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More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1700 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   February 17, 2011 - submitted by Asger, Denmark Q. Dear Oracle, How could Jonny possibly sell his cap?! His cap! :O Thank you for your time. The Oracle replies: One of his caps, ONE of his caps! Thank you for yours...   February 16, 2011 - submitted by Arthur, Paraguay Q. I want to paint my guitar like Chris's Gibson blues king spare one, is that painted over the guitar or painted over something and

As reported yesterday, you can call Coldplay on Skype and leave a message for them. If you haven't already made that vital call, here are some ideas courtesy of DailyBlabber to get you started...   Have you heard of Skype yet? It's sorta like IM, but you have a headset and you can actually call people right from your computer. With landlines going the way of Ashlee Simpson's career, it's a pretty cool invention. Anyway, to increase buzz about their product, they are having a little contest and t

Coldplaying.com is looking for material that you've recorded, to feature on the site. If you have any cover songs or original material in mp3 format then we're looking for you.   For examples of work please click here - you're music could feature here and get exposure to fans of similar types of music.   Hosting can be done by this site, or through your own webspace, its your choice.   If you are interested, please mail me here   Ian

Elton John is well-known for his extravagant style – and the bespectacled singer is now planning to fork out £30,000 to book most of the front three rows at next week’s War Child concert.   The joint performance by The Killers and Coldplay is set to be a night to remember and Elton – not short of a bob or two – wants to share the moment with pals and family. The two legendary bands come together on Wednesday for the charity event at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, and will follow the Brits at Earl

Coldplay may have been left humiliated after their Brit Awards snub, but they certainly know how to bounce back in spectacular fashion, report the Daily Mail.   After losing out in four categories last night despite selling millions of albums and Grammy success, the group hot-fotted it over to the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire for the War Child charity’s 15th birthday. They performed a string of hits from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends much to the delight of the crowd, which included Sienn

Coldplay performed with Take That's Gary Barlow, The Killers... and a special appearance from U2's Bono... all on the same stage at the same time!   Coldplay rushed from the BRIT Awards, from which they left empty-handed despite being up for four prizes, across London to perform at a charity show for War Child at the 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire. They were firstly joined by Gary Barlow - who had played their hit single 'Greatest Day' at the BRITS earlier - for a rendition of the boy band's classic

Nolan Fisher has created an antiwar statement using coldplay's music in movie form. It is a short film only as long as the song ' politik' using world war, soldier, and 9/11 footage.   It is very moving especially since coldplay's music is it's soundtrack and he would like every socially concious coldplay fan to see it!   You can see it at http://www.singlereel.com/directory/clip-26537.html

Irish pop stars Westlife and Ronan Keating have hit out at Band Aid 20 organiser Sir Bob Geldof, for snubbing them from the recent charity single.   Geldof and Midge Ure brought together a group of current pop and rock stars to record a cover version of 1984 hit Do They Know It's Christmas? to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the single and to raise money for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan.   Westlife and Keating were omitted from the list - and they are convinced it's because they aren

The duet of Chris Martin and Beck returned (as seen at the GRAMMYs 2015), in a 'round the campfire' rendition of the late Johnny Cash's, 'Ring Of Fire'. The Malibu garden celeb gathering, also featuring an unlikely combo of Pink and Red Hot Chili Peppers (Drummer, Chad Smith to be exact!) was partly captured and posted on Instagram.   Watch the video of 'Ring Of Fire' below, followed by some chat and some interesting singing from Chris! (Thanks to Ati Mx on the forums)         https:

The Coldplay penned Gravity is to be the comeback single of Embrace. You can watch their video online here and let people know what you think here   If you are intending to buy the single, you may wish to support Oxfam as part of a special campaign.   From Monday 23rd August you'll be able to download Gravity from the Oxfam music site BigNoiseMusic a week before the official release date. The download will also count towards the first ever official Download chart, which will be announced on Sept

Done and Dusted, the DVD company behind the release of Coldplay's live 2003 DVD, has uploaded a trailer online to their website for Coldplay from back in 2009 when they played in Barcelona, sparking further rumours that a DVD from the Viva la Vida era will be released. The clip shows a three minutes live performance of Viva la Vida, and includes various audience shots as well as panoramic views from behind the stage.   It is still unknown whether this news will be officially confirmed or if the

If you've not been keeping tabs on the Absolute Radio website, there are more exclusive videos uploaded from Absolute's Zoo Sessions, where Coldplay's Chris Martin played four tracks and recorded an interview on Friday 30 January.   The Scientist is the latest track to be uploaded to the Absolute site here. Also available to watch are 'Violet Hill,' 'Viva la Vida' and DJ Christian O'Connell interviewing Chris in a bizarre interview. Check back later this week for the final track to be uploaded,

