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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax. Of cabbages, and kings." After nearly 14 years at the helm it is time for an ending. And hopefully a new beginning and another chapter. Time inevitably marches forward and lives change. It has got to the point where we are not able to put in the time and effort the site(s) deserve particularly when there will inevitably be an increase in traffic & interest as the new album and tour are announ

Coldplaying's Coldplay-filled playlist has won the opening match of Absolute Radio's Rock-Off forum competition against the Official Keane Forum, we are happy to announce tonight.   Coldplaying won by 62% - 38% after 28 hours of fierce voting - our next match will be against either the official Muse forum or Radiohead fansite Ateaseweb on 10th December 2008 - more details nearer the time. Thanks to everyone who has voted for Coldplaying, and a special thanks to Anchorman and Debs Wild at the off

Coldplaying.com has landed in at 11th place overall in the People's Choice Award for Best Unofficial Music Site at the recent DMA Digital Music Awards in London.   This eclipses our previous best of 36th place in 2005. Thankyou to all who voted for Coldplaying.com. Read more for the full 200 list.   NowPlayit.com - the website created by Outside Line, who also created Coldplay.com have won Best Digital Service at this year’s BT Digital Music Awards. You may remember recently we posted informatio

Coldplaying.com and Coldplay.com are both heading to The Roundhouse in London this Thursday (29th September) when earlier today we heard that both sites had made the shortlist (top 6), in the Best Fansite and Best Official site respectively, at the BT Digital Music Awards 2011. It is the second consecutive year that both sites made the final six. Thanks to everyone who took the time out to vote for us - we'll have representatives at the awards - stay tuned on Thursday to see who wins! More discu

The DMA 2004 Awards are now over and voting has finished. Coldplaying.com came 44th out of 500 of the best worldwide music sites (including official sites). A top 50 finish that beat last years placing of 54th.   http://www.btyahoo.com/dma04/best_music_website_top500.html   A massive thankyou to all of you who voted!  

Daryl and company will be announcing the winners of the 2005 Coldplaying.com Awards later today.   To take part and watch the awards as they happen, click here  

The voting for this year's Coldplaying.com Awards 2006 will end on 21st December.   If you haven't already, and if you are a registered member of the messageboard, you can vote by sending this template to the Awards2006 account.   The award ceremony is almost upon us. Watch out - it could get messy.  

The voting for this year's Coldplaying.com Awards 2008 is now open, and will end on Saturday 15th November.   If you haven't already, and if you are a registered member of the messageboard, you can vote by private messaging this template to the Awards2008 account. The award ceremony will take place at the end of November... more details nearer the time. Watch out - it could get messy.   Guidelines:   1. Copy and paste the template below, and pick one forum member for each section (or a band, alb

Hi all   In order to complete the necessary work to fix the problems we've been having, the messageboard and site will be taken offline tonight. It is hoped that everything will be back to normal without any more problems once the work is done (1-2 days at most).   See you all on the "other side"!   Ian

Voting for the Top of the Pops fansite awards finished today. Here are the Top 10 sites:-   1. http://www.unofficialdarrenhayes.com (Darren Hayes) 2. http://www.kylie.co.uk (Kylie Minogue) 3. http://www.williamyoung.biz (Will Young) 4. http://funkin.com (Jamiroquai) 5. http://www.thelittlestar.co.uk (Madonna) 6. http://www.itswillyoung.co.uk (Will Young) 7. http://www.enriqueiglesias.org.uk (Enrique Iglesias) 8. http://www.coldplaying.com (Coldplay) 9. http://allrise4blue.freeservers.com (Blue)

Coldplaying.com received its one millionth visitor this week.   Coldplaying.com started out as a personal website on Christmas Eve 2000 and has become a leading site for Coldplay fans.   Thanks to all those who have contributed to the site, posted on the messageboard, e-mailed the site, and most importantly, VISITED HERE!

Welcome back everyone! We have had over 2 days of downtime, mainly on the forums. This was initially due to a lag issue where a process in the database placed a huge load on the servers and while the forums and partially the main sites were offline, I decided to update much of the back end of Coldplaying with the help of our veteran (:P) technical admin, Stephen/tifosi who did a fantastic job. It was a major update that caused a lot of downtime but its one for the future server performance and b

This site has been nominated for a BBC Top fansite award!   Please click on the banner above to register your vote for this site. Thanks for all your support over the last 2 (nearly) years!

The Coldplaying forums have just hit the huge milestone of 100,000 members! Yes, over the period of 15 years, we've had 100k accounts created. The first one was an admin account created in the year 2000 by Busybeeburns A.K.A Ian, who managed the whole of Coldplaying.com for a magnificent 14 years! The site was then sold in April 2014 and I've been running it from that point (Sparky).   Back in 2005 (when I originally signed up), the Coldplaying forums were not the largest as Coldplay.com had it

Hello everyone!   There are some upcoming events/features on Coldplaying.com which we are very excited about. At the moment, news is quiet on the Coldplay front and until Coldplay's next album, A Head Full Of Dreams unravels itself, there won't be much to post about on the new events side but when there is reliable info, we'll keep you informed :) I will be resuming the Ghost Stories review series again, which was delayed because of other (time consuming) Coldplaying projects. June and July's

There are a few updates to tell you about for the desktop version of the main site and forums.   You'll notice a Facebook feed to the right of the page and a brand new poll. On the forums, there's a new Twitter feed, Instagram feed and a Tinypic Image uploader.   More info on the updates, here ------ The Coldplaying app There’s now an easy way to post on our forums and interact with a world full of Coldplay fans!   For help downloading the app or to report any issues, please tweet us @co

Incase you've missed the announcement on our forums, Coldplaying.com will be dedicating Halloween to a fan favourite, 'Ghost Story' (the song on the deluxe version of 'Ghost Stories').   We're challenging you to come up with fun and creative artwork for #GhostStoryDay. One of the highlights so far is Martina's (@maybeimaghost) submission, pictured above.   We'll be offering a prize for the winner. To find out more information and instructions of how to participate, please click on the link b

Further to our call for your favourite albums of 2007, the results are now in and you can see the countdown to number 1 here   The results for the top sixty are expected throughout the day today.   [Thanks erin]  

In one of several end-of-the-decade mega polls underway at Coldplaying, we're asking you to choose between 20 and 100 of your favourite albums of the noughties in Coldplaying's Album Of The Decade poll.   It's been an action-packed ten years for the music industry and it's your opportunity to pinpoint your standout albums since 2000. For example, NME's top 50 albums of the decade list was topped by the Strokes album 'Is This It'. Meanwhile, Spinner honoured Amy Winehouse’s soulful 'Back To Black

In one of several end-of-the-decade mega polls underway at Coldplaying, we're asking you to choose between 20 and 100 of your favourite albums of the noughties in Coldplaying's Album Of The Decade poll.   It's been an action-packed ten years for the music industry and it's your opportunity to pinpoint your standout albums since 2000. For example, NME's top 50 albums of the decade list was topped by the Strokes album 'Is This It'. Meanwhile, Spinner honoured Amy Winehouse’s soulful 'Back To Black

The votes have been counted for your favourite albums from the past 12 months, culminating in today's countdown in the World Of Music forum at the Coldplaying messageboard.   The occasion will feature something different this year - the countdown will be made via uStream webcast and Twitter (click to join both channels!) and if all goes smoothly they will commence today at 2.30pm EST (7.30pm GMT).   Over the past weeks many of you have submitted personal lists of between 5 and 25 of your favorit

Thanks to all our members and visitors who sent postcards to the Coldplay PO Box address before Christmas as part of the 'Postcards From Far Away Project', and of course showed them off to everyone on the messageboard. The postcards have now been delivered to Coldplay at the Bakery by Debs Wild... here was the confirmation earlier:   Hi everyone! Well I got back from London earlier and all I will tell you at this moment is.... The postcards were delivered yesterday and it was AMAZING!! They were

Thanks to all our members and visitors who sent postcards to the Coldplay PO Box address before Christmas as part of the 'Postcards From Far Away Project', and of course showed them off to everyone on the messageboard. The postcards are waiting to be personally delivered during a break in the studio, in the meantime click here onwards for the latest news on the final leg of the project. [thanks Debs Wild, LiquidSky and of course ApproximatelyInfinate, Lore & Zemy101]   Meanwhile, Coldplay ha

Thanks to all our members and visitors who sent postcards to the Coldplay PO Box address before Christmas as part of the 'Postcards From Far Away Project', and of course showed them off to everyone on the messageboard. The postcards have already been delivered to Coldplay at the Bakery by Debs Wild, and an official response is expected later today. Here is the latest update:   Hi everyone! Well I got back from London earlier and all I will tell you at this moment is.... The postcards were delive

Join the 'Coldplaying VIII' fantasy league before the new English Barclays Premier League kicks off this Saturday 18th August 2012!   Just a few days to go before the English Premier League starts - and you can now join the EIGHTH Coldplaying fantasy league now! You can now join the new 'Coldplaying VIII' Fantasy Football League at http://fantasy.premierleague.com and create your own team (or renew a previous season's team), then use the code 43971-14827 to join the Coldplaying league. Previous