Coldplay News

Coldplay won the 'Best Rock Album' For Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends at today's Grammy Awards, making it three Grammys so far.   "We're not, of course, the heaviest of rock bands -- you may have noticed," frontman Chris Martin said. "We're kind of the limestone of rock bands. Not as hard, but still charming."   There was also some reunion news during the broadcast. Before presenting Coldplay with best rock album, the members of Blink 182 announced they were getting back together afte

Coldplay won the song of the year award at the 51st Grammys on Sunday for their hit "Viva La Vida."   It was the second award of the evening for the group after they had earlier picked up the best pop performance by a duo or group for the same track. "Viva La Vida" -- taken from the album of the same name -- was Coldplay's first US number one single. "Thank you and sorry for blatantly recycling the Sergeant Pepper album," Coldplay drummer Will Champion said after collecting the award, in comme

Coldplay have won the first of seven possible Grammy Awards, coming in the category 'Best Pop Performance by Group' for their single Viva la Vida. Phil Harvey has just twittered: best pop performance by group for viva la vida - at least we're not going home empty handed :-)   George Carlin won best comedy album Grammy for "It's Bad for Ya," a recording of his last HBO special. It was the late comedian's fifth Grammy Award. His daughter, Kelly, accepted on his behalf, saying she'd take better car

If Coldplay were nervous about playing the Grammys with the likes of U2, Radiohead and Paul McCartney, it wasn't apparent at the band's performance rehearsal. During the practice run of their collaboration with Jay-Z, frontman Chris Martin, wearing a "Barack to the Future" shirt, enteratined the Staples Center crowd of friends, family and media with somke stand-up humor.   In an announcer accent, Martin joked, "Welcome to 'American Idol.'" "I would never make it on 'Americal Idol,'" he quipped.

Live updates from Coldplay at the Grammy Awards from the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles are now filtering through. The twitters are coming thick and fast courtesy of Prospekt, otherwise known as Phil Harvey, Coldplay's 5th member. You can see the updates feed on the right hand side of the main Coldplaying.com site. This from the official site:   On an exciting day for Coldplay, it's over to our LA correspondent, Mr Phil Harvey (Coldplay's fifth member) for behind-the-scenes updates from

If you’ve never missed the Dubai World Cup, but are also a devotee of the band Coldplay - you’re faced with a major dilemma this year. Coldplaying can reveal that Coldplay will hit the stage at the Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, on March 28th.   The world’s biggest-selling musical act for 2008 has confirmed they are heading to the region for the first time as part of their current world tour. Just two days before the band vie for seven Grammy awards, frontman Chris Martin said he was looking

Coldplay will be performing a duet performance of single Viva La Vida with Jay-Z, according to the Canadian Press today. They report:   Sir Paul McCartney played a couple of covers and indulged the small crowd on hand in a lengthy jam, while Coldplay frontman Chris Martin cracked jokes and hung around afterwards to pose for pictures the night before Sunday's show.   Chris Martin was good-humoured in his dealings with the crowd. Sitting at a piano on a circular stage in the middle of the Staples

After originally scheduling and then cancelling dates in Western Canada last year, and leaving Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg out of the loop, Coldplay is returning to North America for a 14-date tour in July and August.   And again Western Canada is not in the cards, report the Edmonton Sun. The tour, in support of the band's Viva La Vida album, begins on July 10 in Portland, Oregon with stops in California, Texas and the Midwest before hitting Eastern Canada in July. The tour concludes Aug. 9

The clearest indication yet that Coldplay will be performing a duet with Jay-Z at Sunday's Grammy Awards has come courtesy of arjanwrites music blog.   Today, Radiohead (with USC marchind band), Coldplay (with Jay-Z) and U2 are rehearsing. U2 will open the show tomorrow with their new single. Unfortunately, all of these bands have explicity requested that no audience, media and Academy staff members are at their rehearsals, so I can give you updates about that. But Radio will be super cool no ma

Coldplay are making history on the Dutch music charts this week with a single considered their biggest hit ever which was released 6 months ago.   Coldplay have reached a record-equalling 30 weeks in the dutch Top 40 single charts which they've accomplished with their single Viva La Vida. Coldplay are currently tied with (I can't get no) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones, and Only A fool by Mighty Sparrow. Should Coldplay stay in the charts for another week, Viva La Vida will be officially reco

Coldplay have been nominated at the Danish Music Awards 2009, to be held on 28th February at Glassalen I Tivoli in Copenhagen.   The ceremony is being organised by the Danish IFPI (the phonographic industry that promotes, safeguards and organises the music releases worldwide) and Coldplay are up for the award Årets Udenlandske Album (International Album of the Year) for their fourth album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.   Also competing in this category alongside Coldplay are For Emma

In between hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's first interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes this Sunday, and Andy Rooney bitching about why his socks won't stay up, Steve Kroft interviews Chris Martin of Coldplay.   Like Sullenbereger, Chris doesn't do much press. In fact, during Kroft's visit to the band's studio in England, Chris shows Coldplay's top secret list of rules posted next to their white board ("6. Always keep the mystery. Not many interviews."). Martin waxes poetic on a sle

Coldplay's Twitter has just announced that Elbow will be one of the bands supporting Coldplay during the recently announced North American tour. Here's Anchorman: North America support acts announced. One of them is Elbow (hurrah!). Anchorman   Amadou & Mariam will support from Portland (10th July) to Maryland Heights, MO (24th July), Elbow will support from East Troy, WI (25th July) to Tampa, FL (9th August) and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis will support for the entire tour, as the opening act.

Coldplay were recently nominated for four Brit awards - Best Album, Best Group, Best British Single and Best Live act - and for the latter two it is down to a public vote to decide the winner. Please make your vote count for Coldplay at the Brit Awards website here   Voting for the British Live Act (Supported by listeners of BBC Radio 2) opened at 00:01 GMT on Monday 2 February 2009 and closes at 17.00 GMT on 7 February 2009. There will be seven rounds of voting for the British Single category (

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

North American Tour 2009   As promised, Anchorman revealed his news at 12:00pm GMT. Coldplay will be touring the US & Canada in July & August.   Tickets can be purchased from LiveNation. Tour and on sale dates as follows:   July 10th - Portland, OR - The Amphitheater at Clark County - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 11th - George, WA - The Gorge Amphitheatre - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 13th - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wi

Joe Satriani isn't nominated for a Grammy, but his lawyer still hopes he wins   Until now, it looked as though major drama could unfold at this Sunday's Grammy Awards, with Joe Satriani's legal team threatening to serve Coldplay with papers in the lawsuit he has brought against them pertaining to their song Viva La Vida, which he claims infringes on the melody to his song If I Could Fly, reports Music Radar.   "All of that has been averted now," says Howard King, Satriani's attorney, speaking ex

This just in from Coldplay's Twitter - although no news yet (at time of writing) on the official site: Hey folks, we've got some quite big news to announce on Coldplay.com tomorrow at 12noon UK time. Anchorman   No one knows for sure yet what this news is... but Coldplayers seem to be discussing it in the twitter thread thread and some of you in the Postcards Project thread - one things for sure we'll know very soon - make sure you're here at noon (GMT), which is 7am (EST) or 11pm (UTC). Confuse

Things have been relatively quiet on the Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay front since the guitarist filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against the band in December, claiming that Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" was too similar to the melody of his instrumental "I Just Wanna Fly"... until this week.   Reports surfaced on Wednesday that Satriani was so fed up with the band allegedly dodging his attempts to serve them with papers in the suit that, according to Fox News, he planned an ambush at this Sunday's

The full set of videos from Coldplay's Chris Martin's Absolute Radio Zoo Sessions is now online following the upload of the fourth and final acoustic track - Life In Technicolor ii. Chris Martin played four tracks and recorded an interview on Friday 30 January. Chris's setlist for Absolute Radio was: 1. Viva La Vida (piano) 2. The Scientist (piano) 3. Life In Technicolor ii (piano) and 4. Violet Hill (guitar).   You can watch all the videos at the Absolute site now at here. As well as Life In Te

Coldplay are offering an exclusive signed prize from this weekends Grammy Awards due to be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The only problem is, nobody yet knows what the prize is. Here is Coldplay's Messenger service to tell us more:   We're not exactly sure what the prize to our latest Messenger competition is, but when the band go to the Grammys on Sunday, they've promised to grab a souvenir of some sort, sign it and bring it back to Coldplay HQ for us to send to one of you. It may

The latest edition of the Coldplay messenger is out now, and it has been announced that the official site will be following the band at both the Grammy and Brit awards, providing exclusive updates. Here is the messenger with more details:   Head over to Coldplay.com this coming Sunday (8th Feb) and on Wednesday 18th February, when we'll be offering live, behind-the-scenes updates from the Grammys and Brit Awards respectively. Join us to find out if the band win anything, who they're sitting next

As we reported yesterday, HuffingtonPost.com and Fox News are both reporting that Coldplay might get served with legal papers in a law suite by Joe Satriani at this weekend's Grammy Awards. Today it is being reported that Coldplay's legal team were informed of those plans ahead of the awards ceremony this weekend.   Last year Satriani claimed that Coldplay's Grammy nominated hit "Viva La Vida" ripped off his song "If I Could Fly" (see the video after the break). Howard King, Satriani's Lawyer,

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   February 4, 2009 - submitted by yukie, Japan Q. Hi, Oracle. I can't get what does happen at this time? Are you sure that you are playing in Japan from Feb 11 to Feb 15? How are you gonna held between a charity concert and the concerts in Japan? The Oracle replies: Yes we're sure and then heading for London to play the Charity show on the 18th February.   February 4, 2009 - submitted by Bonnie, United States of America Q. Hey there Or

Coldplay have been nominated for seven Grammys this Sunday, and Viva La Vida is tipped to win big as is the album it comes from.   However Fox News are reporting today that Coldplay may be looking over their shoulders this Grammy weekend. The reason is that a lawyer representing musician Joe Satriani is sending teams of process servers all over town to hand them a plagiarism lawsuit. Satriani filed a copyright infringement suit in Los Angeles on December 4, one day after Coldplay was nominated f