music Festival. You can listen to a tiny snippet below:   (Thanks @Marc_240 on Twitter)     Slightly more lengthy audio:     The song is expected to be released soon so more on it when we know what date it's likely to be.

Atop the charts in the U.K., the five-piece indie rockers impress at times, but seriously lack range   Coldplay is on a much-deserved hiatus after touring the world this year, but their spirit appears to be living on in the form of Scotland-based Snow Patrol.   The indie rockers, who actually hail from Northern Ireland and have been around slightly longer than Coldplay, performed to a full house at the Electric Factory Saturday night. But as hundreds of girls pined for the lads with the sensitiv

Cult rock group Snow Patrol have dazzled music industry insiders, by selling out a London concert in less time than Coldplay and Madonna, according to a published report.   The band reportedly sold all 1,500 tickets to the April 12 gig at the capital's Koko venue in less than 10 minutes when they went on sale on their official website yesterday morning.   It only took minutes for tickets to start appearing on the auction website eBay at incredibly and sometimes ridiculously inflated prices. Worl

It has been announced today that Coldplay's main support for the North American shows between June 5th and June 21st will be Snow Patrol.   Meanwhile, Oxfam America are looking for volunteers to help out at these shows, as well as the rest of the May-August tour. If you are interesting in working for Oxfam at the shows, fill in the form here for your application. If you wish to apply to more than one concert please fill out one application per concert. Spaces are limited to 20 per show.   The da

Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin are known for their holistic approach to life - but now even their unborn child is getting in on the act.   The actress and the rock star, whose first child is due in June, have enrolled in ante-natal classes in ashtanga yoga, which is said to benefit the spiritual well-being of mother, father and unborn child alike.   Paltrow, 30, has been attending lunchtime classes at the Diorama Arts Centre in Regents Park three times a week, sometimes with Coldplay

The Sound Relief concert to be held in Melbourne for Victorian bushfire victims has sold out, becoming the largest paid concert event ever held in Australia.   Several international acts will perform and some legendary Australian bands have re-formed for two benefit concerts to be held simultaneously at the Melbourne and Sydney cricket grounds on Saturday. More than 78,000 tickets have been sold for the Melbourne event, which will feature the likes of Kings of Leon and Kylie Minogue.   Extra tic

Though battered by the failure of rock stars to deliver albums on time, music giant EMI will this week reassure investors that better days lie ahead.   Delays to new releases from Coldplay and the Gorillaz were behind a profits warning issued by EMI earlier this year and the music giant has guided the City to a haul of around £138m for the year to March 31 against £163.4m last time.   Both albums will be on store shelves by June 6 so investors will hope for a less turbulent time ahead, although

The overwhelming response to John Farnham’s Sound Relief performance with Coldplay has sparked talk of a new album from the iconic singer, which could be released by the end of the year. His rendition of You’re The Voice at the successful bushfire relief concert left the 40,000 strong throng ecstatic, and heralded a new generation of Farnham fans.   Now, it has been revealed Farnham, along with manager Glenn Wheatley and Sony boss Denis Handlin, were at dinner together to discuss the future of

Sony Music said it is considering a bid for ailing British rival EMI, while its main rivals deny any interest or decline to comment on their intentions, according to Reuters this morning. "We are in a position that allows us to seize every opportunity in the market - including EMI," the head of Sony Music, Rolf Schmidt-Holz, was quoted as saying by German Sunday paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.   EMI's owner, buyout firm Terra Firma, the private equity owner of music group EMI, is b