Coldplay News

Coldplay.com has announced changes to North American tour dates. The report is as follows:   We're very sorry, but unfortunately Coldplay have had to move the dates of some of the previously-announced US shows. The band have experienced some production delays which mean that the show simply won't be ready for June 29. It's very frustrating but they promise you a show worthy of your patience and understanding when they start in mid-July. All tickets remain valid, but refunds will be available fro

Following Coldplay's postponement of the Saratoga Springs show due to illness, they have rescheduled this date in place of the recently announced, then removed, show at Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY, which now will not happen. Here's Anchorman with more details:   We're pleased to confirm that Coldplay's scheduled show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York on May 27th -which was postponed because of illness - has now been rescheduled for July 27th. However, in order to

A statement from the band   "With the greatest possible respect to Joe Satriani, we have now unfortunately found it necessary to respond publicly to his allegations. If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental, and just as surprising to us as to him. Joe Satriani is a great musician, but he did not write or have any influence upon the song Viva La Vida. We respectfully ask him to accept our assurances of this and wish him well with all future end

LONDON — 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 10 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

Coldplay were guests today on Ken Bruce's radio show on Radio 2 [uK], where they played a live set of Talk, What If and Don't Panic.   They also mentioned more on next year's tour, including shows in South America late next year.   More on the show and to download the audio, click here   [Thanks Alex & stevemah]

Chris Martin and Will Champion performed two songs from the forthcoming Coldplay album last night (January 27th) to a music industry audience at London's Whitfield Street Studios.   Reported by Music Week, the band's frontman and drummer appeared as part of a presentation night by their record label Parlophone. According to the magazine, the pair swapped their usual on-stage instruments for acoustic guitars for the two-song performance.   Martin began by announcing that the band's new album wa

Chris Martin has said the band's next record will be a concept album revolving around a secret story, and that he wants follow-up to 'Viva La Vida' to have 'less fanfare', according to NME today.   The frontman revealed that the band want to take a break from touring to work on the follow-up to 'Viva La Vida', which he says will be more stripped-down than its predecessor. "We spend an awful lot of time creating," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Maybe it's because we're about to turn 33, but

Chris Martin has been talking about the mysterious reasons behind the name of Coldplay’s upcoming new album ‘X&Y’ and how his band missed out on a huge money bonus from EMI for delivering it late.   Coldplay's new album, the follow-up to 2002’s 16 million selling ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’, will be entitled ‘X&Y’ and will be released by Parlophone Records on June 6. Frontman Chris Martin has revealed where the record’s name came from.   "X and Y is the mathematical formula used when

The band say it's on the way   Coldplay have an album's worth of new material and are planning to set up their own HQ in London to record it - despite tabloid reports they're going to split.   After sampling Kraftwerk on last single 'Talk' the band are set to take their approach to recording. Inspired by the German group's Kling Klang studio where no outsiders are allowed, Coldplay are planning to build their own London studio to record the follow-up to 'X&Y' [pictured].   Their third albu

February 2008 starts with an invitation for Chris Martin from Cradle of Filth's lead singer...   British rocker Dani Filth wanted to go head-to-head with Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin in a boxing match. The founding member of extreme metal band Cradle Of Filth branded indie frontman Martin a "sap" saying he would be his first choice to have a fight with. He says, "Probably that c**t Chris Martin from Coldplay. I wouldn't even wait for the bell. "Absolutely everything about him makes me want to

2008 starts with glossy Coldplay...   The Q Magazine article featuring Coldplay hit the shelves in early January and contained some more information on the new album that we didn't already know at the start of the year. The new release date was rumoured to be May/June 2008.   Stars continued to fall on Coldplay.com - particularly in the 2008 section where Coldplay turned 10 years old! Prospekt sneaked in a January entry, saying: Back home for a few days. A brief rest before the final push. Anoth

In March we learned that Coldplay would headline the first-ever Pemberton Festival, set for July 25-27 in Pemberton, B.C., and also that the band were reportedly being paid a whopping £1.2million ($2.4million) to play the Summer Sonic festival in Japan later in the year. If they gigged for 75 minutes on both nights, they trousered a jaw-dropping £8,000 ($16,200) a minute. Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival bosses were rightly chuffed with themselves, calling Coldplay "the ultimate blue chip act of ou

Reviews of Coldplay's performance have started to hit the site. You can read some here

Here's another online review for the new year of Coldplay's new EP, Prospekt's March:   Coldplay’s latest EP is simply an extension of Viva La Vida and a darn good one at that. I reported a while back how you could purchase this album for 99 cents which is amazingly cheap, but by no means is that a reflection of the quality of this album. In fact, that’s pretty much a steal for this new 8 song EP they’re calling Prospekt’s March.   Prospket’s March is, like I said, really a continuation of the g

In late 2004, Coldplay sent word to VH1 that they wanted to perform on the network's Storytellers -- which was a tricky request, since the show had been off the air for three years. The show's executive producer, Bill Flanagan, says, "It was like, 'Well, jeez, should we tell them we don't do it anymore?'"   But instead of turning down one of the world's hottest bands, VH1 brought Storytellers back to life. And as word spread of the show's revival, some of rock's biggest names -- Bruce Springstee

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 and the "best gig we've ever done - ever"   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks strawberryswinger & SueDeNimes]   It's utterly crazy. I've heard crowds excited before the band come on, many times. Here in Paris though, it's completely berserk. They start Mexican waving, Again, not unusual. Then they start the Viva Chant. This too, happens very often. Here though, they get louder and louder until there is just a f

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 and the stadium show remembering   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here and here in the Coldplay Live (Buenos Aires) forum [thanks mimixxx]   After my first day in Buenos Aires being wonderfully relaxed and tourist-y, it's been heads down getting the show together for a bit. It's a little strange going back into stadium-sized gigs after a lengthy period of relatively normal living. I distinctly remember going into the European shows

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 has been peeping at potential song titles...   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks AnnaElisabeth]   Well, folks, it's been a while and how things have changed! As is very often the case with Coldplay, what was initially thought to be a solid plan and a sturdy compass turns out to be yesterday's news and a spinning wheel. There was a lot of discussion in Latin America and the plan hasn't so much been tweaked as placed

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 and the first week back in the studio   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks jeremyy]   Can we already be a week into February? Time, tide and fifth albums it seems, wait for no man... The sudden spurt of "out of the studio" activity that the Christmas Lights release brought, subsided into an eerie silence for much of January. In the studio calendar, January had been pencilled as a month off. It will come as a surpris

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: Songs are blossoming and roadies are blowing things up   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks Natascha]   Perhaps it’s the weather. The change of season has removed the permanent blanket of grey cloud from over London and we’re getting day after day of clear blue sky and blazing sun. Similarly with the record, the fog of infinite possibilities has lifted and, for me at least, the songs are appearing in a whole new light.

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 and the wonky studio   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks Natascha]   Greetings folks, from my little room at the top of the Beehive. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I could swear that things have got more wonky up here since we moved in. And I mean that in a purely physical sense, not a psychological one. We’ve got bits of wood under the fridge to try to level it up and there’s a pretty hefty crack appearing down

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: Roadie #42 on Glastonbury and the video shoot   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks jeremyy]   When I went away to university, slightly more moons ago than I care to admit here, I promised family and friends that I’d write regularly. Most of the letters that I actually sent, began with “Sorry I haven’t written for a while, but I’ve been dead busy”. If you’d told me then, that there would be weeks in my future like the co

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42, the bucket factory and the unplugged performance   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks Mimixxx]   Join a road-crew they said. See the world they said. Exotic locations and glamour they said… I would never have dared dream, though, that if I worked hard enough, one day I’d find myself in a disused bucket factory in Brooklyn.   In reality, the place where we find ourselves actually has a pretty spectacular view of Ma

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 gives us the inside line on rehearsals for the arena tour   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks _Tash]   I’m sitting in the lounge waiting for the flight up to Glasgow. I suppose technically, tonight is the first proper show of the Mylo Xylotour. It’s not surprising really that it doesn’t feel like it. The Rock Im Park festival was the first gig show we did with these songs. That was on June 3rd - exactly six months

Check out coldplay.com for a new blog entry: #42 reports back from the first two arenas shows and the tiny Dingwalls gig   Discuss this blog entry in the Coldplay forum here onwards [thanks suzanafg]   Greetings. I’ve one foot out the door to the O2 show, so not much time to catch up on what’s been a pretty eventful week. The arena shows finally kicked off in Glasgow on Saturday. I’m pretty sure that the first UK arena on the Rush Of Blood tour was the SECC in Glasgow. We’d done a bunch of shows