Interviews

"The creative boss" and "the most important" member of Coldplay, to quote Chris Martin. He's the man behind the scenes, who is instrumental to the band's success. We've been chatting to Phil Harvey about his personal upbringing, the inner workings of the band, what the story is with Glastonbury and more.   Coldplay are currently working on their new album, A Head Full Of Dreams and are not revealing much at this moment about the record but we are sure it will be worth the wait! Coldplaying.co

Last month saw the release of the official video for Hymn For The Weekend. Aaron (Atlas2000) our staff member had the privilege to chat with the brilliant director of the video, Ben Mor!    [gallery size=full" td_select_gallery_slide="slide" ids="51719,51718,51717,51716,51715,51714,51713" orderby="rand]   Q: The crowd scenes with the children in the video are wonderful, how did you recruit the extras for the video?   A: We knew we wanted to find kids that could breakdance which is not as comm

He has collaborated with Coldplay on their greatest hits, Viva La Vida and Paradise, added strings on a plethora of songs, including Yes and Rainy Day. Now, Italian producer/composer, Davide Rossi is looking forward to an even brighter future as he continues his work with the biggest band in the world.   and became the first 'extra' musician to appear on stage with the band in 2010. Davide's producing talents were used on almost every Mylo Xyloto track and he is becoming a permanent fixture

Last month, we announced the World Exclusive on Pilar Zeta's A Head Full of Dreams artwork. Today, we're happy to share our exclusive interview with the incredible and young talented artist, Pilar Zeta. Big thanks to Fraser, the owner of agallery.co.uk, who always supports us and allows to share this awesome interview with us! [caption id=attachment_51509" align="alignleft" width="205] Source: Coldplay Official[/caption] Q: How are you liking being Coldplay's Album Artist for Head Full of

Editors Note: Hey Guys, I'd just like to congratulate Thalia (Batman) on interviewing one of the biggest bands in the world!! Also thanks for making the expensive trip to Berlin to represent the site, we truly have the best team members ever! We are forever grateful to the wonderful Debs Wild and Phil Harvey. Phil set us up with Debs and she has been the most kind and helpful person that we could have asked for. Enough babbling out of me, enjoy the interview!   Coldplayers! We are absolutely th

If you have not watched Sam's awesome video yet then go watch it now above! I was lucky enough to interview the creator of "My Life in Technicolor", Sam Reid, who not only took a photo everyday from February 23, 2011-April 19, 2016 but moved his mouth in each photo to mimic Coldplay's Life in Technicolor ii. Take a look at some of the questions below where I ask how he made the video, why he chose a Coldplay song and more. It is definitely a good read! Q: Hey Sam, congrats on your graduation!

We have been chatting to Jonas Åkerlund, the director of Coldplay's recent music videos for 'Magic' and 'True Love'. The Swedish director, who was interviewed by Coldplay's official website in 2014, tells us of his experiences and ambitions, including how he wanted to direct the video for 'The Scientist', back in 2002.     You can listen to our phone interview with Jonas, below:   Link Let us know your thoughts, on the messageboards ------ The Coldplaying app It's here!   https://ww

Two weeks ago, Innocence Project made an important announcement on Twitter, stating that Chris Martin is chosen to be the newest Innocence Ambassadors.   Today, we had a pleasure to speak to the communication manager of Innocence Project, Andrew Z Giacalone, about Chris Martin's participation and his favorite part about Coldplay.   We are glad to hear that Chris loves to support the community and one of them is Innocence Project. What was the first reaction when Chris finally joined this proje

Last week, we managed to chat with the owner of Album Artists, Fraser Scott, who also contributes selling Coldplay's album artworks from Mylo Xyloto, Ghost Stories and A Head Full of Dreams. We talked about the outcome of the art sale, his excitement, and his planning on future works.   C: Can you tell us about the A Head Full of Dreams album art sale?   F: Yes, the band is supporting a new project in London to help disadvantaged kids. We are selling the super cool art for A Head Full of Dream

We previously had an opportunity to chat with him back in February of 2015. However, we also finally had a chance again to chat with Davide Rossi before Christmas as we also are gearing up him collaborating with the band for the latest album, A Head Full Of Dreams, and Superbowl & lots of stuff to catch up on! Curious to know the details? Read inside the scoop right here, right now! (Yep!)   We believe that you are going to release a CD of songs with which you had appeared/played on. Could

Mat Whitecross sat down with us last week to chat about his latest documentary - A Head Full of Dreams. We talk about Coldplay's next album, fan interactions, DVD extras, unreleased tracks and much more.   [vc_row css_animation=" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern][vc_column][vc_column_text]    A Head Full of Dreams offers a unique and in-depth look into the last 20 years of Col

Christa, our dear staff member at Coldplaying HQ, had a wonderful opportunity to chat with the amazing director for the Birds music video, James Marcus Haney.     Q: How did your work with Coldplay for the Birds video come about? What was it like to work with the band? We know you had worked with Coldplay with "No Cameras allowed" which was so lovely in the film. Why did you choose Super 8 MM to film the video?   A: The music video for Birds happened after we did a photo shoot with Coldplay

It's time for session 3 of our on-going feature, Coldplaying asks Coldplay! The question we have proposed to Chris, Guy, Will, Jonny & Phil this time round is, "What has been your favourite music video to shoot and why?".   Here are the answers from each band member *drumroll*..... Guy Berryman A Sky Full of Stars, because it was so spontaneous and lo fi and the Aussie fans were amazing Will Champion It would have to be #paradise for me. Shooting in a cheetah sanctuary in South

Welcome to our new feature, (imaginatively) titled 'Coldplaying asks Coldplay'! Every so often, we will pose a question to the band themselves. It's a very first for Coldplaying and the whole team are very excited to bring you these mini Q&A's.   To start of, we asked the guys, including fifth member and creative director, Phil Harvey for their favourite songs at the moment, which they want to rave about. Here are the responses:     Perfect Ruin by Kwabs     Detroit by Gaz Coombes