AnnaElisabeth

Hihi, that article made me giggle. :rolleyes::P

OOOOOOH exciting! :freak::dance:

^ Haha! :awesome: Maybe they kicked him out of the studio, like they did with Chris? :P

I am! I was going to go to a few thrift shops here tomorrow anyway, so this came at a very appropriate time! :awesome: It'll probably be turn of the century photos actually.

There are often old pictures left in second hand frames and things! At least there are here in Sweden :nice: I'm going on a hunt tomorrow! :awesome:

It's so nice that he asks for help from us with it too! :nice: He could easily have done it with the help of friends and family! :heart:

Guy would like your help finding old photos... April 20, 2010 1:45 pm Please help Guy find old photographs for an art project Good afternoon. We have a mission for you - or rather, Guy does. Here's the info from the man himself: "Hello. I'm looking for your help to find old photographs, for a personal art project. They can be good photos, or completely out of focus. They can be black and white or colour. The point is that they are pictures dating back to the 1960s and before, that have been thrown away and found again - rather than your own old family photographs. Thanks for your help. I'm really excited about this!" At the beginning of May, we'll be giving you the details of a PO Box address to send photos to - which gives you a few weeks to start rooting around your local charity/thrift stores and antique/secondhand shops. Unfortunately, we won't be able to return the photographs - but, as Guy says, he's looking for found/discarded photographs, rather than your own personal ones. Happy old photo hunting! Anchorman

COOOME OOOON YEEEEAAAH SIIING OOOOOH YEEEEEAAAAH AND EVERYTHING'S NOT LOST

:facepalm::rolleyes:

DP :shame:

:lol: ^ This conversation totally cracked me up! Anyway, I have a question that me and Frida talked about earlier. What does Blaum mean in I Bloom Blaum? :thinking: Is it just gibberish?

I think that's a bit early for them to go on tour, especially as we don't even have a release date yet! Maybe a summer tour - if we're lucky!

This is nothing at all against Gwyneth, but I'm very against people who aren't trained musical artists to actually do musicals. The singing should be the main talent, imo, not the acting. :shrug:

^ Yeah, I agree!

When my friends and I were at a club last week we saw this guy. It was very strange. :P Maybe you can guess why!

Thanks all for your nice reviews. I'm so sorry I made you cry April! :hug: I must say it feels rather good to be able to awake that amount of emotion, though. :heart: (And I don't think we've officially 'met'. I'm Anna! :hug:)

He outdoes himself every time, imo!

I know, right! :D I have this stupid grin on my face and everything :rolleyes: :P

^ Haha! :P My mom just came in and she was all 'Oh, what a handsome fella! Tell him I said hi!' (About Tim :P) :uhoh:

I voted for intimacy as well! :heart: I don't think that it's their inspiration, but I think it's something that they really have at the back of their minds. :wacky:

:dance: I FREAKING LOVE ROADIE #42! :heart: I get so freaking excited everytime he posts a blog! :freak::wacky:

Roadie #42 - Blog #119 April 16, 2010 4:59 pm #42 has been peeping at potential song titles... Well, folks, it's been a while and how things have changed! As is very often the case with Coldplay, what was initially thought to be a solid plan and a sturdy compass turns out to be yesterday's news and a spinning wheel. There was a lot of discussion in Latin America and the plan hasn't so much been tweaked as placed on a large pile of fireworks whilst the band retreat to a safe distance. As I say, these seismic shifts in the planning landscape happen all the time here - it's one of the best things about working with these guys - never a dull moment. (Although in the heat of things it can occasionally feel more than slightly disturbing). It generally happens, though, because there is something so exciting that they can't resist throwing everything they have at it, regardless of what they said last week. Now that the plan has been set (words to tempt fate...), there are some pretty wide open possibilities to be waded through and made sense of. Before we left for the Latin American shows, work in progress was represented by an audio file of songs in their present state. Now we’re back in the studio and following a new star, everything is once again up on the walls. In another effort to clarify and simplify all the possibilities, the names of every idea in the running for the record have been written down, each on their own piece of card. Inevitably, there’s a huge number of song cards. From tiny moments that were played only once to things that the fellas have been playing for months now, they’re all up there. This helps clear people’s heads and relax the panic that ideas which once excited will be left forgotten. It does however produce a new problem. There’s millions of them. In an effort to reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed by options, the cards are first arranged on the wall in terms of A, B and C. The A list is songs that *have* to go on the record. The B list are songs that might or might not. The C list contains things that are being left - not forgotten, but that are unlikely to be worked on immediately - they'll either find a home or they won't. Phil Harvey, ever the sportsman, suggests that every song on the A list should have a song on the B list which will step in if its counterpart is deemed “not match-fit”. There’s still too many cards. It’s messy and too chaotic. Bravely and decisively, things are stripped to only the A-list songs. So here is the album in its current form: It's decided that the C-list too, should be out of sight and out of mind. It prevents constant attention to things that aren't a priority. They’ll not be forgotten and they could be pulled out again at any time. Having them off the wall, though, means things are much more manageable. Rather than an explosion of more ideas than could ever possibly be finished, this now looks like a plan for how to move forward. Much to Phil Harvey’s amusement, Chris has hidden the C-list up on a high shelf in the corner of the control room. When he refers to one of these songs for consideration, he has to stand on a chair in order to get to them. Phil dubs it “Chris’s secret stash of spare songs”. It gets me thinking about all the things I’ve heard along the way that never found their way onto a record. I’d say Gravity is my favourite of the shelved tracks (although that did make it as a B-side). There’s so many songs that had a moment in the sun being played live: Moses, Ladder To The Sun, Animals, Idiot, Will’s Sweet Marianne - and the list goes on. These are just the ones that I heard them play. Many made it to the demo stage and no further, meaning that the band heard them and nobody else. There’s enough in the unreleased vaults to outfit an entire career for a pretty successful band. It’d be an interesting project to one day pull out “all the songs that fell off along the way” - like rummaging through Coldplay’s attic. All of this talk of abandoned objects and pieces from the past though, makes it sound as if there is nothing new to report, which genuinely couldn’t be further from the truth. The current project is easily the most ambitious thing I've ever seen the band undertake. Somehow though, the scale hasn't been intimidating as much as inspiring. Things are focused now and can be thought of in terms of the finished work. Ideas are once again firing off like a Catherine wheel (we're back to fireworks again). Things are moving at great pace and what's coming out of the speakers has everyone beaming and fired up. I'm thinking to myself how disciplined Chris has been in restricting himself to the few core songs on the A-list, thinking that normally he'd be fretting and fiddling with every tiny idea, ensuring that everything has been squeezed hard for every drop of potential magic. Later, I give Anchorman a tour of the Beehive. We make it to the very top floor and he's seen the whole place. There is one more door before we retire to the kitchen and get the kettle on. I tell him it's just a tiny room that can only fit one person. "It's good for making private phone calls," I say, "Or if you want to be left alone to work on something". I swing the door open and find that there wasn't in fact only one set of "song cards". There were two. Looks like squeezing for drops of magic hasn't been left behind. It now has its very own workshop.... R#42

:awesome: I'm 1.74! :D

You're very welcome! :) Yep, that's the place!

Wow, it would be an amazing addition to the meet-up to see you play, I'm sure! Well, the meet-up is between the 5th to the 14th of July! Most of us are staying in Palmer's Lodge in Swiss Cottage! I know the Bull and Gate is quite close ;) http://www.bullandgate.co.uk/ I mean Camden Town is close as well :nice: So there are a lot of places to choose from! :P I don't know how hard it is to get a gig at the likes of the Bull and Gate, the Barfly and the Dublin Castle, but that would be kind of cool to see you guys there! :) I don't really know any of these places, but they sound good in theory, haha. http://www.abbey-tavern.com/ http://www.camdenenterprise.com/ http://www.monarchbar.com/ http://www.camdenhead.co.uk/ Hope any of those work out, as I said - would be wonderful to see you live! :)