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Coldplay played Lost! twice because the second one was being recorded for a video. Setlist was the same as the previous night, except for an unknown song planted inbetween The Escapist outro and Green Eyes acoustic:   Life In Technicolor (intro) Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Viva La Vida Yes 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing   OFF STAGE AND ON THE FLOOR LEVEL Chinese Sleep Chant God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)   BACK ON STAGE Speed Of Sound Yellow Lost! Lost!   BACK OF ARENA IN SECTIO

It was high fives all around for Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" on the Canadian album charts.   The Brit-rock quartet's fourth disc stayed at No. 1 for a fifth consecutive week, selling 15,000 copies, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. It has now racked up a grand total of 176,000 in sales since its release last month. Meanwhile In the US charts, Coldplay's new album slips from second to fourth with 90,000 sales. Nas' latest album tops this week's Billbo

Bid for signed Epiphone Sheraton II guitar   Coldplay.com: Good evening. We can reveal that an Epiphone Sheraton II guitar, signed by the members of Coldplay, is being auctioned on eBay in aid of The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares. This auction will run until July 31st. Click here to find out more or to make a bid. It would look very smart in your living room, next to the telly.   Anchorman  

Details of the "premier line-up" of 4Music, a reincarnation of music TV channel The Hits, have been outlined. Shows will include performances from Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Sugababes and The Verve and extensive live V Festival coverage.   Channel 4 and Bauer Media, which are behind the venture, said 4Music signified the rebirth of music TV. 4Music will be launched over the V Festival weekend and be available on Sky 360, Virgin 330 and Freeview 18.   Alexa Chung, Nick Grimshaw, Miquita Oliver, Lau

Coldplay swings for the balconies, and even plays in them   On its 2006 tour, Coldplay figured out how to supersize its shows. Once a fluff-up-the-pillow band of balladeers, built on Chris Martin’s falsetto voice and upright piano, the British quartet muscled up and swung for the rafters, in keeping with its status as a multimillion-selling franchise capable of filling sports arenas around the globe.   With its fourth and latest album, the cumbersomely titled “Viva La Vida or Death and All His F

Coldplay played Lost! twice because the second one was being recorded for a video. Setlist:   Life In Technicolor (intro) Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Viva La Vida Yes 42 Fix You Strawberry Swing   OFF STAGE AND ON THE FLOOR LEVEL Chinese Sleep Chant God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)   BACK ON STAGE Speed Of Sound Yellow Lost! Lost!   BACK OF ARENA IN SECTION 109 Scientist (Acoustic) Death Will Never Conquer (Will vocals)   BACK ON STAGE Politik Lovers in Japan Death And All His

As Israeli city Tel Aviv gears up to its 100th anniversary in 2009, Jewtastic can reveal that local government bosses have set their sights on Duran Duran to perform a headlining concert as well as applying for permission to use the group’s instrumental song Tel Aviv as a theme for the city.   According to a Tel Aviv Municipality city insider, Duran Duran have emerged as the top act for a celebrate Tel Aviv concert being planned in 2009.   Other acts who are said to be on the shortlist of headli

The world's biggest band Coldplay have been snubbed in the Mercury Music Awards. Instead, the nomination headlines go to Estelle, Adele and Radiohead.   They are all up for the gong, which celebrates British and Irish music. "This turns out to be a remarkably rich year for British music," says Simon Frith, Chair of Judges. "What is most striking is the continued resilience and flexibility of the album as a way of organising music-making. It remains an unrivalled source of musical invention and i

As reported in a Coldplaying exclusive yesterday, Coldplay have confirmed that they will be playing in Dublin in December, but only one show has been confirmed thus far. This from the official site:   Good afternoon. We're pleased to report that Coldplay have confirmed a date at The O2 in Dublin on Sunday 21st December 2008. Tickets for this fully-seated concert go on sale this Friday (July 25th) at 9am, from the following folks:   In person: from 100 Ticketmaster outlets nationwide 24hr hotline

The 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize are to be announced at a London ceremony later.   Last year, the Klaxons won the award for their album Myths of the Near Future. Contenders for the 2008 shortlist include big-sellers such as Radiohead, Coldplay, Robert Plant and Duffy.   Radiohead gained acclaim last year for releasing their album Rainbows online, while Coldplay topped the UK and US charts with their recent release, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. Meanwhile, Duffy became t

Ticketmaster.ie have released new seating plans for Dublin's new O2 Arena in Ireland, formerley the Point Theatre ('The Point') that re-opens this December. Assuming the venue will be open on time, Coldplay are likely to be the first band to play in the new arena - and play two nights there.   Events in 'The O2' are controlled by Live Nation, the organisation arranging the shows for Coldplay's current US tour. The Point was closed in the summer of 2007 to be rebuilt and refurbished, to be rename

Basshunter's album Now You're Gone managed to oust Coldplay from the top of the UK album chart, after five consecutive weeks at number one.   This week 331,000 copies of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends were sold wordwide and the record still remains the biggest selling release across the world, with 3,554,000 copies of the album having been sold. 1,081,000 downloads of the single Viva La Vida have also been recorded.   If that wasn't enough, Cemeteries Of London, Yes, Life In Technicol

