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One or two more music reviews have been added to Coldplaying.com here. Thanks to our affiliateship to t170.com we have added some reviews that you might find useful.   Thanks to those reviewers at t170.com for their work. More reviews will appear soon. If you want to submit reviews of your own you can do so here. Please submit whatever you can, its your chance to give some great exposure to your favourite albums - well worth a few minutes of your time.

Available multimedia mp3's have been posted to coldplay.org - check the site for details.   Included are Remixes/Instrumentals/Acoustics files and also a wide selection of old and new b-sides.   These files will only be available for a limited time.

Coldplaying.com set up a series of polls where you can vote for some of the top 50 artists in music history. Three artists from each decade from the last 50 years have been voted by you, visitors to coldplaying.com.   The 3 top artists in each decade won through to the final to find the top 3 artists joining the founding members, U2, Madonna, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Bob Marley.   Voting for this FINAL ends on 19 December. You do not have to be registered to cast your vote - its open to

Thanks to Garry Browm for submitting the latest music reviews - Barenaked Ladies here and Manic Street Preachers here   To add your reviews (favourite album, compilation etc) please click here. It's simple!

As you will know by now, as a 'thank you' to the fans, Coldplay have been handing out LeftRightLeftRightLeft, a free nine-track CD to everyone who attends one of the band’s concerts this summer. If you are not going to a Coldplay show in 2009 and therefore not able to receive your very own physical copy of LeftRightLeftRightLeft, worry not!   We have a CD mailing exchange programme where you can sign up to receive a free CD from another member who will have spare copies from the shows they atte

In addition to the old favourites Tetris, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Pacman, Snake to name but a few, you can now enjoy the following games:   Minesweeper Keno Deal or no deal (UK) Deal or no deal (US) 3-D Tetris   Makes boredom seem a lot better waiting for a new Coldplay album!

Registered Coldplaying.com messageboarders can download some or all of them here, the choice is yours!   More live links to follow.

We have a new design for our forums, which has been unveiled today! As we move away from the Ghost Stories era and move closer to the A Head Full Of Dreams section of Coldplay's story, we envisage a year of celebration, moving forward from the darkness, into the light.   Preview   Feel free to explore, by clicking on the 'community' tab at the top of this page. You'll also notice the new banner. The artwork was made by Batman on our forums and freakishly features 6 fingers! Also a thumb wh

Major changes have been made to the Coldplaying forums, as some of you may have already noticed. This comes after major issues with the forums, over the past week. Our site developer, Stephen (Stephend2000) has kindly been working to bring the forums back up and the best option was to migrate from Vbulletin4 to Xenforo. This in turn fixed many issues and the new forum will be more stable for the site in the long term.   The change to Xenforo was something we've been considering for the future a

A brand new Picture Gallery has been installed to the site. It should prove easier to navigate through the numerous albums, and visitors to the site can add comments to literally any picture you come across.   So... feel free to delve into whichever album you want. More pictures to come soon!

New messageboard community available exclusive to this site. Go here for the new forum.

I would like to introduce myself officially as the new owner of Coldplaying.com! A few days ago a message was posted outlining the goals and intentions for this great community by myself :   I would love to say as a fellow poster on the forums, I am looking forward to the times ahead with Ghost Stories on the horizon and a new wave of Coldplay fans about to ascend on the forums. There are exciting times ahead for Coldplaying, I have my ambitions for Coldplaying which are built on top of the

Several new downloads are available.   Please click here for an Coldplay live acoustic session at the China Club, New York (12 June 2003)   Please click here for Coldplay live at Louisville, USA 2003   Please note, you have to be registered members of the Coldplaying.com messageboard to access the files.

With the Ghost Stories era picking up momentum, the forums have been given a makeover, with a new dark and very blue style inspired by Ghost Stories and trying to capture the feel and atmosphere of the spectacular new era.   Mobile users can now experience the forums in an easier fashion than having to download third party applications. Login on your phone to www.coldplaying.com/forum and see the difference. (Tip : You can revert back to the main desktop version at anytime by clicking on 'full

Coldplaying.com now has a new Gallery. Our forum software vBulletin has combined with the feature-packed PhotoPost to bring you the largest collection of Coldplay imagery anywhere on the WWW.   Alter your bookmarks now:   http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/   To have 'access all areas' to the new gallery please register your free account here User Features:   *Users can upload photos to a category or to their own gallery *Users can create their own subcategories/subgalleries within their

