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It has become a Coldplaying tradition that every couple of months the World Of Music forum holds a mixtape exchange. Over previous years it has been run by Coldplayers 'Eglantine', 'Redgirl76' and 'Kite'. To start off the new year and the new decade, 'The Escapist' has stepped up to the role of hosting the next, the 5th, mixtape exchange.   The idea is that you get together a mix of songs that people may not have heard, that you enjoy, and sound well together (or that were just pulled out of a

WHERE: Absolute Radio Live Stories Competition WHO: David Sheppard (coldplaying.com) WHEN: Now! WHAT: Please vote for David Sheppard (coldplaying.com) now!   Coldplaying.com has made it to the final of Absolute Radio's Live Stories competition where the prize up for grabs is a special live festival-themed radio show for Coldplaying on Absolute Radio with songs hand picked by you, the Coldplayers! We are voting for David Shepperd and his excellent review of U2 at Wembley last month. So grab some

In one of several end-of-the-decade mega polls underway at Coldplaying, we're asking you to post between 20 and 100 of your favourite albums of the noughties in Coldplaying's Album Of The Decade thread. Deadline for entries is 28th February (this Sunday!)   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, Sp

For full guidelines rules and Coldplay address please go to http://www.coldplaying.com/postcards   A reminder that you can send a postcard to Coldplay courtesy of our exclusive Coldplaying.com 'Postcards from Far Away' project - and if you have already made a postcard you can show it off to everyone else before you send it!   You can send postcards to the band from anywhere in the world. The project was inspired by the song Postcards From Far Away which is featured on the recently released Prosp

The time has again come to have a good long look at the music world around us and ask ourselves: "What albums did we like this year?" [thanks Space Cadet]   We are now accepting your favourite albums from the past 12 months in preparation for the December countdown in the World Of Music forum at the Coldplaying messageboard. All you have to do is make a personal list of at least 5 and as many as 25 of your favorite original studio albums (no live albums, eps, compilations, or rereleases, sorry)

Three more MP3s have been added to Hicksy's album, 'Home Grown'. They are freely available to all coldplaying.com visitors. Also added are two new coldplaying.com screensavers - good for a change of scenery for your desktop!   Click here to browse the latest downloads page. Look out for more Coldplay live concerts soon.

Subscribe to the Coldplaying Twitter account and get live updates from INSIDE the Coldplay/The Killers exclusive War Child Gig on 18th February from the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London.   We will be bringing you the latest from the exclusive show via Twitter next Wednesday. The concert will take place following both band's attendance at the BRIT Awards, and marks the fifteenth anniversary of the charity, War Child. Coldplay.com's batch of 200 tickets were snapped up in only 2 minutes. Coldpla

Subscribe to the Coldplaying Twitter account and get live updates from INSIDE the Coldplay/The Killers exclusive War Child Gig on 18th February from the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London.   We will be bringing you the latest from the exclusive show via Twitter next Wednesday. The concert will take place following both band's attendance at the BRIT Awards, and marks the fifteenth anniversary of the charity, War Child. Coldplay.com's batch of 200 tickets were snapped up in only 2 minutes. Coldpla

The Coldplay blog from the Heineken Jammin' festival has started! Please join us now at the Coldplay forum for all the discussion on the latest pictures, interviews, videos and updates from the live Coldplay Venice blogging!   A bit of background to the festival: the Heineken Jammin' Festival is a large live rock festival in Venice, Italy featuring international and Italian rock acts. It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and has attracted attendances of more than 100,000 over the

The lyrics pages will be offline for a short while due to maintenance. They will return as soon as possible.   Ian

The lyrics pages feel better now and have returned here with a new lyric-toolbar. However if you do find any bad links please email the site.

