msimo4

Old fan and Coldplaying member here, selling my collection of Coldplay merch, vinyls, CDs, tour memorabilia, books and more! Have had some fond memories collecting this stuff throughout the mid to late '10s but it's time for me to part with them. Check out my stuff here, happy to ship internationally: https://www.depop.com/msimo4/ Glad to see the site is still kicking😊

Haven’t been here in a couple years, how’s everyone going? I’m selling a pair of my much-loved hand-painted Coldplay shoes which I need to get rid of! A little while back I came across these beautiful AHFOD-style hand-painted shoes which someone had posted to the Coldplay subreddit, and I ended up buying a pair. After some careful consideration I’ve decided to sell them as I no longer really wear them at all. They’re a men’s UK size 9 and are still in great condition, take a look at the pics attached or the eBay link if interested! They need a new Coldplay-loving home! https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/353481948658

45 minutes?

What the fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. That is ridiculous. Wow. I'd say that that'd have to be the most Coldplay collcetion in existence. Also like an hour and a 15 minutes?

You don't happen to have a link to the source for that do you?

When was this?

Fuckkk I got got. I was so fucking hyped for like a minute there.

The fan-site has posted again: [MEDIA=twitter]961004807086596096[/MEDIA] Are these new photos of the band, I've never seen them before? Either way, they look sick. I wonder how these guys got them? Someone should try contacting them to see if they can spill some information.

Wait wasn't that Phil? I can't find the tweet or whatever it was which originally said that. No, he began collabing with them after the struggles of X&Y for work on VLVODAAHF and continued to work on MX with them. Aren't there rumours that apparently there was some sort of falling out or difference in direction between the band and Eno? Or is that just some made up crap?

Hmmm... have you listened to/watched it? It's probably just a random recording that someone's found and posted as if it were officially released, there's a few like that on YouTube. But like not as if they're tryna do anything illegal or anything, it's just that there's good filmed copies of it and they're putting them out there for fans mainly. Kinda like this one.

Hehe this is a cool collection! I would've loved to have seen everything else you have! That framed artwork you have, who made that? I also love all of the little things like that, it would be awesome to see what you've got.

That would be awesome! But it would probably never happen unfortunately. :( But city meet ups which would be more one-off things are totally possible.

No, pretty sure the first time that they soundchecked this way a few days ago in... I wanna say... Seoul?

Yes but I think we can safely assume that they'll definitely release do a film as well, but we just don't know the full details yet.

Hmmm... honestly I think I'm still gonna need a proper studio version to make a verdict. Idk, I don't necessarily think it's bad at all, but I kind of find that, like Hypnotised, there's something that's causing it to be a little lacking, leaving me wanting a bit more than I was given. Idk what it is, but like I said, I'll need a studio version to accurately decide.

Is it actually called "Live in Tokyo", like is it gonna be a live film with stuff filmed only at Tokyo? Or did he just say that they're filming stuff there for an upcoming Live album?

Hey dude, I remember quite a few months back mid last year when I was... relatively new to Coldplaying and I was checking out a collectors thread, I can't remember if it was this one or another one, and I was reading pages and pages back to like, 2013-2014 or something. And you and all of these other dudes were on it talking about all this collectors stuff, and I remember there was this one dude who was talking about opening an online Coldplay store dedicated to selling all of the releases he had collected, but then he and you and the others, like most of the people on the Coldplaying forums around that time, sort of dropped off. I remember I tried post a comment in that thread, I'll see if I can find it soon, where I asked if you knew if that dude had created the store or not. Do you recall, or know if anything happened? Also cool to see people who were once active here on the Coldpaying forums coming back after long periods of time! We all know about how the forums kinda infamously waned in popularity and active members after MX, how VLVODAAHF - MX was like the golden years. And I love it when we see those people kind of come back, for whatever reason, and revisit and remember this awesome stuff and the awesome times here. Just a curious question, what brought you back here in the past week/couple of days? Edit: Here it is.

Aww this is the sweetest. This is what I wanna achieve with this thread!

Wow that's been quite a few posts for the past couple of days all of a sudden! Wasn't really expecting that, but I see that this thread is currently the 7th most viewed thread on the forums with 523 views! Thanks guys, that's awesome! Hehe, thanks for your story and welcome back! This is kinda why I made this thread, because even though a lot of people might not come back to this place, I know that in the past and even now it holds a lot of special memories in people's lives that they'll never forget, and that it's so special if we can look at the history of it. Do you still follow the band, or are still a fan? Yeah, this thread has been a tad dead since a few months or so but I've fairly recently seen a lot of views on here, which is awesome. Thank you and that's awesome, are you Ian's wife as someone suggested!? That's so cool, I love that you're here now! I absolutely wish I could've experienced the band's history like you have, thanks for contributing. Also, who is/was "Mich"? Thank you so much! I too wish the Oracle would come back, I'm a GS era fan and loved reading through answers when I was just starting out as a fan. I remember when they finished with the GS website, and then put in the Timeline, and then put in the new AHFOD website. Even though the Oracle now exists in Twitter form, they're barely active now. I really hope that they bring it back sometime soon, or in the next incarnation of the website, when the LP8 era begins! I wonder if they stopped it because it was too hard and they couldn't manage it anymore...

