Coldplay News

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2380 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   December 15, 2011 - submitted by Giulia, Germany Q. I see that Emeli Sande has done the openings for some of Coldplay's concerts recently. Do you know whether she will do the same for the summer 2012 concerts (I would love to see her at the September concerto in Munich). Thanks! The Oracle replies: It's not usual for the support slots to do more than one leg (yes, I know that Bat For Lashes did but

Stephen Fry [pictured] has Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to thank for his role in the new Sherlock Holmes sequel, the film's director has revealed to the Press Association this week. Chris is an avid fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, and thought TV presenter and raconteur Stephen would be perfect to play the sleuth's brother Mycroft in Guy Ritchie's film Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows.   At a press conference to promote the film with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, who play H

Coldplay have replaced the rock tradition of illuminating the stadium with lighters and mobile phones during big anthems by handing out radio-controlled glow bands, the Daily Mail writes today, in a mini-review of Coldplay's X Factor performance on Sunday night. Below is the rest of the article. If you want to watch Coldplay on the X Factor again click here, and if you want to download the performance head to the Multimedia forum [thanks Denise, timyyy & Mojo Pin]   The band gave out 10,000

UPDATE: Coldplay performed Charlie Brown and Paradise on the X Factor towards the end of the show - and 'Chris Martin', #coldplay and 'Guy Berryman' all trended worldwide on Twitter! Let us know what you thought of the performance at the messageboard now! (42 pages of discussion so far and growing!)   Coldplay were reportedly asked to duet with an X Factor contestant at this weekend's final, but turned the offer down, according to reports published in the lead up to this weekend's two final show

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 reports back from the first two arenas shows and the tiny Dingwalls gig   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks suzanafg]   Greetings. I’ve one foot out the door to the O2 show, so not much time to catch up on what’s been a pretty eventful week. The arena shows finally kicked off in Glasgow on Saturday. I’m pretty sure that the first UK arena on the Rush Of Blood tour was the SECC in Glasgow. We’d done a bunch of shows

Coldplay have just announced another 13 dates as part of the 'Mylo Xylotour' as 2012 is starting to get hectic with new dates.   Today's announcement sees a European stadium tour that brings in Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Below is a full list of new concert threads for these dates in the Coldplay Live forum - bookmark them for all discussion for each of these new shows! Visit coldplay.com now (all times given there are local

Coldplay will launch its first North American tour in nearly three years on April 17. Below is the official announcement just made on Coldplay.com - below is a full list of concert threads in the Coldplay Live forum for all discussion for each of these new shows...   Good morning. We are very pleased to announce that Coldplay will head to North America in 2012 for a string of shows in the USA and Canada. Coldplay tickets go on general sale on Saturday, 17 December at 10am (local time) from 1-800

Coldplay and Rihanna will teaming up to perform their duet Princess Of China live at the Brit Awards 2012, it has been reported today. [You can discuss the latest on this at the Coldplay forum now (thanks _Tash)]   The reports continue saying: Brit organisers are keen to get both acts on stage to perform the track, which is taken from Coldplay's latest album Mylo Xyloto, live together for the first time. A source told The Sun: "Coldplay are really looking forward to performing Princess Of China

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2380 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   December 6, 2011 - submitted by Carl, United Kingdom Q. I was at the Manchester MEN concert on the 04/12/11 it was AMAZING!! Thanks lads for yet another mind blowing performance, just 1 question. On the reverse of the glowing wristbands was your code/number. As I was jumping and singing the number to the wristband has come off? Is there any way of getting the code for it or is that it useless withou

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 gives us the inside line on rehearsals for the arena tour   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks _Tash]   I’m sitting in the lounge waiting for the flight up to Glasgow. I suppose technically, tonight is the first proper show of the Mylo Xylotour. It’s not surprising really that it doesn’t feel like it. The Rock Im Park festival was the first gig show we did with these songs. That was on June 3rd - exactly six months

UPDATE! The website is now live - you can start discussing the site and its features at the Discuss the site at Mylo Xyloto sub-forum now!   A new domain, myloxyloto.com, registered in 2009 and currently hosted through EMI, is expected to reveal something sometime during Monday 5th December (woah, that's today!) - and according to the early Mylo Xylotour live shows it may be related to the digital tourpacks that were being advertised in Glasgow and Manchester over the last 48 hours. You can read

If you didn't believe it before, you can believe it now as ITV have revealed on their own website today that Coldplay will be performing on the second night of this year's X Factor final at Wembley Arena on Sunday 11th December. Read on for their article... [More discussion on the news of Coldplay's appearance on the X Factor is at the Coldplay forum now]   We've just heard that Coldplay, Michael Buble, Leona Lewis, JLS AND One Direction will be among the stars performing at the biggest ever X

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2380 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   December 1, 2011 - submitted by Shunit, Israel Q. So I this dream a few days ago, I was at a Coldplay concert, and suddenly for the last song of the concert Chris asked the audience if there was anyone who wanted to sing along with them on stage. Of course he selected me, and so we sang together Princess of China (I sang the parts of Rihanna). No need to say I sounded great... Did Coldplay ever do t

