Coldplay News

A reminder that Shazam, the world’s leading mobile discovery company, recently announced it is giving one lucky Shazamer and their guest the concert experience of a lifetime to see Coldplay perform live, as part of its “Golden Tag” promotions. When fans in the US, UK and Canada use their iOS and Android devices to Shazam any Coldplay song, including their latest singles, “Paradise” and “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall,” they will receive a chance to enter and win a grand prize trip to see them in

Coldplay played their penultimate festival of their gruelling summer tour last night at Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival (24th September 2011). They now take a week break before heading to South America to play the Rock In Rio festival on 1st October and then South Africa to play two huge concerts in Cape Town and Johannesburg, starting on 5th October.   Last night, Coldplay performed an REM cover of Everybody Hurts which replaced Us Against the World in the usual setlist. Only hours earlier, Wa

Several major sites - including those of Ticketmaster and Seetickets - appeared to have sold out all three of the UK Coldplay shows shortly after they went on sale at 9.30am. Coldplay are due to play Glasgow SECC on December 3rd, Manchester's MEN Arena on December 4th and the O2 Arena in London on December 9th - all were sold out this morning in just a few seconds as an estimated 100,000 fans flocked to the Internet to try and get their hands on scarce tickets for the shows. Did you get tickets

Coldplay fans have been warned to watch out for ticket scams when general tickets for their anticipated European winter tour go on sale this morning (September 23rd). The band will first play three dates in the UK in December as part of a wider-reaching European jaunt. The other dates will take place at venues in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Concerns have now been raised by industry insiders after a number fake ticket sites have appeared online. If you're not sure about a website or wan

On a day when rock enthusiasts were mourning the loss of R.E.M, Coldplay proved there are still groups out there carrying the torch. The quartet performed a 14-song, 65-minute free show in Toronto Wednesday evening (Sept. 21) – broadcast live in Canada on MuchMusic and in the U.S. on Fuse TV -- supporting their forthcoming 'Mylo Xyloto' album before thousands of fans. And while all braved inclement weather, the skies cleared for the show, which was split evenly between older albums and the upcom

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   September 21, 2011 - submitted by Phil, France Q. Dear Oracle, What's your favourite song from MX and from the olders albums and why ? See you soon The Oracle replies: I'm loving all the new songs that I have heard so far and cannot wait to hear the rest but my current favourite is Princess of China. It's so hard to choose favourites so I shall just answer on how I feel today. Parachutes - Everythin

The general sale for Coldplay tickets for the European winter tour begins this Friday at 9.30am and viagogo predicts that the UK dates will sell out in just THREE minutes.   Remember: There will be a special ticket pre-sale for Coldplay online fans for each of the shows - the German show presale started today - the rest will follow tomorrow (Thursday). To access it, click the discussion links below and find details for all shows - and at the date/time stated enter the code MYLOXYLOTIX. The pre-

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42, the bucket factory and the unplugged performance   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks Mimixxx]   Join a road-crew they said. See the world they said. Exotic locations and glamour they said… I would never have dared dream, though, that if I worked hard enough, one day I’d find myself in a disused bucket factory in Brooklyn.   In reality, the place where we find ourselves actually has a pretty spectacular view of Ma

NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Coldplay is booked to perform at the American Museum of Natural History's 2011 gala in New York, organisers are reported to have said on Monday. The event is scheduled for November 10th. This event is as yet unconfirmed with the official site, keep an eye out for more information. You can read more about it in the meantime at the Coldplay forum now [thanks the_escapist]   Here is the press statement: "A much-anticipated highlight of the fall season, the museum gala i

Coldplay have landed a clutch of nominations for this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, which will take place at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena on November 6th. Amongst the categories Coldplay have been named in are Best Live Act, where they will go head-to-head with rock heavyweights Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Best UK/Ireland Act, where they will face stiff competition from chart sensation Adele, who herself has been nominated for numerous EMAs this year. You can discuss this awards cer

Stereoboard promised a huge Coldplay announcement this week and they weren't wrong - Coldplay have this morning confirmed details of nine UK & mainland Europe arena shows for December 2011. Coldplay will play shows kicking off in the UK on December 3rd, continuing with shows in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium.   Tickets for Coldplay are onsale Friday September 23rd at 9.30am, priced from £47.50 + fees (onsale 9am Friday for European dates). There will be a special ticket pre-sale for Co

You will already know by now that Coldplay will play a special show for MuchMusic in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday 21st September, and the show will be streamed live in Canada on muchmusic.com.   But if you want to attend to the event and haven't got passes yet, today might be your final chance. MuchMusic have held back a batch of passes that will be distributed at their HQ later. More details below, and more discussion on the MuchMusic date is at the messageboard now - let us know if you're goin

Coldplay played the Austin City Limits festival in Texas last night (16th September 2011) in their first festival appearance back after a 5 week break. Up In Flames (UIF) and Don't Let It Break Your Heart were NOT played in Coldplay's festival performance in Austin despite UIF having been debuted at the Taping event the previous night. Paradise, however, was added to the setlist instead of Life Is For Living. They continued with their cover of Rehab by the late Amy Winehouse.   The concert was s

Coldplay have been voted the best festival headliner of 2011, in an online poll conducted by BBC 6 Music. Coldplay - who headlined Glastonbury and T In The Park - topped the survey with 22.7% of votes cast, breakfast show host Shaun Keaveny announced. US rock band The National came in second with 14.2%, while Muse were third with 13.9%. Coldplay's drummer Will Champion told 6 Music's Steve Lamacq that playing festivals gave the band "...a chance to win people over. But there's also a strong poss

Coldplay headline the Austin City Limits festival tonight in Austin, Texas and don't forget you can watch the whole performance live on the internet across the world on YouTube (except Germany). The webcast will be shown via youtube.com/aclfestival at approximately 8:10pm CT / 2.10am UK time (click here to find out what time it is where you are). The show will be repeated once in full afterwards.   Meanwhile during last nights ACL Taping, Coldplay played Up In Flames live for the first time, whi

This coming Sunday, The Sunday Times (UK newspaper) will be releasing a free Coldplay download featuring live tracks from their recent iTunes performance at The Roundhouse in London on 22nd July. There is a tracklisting but nothing about whether this will be a digital download only or if there will be a physical release at a later date. An exclusive interview will follow according to the newspaper. More discussion on this download is at the Coldplay Live forum now (thanks This will be the first

According to Stereoboard today, next week will see Coldplay announcing a UK winter tour. They don't say whether the European leg of this tour will also be announced at the same time, but if it is we expect it will be along the lines of the recently rumoured schedule which was posted several weeks ago. Here's what Stereoboard had to say:   Only days after the release of new single 'Paradise', more good news is expected for Coldplay fans next week. That's all we can say at the moment, however, if

Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Elbow are to top the bill for a huge Children In Need concert organised by Gary Barlow, reports are saying this morning. The show - to take place at Manchester's MEN Arena - will also feature Michael Buble, JLS, N-Dubz and Hugh Laurie. Tickets go on sale on Friday with details at www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey. More on this reported date is at the Coldplay Live forum now.   David Tennant, Fearne Cotton and Chris Moyles are to host the November 17 concert Children In Need Rocks Man

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   September 12, 2011 - submitted by Cecilia, Mexico Q. What happen with Moving to Mars, why it doesn't appear in the new disc ? The Oracle replies: There were many discussions about whether MTM would make it on to Mylo Xyloto and in the end it was decided to release it as part of the ETIAW ep. As Major Minus was also on the ep and is going to be on the album, it made sense to leave MTM off.   Septembe

Chris Martin has revealed that Rihanna will feature on Coldplay's upcoming album Mylo Xyloto. Chris explained that the 'S&M' popstar has lent her vocals to new song Princess Of China for the band's forthcoming record, which comes out on October 24th. "She has such an amazing voice and it's so different to mine," Martin told The Sun. "When the vocal happened I thought 'Wow, you sound different' but I think that's also because she was singing a different song to what we are used to hearing fro

Don't forget (how could you) that Coldplay's forthcoming single Paradise will be unveiled in full on Monday at 7.50am (UK time) when it will be first played on radio at the following stations: BBC Radio 1; Absolute Radio; (more to be added). Join the Paradise Listening Party at the Coldplaying messageboard (Paradise sub-forum) now! We will have a new 1-10 sliding scale poll on what you thought of the song shortly after it airs.   A 30-second clip has emerged online of Paradise via website Turntr

Coldplay have tonight announced the tracklisting for the forthcoming album, Mylo Xyloto . Discuss the official tracklisting now at the Mylo Xyloto subforum. In total there are 14 songs, most of which were already mooted for the record, but M.M.I.X. is a previously unknown track (if you were not aware, MMIX is Roman Numerals for 2009 - do you know the significance? Does it even stand for 2009?) Read on after the jump for the graphic containing the complete tracklisting.   DLIBYH is indeed Don't L

Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto is still more than a month away (it hits stores first on October 24th), which means there was plenty of time to tinker with the songs that will make the final cut - until now. The deadline for completing the album has passed! Roadie #42 has just tweeted today: "Bumped into Rik Simpson. Tells me: "We finished the album at 2am". It's on this USB stick. Get ready folks! R42" Let us know your thoughts in the Mylo Xyloto sub-forum now... [thanks Contra4you & Zj23]   Thursda

A US university student has turned a rare genetic condition into a viral video after he was able to play a rendition of Clocks while seated with his back to the piano keyboard. The video, which you can watch now at the messageboard shows Evan Petrone twisting his arms into a seemingly impossible position, then, after adjusting his shoulders, start to play the opening chords. "I've always been able to bend my arms all over the place," Mr Petrone says. "And I eventually began to wonder if I could

This year's Rock In Rio festival, which will take place between September 23rd and October 2nd in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be streamed live via YouTube for fans outside of Brazil, according to reports on the messageboard today. (In Brazil, the transmission will be via MultishowHD and Globo.com).   Coldplay's last concert of the 2011 Festival Tour will be on October 1st, and they headline Rock In Rio. Coldplay will start at 00:20h (local time (Brazil / GMT -3:00)). The stream of all days will