Coldplay News

The Europe Music Awards are set to take place on 6th November 2008 in Liverpool, UK and nominee voting is now open at www.mtvema.com.   Voting is open to the public – fans can vote for their favourite artist to become one of the Top 5 nominees! Don’t delay – help Coldplay get nominated for an award! Here are their nominations:   Rock Out | Best Act Ever | Headliner | Album Of The Year (Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends)   The 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards will take place at the Echo Arena

Sources: EMI close to deal with MySpace Music   The EMI Group is close to joining the three other large recording companies in backing the upcoming MySpace Music service, according to two sources close to the negotiations.   The obvious upside of an agreement with EMI is that it gives MySpace Music access to EMI artists, such as Coldplay, Ben Harper, and Joss Stone. More importantly the site's image would get a boost if their library doesn't appear incomplete. EMI and MySpace representatives we

Only The Oracle (like Smarties) has the answer…   September 16, 2008 - submitted by Rae, United States of America Q. Was Chris inspired by a hymn when he wrote "A Message?" I heard a hymn with the same lyrics (my song is love unknown... love to the loveless shown). The Oracle replies: Indeed he was Rae. The hymn is in fact called My Song Is Love Unknown.   September 16, 2008 - submitted by Guido, Argentina Q. Have you watched "Amelie"? I love the soundtrack. Don't you think "La valse d'Amelie"

Coldplay’s Guy Berryman has teamed up with A-ha and Mew for TV’s ‘Amazon’. new band Apparatjik also features Mew's Jonas Bjerre, XFM write today, further to Coldplay.com's announcement yesterday.   Admitting a love for A-ha on Xfm is one thing. Joining forces with the Norse pop titans from the 80s is another thing entirely. Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, however, has hooked up with A-ha’s Magne F and Jonas Bjerre from pop odd-bods Mew to soundtrack Bruce Parry’s new TV programme, Amazon.   The

The first of two concerts at Stockholm's Globe Theatre. Unfortunately no live debut for 'Glass Of Water' tonight, but the concert was apparently streamed live via aftonbladet.se although not many people outside Sweden knew about it. More on this here onwards [thanks Larry & mimixxx]   Setlist:   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 (

From Coldplay.com:   Good evening. In just over an hour, BBC2 here in the UK will run the first part of its major new TV series, Amazon. The show will follow presenter Bruce Parry as he travels the length of the Amazon, from its source to the sea. For more info, click here.   The music which will soundtrack the end credits is a song called Ferreting, which was recorded by a new band formed especially for the project, Apparatjik. That group features Magne F from A-ha, Jonas Bjerre from Mew and

Coldplay’s first three albums, Parachutes, A Rush of Blood To The Head and X&Y have now been re-released on vinyl from September 2008. All three albums are available for pre-order at amazon.   On Sept. 2, Capitol Records launched "From the Capitol Vaults," a project to release 13 classic, out-of-print vinyl records. The remastered titles are limited edition and are 180-gram audiophile quality with original artwork and packaging. The series debut included A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms; The B

Trouble [sendspace clip] has returned to the Coldplay setlist in Berlin.   Setlist:   01 Life In Technicolor 02 Violet Hill 03 Clocks 04 In My Place 05 Speed Of Sound 06 Cemeteries Of London 07 Chinese Sleep Chant 08 42 09 Fix You 10 Strawberry Swing 11 God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version) 12 Talk (partial, techno version) 13 Trouble / The Hardest Part / Postcards From Far Away (Medley) 14 Viva La Vida 15 Lost! ------ 16 The Scientist (acoustic) 17 Death Will Never Conquer (Will, acou

Only The Oracle (like Smarties) has the answer…   September 15, 2008 - submitted by Ravi, United Kingdom Q. I have a Biography called, Nobody says it was Easy by Martin Roach, and in there it says Tim Rice-Oak whatever from Keane gave the name Coldplay, but you said it was Tim Crompton, so he made a mistake, in a biography, that's kind of silly don't you think? The Oracle replies: Yes I agree. Nobody said It Was Easy is an unofficial biography of Coldplay by Martin Roach. He's written many books

Reports from Berlin's 02 World in Germany are filtering through from those in the queue waiting to access the venue for the Coldplay concert tonight. Times are German (local time):   8.47pm: Well, albert just finished ^^ he was a tad better than yesterday, not only because he played one more song from his first record, the sound was better, too. It seems to me, that the crowd isn't as excited as they should be, but well, that might change when the guys takes the stage. By the way: we're right in

Setlist:   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 (partial - techno version) The Hardest Part (piano - Chris) Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental) Viva La Vida Lost! The Scientist (acoustic) Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing) Viva La Vida (remix interlude) ------- First Encore Politik Lovers In Japan Dea

Reports from Hamburg's Colorline Arena in Germany are filtering through from those in the queue waiting to access the venue for the Coldplay concert tonight. Times are German (local time):   8.24pm: Albert hammond jr. was bloody brilliant! But he should've played more from his first record though But fuck that, coldplay's next! OMFG!!! See you on the other side guys!   6.37pm: So, we're in the arena now =D the people in front of the doors went nuts and we got pretty much squashed lol Lars got

