Coldplay News

Coldplay played an exclusive rehearsal concert at Wembley last night for 900 family and friends, and Chris Martin compared the live comeback to a pre-season friendly.   The singer told the crowd of friends and family at London’s Wembley Arena that getting back on stage was like a trip to the football with his dad when he was a nipper. He said: “Excuse us for this embarrassing shambles of a rehearsal. This reminds me of when my dad, who is 107, took me to Torquay for a pre-season game against Li

Coldplay have won the award Mejor Artista Internacional at Premios 40 Principales 2008, held yesterday in Spain. Another acknowledgement for the band of Chris Martin following the double platinum reached in Spain with the album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.   Coldplay didn't attend the awards ceremony due to their current UK tour but Will Champion thanked those supporting Coldplay via video link, wishing them 'Feliz Navidad'. You can watch the official video of the awards ceremony

Coldplay have picked up three Grammy Nominations in the following categories:   Category 16 - Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal [speed Of Sound] Category 20 - Best Rock Song [speed Of Sound] Category 21 - Best Rock Album [X&Y]   Click read more for full details of these categories, and click here for full nominee listings in all categories.   More on Coldplay's nominations here [Thanks StephBerryman & Flying Sparks]Category 16   Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group Wi

The polls are closed, the votes are counted, and the results are in!   Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall is Queen of The Raft Awards with an historic four wins including Best Female, Best Album’, Best Newcomer, and Best Website. Not bad for an artist who just over a year ago was relatively unknown!   Since her career defining performance on Later With Jools Holland, KT has gone from strength to strength, firstly being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and now receiving three nominations in the

You can see plenty of photos from Coldplay's Buzz Gig at Avalon here   Beware, do not view whilst drunk. [thanks kooljoe]

Coldplay have enough documentary footage to make their own 'Let It Be' style movie of the making of 'X&Y, nme.com can reveal.   The band have documented the entire recording process of making of their album, but singer Chris Martin joked that there would only be enough for a "five-minute DVD".   He said: "We've been documenting stuff from the beginning, but we just don't release it at all. There's a vault in London with 500 hours of us in the studio. One day we'll be able to whittle it down

Coldplay are planning a duet with Richard Ashcroft at Live 8, it has been reported.   The ex-The Verve singer has recently supported Coldplay on a handful of dates on their European tour, and the two have come up with the idea of performing The Verve’s 1997 classic 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' together, according to The Sun newspaper.   Coldplay are set to perform at the London Hyde Park date of Live 8 this Saturday (July 2).   More details in our Live 8 Forums

Last week’s phenomenally successful free single download was just the start, claim Coldplay management and label.   Coldplay have not finished with surprises in the run-up to the release of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, with a “significant major initiative” planned around another single [42 maybe?] taken from the album on May 21. With the band recording additional material that did not make the album’s final cut, Parlophone is also promising a treat for fans, with a number of other

Coldplay plan to release 'The Scientist' as the second single from 'A Rush of Blood to the Head', according to guitarist Jonny Buckland.   The group are currently on tour in the US in support of their forthcoming second album, which is due for release in the UK on August 26. Speaking to Billboard following the band's stellar show at the New York Bowery Ballroom, where singer Chris Martin covered Oasis' 'Songbird' in front of the Gallagher brothers, Buckland confirmed that the track, a ballad, wi

Coldplay and Jay-Z have reportedly agreed a multi-million dollar deal to play a concert together on New Year's Eve, at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas resort to see in 2011, according to various online sources today. You can discuss the reports to this latest event at the Coldplay Live forum now.   The event is being organised by celebrity party planner Colin Cowie and will be invite only with no tickets being put on general sale to the public. Guests will be treated to separate sets from Coldpla

British band Coldplay are planning a massive world tour next year.   They have kept tight lipped about plans to hit the road - but fellow Brits Echo and the Bunnymen have let slip they have been asked to support the group. Echo And The Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch reveals, "Chris Martin has asked us to support them on a massive tour in the New Year."   The two groups became close while Coldplay were recording their second album 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' at Parr Street studios in Liverpool

Speculation is growing that Coldplay's latest release - no not the album - but a short video of a collection of stills is actually a hidden message with details of the forthcoming record.   Messages that have been discovered so far are hand signals from Chris Martin that reads similar to "viva la vida", which roughly translates in to "Live the Life". This is backed up by lip readers that say Will Champion says the same thing. This may have links to Spanish influences, recently announced as part

Robbie Williams has been playing football with Coldplay and Starsailor at his LA home in-between working on his new album.   The 31-year-old Port Vale fan invited Chris Martin and co. and insipid indie kids Starsailor along to his pad for a kick about while putting the finishing touches to ‘Intensive Care’. Starsailor were in the city to work on their forthcoming album ‘On The Outside’ when they got an invite from Robbie.   Frontman James Walsh told The Star: “Our A & R man, Chris, was wor

