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:P :D I'm going to stop now... I don't even want to know where the Bakery is! I want them to go back there, hide away and do another album fast. This album sounds like it's going to be great so if that means them hiding away from us, then so be it! :P

Here's the gas station with the hotel behind. I googled it... http://www.welovelocal.com/en/london/camden/belsize-park/petrol-stations/bp-connect-nw34qn.html I'm not trying to ruin everyone's fun, but I don't want someone going all the way there to be disappointed... :(

Oh I feel bad possibly disappointing everyone, but I don't think that's the Bakery... :( If you use 'Streetmap.co.uk' and look up the streets that big building opposite a primary school between Belsize Avenue and Ornan Road is marked as a Holiday Inn. Also I also live in London (not north London mind) but I am pretty sure there is a gas station on the corner of Belsize Avenue. My boyfriend swears he's stopped to fill up his car there... he couldn't be certain though as we don't live anywhere near this area. Sorry everyone... don't mean to put a dampener things... and I could be wrong! ;) But while we're talking about finding the Bakery, didn't the boys choose the location because they didn't want to be found? I think in an interview they said they chose it so that they could hide away and get on with making music. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for it and not posting it on the website for anyone to see? It might drive them crazy if everyone knows - not necessarily the fans hanging around outside, but the paps in particular. We all know what Chris is like about that! I'd rather they were left in peace to get on with the next album! :) Just a thought, don't kill me! :P

Boys out & about filming for new album Looks like the boys were out and about in north London yesterday doing some kind of video or something. From 'The Sun' online today. For photo of Chris see online at http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1218935.ece "COLDPLAY commander CHRIS MARTIN pounded the cobbles of north London in full military regalia while filming his band’s latest video. The quartet shot a promo for forthcoming album Viva La Vida in and around their Chalk Farm HQ. French revolutionary politics and dress feature heavily in the million-selling rockers’ new direction. The album’s a bona-fide cracker. Roll on their Brixton Academy show on June 16".

Oh how wrong he is :rolleyes:;)

Oh it's just another boring 'I'm too cool to like Coldplay just because their popular...' Yawn yawn... I don't really care what this guy thinks to be honest. As he says, he's not going to like them whatever they do, so what's the point in writing a review (not that it is a real review).

What a great interview! I like the fact its' full of small but interesting details. Also it's good to really getting something from one of the boys other than Chris. Usually it's just a quote here and there. Jonny always comes across as smart but funny :) I can't believe about the pain he was in on the last tour. You never would have known watching him play... :cry:

yum yum. What a face! :wink3::D

I don't think that this is selling out to advertising in the same way as selling your music to be used in commercials to sell something like cars or clothes etc. They are only promoting their own music. Sadly, now a days artists really need to promote their music online, as CD sales are getting so poor. I am pretty sure they wouldn't have got paid to do this advertisement as it is just promoting themselves, not other artists or endorsing Apple products like i-pods or computers. When they started out they played a promotion gig at the HMV music store in Oxford Circus, to encourage people to buy their CD from the shop. Lots of new bands do it. I don't see the difference between doing an online promotion for i-tunes store than doing a promotion for the HMV shop. It's still them just promoting their music. It's sadly not realistic that they can ignore the need to promote online sales, particularly through legal download providers like i-tunes. I'd be upset if they allowed their music to be used to sell a non-music related product like a car, clothes or electronic equipment. No i-pod adverts please boys!

It's not as bad as it looks from the title of this thread. X&Y hasn't been voted into the top 20 or even close. I don't think there was anything wrong with the X&Y cover... I quite liked it! :confused::D

Coldplay buy piano for school From the BBC website (http://www.http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7409149.stm) Chris Martin is the lead singer with Coldplay Pop giants Coldplay have bought a £3,000 piano for a Gloucestershire primary school that lost its musical instruments during the floods of 2007. Bassist Guy Berryman heard about the school's plight from his neighbour. It led to the Grammy-award winning group, who had hits with Speed of Sound and Yellow, buying the Kemble piano for St David's School in Moreton-in-Marsh. Head teacher Bob Forster said: "It is fantastic. I was impressed they cared enough to want to help." It is believed the band acted after seeing pictures of the school's piano floating in the water-filled hall. Mr Forster added: "Music is important to St David's and gives huge pleasure to people inside and out of the school. "We didn't ask for the money, but Guy Berryman is a neighbour of one of our teaching support workers and that's how they heard about us." All the school's instruments - keyboards, drums, recorders, and handbells - were wrecked when water swept through the corridors last July. The band, whose singer Chris Martin is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, has sold 30 million albums making them one of the world's biggest acts. The 320-pupil school has now sent a thank you letter to Coldplay and will also send photos of the piano being used. --------------------------------------------------------------- What lovely boys they are! :) I guess Guy doesn't live in Hampstead anymore...

Aww, happy birthday Apple! I wonder if she'll have a birthday party like Moses. I hope so - I know it's not great to have pap pictures of their kids but I'll confess to secretly wanting to see some more pics of Jonny and baby Violet and Will and Ava... :rolleyes:

What about Jonny's brother's band!?! Surely they wanna play too!

Here is another article from the BBC news website. Been on since yesterday in their entertainment section. Coldplaying.com gets a mention! :) 'Coldplay fans snap up free single' Coldplay's album Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends is out in June There was "massive demand" for the new Coldplay single, available as a free download, which caused problems for some fans who rushed to hear it. Violet Hill was made available from the band's website at 1215 BST on Tuesday. A spokesman described the response as "incredible", adding: "Massive demand slowed everything down in the first 40 minutes of the download going live. "But that was quickly fixed and Coldplay.com is delivering tracks to fans at full speed." Violet Hill is the first material to be heard from the band's fourth album Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends, which is out on 12 June. In an online poll of 1,400 people on the Coldplaying fan site, some 60% gave the song nine or 10 out of 10. The band are still to announce details of three free concerts - in London, New York and Barcelona.

Review by The Telegraph newspaper 01/05/2008 Hope this hasn't already been posted: Review from The Daily Telegraph (online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk in the 'arts' section) Coldplay: another one from the heart Last Updated: 12:01am BST 01/05/2008 After rumours of splits and strange musical experiments, Coldplay have ended their silence with a new album, produced by Brian Eno. Neil McCormick reports After an absence of two years, during which their record company EMI has changed hands and the future of the mainstream commercial music business has been cast into doubt, the biggest-selling rock band of the 21st century have returned to the fray. Coldplay came in from the cold this week with a free digital download single, Violet Hill. Amid rumours that the group had forsaken populism for high-minded artistic experimentation, the wobbly synths that introduce the song may have caused fans (and EMI executives) a moment of anxiety. But when Chris Martin starts singing, his stately piano rings out and the band pile in, it is business as usual. This is exactly the kind of song that has made them the defining group of our times, a gloriously catchy piece of epic melancholia. There is almost a Seventies pop groove to the song, albeit crossed with a darker rock sensibility. It could be the Feeling with more feeling, or Wings taking flight into the lyrical ether. There has always been something McCartney-esque about Martin's melodies and the band's harmonic style. But there is something more, too. He conjures up Macca's old bandmate John Lennon with the line, "I don't want to be a soldier", but adds his own poetic twist: "Who the captain of some sinking ship would stow/down below/ If you love me, why'd'you let me go?" The song is the lament of a fearful foot-soldier, remembering a moment's affection in a snow-covered place called Violet Hill. Like Lennon, Martin strives to get to the raw, emotional core of a song. With its intimations of mortality, this is not a silly love song, it's a rumination on the futility and hypocrisy of religious conflict, wrapped up in a tune you can imagine vast crowds singing along to. This is what their critics (and there have been many) dislike about Coldplay: their sincerity, populism and lack of irony. It annoys the same people who have an intense antipathy to U2. But Coldplay are unashamed fans of the Irish supergroup. Martin once said: "Maybe it's because we were raised on reading U2 books, but there is no shame in joining the mainstream, of wanting the biggest possible platform for your views." Sixteen million sales of 2002's A Rush of Blood to the Head and 10 million of 2005's X&Y (the biggest selling albums worldwide in their respective years) have certainly given them the platform they desired (even their 2000 debut, Parachutes, has clocked up more than four million). The New York Times famously described Coldplay as "the most insufferable band of the decade", but the public apparently disagreed. Martin went from being a curly-haired geek to an international sex symbol, married to movie star Gwyneth Paltrow, with a brace of eccentrically-named children (Apple and Moses). He appeared as a spokesman for the Fairtrade campaign, among other charitable concerns. But when the group appeared at the 2006 Brit Awards to accept the gong for best album, Martin suggested that success had become a burden. "People are fed up with us and so are we," he said. "You won't see us at one of these for many, many years." Rumours that the band were breaking up were quickly dismissed when Coldplay bought a mansion to convert into rehearsal and recording space in the desirable north London suburb of Hampstead. There did seem to be some truth to the notion that they were embarking on a period of experimentation, however. "For a long time, people felt like we were a band in black and white, and now we feel like we can do whatever we like and try all kinds of new things," said Martin. Leading US hip-hop producer Timbaland (most recently at the helm of Madonna's album) revealed that he was in discussions to produce Coldplay, tapping into Martin's love of urban music (he has written for Jamelia and collaborated with Jay Z and Kanye West). It might have been intriguing, but it would have done little for the nerves of Guy Hands and his EMI investors, who must be hoping that another blockbuster from their most bankable stars will get EMI out of the hole. In the event, it was to Brian Eno that Coldplay turned. Eno is renowned for his experimental work - solo, and with Roxy Music, David Bowie and Talking Heads - but he has also produced some of U2's most successful albums, including The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. It would appear that it is this side of Eno that Coldplay tapped into. Martin said the group are still "obsessed with making songs that can be sung to the rafters". The album's title, Viva La Vida, has unfortunate connotations of Ricky Martin. In fact the phrase, which means "Long live life", was spotted by Martin on a Frida Kahlo painting. "I loved the boldness of it," he has said. In 2007, they road-tested material on a short South American tour. On a subsequent trip to Barcelona, they did some location recording in Catalan churches. A post on the band's website claimed: "The sights, sounds and flavours of Latin America and Spain have definitely infused into this album." Having heard it myself, all I can say is that it must have infused so deeply you can't even taste it anymore. Members of the music press were invited to playbacks this week, albeit only after agreeing to forgo detailed discussion of the content prior to its release on June 16. What I can say is that themes of death and resurrection are strongly present, apparently confirming a long-held suspicion that, like their heroes U2, there is a Christian element to Coldplay. With a production that the band describe as "dense" with "melodies and colours packed into a relatively short space", Eno loads on the atmospherics and introduces plenty of rhythmic and sonic twists, but Martin's innate pop sensibility shines through. If anything, the new Coldplay are brighter and more uplifting than ever. These are songs full of the kind of anthemic touches that will make people want to hold their mobile phones in the air. If you liked Coldplay before, chances are you will like them still. If you couldn't stand them, block your ears now. They are going to be hard to escape. -------------------------------- A good positive review in general, I think. A little Chris Martin heavy for my liking... not enough about the fact it's four people in the band, but I guess that is to be expected given he's the front man. A little bit more Jonny would have been my ideal! :wink3:

Love it! Think it is a good sign of what is to come! :D Jo whiley on Radio 1 kept saying how much she loved 'Yes!' so I'm really looking forward to that one now! Great guitar's from Jonny - I think this album is really going to show how good he is. Chris said that we'll hear a lot more of the others (& Brian Eno!?!) which I think is a really great. Have signed up for my download but haven't got it yet. I sense it might take a while! Not fair as I wanna listen again! :laugh3:

Love it! :) Great painting and makes a great cover. I'm guessing the full title is on the spine of the album or on the back. My guess is having too many words on the front would detract from the powerful image. And yes, weirdly the guy does look a little like Jonny... :laugh3:

Everyone should remember that this is just an estimate, based on potential worth. Not what they actually have in their bank accounts, or at their disposal. They probably don't actually have anywhere near this. Not only is it based on what they are considered worth, not what they acutally earn, it doesn't take into account taxes they have to pay, the 10% of their wages they give to charity, the cost of touring, cost of people's wages, what they have spent etc. I don't think that people should take this figure too seriously!

They're all looking good at the moment. I like Will in glasses :)

This is one of Jonny & Chloe from the same night, the Silvia premiere. I think it's the first time she was photographed with Jonny. Wow that seems like about a million years ago. Everyone was horrified when the boys turned up with ladies :laugh3: This is a more recent one from the Isle of Wight with Gwyneth: Lucky lady... Jonny is so lovely! :rolleyes:

Well, I guess that they did it in order to stir up a little intrigue and anticipation about the album so I guess it was a good idea in that respect. They got what they wanted - everyone has been posting like crazy about the album titles, track listing etc.

haha - he did look a little funny! He looks really amazing now though, so all is forgiven! ;) Fatherhood and studio time have obviously had good effect on him! :D

Very cool photo. It's in front of a building in Tokyo, near the Hyatt hotel. The number are constantly changing on the side of the building. I don't know if it's still there now but it was a few years ago

I don't mind the title, and I think it will make more sense when the album is out and we hear the music. Lots of people seem to prefer 'Famous Old Painters' but I think that sounds a bit stuffy and boring for an album title... better for a track title. I'm reserving all judgement until the album comes out! ;)

Don't know if this was posted, from The Mirror, UK tabloid paper: Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's marriage is rock-solid 3/03/2008 Contrary to rumours, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's marriage is rock-solid. The pair were spotted at London's Soho Hotel and a mole tells us: "They were inseparable - holding hands all night." Wow - for once the tabloids are actually reporting something positive about their relationship!!! :o:P