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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

You may remember Coldplaying.com was involved in a campaign on 6th April 2006, courtesy of Coldplaying member jbarry5503, to distribute 12000 'USA Loves Coldplay' flyers at the Wachovia Center, during the final US Twisted Logic show last year. Well, we're doing it again, courtesy of ColdplayJoe.   For those Coldplayers who are interested in becoming a Coldplay sign gang participant again please follow the instructions here or download the signs directly here   Meanwhile, congratulations to Music

Are you interested in what songs Coldplay are singing on their current Viva La Vida Tour? Want to know how many times each song has been sung and when and from which album? Well, the place to go is to Jordan’s Viva La Viva Tour Stats blog. He’s keeping track of such things… good job!   Let us know what you think of the blog here    

A few updates happening around and about Coldplaying, the arcade has been fixed and all your hi-scores are now saving.   A whole load of videos have been updated to the Coldplaying YouTube Channel. If you're not a subscriber, we encourage you to subscribe through our channel so you can be notified whenever we post a new video. We’ll blog about it too, of course!   A bunch of pictures have been added to the gallery, in particular:   3 pictures to the [28/11/2005] Tony Garnier Hall, Lyon, France a

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   Recently added to the gallery are Bigger Stronger screenshots (selection below). Read the full article for details of all gallery user features.  

A list of 'Help' pages has been added to the WikiColdplay project to give you guidance on browsing, searching, editting, and customising the Wiki. Simply click on the links here to get you started.   WikiColdplay uses the Coldplaying vBulletin messageboard as a base and has integrated into the pages. All you need to do to add/edit/remove content from WikiColdplay is simply log into your messageboard account as normal, or post as a guest (limited permissions).   The links you need to bookmark are

A list of 'Help' pages has been added to the WikiColdplay project to give you guidance on browsing, searching, editting, and customising the Wiki. Simply click on the links here to get you started.   WikiColdplay uses the Coldplaying vBulletin messageboard as a base and has integrated into the pages. All you need to do to add/edit/remove content from ColdplayWiki is simply log into your messageboard account as normal, or post as a guest (limited permissions).   The links you need to bookmark are

Apologies to those who've inadvertantly been bombarded with test mails, we're still trying to get sections of the messagboard corrected following the upgrade.   Please bin those messages and please bear with us!

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

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.

You may notice small changes to the layout of most pages on the website, this will make things a little easier to navigate and view. If you have any comments please let me know using the link below.   :)

Following on from the success of the Coldplaying Premiership Fantasy Football League last season, you can now join the new Coldplaying.com Fantasy Football League at http://fpli.premierleague.com/ and create your own team, then use the code 2106-704 to join the Coldplaying league.   Please ensure you have registered a team and joined the Coldplaying league 16.30pm (GMT) on 9th June to start gaining points from the outset.   For full details on how to register, create a team and join the Coldpla

More pictures from the US Twisted Logic Tour 2006 have been added to the gallery, including 2nd row pictures submitted by Joe Ross who was at the Louisville gig in February.   You can view those pictures here [thanks Joe]

The Coldplaying Messageboard is back online after a successful data migration from the old board.   You can log in here to access your original accounts, PMs and old posts. If you haven't yet joined the community go to the register page.

The regulars among you will know that the Coldplaying messageboard has recently changed. This is due to the old phpbb board "throwing a wobbly", causing the Coldplaying server to become unstable.   We apologise for any inconveniece the switch may have caused. I hope you can appreciate that for the long term benefit of the site and its members, this change was essential. There are still issues to be addressed with the new board, in terms of theme colours and permissions, to make the new board sim

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  

Talk is already famous as 'that one which borrows the riff from Kraftwerk's Computer Love', and is Jonny Buckland’s moment of glory. He's the star here, from the U2-esque chiming riffs at the start to the more chaotic notes at the song's climax. Martin's lyrics are pretty sappy - Chris is @scared about the future" and we should "climb a ladder up to the sun" apparently, but it's impossible not to be swept away by the emotional power of the song.   More on 'Talk' and comprehensive information on

Thanks to all of you who have emailed in suggestions to improving the tracksearch. A new "By Category" listing has been added. If there are any other suggestions on how it can be improved please let me know.   You can view the new look Tracksearch here

Thanks for being patient while the site was being upgraded, its not only space shuttles that require maintenance!   I will backtrack all the latest news and tour reviews for you all shortly - please bear with me.   Ian

Lyrics to all X&Y songs (including the hidden track, 'Til Kingdom Come and the Japanese Bonus Track, How You See The World) have been added here   If you think there are any errors (go on - find some!) please email me here

RSS Syndication RSS syndication has been added to the Coldplaying.Com site. The latest news and downloads on the Coldplaying.Com site can now be displayed on your own sites by using the links in the main menu, or the syndication icon at the bottom of the homepage, and linking to your RSS scripts. Current content is RSS v0.91.

The search function [the one you can see in the top right hand corner of the page] has now been modified.   You can search on keywords to find relevant hits throughout the different sections of the site - including news stories, tour dates, reviews, comments, lyrics, members, links, articles and other published material.   Try it out for yourself - the whole site is now your Coldplay library.

News on multimedia files here

1) Discography - X&Y album 2) Discography - Speed Of Sound single 3) Tour Dates 2005 4) Concert Reviews 2005 5) Latest Tracksearch 6) Calendar - Album/Single and tour dates 7) 'Talk' Lyrics   1-6 will be updated with new information as and when required. Feel free to help here!

Those who like gambling and splashing out will be happy to hear that the Coldplaying Casino on the messageboard is now open.   Five games are available including BlackJack And Keno at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/casino.php   WARNING: It's highly addictive!