Coldplay News

Coldplay have confirmed thanks to Anchorman via Coldplay.com the release date of both the Prospekt's March EP and the special version of the album containing the EP's eight tracks, which will be called Viva La Vida Prospekt’s March Edition.   The dates are as follows (the EP and the album are released on the same day in each country)...   Wednesday 19th November - Japan, Sweden (digitally on 21st) Friday 21st November - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, No

Coldplay have today announced a new tour in Latin America for February and March of 2010. The special guest for the entire tour will be Mercury-nominated electro-songstress Bat For Lashes. Here's Anchorman with the latest details (also click for official ticket information). Coldplaying discussion threads are also attached:   Coldplay are pleased to announce a tour of Latin America for February/March 2010. The seven stadium shows will mark the end of the band's Viva La Vida world tour, which has

Coldplay will launch its first North American tour in nearly three years on April 17. Below is the official announcement just made on Coldplay.com - below is a full list of concert threads in the Coldplay Live forum for all discussion for each of these new shows...   Good morning. We are very pleased to announce that Coldplay will head to North America in 2012 for a string of shows in the USA and Canada. Coldplay tickets go on general sale on Saturday, 17 December at 10am (local time) from 1-800

Coldplay have just announced another 13 dates as part of the 'Mylo Xylotour' as 2012 is starting to get hectic with new dates.   Today's announcement sees a European stadium tour that brings in Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Below is a full list of new concert threads for these dates in the Coldplay Live forum - bookmark them for all discussion for each of these new shows! Visit coldplay.com now (all times given there are local

Coldplay have posted 6 new dates for intimate shows around the world on their website this morning.   Taken from www.coldplay.com :   Good morning. The band have announced that they will mark the release of their new album, Ghost Stories, by playing six intimate shows in six cities around the world. The dates are as follows:   25 April - E-Werk, Cologne, Germany   05 May - Beacon Theatre, New York, USA   19 May - Royce Hall, Los Angeles, USA   28 May - Casino de Paris, Paris, France  

Stereoboard promised a huge Coldplay announcement this week and they weren't wrong - Coldplay have this morning confirmed details of nine UK & mainland Europe arena shows for December 2011. Coldplay will play shows kicking off in the UK on December 3rd, continuing with shows in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium.   Tickets for Coldplay are onsale Friday September 23rd at 9.30am, priced from £47.50 + fees (onsale 9am Friday for European dates). There will be a special ticket pre-sale for Co

Coldplay have announced details of their new single 'The Scientist', the fourth track from their new album.   The song, the second to be lifted from 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head', is released on 11th November 2002.   It will be backed by two new songs, '1.36' and 'I Ran Away'.

Further to this afternoon's European stadium tour annoucement, Coldplay have now added a further date in Dublin. Here's Anchorman to tell us the rest:   Good afternoon. Coldplay have just announced a concert at Dublin’s 40,000-capacity Phoenix Park on 14th September 2009. Tickets priced €76.50 (including booking fee) will go on sale this Monday (Dec 15th) at 8am from the following outlets:   In person: from 100 Ticketmaster outlets nationwide 24hr hotlines: ( ROI ) 0818 719 300 ( NI ) 0870 243 4

As was hinted at yesterday via Sonic 102.9FM, Coldplay have announced new tour dates in Canada for this June. Tickets for all four dates will go on sale on Saturday, March 14th at 10am MST via Live Nation. Here's Anchorman with full details:   Good afternoon. We're pleased to confirm four more Canadian shows for Coldplay, to add to the previously-announced Toronto Rogers Centre gig on 30th July. The dates are as follows:   June 15 - MTS Centre, Winnipeg June 17 - Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary Ju

Coldplay have announced their first gig of 2005 - they will headline A Sounds Eclectic Evening, organised by LA radio station KCRW to take place on March 12.   The original concert which was set to feature Coldplay members Chris Martin and guitarist Johnny Buckland was postponed by the station last month for undisclosed reasons. The concert will take place at the city's Universal Ampitheatre reports NME.com.   The show is currently sold out and tickets for the original date of November 20, will

Coldplay have confirmed two club shows in the US next month.   The band, who recently played a number of tiny shows across Europe in the build up to the release of their third album 'X&Y', had already announced a number of dates starting later this week at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Cafe' (April 29).   The two dates confirmed today will take place at San Francisco's Filmore on May 4 and Chicago's Metro club on May 6. Tickets go on sale April 30 for Chicago and May 1st in San Francisco, limited to

Coldplay have announced four new tour dates in Japan this year.   The band will play at the following venues:   Sat 15th July - Intex Osaka: OSAKA Mon 17th July - Rainbow Hall: NAGOYA Tues 18th/Weds 19th July - Budokan: TOKYO    

The first dates of Coldplay's 2009 tour have been announced via Coldplay.com. They are playing three shows in Japan in February. There will undoubtably therefore be speculation that Coldplay will be playing Australasia around the same time.   The three Coldplay shows confirmed for February 2009 are:   Feb 12th - Tokyo, Saitama Super Arena Feb 14th - Osaka, Kobe World Kinen Hall Feb 15th - Osaka, Kobe World Kinen Hall   For more information click here. On sale dates will be announced soon.

In addition to the earlier announced Radio 1 Student Tour gig, Coldplay have also today confirmed that they will play a live show for KROQ, a Los Angeles radio station, on 18th October - in just 8 days time! Full discussion on this latest tour date is at the Coldplay Live forum now. Here's Anchorman with all the info:   It's just been announced that Coldplay will launch KROQ's new Red Bull Sound Space with a live performance for the LA radio station on Tuesday, 18 October. The show will be webca

Coldplay are very pleased to announce a Latin American tour for the beginning of 2007. The band will visit Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, playing at much smaller capacity venues than on their recent Twisted Logic world tour, which finished in July.   The band are currently writing material for their fourth album and are keen to play some intimate shows to try out their new songs. Having received such a phenomenal response to their last Latin American trip in September 2003, they personally

Coldplay have announced details of a huge tour of North America, which will begin in Portland, Oregon on July 10th.   The tour will also include dates in California, Texas and Florida. The band have also promised that more shows, which will take place outside of North America, will be announced on Monday (February 9th). Tickets will go on sale for on February 14th in some states and February 21st in others.   Coldplay’s North American dates are:   July 10th - Portland, OR - The Amphitheater at

Coldplay have just announced several new tour dates across Europe in October and November this year.   26 October: Sports Palace, Antwerp, Belgium 28 October: Arena, Oberhausen, Germany 30 October: Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark 31 October: Spektrum, Olso, Norway   7 November: Globe, Stockholm, Sweden 9 November: Arena, Leipzig, Germany 10 November: Maimarkhalle, Mannheim, Germany 12 November: Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland 14 November: Fillaforum, Milan, Italy 15 November: Palamalagott, Bo

Coldplay’s massively anticipated new album will be entitled 'X&Y' and the first single to be released from it will be called ‘Speed Of Sound’.   Coldplay's new album, the follow-up to 2002’s 16 million selling ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’, will be entitled ‘X&Y’ and will be released by Parlophone Records on June 6. The album will also be preceded by the new single, 'Speed Of Sound' on May 23.   'X&Y' was recorded over the past year at studios in the UK and has been produced by Danto

You may have noticed our Google ads showing new UK tour dates for December for the last few weeks.   Having recently toured Europe, Japan and the US (where they are in the middle of a 2 month leg of the tour) and following their sell-out UK and Ireland summer shows, Coldplay have finally confirmed they will be playing further UK dates this December in London, Manchester, Newcastle and Belfast.   Wed 14th Earls Court, LONDON Sun 18th Telewest Arena, NEWCASTLE Mon 19th Evening News Arena, MANCHES

This just in from Anchorman at the official site:   Good morning. We're very pleased to announce that Coldplay will be playing some outdoor shows in Europe in August 2009. The confirmed dates are below.   Tickets for all shows go on sale on Friday 12th December, apart from the Dutch gig, which is onsale now.   Sun 16th Aug - MCH Arena, Herning, Denmark - [www.billetlugen.dk] [discussion] Wed 19th Aug - Koengen, Bergen, Norway - [www.billettservice.no] [discussion] Sat 22nd Aug - Olympic Stadium,

Prospekt delivers exciting new news on Coldplay's forthcoming Prospekt's March EP   If you haven't already heard at the end of last week, Coldplay are to release a special version of new single 'Lost' which features US rapper Jay-Z. In a message on their website, the band said the song was part of series of “musical moves that we have not previously attempted.” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has previously made guest appearances on Jay-Z's own material.   In addition to the Jay-Z remix, the band

As was predicted by Coldplaying yesterday, Coldplay have announced another North American tour in addition to the already confirmed Canadian dates. Here's Anchorman with more details:   We're pleased to announce that Coldplay will be heading to North America in May/June for a full tour. Below is a list of the shows, including the previously-announced Canadian and Birmingham, AL dates.   MAY 15 West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre [discussion] (on sale 10am, 23rd March) 17 Atlanta, GA - Lake

Coldplay have announced a new outdoor gig date in September 2009 in Paris, and also news on Coldplay's Top Of The Pops performance that aired on Christmas Day. Here's Anchorman with more details:   Good morning - and a happy Boxing Day to you. We're pleased to announce that Coldplay will be playing at the Parc des Princes in Paris, France on 7th September 2009. Tickets go on sale on 7th January from livenation.fr.   Meanwhile, those of you in the UK can currently watch Coldplay's appearance on y

Coldplay will return to the Birmingham area for a May 18 concert at the Verizon Wireless Music Center, promoter Live Nation announced today.   Tickets for the date in Pelham, priced at $35-$97.50, will go on sale at 10 a.m. March 16 at 877-598-8698 or www.livenation.com. The show time and opening act haven't been confirmed. Coldplay last performed here in January 2003 at the BJCC Concert Hall. In September 2005, Coldplay canceled a show at the Verizon Center, blaming a virus that had sickened le

Coldplay have tonight announced a new show at the Honda Center, Anaheim (California), making it the penultimate show of the 2nd US leg of the Viva La Vida tour, preceding Phoenix on 26th November.   Coldplay last played there on 6th and 7th February 2006 during the US leg of the Twisted Logic tour, promoting the third album X&Y. The Honda Center, previously known as the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim and colloquially called the The Pond, is an indoor arena in Anaheim, California. Honda later acqu