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Had an e-mail the other day about a dispachment; nothing labelled Coldplay on it but I assume it's our tickets! :D Anyone else heard similar?

As yet nothing is confirmed as booked for Saturday 10th at the O2.

I notice the O2 arena doesn't have any shows booked for Saturday 10th...:rolleyes:

Be very surprising if there wasn't.

Can't afford to go full price, just haven't got the money... Will wait for the MX tour.

I wondered earlier in the day whether Paradise might sound better with some decent headphones on. It really does.

I don't have any issue with disliking the song as I made clear in the very first sentence of my OP! Some of the reasonings coming out and conspiracy theories are ridiculous, this is the issue.

Coldplay have never had any great commercial acclaim, a single #1 in 11 years tells you this. I don't like the song all that much, and would argue with the NME's rather pretentious viewpoint that CP are trying to sound mainstream, when they're putting out Moving to Mars, MM and UATW at the same time. FWIW I'd rather listen to Paradise than Speed of Sound, but personal preference. If you're aiming that at me you completely misread what I was saying.

Music is all about opinions, right, I get that, but so much of the stuff I've seen posted about Paradise on here today has been nothing short of BS, essentially accusing the band of selling out and laying claws into Brian Eno. Why? Sure this song is more poppy than the stuff from Parachutes, but so what? Coldplay have changed as a band, 11 years is a long time in music and every band that has been successful for a prolonged period has changed its style along the way. Muse and Radiohead most recently spring to mind, and thank the good lord Coldplay aren't going down the road of attempting acid-jazz like King of Limbs, or playing an almost entirely unheard set to soaked fans at Glastonbury who waited hours for a good position at the Park stage (I'm not bitter...), right? The most glaring error that seems to be taken as a logical conclusion is that mainstream = selling out. I don't believe Coldplay ever set out to be different from the status quo in the same way they're wavering to and from it as they develop. If you think they're trying to be too much like the charts, I present to you Us Against the World & Major Minus and ask if you still have the same view. If you don't like it, fine. I can't honestly believe there is a single person who likes everything Coldplay have ever produced, it doesn't happen. To level personal insults at the band, the record label, large swathes of the music industry & listening public and Brian Eno is way too far and completely unfair. If you're that angry about it I'm sure you'll be ignoring the rest of the singles, album and tour as Coldplay have 'sold out to the mainstream', right? Thought not. edit: to clear up any confusion... I don't have any issue with disliking the song as I made clear in the very first sentence of my OP! Some of the reasonings coming out and conspiracy theories are ridiculous, this is the issue.

What he said.

Yup... Doing their own thing, how very dare they.

I knew there was a reason when I first joined why I never posted a great deal. Far too many folk stuck in their narrow minded ways feeling like Coldplay owe them something rather than advancing their own creativity.

New style doesn't mean selling out, that's a massive assumption that's been jumped to by so many people. There's still a great deal of Coldplay in this single, people change & the band's relationships, personalities, and inspirations are an organic process that never remains the same - much like their music. I'm not the biggest fan of Paradise but that doesn't justify moaning that it's crap or the they're doing old fans a disservice or anything like that, I challenge anyone to say they like every Coldplay song made to date.

Please don't take Fearne Cotton as a sample of the radio presenters in the UK, she's uniquely dreadful.

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