Ghost Stories

Coldplay's sixth LP celebrates it's 1st birthday today! The beautiful, electronic album has given us all countless memories. The album is very personal to Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin, as he talked Zane Lowe through his inspirations for the album and what sort of effect it had on his life when recording it.   You can browse through our Ghost Stories forum, to take in some of the nostalgia from the past year.   To celebrate, Dexynboy on the Coldplaying forums, our resident audio enthusias

Coldplay's sixth album, 'Ghost Stories' is about to celebrate it's first birthday and Billboard have rather surprisingly pulled out the party poppers a day early, by gifting Coldplay with the 'Top Rock Album'! The band were facing stiff competition against the likes of veteran rockers, AC/DC and Newcomer, Hozier.   A huge congratulations to Coldplay!       More on this, here (Thanks gai)     --------- The Coldplaying app It's here! The very latest Coldplay news, updates, live chat

Ghost Stories era review - June 2014. Written by Coldplaying member, Grids (view the archive so far, below)   (January, February, March, April, May, June)     July 2014 was the magical month for the band and all Coldplayers around the world. Even though the shows during Ghost Stories era were held on a smaller scale, the band still made great efforts to make more intimate and interactive show experience for the best fans. Following from Royal Albert Hall shows on July 1st and 2nd, the best-s

Coldplay have treated us to many freebies in the past. They are no strangers to free downloads or even free concerts! There's also companies, such as Google, who just a few days ago had given away the band's latest album, Ghost Stories away for free.   In Google's case, their promotion in celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the Google Play store involved a free giveaway of Coldplay's sixth album, Ghost Stories (On Thursday 5th March to be exact). The album is usually priced at £4.99 on the UK st

Coldplay's Sydney adventure - June 2014. The Ghost Stories review series returns. 6th part to the series. This month - Coldplay visit Tokyo and Sydney as they shoot the official video for A Sky Full Of Stars.   (January, February, March, April, May) Online ticket mayhem! Tickets went on sale on June 6th for Coldplay's impending show at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The demand was expected to be very high and fans were discussing various tactics for getting access to tickets as soon as th

Coldplay release sixth studio album - May 2014.   5th part to the 12 months of 2014 review series. (January, February, March, April) "Fix Yourself a spot of tea and a biscuit" Chris and the rest of the band started out the album release month in comedic fashion, with a tongue in cheek preview to the appearance on Saturday Night Live TV in the US.     And then we almost saw the literal meaning of tongue in cheek as Chris, during a re-enactment of an 'Amazing Spiderman' kissing scene, t

A month full of stars - April. 4th part to the 12 months of 2014 review series. (January, February, March)     We were (im)patiently waiting for the release of the Magic music video and for more teasers of Coldplay's new album, Ghost Stories, which was due for release on May 19th. Coldplayers were especially keen on A Sky Full Of Stars, which received rave reviews from the secret filming in March. A Sky Full Of Stars confirmed as 2nd single The extremely hyped 8th song off Ghost Stories

Coldplay's magical live return - March. 3rd part to the 12 months of 2014 review series. (January, February)   March had started and within 36 hours of the month change, we had gone from knowing nothing to knowing everything, about Coldplay's sixth album. Call it Magic! So, the burning question was the relevance of Midnight to Coldplay's upcoming album. We didn't have to wait too long for the answer as on March 2nd, the details of the band's new album titled, Ghost Stories were let loose on

Ghost Stories era: The introduction. January 2014. Review by Coeurli. First part of the 12 months of 2014 review series   2013 saw the end of the Mylo Xyloto era, the band's first song release for a movie, a break in live performances and a great desire from fans to finally get a new album. Reports from late 2013 suggested that the band were working on their sixth effort, but little did we know a new era would start and end in just a year! We start our journey of the Ghost Stories era in Jan

Coldplay opened for the first ever BBC Music Awards yesterday evening at Earls Court in London and gave us a scintillating performance, as Xylobands featured in a Coldplay performance for the first time since Under One Roof 2013! In a music celebration with over fifteen different artists such as Ed Sheeran, One Direction and Take That, Coldplay performed their single of the year nominated song, A Sky Full Of Stars.   It was the penultimate appearance of the Ghost Stories era and the band themse

It was Coldplay's final concert of the Ghost Stories era this evening, as they wrapped it up in style with a tremendous live set in front of just a few hundred privileged fans, at the BBC Theatre in London. It was such a rush for the band, who had just about covered every corner of the BBC studios. The band were up and ready for the big (but intimate!) show that evening. Soundcheck - Paradise and Ink An hour before Coldplay performed their soundcheck, word quickly spread of the band appearing o

The festive cheer returned to Coldplay's live efforts as the band's concert in Munich saw the return of Christmas Lights within a concise and delightful set at Germany's BMW Welt.Thousands of Coldplayers gathered outside of the exhibition center prior to the show on a bitterly cold evening, awaiting the 'one-off' Ghost Stories show that lied ahead. The pre-show chat certainly had a few twists, with Up With The Birds very surprisingly performed during the band's soundcheck (joins the club with Tw

Coldplay news is flying in thick and fast! We will give you a breakdown of what's happened so far, all in one article and the time's you need to know for the few days ahead. Coldplay announce next album title! If you missed the big announcement that A Head Full Of Dreams will be Coldplay's next album title, you can read more here. GRAMMY nominations Coldplay have now been nominated for 3 GRAMMY awards! Firstly, for the Best Pop Vocal AlbumTheir 2nd and 3rd nominations were for Best Pop Duo/Gro

Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin has been talking to Beats Music as part of a comprehensive track by track walk through of Coldplay's latest album, Ghost Stories. We have already seen the video of Chris telling us his inspiration for second single, A Sky Full Of Stars but this amazing new interview covers the in's and out's of Coldplay's sixth LP.   I have written a full transcript of the whole interview so you can read through at your own leisure and also translate if you wish. Throughout thi

Chris Martin has been talking to audio company, Beats By Dre about the making of A Sky Full Of Stars and how the upbeat EDM inspired song is the most important song Coldplay have made lyrically. The latest behind the scenes video features various instrumentals of Coldplay's second single from Ghost Stories as the frontman goes into further details about the album and the role of A Sky Full Of Stars on it.   Chris expands on the meaning of Ghost Stories : "Ghost Stories is probably an album abou

The Official Coldplay website has confirmed the band will play a one-off show in Munich, Germany on Saturday 6th December. During the past few weeks, Warner Music Poland were running a competition for Polish Citizens to win tickets via their Twitter page and official website. The wait has certainly been an anxious one for German Coldplayers in particular, awaiting further details of an apparent standalone live show but will now have their devices ready for when tickets go on sale at 9am (German

Happy Halloween Coldplayers! The band have given us a proper treat on the spookiest of days. Ghost Story, a fan favourite from the deluxe version of Ghost Stories and the A Sky Full Of Stars EP will (rather surprisngly) have an official video accompanying the song as we found out with the announcement of Ghost Stories Live 2014. The 1 minute and 19 seconds preview is the perfect advertiser for the upcoming live boxset.The clip features Jonny, Guy, Chris and Will within a room/studio, jamming awa

Coldplay's official newsletter, The Coldplay Messenger has thrown us a hint that another chapter is yet to come during the band's current campaign for Ghost Stories. This comes during the news of the forthcoming Ghost Stories Live 2014 DVD and after a quiet period of late as Coldplay recently returned to their London Studio, 'The Bakery' to record their seventh album. One of our forum members, Cheeetaz picked up on something we have all appeared to miss during the Ghost Stories Live 2014 excitem

Chris Martin returned to the Dan and Maz show down under earlier today as he revealed more of his thoughts about the next Coldplay tour and his friendship with Coldplay's fifth member, Phil Harvey to the Australian DJ's during a delicious and brief interview.   Chris' friendship with the Aussie pair has grow even stronger since his light hearted interview with them at the end of September. The modest and cheerful Chris started the chat off with, "I'm very grateful to be speaking to you".  

Late night watching TV, after Midnight during the 'dark core' of Coldplay's Ghost Stories. Another's Arms is mysterious yet simple in the lyrics and undoubtedly haunting.   Welcomed back with open arms!   On the 11th March, Coldplay returned to delight millions of fans tuning in across the world, at the iTunes Festival in Austin, Texas. Another's Arms was one of the two previously unheard tracks (with opener, Always In My Head) performed on the night. The first live version of the sixth Gh

Coldplay's third track from Ghost Stories, Ink could be the next single as it was revealed earlier today that the uplifting track has been released to US Alternative radio stations. (Thanks Coldplayzone.it)   This move could signal a surprise U-turn from back in August when Ghost Stories artist, Mila Fürstová, released her fantastic artwork for the third single, True Love, mentioning it's the final single from Coldplay's new album. Mila did however, recently talk to Coldplaymag on Tumblr, to

You were recently quizzed over the inclusion of 'A Sky Full Of Stars' on Coldplay's latest album, 'Ghost Stories'. While the song has become the band's biggest hit from the 'lower key' album, the majority of the band were not convinced with the version of the song Chris was planning to release prior to the album. Let's find out whether you were convinced of the 'ASFOS' inclusion on 'Ghost Stories'... Let's start off with the Coldplayers who approved the inclusion of 'ASFOS' :nev72 on the message

Earlier today, Chris Martin visited DJ's Dan and Maz at the 104.1 2dayFM studios, based in Sydney, Australia. Coldplay's frontman co-hosted an hour special on the Aussie radio station. Coldplay news has been few and far between in the past week as the band are enjoying downtime (or are recording the seventh album!). Chris has been on a journey down under, presumably not just for today's light hearted interview but it was a relaxed and very funny Chris appearance which was a joy to listen to!  

The track which started the wonderful 'Ghost Stories' era. The story from the beginning and a follow up to the 'Always In My Head', 'Magic', 'Ink' and 'True Love' articles throughout this era so far.   Before the dawn of 'Ghost Stories'   On Tuesday 25th February, all was quiet on the Coldplay front with just rumours of 'Magic' being a single due for release in May according to music release schedules and 2 unknown animated images posted on their official website a few days before, someth

Coldplay are back for a stretch of live and TV appearances this week! After their secret warm up show at the 'Target' employees conference, the band enchant the magical theater of the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, burst into life on the stage of the iHeartRadio music festival in Viva Las Vegas and are amazed by magician impossible, Dynamo on UK television.   Coldplaying.com brings you the list of all the information and dates you need, including the times where you live for the live shows. Join in