Coldplay News

Before playing the show at The Fillmore, Chris and Will stopped by the KFOG Studios for an interview with Irish Greg.   You can find download links here [thanks DefDazz]   Meanwhile, the setlist with commentary has been posted Setlist

San Francisco - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom boosted his hipness factor after spending about 15 minutes chatting with members of Coldplay on local radio.   Newsom, 36, called in to KLLC-FM to express his admiration for the band, quiz its members about recent performances and welcome them to the San Francisco Bay area. In return, singer and frontman Chris Martin and drummer Will Champion invited Newsom to the band's show at the Fillmore - 1 100 tickets sold out in mere seconds on Sunday.  

Offers of sex, iPods follow rush of fans to box office for British band's Fillmore show   The sign on the box office of the Fillmore had been up for days: "Coldplay show is VERY sold out."   But that didn't stop some very desperate fans from taking very desperate measures to get into the British band's very limited engagement at the San Francisco venue Wednesday night.   "If there are any cool guys who'd like to share a ticket with a 27-year- old blonde haired blue eyed girl, I'd really apprec

Coldplay are on the cover of the June 2005 issue of Q. Inside there is an 8-page article on how the band nearly lost their minds making X&Y as well as a great track-by-track of the new album by the guys themselves.   To see the pages of Q click here   [thanks yellow_fever & shanecrofts]

Some live Coldplay pictures from this weekend's Coachella festival have been uploaded here   [thanks Robert for the pictures]

Chris Martin is grateful to people in London for letting him live in the British capital in peace - even though he is a prime paparazzi target.   Chris loves nothing more than to obscure his identity with a hooded top and walk the late night London streets in complete anonymity - something Chris relishes after finding worldwide fame with the success of his band and his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow.   He says, "The public don't really bother me, I go on the Tube, I go everywhere. I don't get hassl

The Christian O'Connell Breakfast show on Xfm today got a shock during their Bounty Hunter feature (listeners find celebs and call the show - the most outstanding celeb found at the end earns the listener £10,000). Chris Martin called them up to try and win the competition - by getting Steven Spielberg on for a chat.   The interview and article can be found here [thanks pseudofake]

CHris Martin's bandmates get jealous of all the attention he receives - until they see all the negative implications of being in the limelight.   Chris became a prime target for paparazzi photographers and tabloid gossip columns when he embarked on a high profile relationship with Hollywood leading lady Gwyneth Paltrow. Guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion are annoyed by the assumption that Martin is the band's sole creative force, but they remain content to h

Coldplay will feature on Saturday Night Live on May 21.   For more details click here   "Episode Number 586 First Aired May 21, 2005 Guest Stars: Lindsay Lohan (as Herself) Coldplay (as Themselves) "it seems i am the only person who noticed that Coldplay is going to be on Saturday Night Live on May 21! And Lindsay lohan is hosting!!! thanks- Clara

Thanks to wjang who left this comment on the site, it certainly seems to reflect the feeling of many Coldplay fans wanting to get hold of Buzz Gig tickets.   "Coldplay's latest buzz gigs in San Francisco and Chicago are nearly impossible to get into. The Fillmore tickets sold out in around 5 seconds, leaving thousands of fans disappointed and in tears.   Their new defense against scalping is both effective and ineffective. Only the credit card holders and their guests will be allowed into the sh

Coldplay's record label EMI have a lot riding on the band's new album 'X&Y' and are reported to be keeping it under tight security until the official release date.   The stringent decision has been made in order to stop the release from falling in the wrong hands and appearing on illegal download networks before it is unleashed to the public. Coldplay's follow up up to the incredibly successful 2002 breakthrough release 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' stands to make enormous revenues for the r

Reviews of Coldplay's performance have started to hit the site. You can read some here

BOB GELDOF is drawing up plans to organise a Live Aid-style concert to highlight world poverty during the G8 summit in Scotland this summer.   Organisers of the famous Live Aid concert held in 1985 believe that a televised pop extravaganza featuring world-famous groups would help focus the G8 leaders’ attention on suffering in poor countries. Heads of G8 nations will meet at Gleneagles hotel in Perthshire on July 6.   Plans for the concert are at an early stage, but it is believed that Geldof f

