Coldplay News

Chris Martin is making poverty history by hiring a private helicopter this summer to keep popping in to the recording studio, where he is making another epic record.   Coldplay have an album's worth of new material and are planning to set up their own HQ in London to record it - despite tabloid reports they're going to split. After sampling Kraftwerk on last single 'Talk' the band are set to take their approach to recording. Inspired by the German group's Kling Klang studio where no outsiders ar

Chris Martin is trying to get Justin Timberlake involved in his Make Trade Fair campaign with global charity Oxfam.   The Coldplay frontman, who is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, revealed: "The next time I see Justin, I'll tell him about it. My job is to convince people like Justin and Robbie Williams, who are bigger than me, so they will tell people about it."Meanwhile, Chris has confessed he was desperate to come home when he visited Haiti as part of the Fair Trade campaign, which aims to get thi

Chris Martin battled the temptation to plagiarise others' work when writing tracks for the band's new album X&Y.   He found it difficult to generate original material but did find he now has the life experience to write better lyrics. Chris said: "The things that changed are, we have more things to sing about and more people to plagiarise.   "But the way we operate is still pretty similar: we go down one path at a canter then realise that really we want a bit more excitement than this - whic

Gary Barlow has been voted Britain's greatest songwriter of all time.   The 38-year-old - the man behind some of his group Take That's biggest hits - was voted into the top spot in the onepoll.com survey by 3,000 music fans, reports The Sun. A spokesman for the website said Gary "has been responsible for some of the biggest hits of the past decade". The star - whose songs include Take That's 2006 comeback single Patience - was followed by the late John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who took second

Coldplay's Chris Martin spoke German during an interview in Germany for Tourauftakt am last week in Mannheim (2nd September).   Watch the full interview here [thanks Pallavi]          

Actress Thandie Newton (ER, Crash) is on a mission: After being confronted by Greenpeace because she owns a big, oil-wasting BMX X5, she got herself a hybrid car, the famous Toyota Prius, and started sending letters to other celebrities who own such eco-damaging, huge jeeps themselves.   "I rang Greenpeace saying that I wanted to write a letter to celebrities who have 4x4s, because maybe a lot of them are like me and are just ignorant.", Newton said. So far, she's written letters to Will Smith,

Chris Martin has admitted that he finds inspiration in his shower.   The Coldplay frontman now spends extra time in the bathroom and has even bought a waterproof tape recorder so that his creative moments are captured for later.   "It's good for the voice and singing in the shower is an age-old past time of mine," he told the Daily Star. "Where better to come up with melodies?"   A friend added, "Chris loves singing in the shower anyway, but it's particularly good for his voice as the steam help

A series of special guest presenters have been standing in for Zane Lowe on his BBC Radio 1 show this month. Guest presenters are hosting the programme while Zane is on leave, culminating in Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin fronting the show on 18 January 2007.   For the first three weeks of January 2007 Zane's show will be hosted by some of the biggest names from the UK music world.   They include Ricky from Kaiser Chiefs, The Streets aka Mike Skinner, Snow Patrol and Kelly Osbourne.   The

A duet between Chris Martin and Nelly Furtado has been mysteriously dropped from the Canadian songstress's comeback album.   Martin had recorded the track 'All Good Things' for Furtado's Timbaland produced long player but the song has apparently been removed at the request of Coldplay’s label. A source told the Daily Star: "Nelly and Chris don’t have a problem and loved every minute of working together. You can even hear them having a laugh at the end of the song. But three days ago the order ca

Coldplay's Chris Martin has done an interview with Elbow frontman Guy Garvey in which (alongside some very good natured mutually appreciative back slippery) is the news that Garvey is hoping to work with Jane Birkin.   The interview has surfaced on Coldplay's official website recently appeared in the painfully fashionable Andy Warhol-lauched US style mag ‘Interview’. In it Martin raves about Elbow's last album 'Cast Of Thousands' stating "I think it’s the best album by anybody except Coldplay.

Coldplay's Chris Martin is getting tough on tabloid photographers following the birth of his daughter, Apple.   Chris hasn't exactly been friendly with photographers in the past - last year he was charged with assaulting a celebrity snapper on an Australian beach - but now he has taken the step of reporting them to the police.   A source told Female First, "Chris went to Belgravia CID at the end of last week to complain about this black cab driver who has been selling photos to the tabloids over

In an online interview, Bono [pictured] has revealed that Chris Martin called him up and gave him advice on what songs to release on U2's new album. The excerpt from the interview, courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine, goes a something a bit like this... [thanks Osaka Sun]   We have Songs of Ascent, which is the meditative work that was meant to complement No Line on the Horizon. We've got a rock album. We also have a club-sounding album. And then we have the Spider-Man [musical] stuff. Across tho

Another tongue-in-cheek interview from Chris Martin has hit the internet on the same day that Coldplay added a second Sydney show in November. Due to overwhelming demand, Coldplay will play a second show at the Sydney Allianz Stadium on Sunday, 18th November (the day after the previously announced show). Meanwhile, Chris told The Sun that the flashing Xylobands are "costing a fortune". Especially if people are going to do this to them. Read on for the full article...   Chris Martin has admitted

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are escaping the city to bring up their first child in an idyllic country retreat.   Coldplay frontman Chris and his movie star wife have set their hearts on a Cotswold stone cottage in Great Tew, a sleepy village in Oxfordshire.They have fallen in love with the thatched, two-bedroom house and are planning to be in and paying the £500-a-week rent in time for the arrival of their baby in June.     Chris discovered the quaint village last month during a hunt for

Chris Martin has been telling us more about the songwriting he's done for Jamelia.   He went on Simon Mayo's show on Five Live on Monday to talk about the Make Trade Fair campaign which he supports.   Read more via the link...He said not to expect anything from Coldplay this year because they're working on the next album which he says he wants to make the best thing anybody has ever heard.   He also gave his reaction to Bryan leaving Westlife, joking that it might mean there's space for him in

A charity beloved of the hedge fund kings is Ark (Absolute Return for Kids), which pays close attention to how the money is spent, primarily on tackling HIV-Aids in South Africa, helping orphans in eastern Europe and on academy schools in Britain. It was founded by Arpad “Arki” Busson, best known as the former boyfriend of the supermodel Elle Macpherson, with whom he has two children.   Busson, 44, began his career selling toothpicks in his native Switzerland and is today one of the most powerf

Chris Martin [pictured] has revealed his admiration for Arctic Monkeys especially Alex Turner.   Martin says that he loved their debut single ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor’ and added that he is amazed at the quality of Turner’s lyrics.   Martin said according to contactmusic: “Anyone who can write a line like, 'You're not from New York/You're from Rotherham,' is a genius in my book. That guy (Turner) is immensely talented."   Source: http://www.gigwise.com

Chris Martin avoided injury when his BMW X5 hit another car in London recently.   The environment-friendly Coldplay singer had to dole out his particulars after his huge gas-guzzling monster left a ding on a Honda. It was a minor shunt on a busy road near Belsize Park. Nobody was hurt.   And he wasn’t too keen to trade details in the street in London’s Belsize Park, staying put in the driver’s seat as the other motorist talked to him through the window. Gwyneth Paltrow is also thought to have be

Chris: We are trying to compete with Cats and Starlight Express. We have got some incredible balls...   Hello Chris. How are things? Well, it's quite a nerve-wracking time, but it's also tremendously exciting. We've finished the album, it's been released, we've decided what some singles are and we're in the process of making videos. We've also finished planning our actual tour concert, which is a good feeling.   How much do the band control that planning? A thousand percent. We think about where

Chris Martin is sick of being the 'famous one' in Coldplay and is desperate to share some of the limelight with his reclusive bandmates, showbizspy reports today following their review of Coldplay's 60 Minutes documentary.   "Being the famous one annoys me. My dream is that [drummer] Will [Champion] suddenly says, 'I'm gonna be a flamboyant, homosexual, drummer, wear outrageous clothes, and say outrageous things.' I would love nothing more, partly just to see how it looked, but also, because som

Chris Martin has praised Britain's generous response to charitable campaigns - insisting his countrymen are unfairly portrayed as miserly.   Brits responded overwhelmingly to the 26 December tsunami, raising tens of millions of pounds for victims of the killer wave in Asia - but Martin insists this is typical behaviour.   Speaking after a charity trip to Africa to promote his Make Trade Fair campaign, the singer says, "Britain is often misrepresented as a nation of cynical bastards but most peo

English R&B star Jamelia's "See It in a Boy's Eyes" (Parlophone), co-written with Coldplay's Chris Martin, was new at No.5 in the UK singles charts this week.   You can read the full list and details here.

Could Coldplay about to completely change their sound?   Chris Martin has announced that over the coming year Coldplay will significantly be changing their musical style. Coldplay's frontman says the band have a lot to achieve before their impending 10-year anniversary. He told The Sun: "We feel bands need to fill their first 10 years, so we have lots to do before December 31st 2009. I know it's stupid, but that's kind of our deadline. We have to do something good by then."   In 2008, Coldplay e

Chris Martin has hit back at cynics who have criticised his political campaigning for Make Trade Fair - insisting everybody should be involved in politics.   He is proud he's used his megastar status to make a difference to the plight of poverty-stricken Third World countries. And he has defended his actions as well as those of fellow stars and charity ambassadors Bono and Sir Bob Geldof, because he's adamant music and politics go hand in hand.   He relayed this fuming message to dissenters: "I

Citing an unspecified illness, Coldplay called off their scheduled performance tonight (5/27) in Saratoga Springs, NY. Though further details were not given, an announcement posted at coldplay.com said that management was "in the process of re-arranging the show for another date" and changes would be addressed at the official website shortly.   However, a recent YouTube video has been posted which shows Chris Martin discussing doctors' advice with the audience about performing, advice which the