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A new book Access All Areas with Dave Hogan was launched today at the 2008 Q Awards. It contains autobigraphies/personality information as well as lots of pictures of celebrities that Dave Hogan has photographed, including Coldplay.   You can buy the book via Amazon here   Product Description:   Dave Hogan began his photography career at Stringfellows over 25 years ago and has since shot every major pop, rock and film star and red carpet event including Live Aid and Live 8.   He is Getty Images’

Coldplay, Elbow and TV On The Radio have been added to the new series of Later With Jools Holland on BBC2, and Coldplay's turn is tonight on BBC2 at 10pm, fresh from their return from the European leg of the Viva La Vida tour. The show is then repeated on Friday 10th at 11.30pm on BBC2.   Coldplay, The Hold Steady and Glen Campbell play on October 7, while Elbow join David Gilmour on September 23. October 14 stars Kaiser Chiefs, Seasick Steve, The Streets and TV On The Radio, with Friendly Fires

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

Double award winners Coldplay wowed the crowds with some of the best on-stage gags and speeches of the awards. As drummer Will Champion collected the award for best act in the world, he responded to Adam Ant’s crack that the band had stolen their sartorial ideas from him. “Thanks to Q for inviting Adam Ant and making us all look like fucking wankers,” Champion said.   Chris Martin made it clear that he still carried a torch for Cerys Matthews, despite being married to one of the world’s most fam

Coldplay have scooped two prizes at the Q Awards ceremony in London, including best album for Viva La Vida or Death To All Their Friends. Coldplay also won best act in the world today.   Picking up the best album prize, Chris Martin warned the crowd he was going to bore them, before launching into a rambling acceptance speech. At one point, he declared Coldplay were “the greatest band in the world”, before adding bashfully: “U2 are on holiday”.   Welsh star Duffy picked up best breakthrough, whi

From Coldplay.com   Good evening. We have just uploaded a video clip of Coldplay performing a new song, Glass Of Water, at last night's show in Antwerp. Click here to watch it.   Anchorman   What do you think of the song? Let us know here [thanks onehundredmileslong & Lore]

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

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

Guy Berryman forms a side project which is released on October 6   Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman is set to release an album with A-Ha's Magne Furuholmen and Mew's Jonas Bjerre. The collective, The Apparatjik, have soundtracked the new Bruce Parry BBC2 TV show 'Amazon' with their song 'Ferreting', reports The Sun.   The song appears on the forthcoming compilation album, 'Amazon Tribe: Songs For Survival', set for release on October 6. William, Hot Chip and KT Tunstall have also contributed songs

Coldplay played their last concert of the current European tour at Antwerp's Sportpalais in Belgium tonight... and they saved the best until last, debuting a brand new song, Glass Of Water, due to be released in November as part of the Prospekt's March EP. More on this concert here onwards and images at the gallery here [thanks Lauve & Carlaatje]   Setlist: [thanks Remcoowtje]   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Cemeteries Of London Chinese Sleep Chant

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 3, 2008 - submitted by Nori, Hungary Q. Dear O, has any of the boys ever been offered a role in a movie? Would they accept it if they found the script good enough? The Oracle replies: Chris was offered a role in a huge film but the guys aren't actors, they're musicians and so won't be considering a career change at this point! FYI: I'm not going to reveal which film because that wouldn't be fair to the actor who eventually played the role; he mi

Coldplay played their second of two concerts at the Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands tonight. More on this concert here onwards and images at the gallery here   Setlist: [thanks Remcoowtjie]   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Cemeteries Of London Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version) Talk (techno version) The Hardest Part (piano - Chris) Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental) Viva La Vida Lo

This is a letter from Chris Martin, which was posted tonight from Rotterdam at coldplay.com, outlining the tracklisting for the forthcoming 'Prospekt's March' EP, and some more information on the Lost! EP, which will involve a collaboration with Jay-Z.   Discuss this news here [thanks DannyIG]   Oct 08 Rotterdam   Dear Coldplay fans and friends...   First of all, thankyou for the incredible year you have been giving us so far; from asking for our songs on the radio, to buying an album, to comin

