Coldplay News

Coldplay banned children’s choirs from their Christmas record, amongst other things, Will Champion has confirmed. The band have released single 'Christmas Lights' and made a list of the predictable festive pop sounds they didn’t want on the track. You can download the audio of this interview and the subsequent Radio 1Xtra interview with Greg James at the multimedia forum now [thanks KingChris & SueDeNimes]   In an interview with BBC Radio 1, which you can download drummer Will said: "Funnily

Coldplay singer Chris Martin is nominated in the Best Song category for next year's Oscars. Chris wrote the track 'Me And Tennessee' which has been nominated for one of the prestigious film industry awards after it was used in his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow's movie 'Country Strong', about an alcoholic country singer trying to stage a comeback. More discussion on Chris Martin's nomination is at the Coldplay forum now [thanks Nattatouille]   The track is one of 41 long listed in the Oscars category, wh

Coldplay have now confirmed the concert together with Jay-Z on New Year's Eve, at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas resort to see in 2011 we can reveal. Chris Martin and Will Champion confirmed the show during the interview with Radio 1's Fearne Cotton in the Live Lounge earlier today. You can discuss this event at the Coldplay Live forum now.   The event is being organised by celebrity party planner Colin Cowie and will be invite only with no tickets being put on general sale to the public. Guests

Chris Martin has joked that their new album sounds like tango meets X Factor winner Matt Cardle. Coldplay's frontman spoke about the album during a special appearance on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge this morning (December 17th) to perform their festive single 'Christmas Lights'. You can download the audio of this interview and track at the multimedia forum now [thanks KingChris & SueDeNimes]   Earlier this week, Chris spoke to BBC and said the follow-up to 2008’s 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All

Reading through the latest articles on Coldplay's concept album news, we've come across an interesting set of stats based on Coldplay's Last.fm trends, courtesy of KROQ. The band have amassed almost 200m scrobbles since Parachutes.   With just four albums the band have still managed to rack up an enormous 174,927,900 scrobbles spread across 3,272,423 listeners (that’s an average of 53 scrobbles per listener). 2005's X&Y has proved to be their most popular album to date, taking in 31,055,432

As announced first via Coldplay's Messenger this evening, the official site has confirmed details of a live photo and video blog from Liverpool and Newcastle from this Sunday (and Monday) with the official behind-the-scenes view at the two hidden Crisis gigs. You can join in with the customary mammoth discussion with your F5 buttons at the ready over in the Coldplay forum during the live blog. [thanks Technicolor Sparks]   Will the discussion generate as big a thread as the Wembley and Mencap bl

Coldplay.com have published the first part of their online chat with director Mat Whitecross about the new video for Coldplay's Christmas Lights. The song is available to download now from itunes.com/Coldplay. Look out for part two of their interview with Mat soon, in which he tells us about meeting Coldplay and making the band's first ever video. Read on for the interview...   Hello Mat, how are you? Good thanks, just on my way to watch the band at Top Of The Pops.   Well, congratulations on th

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1700 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   December 13, 2010 - submitted by Chris, United Kingdom Q. Hi Oracle, I was listening to the interview that Chris and Jonny gave on XFM. Chris was being very mysterious about the new album, BUT I do remember him joking about February 9th as a release date for Christmas Lights. I'm just wondering if this is a secret coded release of information for us very intrigued fans?? I hope so! :) Thanks, Chris

Coldplay have announced their fourth festival headline slot of 2011 with the news that they will be playing in Poland for the very first time - at the Open'er Festival on Thursday 30th June. Catch all the latest discussion and previews to this show at the Coldplay Live forum now. [thanks AnnaElisabeth]   Here's what Anchorman had to say earlier: We're pleased to report that Coldplay will be heading to Poland in 2011 to headline the Heineken Open'er Festival in Gdynia, on the north coast of the

Coldplay topped the bill for this year's Christmas Top Of The Pops with a one-off performance of their festive single, Christmas Lights, and will be seen when the show returns to BBC One on December 25.   The BBC audience included Coldplayers from the forum who were lucky enough not only to get tickets but to listen to Coldplay performing Christmas Lights four times. Here are some of their reviews...   They were great! Chris gave someone (from here I think) a flower and someone else got a plectr

Coldplay entered the UK singles charts with their new festive track Christmas Lights, which landed at 18th place, following its release on iTunes last Wednesday. This chart position is based on digital sales only as there was no physical release available to buy. It is important to note that they broke the top 20 with only three full days of sales - a good result.   Meanwhile in the iTunes charts, Christmas Lights reached no.1 in Portugal, Spain, Finland and Greece so far, recording top ten posi

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1700 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   December 2, 2010 - submitted by Marie, Czech Republic Q. Dear Oracle. What does it mean the sign above the curtain in the video Christmas Lights? Thank you The Oracle replies: Ha ha, a few people have been asking this. In the Christmas Lights video the words above the stage curtain say CREDO ELVEM ETIAM VIVERE. This means "I believe Elvis lives" in Latin.   December 2, 2010 - submitted by Nathanael,

