Coldplay News

Coldplay are to join the ranks of musical greats including Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney by performing a one-off special concert at the Abbey Road Studios in London.   The concert at the legendary studios is set to take place on Monday February 13. The gig will be recorded by BBC Radio 2 and will then be aired sometime in April.   Meanwhile, the green carpet at L.A.'s Staples Center is in place and ready to accommodate Wednesday's night's 48th annual Grammy Awards, where Coldplay are joined

An extended version of British television show, TFI Friday aired this evening and an additional Coldplay song was expected to be shown but we were treated to THREE extra songs instead!   The band played a 5 second teaser of 'Clocks' on the regular edition, yesterday evening, so the Coldplay classic was expected to appear and that it did, in thunderous style, as the third tune on the set. 'Adventure Of A Lifetime', receiving it's live debut kicked-off proceedings. We mentioned in the previous TF

50 Cent, Coldplay, Cream and Paul McCartney are among the nominees for the second annual DEMX Awards honoring vision, innovation, entrepreneurship and brand development in 21 digital entertainment categories. Winners in the fields of games, music, film, television and video will be revealed during a Dec. 1 gala dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.   Rapper 50 Cent is nominated in the best use of technology by an artist category with Vivendi Universal Games for their collaboration o

Coldplay, Adele and Muse are among the artists expected to attend this year's Q magazine awards later. Coldplay have crowned their comeback by leading the field in the shortlist for this year’s Q Awards as the band with the most nominations.   Coldplay are up for four awards at the ceremony, including best album and best act in the world today. Their other nominations come in the best track and best video category for their song Violet Hill. The group's most recent album, Viva La Vida or Death a

Fans of Mariah Carey and Jamie Foxx had lots to cheer Wednesday as Carey officially captured the 2005 album sales crown and Foxx topped the first pop album chart of the new year.   Carey and 50 Cent were trailed on the list of 2005's top sellers by Kelly Clarkson (3.5 million), Green Day (3.4 million), Black Eyed Peas (3 million), Coldplay (2.6 million) (thanks to X&Y, pictured) and Rascal Flatts (2.5 million).   After trailing 50 Cent's "The Massacre" for most of the year, Carey's comeback

They have been on their tour weaving their musical graces through longitude and latitude in support of their Capitol Records release.   Their efforts on the road will prove to be a milestone as they share the stage with record breaking artists Incubus, Foo Fighters, AFI, and My Chemical Romance for this year’s annual dosage of KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. Before the Saosin-eers had a chance to kick off their tour, we at Crave Online learned to “love with caution” and take in some words from S

Concert tours by the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand and country duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were among the top-grossing tours in North America in 2006, helping drive ticket revenue to a record $3.6 billion, according to Pollstar, the industry trade magazine.   The figure represents a 16 percent increase over 2005, when North American concert ticket sales totaled $3.1 billion, said Gary Bongiovanni, Pollstar's editor-in-chief.   Concert receipts for the top 100 tours of the year totaled $2.33

KROQ beamed a live webcast of the Anaheim show last night. You can download it here   More reviews to come on the Anaheim shows, in the meantime there are pictures here and a setlist consisting of:   square one politik yellow speed of sound gpasuyf x&y how you see the world 2 don’t panic white shadows the scientist til kingdom come ring of fire trouble clocks talk swallowed in the sea in my place fix you

Coldplay last week announced a new show at the Honda Center, Anaheim, and tickets go on sale later today (Saturday Oct 11th) at 10am local time via Live Nation here. The pre-sale has now passed but according to several people the seats behind a password were not as good as expected.   Anaheim will be the penultimate show of the 2nd US leg of the Viva La Vida tour, preceding Phoenix on 26th November. Coldplay last played Anaheim on 6th and 7th February 2006 during the US leg of the Twisted Logic

'Get up off your sofa, get up off your couch, stop what you’re doing, and do the Crouch, dooby-doo-wah-wah.” Don’t despair (well, actually do). It’s not the latest in the longest line of crap football anthems to make your ears bleed. Rather, it’s the chorus of the hell that Coldplay are proposing to unleash on the nation should England win the World Cup.   Presumably it’s to quell the rampant euphoria that will grip us all should Sven’s men end 40-years of hurt.   Chris Martin made the threat af

Coldplay and Welsh singer Duffy will be hoping to add to their Grammys success as they head the field at the 2009 BRITs on Wednesday night with four nominations apiece. Organizers have highlighted the global impact of British music in 2008, underlined by a flurry of Grammys, the industry's most coveted honors, earlier this month.   In the wake of those awards, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger hailed "a great period for home-grown talent," telling the Sun newspaper: "What's so refreshing is t

Coldplay and Duffy have left ex pop princess Britney Spears behind them, with the most nominations   Coldplay and the singer Duffy are dominating this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards in nominations, which is to be expected because they are sitting at the top of all of the charts. Behind them, with three nominations is the comeback Britney Spears, for whom many say is returning to her old fame.   Coldplay, as well as the Welsh singer Duffy, were nominated for the best album of the year, best perfo

Coldplay and the Foo Fighters have been announced to headline Sunday and Saturday respectively at this year's Nokia IW Festival.   Lindsay Weatherston, from promoters Solo, said: "Coldplay and Foo Fighters are two of the biggest acts in the world today.   "It is truly fantastic that in only our fifth year we have attracted acts of this stature. We really feel that the IW Festival is now firmly back on the map. The Island should feel very proud."   She added: "I watched Coldplay at Glastonbury la

Cinemax is making a big deal out of its upcoming Star Wars broadcast: all six movies aired back-to-back in high-def, for the first time ever, beginning at midnight on the evening of Nov. 10.   For some, this sounds like nirvana — possibly even something worth getting dressed up for. For these fans, Cinemax has sweetened the pot further with a nearly that mixes scenes from all six films to the Coldplay song “Fix You.”  I had a tough time sitting through the whole thing, but perhaps some of you

Coldplay singer Chris Martin has reportedly recorded a track with US hip-hop superstar Kanye West at the famous Abbey Road Studios.   West is currently recording the soundtrack for the new 'Mission: Impossible' film at the legendary studio in London and Coldplay were also in the complex recording a special gig for Radio 2 earlier this week.   After West went to watch Coldplay's gig, the pair decided to get together for a jamming session and, according to sources, came up with a song that could

The Kylie / Coldplay duet ‘Lhuna’, which Chris Martin has been raving about, finally sees its release, on World AIDS Day (1st December). The song will be available via (RED)'s new digital music magazine, (RED)WIRE. When you sign up, you'll receive exclusive (DRM-free) music from the world's greatest artists on a weekly basis, and people living with HIV in Africa will get the medicine they need to stay alive.   (RED) was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver to raise awareness and money for The Glob

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

Oasis and Coldplay released their latest albums within seven days of each other; they end the year with a tour that finds them performing within seven days of each other.   Monday night in Aberdeen and 8,000 fans wait impatiently for Oasis. Some are survivors from the Nineties but the veterans from the Britpop wars are easily outnumbered by those for whom the Oasis versus Blur rivalry is as much part of ancient history as a Conservative government.   A decade on from Britpop and the group's curr

Coldplay and Oxfam will team up to make a new crowd-sourced video for an acoustic version of the track 'In My Place' that will be part of a campaign to raise land grab awareness, according to NME tonight. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum now [thanks Tash]   Land grabbing is the practice of banks, individuals or governments buying huge plots of land in poor countries for profit, which is damaging to those who live there, who can end up without a home or livelihood. The video seek

Coldplay and Rihanna will duet at this year's Grammy Awards, it has been revealed today via several news sources, and the initial source - Rihanna's twitter account.   Rihanna confirmed the news over Twitter that she will join Coldplay to perform their collaborative track 'Princess Of China'. She wrote: "My friends @ColdPlay and I will be sharing the stage for a performance at this years Annual Grammy Awards!" Then she added, "WE reached 2BILLION views on @youtube !!! THANK U!!! I'm in a great m

Various internet sources are already suggesting that the pending lawsuit between Coldplay and Joe Satriani may already be over. You can discuss this latest news on the Coldplay / Joe Satriani lawsuit at the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks RedGirl76]. This from TechDirt:   The main event was supposed to be the lawsuit between Coldplay and Satriani -- scheduled to take place early next year. It looks like that's not happening. Blaise points to a blog post noting that the two sides, appear to

Coldplay and Sigur Ros will be collaborating on Coldplay's new album. A video from the session is now available on YouTube . Their website thus reports:  we are now happy to announce that kjartan will also be writing and arranging strings for 4 songs on coldplay’s as-yet-untitled follow up album to 2008’s acclaimed ‘viva la vida’. kjartan has already completed most of the arrangements, which are set to be recorded in late spring. in addition to kjartan’s contribution, jónsi will join chris mar

Donating items to a charity auction...   Coldplay and Sir Elton John are amongst the musical stars donating memorabilia to raise money for Oxfam’s Darfur and Chad appeal.   Chris Martin is putting forward a black Dolce and Gabbana jacket, while the Rocket Man is donating his famous Donatella Versace suit he wore to his White Tie and Tiara ball in 2000.   Meanwhile, Corinne Bailey-Rae has donated her Red dress worn on the video for her smash single ‘Put Your Record On.’ The auction is being hel

Coldplay and The Killers are to play a joint gig together to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the charity, War Child.   The concert will take place at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on February 18th following both band's attendance at the BRIT Awards. Tickets for the event cost £50 and will be available via a lottery system. Hopefuls will have five days from 9am on Friday (January 30th) in order to register for a chance to buy tickets. Registration will close on Tuesday February 3rd at 5pm. A

Coldplay have announced their US September tour dates. They are as follows:   SEPTEMBER   4th Seattle - Paramount 6th San Francisco - The Greek 7th Las Vegas - The Joint 9th San Diego - SDSU Open Air Theatre 10th LA - The Greek 14th - Atlanta - Masquerade Music Park 16th - Baltimore - Pier 6 17th Boston - Fleetboston Pavilion 19th New York - Tommy Hilfiger @ Jones Beach Theatre 21st Toronto - The Sears - Air Canada Centre 24th Chicago - UIC Pavilion   A percentage of tickets for each date have