Coldplay News

Coldplay will be appearing on 'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross' on BBC1 on Friday 2 December, 10.35pm.   Jonathan [pictured] welcomes Coldplay to talk about their global success and perform Talk from their album X&Y.   The line-up also includes Patsy Kensit and Harry Hill.   [Thanks Jenjie]

For all those who get KCRW Morning Show with Nic Harcourt, this may be of interest to you.

Tune in to San Francisco's KFOG 104.55's Live from the Archives - The Show Sunday night at 8pm to hear Coldplay live in concert.   [Thanks IneedYou23]

As previously reported, on Sunday 11th December, Coldplay will appear at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show. This is now a sold out event.   However, here are full details of the Christmas webcast and when you can see Coldplay:   NIGHT ONE SET TIMES   With your hosts Tony Hawk & KROQ's Kat 4:30 - Webcast Starts 5:10 - Rise Against 5:45 - Avenged Sevenfold 6:20 - Thrice 6:55 - Fallout Boy 7:35 - Korn 8:30 - Nine Inch Nails 9:45 - System Of A Down   NIGHT TWO SET TIMES   With y

Some of the biggest names in modern rock, including Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, the White Stripes, System Of A Down and Korn, have signed on for Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Xmas show.   The event takes place December 10-11 at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk.   The first night will feature NIN, System Of A Down, Korn, Fall Out Boy, Thrice, Rise Against and Avenged Sevenfold. The next evening will boast performances by Depeche Mode, the Whi

Coldplay will be on Lamacq Live on Radio 1 on Monday 30th May from 9pm. The band will live in the studio previewing tracks from X&Y.   Highlights of the bands performance from Glastonbury 2002 will also be broadcast. There will also be a selection of there early Radio 1 session tracks.   [thanks Vince]

Coldplay on MTV . Japan were ready for their last taste of Coldplay this year presumably, at the MTV Video music awards, as revealed beforehand. Coldplay performed both singles from the latest album, Ghost Stories during the award ceremony, which also featured Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. View the gallery below of the boys playing Magic and A Sky Full of Stars.   [soliloquy id=25519]   A photo of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a Japanese singer, next to Chris Martin also surfaced! (thanks gai)     vimn

Coldplay's 'Speed Of Sound' single is featured on the forthcoming "Now That's What I Call Music! 19" CD, in stores this Tuesday, July 19 (US), along with tracks from The Killers, Gorillaz, Eminem and Gwen Stefani.   For more details click here

Tune into Xfm from 4pm GMT today to hear Will & Guy chat with Lauren Laverne. They also feature on the X-Posure Album Payback where you can listen to their new album in full along with track by track commentary from 11pm. 104.9FM or listen online here   Also at 7pm Chris & Jonny will talk with Ben Jones at Virgin Radio as well as listen to new tracks from X&Y. 105.8FM / 1215MW or listen online here. (There will be an hour long interview with Ben broadcast on Sunday 5th June at 19.00

Australian TV Alert. Coldplay will be on Rove LIVE tonight (Sept 6). Rove is starting at 9pm tonight (super big show) and is on channel 10 for those who don't know.

Coldplay, as was predicted, will be appearing on the Saturday Night Live show on 25th October 2008, we can exclusively reveal.   As yet it is unknown whether it will be a live performance or an interview, or both, but here is the blurb attached to that show, released today:   John Hamm will be the guest host of Saturday Night Live on October 25th. 2008. He will be accompanied by musical guest Coldplay. John Hamm is an actor, known best for his roles on television. John Hamm was born Jonathan Dan

Coldplay will feature on Saturday Night Live on May 21.   For more details click here   "Episode Number 586 First Aired May 21, 2005 Guest Stars: Lindsay Lohan (as Herself) Coldplay (as Themselves) "it seems i am the only person who noticed that Coldplay is going to be on Saturday Night Live on May 21! And Lindsay lohan is hosting!!! thanks- Clara

In February Coldplay were guests at Stefan Raab's German late night comedy show "TV Total" (Pro7). More excellent pictures from TV Total have surfaced.   Click here to see them [thanks Larry]

