RunForTheHills

Ah, this is so interesting! Thanks for the article Patrizio! :D

Ahhh, I love it! Thanks for posting! :D

I also agree, although I do think the outfits themselves are pretty cool. But if they REALLY want to connect with their fans, dressing like earthlings would help a great deal, i think. It would really be better that they seemed like 4 average guys just playing music. They're already as close to being musical gods as they can get, without having to dress like them.

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I agree with you, hopefully NME's review tomorrow will be more focused on the music itself.

I don't think anyone managed to record it did they? I'm just glad I got to hear him mention us live! Epic stuff.

Unlike that other Coldplay-bashing article, this is actually quite amusing. But still uncalled for :dozey:

I downloaded it from their site, but thanks anyway :D

Haha, that album art is crazy! :stunned: Ok looking for new song...

You wouldn't have See You Soon by Coldplay at hand, would you Ben? :D

I didn't, unfortunately. Anyone catch it?

OMG! He mentioned us!!!! YAY! :dance: Thanks Ben! :D

Haha, placenta recipes? That really is something else.

I second that request! :P

Ahhh, how cool is this? And you're so lucky to be holding the album!

That would be so typical of EMI :rolleyes: It wouldn't stop people here from spreading those songs around, though.

^Yeah, I bet they're regretting that score right now. There's no other way out of being moaned unless they give it a perfect 10. And there's no way that X&Y is a 9/10 album anyway.

Wow. :stunned:

I'll see if its in the local shop tomorrow, but I won't have a scanner, so I may not be the best person to ask.

Ahhh, so exciting! :dance: Thanks for the short description Ben!

*Sigh* I'm not even going to bother to comment. The guy is wasting his, and everybody else's time. Ricky Gervais gave Chris a sense of humour? Come on. If he really knew what Chris was like he would know that he's always been quirky and charming Like that. And there's so much other stuff in that article that shows he hasn't got anything better to do than to take a swing at the band. "Despite all that, there's a certain type of person who won't like Coldplay, or the Paltrow-Martins, whatever they do. That type of person is me." As soon as I read this line, it was obvious to me, that his opinions are totally unfounded. This is the kind of mindless bashing I try to ignore. He hasn't even heard the new album, for goodness sake. He's not worth the attention he's trying to get.

Yeah, the make-up is unnecessary. But it was an interesting interview, thanks! :nice:

That was a really good interview, thanks! I had no idea about Jonny's wrist problem either, but I'm glad he's recovered from that now :nice:

If you want to be swarmed, be my guest :P

Coldplay - Violet Hill (Parlophone) Mike Caulfield 26/ 5/2008 3 STARS *** FOR a group so regularly accused of being boring they’re certainly never short of fanfare when they return. Having first been made available free to download for a week from their own website - now known to every media platform as “doing a Radiohead”, Coldplay’s don’t-call-it-a-come-back return is said to have already reached two million peoples hard-drives. Whilst those still buying the NME will no doubt have commandeered their parents’ turntable to spin their cover-mount 7” copy also. ‘Violet Hill’ thankfully finds the four-piece moving away from the lighters-in-the-air, cynical balladeering that made previous album ‘X & Y’ such an irritating listen, with Martin’s lyrical call of “when the futures architectured by a carnival of idiots on show” as worked up as we’ve seen him away from the paparazzi. Though master sound manipulator Brian Eno’s contribution is hard to detect, as the four-piece take on an overall ambience familiar to Manchester’s own Elbow throughout - minus Guy Garvey’s unassuming charm. Whilst it’s parent LP ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends’ is likely to contain more arresting and immediate moments, as returns go it’s not bad. Released on May 26 http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/music/single_reviews/s/1051192_coldplay__violet_hill_parlophone