Zeya

yeah i kinda agree, it's quite mundane... and no worries ;)

oh no! how can u forget such thing?

Remember the twitter guy who said that he prefer to interview Chris over Guy? Well this is the interview: Coldplay Plays May 23 At Comcast Theatre In Hartford By ERIC R. DANTON | The Hartford Courant May 22, 2009 Coldplay Coldplay: from left, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer Will Champion, singer-keyboardist Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland (JAY L. CLENDENIN / LOS ANGELES TIMES / June 2, 2008) Playing in huge arenas before thousands of people has been known to alienate musicians seeking to establish a connection with their audiences, but Coldplay has taken steps to keep things on a human scale. "Our relationship with the audience is really quite intimate at the moment, because if you bought a ticket way in the back, we'll be coming out to you," bass player Guy Berryman says from home in London, before starting the U.S. leg of a tour that stops in Hartford Saturday. Indeed, shows on the English quartet's tour last year included a segment where the band raced to some distant section of the venue to perform a couple of acoustic songs. Coldplay plans to reprise the feature this summer, provided the group figures out a way to modify it for the amphitheaters it's visiting. "I'm sure we're going to be running to the back of the amphitheaters if we can," Berryman says. "We're kind of trying to break down the barriers of a conventional rock performance, with the band at one end of the venue and the audience all the way to the back." Keeping that sense of intimacy with the audience is important for a band whose members regard each other as family. It shows in the way Coldplay has evolved over 11 years and four full-length studio albums together. The most recent, last year's "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," was the top-selling album in the world in 2008 and won the Grammy for best rock album in February. It was also the first album on which Coldplay collaborated with producer Brian Eno, who has also worked with Roxy Music, Talking Heads and U2. "Working with Brian Eno has really helped us quite a lot, and everyone is contributing ideas more and everyone is singing more," Berryman says. "We've spent so much time living together and traveling together, we just know each other better than ever, and we all have a good relationship and are very open-minded to everyone's ideas." Each of the four members — Berryman, singer/pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland and drummer Will Champion — contributes to the songwriting, which has become a free-flowing process that adheres to no set formula. "Sometimes a song will be something that Chris has written one night on his own on piano, and he brings it in, and we all try and work out some parts to play on top of it, or it could be a studio-based session where Will is playing a certain drumbeat or Jonny is playing a riff on his guitar, and we kind of build things up from that side," Berryman says. "There's no specific way it functions anymore, which is really quite exciting, because it means everything is coming from a slightly different place." In some ways, writing "Viva la Vida" was a reaction to stinging criticism from New York Times music critic Jon Pareles, who described Coldplay as "the most insufferable band of the decade" in a blistering review of the band's 2005 album "X&Y." "It was a big deal. It's the first real attack on your band, and from a publication we all respect," Martin told Rolling Stone last year. "I agreed with a lot of the points. It was like, 'Yeah, I do sometimes go for the obvious, and I do sometimes fall back on old tricks.' So, in a way, it was liberating to see that someone else realized that also." Berryman says he doesn't remember any specific talk about the Times' review while recording "Viva la Vida," but allows that criticism can be a motivating force. "Sometimes somebody has decided they don't like you for no other reason than that you're popular, but then sometimes, if there's negative comments, you can read them and go, 'Do you know what? I agree with that,' and you kind of use what people have written about you in a positive way to make constructive changes," he says. All the same, it doesn't take outside criticism to make the members of Coldplay self-conscious. "We're a band that's riddled with insecurities anyway, so it doesn't really help us that much to be written about in a negative way," Berryman says. "We just never believe that we've done anything good, and whenever we set out to make a record, we always have it in our heads that it has to be better than the last one. It's those insecurities that drive us to keep going back into the studio and to keep trying to improve our live show and to try and become better musicians and better writers. It's the driving force behind why we're still here doing what we do." •COLDPLAY performs Saturday at the Comcast Theatre (formerly the Meadows) with Pete Yorn and Howling Bells. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $97.50 and $79.50 for reserved seats and $35 for the lawn. Information: 860-548-7370. Source: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/music/hc-berrymancoldplay0522.art0may22,0,3246084.story

well maybe because since emma is a melbournian..the second copy should be given to a sydneysider...:lol:

