Coldplay News

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

Here are four more links to the very latest on Coldplay, the album and tour mutterings.   Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4

Coldplay are planning UK dates as early as spring, according to drummer Will Champion.   The group have been in the US working on mixes for songs for their third album, which is currently set for release in spring. Speaking to the band’s official newsletter, Champion hinted the band may play some gigs in Britain to coincide with the release, despite being “utterly petrified” at the prospect having not done a gig in 16 months.   He said: “I think we were in no hurry (to finish the album) becaus

The first Coldplay E-Zine of 2005 is now out, featuring an exclusive interview with Will Champion. You can get it here   Courtesy of Debs Wild and coldplay.com

Shares in EMI Group Plc, the world's third-largest record company, slumped as much as 18 percent after the company cut its fiscal-year earnings forecast.   EMI, where revenue has dropped for three straight years, is counting on new albums to lift earnings. Planned releases from bands Coldplay and Gorillaz will slip into next fiscal year, the company said today, meaning an April release at the very earliest. Recorded music revenue accounts for about 80 percent of EMI's total.   Pretax profit befo

Coldplay's 'The Scientist' featured highly in UK's Channel 4 Greatest 100 Pop Videos Ever, coming a fantastic 11th place.   The video, in which Chris Martin is shown moving backwards but singing the song forwards, acts out an apparent happy calm and ends on a carefree drive, but in-between features a horrific car crash.   For the full countdown of videos, visit Channel 4's page here

Rumours are flying across the interweb that the new Coldplay album is entitled 'Zero Theory' and that the tracklisting is as follows:   1. Square One 2. Talk 3. Something Ain't Right 4. Fury 5. Till Kingdom Come 6. Blasphemy 7. What If 8. Echo My Name (I Can't Believe You're Gone) 9. X&Y 10.The Hardest Part 11.Deja Vu   Only time will tell - in the meantime click here for more information (and a poll).

Coldplay has given the New Zealand Blood Service a major shot in the arm by providing one of its songs free of charge for a television advertisement to attract new donors.   Don’t Panic, one of the hits from the band’s first album Parachutes, is the track behind a new awareness campaign devised by Publicis Mojo and on air from today thanks to TVNZ’s Community Support Foundation airtime.   New Zealand Blood Service Chief Executive Dr Graeme Benny said securing rights to international acts such as

R+B singer Beyonce Knowles is calling on Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to collaborate with her in the studio.   The Destiny's Child star has worked with a host of urban singers in the past, including boyfriend Jay-Z, but she's determined to test her musical compatibility with rocker Martin to discover how their different pop styles mix.   She says, "I've done duets over the years, but would love to work with Coldplay. Singing with Chris would be cool."   Knowles' singing skills were in demand e

Gwyneth Paltrow's husband Chris martin has reportedly asked the 'Shakespeare in Love' beauty to stay away from her supermodel friend Kate Moss.   The 'Coldplay' frontman said to Gwyneth that she should end her friendship with Moss after the ramp diva openly admitted dating ex-Libertines frontman Pete Doherty, who was sacked from his band because of his dependency on drugs.   "Chris respects Pete as an artist but that's as far as it goes. He would never be drawn into the kind of world that Pete -

Several websites including Billboard and MTV have today CONFIRMED that Coldplay and Nine Inch Nails will headline the sixth Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 30-May 1 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. The fest will also feature reunion performances by pioneering rock acts Gang Of Four, the Cocteau Twins and Bauhaus, as well as the first live appearance since late 2002 from Weezer.   The first day's bill will also feature rock acts Wilco (who were originally con

The success of Coldplay has done funny things to some of their peers.   Snow Patrol, for one, discarded their previous identity as indie underachievers, got epic, and reaped the rewards. Now Feeder, Britain's mild-mannered hard rockers, and Athlete, a pleasantly slipshod outfit recently nominated for the Mercury Prize, have evidently decided that a few pianos and some uplifting melancholy could be just what their longevity and balance sheets require.   In Feeder's case, you could see it coming.

