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New pictures of Coldplay's Chris Martin signing autographs for fans when the band were in Barcelona, Spain, where they performed a live free concert in the Palau Sant Jordi, to promote the new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends on 17th June 2008. See the rest of the pictures at the Coldplaying Gallery.  

The Sun today has published an article about festive songs, revealing that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has a belter of a Christmas song which has been burning a hole in his MacBook for more than 12 months now. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum now.   Chris Martin was part of the last non-X Factor Christmas UK number one five years ago with the reworked Band Aid single, Band Aid 20. He's also the kind of bloke, The Sun continue, who is partial to a novelty reindeer jumper... so

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has hit out at the music industry, insisting "proper" music is no longer held in high regard.   The Yellow singer has criticised the trend for mobile phone ringtones of chart tunes, insisting it is killing the current music scene.   He says, "All that matters in music today is that your song becomes a ringtone."   Source: http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com  

Chris Martin snubbed an aftershow party following a Coldplay charity gig on Monday night, instead choosing to dine with a group of homeless singers, it has been revealed. The band played the show at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool last Sunday to raise awareness of men and women living on the streets in Britain.   They performed with a choir made up of the homeless - and Chris chose to eat with them after the concert rather than attend the official aftershow meal. A source tells Britain's Da

Chris Martin solo gig on 6th August.   Chris Martin is due to play a private show in New York City on Wednesday 6th August. The audience will consist of under 200 of Chris' closest family and friends, with two lucky fans to having the chance to see Chris in an even smaller surrounding than the already intimate Ghost Stories shows, this time with our charismatic frontman will going solo, with possible guest appearances in the offering or just simply belting out Coldplay classics!     US res

A duet with Chris Martin was dropped from Nelly Furtado's new album Loose over fears the Coldplay frontman sounded "too rocky".   Bosses at Martin's record label EMI took the decision to stop the Canadian singer releasing the original version of Good Things (Come To An End) because they didn't want to alienate Coldplay fans.   Furtado says, "Chris' label didn't want his voice sounding so rocky, so they said we couldn't use the song. Now it's on the album with just me singing it."   More on this

Chris Martin has said Coldplay, hard at work on their new album, are "trying to make the best thing that anyone has ever heard".   In a rare interview on 9th March promoting the Fair Trade campaign he has backed for the last few years, Martin said the follow-up to 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' won’t be released until 2005.   Click on the read more link to... well, read more! He said: "Between you and me this is the only time we are coming out of our shell at the moment to come and talk about Fai

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said defeating global poverty was an "achievable goal" and not some mystical dream.   The campaigning musician said it just needed the will to change and warned if action was not taken the world faced an apocalypse. Martin said: "It really is an achievable goal to at least lessen world poverty and to lessen the Aids problem and to make trade laws fairer.   "It's really achievable, it's not a mystical thing ... it literally takes like 10 men ... to just sit round a

Don't forget that later today (Sunday February 21st) Brazilian channel TV Globo will be broadcasting an interview with Coldplay on its Fantastico show. It's due to be on at 8.35pm. More on this interview is here at the Coldplay forum. Anyone able to record?   Meanwhile, Chris Martin has been interviewed online by Veja, a Brazilian news magazine in which Chris talks about Coldplay's fifth album, the forthcoming Latin America tour, plagiarism, Eddie Vedder, the end of decade clearout sale, Simpson

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin spoke with Ocesa Mexico ahead of the Latin America tour, which is due to start later this month. Below is the roughly translated article of the Mexican interview found online. More discussion on this article can be found at the Coldplay forum here onwards. [thanks hugo]   O: How do you feel about your participation on a TV show such as the Simspons? CM: It was fantastic, that made us look more handsome than we really are. We are very thankful for that and being the

Chris Martin has been speaking to Ryan Seacrest from 102.7 KIIS FM (Los Angeles radio station) about various things, including the new Coldplay album. He made the call to the DJ shortly after landing in London after the festival performance at 'Where The Action Is' in Sweden.   During the interview, Chris said: "The [fifth] album is not finished - it's been hard to finish, like getting to the final of American Idol. We have thought about the album name, and it is 'hard to spell' and we will reve

On Septemeber 26, 2006, Chris Martin was seen leaving a hotel in Central London. Casually dressed as usual, it's said that he has been attending a Coldplay meeting that day - maybe talking about the new headquarters in Hampstead?   In the meantime, wife Gwyneth Paltrow has been jetting to Paris and Barcelona, taking baby Moses with her. Chris has obviously stayed in London with big girl Apple the whole time...        

Chris Martin risked serious injury on stage in London last night – in an attempt to give a hug to Noel Gallagher. [thanks Hicksy & Ratty]   The band played a secret show at the Round Chapel in Hackney, East London, which was being recorded for a future broadcast on MTV in June.   During 'In My Place' Martin spotted Gallagher on the balcony. He climbed up onto the main speaker stack and then pulled himself onto the balcony. Once up there he found Noel and gave him a massive hug.   However, Ma

A Bolton rock band has received the seal of approval from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Singer Cameron Maunder of OCD entered the band’s song, Shanana, into the 14 to 16 year-old age group section of the rock category of the Make It Break It competition, writes This Is Lancashire. online.   The song won its category, and the Coldplay singer, who won the award himself in 1995 when it was known as the Yamaha Rock and Pop Awards, gave Shanana the highest mark of any song across all the categories

Chris Martin stars on the song for the new BBC initiative, BBC music. He joins an alliance to aid the charity, Children In Need by covering the Beach Boys classic, 'God Only Knows'. The song has been broadcasted across all BBC TV and Radio channels within the UK this evening. Bob Sheenan, who directs BBC Music, said the 'Impossible Orchestra' is "a celebration of all the talent, diversity and musical passion found every single day throughout the BBC."   There are 27 artists featuring throughout

Chris Martin has defended the Band Aid 20 single, saying that people should buy it regardless of whether they like it or not.   ’Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, which hit the number one spot in the UK singles chart for the second week last night (December 12), has attracted some criticism over it’s allegedly ‘patronising’ and ‘inaccurate’ lyrics.   Martin said: "What, of the words? I think this whole, because I’ve encountered a lot of cynicism about this Band Aid thing and I think it’s kind of no

Some of music's biggest stars are to take over the controls at BBC Radio 1.   Musicians including Coldplay's Chris Martin, The Zutons and Kelly Osbourne will host an evening slot in January. Beeb bosses have enlisted the stars to help cover Zane Lowe's 7-9pm show while the DJ is on leave.   Ricky and Nick from the Kaiser Chiefs will kick-start the special series by fronting the radio programme on January 2. They will be followed on consecutive days by the Editors, the Young Knives, Mike Skinne

One of the first jobs for the lead singer of Coldplay to undergo, within his new role as curator of the Global Citizen festival was to excite the crowd was his trademark sense of humour and that's exactly what he did, at the charity concert for Global Citizen Earth Day over the weekend.   Chris Martin, still donning that smiley cap and even a new tattoo (more shortly), introduced the Gwen Stefani fronted band, No Doubt, before sharing a joke involving Justin Bieber and One Direction!   Thank

Chris Martin is a charming guy. Like, very charming. "You're lucky because you're going to have hair your whole life," he says, eyeing the top of my head, writes Pitchfork, in an interesting and candid interview with Chris Martin (who discusses Brian Eno, Radiohead, Para-para-Paradise, Rihanna and new album Mylo Xyloto, amongst other things. The interview continues... [Discuss this article in the Coldplay forum thread at the messageboard now (thanks mimixxx & para-para-parrotdies)]   "It'll

Filter magazine's issue No. 16 lets Chris Martin babble about his band and life. Some of the pithier snippets:   On the success of Coldplay: "Let me be clear: We're an incredibly arrogant band and we believe in ourselves above all others. But we also acknowledge that there's no way we can take credit for where we are. I didn't design my larynx, if you want to go right back to Square 1. ... So we work very hard to capitalize and validate what we've been given. Because we have been given it. It's

Thandie Newton, the British star of the Hollywood hit film Crash, has become a crusader against gas-guzzling cars after a Greenpeace activist slapped stickers on her vehicle accusing her of adding to global warming.   This week, Newton, 33, will make her support for the anti-emissions campaign public by writing to fellow Hollywood stars and other celebrities who own four-wheel-drives, asking them to join her in switching to greener forms of transport.   Other celebrities targeted by Newton inclu

Jamie Oliver is the biggest celebrity influence on Britain’s middle classes, ahead of everyone from David Cameron to Sir Trevor McDonald, according to a new style guide.   After a year in which the young chef became the patron saint of school dinners, his campaign to improve the diets of children made him a hero to parents nationwide.   David Cameron, an Old Etonian, is in second place for wooing middle England when he ousted David Davis to win the leadership of the Conservative Party. And the m

Chris Martin is the rumoured surprise guest at tomorrow’s (Sept 14) Make Trade Fair benefit show.   REM are the headline band at this year’s Oxfam benefit at London Hammersmith Apollo, with the bill completed by The Thrills, Razorlight , Jamelia, Minnie Driver and Ricky Gervais. The show will be compered by Dermot O’Leary.   All day, rumours have been circulating about whether Chris Martin will appear at the show. Organisers remain tight-lipped, but Martin is in London where he has been putting

A couple of months ago, Chris filmed a cameo role for an episode of Extras. The forthcoming second series, created by comedian Ricky Gervais, will be screened later this year on BBC and HBO TV. For those of you not familiar, you can get a taste of the genius first series by clicking here.   We will let you know when the episode will be transmitted but in the meantime, you can click here to read about the new series and find out which celebrities will also be making an appearance.   Source: coldp

Rumours of a Band Aid III 'Do They Know It's Christmas' were confirmed today. The collective ensemble will go under the name of Band Aid 20, as it's 20 years since the original was released, which was written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.   It will be available from Monday 29th November on Mercury records, with all proceeds from the single helping victims of the famine in the Darfur region of Sudan via The Band Aid Trust.   The track will be recorded at Air Studios in London on Sunday 14 Novemb