I think that if anyone deserves the first postage of the copy it will be Emma herself... ;) and i'll be close second :P:lol:

oh perrine.. if i ever feel down i'll just have a look at chris' wrist on the recent photos and it will always remind me of how lucky i am :D:heart:

Thankfully that didnt happen on the fourth night of the sydney show :D:smug:

oh emma...u brought back the memories all over again..i miss chris :cry: but the photos of the recent tour always make me smile (and i think u can figure out why ;))

this guy managed to bring in superb camera! those photos are mad!

i can definitely certify that! Will is ust lovely..

i can definitely certify that! Will is ust lovely..

I cant wait for the video to be released! :D

I cant wait for the video to be released! :D

mayurshikotra: u beat me to it! :lol:

mayurshikotra: u beat me to it! :lol:

Chris: "LRLRL has to be free because there's so many backing singers" May 21, 2009 10:18 am Chris catches up with Coldplay.com Hello Chris, how are you? I'm very well thank you. So, the live album has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times already. I know! It's fantastic. My son Moses had a birthday party and everyone was given party bags at the end of it. That was when Phil said, "This is a good idea for a concert, as a way of saying thanks for coming." So we've done it and we've got a million CDs being slowly given out at shows, plus the download. It feels amazing. I can't believe that we've been allowed to do it. You'd imagine record labels aren't particularly keen on giving millions of albums away. Was it difficult to sort out? Not really. A lot of people who work at our record company just love music, so they're happy to be able to help us give something back. We've all got to make a living, but we've been really lucky as a band, so we can afford to manufacture an album and give it away. I think everyone we work with is happy that they've helped us get to a position where we can do that. This could end up being your most-owned album. Well, thank goodness we made it good! It makes me so happy though, man, because we really put effort into it. And although it's live, it's supposed to be a real album, part of our canon. Y'know, as well as being a gift move, it is also a musical move. It's meant to say that this is what we sound like at the moment. So you treated it like a proper album? Man, we put in more rehearsal for this album than any other, because we played it live 101 times before we released it. Talk about road testing material! And you're pleased with it? Definitely. What I'm most happy about is that it's nice and guitar-y; it's the first album where Will has a song on it; and it comes in at under 42 minutes. How did you decide the tracklisting? Well, apart from Viva, we didn't put songs on it that had videos from this campaign. We tried to make it things that you might not hear if you didn't go to a concert, but things that we really love playing. And also songs we think the audience sing really well. In a way it has to be free because there's so many backing singers on it. There's no way we could afford to pay them all. The crowd do sound great. Yeah. Our crowd make Bohemian Rhapsody sound like a two-track demo. Did you know which night you'd be recording the songs? No, because they're from all over the place. I think there's Dutch people singing on there with New Zealanders. It was recorded in 101 locations. How did you decide which particular recordings to use? Well, we have our sound man Dan who is very patient and has obviously had to suffer more Coldplay concerts than anybody else in history. He picked the ones he thought were best, with Phil. In fact, our method came from reading about Bruce Springsteen's live record, Live/1975-85. His manager, John Landau, picked some of his favourite performances and then went through them with Bruce. We did a similar thing. Now, let's talk about Bruce Springsteen. OK. Actually, I'd like to talk about things that I think are brilliant at the moment and I've got three of them. One is Bruce Springsteen in general, but particularly Nebraska and Born in the USA. And I saw his show twice a couple of weeks ago and it's f****** amazing. A lot of younger folks don't really understand the whole Bruce thing. No, I didn't understand it either. I was like, "Why is Bruce Springsteen playing Glastonbury?" And then I went to see him and I was like, "God, they've done it again". Glastonbury are way ahead of everybody. You just feel amazing after one of his concerts. What is brilliant thing number two? Well, I'd like to talk about the film, Anvil, which is wonderful. It's about this heavy metal group from the '80s who are still going through thick and thin. There's a scene in it between the drummer and the singer which makes you cry, especially if you're in a band and you know what it feels like to love another man so much, but also fight so much. And the third thing? That is