May was a big month for Coldplay fans.
Anticipation for Coldplay's fifth studio album was on it's climax. Forum was full of rumours and speculations. South African shows were announced, the Oracle confirmed that the LP5 won't be called "Alien Radio"...
But the end of May was a bang. Those were one the the most exciting times to be a Coldplay fan...
Here's a little recap of what happened during May:
01 MAY
It was announced that Coldplay will headline Rock im Park festival on Friday, the 3rd June and Rock am Ring festival on Saturday, the 4th June.
Read more: http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7416
Here's the full line-up:
05 MAY
Tickets for Coldplay at Splendour in Grass festival at Bryon Bay in Australia went on sale.
09 MAY
It has been confirmed by the official Coldplay site and radio sources that Coldplay will perform two shows in South Africa:
5th October - Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town
8th October - FNB Stadium, Johannesburg
14 MAY
Tickets problem for South African shows occured - ticket retailer Computicket failed to accommodate the huge demand of tickets for Coldplay's shows.
Read more: "]http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7424
17 MAY
Coldplay have announced that they will headline Austin City Limits festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on September 16th.
Tickets went on sale on the same day.
18 MAY
There were more and more rumours and speculations on Coldplay's fifth album.
There was organised a poll: "When do you think we'll hear a new single from Coldplay?"
Here are the results:
23 MAY
Coldplay had a photoshoot, according to Phil on the band's twitter.
He posted one of the photos from the shoot:
24 - 30 MAY
This was the time when the excitement for LP5 was the biggest.
Coldplay were uploading videos and images on twitter and facebook hinting at - later announced - "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" single.
Tweets/posts contained lyrics to ETIAW.
Here are all of them:
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30 MAY
The new album by the Pierces, You & I, which was produced by Guy Berryman, has been released. Here's the video for the song "Glorious" from the album:
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31 MAY
It was all followed with a single announcement:
ETIAW release was the beginning of, at that point untitled, LP5 era.
Two new photos from the photo shoot on the 23rd May were posted too:
Later that day Coldplay played a secret gig for friends and family at the Forum in Kentish Town, London.
Roadie #42 has written a blog entry about the gig on the 1st June:
Merry Christmas! :santa: