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Check out the 2005 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   Talk Video In our 3D video for Talk (only visible on HD) we played astronauts landing on a distant planet. GB   You can discuss this star here onwards [thanks crestingwaves]  

Check out the 1998 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Dublin Castle - Feb. 22, 1998 Our first concert as Coldplay Ltd The band before us were pissed off with the promoter and so took their drum kit home after their set... this was a problem as we were going to borrow it. So Will had to use the flare as the bass drum and rely upon his wits CM   You can discuss this star here onwards [thanks doritji and the.hardest.part]  

Check out the 2001 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   Jonny Goes Jazz - 12/01/01 It was just a phase! JMB   You can discuss this star here onwards [thanks doritji]   Read the full Coldplay chronology, including all Prospekt updates, at WikiColdplay  

Check out the 2007 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   7/11/07 This is a very short film. WC   You can discuss this star and watch the video here onwards [thanks melanieau, Loretin, Joyhannah, GazeboflossUK]  

Check out the 2005 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   Madison Square Garden 05 (6/7 Sept 2005) The band before us took their drumkit home as they were pissed off with the promoter... oh wait a minute that was another time CM   You can discuss this star here onwards and pictures here [thanks CP678]. Pictures courtesy of Penny Howle, for coldplay.com.  

Check out the 2005 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   This article changed our lives quite considerably. Although it was pretty painful at the time, it did us a lot of good I think. CM   You can discuss this star and previous stars here.  

Check out the 2005 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   When X&Y was coming out we were pretty nervous. It was a difficult time for us as we had a lot of opinions flying around from within and without. But we got through it. Mainly by playing live I think. Plus, we discovered that we played better and liked each other more when we wore white trainers. CM   You can discuss this star and previous stars here.  

Check out the 2008 section of Coldplay.com for a new Prospekt entry.   Thursday 12 June, London I feel very relieved that the album is finally released out into the big wide world today. It's out of our hands now. It doesn't belong to us anymore. I hope that you like it. I hope that there's songs on there that will make a shit day slightly less shit, or a good day even better. Thank you for all your patience and support. Prospekt.   More on this here onwards [thanks Stefan-C8]   Read the full ch

Check out the 2003 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   Hollywood Bowl, 31 May 03 I remember watching Monty Python at the bowl on TV when I was young. When we played there were a few less dead parrots and silly walks but it was an amazing venue. Being surrounded by the bowl and being able to project on to LA made it feel like playing inside a giant fish tank. Wx   You can discuss this star here [thanks joyhannah].  

Check out the 2003 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Dec 2003 - Christmas cover of 2000 Miles by the Pretenders (wonderful band with fringes/bangs). We love Christmas songs, but every time we try and write one it’s awful. So we often cover them. Well, once or twice actually. The one song I would most like to have written is ‘Fairytale of New York’ by de bloody Pogues of Ireland. CM   You can listen to the band covering a festive classic here. More on this story here [thanks Stefan-C8 &am

Check out the 2003 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   We liked this song but our people (we have a lot of people) said it was balls. So it was just sitting gathering dust and then Danny McNamara heard it on Limewire and we said would he like it and he said yes he would and then it was a good song. CAJM   You can discuss this star here [thanks doritji]  

Check out the 2000 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Mince Spies EP 2000 Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Even big soft rock bands like us are frustrated Karaoke singers. CM   You can listen to Chris Martin's version here. More on this story here [thanks melanieau]   Read the full chronology, including all Prospekt updates, at WikiColdplay  

Check out the 2000 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   The next (new) men who NME cover - 6 July 2000 Now famous as the NME's worst selling issue CM   You can discuss this star here [thanks doritji]  

Check out the 2001 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   Trouble Video 2 USA - Sept 25, 2001 Tim Hope (of the Mighty Boosh) made this. He's very talented, but we haven't seen him since. Our favourite bit of the Mighty Boosh is the moon singing 'Neil Armstrong walkin' on me face'. On that note, did you ever watch 'The Day Today'? For us, its the comedic equivalent of The Beatles. CM   You can discuss this star here [thanks fixed] and click here for the WikiColdplay chronology page.  