I know that it sounds extremely negative, sorry for all the expletives. But it just really annoys me. And I think that that what I'm trying to explain covers your response, too, not to try and sound like a dick. Firstly, the band doesn't heavily rely on guitar lines; while they're certainly a part of most, if not all tracks, they're not necessarily a steeple of the production and I highly disagree that just because there's guitar lines in the songs, Stargate's production style doesn't fit it. Saying stuff like "This is the reason why songs like Up&Up sound so much better live than on the disc" is what I mean, as in is it really? Is it really that bad as you're making it out to be? Be real here - don't just say you hate it because you think you should hate it. Really try and think about the supposed "huge difference" between production on AHFOD and, say, X&Y. While you don't need 10 years or extremely extensive experience in music production, how many people who criticise the production really have at least adequate knowledge of what sounds good and bad, and know what they're talking about? I realise now that saying you need years of experience is a bit much, even just generally being able to distinguish stuff by ear would be the limit. But even then, how many people can even do that to an adequate level? Be real here. And this is all clouded by people automatically wanting to hate it too. As with Hypnotised - no, it was not unanimously decided that the production was good. There have been plenty of people who have said stuff similar to AHFOD. Overall I'd say the reception, to both the production and the whole song itself, has been mixed. You can't just say that it has been received in some way.

While I don't personally despise it as much as you do (but I certainly don't adore it either!), I definitely agree on a lot of your points. I really just find it... OK. People comparing it to Viva or Death is pretty ridiculous, comparisons to Amazing Day are 100% most accurate, but again I don't necessarily hate AD, but they're both so similar in that they're pitch-wise similar and are quite dreary and overall have a very similar vibe. Honestly, with the lyrics, when you really think about it, these are some of his best lyrics FOR THIS ERA. AHFOD's lyrics were pretty poor and his lyrics have obviously been pretty shocking for the past several years, but whenever people complain about Chris recent lyrics (including myself) I always remember this: Chris has NEVER been a fantastic, let alone very good lyric-writer. He is probably one of the most derided song/lyric-writers of 21st century pop-music, and rightfully so. And some people will mention some lyrics from Parachutes, or AROBTTH, or even something from any era (a lot of people seem to specifically bring up lyrics from GS) that works and say 'Well what about this lyric, it's really fantastic etc...", and while there are few standouts amongst the band's catalogue that actually are kind of great lyrically, we need to really look deeper and think about the level of sophistication, not even really, present in the lyrics, even the ones which people mention as being some "really good lyrics that prove that Chris is a brilliant lyric-writer", which overall, turn out to be quite basic. With production, honestly, I think that a lot of the complaints our fanbase has about the production are a load of bullshit. Not necessarily invalidating yours, but it pisses me off so much when all of these people say stuff like "Stargate made AHFOD shit" and "the production on SJLT is shocking". Like FUCK OFF, it's just the idea of their production on the songs acting as a placebo on the people who complain because deep down, they simply just WANT to hate it because these flashy pop-focused producers are coming in. I bet that if there was some sort of blind experiment where we could test which versions of songs people prefer without them knowing who produced them, a lot of the results would contradict what people love to currently say and we would see that it's not up to Stargate. And besides, what percentage of those people even has a clue about the difference between good and bad music production? You need to have A LOT of experience in that kind of stuff, and I know that while there may be some who can genuinely hear it, most can't. Really I think the main complaint people have with it is that it's too refined - which pisses me off as well. It's again the idea of "typical mainstream pop" which people will jump at hating. As if having a song sound more "raw" absolutely has to make it better. I'm sorry to sound so negative about this, but it's something SO MANY of us do, and it really annoys me. But overall, I don't mind the song. For me, it's a mix of slightly boring and pretty sweet and beautiful. I don't know how to follow both. It's giving me mixed signals about Kaleidoscope, but I think I can kind of tell what the whole vibe of the EP will be from the song (and also the other soundcheck from last year at the Rose Bowl).

Eh, while I'd love if they did something kinda like that, I'd say it's just gonna be a completely new song. I also doubt that this would be on the EP, probably. It might just be the extra, developed lyrics that Chris sings sometimes, like on Life is For Living during Glasto '11.

Oh jkksss, I thought when he said "the leak" he meant the info that "others posted about it", and that the radio dude was allowed to tell them but without them further spreading the news. But yeah, the radio guy being the leak makes much more sense. Stephen, can you tell us who the radio personality was, or at least which radio station? *pretty please?* I wonder if the band were going to announce it with said radio interview, but then decided not to after being informed of the leak (since there hasn't been any radio interview of the band recently, I don't think so).

Also ironic because the article that the image is from is one from MX era called "Brian Eno Hypnotised Coldplay For Mylo Xyloto".

Huh, that's pretty cool. So wait, the radio dude was authorised/allowed to tell you guys the news, with the band's permission, right? And also, where/how/when did it leak initially?