Ghost Stories

Coldplay in Sydney - 50th Max Sessions performance. The band performed a wonderful show for the hundreds of delighted Coldplay fans in Sydney, Australia, on June 18th. The intimate gig which was positioned in between Coldplay's two live shows in Toyko and Syndey for the Ghost Stories 'mini tour', was aired on Foxtel, an Australian TV channel, on Saturday just gone. Many Coldplayers have been looking for the show since then, with the full show not appearing on the net until today! Many thanks to

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

Coldplay on BBC Radio 1 playist   Coldplay's 3rd single from Ghost Stories, True Love has been added to the BBC Radio 1 playlist in the UK for the upcoming week commencing 18th August. Every Coldplay song released as a single has been added to the BBC Radio 1 playlist and very few have failed to make the A-List. The Hardest Part, Strawberry Swing and Life In Technicolor ii were the few which reached only the B-list.   Below, you will see the list of Coldplay's recent runs within the Radio

Coldplay on The Voice USA - Ghostly illusions!   The final show of The Voice USA took place late last night on NBC and Coldplay were one of the live features of the show. Chris Martin appeared as an adviser to contestants on the show earlier on in the series through 3 episodes. The humour we love Chris for made Chris a very popular figure on the show and there were no doubts the producers of the show would pull out all stops to get Coldplay to play on the final show!   I'm sure most of us re

Coldplay on TV : The making of Ghost Stories documentary   Up late night watching TV yesterday?! if you were in the UK, you could of seen the making of Ghost Stories followed by the Ghost Stories film itself in full, featuring Ink, Midnight and O which were omitted during the NBC version of the film. Elsewhere, if you did not have access to Sky or are outside of the UK, many of us later on Monday evening watched the live stream of the iHeartRadio album release party which was posted on our Twi

Coldplay recording next 'project' with a new tour to follow Chris Martin, after his wonderful solo performance at The Box in New York last night, brought the morning sunshine to the Elvis Duran show earlier today with a light hearted interview in which Chris tells us how his solo show makes him realise how much he loves the band. The Elvis Duran interview was capped off with a performance of A Sky Full of Stars and Viva La Vida. A visit to Fresh 102.7 NY was also on the cards, including a meet

Many Coldplayers woke up (or are about to wake up!) this morning to news that the 2nd single off Ghost Stories, A Sky Full of Stars has been released! The hyped single has already reached #1 on the iTunes charts in over 70 countries within a few hours of release. This is also due to the large amount of pre-orders for Ghost Stories which was apparent when Midnight was released and has grown even more since.   Our Dutch compatriots have A Sky Full of Stars at #1 and Magic at #2! With 'ASFOS' out

Coldplay have hinted that they already have a name for their next album - according to Chris Martin during a pre-recorded radio interview on the Kyle and Jackie O show for Australia's 2DayFM that took place on the day of the intimate gig, 15th November.   Speaking about the difficulty of pronouncing Mylo Xyloto when the question about LP6 was asked, Chris Martin told 2DayFM: "The next one we're releasing is much easier to pronounce." Then, when asked the next album's title, Chris replied: "I ca

Coldplay to take year off, then begin recording 'LP6' in 2014 and touring again from 2015   Make the most of what's left of 2012 Coldplayers - it seems it might be a while before the next Coldplay era arrives, according to various reports we've pieced together this week. After the current European stadium tour which began this week in Denmark, and the confirmed Australasian tour in November, and a potential Latin American tour sometime in February/March 2013, reports are suggesting that Coldplay

With just over a week until the release of Ghost Stories in European countries (16th May) before the North American and UK release on 19th May, this may be the last week of sanity before album info starts pouring out around the release!   This week, there isn't really anything planned apart from later on when Coldplay are confirmed (thanks to broadwayworld.com) to appear on the Jimmy Fallon show on NBC in America later on tonight. (10.30pm Central time, US)   Keep your eyes on here and the Co

Coldplay's acrobat inspired video for True Love on the way!   Chris Martin let out a few secrets for the band's upcoming True Love music video last evening, during an interview for Fuse.TV. The official video for Coldplay's 3rd single will be ready either today or tomorrow. This should mean the upload we are all waiting for is imminent as Chris revealed the acrobat theme within the video.   Chris revealed the inspiration for part of the upcoming music video was from two Russian acrobats. Whi

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's final bow on the Ghost Stories tour After a very successful opening night at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday, Coldplay would repeat the feat once more, for the last time on the short and intimate Ghost Stories tour. Tuesday's show was astonishing, while Wednesday was set to be even better, with many fans from Coldplaying attending the show! I (Sparky/Marc) was one of them, heading to my first show since taking over Coldplaying from April . Myself, like many other fans, couldn't get

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

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!  

Ghost Stories review - Official Coldplaying review by the community     It has been a whole week since the new Coldplay album, Ghost Stories has been available worldwide. While we have all been absorbed into the band's latest effort, we will take a detailed analysis with many thanks to the Coldplaying community who have been asked over the past week to submit their reviews! So without further ado, we will start off with the beautiful opening track, Always In My Head.   Always in My Hea

A Sky Full of Stars EP.   Anchorman, on the official Coldplay website has announced that the forthcoming single release of A Sky Full of Stars, scheduled for June 29th in the UK, will be released worldwide on Sunday 28th June as part of an EP and will contain a radio edit of Coldplay's 2nd single in addition to the previously unavailable tracks outside of the US from the Ghost Stories deluxe edition sold by US retailer 'Target', which includes All Your Friends, Ghost Story and O (reprise).  

Coldplay in Japan - Ghost Stories tour As we near to the penultimate venue in Sydney on June 19th of the Ghost Stories tour, Coldplay completed a marvelous show for screaming Japanese Coldplay fans today in the electric Dome City Hall in Tokyo. Those who listened to the live stream earlier would of heard the insane atmosphere of thousands of screaming fans, which made it sound like a stadium tour, rather than the intimate tour it actually is! Setlist The setlist Coldplay performed in Japan w

Ghost Stories sales so far!   It has been also two months since Coldplay released their sixth studio album, Ghost Stories to the world of excited fans. The band's latest effort is a very open and honest offering, from Chris Martin's personal lyrics and has been given a mixed reception, with many fans praising the immersiveness and emotional feel to the album. A few critics, as Chris expected, did not take to the new album.   Commercially, Ghost Stories sales have matched expectations or have

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 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

Ink - Catchy, fun and upbeat!   For next article in the series, after we looked back at the rise of first single from Ghost Stories, Magic and Guy's creative brilliance, we move on to one of the more uplifting tracks from Coldplay's new album, Ink. The highly rated third song from Ghost Stories has a fun side to it that contrasts to the tracks that proceed it within the album. Catchy, fun and upbeat, Ink summarized in a few words.     Ink is reminiscent to Strawberry Swing in the build of

Intimate Chris Martin show at The Box, New York. Chris Martin completed an absolutely wonderful solo show for just hundreds of lucky fans at The Box theatre in New York on Wednesday 6th August. The one off Chris Martin gig had been planned for weeks and the venue, time and further details had been kept under wraps until the last moment. The concert was filled with Chris' family and friends and with fans who were lucky enough to get tickets through the New York radio stations promoting the event

Word around the campfire is that Coldplay have been spending some time in an LA recording studio recording their long awaited follow up to 2011′s Mylo Xyloto report radio.com and various other US radio franchises today. More discussion on this is at the LP6 sub-forum now.   That should be great news for the Coldplay's fanbase whose appetites have been stirred up by 'Atlas,' their recent Golden Globe and Grammy-nominated track from the The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.     Radio.com

Mark Poston, the Managing Director of both Parlophone Australia and Warner Bros. Records Australia held an online interview with The Music Network website, in which he gave a clear indication that Coldplay would be releasing new material soon. [thanks gai]   It's not much, but given the relative quiet on LP6 news, something is better than nothing. You can discuss this snippet at the LP6 sub-forum now. The article read: What are some of the projects on the cards? With Parlophone, we’re kicki