We have a major announcement on the way, related to our on-going feature, Coldplaying Asks Coldplay. To be one of the first fans to see the announcement (on Monday 1st June), keep an eye on the 'latest news' section of our new mobile app.   We're very excited!   Click here to download the Coldplaying app for Android devices Click here to download the Coldplaying app for iPhone & iPad

'Spraycan Soul' on the Coldplaying forums is piecing together a map of Coldplay fans across the world! This should give us a picture (literally!) of how diverse Coldplay's fanbase is. It's a lovely little project, in which your help is needed. Simply post where you are from and your favourite Coldplay song.   Every Coldplayer is represented by a 'map tack'. The project has been going on for around a month and the first map update from 'Spraycan Soul' oversees USA, Canada and Mexico:     More

Coldplaying.com would like to wish all our visitors and members a very merry Christmas and prosperous New Year for 2008.   The site will remain unaffected throughout the festive period so please send in all your emails and contributions as normal.   We will bring you all the latest Coldplay news in 2008 as soon as it breaks - it promises to be an even busier year with LP4 due to be released. In the meantime click here to see Coldplay as you've never seen them before. If you missed Coldplay's Chr

Merry Christmas from all at Coldplaying.com. Have a safe and peaceful time!   "My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" [bob Hope]   "Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live." [Dennis Miller]   [thanks Texasluvsjonny]

Coldplaying.com would like to wish all our visitors and members a very merry Christmas and prosperous New Year for 2019.       The first half of 2018 was quiet for Coldplaying but with the announcement of the A Head Full of Dreams Film and the live album, it felt like old times again! We were lucky enough to interview Mat Whitecross this year and our Twitter and Instagram saw a huge increase in followers. The site saw a slight redesign that made the homepage a lot more pleasing and easy to acc

Coldplaying.com would like to wish all our visitors a very merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!   The site will remain unaffected throughout the festive period so please send in all your emails as normal. We will bring you all the latest Coldplay news in 2005 as soon as it breaks - it promises to be a very busy year.

Coldplaying.com would like to wish all our visitors and members a very merry Christmas and prosperous New Year for 2007.   The site will remain unaffected throughout the festive period so please send in all your emails and contributions as normal.   We will bring you all the latest Coldplay news in 2007 as soon as it breaks - it promises to be a very busy year. In the meantime click here to head to Jo Whiley's site, where you can watch a video of Chris Martin performing 'White Christmas' for Jo'

To Coldplaying.com,   Oxfam America would like to thank you for your continued support of our work with Coldplay. Coldplaying has played an integral role in Oxfam's outreach. Oxfam America would like to acknowledge Coldplaying and the entire Coldplay fan community for its support us during the 2008 tour.   With the support of Coldplay fans like you, 550 volunteers at more than 30 concerts generated 19,827 new members to Oxfam America’s e-community. You’ve already shown your commitment to endin

Regulars to the site may be aware that the messageboard has recently gone through a 'transition'. It's not 100% fixed in terms of 'viewability' but the problem of slow loading is now solved. The rest should be taken care of over the next few days.   Alopogies also to those who have tried registering in the last 24 but have been unable to. You can now join today onwards if you wish to.   For the rest of you (and those who just want to browse the forums), you can enjoy the very fast forum here!

There is a slight problem with the messageboard which we are aware of and are trying to get fixed asap. Sorry for any inconvenience.   Ian

The Coldplaying messageboard has been upgraded.   Take a peek at the new-look messageboard here and if you haven't already, go register!!

There will be more major changes to the coldplaying.com site over the next few weeks, most of which will be behind the scenes. We aim to keep disruption to a minimum, but please be aware that not everything goes to plan and there may be a short amount of downtime.   All work being carried out is for the good of the site, making it quicker and expanding it in the long run. Things are looking good!   Ian

Six more downloads from Hicksy's one take 'Home Grown' album are now available for direct download from this site.   Please click here to go to the download page (all visitors).

These are special downloads recorded in one take by our very own messageboard moderator, Simon (AKA Hicksy). New tracks will be released every week. Please click here to download the songs.   More details on Hicksy's work can be found on his messageboard thread. Go read it!