the first REM album, which is called Murmur. It's interesting because it does exactly what it says on the tin: you can't hear a single word Michael Stipe says, but you get really lost in it. I've been listening to it a lot recently. Now, Coldplay's live album is called LeftRightLeftRightLeft. Exactly. That was also the name of a track touted for the Viva album. It was indeed. In fact, it was also what Viva La Vida was going to be called, before we found the title Viva La Vida. With the live album, we were going to go for the world record of the longest album title in history by making LeftRightLeftRightLeft go all the way around the CD, so that it never ended. But we took so much shit for how long Viva La Vida's title was, we thought maybe a never-ending title might be a little much. So we opted for five words as just one word. Does the track LeftRightLeftRightLeft still exist? It does, but in about eight different forms. It's not finished. What happens to songs like that? They're sort of torn apart and you might take parts of them for other songs. But the LeftRightLeftRightLeft song itself is unlikely to see the light of day? The song itself has been given the Will Champion seal of disapproval. So, no, nothing will happen to it. Who did the artwork for the live album? Well, if you've been to one of our concerts you'll know that there's a lot of fake butterflies floating about, so the idea came from that. We called up a guy called Mark Tappin, with whom we do all our designs. We talk on the phone and say, "We'd like this". Then he says, "I'd like this". Then we fight and fight until we eventually get something we all like. You're currently a few dates into a new leg of the tour, after having a little break. Yeah, we've just done the video for Strawberry Swing, which is going to be pretty good, I think. Is that officially a single, then? Well, it's officially going to be a really great video. I don't know whether it counts as a single or not. Can you tell us anything about the video? It is a new concept in video making, which will either be a woeful disaster or a triumphant Bafta winner. I guess you'll be seeing it at some point in the summer, as it's a summery song. Arguably the best song on the album. That's what I think! And we should also say that if you like that song you should [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdORqnWM98]listen to The Rock by Delakota[/ame]. That song had this amazing backwards guitar loop going all the way through. And although Strawberry Swing doesn't have that, the Delakota song was definitely inspirational. Careful, or you'll have another law suit on your hands. Haha! Where are you at with this whole Viva La Vida court case thing? Yeah, some people are suing us at the moment and although it was initially a bit depressing, now it's become really inspiring. You think, "Right, if everyone's trying to take away our best song, then we'd better write 25 better ones." And so just at the point where I was thinking about getting fat and becoming complacent, I've been finding more inspiration. Now we've got more to prove than ever before. Anyway, back to the tour. Do you find yourself missing playing when you're off the road for a while? Well, we've been in the studio, so we've been doing music most days. It doesn't really feel like we've stopped at all, although we did have a few days off. But it's certainly rewarding to be back out again. Our audience is just f****** incredible at the moment. I saw Pearl Jam about a year ago and Bruce a few weeks ago and I think our audience is as good as theirs now, in terms of how much they make us feel good. Some bands say if you play a really long tour, it starts to become hard work. That's just bullshit. Even after well over a hundred gigs on this tour, you can still enjoy it every night? Yeah, cos now it's really getting good. You've got some great support acts coming up. Yeah, absolutely. We've got Howling Bells and Pete Yorn with us at the moment, and then I think Snow Patrol come on for a bit, then Elbow for a bit and Amadou and Mariam. And Kitty, Daisy & Lewis too. It's an amazing list. And we're hoping to get Bat For Lashes for some dates too. Her album, Two Suns, is my current favourite contemporary record. What else are you listening to? I love the new Black Eyed Peas song. And obviously the new Green Day record. And Lily Allen's album. She's fantastic. She's one of those people who's so cool that whenever I meet her I feel like I'm back at school and none of the girls like me any more. She has that ability to make any boy feel like a tosser. On this North American leg of the tour, you're playing some fairly obscure places to a British eye. Like Des Moines. Where exactly is that? Oh, OK, I see what you're trying to do. I don't know, it's in Indiana or something... Sorry? Spinal Tap fans will understand. That's why I've known about Des Moines for a long, long time. And I can't wait to go there.

