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December 9, 2010 - submitted by Jacob, United States of America Q. When was Harmless written? The consensus is that it was written in the X & Y era, but then again I've heard that it was written for Parachutes (which seems more likely). Nonetheless it's a fabulous song and I can only wonder why the boys didn't put it on an album! Jacob The Oracle replies: Actually neither are right; I recall Harmless first being written during the A Rush of Blood to the Head recording sessions. It was certainly post-Parachutes and pre-X&Y.

December 9, 2010 - submitted by Clarence, Malaysia Q. Dear Oh Mighty Oracle, Are you annoyed by "Team Oracle"? The Oracle replies: It was my idea so not at all. I thought it would be an interesting direction to take and so far I am loving the audience participation. Check back tomorrow for this week's submission...

Cute thought hahahaha December 9, 2010 - submitted by Javier M E, Spain Q. My cousin watched your Christmas Lights video and asked what Elvis had to do with Christmas. Of course I know Elvis Presley sung lots of Christmas songs, but I answered him that it might have been a mistake in the transcription or reading of the video script: Maybe the script writer intended to show THREE ELVES (like Santa's helpers) and someone read THREE ELVIS?? The Oracle replies: Hahahahaha! That's funny! If you listen to the lyrics of the song - or you can read them here - you will hear (or see) there is actually an Elvis reference in the song so it's no mistake.

December 9, 2010 - submitted by Eman, Lebanon Q. Dear Oracle, I see in a previous question you clarified that the building in the Final scene in the video of Christmas Lights was St. Paul's Cathedral not a mosque, but what about at 1:14 in the video isn't that a mosque?? Also I'm guessing that Mat Whitecross directed the video of Christmas Light, did I guess right? Thank you, Eman = Faith The Oracle replies: The cardboard scenery you mean? Well, I had just thought it was maybe an Arabian skyline with no particular religious leanings at all. The song has no undertones alluding to it.

Finally finished school for today and found time to properly read what happened in here last night... Aww, thanks Kara! Old newspaper haha Couldn't resist, it's such a cool pic!! :heart: :laugh4: Hey Dan, I said it before: Thank you loads! Are you kidding? Of course we were interested! :whip: Lovely review, thanks for sharing! :hug: :kiss: Looking forward to see you again on telly! :P And I second what fru.overvad said above!!! Wow, that must've taken you a while! :stunned: Made me laugh as well! :lol: Just :kiss: :awesome: Thanks again! Welcome to coldplaying!! :nice: See you soon then! :) Aww, what a great review, fun to read, thank you!! So happy for all of you that everything worked and you had a great time! You're so right about the whole 'life is about good memories' and passion thing.

:curtain: I'm a bit out of the loop. :embarrassed: Listening to this at the moment, don't know if it has been posted already. :uhoh: http://www.novafm.com.au/nova1069/audio_exclusive-tim-blackwell-interviews-muse_100514

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That's awesome! :awesome:

Thanks everyone! Sounds like you had a great day. :dance: Phil, did you manage to give the pic to the band? :shy: Christmas Lights Christmas Lights Christmas Lights Christmas Lights :P

Personally-signed guitar auctions for Crisis December 8, 2010 11:44 am Bid for one of two guitars signed by the band Good morning. Ahead of Coldplay's two Christmas shows for Crisis, the charity is auctioning two guitars which will be signed by the band, with a personal message to the winning bidder. You can bid for them on eBay at http://cldp.ly/crisisgtrs. The two auctions run until Tuesday, 14th December. Anchorman

Welcome! Like has been said in the gig thread already - you can only sell them for face value here. Have a great time at the gig and please come back and tell us how it was. :nice:

It's like a reaction time test "press 10 for [...]'s face, 1 for the rest" - as fast as you can with the least errors. Was like that for me though. :laugh4: Some of those guys I got much more than others, I don't understand the order of appearance at all. Just found this! http://www.toazted.co.uk/js/play-3580.js (part 1) http://www.toazted.co.uk/js/play-3581.js (part 2) Love how Simon does the :kiss:es at the beginning! :lol: I could listen to that accent all day. :heart:

Done, thanks! He's got a couple of 10s from me. :) (Also Chris, Dom, Matt etc haha) Here's a slightly bigger version of the pic:

Have fun everyone going!! :hug: Hope you'll have a great time, I'm looking forward to hear your stories! :nice:

Well, yes, we all did. But after that they just left the area in their bus and all the waiting in the freezing cold was pointless in the end. :disappointed: I'm still listening non-stop to Biffy in my car. The Blackened Sky album is really growing on me. :heart: EDIT: Stolen from .mu: And watch Pip's videos from Wembley!! (or check the last couple of pages of the Biffy thread on .mu for more videos from Wembley, awesome. :awesome:) http://www.youtube.com/user/flipflopip#g/c/1465AD2A44B6C7D0

PING PONG. Again. :laugh4: That's all. (Yeah, exactly one week ago I watched Arcade Fire playing Ping Pong for HOURS after the gig. Literally. HOURS.)

Here I am, back from work... it was such a long day... Antonia, get better soon! :hug: And my test was bad. Got back 2 older tests and they were both an A but that didn't help forget the terrible accounting test. :disappointed: Also: my trade school has THE worst organisation. :angry: I wrote only one test today and on Thurs it'll now be 3! :stunned: So glad when this week is over.

You can listen again on the Radio 1 website, maybe Zane introduced the song before he started talking with them? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w5n2r#p00ch61y EDIT: Kanye West - Lost in the world

Aww, thank you, Natascha! And good luck that you find some better place to work. Sucks when you don't feel comfortable at the place you spend most of your time at. :hug: I should really log out soon and look into that bloody accounting book. :uhoh:

Still gone. :bigcry:

Carlaaaaaaa! :cheesy: Hi hun! You're considering going to Pinkpop? It's not that far for me to get there and I'd only go for the day as well if I go. We could go together! :awesome: And hi everyone else still in this thread! I'm writing 2 tests tomorrow and shouldn't be here but man, I love that I had to catch up like 3 pages in here since this afternoon! :dance: :heart:

I've watched these last night, so cute and funny! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1GwcZiKmJw]YouTube - Biffy Clyro - im Interview bei We Need To Talk: "Ask A Friend"[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9HciwyRTs]YouTube - Biffy Clyro - im Interview bei We Need To Talk: "Mobile Check"[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6GKVACMHs]YouTube - Biffy Clyro - im Interview bei We Need To Talk: "If I Was A"[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQAD4Ch5Vvk]YouTube - Biffy Clyro- We Need To Talk - "If I Was a" - Teil II[/ame] The "We need to talk" videos with Muse are hilarious as well if you don't know them already. :)

Hey Natascha! Sorry, I'm lost here without the new posts button. :bigcry: Did you see the picture of yourself on FB that Frida has uploaded? The one in B&W? It looks so cool! I love it. Are you planning to go to Pinkpop?

Good evening girls! Just back from work, it was chaotic tonight. :disappointed: We have a new projectionist and he messed up a couple of times. :lol: One movie was stopped for 10 minutes because he managed to do something to get the fuse cut off all electricity! Customers took it easy though, was a big relief! It's so cold here as well, don't know how anyone goes to the Christmas markets and stands outside for hours by choice. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I only saw the beginning of it so the others can tell you more I'm sure. It was a wooden construction, like a plank almost as long as Chris is tall. He was lying on it and then it got lifted. It's fascinating to see the finished result of it because it looked... different to what we see now. :) EDIT: Awww :wacky: , thank you Mich!!! :hug: