Coldplay News

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: JANUARY (Twelve highest bidding Coldplayers take home nostalgia) [thanks clisaj]   Back in January, Chris Martin and Glastonbury festival organiser Emily Eavis urged people to donate to Oxfam's appeal for eathquake victims in Haiti, which was launched in reaction to the deadly quake that struck the country on January 12. Coldplay, accompanied by Viva violinist Davide Rossi, performed a stunningly beautiful unplugged version of A Message, and Chri

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: JULY (6 articles for the month) [thanks Destrokk]   From the Bakery to the Beehive to the Greenhouse! In July, The Sun reported that Coldplay had crammed so much plant life into new studios that their support staff have labelled it "The Greenhouse." The Sun continued, "Frontman Chris Martin is taking a keen interest in horticulture at the moment. And at a recent garden party at his north London home he bored, sorry, told pals, including Richard A

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: JUNE (7 Antiques Dealt?) [thanks howyousawtheworld]   So June 2010 in the world of Coldplay it is then. What happened? You'd be forgiven for putting your favourite band on the backburner as apparently June saw the entire globe go crazy for something called the World Cup which I vaguely recall come to mention it. We saw Roadie #42 return with two blogs in June. Of course for every #42 blog their surely has to one by the infamous Roadie #43, Coldpl

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: FEBRUARY (*almost* £11k Viva Jacket sold!) [thanks Texasluvsjonny]   In March, The Viva tour rolled into Sao Paulo on Chris's birthday. The Setlist included Shiver, Parabéns pra você/Happy Birthday (sung by Will to Chris) and Don Quixote/Spanish Rain. Roadie #42 joined the fellas for a spot of sushi on the first night in Rio De Janeiro. Outside the hotel was quite a crowd of lovely folks who were so overjoyed to see the fellas that they stood on

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: MAY (8 Copies of ROADIE) [thanks mrman78]   May was the month American Idol contestants covered 'The Scientist', Coldplay campaigned to save 6music, the much anticipated 'ROADIE' was delayed but eventually made it to us, Coldplay's fame soared, Glastonbury 2011 rumours began, Ash released 'Slash' footage, Roadie #43 debuted, the EMI drama continued and the Oracle delved into even more of our questions!   Coldplay ruled the roost when it came to c

Full review and poll: 12 Coldplay Months of 2010: SEPTEMBER (4 heading for Las Vegas?)   Continuing our 2010 review, in September, after rolling out a new lineup of iPod models, Chris Martin took the stage to perform Wedding Bells on piano [download], as well as Viva La Vida and Yellow, at the end of a press conference for Apple's new company products at the Yerba Buena Centre in San Francisco. Introducing Wedding Bells, Chris who was wearing a white Flaming Lips t-shirt, joked: "This is a new s

In December, Coldplay was featured in the Q Magazine's Artist of The Decade. The band's article was written by Glastonbury's Michael Eavis, and Coldplay were nominated for two Grammy Awards 2010 (for Life In Technicolor ii). The Categories are Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals and Best Short Form Music Video.   Wembley concerts weren't the last Coldplay shows of the decade, the band announced an intimate show in Exeter (Chris's hometown), with all proceeds going to Mencap's ama

Coldplay joined the Twitterverse way back in January, but after a flurry of tweets from Guy and a little nudge from Anchorman at the end of May, June saw the band reach the magical 7-figure mark of 1,000,000 followers. Being fans of the 140 character social network site ourselves, Anna and I thought we’d use it as the basis for our look back at June on the Coldplay calendar.   By the time the boys got to Indiana on the 5th, it seemed as though Guy had been well and truly bitten by the Twitter bu

The exclusive screening on Channel 4 of Coldplay's new video for Violet Hill has been removed from television listings, Coldplaying can reveal. It is now thought that the video may for now be part of the secret content slowly being unveiled on the official Coldplay site.   It was previously announced by Radio Times (radiotimes.com) that an exclusive broadcast of Coldplay's new video will be broadcast on UK's Channel 4 on May 13 at 11.05pm, but according to new listings it has been replaced by a

Now that the competition is closed! What was the answer? Here it is:   Safety EP - release date - 18/May/1998 /\ 1560 days in between \/ arobtth - release date - 26/Aug/2002

1Live (Germany) has an official announcement on their site announcing a repeat broadcast of the Coldplay's Brixton gig from last month, thanks to Philip for this translation:   Coldplay live!   We present Coldplay live! On June 16 they played an exclusive concert in the venerable Brixton Academy. The night from July 7 to July 8 you can hear the full concert at midnight during 1Live Plan B. Starting July 14 we present chosen concert-highlights at Plan B Concert-Summer in full-length. From Monday

Chris Martin has given the biggest hint yet that Coldplay will release their third album THIS year, not in 2005 as expected.   Speaking about the exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of themselves at work, he said, "There are four clips of us sweating and strumming on coldplay.com, and we'll add more each week. You can watch us work on the album which we'll release at some point this year."

It was another year in the iPod driven world of the 'single' and thus another year of slumping album sales. So it came to be that 2005 was The Year of Playing it Safe. Artists weren't as daring as in years past and with pressure from anticipated followups and waning sales, few limbs were ventured onto. And that's OK, at least for my picks for the best albums of 2005. While the majority of artists took their eyes off the prize of innovation, they also ignored the trend of one killer track support

As a start to the new year, and a Coldplaying round-up of the latest news regarding Coldplay's next album, below is a recap of what we know about LP5 so far. There are no confirmed reports on its release date or title, but over the last 12 months new information has emerged about the recording sessions, and the style which LP5 will adopt...   Since the release of 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay has been discussing its followup. 2009 was the original target, but thanks

3G network operators 3 have announced a partnership with EMI Music UK to supply full-length music videos directly to the company's 3 million customers.   The deal will let music fans delve into EMI's extensive back catalogue of music videos as well as download new releases from big sellers like Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Jamelia, Joss Stone, Norah Jones and Gorillaz.Material from all of EMIs other labels - including Parlophone, Relentless and Virgin - will also be made available.   The tie-up wit

WHO: Coldplay, of course.   WHAT: Perform, answer fans' questions, personally introduce every song on their new album and guest DJ, exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio.   WHEN: Saturday, June 4 through Sunday, June 12, 2005 (see schedule below).   WHERE: THE SPECTRUM / ch. 18: "Inside X&Y" - Spectrum (adult alternative) host Dave Mac will go over each song on X & Y with Coldplay members Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland, who provide their insights into every track on the band's brand new

If you haven't heard yet, Coldplay scored 3 out of 3 awards on Thursday at the VMA Awards 2003 - Radio City Music Hall, New York.   They later on performed 'The Scientist' as well and dedicated it to Johnny Cash.

According to a survey by IGN Entertainment's GamerMetrics and Research Solutions titled "Anatomy of a Gamer," the video game-playing population is switching to smaller digital formats for entertainment and replacing realistic TV and movies with animated and comic-based entertainment. The survey was conducted in March, 2006 through IGN.com.   The "IGN Research: Anatomy of a Gamer" approached the fan's life outside of gaming in four distinct categories: Music, Movies, TV and Consumer Brands. The M

LONDON - It was a bumper year for the UK music industry as downloads overtook single sales in the run up to the New Year. This is the first time that downloads have been able to put the more traditional singles sales in the shadow, underlining the changing taste of the consumer.   26.4 million tracks were downloaded in 2005 as against the 5.6 million tracks that were downloaded in 2004. This is a staggering increase of 350 percent! This trend continued into the New Year as the initial weeks saw

Coldplay have revealed the cost of the Xylobands, with Chris Martin saying that illuminating their stadium audiences is costing the band £400,000 per gig. In an interview with Bauer Radio, Jonny told of the cost of the light-up wristbands, which incorporate LED lights and are controlled by an wireless signal. Whether it does actually cost that much is anyone's guess, but the full interview and exclusive Coldplay gig will be aired tonight from 8pm across 20 Bauer Radio stations in the UK. Visit c

'X&Y' has been out for only two months, but it seems Coldplay are already thinking about their next CD, with Chris Martin explaining in an interview that he want things to get a lot darker in the future.   Speaking to the Chicago Sun Times, Chris Martin has explained his intentions to make Coldplay’s next album – the band’s fourth - a much more disturbing proposition than its predecessors.   When asked what it was like working with legendary Roxy Music keyboardist and Bowie and U2 collaborat

In addition to Amazon, the new Coldplay album is now available for pre-order on HMV's website.   Meanwhile, Debs Wild, editor of Coldplay.com confirmed earlier this week that the 3rd September date is premature. She said: "Nope, this isn't true. It's way too soon. Maybe the record label pencilled it in but as far as I know it's not out this year and was never planned to be. I can't see that decision changing to be honest but as always, we would announce the true facts on the official site (wheth

Some live Coldplay pictures from Bolton (4th July) have been uploaded here - taken by my own fair hands up in the clouds.   There are more threads on the Bolton gigs as well as other pictures here (better than mine of course.) I will post more of my pictures from the 5th tomorrow.   Enjoy!

Radio 1 [uK] have announced that The Hardest Part will be Coldplay's 4th (and final) single, from X&Y.   Radio 1 played it on the album chart and announced that it was to be released on 3rd April.   More on this here   [thanks sparky17]

Coldplay will play an extended set when they appear on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" on May 21.   SNL musical guests typically play two songs, but Coldplay will play five selections from their upcoming album, X&Y, due in stores June 6/7. Lindsay Lohan will host the show.   [thanks yellow_fever]