Chris: "LRLRL has to be free because there's so many backing singers" May 21, 2009 10:18 am Chris catches up with Coldplay.com Hello Chris, how are you? I'm very well thank you. So, the live album has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times already. I know! It's fantastic. My son Moses had a birthday party and everyone was given party bags at the end of it. That was when Phil said, "This is a good idea for a concert, as a way of saying thanks for coming." So we've done it and we've got a million CDs being slowly given out at shows, plus the download. It feels amazing. I can't believe that we've been allowed to do it. You'd imagine record labels aren't particularly keen on giving millions of albums away. Was it difficult to sort out? Not really. A lot of people who work at our record company just love music, so they're happy to be able to help us give something back. We've all got to make a living, but we've been really lucky as a band, so we can afford to manufacture an album and give it away. I think everyone we work with is happy that they've helped us get to a position where we can do that. This could end up being your most-owned album. Well, thank goodness we made it good! It makes me so happy though, man, because we really put effort into it. And although it's live, it's supposed to be a real album, part of our canon. Y'know, as well as being a gift move, it is also a musical move. It's meant to say that this is what we sound like at the moment. So you treated it like a proper album? Man, we put in more rehearsal for this album than any other, because we played it live 101 times before we released it. Talk about road testing material! And you're pleased with it? Definitely. What I'm most happy about is that it's nice and guitar-y; it's the first album where Will has a song on it; and it comes in at under 42 minutes. How did you decide the tracklisting? Well, apart from Viva, we didn't put songs on it that had videos from this campaign. We tried to make it things that you might not hear if you didn't go to a concert, but things that we really love playing. And also songs we think the audience sing really well. In a way it has to be free because there's so many backing singers on it. There's no way we could afford to pay them all. The crowd do sound great. Yeah. Our crowd make Bohemian Rhapsody sound like a two-track demo. Did you know which night you'd be recording the songs? No, because they're from all over the place. I think there's Dutch people singing on there with New Zealanders. It was recorded in 101 locations. How did you decide which particular recordings to use? Well, we have our sound man Dan who is very patient and has obviously had to suffer more Coldplay concerts than anybody else in history. He picked the ones he thought were best, with Phil. In fact, our method came from reading about Bruce Springsteen's live record, Live/1975-85. His manager, John Landau, picked some of his favourite performances and then went through them with Bruce. We did a similar thing. Now, let's talk about Bruce Springsteen. OK. Actually, I'd like to talk about things that I think are brilliant at the moment and I've got three of them. One is Bruce Springsteen in general, but particularly Nebraska and Born in the USA. And I saw his show twice a couple of weeks ago and it's f****** amazing. A lot of younger folks don't really understand the whole Bruce thing. No, I didn't understand it either. I was like, "Why is Bruce Springsteen playing Glastonbury?" And then I went to see him and I was like, "God, they've done it again". Glastonbury are way ahead of everybody. You just feel amazing after one of his concerts. What is brilliant thing number two? Well, I'd like to talk about the film, Anvil, which is wonderful. It's about this heavy metal group from the '80s who are still going through thick and thin. There's a scene in it between the drummer and the singer which makes you cry, especially if you're in a band and you know what it feels like to love another man so much, but also fight so much. And the third thing? That is the first REM album, which is called Murmur. It's interesting because it does exactly what it says on the tin: you can't hear a single word Michael Stipe says, but you get really lost in it. I've been listening to it a lot recently. Now, Coldplay's live album is called LeftRightLeftRightLeft. Exactly. That was also the name of a track touted for the Viva album. It was indeed. In fact, it was also what Viva La Vida was going to be called, before we found the title Viva La Vida. With the live album, we were going to go for the world record of the longest album title in history by making LeftRightLeftRightLeft go all the way around the CD, so that it never ended. But we took so much shit for how long Viva La Vida's title was, we thought maybe a never-ending title might be a little much. So we opted for five words as just one word. Does the track LeftRightLeftRightLeft still exist? It does, but in about eight different forms. It's not finished. What happens to songs like that? They're sort of torn apart and you might take parts of them for other songs. But the LeftRightLeftRightLeft song itself is unlikely to see the light of day? The song itself has been given the Will Champion seal of disapproval. So, no, nothing will happen to it. Who did the artwork for the live album? Well, if you've been to one of our concerts you'll know that there's a lot of fake butterflies floating about, so the idea came from that. We called up a guy called Mark Tappin, with whom we do all our designs. We talk on the phone and say, "We'd like this". Then he says, "I'd like this". Then we fight and fight until we eventually get something we all like. You're currently a few dates into a new leg of the tour, after having a little break. Yeah, we've just done the video for Strawberry Swing, which is going to be pretty good, I think. Is that officially a single, then? Well, it's officially going to be a really great video. I don't know whether it counts as a single or not. Can you tell us anything about the video? It is a new concept in video making, which will either be a woeful disaster or a triumphant Bafta winner. I guess you'll be seeing it at some point in the summer, as it's a summery song. Arguably the best song on the album. That's what I think! And we should also say that if you like that song you should [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdORqnWM98]listen to The Rock by Delakota[/ame]. That song had this amazing backwards guitar loop going all the way through. And although Strawberry Swing doesn't have that, the Delakota song was definitely inspirational. Careful, or you'll have another law suit on your hands. Haha! Where are you at with this whole Viva La Vida court case thing? Yeah, some people are suing us at the moment and although it was initially a bit depressing, now it's become really inspiring. You think, "Right, if everyone's trying to take away our best song, then we'd better write 25 better ones." And so just at the point where I was thinking about getting fat and becoming complacent, I've been finding more inspiration. Now we've got more to prove than ever before. Anyway, back to the tour. Do you find yourself missing playing when you're off the road for a while? Well, we've been in the studio, so we've been doing music most days. It doesn't really feel like we've stopped at all, although we did have a few days off. But it's certainly rewarding to be back out again. Our audience is just f****** incredible at the moment. I saw Pearl Jam about a year ago and Bruce a few weeks ago and I think our audience is as good as theirs now, in terms of how much they make us feel good. Some bands say if you play a really long tour, it starts to become hard work. That's just bullshit. Even after well over a hundred gigs on this tour, you can still enjoy it every night? Yeah, cos now it's really getting good. You've got some great support acts coming up. Yeah, absolutely. We've got Howling Bells and Pete Yorn with us at the moment, and then I think Snow Patrol come on for a bit, then Elbow for a bit and Amadou and Mariam. And Kitty, Daisy & Lewis too. It's an amazing list. And we're hoping to get Bat For Lashes for some dates too. Her album, Two Suns, is my current favourite contemporary record. What else are you listening to? I love the new Black Eyed Peas song. And obviously the new Green Day record. And Lily Allen's album. She's fantastic. She's one of those people who's so cool that whenever I meet her I feel like I'm back at school and none of the girls like me any more. She has that ability to make any boy feel like a tosser. On this North American leg of the tour, you're playing some fairly obscure places to a British eye. Like Des Moines. Where exactly is that? Oh, OK, I see what you're trying to do. I don't know, it's in Indiana or something... Sorry? Spinal Tap fans will understand. That's why I've known about Des Moines for a long, long time. And I can't wait to go there.

have fun those who are going...and bring back awesome photos! :D

hey Angie i just read everything u've posted..i'm glad u have fun! the photos and videos are amazing :D

hey i'm just dropping by this thread to see if the berrygirls have gone crazy over the bed photo...lol.

omg the tour programme!!!!!!! :dead:

LOL! i guess i'm just 8 years too late! :lol:

I am so sorry if this has been discussed before..I have searched for a similar thread but did not find any..so feel free to merge if there's already one..;) So anyway, since when does Coldplay has an official fanclub? I assume this is legit as it was linked at http://www.coldplay.com/fan/club.html so it must be a real one right? However I recalled someone (I think it's The Oracle? I'm not so sure) said that Coldplay doesnt have an official fanclub so I'm a bit confused :confused:

sounds like a wonderful night u had... glad u had fun :) oh i miss the boys...

omg your paintings are nearly identical to the original ones...u're really good! :stunned: