Coldplay News

Coldplay played the first of two consecutive concerts at Dublin's refurbished O2 Arena as they continue through towards the end of their UK leg of the Viva La Vida tour. A brand new addition to the setlist... just for Dublin... Fairytale Of New York (Pogues cover, sang by Will Champion!)   Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Yellow Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version) Talk (techno version) The Har

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   December 19, 2008 - submitted by from Frederika and Nils, Germany Q. Where do the Coldplay Crew get all the butterfly-confetti from? Perhaps from a butterfly pooping pony out of Katy's world, like in the movie Horton Hears a Who? The Oracle replies: A company based in Illinois called Strictly FX who also provide the 30+ blowers that shower us with the butterflies during the show! It's the biggest confetti drop anywhere.   December 1

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   December 18, 2008 - submitted by Daan, United Kingdom Q. Dear Oracle thingy magingy all-knowing Jim bob person, Having read through fourscore Oracle postings, my question is probably too much related to Coldplay for you to answer, but it's about Green Eyes. When I listened to it for the first time, I thought it was a gem because I immediately thought it was about Gwyneth, and that extra meaning just transformed it into a sparkly rain

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   December 17, 2008 - submitted by Tyler, United States of America Q. Why doesn't Coldplay switch up the setlist more often? They've been playing the same songs for a while now, excluding the inclusion of Life in Technicolor II...do they not realize that they have more than 25 songs in their catalog? The Oracle replies: Well they do mix it up a little but when you've put as much time and effort into the incredible lights and visuals it

Mexico's Search & Destroy has posted an audio interview with guitarist Joe Satriani. You can listen to Joe Satriani talking about Coldplay's Viva La Vida during his podcast here (the Coldplay clip starts around the 13m20s mark).   According to The Pulse, Coldplay's record label, Capitol/EMI, had forced YouTube to remove a video clip that mashes up the band's song "Viva La Vida" with Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly". Satriani recently sued Coldplay, claiming that the British quartet plagiarize

Coldplay played the first of two non-consecutive concerts at Belfast's Odyssey Arena last night as they continue through towards the end of their UK leg of the Viva La Vida tour. They continued with Jingle Bells replacing Death Will Never Conquer. Pictures from the concert are in the Coldplaying Gallery.   Setlist: [thanks cooki2222]   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Yellow Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno ve

Coldplay.com have announced a second date in New Zealand, with another show at the Vector Arena, Auckland on Thursday 19th March 2009. Tickets for both shows go on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz on Monday 22nd December at 9am local time.   New Zealand missed out on Coldplay's last world tour, rumoured to be because Auckland lacked a decent venue for them to perform in. They have performed there previously at the 2001 Big Day Out. Their last New Zealand performance was at the Auckland Showgrounds i

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has blasted Coldplay's music, claiming their current album Viva La Vida is "self-celebratory".   The singer, speaking on Zane Lowe's show on MTV 2, was asked to describe his thoughts on the band's current offering and launched into a foul-mouthed tirade against it. Pulling no punches, Taylor said there was absolutely nothing about Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends that he liked. "That is one of the most self-celebratory pieces of **** I've ever ******* hear

Coldplay, Duffy and the Kaiser Chiefs will all perform on the Top of the Pops Christmas special, it's been announced.   The winner of this year's X Factor Alexandra Burke, Girls Aloud and Dizzee Rascal will also appear on the show on Christmas Day. As previously reported on Gigwise, the BBC cancelled the Christmas show earlier this year because of falling viewing figures. But the corporation later reinstated it, along with a New Years special.   Burke will perform her cover of Leonard Cohen's 'H

The 40 million album-selling, Grammy Award-winning, Earth-dictating Kings Of Soft Rock called in on Xfm for an exclusive interview, talking the early days, Brian Eno and how they shaped the ‘Coldplay sound’…   Currently on a sell-out tour of the land’s arenas, frontman Chris Martin and drummer Will Champion spoke to Xfm Manchester’s Clint Boon before venturing off to headline the city’s MEN Arena. Listen to the five-part interview at the XFM website here and read the excerpts of each part below.

Radio 1 are hosting a free Coldplay festive track until tomorrow on their website. Here's Coldplay.com's Anchorman with more details:   Good afternoon. Over on BBC Radio 1's site, you can currently download a free MP3 of Coldplay's version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, which the band recorded for the BBC at Maida Vale studios a couple of years ago. Click here to get it - but you'd best be quick, it's only available until 8am tomorrow morning (UK time). Anchorman.   ps - Commiseratio

Chris Martin also thinks the band's recent London gigs could have been better   Coldplay's Chris Martin has admitted that the band's 2000 single 'Shiver' was essentially a Jeff Buckley rip-off, NME are reporting today. The star was speaking on the Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 today (December 18) when he made the admission. "It's a blatant Jeff Buckley attempt," he told Moyles. "Not quite as good, that's what I think. We were 21 and he was very much a hero, and as with those things it tends t

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   December 16, 2008 - submitted by Peter, Ireland Q. Oh oracle oh oracle... i have a predicament... i have tickets to Monday 22nd December's show in the o2 Dublin but am now unable to attend due to a family homecoming for xmas... i have tried desperatly for a swap for the sunday show to no avail.. should i give up on a swap or persevere?? The Oracle replies: Get yourself on www.coldplaying.com's forum and ask if anyone wants to swap...

Coldplay played the third and final night of three consecutive concerts at London's O2 Arena as they continue through towards the end of their UK leg of the Viva La Vida tour. Coldplay's friend, and British actor, Simon Pegg once again made an appearance on harmonica during the performance of Green Eyes on the C-Stage... and Coldplay also played a special extra song... Jingle Bells!   Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Yellow Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix Y

Coldplay are planning to make their 2009 world tour X-tra special for fans, by throwing in lots of surprise guests - including Simon Cowell. The lads are hoping that the X Factor judge - he of high-waisted trousers fame - will agree to a special cameo appearance in the show.   Chris Martin tells the Mirror: "I've never met Simon, but I keep wanting to ask him to do a bit in our concert next year. At the end of one song I want him to come on screen and say, 'That was absolutely terrible!' I think

More exclusive Coldplaying live updates from London's O2 Arena in the UK, from those in the venue (and outside it) at the third and final of three consecutive Coldplay concerts tonight. Keep up-to-date with them all here onwards. Times are GMT (local time). So far, here's a summary (most recent first):   11.07pm: And sadly its come round too fast. The end is here. What an incredible gig. Amazing atmosphere, great venue, and the best band in the world. Every single song was brilliant and the new

Gary Barlow thought Chris Martin was "taking the piss" when he said he wanted Coldplay to support Take That. Gary, 37, was amazed when the usually serious musician revealed his love of the boy band. He said: "It's amazing! I think Chris wrote it on his website. We thought he was taking the p**s, but he wasn't. He's genuinely a fan!"   Chris' original posting read: "I would open for Take That. We were in the dressing room the other day and, for whatever reason, we started singing 'Back For Good'.

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   December 15, 2008 - submitted by Sari, United States of America Q. In the live photoblog from Birmingham it appears that Chris's shirt changes from white to a reddish color. Is this just because of the lighting that the picture were taken in? The Oracle replies: It's actually a shade of purple. Although the lights are a similar colour, it's not that giving the hue; when they come on after Stage C set it's a different top.   December

After the tidal wave of hype that brought so many new band's to the worlds attention last year, 2008 was always going to be the year that welcomed the return of established names. And with new releases from Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Lil' Wayne and Kanye West to name but a few, that was certainly the case. But, as our Top-50 albums of 2008 shows, there was still a considerable surge of new talent which, alongside the big-guns, helped provide yet another unforgettable year of album releases.   18.

Coldplay played the second of three consecutive concerts at London's O2 Arena as they continue through towards the end of their UK leg of the Viva La Vida tour. Coldplay's friend, and British actor, Simon Pegg once again made an appearance on harmonica during the performance of Green Eyes on the C-Stage... and thanked Coldplay for making his ‘dreams come true’!   Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Yellow Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing Go

Coldplay will visit New Zealand following their eleven arena shows in Australia next March, promoter Chugg Entertainment confirmed today. The band will play at Auckland’s Vector Arena on Wednesday 18 March 2009 with tickets going on sale to on Monday 22 December from www.ticketmaster.co.nz. The show will be part of their Viva La Vida world tour, in support of their new album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.   New Zealand missed out on Coldplay's last world tour, rumoured to be because

More exclusive Coldplaying live updates from London's O2 Arena in the UK, from those in the venue (and outside it) at the second of three consecutive Coldplay concerts tonight. Keep up-to-date with them all here onwards. Times are GMT (local time). So far, here's a summary (most recent first):   10.40pm: OMG HE CALLED ! LOVERS IN JAPAN!!!! he is on Guys side, out of confetti range , but very close he says! He gets to eat it tomorrow night though, floor seats! [thanks xxKels & Kimchi]   9.31

The time has again come to have a good long look at the music world around us and ask "What albums did we like this year?"   All you have to do is make a list of 5 to 25 original albums released in 2008. Rank determines the points an album gets. Your list should be added to this thread - but don't delay - the deadline for submissions ends this Wednesday, December 17th at 4:00pm EST (9:00pm GMT), so make sure your vote counts and enter your list now! [thanks Space Cadet]  

Coldplay was the hottest iTunes album download this year: Its Viva la Vida was crowned the best-selling album of 2008, while Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love was named the top-selling single.   Coldplay's CD has sold more than two million copies since its release in June, and has sold more than 500,000 copies digitally - most of which was through iTunes, according to the band's representative. ITunes does not release its sales figures, its spokesman said in releasing its list.   Jack Johnson's Sleep

Coldplay played the first of three consecutive concerts at London's O2 Arena as they continue through towards the end of their UK leg of the Viva La Vida tour. Coldplay's friend, and British actor, Simon Pegg made an appearance on harmonica during the performance of Green Eyes on the C-Stage... and confirmed he was playing all three nights! [thanks mimixxx]   Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Yellow Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing God Pu