It was chilly, the sky was threatening rain, and hundreds of Chicago's most enthusiastic Coldplay fans were seriously displeased. They'd been waiting for hours, some since the night before, to score tickets to a rare club performance by one of the world's most popular bands.   Tickets were to go on sale at noon at the Metro, a 1,200-person Wrigleyville venue. It was now 12:05 pm, and David-James Figueroa, the Metro's head of security, emerged from the ticket office. "I can take the first 10 peop

An interesting article outlining a historian view on Coldplay can be found on the BBC Website

The extraordinary love-in between Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher continues with more sweet nothings being exchanged.   The Oasis star gushed about Chris: "The new songs sounded fucking great... I love him, he cracks me up. He's a really funny fucker. It's like the Bash Street Kids talking to him, he's the toff and we're the toughs! I think he finds us pretty amusing, too."   Source: Mirror

With more than 90 bands on five stages,it's hard to sort out all the great acts at the two-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.   Coachella, in a nutshell: The rock fest's two-day lineup embraces both popular bands (Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails) and emerging acts (The Bravery, Eisley, The Futureheads). Since it lasts a full weekend, many attendees camp on site, Woodstock-style.   Why it matters: Big things can happen at this little summer fest. Last year's most talked-about Coachella perf

Coldplay have become the first British band to have a new entry in the US Top 10 singles chart since The Beatles.   Coldplay's debut at number eight with Speed of Sound is the second time a UK band has achieved the feat. The Beatles managed it with Hey Jude in 1968.   Speed of Sound is the highest new entry since American Idol winner Fantasia went in at number one last July.   Rapper 50 Cent's nine-week reign at the top of the chart with Candy Shop was ended by Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl.

Toronto- MuchMusic welcomes the return of Coldplay to its Toronto studios for an exclusive LIVE interview on MuchOnDemand (M.O.D.) taking place on Monday, May 9th @ 5:00pm ET.   Fans nationwide (Canada) can get their chance to catch up with Chris and Jonny as they speak with M.O.D. co-hosts Matte Babel and Leah Miller to discuss the highly anticipated release of, X&Y.   Fans at home can also participate in the interview by emailing their questions to [email protected].   Speed of Sound

If you're ever invited around to Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's house, don't expect to see any of their awards on show.   The Coldplay singer has revealed that actually he doesn't think much of his Grammy gong or Gwynnie's Oscar statue. It seems that Chris wants more from an inanimate award than it just sitting there looking pretty, as he said, "A Grammy just sits there. An Oscar just sits there. It's just a hunk of junk."   Coldplay won record of the year at the 2004 Grammy Awards in Los An

For Coldplay singer Chris Martin, there’s more to life than chart-toppers .   "Our goal is to take over from U2," Coldplay's Chris Martin said during lunch in a funky beachfront restaurant in Malibu. The comment was so audacious that he quickly moved to put it in context.   "I don't mean 'take over' in a commercial sense or careerist sense, but in writing songs that move people in a big way. When I'm in a crowd of thousands of people singing a song I love, I get the best feeling - a sense of ge

More local news has filtered through about Coldplay's forthcoming buzz gigs in the US   More on the Chicago show here   More links to follow.

The whirlwind of activity recently began last weekend, when Coldplay holed up on a Los Angeles soundstage to shoot a video for X&Y's the first single, Speed of Sound.   Details were hard to come by, but it is known that the clip was helmed by Mark Romanek, famous for stark videos like Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and Johnny Cash's "Hurt," and shooting took place on several large sets equipped with huge LED light displays.   Source: MTV

X&Y hits stores on June 6th... but don't expect to hear it before then.   The new album will be kept under a watchful eye until its retail release date in order to prohibit it from "finding its way" onto the plethora of Internet download sites. Even critics, who typically receive advance copies of release to review, must adhere to the tight security policy surrounding "X&Y." Instead of a CD copy of the recording, reviewers may only preview Coldplay's latest via an IPod locked in a glass

Coldplay have confirmed two club shows in the US next month.   The band, who recently played a number of tiny shows across Europe in the build up to the release of their third album 'X&Y', had already announced a number of dates starting later this week at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Cafe' (April 29).   The two dates confirmed today will take place at San Francisco's Filmore on May 4 and Chicago's Metro club on May 6. Tickets go on sale April 30 for Chicago and May 1st in San Francisco, limited to