Guy Berryman has revealed that he intends to do more producing in the future, that is according to DigitalSpy who have regurgitated a Daily Star article. They wrote: Guy said that he enjoys the technical aspects of creating a new record, but insisted that he would never want to produce a Coldplay album. Asked whether he would be game for producing the band's next effort, Berryman told the Daily Star: "It'd be too big a challenge."   However, he maintained that he will not be leaving the group to

Coldplay have given a rare insight into the democracy at work within their band - revealing that they were deeply split over the offer to play The X-Factor, according to the Q Magazine, who will publish a new Coldplay article in their Q306 edition that is out tomorrow (29th November). Speaking for an exclusive cover story interview in their new issue that hits UK newsstands on Tuesday, Chris Martin explained how the band come to their decisions. [Full discussion on this new show is at the Coldpl

For Coldplay fans, this was a rare opportunity. To see one of the biggest bands on the planet (well, half of them), in the tiny surrounds of a church, writes the Independent in a review of last night's Little Noise Sessions in London (with Chris and Jonny only). For fans of the band this is about as good as it gets. Which makes one wonder then, what made one woman up on the balcony think that it was a good idea to bring a tambourine? Even in the O2 - where Coldplay play two dates next month - it

The third Coldplay single from new album Mylo Xyloto is going to be Charlie Brown, sources from some of Europe's music websites are showing today (Thursday). Both Swiss music website Hitparade and respected Dutch radio station website 3FM have published what may well be the cover art to the single. Looking more closely, the artwork is part of the graffiti wall and also the Mylo Xyloto album cover itself. Read on after the jump for the image. We'll soon know if they're right as there will be an a

The X Factor star Janet Devlin [pictured] will reportedly sing with Coldplay if she makes it to the series final next month, according to various sources today. Coldplay - whohave apparently been booked to perform with one of the three X Factor finalists - are expected to duet with Janet after she sang their track, Fix You, earlier in the competition.   Insiders claim that the 17-year old is the only act who would suit Coldplay's style, with show bosses allegedly realising that a collaboration w

Coldplay have announced that, on Saturday, 10th December 2011, they will host Under 1 Roof, a benefit concert in support of the charity Kids Company at the O2 Arena in London. Stars turning out for Under 1 Roof, featuring live music and comedy, include Coldplay, Tinie Tempah, Emeli Sandé, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge. [Full discussion on this new show is at the Coldplay Live forum now (thanks hps & _Tash)]   Coldplay are long-term supporters of Kids Company and have pulled t

Coldplay will headline New Year's eve gig in Abu Dhabi and also kick off the Volvo Ocean Race, which commences on December 31st   This New Year Eve just got even more exciting as Coldplay have been pencilled in to ring in the festivities in Abu Dhabi, reports from the Middle East are saying today (now confirmed via the official site). Coldplay will kick-start the UEA's historic hosting of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011/12 , followed by a concert that will certainly run to a packed house if their pre

The arguments over the value of music streaming to artists roll on, but one thing’s for certain: something definitely hit the fan for Spotify, Rdio and the rest this week. Mercury-nominated artist Jon Hopkins claimed this week that he was paid just £8 (around $13) for almost 100,000 streams on the service, and just hours before it was revealed that an independent record distributor in Britain — representing more than 200 small records labels — quit a range of streaming services, including Spotif

More fall out now from the Charlie Brown video shoot, as The Sun continue with their series of articles drip-feeding us with information from the event. Their latest one reads like this: "Coldplay are hard taskmasters. Girls who applied to feature in the video for the band's forthcoming single, Charlie Brown, had to dance for EIGHT HOURS caked in luminous make-up. Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion made up for the gruelling day's work though. They footed the bill for lu

Coldplay have added additional dates in London and Manchester after tickets for the 2012 stadium tour sold out after just 90 minutes this morning. The speed at which tickets for the large-capacity venues sold out has prompted the organisers to add another date at the Emirates Stadium in London on June 4th, as well as an additional show in Manchester on June 10th.   In Coventry, the Coventry Telegraph reported that Coldplay concert tickets for the show on May 29th went on sale at 9am and all 40,0

Coldplay are set to play an intimate gig at a venue where they first played 13 years ago, it has been announced via the official site today. They will play Camden's Dingwalls venue next month in a free show for BBC Radio 2. [Full discussion on this new show is at the Coldplay Live forum now (thanks Mimixxx, _Tash, SueDeNimes, twistedleksi2008]   Coldplay first played at the venue in May 1998, to raise money for the recording of the band's first release, The Safety EP. The gig takes place on Tues

Children In Need gig organiser Gary Barlow is relieved Coldplay agreed to headline his upcoming charity concert because the band 'got the ball rolling' for other acts to sign up for the show. [Full discussion on tonight's show is at the Coldplay Live forum now. For those outside of the UK we've heard that there may be live streaming available here and here [thanks Londonerr]   Gary singer has once again been put in charge of organising the Children In Need stage spectacular at the Men Arena in M