Coldplay News

Pink Floyd is the band most people want to see reunite - and the Spice Girls the group they want to split, according to a new poll. A survey of music fans across Europe also called for Westlife and Girls Aloud to call it a day.   The poll results are bad news for Posh, Baby, Scary, Sporty and Ginger Spice, who although not back together indefinitely are about to embark on a one-off worldwide reunion tour. After Pink Floyd, music fans said they wanted Swedish stars Abba and US rockers Guns N' Ros

Tickets for Coldplay's Summer Sonic appearance (and of course the rest of the festival) will be on sale on 24th May 2008 at summersonic.com.   More on this here [thanks Zemy101]  

Coldplay have switched their Summer Sonic tour dates around. The new dates are as follows:   August 9th, Osaka, Maishima August 10th, Tokyo, Marine Stadium   Tickets on sale May 24th. More on Coldplay at Summer Sonic here [thanks fix_the_scientist & mimixxx]  

Coldplay are planning a free song give-away for their forthcoming UK winter tour.   The four-piece want to offer fans who have purchased tickets the chance to get their hands on an unreleased track. Lead singer Chris Martin said: "We're hoping to do this thing where we give away a song with every ticket."   The band are currently sitting at the top of the singles chart with Viva La Vida, which shot to number one on download sales alone. Speaking on their official site, Martin added: "We have t

Tickets for the Under 1 Roof charity gig headlined by Coldplay went on sale this morning at 9am (GMT) and sold out, according to official sources, within 3 minutes.The event, taking place on 19th December at the at Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, London, is a benefit concert in support of the charity Kids Company.Success among Coldplayers on the messageboard (here onwards) appear high with many getting tickets shortly after 9am. However, there were a few unlucky ones unfortunately. But we are hosti

Coldplay have said that they are "very pleased" that BBC 6 Music has been saved from closure. The BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyon today (July 5) rejected proposals for the digital station to be shut as part of budget cuts. Let us know what you think in the World of Music forum now [thanks mc_squared]   Coldplay were one of a host of musicians who backed a campaign for the station to be saved when its proposed closure was first muted in March. In a message on coldplay.com, the band praised fa

Despite not winning any of the four awards they were nominated for, Coldplay have seen sales for Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends rise by 26% in the United Kingdom.   Mid-week sales figures have shown a sharp increase in album sales for acts who performed or won awards at this years’ Brit Awards. Coldplay performed the single Viva La Vida early on in the show. Their latest album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends topped the global sales chart last year with 6.6 million copies.  

Coldplay wanted to "get better rather than bigger" with their new album, singer Chris Martin has said.   The band came into Radio 1 to give first single Violet Hill its world exclusive first play. Chris Martin says this record is shorter than the ones they've released in the past. He said: "I think you can say what you like about our record, but its brevity is its strongest feature."   Violet Hill is available as a free download for one week. But Coldplay's website briefly crashed after it was

For the first time, all 14 of Coldplay's singles are to be collected together in a box set. Each single will be pressed on heavyweight 7-inch vinyl and sleeved in its original artwork. The box set will contain five singles which have never previously appeared on 7-inch vinyl.   They include 'The Blue Room EP', Coldplay's rare first release for Parlophone in October 1999, which has been split into two 7-inch singles. The box set will also feature the international singles, 'Don't Panic', 'God Pu

Coldplay sell out European stadiums and launch major U.S. tour   Coldplay are no strangers to huge crowds -- the band's last tour, in 2003, ended with a sold-out show at New York's Madison Square Garden. But Coldplay's new album, X&Y, has sent the band into the top echelon of touring rock stars; two shows at London's Crystal Palace drew 80,000 people, and two concerts at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park had 50,000.   "The gigs have got really big," says guitarist Jonny Buckland. "Almost too big.

Coldplay are set to reach new heights in their career when they perform halfway up a mountain in the Himalayas.   The lads have confirmed they will headline the concert at Nepal's Kathmandu National Stadium for free, in order to raise money for a local children's charity.   "We're very excited by it. You don't get to play a place like this every day," said guitarist Jonny Buckland.   Source: MegaStar  

Coldplay continue to be honest about plagiarising other artists' work - new single Speed Of Sound is heavily inspired by Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill'   They have already admitted to using Kraftwerk samples and Elbow's 'Grace Under Pressure' track on their new album X&Y, and now they've admitted to borrowing heavily from Bush's 1985 hit for their current single.   Guy Berryman explains, "We were listening to a Kate Bush song called Running Up That Hill and we were really trying to recre

Since the news late last week that Coldplay were quoted by the NME as trying to achieve an album masterpiece for their fifth album, we have been digging around the internet to find out what a masterpiece is actually defined as, how it is derived and how long it takes for an album to achieve 'masterpiece status'. Maybe Coldplay have already written it, who knows. Chris Martin recently told NME that Coldplay is still hungry for a masterpiece. "We still don’t think we’ve delivered our masterpiece,

Great news! Coldplay have won two Webby Awards, for the Ink interactive music video and their Ghost Stories lyrics hunt on the band's official Twitter page, run by the one and only, Anchorman.   The band's official Twitter and Facebook page have been campaigning for Coldplayers to vote and with the support of many loyal fans, Coldplay have an additional two awards to add to their collection. Congratulations!   Fans cut of the award winning music video:   Check out the full list of winner

A huge reminder that Coldplay kick things off with the UK release of the new album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, by joining Jo Whiley on her show on BBC Radio 1 from 10am (BST, EST+5) for an exclusive interview on June 12. A special mention to Age Six Racer who will be asking the band a question live on air!   Four days later BBC Radio 1 is to present Coldplay live from Brixton Academy, London. The whole gig will be broadcast live on Radio 1 on a specially extended Zane Lowe show f

Coldplay’s Guy Berryman has teamed up with A-ha and Mew for TV’s ‘Amazon’. new band Apparatjik also features Mew's Jonas Bjerre, XFM write today, further to Coldplay.com's announcement yesterday.   Admitting a love for A-ha on Xfm is one thing. Joining forces with the Norse pop titans from the 80s is another thing entirely. Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, however, has hooked up with A-ha’s Magne F and Jonas Bjerre from pop odd-bods Mew to soundtrack Bruce Parry’s new TV programme, Amazon.   The

Coldplay performed an intimate gig for Radio 2, featuring songs from their album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, along with some of their classic hits, on Saturday 30 August 2008. BBC have now released pictures from the gig, some of which are below.   See all the pictures here [thanks Lore & mimixxx]  

Coldplay is coming to the eTalk studios in Toronto this Thursday afternoon, July 31st, and they're looking for fans to be in the audience.   Anyone interested should email: [email protected] or call directly on 1-866-460-4797.   Hosted by Ben Mulroney, the show is Canada's premiere entertainment news source. Covering all fronts of the entertainment world, eTalk delivers the dish on movies, music, TV, DVD, fashion, trends, soaps and gossip. Mulroney, aided by reporters from across the country,

From Coldplay.com - Watch full song on BBC site:   Good afternoon. As mentioned previously, Coldplay are on Later with Jools Holland on BBC2 in the UK tomorrow night at 11.35pm. But if you go to the show's website now, you can watch a full performance of 42 wherever in the world you live* (which is quite unusual for the BBC). Enjoy.   Anchorman. * Well, we asked the folks in our LA bureau to try it - and it's definitely working for them

When Coldplay take the stage this Friday to headline opening night for Lollapalooza 2011 the world will be watching. YouTube will stream Coldplay's headline set beginning at approximately 9.30pm (ET), which is 8.30pm (CDT). Catch all the latest discussion and previews to the concert at the Coldplay Live forum now (includes real-time chatroom embedded into first post!). Here's Anchorman with the details:   On Friday night this week (Aug 5th), Coldplay will headline Lollapalooza festival in Chica

NEW YORK - Yes, there were mistakes and technical glitches.   But about 10,000 lucky contest winners from all over the world who attended Coldplay's only free concert in North America at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, which followed similar events in London and Barcelona last week, didn't seem to mind the-less-than perfect show one little bit.   In fact, as the hour-and-10-minute concert emptied out, fans could be heard singing the rousing chorus of the title track from Coldplay's week

You can now add Coldplay as your friend in the MySpace community.   Their page is located at here

Tickets for this summer's Pemberton Festival - to be headlined by Coldplay - are selling fast. You can buy yours from the official website here.   Organizers are reporting the first block of early-bird tickets have sold out and a new block priced at more than $260 each are now on sale. The inaugural three-day festival which starts Friday, July 25th, will also feature performances by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Nine Inch Nails, Jay-Z and Canadian band The Tragically Hip.   Up to 37,000 peopl

Weeks after the official announcement was made, buzz for the upcoming Pemberton Festival only seems to be growing, and so far, sales are going strong.   The three-day event will be held on the Ravenscrest property in the Pemberton Valley July 25 to 27, and will feature performances by almost 50 musical acts, including Coldplay, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jay Z, Nine Inch Nails, and The Tragically Hip. The maximum capacity for the site is 40,000 people, and organizers say they are now expec

NEW YORK -- Thousands of Coldplay fans wrapped around a dark Rockefeller Plaza on Friday morning (October 21) waiting to get into the group's "Today" show performance, writes MTV News in a review of Coldplay's performance for NBC's TODAY Show. While most woke up before sunrise, some even camped out overnight to catch the seven-time Grammy-winning band perform. Coldplay satisfied their fans' hunger, performing past hits like "Fix You" and "Viva la Vida" along with new singles "Paradise" and "Ever