There were no winners to the previous Roadie #42 LP5 blog sweepstakes poll that ended with R#42's seventh blog on 5th October. However Lore was the first to start start discussion on the seventh LP5 blog in the forums.   The next poll to guess the day when the next Roadie blog will be posted is now open here (bookmark the thread - new polls will start after every blog!) - which will lead all the way up to the release of said (as yet untitled) album.   Look out for some more mega polls coming y

Further to the Italian balloons and crowns we told you about ahead of the Coldplay concert in Udine on Monday, and the yellow Coldplaying t-shirts that will be donned by over 100 people inside Wembley stadium, we have news of a new choreographed event in collaboration with Coldplayzone and Coldplayitalia that will turn Wembley into something never seen before - a stadium full of yellow glowsticks.   In the hope of distributing the glowstick bracelets in the queues before the venue we are asking

Only days to go now until Coldplay hit Wembley - have you got your yellow glowsticks for distribution yet?   Further to the Italian balloons and crowns we told you about ahead of the Coldplay concert in Udine on Monday, and the yellow Coldplaying t-shirts that will be donned by over 100 people inside Wembley stadium, we have news of a new choreographed event in collaboration with Coldplayzone and Coldplayitalia that will turn Wembley into something never seen before - a stadium full of yellow gl

2008 Concert Volunteer Application - Support Oxfam at the US Coldplay shows!   Oxfam America are looking for volunteers to help out at Coldplay shows in the US - there are still spots available for most Coldplay US shows - including (but not limited to) the following ones where there is a shortage of applicants:   21 October 2008: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH 31 October 2008: Verizon Center, Washington DC 1 November 2008: Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA 5 November 2008: Phillips Arena, A

Coldplay (Coldplaying) vs. Keane (Keane Official Forum)   Coldplaying.com has been chosen to represent Coldplay by the judging panel of Absolute Radio to go through to the on-air rounds of the Absolute Rock-Off - playoffs against other music forums across the internet. The matches opened on Ben Jones’s show today with Coldplay v Keane. Absolute Radio listeners will have a day to vote on their favourite playlist between these two forums. The winner will then go through to the next round.   Coldp

UPDATE: We think the BTDMA site is now back to normal after a day or so of problems so you should be able to log in and confirm your daily vote normally. If you have problems please try to log in through the BTDMA site and then paste our direct Coldplaying link into a new window which should give you the chance to confirm your action. Please post any futher troubleshooting errors at the messageboard thread. We will have more information as and when we get it. Thanks for voting for us! :)   Votin

How We See The World will finally be available for sale in just a few short weeks, and we want to tell the world about it!!   Do you know someone who works at a newspaper, radio or TV station? Do you know people who would like to spread the word about Coldplaying.com's Charity album? Then copy and paste the following, and send it to anyone you can!!   Press Release - How We See The World Music by members of www.coldplaying.com for the Coldplaying Charity Club Contact: Tracie Morgan S.D.G. Produc

Quarter-final: Coldplay (Coldplaying) vs. Muse (Muse Official Forum)   Please vote now for Coldplay HERE! (no registration required)   Coldplaying.com has made it to the quarter-finals of Absolute Radio's Rock-Off competition representing Coldplay in the playoffs against other music forums across the internet. The quarter-final matches opened on Ben Jones’s show tonight with Coldplay v Muse. The public will have a day to vote on their favourite playlist between these two forums. The winner will

Due to an unprecedented number of people wishing to download Nappies (both video and 320 kpbs MP3) I have had to restrict downloaders to messageboard members only. Registering only takes a couple of minutes here. Once registered you can download Nappies here. Sorry for any inconvenience but it was necessary due to the demand.   Registering for the messageboard also gives you an opportunity to mingle with the excellent Coldplaying crowd! They're a friendly lot, honest!   Ian

The Digital Music Awards 2005 voting is well underway, and Coldplaying.com has taken its usual place in the voting line up.   We hope to build upon our 54th place in the People's Choice Award in 2003 and 44th place in 2004, and with the global success of X&Y and the current world tour there is a possibility your Coldplay fansite could do very well.   Please pledge your support to Coldplaying.com and click below to vote for the site or click on the banners you see around the site. Every vot