In an exclusive interview to be broadcast tonight (June 9) on John Kennedy's X-posure show, Coldplay's Chris Martin has revealed why their new album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' has two titles.
In a move that faintly echoes Radiohead's strategy to allow fans to decide what to pay for their album, Coldplay have given their fans the choice of two titles to choose from. Explained Chris Martin: "We refer to it just as 'Viva La Vida' but the other bit is if you find it too depressing you can call it 'Death and All His Friends' and if you find it not depressing you can call it 'Viva La Vida'. It's very much a 'you-decide-what-the-title-is'. We very much wanted to make it like those model airplanes that you buy and you can choose what colour you paint it."
The Coldplay frontman also revealed that working with legendary producer Brian Eno had resulted in the band ditching more obvious material for songs that artistically stretched the band. "We were very privileged to have Brian Eno and another guy called Markus Dravs and another guy called Rick Simpson and we had a lot of help," said Martin.
"They got involved very early at the demoing stage and they would often tell us, 'You need some better songs'. Our aim was to do stuff that we hadn't done before so that means that things that would have previously gone to the top of the pile have to wait a bit because they sound too much like Coldplay songs."
You can listen to the whole interview on John Kennedy's Xposure show tonight (June 9) at 10pm only on Xfm. 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' is released on June 12.
Source: XFM
You can listen to the Virgin Radio and XFM station webstreams via the Coldplaying toolbar - which you can download here prior to the Virgin interiew. To manually add the Virgin Radio station please add http://85.159.184.42:80 to your stations. If you have any problems with the toolbar please log them here as soon as possible.
Recommended Comments
There are no comments to display.