Community News

Bit of fun this one, if you have a messageboard screenname you can enter into the Coldplaying lottery which is being drawn around 10pm GMT.   You can enter and check the result at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/lottery.php   Bling bling baby!

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!

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!

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

We apologise for the downtime of 6 hours yesterday, which was caused by a massive accidental cut of optic fibre strands by VA Department of Transportation (VDOT) in Northern Virginia, US.   This was a particularly unusual event and affected thousands of websites around the world. We do not anticipate any further repeat of this event.   Thankyou    

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!

There have been several requests for the Wartimes video to be put back up.   An atmospheric insight into Anti-war and the result of destruction. Soundtracked by 'Politik'. Worth a view. Right click the link below and 'Save Target As' to download. Special thanks to Nolan.   Wartimes

Did you know that coldplaying.com offers free journals? They are easy to use and you can choose to keep them public or private. You can take a read of the latest updated public journals here Users can also now add comments to other users journals... but be nice!! Register your account and try one today! What more excuse to you need!!!

Coldplaying.com and Filter-mag.com have got together to bring you Filter Mag's top 5 music picks, and links to more featured info on the 5 artists (artist news, pics, interviews, reviews, downloads, video, etc).   The artists will be updated each week, to help promote new and upcoming releases, quality music, and artists that we'd all like to see getting more attention than they currently do in the mainstream media.   You can see this week's picks (and subsequent weeks) via the black Filter-Mag

There have been some great songs listed so far... but if you could create an album of your best songs ever, what would they be?   Have a look at the albums that have already been shown, and submit yours... here.

Coldplaying.com has launched its own radio station in conjunction with LAUNCHcast from Yahoo. Permanent links have been added to the menus.   Listen now at Coldplaying Radio.

There will be some essential site maintenance Sat05 & Sun06.   The may be some temporary instances of certain parts of the site not working.   Thanks   Stephen Technical Admin

Problems recently announced with the messageboard have been rectified. It was a server problem that has been cleared with the webhosts. All better 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

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

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.

The E-Shop is now back online. Please click here to browse current items. More items can be found on the oneposter site.   More stock will be added through Coldplaying.com shortly. If there is any specific items you would like to see or if you have any comments please drop me a line here.

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.

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

We are currently putting together more answers to questions in this section of the site - anything from behind the scenes at Coldplaying.com to Coldplay band members themselves.   Please take a look at the questions that have already been answered - you might find what you're looking for straight away.   If not or you have any questions at all that are Coldplay related or anything to do with the site, please submit them here and I will put the answers up on the site as soon as possible.

As well as the competition for highest messageboard poster for May, we also have another competition where you can win more Coldplay goodies - all you have to do is guess correctly the name of Chris & Gwyneth's forthcoming baby! Simple!   Please click here for more details. Come on in to the messageboard and join the fun!

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.

WIN A COLDPLAY POSTER!   For your chance to win a 900x640mm (35x25in) Coldplay poster, you must be a registered member of our messageboard, because the task is to be the highest poster for the month of May...   More details can be found here. You can't read it unless you're a member, and since you need to be logged in anyway to enter, it's well worth creating an account!   Please note: Registering for the messageboard is independent of registering for the main site; please create seperate accoun

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!