Check out the 2006 section of Coldplay.com for a new star...   Square One at Brits 15 Feb 06 Having performed averagely at the Grammy's a few days earlier we felt we had a bit of redeeming to do. Thankfully it was a much better experience. Award shows are hard, TV shows are hard, award shows on TV are a nightmare. W x   You can discuss this star here [thanks joyhannah]        

The capacity of the Liverpool Echo Arena is 8000 tonight. 2044 of them made the Health and Education For All pledge, in just under 3 hours, thanks to our incredible Oxfam campaigners. For many of them, it was their first time volunteering with Oxfam. That’s a pretty good first time campaigning, by any account.. 1 in 4 signed up. Wow.   Chris Martin is currently singing ‘The Hardest Part’. The volunteers effort tonight has certainly ensured that Liverpool is not the hardest part of this tour for

It’s quite a spectacular sight to see 8′500 Coldplay fans on their feet in Dublin, singing the final few lines of ‘Yellow’. I came back here into the crew room to write, and heard a similar roar of noise at the end of ‘Fix you’. ‘Viva’ has just struck up as well, and I can already hear the chanting starting.   971 of those people, on 1942 feet, all signed up with Oxfam tonight. They all now have the chance to be active campaigners for Oxfam in the years to come. 2009 will be a huge year for Oxfa

On a train to Sheffield, England. The accents have changed. The scenery (or what I can see of it), is very different. There’s coffee fumes in the air from the buffet car. Bleary-eyed Saturday shoppers are shuffling along in the carriages, for a boost of morning brew (with chocolate sprinkles).   Autumn looks like it’s been and gone. Trees stripped bare of leaves. Frost on the wiry grass. Thick.. Thick, fog. To be honest, I can’t see a lot at all. Aside from the occasional rooftop, lonely-looking

The Coldplay tour, along with it’s Oxfam rep, has now travelled to Belfast City, and I have not even talked about the last show in London yet.. so, just to recap, here’s a note from London..   1200 people made the Health and Education For All pledge tonight. That’s almost 4000 for the London shows, great stuff. The UK tour has seen an incredible number of people giving their support on this Oxfam campaign. It also saw Simon Pegg, join Coldplay on-stage for some memorable harmonica moments..   Th

I’m huddled in a corner behind one of the Oxfam pop-up banners by our table at the entrance to the arena. If I look up, I can see three of Oxfam’s volunteers enthusiastically passing out free badges and signing up Coldplay fans to the Oxfam America mailing list. Here come 5 more fans ready to sign on the sheets. It’s great to listen to some of the little things that happen at the stall..   “When I say ‘Cold’ .. you say ‘Play’ .. Cold - Play. Cold - Play! When I say ‘Ox’ .. you say ‘Fam’. Ox - Fa

Extra show added due to phenomenal demand. That’s how this show came about. Without it, there would have been a lot of people who missed out. As it is, they didn’t have to. Another sold out show in another state in the US. Coldplay whipped up another storm. The set may have settled into a groove, but the crowds are jumping around wherever we go. One of the Oxfam volunteers summed up the crowd reaction.. ”that was magical.”   I’m sitting on Bus 5, waiting for Doyle (our driver), to hop on and tak

We now find ourselves in Boston, otherwise known as ‘Beantown’. Apparently that is because back in the colonial days, a favourite Boston food, was beans, baked in molasses for several hours. So there you go. You live and learn.   There’s a yellow page in the itinerary book, meaning there is no concert tonight. It was a relatively short trip from New Jersey last night. There was a party kicking off on my bus. Felt like being on a bouncy-castle-boom-box.. another round of ipod wars in the back lo

Just went past the Odyssey (which will be the last stop of the tour). Heading for Dublin, the second last stop on the tour. The band are still on stage, entertaining the 8000 strong crowd. Foot-stomping and singing was in full force, as I packed up the Oxfam road case in the dressing room hall. The night is still young. The bus pulled out at 10:30pm “on-the-head” as the driver put it. This must be what it feels like to be in one of the vans that does a runner straight after the show. I’m off ear

Houston, Texas. Home of one very famous and powerful man. Home of the ‘Rockets’ NBA team. I have seen a few very tall people walking around today.. Yao Ming is not small. Here we are in a huge state. 13′000 people have come to see the Coldplay show. All 26′000-or-so eyes, are now firmly fixed on the stage, on 4 guys who formed a band thousands of miles away, and wrote a song, and it was called ‘Yellow’. Probably also another 100 or so transfixed eyes are from crew members, waiting to jump in if

Three nights in Birmingham, 4 UK Coldplay shows in 5 days. 7177 people have already joined Oxfam GB and made the Health and Education FOR ALL pledge. Thank you to all those amazing Coldplay fans for adding their small action to a global movement. Thank you to our 69 awesome Oxfam volunteers so far, who have given up their evening’s to spread the word, talk to fans, and make all those little actions, add up to an incredible 7177!   The first day in Birmingham, the sign-up record tumbled. The seco