Littlewhiteshadows

Lol Chris having a dance round the stage...stroking Will's shoulder! Will's bell is immense. Not being rude, he has a HUGE bell he keeps banging :D

VIVA VIVA VIVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. *jumps up and down*

You will. Oh my fuck Violet Hill sounds AMAZING.

Bollllooockkkks they're only performing :( Chris is sounding good. How loud are Will's drums?!

On the interview, sorry...we're still with old lady, talking about how Colin Farrell came onto her. Ick.

Did that just say circumcision on a baby or exorcism?!

Yeah, it was meant to be a boxer, the first page says. They totally should have given the spot to Chris et. al...stupid Jonathon Ross :(

Why is she there, exactly? I could understand if she'd just won the award she got, but that was like 2 months ago! And she's boring!

It's old bird's turn, which means Coldplay will be on in about 10 minutes. Squeee.

Coldplay just clapped at James McAvoy's new film, but aside from that, nothing band related or interesting.

He said he's like a father figure to Chris, he's looking after his surrogate son!

The old woman is Dame Eileen Atkins, she beat Judi Dench to a BAFTA in that period drama...what was it, Cranford? She's more of a waste of a slot than Jo Brand, I agree, although I really don't find Jo Brand funny!

They're interviewing this fat UK Comedienne called Jo Brand. Waste of an interview slot, it should have gone to Coldplay, but it looks like they're only performing. Those who are watching, was Chris wearing anything under his jacket or was he bare chested? My telly is small and I'm ever so confused!

Lol Jonathon Ross: My towel fell down. Chris: And my clothes fell off...and then love just took over.

This was what I was going for but much less "OMG you complete CLOWN".

Fair enough, that's your opinion, but I don't think anyone's intention is to help anything, only to discuss it, and as I say, that's what forums are for!

I've already read that, hence using the word in my post, you don't have to keep saying it...it's obvious that such a negative interview is going to cause discussion, which isn't going to be the most savoury to read, but then what do you expect? This is a Coldplay forum, people can and will talk about all aspects of them, including reviews. If you don't like that, ignore review threads. Simple as. No need to keep carping on like we're on about tracking down the journalist and burning down his house, because we're not. We're just discussing the reasons why we believe he's wrong, and if he's got the right to say Coldplay are bad because that's his opinion (whatever antagonism that may cause), than you can't disallow people on this board from expressing the opinion that he is wrong. You are causing more antagonism to me by constantly nay-saying the owner of this forum for posting a negative article than the article ever could!

Is it just me, or is there a weird little noise at the end of Yes? A female/childlike voice saying "Hmhmm". http://www.sendspace.com/file/ie0acr If so, what is it?! Not an incredibly important thread but I'm confused and wondering if it's just my CD!

Erm. I have objectively decided that the guy is a useless journalist jumping on a bandwagon rather than talking about things that matter. I would say the same if he wrote an article rechurning the reasons why the Iraq war is bad. He is being paid to write the exact same as 1000 others. That is what people are generally annoyed about. If people don't like Coldplay, fair enough, but when they say it as if people who do are brainwashed idiots, I will take exception, thankyou ever so much. Music taste is individual, I couldn't give a flying toss if that man doesn't want to listen to Coldplay's music, to suggest that they steal from other musicians and do it badly is what bothers me, because it implies we are all completely hypnotised morons. We're not. Are we? I get what you're saying here but I get the feeling you're just disagreeing with the concensus in order to draw attention, and that's going to cause more antagonisation than this article is at the moment...

SuperWill!

FYI, I'm not wound up. It's interesting to see how idiotic rock journalists can be, that's all. Making statements everyone has made which are blatently ill informed and self concerned...if anything, I'm amused :D

Can we ask questions to Lamacq? If so, maybe it would be a good idea to e-mail and get him to ask? Or is that a really stupid idea? I just think it's really bad that Chris has been edited to look like some sort of highly strung cock, when there's definitely more to it. People don't react like that for no reason, even being called sexist and obsessed with death probably wouldn't warrant a walkout IMO.

I doubt they'll let it get published, so this is what I said:

Totally agree. Yes is my favourite currently. Chris' low voice, the lyrics (funny and clever) and the contributions from the others make it Coldplay even though it's unfamiliar. This is exactly where I wanted them to go.

In the album booklet, it says something like LIT & The Escapist 'borrow heavily' from a song by Jon Hopkins. That doesn't mean the song is by Jon Hopkins, but that Coldplay sampled his work...like they did with Kraftwerk on Talk. I reckon the beginning is all Hopkins, but then when the guitars come in, that's Coldplay too.