Community News

As the extent of damage and loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina is still unfolding, the American Red Cross is launching the largest mobilization of resources for a single natural disaster involving thousands of trained disaster relief workers, tons of supplies - and shoulders on which to lean.   The Red Cross is anticipating a sustained disaster relief effort. Already, nearly 70,000 evacuees have been provided shelter in more than 230 Red Cross shelters - from the panhandle of Florida, acro

A short message from the new proprietor and head honcho of Coldplaying.com   Hello to all my fellow Coldplay fans, I wish to introduce myself as the new owner of Coldplaying. I will state more info about myself and my identity in due course (no, I am not Batman!). At the moment, a changeover process is underway at the backend and we are trying to keep the change as smooth as possible and Ian, Stephen & co are doing a great job as always behind the scenes and making me feel very welcomed!

BBC Worldwide have 2000 copies of the Coldplay edition of Radio Times left over after sales and have been thinking about ways of distributing them as it seems a shame to just destroy them. An idea was to give them to fans who saw the Live8 concert and this edition is a reminder of an historic event. Besides, Coldplay are on the front cover.   They are willing to offer these out freely to anyone who wants them, provided they pay P&P (probably via fixed charge text message). UK only, but I'm

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!

We are aware that the site is having intermittent periods of downtime and slow webpages - this is due to a problem with the server that the site is currently running on.   Coldplaying.com will be switching to a brand new server very soon and all problems will be ironed out by the end of the week. This will be a smooth transition and further downtime for this is not planned.   Many thanks for your patience - I will keep you all updated.   Ian

Link: Mexico Fans: CCC Needs Your Help   As many on Coldplaying know, some members have compiled a CD of music by members of the forum to raise money for the Coldplaying Charity Club. The CD should be available for pre-sale in early March.   We are looking for volunteers who are going to the Mexico City show, who would be willing to print and hand out fliers announcing the CD's upcoming release. A couple of designs, large and small, in colour and Black & White will be available on this threa

Link: Mexico Fans: CCC Needs Your Help   As many on Coldplaying know, some members have compiled a CD of music by members of the forum to raise money for the Coldplaying Charity Club. The CD should be available for pre-sale in early March.   We are looking for volunteers who are going to the Mexico City show, who would be willing to print and hand out fliers announcing the CD's upcoming release. A couple of designs, large and small, in colour and Black & White will be available on this threa

Oxfam America spent the day with the Coldplay crew yesterday in West Palm Beach gearing up for the tour... looks like it's going to be a spectacular run of shows! Here is a competition, just for tonight, that they'd like to announce:   Before Oxfam made the trip to Florida, we uncovered a couple of now-rare Oxfam Make Trade Fair t-shirts in storage, featuring the MTF equal-sign logo that Chris Martin famously wore on his hand a few years back. To celebrate the start of the tour, they'd love to g

The Finals: Act 1   1 Snow Patrol vs. Arcade Fire 2 Radiohead vs. Sigur Rós   To Vote Pick one of the 2 musical acts from each fixture and make your choice stand out above the other act (either by bolding it, or underlining it, or by deleting the other act). Add your choices here   You don't have to vote in every fixture, you don't have to give reasons (although sometimes giving a reason is good) and you can edit your votes up-to the point where the thread will be locked at the deadline and vote

The Finals: Act 3   1 - Snow Patrol vs. Sigur Ros 2 - Radiohead vs. Arcade Fire   To Vote Pick one of the 2 musical acts from each fixture and make your choice stand out above the other act (either by bolding it, or underlining it, or by deleting the other act). Add your choices here   You don't have to vote in every fixture, you don't have to give reasons (although sometimes giving a reason is good) and you can edit your votes up-to the point where the thread will be locked at the deadline and

Round 1   1 Arctic Monkeys vs. Elbow 2 The Beatles vs. Dashboard Confessional 3 Sigur Rós vs. REM 4 Arcade Fire vs. Explosions In The Sky 5 Death Cab For Cutie vs. We Are Scientists 6 Radiohead vs. The Clash 7 Blur vs. The Killers 8 U2 vs. The Libertines 9 The strokes vs. Maximo Park 10 British Sea Power vs. Bright Eyes 11 Oasis vs. The Smiths 12 Muse vs. Stereophonics 13 Keane vs. Ben Folds 14 Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. Interpol 15 Mew vs. Nick Drake 16 Bloc Party vs. Snow Patrol   To Vote   Pic

Round 3   1 Death Cab For Cutie vs. Arcade Fire 2 Blur vs. Snow Patrol 3 Radiohead vs. The Beatles 4 Sigur Rós vs. Keane   To Vote   Pick one of the 2 musical acts from each fixture and make your choice stand out above the other act (either by bolding it, or underlining it, or by deleting the other act). Add your choices here   You don't have to vote in every fixture, you don't have to give reasons (although sometimes giving a reason is good) and you can edit your votes up-to the point where the

Round 2   1 Oasis vs. Arcade Fire 2 The Beatles vs. Muse 3 Bright Eyes vs. Death Cab For Cutie 4 Keane vs. Arctic Monkeys 5 Blur vs. Mew 6 Sigur Rós vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers 7 Snow Patrol vs. The strokes 8 U2 vs. Radiohead   To Vote   Pick one of the 2 musical acts from each fixture and make your choice stand out above the other act (either by bolding it, or underlining it, or by deleting the other act). Add your choices here   You don't have to vote in every fixture, you don't have to give rea

2014 has now come to a close. We've had the pleasure of listening to a new Coldplay album, with an additional single release for Miracles, alike to Atlas in 2013, with both songs featuring on film soundtracks.   Unlike 2013, there's a lot of competition, with four songs receiving over 10% of the vote : Always In My Head, True Love, A Sky Full Of Stars and Miracles. The poll was made using Google Surveys and has been posted on various fanpages recently. Our forum poll results so far are quite d

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

The annual coldplaying.com awards are almost upon us again. Forum members have been voting for their esteemed friends and boardies in their droves. To get you in the mood, take a peek at the preview movie [Thanks David].   Voting finishes on December 1st and the awards will be dished out sometime before Christmas (yes, only 34 days to Christmas!)

This site will soon be opening up a music advertisement area, a place where you can advertise (on a full page) your band, tour information, contact details, website banner and any other information you want to promote with.   If you are interested, please get in touch for more information at [email protected] now.

Latest news & more on the Tapatalk app!   You can keep up with the latest Coldplaying events and Coldplay news on the go with Coldplaying on Tapatalk! The forums have been available to browse through Tapatalk for a while but the experience wasn't as great as we would like it to be but the guys at Tapatalk have made some great updates recently. Firstly, you can now read articles from the Coldplaying.com main site which includes our archive of over 2000 Coldplay articles! The signatures when

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch