We recently reported that Ash frontman Tim Wheeler had been working with Coldplay on their long-awaited follow-up to Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, but speaking to BBC 6Music, Wheeler said he had only had very limited studio involvement with the band. [comments/discussion]
Wheeler admits he was in the studio with the band: "I showed up one day at the studio and they were starting to work on a song that, actually, I think had a bit of an influence from one of our recent singles. So, they said 'here take up the guitar' and the next thing I know I'm jamming along with them and Eno. I was really buzzed 'coz I'm such a big Eno fan as well."
It hasn't been confirmed whether or not this jam session will be used on the Coldplay album, as Wheeler explained: "I don’t know if it's going to be on the record. It's almost like a pre-rehearsal. They were figuring out the arrangement and I was jamming along. They were actually recording it but I think they were going to go start from scratch again. There was one little guitar lick I was playing that I think Chris was quite excited about. I think they can slot that in. There's got to be a chance!"
Catherine and Allison from The Pierces also gave 6 Music News some inside information about Coldplay's movements and it turns out they too have been getting in on the LP5 album action: "We sang on a song but I think it got scrapped. They started a record and then they scrapped it and then they were going to start over. Then I heard they pulled the first, initially scrapped, record back out and that’s the one that we were on. So, I don’t know if we're still on there or not. We won't know until it comes out."
Recent pictures of Coldplay with fans at the Beehive (31st January - 3rd February 2011): [thanks to bRITAnka & fauo_1995]
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