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Coldplay show their support for CanTeen   CanTeen's Annual Bandanna Challenge will take place from this Friday until October 31. Bandannas will be on sale nationwide for just $4, and there are some fantastic designs to choose from including one designed by new ambassador Scott Dixon; The World’s Fastest New Zealander and newly crowned World Indy Racing Champion.   Alongside Dixon’s bandannas there are also designs from CanTeen Ambassadors Dan Carter and netballer Maria Tutaia, fashion designers

Coldplay have been nominated four times at the American Music Awards 2008.   Voting for the awards is done online via ABC.com's American Music Awards website. The AMAs will be held on November 23rd at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. They will be aired live on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. To vote for Coldplay at these awards click here. Tickets for the event are on sale via Ticketmaster here.   Coldplay are up for:   Artist Of The Year Favorite Band, Duo Or Group (pop or rock music) Favorit

Further to news last night sourced from a Norwegian website, the artwork for Coldplay's new EP entitled 'Prospekt's March has been officially announced by Coldplay.com. Here's Prospekt's journal entry today:   Tuesday 14 October, 2008 London This is the artwork for the Prospekt's March EP courtesy of Eugene Delacroix's Battle of Poitiers. It'll be out in the shops November 21-25 (depending upon where you live). You'll also be able to order it from coldplay.com. Prospekt          

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 14, 2008 - submitted by Julia, Germany Q. Holadiho Oracle!I read that the personal trainer of Coldplay is "DAN". Is it the "Scientist-Dan", where they wrote the song about? The Oracle replies: There are many Dans in the band's life... Dan the trainer is one, Dan Green their sound engineer is another and then there's Dan Keeling who signed them to Parlophone... who is also the Scientist.   October 14, 2008 - submitted by Stuart, United Kingdom Q.

Eight lucky Latin American fans will win a trip to Miami to watch Coldplay's show and twelve more will win a Viva La Vida album CD in a competition courtesy of Warner Brothers Latin America (WBLA).   To enter, visit wbla.com then choose your country, and click on the 'inside the music' icon. Fill the form with your personal information, and then answer approximately 20 Coldplay-related questions. The winners chosen will be the eight people who answer questions correctly in the quickest time. Win

See a special Coldplay show in New York - win tickets to Yahoo! taping   Are you a Coldplay fan living in the New York City or New Jersey area? Would you like to come along to a secret and very exclusive taping of a live performance with Coldplay? If so, then the good people at Yahoo! Music and Capitol Records are requesting the pleasure of your company at Nissan Live Sets in NYC, featuring Coldplay. The details are as follows...   Date: Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 Arrival Time: 6.30pm Location

According to popular Norwegian online record store website platekompaniet.no Coldplay's Prospekt's March EP cover will look like this (below, left). The Viva La Vida (Prospekt's March edition) cover artwork was revealed via Amazon ten days ago (below, right):     The Prospekt's March EP cover features another painting by Eugene Delacroix, a detail that was officially confirmed by Chris Martin on 3rd October. And Davide Rossi (Italian musician and violinist featured on Viva La Vida Or Death And

Coldplay: How We Saw the World... Part 1   If you haven't yet seen it, or want to re-live the moment again, you can see Coldplay's 2006 live performance at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, featuring a mix of songs from old favourites Clocks and Yellow to more recent hits Speed of Sound, Fix You and Talk. Tonight at 22:30h on VH1.   Meanwhile, you can mull over the nominees for Best Act Ever at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. The artists nominated for this heavyweight title are showcased in

Welshman Eugene Francis Jnr will be releasing 'Hobo Occupation' through Legion Records on November 24th, and as if that's not enough to warm the cockles of your heart, he's also going on a UK/EU/US tour with Coldplay and Todd Rundgren respectively. Currently Coldplay's Manchester, Dublin and Belfast support slots and the remaining two dates in London are as yet unknown. More on Eugene Francis Jnr at his MySpace page here   Here's his Coldplay support schedule:   29/11/08 : UK : Arena, Sheffield

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 13, 2008 - submitted by Sam, New Zealand Q. Dear Worthy one, I remember in the build up to Viva La Vida, Chris said that on this album is a song that everyone must hear before they die, and went further to say that it would be the greatest song ever. Could you please tell me which song off this album he is talking about? P.s I truely Love Chris and i'm so hopeful that one day Coldplay comes to New Zealand, i reckon the guys would love it here. T

Coldplay has twice been nominated to win an awards given by the Spanish music radio station 'Los 40 principales'. Coldplay's nominations are as follows:   1. Best tour in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona). 2. Best international group in foreign language   For the first nomination Coldplay are up against Madonna again, and Amaral and El canto del loco. This nomination also includes the show by Rock'In Rio which took place in Madrid a few months ago. In the second nomination, they are up against four w

See a special Coldplay show in New York - win tickets to Yahoo! taping   Are you a Coldplay fan living in the New York City or New Jersey area? Would you like to come along to a secret and very exclusive taping of a live performance with Coldplay? If so, then the good people at Yahoo! Music and Capitol Records are requesting the pleasure of your company at Nissan Live Sets in NYC, featuring Coldplay. The details are as follows...   Date: Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 Arrival Time: 6.30pm Location

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 10, 2008 - submitted by Rafael, Philippines Q. Who is Phil Harvey? His name appears in the credits of Viva La Vida as a band member but he’s only credited for “wise words” in X&Y. I don’t seem him in the photos in the sleeves of any of the albums and his name doesn’t even appear in the first two. Is Phil Harvey the Oracle? The Oracle replies: Phil met Chris and bonded as best friends at school. Phil subsequently became Coldplay’s first manag

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

Coldplay fans almost have to consider themselves spoiled rotten, given the band's announcement of a new EP just months after its latest, Viva La Vida. They have finally locked in a release date for said EP, Prospekt's March: November 25th.   And that's not all: just two weeks prior, on November 10th, the band will digitally release a four-track version of its Viva La Vida song 'Lost!,' including one remix featuring Jay-Z. Should the collaboration strike you as strange, perhaps you can cast your

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 8, 2008 - submitted by Israel, United States of America Q. First off, Coldplay is probably one of the best bands I've heard. Such versatility in their music is unprecedented and unique. Thanks to all the sound/recording engineers who have worked with Coldplay, and making their uniqueness come alive! Now, my question--which comes from my sound/recording engineering studies--is: does Coldplay have a company in charge of running all their sound at

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

Coldplay returned to the Later studio last night and played a string of tracks from their fourth number one album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.   Setlist:   Violet Hill Lovers In Japan 42 Viva La Vida (played twice) Lost!   In a preview for Friday night's show see Coldplay perform 42 here [uK residents only]   Read fan reviews and watch videos (Lost! and Viva La Vida) from the show here and discussion here onwards [thanks laura84, joooooooooooooooooes & RadioMad]   Chris Mar

SAN FRANCISCO - Google is moving ahead with plans to generate more revenues from its video sharing website YouTube in deals with iTunes and Amazon, which will see it sell music direct to surfers who will be able to hit "click to buy" buttons on music videos.   EMI, whose artists include Coldplay and Depeche Mode, and Universal Music, which represents bands such as the Killers, are the first record companies to join the e-commerce programme.   Music will not be the only thing on offer. Computer

MTV Networks Africa today announced the contenders for the first ever MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA). Selected by an independent voting ‘academy’ of 150 music professionals and opinion formers from 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the nominations for the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain showcase the wealth of musical talent that Africa has to offer, and provide the ultimate vehicle for young Africans to salute the African and international artists that rock their worlds.   The nom

London, Oct 8 (IANS) After working with Australian pop star Kylie Minogue, Coldplay are eager to work with Beyonce Knowles.   The group has finished working on a song with Minogue, but it won’t feature on their forthcoming ‘Lost’ EP (extended play) because it is not ready for release, reports ananova.com. Guitarist Jonny Buckland said: ‘The Minogue song won’t be on the (forthcoming ‘Lost’) EP as it’s still not finished.’ He added: ‘We’d like to do something with Beyonce too. She’s a fantastic p

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

This fall, Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' World Tour returns to North America and they have partnered with Oxfam in their fight against many global issues. Here is your chance to join other Coldplay fans in standing up to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.   Bid now on pairs of VIP tickets to the upcoming shows here and read the feedback from previous buyers here [thanks JR1015]   Did you know...   - 40% of the people on our planet--more than 2.5 billion--now live in poverty, struggling to surviv

This just in from Coldplay.com:   Good morning. We have a few upcoming television performances to tell our UK-based readers about. They are as follows...   Tonight: Performance on Later with Jools Holland on BBC2 at 10pm (2 songs) Oct 10th: Performance on Later with Jools Holland on BBC2 at 10.10pm (more than 2 songs) Nov 13th - Performance of Lost! on 4Music, time tbc (repeated on Channel 4's T4 on Nov 15th and 16th) Nov 20th - Coldplay Special on 4Music, time tbc (repeated on Channel 4's T4 o

Girls Aloud have responded after Coldplay frontman Chris Martin [pictured] revealed that he had been trying to write the girl group a song, report Gigwise today. In April, Martin was quoted as saying he was “obsessed” with Girls Aloud, adding: “I've been trying to write them a song and I can't come up with anything good enough.”   The girl group have now challenged Martin, who revealed recently that he had worked with Kylie Minogue, to complete the song. “Well he better keep workin on a song, th