As Coldplaying reported recently, official confirmation has arrived - 'Guitar Hero World Tour' has revealed the 'set list' for the highly anticipated forthcoming version of the video game, NME and Pitchfork are reporting.   Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Oasis, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beastie Boys, Muse, Interpol, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, The Doors, No Doubt, REM and Van Halen are among the bands whose songs will appear on the latest version of the highly popular game.   It will feature maste

Coldplay’s Guy Berryman [pictured] and Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell have contributed tracks to a new fundraising album collated by Bruce Parry called Bruce Parry Presents Amazon Tribe - Songs for Survival.   Parry, star of BBC’s ‘Tribe’ and the forthcoming ‘Amazon’, has teamed up with some of music’s legends for a fundraising album for Survival International, human rights organisation for tribal peoples.   All tracks were created exclusively for the album:   Disc: 1 1. Apparatjik (Guy Berryman /

Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Cemeteries Of London Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Reign Of Love Fix You Strawberry Swing -------- STAGE B (a podium in the crowd, ground was flashing) God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (dance remix) / Talk (piano) The Hardest Part (piano) Postcards From Far Away (instrumental) --------- STAGE A Viva La Vida Lost --------- STAGE C (side entrance in the west I think) The Scientist (Acoustic) Death Will Never Conquer Viva la Vida r

More questions answered by The Oracle...   September 11, 2008 - submitted by Hasief, Indonesia Q. Who is the "Green" whom gets a co-writer's credit on "A Spell A Rebel Yell"? The Oracle replies: That's Dan Green the band's sound engineer.   September 11, 2008 - submitted by Nishav Shakya, Nepal Q. Is the ORACLE all right, not answering for a couple of days or have us mere mortals questions been too trivial in nature? The Oracle replies: Actually I was in Paris for the Bercy shows. They were amaz

Coldplay has been nominated as the best international rock artist at the 2008 MTV latin american music awards which will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico on October 16th. The other nominees in this category are 30 seconds To Mars, Panic At The Disco, Paramore and Fall Out Boy.   To vote for Coldplay in this category click here   More on this nomination here [thanks Lore]

Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" (Parlophone/EMI) is back at the top of European Top 100 Albums, part of a resuming EMI double that sees Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (Virgin) lead Eurochart Hot 100 Singles for a fifth week.   The Coldplay album had ten consecutive weeks atop the pan-European sales list until Slipknot's "All Hope Is Gone" (Roadrunner) debuted at the summit last week. "Viva" rebounds with the help of climbs of 3-2 in Italy, 5-3 in Greece and 6-5 in Ireland

Coldplay.com catches up with Will Champion... Discuss this interview here onwards.   Hello Will. Where are you? I'm in Paris, in the environs of the Bercy dressing room complex.   How's the European tour been going so far? Very well thank you.   Does it feel different to the North American tour? Yeah, it does. We've changed the set slightly. We felt like for the American tour we had to come out guns blazing and we didn't really feel confident about a couple of the new songs yet. But I think with

The Europe Music Awards are set to take place on 6th November 2008 in Liverpool, UK and nominee voting is now open at www.mtvema.com.   Voting is open to the public – fans can vote for their favourite artist to become one of the Top 5 nominees! Don’t delay – help Coldplay get nominated for an award! Here are their nominations:   Rock Out | Best Act Ever | Headliner | Album Of The Year (Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends)   The 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards will take place at the Echo Arena

No Reign Of Love tonight, but balloons for Jonny Buckland, who celebrates his 31st birthday on the 11th September (probably on another bullet train across Europe).   Setlist:   Life In Technicolor Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Speed Of Sound Cemeteries Of London Chinese Sleep Chant 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing -------- GPASUYF + Talk (Techno) Hardest Part Postcards from far away --------- Viva La Vida Lost --------- The Scientist Death will never conquer Viva la Vida remix (with us good french p

Guy and a giant album cover   Hi I went to the Louvre today to see the original Delacroix painting… It’s a lot bigger than I expected and truly ‘magnifique’! Love Guy    

Coldplay play their second night at the Bercy in Paris this evening - and the first 3 songs of this concert will be broadcast by the French radio NRJ at about 9.40pm (French time). These tracks are likely to be Life In Technicolor, Violet Hill and Clocks.   The NRJ France webstream has been added to the Coldplaying toolbar radio which you can upgrade here prior to the show tonight.   More on this NRJ airing here and follow the latest updates from this show as they happen on the 10th September Be

A reminder from Coldplay.com that you can vote for Coldplay at this year's MTV EMAs.   Good morning. Although Violet Hill was not deemed quite special enough to win the Best Special Effects category at last weekend's MTV VMAs (go Kanye!), the band have the chance to make amends at the MTV Europe Music Awards, which will take place in Liverpool on 6th November.   Voting is now open and Coldplay are up for the Rock Out, Best Act Ever, Headliner and Album of the Year awards. Click here if you'd lik

Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has revealed that Radiohead, Coldplay and Led Zeppelin are all on her wishlist to play next year's festival.   Talking exclusively to Mirror.co.uk, Emily also revealed that as the photo registration system had worked so well this time round, all 135,000 tickets for next year's event were going on sale next month rather than in April as usual. There's also speculation that Stevie Wonder is being lined up for the 'Sunday afternoon legend' spot at the three-day ba