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Could you please stop making fun of us? It's not nice and tiring. We all have to get used to the rules and this is not the way to go.

Just to give this some closure: Any thread may be locked while it is reviewed, if we find it necessary threads or posts might even be removed. The poster concerned will be notified about this. If necessary please use the report a post function as this sends a message to all of us. Sending a single mod a PM slows down the process of us resolving issues. Openly bashing us, especially since you neither most likely don't know any of the details nor know what is going on behind the scenes is not doing anything but creating chaos. Please refrain from doing so. Regarding Braddock's request: No, we can't give more transparency, you'll have to trust us on this. We're still getting used to the new way the board is run (and mistakes happened and were apologised for) and you all must get used to it as well. Hopefully there won't be more "paranoia" as you put it but we'll try to give as much explanations as necessary and to stop rumours early where it's due.

Thank you! :kiss: I never watched that. :embarrassed:

Yes, I'd love to know where that clip is from, too! Anyone know?

Hey! Found it for you, merged threads, added tags and edited thread title to add your phrasing. :nice:

Have lots of fun in my favourite city!! :dance: Wish I could be there, see you soon! Just found this in the LOLz thread, genius!! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTXG1HQzT8]YouTube - muse spoof randomness[/ame] :laugh4:

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Yes!! Grazie! Searching for "events" is similar to the old Live search. :dance:

New link in the "hypnofeed" about Mat Whitecross: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2010/oct/07/british-film-hot-10#/?picture=367430912&index=6

October 8, 2010 - submitted by Susie, United Kingdom Q. I heard that Shiver was recorded in one take, was it? The Oracle replies: Shiver was recorded more than once during the album's studio process, however the version on the album is, in fact, the first take. Ken Nelson who worked with Coldplay on Parachutes gives some great insight.

October 8, 2010 - submitted by Ian, United States of America Q. Dear Oracle, Read, listened to, or seen anything good lately? Hope your autumn is going splendidly! Best Regards Ian The Oracle replies: Super autumnal sun today Ian. So, my tips right now... I was a bit sceptical reading Eat Pray Love because it's seen as a woman's book. However GQ (men's magazine - Gentlemans Quarterly in fact) said "it's not just for the ladies" and I have an interest in both subject matter and travel in general so I'd recommend it. Current music playlist includes John Grant's Queen of Denmark, Hurts' Happiness, Villagers' Becoming A Jackal and The National's High Violet. I had the pleasure of watching a Badly Drawn Boy in-store performance this week at Rough Trade East to promote his great new album. Toy Story 3 was another Pixar hit at the cinema, loved it! Watched Julie & Julia on DVD last night and had many dreams of Paris & cooking; again interesting subject matter to me - Bon appetit!