With Glastonbury Festival coming up this weekend, the BBC have posted some footage of festival highlights up on their website.   Click here to check out Coldplay's mighty performance of 'Politik' from Glastonbury 2002.   Source: Coldplay MySpace

Here is all the basic information you need for today's Global Citizen concert in Hamburg. As always we will update this post after the show with a HD download to the concert and setlist. Watch Live Coldplay's set will be broadcasted on ONE HD in Germany (or most of Europe on Astra 19.2E). Global Citizen is also broadcasting the show worldwide on YouTube available below:   When is the Show? You will be able to watch live today (July 6th) at these times: 7PM local time (CEST) 1PM

In between hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's first interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes this Sunday, and Andy Rooney bitching about why his socks won't stay up, Steve Kroft interviews Chris Martin of Coldplay.   Like Sullenbereger, Chris doesn't do much press. In fact, during Kroft's visit to the band's studio in England, Chris shows Coldplay's top secret list of rules posted next to their white board ("6. Always keep the mystery. Not many interviews."). Martin waxes poetic on a sle

You can now watch Coldplay perform tracks during an intimate live gig for Radio 2 at the BBC Radio Theatre in London. The video of Coldplay's Radio 2 gig will be available until Monday 8 September, 2359. (hurry!)   Watch the full gig online (UK residents only... BBC rules not mine) here

Coldplay have posted a 30 second teaser trailer on Twitter for their "Hurts like Heaven' music video due on Monday. "The next single from Mylo Xyloto will be 'Hurts Like Heaven'," they tweeted last night. "Full video coming on Monday - watch the trailer now..."   The clip features comic book style animation set to a futuristic dsytopian storyline and does not feature the band. Digital Spy described it as: "The futuristic animation contains flashes of neon, which have become the band's trademark

Happy Easter to every Coldplay fan! The band have given the fans an Easter Egg today by providing us with this special treat of the behind the scenes video shoot for the outstanding "Magic" music video. Without further ado, you can watch Chris Martin and actress Zhang Ziyi filming their roles in this video below.     Let us know what you think on our forums too!

Australian breakfast TV show 'Sunrise' have released an exclusive live performance of Magic by Coldplay. It is believed to have been recorded at the same time as Coldplay's recent TV airing for Sports Relief in the UK.   http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/watch/22438060/coldplay-performs-for-sunrise      

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You can now watch a video of the 'Making of the Life In Technicolor ii video' showing how it was made. Click here to watch it at Coldplay.com. Here's Anchorman with more details:   Good morning. Click below to watch a terrific "making of" film for Coldplay's Life In Technicolor ii video (big thanks to the video's producer, Matthew Fone, for sending it over). Look out tomorrow for an in-depth interview with the video's director, Dougal Wilson, in which he tells us all about the puppets, the villa

Coldplay are currently featuring in a new advert for O2 to highlight that the mobile phone operator's customers can get tickets for the band’s UK stadium tour 48 hours ahead of them going on general release. [Watch the new video and also discuss the latest on this news at the Coldplay forum now or download the video and screenshots for later at the Multimedia forum (thanks Skuze23, zzz & Mimixxx)   The campaign, by VCCP, will highlight the band’s 2012 stadium tour, promoting the Priority Tic

Wherever you might be around the world watching the Live 8 concerts, please join the discussions and show your support in our Live 8 Forums.   How did Coldplay perform? What was their collaboration with Richard Ashcroft like? Find out there!   Please take the time out on your way to the messageboard to click the flash banners and add your name to the petition at the live8live site.

In mid-October, Waxploitation will launch a new charity auction through eBay's non-profit MissionFish partner. Waxploitation is making available a number of prized signed guitars from Avril Lavigne, Common, Flaming Lips, Nickelback, and Deftones, as well as rare items from Coldplay, Bjork, TV on the Radio to name a few.   Established in Los Angeles by Jeff Antebi in 1997, Waxploitation has been pioneering new models in the music business and making a difference through active social causes for a

'The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends' is set to arrive on Record Store Day on April 21, and the collection features Flaming Lips performing with some high-profile friends, including Coldplay's very own Chris Martin. Others slated to appear on the set count Bon Iver, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Ke$ha and more. Full discussion on this forthcoming release/collaboration is at the Coldplay forum now.   Pitchfork asked the question about Chris Martin contribution to the new Heady Fwends album in a recent onlin