Without Chris Martin and Guy Berryman, Coldplay visited Ronaldo and team-mates at Parque São Jorge, Corinthians team stadium earlier. See the pictures of Coldplay with the team after the jump.   With their own names on the back of their shirts, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Phil Harvey talked with Ronaldo, Edu, Pablo Andres and also posed for the photographers. The team president Andrés Sanches was in the stadium for another event and revealed that he didn't know Coldplay were in the country

Coldplay played a new friends and family gig for 150 people at the Forum in Kentish Town, London last night (31st May), ahead of their forthcoming festival appearances starting on Friday in Germany. Apparently, SEVEN new songs were played alongside some older songs. You can read more about this at the Coldplay forum forum now; hopefully we will get more news on this soon. In the meantime, one Coldplayer said:   My sources inform me that it was held at the Forum, Kentish Town. About 150 people in

COLDPLAY played an impromptu 90-minute acoustic set at a North London pub on Friday November 23 before jetting off for their American tour on the following Sunday.   The gig at The Shepherd's Pub in Highgate was so secret, according to a spokesman for the band's record label, Parlophone, that no-one at the record company knew about it until after it had happened.   The band played as a trio due to bassist Guy Berryman crying off with a cold. Introduced by their actor friend Simon Pegg, they play

TORONTO - After spending 18-months holed up in London writing and recording a new album, Coldplay unleashed its newest torch songs to a ravenous Toronto audience on Wednesday playing a steamy and sweaty set.   The band, led by frontman Chris Martin, seemed thrilled to reveal the material to its ardent fans. For their part, devotees gobbled it up with fervour, hooting, hollering and clapping their way through the hour-a-half-long show which mixed equal parts new songs and old favourites. "Thanks

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland will be playing a special one off concert later this year, which will mark the band’s only live US outing of 2004 so far.   Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland will be playing a benefit gig for Californian public radio station 89.9 FM KCRW on Saturday, November 20 at the 6,000 capacity Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.   The gig, billed as ‘A Sounds Eclectic Evening’ will be Coldplay’s only performance in America this year and also fe

Coldplay played a secret rehearsal gig which included new songs, in London on Friday in front of 40 lucky fans, a smattering of press, and other insiders.   The band showcased new songs from their highly anticipated 3rd album. The unusually small audience of 40 comprised of label personnel, family & friends as well as a hand picked small number of fans.   Chris introduced proceedings and they got underway with Square One, an upbeat track. This was the first glimpse into the new album and it

UK music fans have legally downloaded more than 500,000 songs so far this year, industry figures show.   The biggest-selling download of the year to date is Coldplay's '2,000 Miles', just ahead of OutKast's 'Hey Ya!'. The half-a-million barrier was broken just a week after the UK launch of Napster, whose sales are not included in the figures.The British Phonographic Industry's (BPI) figures also reveal that the cassette single has died as a format.   In the first quarter of 2003, £418,000 worth

Coldplay have finished their set for the Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. The performances are online - you can watch the videos on the MSNBC website here   They played:   Clocks Lost! Viva la Vida In My Place 42   The rehearsal also included Yellow. More on the show including new photos here and here including those returning from the VIP pen!  

Following their performance at the Tonight Show for Jay Leno, Coldplay performed at KROQ listener Jessica Olah's house after she won the competition to have the band play for her. See all the pictures here. Contain your jealousy here [thanks TallGuyCM & Chavi]  

Yeah, we had to look twice too. Coldplay is gonna play your house!   Listen all week to KROQ for your chance to win. Be caller 20 at 800-520-1067, and you'll score tickets to see Coldplay at the Forum on July 15th. Then you'll go into a drawing to have Chris Martin and co. play your living room. Kevin & Bean draw the winner Monday morning at 7:15.   More on this here onwards [thanks kittybitty]  

Los Angeles — Coldplay has denied in federal court that it copied parts of Joe Satriani's music for its hit song, "Viva La Vida."   In a response filed in Los Angeles on Monday, attorneys for Coldplay's band members also argued that any similarities between "Viva La Vida" and Satriani's "If I Could Fly" weren't enough to warrant damages. Satriani's song "lacks originality," Coldplay's response claims, and shouldn't receive copyright protection.   Satriani sued Coldplay in December, claiming the

Coldplay have announced the cancellation of the gig at Portsmouth Pyramids on June 25th 2002. In the run up to the new album release, demands on the bands time and energies are such that the band have deemed it necessary to remove this gig from the diary.   Coldplay offer their fullest apologies to all those who have bought tickets for this gig, but hope that they can make it to the bands appearance at Bournemouth International on October 14th where their Portsmouth tickets will be valid. Coldpl