A reminder that Daystretcher 24/7 are giving you and 3 friends the chance to see Coldplay LIVEW at the world's most popular venue - The O2 Arena, London, this December - and the competition is now open to non-UK residents! (*travel expenses, accommodation etc. for non-UK residents is not covered).   The lucky winners will be watching the gig in style from our very own PRIVATE VIP SUITE at the arena. The best thing is, it's FREE to enter, absolutely no purchase is necessary, all you have to do is

Further to yesterday's tour schedule news from various sources, official word has now been published. Coldplay.com has informed us as follows:   Good afternoon. Due to scheduling reasons beyond Coldplay's control, some dates on the UK tour have had to be repositioned. The dates which have moved are as follows...   - Dec 7th show in Sheffield will now take place on Nov 29th - Dec 5th show in Glasgow will now take place on Dec 9th - Dec 10th show in Liverpool will now take place on Dec 7th - Dec 1

From the Sheffield Telegraph online:   Coldplay fans will get to see the band earlier than they thought after "scheduling reasons" brought forward a Sheffield Arena show. The multi-million-selling band will now play on November 29 instead of the original December 7 fixture.   Refunds, from the point of purchase, are available for those who cannot make the new show – otherwise all original tickets are valid for the rescheduled date.   More news on the other changes reported yesterday as soon as w

Coldplay played their first of two concerts at the Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands tonight. Added to the setlist were Trouble and Amsterdam. More on this concert here onwards and images at the gallery here   Setlist: [thanks ShaftX]   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Cemeteries Of London Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version) Talk (techno version) Trouble (partial - Chris) Amsterdam (partial - Chris

Further to our announcements earlier about the alteration to Coldplay's Liverpool concert date, it now appears that several dates within the UK tour have changed, some quite drastically. So far, they involve concerts at Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow and Belfast. So far Manchester, Birmingham and London remain unaltered. Anchorman/Messenger at the official site will be publishing a message with full details shortly.   Change summary (so far) as follows:   1) The single date at the Sheffield Ar

Further to our announcement earlier about the alteration to Coldplay's Liverpool concert date, it now appears that several dates within the UK tour have changed, some quite drastically. So far, they involve concerts at Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow as follows:   1) The single date at Sheffield's Arena has been moved from 7th December to 29th November. 2) The first Glasgow date at the SECC is now the second date, and will take place on 9th December. 3) As previously announced, the Liverpool da

Coldplay's forthcoming concert at Liverpool's new Echo Arena scheduled for 10th December has been moved forward to 7th December, according to an email thought to be from SeeTickets. Both Echo Arena and Coldplay.com have not yet confirmed this change. Here the purported email announcement:   Due to scheduling reasons beyond our control some dates on the Coldplay UK tour have had to be repositioned. The show in Liverpool has now been moved from the 10th of December to the 7th of December. Your tic

A big thankyou to everyone who voted for Coldplaying.com in the BT Digital Music Awards 2008, which were held last night. This site just missed out on the award, but are proud to have made the final 5 shortlist for Best Unofficial Music Site in the world.   Best Unofficial Music Site Winner: AvrilBandAids.com – Avril Lavigne fansite, Canada Shortlist: Coldplaying.com – Coldplay fansite, UK LPzion.org – Linkin Park fansite, Poland MuseLive.com – Muse fansite, UK SOADfans.com – System of A Down f

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 say they will release an EP of new material after 'Lost!'   Despite Coldplay announcing the release of a digital EP for November, a spokesperson for the band has told NME that they will still release another EP of new material in 2008.   Earlier this month Chris Martin said the band would release an EP of new material entitled 'Prospekt's March' before 2008 ends. Yesterday (September 30) the band announced that they would release 'Lost!' – a digital-only EP headed up by the title track,

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 2, 2008 - submitted by Maria, Italy Q. how can i contact "roadie 42#blog"??? the person who write the articole about italan concerts put the link ok an italian fanclub forgettin us of coldplayitalia (the very firts coldplay italian community) ... we created some nice gold paper crowds for the gig and Coldplay rellay like it! they also called "coldplayitalia" during the gig, and Francesco too ... we're just a little bit decepted after reading las

More questions answered by The Oracle...   October 1, 2008 - submitted by Jen, United Kingdom Q. One of the questions today started me thinking. If the band play a track by another artist, or use part of it when on tour, do they have to pay any kind of royalties to the other artist? The Oracle replies: Live music venues have a license to play music and for example in the UK, they pay to be a member of the PRS (Performing Rights Society), which acts as a collection agency and then distributes roy