From 3rd-12th December Nokia & Crisis are giving people a chance to get a pair of tickets to the sold out Coldplay gigs in Liverpool and Newcastle for Crisis' 'Hidden Gigs' by raising as much money as possible for single homeless people. Nokia will award the top 12 fundraisers with a pair of tickets to see Coldplay in their only live British performances of 2010. For a chance to get a ticket register at: www.nokia.co.uk/hiddengigs. Coldplay will play two secret gigs for Crisis in Liverpool a

London: Coldplay have said there were bad vibes within the band as they concluded their 2009 Viva La Vida world tour. Speaking to Radio 1's Zane Lowe lead singer last night, Chris Martin said: "When we came back from America last time we had some bad stuff happening in our group."   He went on to add that the band are currently working on songs for their as yet untitled fifth album in 2011. "We're going for it. We regard this as our last big shot," he said. "We had a lot of songs and we cut a lo

Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland visited the Radio 1 and XFM studios, whilst making an on-air call to Absolute Radio, to promote the new single, Christmas Lights, which was released everywhere last night at 8pm on the dot. Let us know what you thought of the track and vote out of 10 in our new poll and discussion thread in the Coldplay forum now [thanks Saketblitz]   The official site added the video to their YouTube channel which you can watch again now. You can listen again to the radio intervi

UPDATE: Coldplay have now confirmed the two festivals below, as well as confirming their headline slot at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil as was rumoured on Coldplaying two weeks ago. [thanks SarahSchimidt]   According to European radio and newspaper sources (and now the official site) today, Coldplay will be headlining the Rock Werchter and Pinkpop Landgraaf festivals in Belgium and Netherlands respectively, around June 2011. Pinkpop's organisers have set a date of Saturday June 11th, and ac

Sir Elton John has called Oasis' Liam and Noel Gallagher a pair of "stupid sods" after they wasted an opportunity to break America, then contrasted their lack of success to Coldplay's US breakthrough.   The Manchester band, who split last year, attempted to take their music stateside in the mid-90s, but the bid ended acrimoniously. "They were enormous in Britain, they were enormous in America and they went over there and argued between themselves and cancelled the tour and they never broke Ameri

After Coldplay filmed the video for their new single, Christmas Lights (out Wednesday December 1st), they released some short behind-the-scenes films from the video shoot. You can watch all three parts on Coldplay's Ping profile, now. For those who haven't got Ping, or iTunes, or even an iPhone etc etc you can watch the video via YouTube instead.   Meanwhile the tour rumourmill has begun in earnest - according to Coldplayer MrsMartin333, security in and around some New York/New Jersey venues hav

Coldplay tried to keep the location of the video for their festive single a secret - but were found out when they picked a Thames barge, The Sun writes today. But it was the Daily Mail who were first to let slip the full details on the new Coldplay video, which is due for release on Wednesday.   They wrote on Friday into Saturday: Coldplay treated fans to a sneak peek of the new track yesterday as they filmed the video on the South Bank of the River Thames. The band performed the song surrounded

Further to yesterday's new Q article revealing the inspiration behind Coldplay's fifth album being old school American graffiti and anti-Nazi movements, Chris Martin has been speaking to The Sun about some of the tracks within said album. Read the full article and then more discussion on the new song titles at the Coldplay forum here onwards.   Chris said: "We're hungry and very fired up. In five years we'll be in our late 30s. You have to have your best work done by then. I'm trying to make su

Coldplay have just announced a new song to be released in time for the festive season - Christmas Lights. We will hear it in a week's time. And there will be a video for it! Speculation is growing that this may be linked to the Coldplay boat trip on 25th December but this cannot be confirmed. Below is the "press release" by Coldplay... (click more for the graphical version)   Next week at 8pm on Wednesday 1st December, we are releasing a new song called Christmas Lights. It will be on iTunes and

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1700 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   November 24, 2010 - submitted by Tony, United States of America Q. Where can I buy the Hope for Haiti album? It isn't available on Itunes anymore. The Oracle replies: So I take it you already went to iTunes.com/Haiti and all I can say is that when I typed Hope for Haiti into my preferred search engine it gave me options to buy at Amazon etc. so maybe try there?   November 24, 2010 - submitted by Ann

Chris Martin admits he's been "playing it a bit safe" for a large part of his life, while talking to Q magazine about the almost-finished fifth Coldplay album, due to be released in 2011. Chris said the lyrics on the band's next album are inspired by New York graffiti and the White Rose Movement - a group of German children in World War II who printed anti-Nazi flyers - and he admires people who speak out and express themselves in negative environments - admitting he's not always done that himse

Coldplay have today been confirmed to headline Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in Germany next June, the official site has announced today. Below is the official news release. Discussion on this new festival date has already started in the Coldplay Live forum now [thanks r25d01].   We're very pleased to announce Coldplay's first confirmed shows for 2011. The band will headline Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock in Park festivals, which take place over the weekend of June 3-5th, 2011. Rock a

UPDATE - 19th November @ 7pm GMT: Applications for passes to the the official festive London boat trip next week have now closed. The following members have won a pair of passes for the trip. If you have a ticket but need a guest, or have no ticket and are willing to be a guest, please check the find a partner thread immediately!   We have a special announcement of a Coldplay HQ/Coldplaying boat trip next week in London, on either 25th or 26th November. Here is the official annoucement from Cold