Chris Martin and Will Champion performed two songs from the forthcoming Coldplay album last night (January 27th) to a music industry audience at London's Whitfield Street Studios.   Reported by Music Week, the band's frontman and drummer appeared as part of a presentation night by their record label Parlophone. According to the magazine, the pair swapped their usual on-stage instruments for acoustic guitars for the two-song performance.   Martin began by announcing that the band's new album wa

Coldplay were thrown into panic after reports that their new album had been leaked on the internet.   The band would lose out on millions if fans downloaded the songs for free rather than buying the album in shops. They called in a team of lawyers to investigate the apparent leak, according to The Sun. But further inquiries suggested the leak was a fake.   WinMX, which allows web-users to fileshare, appeared to have six songs from the album available for download on its website. The tracks were

eFestivals.co.uk remains confident that the headliner for the Saturday of Glastonbury 2005 will be Coldplay, and that U2 will not be playing.   Coldplay are known to be currently putting the arrangements together for a series of shows around the UK for the summer, thought to include a date in London in late June, and two shows at Balloch Park on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland on 2nd and 3rd of July.

Chris Martin will be a studio guest on Channel 4's Dispatches programme tonight.   Dispatches Live Special: After The Tsunami will air at 8pm GMT and will include a live debate on foreigh policy in the aftermath of the disaster.

As reported earlier in the month, Coldplay's 'Yellow' was shortlisted for The Brits Best Song Award - the song though didn't make it to the final.   However, you can still vote here for the final five songs which are:   Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division Angels - Robbie Williams We Are The Champions - Queen Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush Leave Right Now - Will YoungFollowing Round 1 of voting which cut the final shortlist to five songs saw the following songs dumped:   Night Fever - Bee Ge

The first confirmed details have been announced for this year’s Coachella Festival.   The Californian event will return for its sixth instalment between April 30 – May 1, it was announced last night (January 20). The annual event will again take place at the Empire Polo Field in the desert city of Indio, two hours outside of Los Angeles.   Last year’s event, which boasted headlining sets from a reunited Pixies, Radiohead and The Cure, helped the festival sell out for the first time in its histor

The rumour mill has already started turning for this year's Glastonbury festival and here are some of the bands you can expect to see on the Pyramid Stage (and when!) at this year's Glastonbury Festival.   On Friday night, we expect Keane to be the act that plays before the headliner (or perhaps the third from last). Michael Eavis saw them at their re-scheduled gig in Bristol last night, and we're told that although the band were keeping their lips tightly zipped, the same can't be said for Mich

It appears that Coldplay have signed on with MTV to release the entire album online on "The Leak" a week before it's in-store release. The date MTV has listed is 22nd March 2005. A week later is the speculated date (29th March 2005) for North America. [thanks Owen]   Source: The Leak

Chris Martin has praised Britain's generous response to charitable campaigns - insisting his countrymen are unfairly portrayed as miserly.   Brits responded overwhelmingly to the 26 December tsunami, raising tens of millions of pounds for victims of the killer wave in Asia - but Martin insists this is typical behaviour.   Speaking after a charity trip to Africa to promote his Make Trade Fair campaign, the singer says, "Britain is often misrepresented as a nation of cynical bastards but most peo

Coldplay have teamed up with A-ha - well one member of the Norwegian trio at least.   Mags, who now goes under the name of Magne, performed a showcase of his new material in London last night.vHis solo album features collaborations with Ed Harcourt, Andy from Travis and Will and Guy from Coldplay.   Magne told us how it all came about: "It's a friendship network really - with Coldplay we met in Barcelona on tour. It's a friendly thing and we then came to realise that they'd grown up as A-ha fans

Here's a picture that was taken of Chris with children from Ghana:     Chris Martin has revealed fatherhood has driven him to try to make the world a better place.   Chris - who has an eight-month-old daughter Apple with actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow - was speaking after an emotionally- charged visit to impoverished Ghana, West Africa.   He said: "Being a new father has made me look at the world differently. I want the world to be a better place when my daughter has grown up."  

Fatherhood has spurred campaigning Chris Martin to do even more work for charity.   Chris has always been passionate about causes like fair trade and the third world debt - but has become even more committed about making the world a better place since his actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow gave birth to baby daughter Apple in May last year.   He explains, "Being a new father has made me look at the world differently. I'm a father who travels a lot and has seen how rich nations like ours exploit poorer

Chris Martin narrowly avoided death when his plane almost crashed on a charity trip to Africa.   Martin was approaching Tamale Airport in Ghana on a trip for the fair trade charity he works hard to support earlier this month, when the plane carrying him hit a dust storm.   The singer says, "We were coming into land. Once a year, for a week, all this dust blows over from the Sahara Desert. You could not see a thing. I couldn't see the ground and nor could the pilot. I found out we were about 200