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Thank you for scanning and posting this, i'll definitely get a copy of this i think it's worth keeping :) Oh to teernabh5, you didn't even say thank you to Mimixx after she scanned and posted this for us...

Grammy winners will also kick off the Volvo Ocean Race, which commences on December 31 Published Sunday, November 20, 2011 This New Year Eve just got even more exciting as seven-time Grammy award-winning rock band Coldplay have been pencilled in to ring in the festivities in Abu Dhabi. The quartet also will kick-start the emirate’s historic hosting of the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race, followed by a concert that will certainly run to a packed house if their previous capital outing is anything to go by. Presented by Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA), and Flash Entertainment, Coldplay will perform live on December 31 at a unique venue adjacent to the purpose-built Volvo Ocean Race Destination Village on the Corniche Breakwater. Having last played to 20,000 fans in Abu Dhabi in 2009, the British band is relishing a return to the UAE capital to play for their tens of thousands of fans from across the region and beyond. On the back of the band’s latest album “Mylo Xyloto”, which debuted at number one in 30 countries worldwide and smashed the record for the highest number of download sales in one week, ADTA is optimistic that Coldplay’s iconic status as arguably one of the biggest bands on the planet will significantly boost visitor numbers to the ‘Destination Village’. John Lickrish, Managing Director of Flash Entertainment, said in a statement: “In 2009, Coldplay stunned Abu Dhabi with a phenomenal performance that left us in awe. “They are a simply stunning live act with a global fan base of millions, rightfully hailed as one of the biggest bands on the planet. “We all know and love their catalogue of hits, but with a hot new album to perform this year, Coldplay live in Abu Dhabi is going to be one of the most memorable New Year’s Eve you’ve ever seen.” Meanwhile, the Volvo Ocean Race will run from December 31, 2011 till January 17. Said Mubarak Al Muhairi, Director General, ADTA: “We promised a destination hosting like no other when we began our Volvo Ocean Race campaign and the confirmation of Coldplay’s New Year’s Eve concert signals our intention to live up to that commitment. “With customised travel packages for both the concert and race, we are confident that Abu Dhabi will again raise the bar as a destination of distinction for international sporting events.” Full details on the show will be announced shortly, including ticket prices, times, and race arena details. http://www.emirates247.com/entertainment/coldplay-to-headline-new-year-s-eve-gig-in-abu-dhabi-2011-11-20-1.429164

The Beijing party in the city’s hip 798 art zone may have been in honor of Coach’s 70 anniversary, but the real star of the show was Gwyneth Paltrow’s ability to belt out hits. Taking the stage midway through a lavish dinner, Paltrow sang three songs accompanied by a three-piece band, ending with Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You.” The party, which featured an Italian feast for several hundred guests, was held at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Arts, part of the city’s rapidly growing region for artists, designer boutiques, and cafes. Paltrow wore a one-shouldered, skin-tight mini dress designed by Stella McCartney, and sat near one of China’s well known celebrities: Bao Bao Wan, the jewelry designer and granddaughter of Wan Li, one of the country’s former vice premiers. Guests included several of the artists who created photographic displays for the Coach exhibit, including filmmaker Steven Sebring, best known for his documentary on rocker Patti Smith, “The Dream of Life.” For the Coach exhibit, Sebring said he shot his film of a young woman running through the streets of New York City with a large Coach bag flung over her shoulder on a 16 millimeter camera in just three hours. Sebring commented on the “energy” of Beijing but admitted he was put off by the air pollution. When he landed at the airport, he asked a woman accompanying him, “What is that smell?” The dinner, created by chef and Paltrow friend Mario Batali — who was not in Beijing — included fried zucchini blossoms, butternut squash tortellini, short ribs in barolo, and a ricotta pudding cake. http://www.wwd.com/eye/parties/coach-gets-arty-in-beijing-5377128

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqBzBNS934]O2 Priority - Coldplay - YouTube[/ame] 11 NOVEMBER 2011 - 9:57AM | BY STEPHEN LEPITAK | 0 COMMENTS Coldplay feature in new 02 ad campaign Coldplay are to star in a new advert for O2 to highlight that the mobile phone operator’s customers can get tickets for the band’s UK stadium tour 48 hours ahead of them going on general release. The campaign, by VCCP, will highlight the band’s 2012 stadium tour, promoting the Priority Tickets for O2 customers, running from today (11 November) across TV, Radio, print and digital platforms and features a new version of ‘The Walk’ as it follows the band from their dressing room to the stage. The advert will premiere on YouTube, but begin broadcasting on TV during Saturday’s episode of The X Factor. A two-day homepage takeover of NME.com will also take place, supported by radio promotions on XFM and Capital and placements in The Metro and The Sun. Media buying has been handled by Zenith Optimedia. Sally Cowdry, marketing and consumer director for O2, said: “This campaign shows our continued commitment to bringing access to the very best acts for our customers. We’re passionate about finding new and innovative ways of working with top artists, and bringing to life the benefits of Priority Tickets for our customers.” Tickets will go on sale to O2 customers on 16 November. http://thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/11/11/coldplay-feature-new-02-ad-campaign

I hope this wasn't posted.. twitter sternshow Stern Show H100 News: Andy Dick appears @ SIRIUS XM, the Stern staff excited over Chris Martin, & Robin's romance advice for Benjy bit.ly/tEDtGr 11 minutes ago around 3 min.. http://www.siriusxm.com/howardweb/mp3/11096.mp3

What's up with Howard Stern talking about gwyneth constantly he brings up her name every chance he get....:laugh3:

Oh my god..dirty Chris! i can't believe he just said that...

Clocks sounded amazing...!!

Ha! Clever :lol::laugh3:

adamjmyers Sat down for breakfast at lime wood this morning and who should we see sat there ? Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin ! 19 hours ago adamjmyers @DropDeadGwyneth I was very excited but kept very professional and gave space ! Really wanted autographs and pictures but though it rude :-) 18 hours ago http://twitter.com/#!/adamjmyers

Oh yes thank you for that link , its wonderful to hear Will and Jonny talking without that Chris hogging the limelight ALL the time....:laugh3:

INTERNATIONAL chart toppers Coldplay were so impressed by innovative light show technology being produced by a Honiton business that the band bought part of the company. RB Concepts, which has a registered office in Offwell, teamed up with Coldplay after developing interactive LED light wristbands, which allow audiences to become part of a show. Entrepreneurs Clive Banks and Jason Regler approached the band to see if they would be interested in using the wristbands, Mr Banks told the Midweek Herald that the band not only became the company’s partners in the project but also bought part of the company. He said: “It is huge to be working with Coldplay.” The company approached the band, who said they would like to try the wristbands out during the launch of their latest album, Mylo Xyloto, in Madrid . The LED wristbands were handed out to members of the crowd at last week’s live event and lit up during the band’s first song as part of a world ‘first’ interactive experience. “It was a huge challenge to design, manufacture and deliver 17,000 wristbands at very short notice, but we are now working with the hottest act on the planet,” said Mr Banks. The new technology aims to increase audience participation at live events. He said: “The big thing is audience participation and this means bands can relate more to the audience. “It means there is a lot more audience participation, as opposed to it being static.” RB Concepts has high hopes for the technology in the future and Mr Banks says the wristbands could even be used at the Olympics. Coldplay is believed to be keen to use the wristbands at the forthcoming European Music Awards in Belfast. “The next move would be to have the wristbands at sporting events and night time events,” says Mr Banks. “We are also looking towards using it at the Olympics.” Coldplay will be unveiling something even more innovative when they begin their European tour next month. http://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/coldplay_buys_part_of_east_devon_technology_business_1_1115222

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HA! :laugh3: I'm wondering what their costumes were....

From twitter http://twitter.com/#!/fieldhead Client told me today that gwyneth p knocked on his door last night trick or treating with her children. Safe to say she made his year! 34 minutes ago :D

Oh thank you for the link , works for me too...aaaannndd we spoke too soon...:(

Taking time out from recording a Live Lounge set in the Blue Bar as part of Radio 1's Student Tour, and playing an intimate gig in the LCR, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin spoke to Concrete's Hannah Britt and Alex Ross, and Livewire 1350's Joe Levell. It’s lovely to meet you Chris. What is it like coming back and playing a small venue? I mean, that was a really small venue that you played this morning. (Coldplay recorded a live lounge for Radio 1 in the Blue Bar). Well it’s wonderful. It’s humbling and it reminds you why you’re doing it. If you still enjoy that, then you’re still in the right job. Do you know what I mean? Without all the smoke and the mirrors and thousands of people watching... We realise that actually we’re a little band and we just love playing... To a load of pissed students! Do you ever get up on stage and think, “ahhh it’s just another 30,000 people”? Do you become numb to it? No, not at all. Even if you’re feeling terrible, there’s an adrenaline that kicks in as soon as you think that anyone has paid or made an effort to be there. Something in your brain just switches on, I can’t really explain it. I’ve had a few gigs where I’ve thought, “oh I won’t really try”, because I’m not feeling well. But, when it comes down to it, you can’t help but go for it which is why sometimes you end up getting sick or something. Have there been many times that you’ve been poorly and you’ve had to go on? Not that many, touch wood. Look at like what Adele has to do, she has to do it all on her own, she doesn’t have a band. So she has, like, four times the workload. The only thing that stops someone is when their body kind of collapses, but the brain never does. I never feel like I don’t want to do this. Is it true that Norwich was one of your first gigs as a band out of uni? Yeah it is true. In fact, it was in the same room downstairs where we were sound checking just now... The LCR? Right. We realised that there were more people in our sound check just now than there were when we first played here. We heard that the doors weren’t even open by the time you first started playing… Ha! Were you supporting someone? We were supporting THREE people... Oh right, so you were bottom of the bill? Yeah, we were opening for the openers of the openers… And now look at you! Well what’s funny is that it’s still the same four/five people, you know? That’s what makes it fun. How have you kept that going? So many bands fall apart or at least a couple of members drop off… We share credit. And we share money. You promote Fair Trade and equality. Does this ethic extend to the working of the band? In 80% of what we do, yes. So there’s no animosity? No there’s no animosity at all over money. If one of you is much, much richer than the other and arrives to work on a skateboard whilst another one lands on the roof in a helicopter…it’s going to cause problems… I’m sorry for eating whilst talking to you by the way. (Chris is eating his dinner: chunky vegetable soup.) It’s fine! Keep going. How do you feel when you listen to Parachutes… I don’t. (Laughter)...not that it’s a condensed album, but it’s stripped down. And now that you’ve got bigger as a band, your sound has evolved hugely. Is that something that you’ve done consciously because you’ve been playing to bigger and bigger audiences? We’re always doing what we think we like. On our new record there are some stripped down moments but we haven’t done a whole stripped down record since then. Would you like to do another one? I don’t know. I like varying it. I like jumping from small to big and from big to small. I think since Parachutes you could probably make another whole album that sounded like it by taking bits off the other records. Each time we just follow what we’re excited by. What are you excited by? It could a keyboard sound. Or, it could be the idea of playing Glastonbury… What was it like playing Glastonbury? What went through your head as you stepped on stage? Because that’s something that we, well, never say never, but…we’re probably not going to experience. That for us is as close as we can get to having a home, albeit one that only exists once a year. But often when we’re writing and we’re putting stuff together, when we close our eyes, that is the view that we see, in terms of a frame for how the music is going to be. So that has an influence on certain choices of songs. We’ve written an awful lot of acoustic things but in my head I’m always conscious of the Glastonbury stage. So the things that I don’t think would work there don’t make it. It’s a wonderful place because it’s so natural and so un-corporate. It’s still a family event, as in it’s still run by Michael and Emily… Did you go to it? (Joe) Yeah I was there! It’s wonderful isn’t it? It’s insane. And you guys were amazing. Thanks man. We really worked hard for that. What’s so great about Glastonbury is that it’s kind of all the positive things of life. If you don’t like one thing then you go and watch something else. And if you don’t like that then you go watch something else. So you don’t have to moan about anything… Apart from the mud. That is true… The mud is part of it though… Chris, it’s serious question time. Is your favourite colour yellow? Ha! No. (Laughter) What IS your favourite colour? Blue. Interesting. We’d have said turquoise… Yeah turquoise I like. Anything kind of marine… Are you going to be Beyonce and Jay Z’s godfather? Are you a fucking tabloid journalist?! You’ve gone from a lovely lady into… (laughter) I’m just throwing it out there! We’re curious... I have no idea. I’ve never even met them. Har har. What I will say about Beyonce is that, at Glastonbury, she was the best thing there. Secondly, she was pregnant and feeling sick and she still beat everyone else into the ground. She’s phenomenal … It was phenomenal at the time but after I learned how she was feeling I felt even more depressed. I was like, “we gotta try a lot harder!” The new album is fantastic. Thank you. The album hasn’t been out long… But, where are you going to go from here? I don’t know… maybe nowhere. Is it possible to get bigger and better? No. In this day and age it’s only possible to get smaller, which I’m sure we’ll do, and worse, which hopefully we won’t. Hopefully we’ll get smaller and better. Well, hopefully not smaller, but you know what I mean, bands aren’t as much of a big deal as they once were. However, like I said, we love it, be it in a student union or headlining Glastonbury. If someone’s interested in listening, we’re interested in playing, you know? Do you feel maybe that you break that mould? You say you’ll become smaller but here at UEA, people queued overnight to get tickets to see you… thanks for the pizza by the way. (Coldplay bought pizza for the dedicated fans who queued overnight to get tickets.) Yeah, you’re welcome, that was a good idea that. It was our tour manager. I don’t really know how we are, I think if you start taking in all that positive stuff, you have to take in all the negative stuff. So for every new fan you get, you get another person who really thinks you’re shit. And, being British, we’re always very aware of both sides. So we try to put blinkers on. Does it upset you, even now, when someone says something negative? No, it doesn’t upset me, I’m just aware of it. I don’t want to get too full of myself because of that faction. I don’t care if someone doesn’t like us, that’s fine. Go watch some TV or listen to Oasis. Whatever. You know what I mean? It’s music, not a fascist regime that we’re trying to impose. So, it’s completely fine not to like us but, like I said, that’s the thing that stops you from being too “rockstar-y”. (A man walks up behind Chris…) This is Kevin by the way, he’s allowed this interview to happen, he is the chief of our label. Thank you Kevin! He doesn’t let me speak to anyone! We are forever indebted, we feel very honoured… A couple of quick fire questions now. What is the best gig you’ve ever done? Glastonbury, this year 2011. Who would you say is your biggest influence? Now? Bruce Springsteen. Your favourite Coldplay song? Er… they’re all the same. Haa that’s a quote right there! Not like that! What’s your least favourite Coldplay song? We don’t play it. It used to be a song called Talk, only because Guy (Coldplay’s bassist) doesn’t like it. So, I don’t like playing it because I know he doesn’t like it. Oh, and Speed of Sound because we never got it right. Favourite fruit? (Chris is picking bits of kiwi out of a bowl of fruit salad.) Mango... Is there any mango on that platter? Nah there’s not. There’s some melon though… That’s close enough… This is Jonny by the way. (Jonny, the lead guitarist strolls over to see what’s going on.) He plays, um… I think he plays drums but I’m not sure. Ha! Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. So do you guys want to do this when you’re older? That’s the plan… Do you get to see many people that come through UEA? Yeah we see a few people when they come to Norwich. (Hannah) You were bloody hard to get hold of though. Do you know what it is… it’s because if we do too many bits of talking, we end up saying stupid things. But you grabbed me and asked me so I agreed. Yeah thank you so much! And it didn’t take long once you asked me! No it didn’t! If you want to do this as a job it’s good to be outgoing and to take your chances… are you wearing wellington boots?! I am…I was walking my dog on the Norfolk broads earlier today and then I got a text saying I should come and try talk to you. So I came dressed for walking Muffin. It’s cool, it kinda adds to the local theme. Well, when in Norfolk after all… Massive thanks to Chris Martin and Coldplay for agreeing to speak to us - we had to work hard for this, but we got it in the end. Make sure to check out the next issue of Concrete (out on Tuesday 8 November) where we will have a live review of their amazing gig, a feature on the Live Lounge session, as well as the fantastic pictures our photographers managed to grab at the LCR. If you want to hear the full recording of this intense yet light-hearted interview, go to http://www.livewire1350.com. http://pixelatedcreative.com/concrete/ArticleViewer/tabid/1013/ArticleId/77/Coldplay-Interview.aspx

Ohh that is a wonderful read and article *clap clap* and i would love to hear 'Red Rice Crispies' heheheheh

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Oh my what a lovely photo..except Guy looks a bit drunk hehehe

Oh how lovely thanks for posting this!

Sigh..i think you are reading too much into what Chris says or does. There's so much sadness in this world to be worrying about silly things like this. Yes i do remember watching this, it was during Clocks and he didn't flip anyone off (giving the finger) not intentionally anyway.

Yes he did say that today, he dedicated HLH or Paradise to his dad and said that he is in the hospital...I hope he is okay too..