Coldplay's manager has said the recent changes at EMI could mean the delay of the band's eagerly-awaited fourth album, 'Prospekt'.   Coldplay are said to be upset over the departure of Tony Wadsworth, head of EMI's UK Music Divison, and as a result are now considering their next move.   EMI was recently subject to a £3.2 billion takeover by the financier Terra Firma and thousands of redundancies are expected. Speaking to the Times, Dave Holmes said: "Tony was the reason a lot of bands sigmed to

Coldplay on the Ellen show   The band treated us to Magic and A Sky Full of Stars which were played live yesterday on the Ellen Degeneres show on NBC. The suggested interview with Chris Martin which was originally planned for last week then apparently moved to yesterday's show, was not aired. The reason for this is unknown so the top interview this era so far remains with Zane Lowe's personal interview with the Coldplay frontman. You can watch Coldplay perform Magic and A Sky Full of Stars bel

Here are videos clips of Coldplay on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos, which aired yesterday on cbc.ca/thehour and CBC Television on June 6th at 11pm. A peak of a rare behind the scenes interview with Coldplay in their London studio flat gave George Stroumboulopoulos a tour of the space and discusses the new album and the band. Click on the titles below, which link to the videos.   The Coldplay Tour - George gets a backstage pass to Coldplay’s London studio from none other than Chris Marti

Edge 102 started their British Invaison Week yesterday and here's what's coming up:   March 17 2:00pm: British Invasion Week kicks off with 3 songs by British Edge artists every hour until Sunday night!   March 19 Ongoing History of New Music Archives: 10:00am: What Happened to Britpop part 1 11:00am: What Happened to Britpop part 2   March 19 6:00pm: OASIS LIVE! A re-broadcast of the June 2005 Oasis private studio concert   March 19 Ongoing History of New Music: 7:00pm: 10 things you didn’t kno

There are lots of new pictures of Coldplay on Top Of The Pops, you can see all the details here

Click here to listen to What If? from Top Of The Pops   Click here to listen to Square One, What If?, White Shadows and an interview from Later... With Jools Holland.   [thanks djpea]

Another full summer Coldplay US arena tour annoucement may be round the corner as Live Nation has listed a second US date at the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tennessee on 6th June (screenshot taken in case it disappears!). This follows just hours after a new date in Birmingham, Alabama was confirmed for 18th May.   The two dates, almost three weeks apart, look to be joined by further shows in between, with more in early-mid May and mid June also a possibility. Four June Canadian shows were announ

Virgin Radio will welcome Coldplay into the studio on 9th June, three days before the album release. They will be answering your questions on, well anything, so get thinking about what you want to ask them.   Details on how to send in a question for Coldplay (or an individual band member) directly are here. [Thanks Ben Jones @ Virgin Radio]   You can listen to the Virgin Radio station webstream via the Coldplaying toolbar - which you can download here prior to the Virgin interiew. To manually ad

UPDATE: Coldplay performed Charlie Brown and Paradise on the X Factor towards the end of the show - and 'Chris Martin', #coldplay and 'Guy Berryman' all trended worldwide on Twitter! Let us know what you thought of the performance at the messageboard now! (42 pages of discussion so far and growing!)   Coldplay were reportedly asked to duet with an X Factor contestant at this weekend's final, but turned the offer down, according to reports published in the lead up to this weekend's two final show

Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland talked XFM's John Kennedy through each and every track on their third album, 'X&Y'.   Listen to the guys' commentary, plus hear the album in full right here'Square One' "I remember it sounding like Dire Straits - it sounded like 'Brothers In Arms' a bit, or maybe I'm thinking of 'Road To Hell' by Chris Rea... But it sounded like something."   'What If' "Actually, it came in the middle of the night one night. It came out in one go. It took about a year to reco

Coldplay will be on the Live Lounge at midnight tonight (end of Sunday, start of Monday) with recordings from their Earls Court gig from 2004.   To listen live across the internet, tune into the XFM website.   More on this here

Xfm's annual X list mega-poll is back, where you decide what is your favourite music of all time. Last year, Coldplay's 'Clocks' made it to the number 8 spot.   The most popular 104 songs from this year's poll will make up the shortlist which will be played out in full on August Bank Holiday. Vote now for the chance to win 104 Xfm gig tickets and help Coldplay beat their number 8 spot.   For more details, click here.