Setlist:   Life In Technicolor (intro) Violet Hill Clocks In My Place Viva La Vida Yes 42 The Scientist Strawberry Swing Chinese Sleep Chant God Put A Smile Upon Your Face Speed Of Sound Yellow Lost! Green Eyes Death Will Never Conquer ----- Politik Lovers In Japan Fix You --- Death And All His Friends The Escapist (outro)   Green Eyes and Death Will Never Conquer were done from the back section. Yellow was the electric version. Fabulous show.   Avril lavigne and her hubby from sum 41 were sitti

24/7 is giving you and 3 friends the opportunity to see Coldplay - Live at the world's most popular venue, The O2 Arena, London.   They're giving away 10 prizes of 4 tickets, yes 40 tickets to see this amazing concert from their very own private V.I.P. Suite. All you've got to do is register a few details here and answer this simple question:   What flavour are 24/7 Energy Strips? (Hint: Caffeine!)   To qualify to enter the Competition you must be resident in the United Kingdom. The email addre

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]  

Setlist:   1 life in technicolor 2 violet hill 3 clocks 4 in my place 5 viva la vida 6 42 7 yes 8 the scientist   9 chinese sleep chant 10 god put a smile upon your face   11 square one 12 speed of sound 13 strawberry swing 14 yellow- full band 15 politik 16 lost   17 the hardest part - acoustic 18 death will never conquer   19 fix you 20 lovers in japan   21 death and all his friends   I thought that this was a GREAT opportunity for the band to really 'step it up' from their last two shows in L

Coldplay singer, Chris Martin, says he would like to tour with teen Disney actress, Miley Cyrus, in a bizarre musical match up. Martin, 31, revealed his secret admiration for the Hannah Montana actress and aspiring pop singer, 15, saying: 'I like Miley Cyrus... I like the TV show.'   Quizzed on a possible touring team up, the Viva la Vida singer, said: 'I'd do it. Anyone we like or respect, no matter how different they may be, we would play with. 'She's doing something quite different... I just

Coldplay have pulled selected items of tour merchandise on their current US jaunt, because in the words of Chris Martin, it is "crap".   The band felt the quality of some items on sale was substandard, which led to the removal of the goods from merch stalls at the concerts. "We were in the dressing room in L.A. looking at some of the stuff and much of it, especially some of the t-shirts, looked terrible." Frontman Martin is quoted as saying.   "We put so much work into our music. The same qualit

Coldplay performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as part of the Mercedes-Benz Summer Concert Series. You can now view their performances of Viva la Vida and Lost! online. The performance of Lost! is an online exclusive only and wasn't aired on television.   There is also a Coldplay fan interview where John Melendez quizzes the hardest of hard-core Coldplay fans on their trivia skills! Watch the performances below [thanks BoredTerry, Hollywoodpunk & Cris_Santos]   Viva La Vida Lost! Coldp

Hundreds of Coldplay fans will be locked out of their Scottish concerts after a massive ticket mix-up.   Ticketmaster have recalled a batch of 3200 briefs after they were printed on the wrong paper. The gaffe means anyone who bought the tickets from secondary sources, such as eBay, will be denied entry to the concert. It is estimated that tickets originating from touts and fans who decided to sell them could number more than 800 for the two gigs on December 5 and 6.   Last night, Ticketmaster ad

Coldplay are MTV Portugal’s ‘Artist of the Week’. They have a flash based Coldplay microsite with biography, pictures, video and ‘goodies’ [i.e. wallpaper], which you can view here   More on this story here [thanks Live4Coldplay]  

The band Filligar, which includes Hamilton student Casey Gibson '09, has been chosen as a finalist in the competition to open for Coldplay in their upcoming concert in Boston. Currently fourth in the pool of 15 finalists, Filligar needs to be one of the top three vote-winners in order to have the chance to be chosen by Coldplay as the opener.   Filligar is based out of Chicago and includes Gibson's childhood friends Pete, Teddy and Johnny Mathias. The band performed on the Hill as part of the M

"Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" (Parlophone/EMI) gives Coldplay a fourth week atop European Top 100 Albums, but there's a new leader on Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" (Topdog/Atlantic/Warner Music) moves up 2-1, trading places with Estelle's "American Boy" (Homeschool/Atlantic), featuring Kanye West.   Coldplay leads the way again in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Switzerland, Greece and the Belgian region of Wallony, and moves back 2-1 in Holland. "V

Chris Martin was just on KIIS FM with Ryan Seacrest. As per usual, he was in typical interviewing form - facetious and funny. You can listen to and download the interview here [thanks Ouiparis & mimixxx]   Meantime, here are a few tidbits from the interview [thanks Ouiparis]:   * Ryan mentioned that he liked the Starbucks joke (venti vs. grande) and Chris said he was glad because it is difficult to be funny in front of a whole bunch of people.   * Chris thought the Monday night encore was mu

There is a Ticketmaster ticket recall for the two Coldplay concerts at the SECC in Glasgow on 5th and 6th December 2008. Check your emails for details if you have bought tickets. This is from the Ticketmaster website:   If you have received an email from Ticketmaster regarding a ticket recall for the Coldplay events at the SECC on 5th and 6th December 2008, we can confirm that this email is legitimate and would ask you to follow the instructions contained therein. Only those customers affected b