Art history #3 (Blue Room EP) October 8, 2010 11:21 am We hear from the designer of the cover for Coldplay's first Parlophone release It took us a little while, but we managed to track down Tim Moore, the man responsible for designing the cover of Coldplay's first release for Parlophone, The Blue Room EP, which was released almost exactly a decade ago, on October 11th 1999. Tim was kind enough to answer the questions we emailed about the cover. Hi Tim. So, how did you come to design the cover for the Blue Room EP? It was a lucky one, I had just graduated from Edinburgh College of Art & was in London planning a trip to Japan funded by the Royal Society of Arts I was discussing my work with a friend who had popped round and was mates with Claire O'Brien at Parlophone. He gave me Claire's contact details, I made contact and showed her my portfolio at EMI. Luckily she really liked my sketchbooks, so she held onto them and mentioned she would show them to a new band she was working with, I was called back into Parlophone soon after that & ended up meeting with Chris and the band at their flat in Camden. Was it among the first covers you designed? I had done a few covers for Electronic Music artists - Global Communication but yes it was early days in terms of my commercial work What had you trained in at college? I trained as a Graphic Designer on the Visual Communication course at Edinburgh College of Art. I did my dissertation on the visualisation of music & that subject continues to fascinate & inspire my work. Was there a specific brief for the Blue Room EP? Both the band & the label had some ideas of how they wanted the cover to look, I remember feeling pretty hemmed in by the process. At that time I had no studio of my own and laptops were a bit out of reach on my budget, so due to time restraints and the way it all turned out I did the design in the basement of the EMI building in Kensington. It was full of people busy artworking EMI communications, this gave me my first taste of the realities of Commercial art for major record labels. Who was responsible for picking the image and why was it chosen? Chris Martin had this book on the National Geographic Photographer David Doubilet called 'Water Light Time' published by Phaidon. It contains incredible images of marine life & I was also really interested in underwater photography so it was decided to work with several images from the book. We had to contact the photographer's agent and request the rights to the eventual image, in the end the image of a delicate coral in the hand worked best within the 12-inch format. Were there lots of different options for the cover? Not really no. It was a choice between 5 potential images and the coral in the hand worked best within the frame. Then it was a case of working with type to best balance the information with the beauty of the image itself. Were the band involved with the process? Not after the first meeting, no. I remember they gave feedback on the first visuals and liked the crop and the way in which the cover felt using a simple layout & clean typography. I remember wondering how I could work more of my own ideas on this job, but to be honest at this time pure typography alongside photography didn't play to my strengths. This was a lesson to me & soon after I ended up working for one of Europe's top designers for 3 years to greatly improve my typographic skills. Were you a fan of Coldplay's music? Obviously it was very early days for them. I had never heard of them before I received an early copy of the EP & knew straight away that they had a sound that would go on to be very popular. It wasn't my kind of sound, but I did appreciate the production even then, the Bigger Stronger & High Speed tracks felt like well-honed pop records. I was fresh out of college, & had been djing and producing underground dance music since I was 16 so I didn't take the music as seriously as I might have. I would certainly take the cover in a new direction now, but hindsight is a luxury of the past. How much time did you spend on the design? Probably about a week as I also did a promo mail out in the form of the coral from the cover image. I remember thinking the CD worked best, as the Digipac opened up and the CD on body was the coral with the hand sitting behind it under the clear tray to make it seem as you were removing the coral from the hand. It's such a beautiful image and ended up working well across formats with the tone of the EP. Were you pleased with the finished result? I learnt a lot on the job and it was great to work with an image of such power, but I had little creative freedom & when the vinyl came out the record company had placed this huge white limited edition box below the type in the lower left hand corner without consulting me, which completely messed the entire balance of the cover and just felt like such a careless thing to do… I was pretty shocked by that to tell you the truth. And what do you think of it now? The cover is really the photograph & the photograph is excellent so it certainly works as an arresting image & fits the music well in terms of the mood, with almost ten years having passed there are lots of things I would change especially the type on the back - it makes me cringe. It's probably the worst bit of typesetting I have ever let out into the world but as a cover it works well. The EP goes for quite a bit on eBay now - do you still have a copy? Yes I still have copies of the CD and vinyl release + some very rare and rather basic blank colour versions that have a varnished finish to them. I was lucky enough to be given the 0001 copy of the 12 inch so if anyone wants the first ever limited release of Coldplay's Blue Room EP on Parlophone make me an offer! It's been in my portfolio for some time, so it's pretty mint. Do you tell people about your role in Coldplay's career? It's always been a useful door opener when it came to working for other labels & design companies, but it's nearly ten years ago now so I don't tend to bring it up that often. I am still proud to have been involved though. Have you designed many covers since? I have designed quite a few, but mainly for independent labels as on the whole that's where I find a lot of the music I love. I designed the Nigeria Special series for Soundway records & created designs for other releases on that label. Tim's Nigeria Special covers I Art Direct the House music label Prime Numbers out of Manchester, I also designed much of the early firecracker records releases & I am currently working on a new label for Electronic Sound records. One of Tim's Firecracker designs Are you still designing? What do you work on these days? As Art director of Nth Creative I get to design lots of different things which is how we like it, although we make sure thats it's for things we like which sometimes reduces the big fees but keeps us inspired & engaged. I design logos for companies such as Canongate books, websites for Galleries & a lot of work for the music industry. I am currently designing my brother's new record label, I have just finished the cover for my new record which is out now… It's a track called Shake Your Body Down by Discreet Unit on Prime Numbers. I am also trying to get time to design our new website as the current site is about 3 years out of date. Shake Your Body Down by Discreet Unit I am a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, although since moving to Cornwall the visits have become less frequent. And when I get the time beyond all that I am doing up an old barn in Cornwall which I hope to turn into a studio in the very near future. And do you still keep an eye on Coldplay's progress? I listen to a wide spectrum of music, but to be honest Coldplay's sound is not regularly on my system. I did like the last album & could certainly hear the effect Brian Eno had in terms of the production, it's great that they have been so successful & I hope it all stays positive for them. Big thanks to Tim for taking the time to answer our questions. http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=655

Thanks for the reply, Patrizio! :kiss: I was talking about the former possibility to search for concerts at which a certain song has been played, I loooooved that feature and it's either gone now or I'm incapable to find it. :\

Yes, like it has been said already it is a trademark, and it was a company from the US who registered it, so therefore the American spelling. Wikipedia is quite useful for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

Threads merged. No need to start an extra thread when it's about the same thing. :nice:

Yesssssss, exactly! :awesome: And at that time in 2000 it only cost 8 GBP to see both of them, too! :bomb: http://www.songkick.com/concerts/667590-muse-at-l2/posters/671186

It was for at least 4 gigs according to this site: http://www.musewiki.org/Gigs,_1999-2000 But I'd suppose it was for all the UK gigs between the Astoria and Portsmouth gigs... This is only what I could find on a quick search, I'm sure we could find out more if we digged a little deeper. :)

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Yes, definitely! Hey Lizzy! I'm guilty *is creator of Dom Howard thread* hahaha!! I know you didn't mean the thread to be taken sooooo seriously but I like the dicsussion so far! I think a little perving about band members is ok, as long as it's not getting an obsession and you can still laugh about it... Hard to express what I want to say, especially when I have to leave to work right now! :P It's true that some of us "wandered off" to perv about other band's members here, but I looooooooove Muse's music so much that I'm close to getting forbidden to play them at work (just like it happened with CP before haha).

Sorry, added now! :nice:

I'm not even trying to understand the graphics you posted. :P I dropped chemistry as soon as I could in school. :lol: But thanks for the explanation before that. :hug: (And your explanation is shorter than the article from the Guardian haha)

GLITZERARRRRRSCH!! :dance: :awesome: Could be me singing as well. :uhoh: Let's decide that it can't be told and that none of us can feel ashamed! :lol:

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