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thought it is quite interesting that 3/11 songs featured here are coldplay songs. telegraph

so coldplay are building their own youth center after the kids company fell. wonder if it is already in place.

couldn't find a thread for the event, so created one. the private opening of the show is tonight. Coldplay Sells Album Art for Charity: $1.4 Million Raised So Far View Slideshow The 3.5-meter collage by Pilar Zeta that became the cover of "A Head Full of Dreams," for sale at £120,000 plus UK VAT (Courtesy Pilar Zeta/Coldplay via Album Artists) Coldplay is selling its album art to raise money for disadvantaged children. The rock band has an exhibition opening in London that coincides with its run of five sell-out concerts at Wembley. The works will be on show in Camden at an event organized by Album Artists, which makes art for musicians and has worked with Coldplay on three albums: “Mylo Xyloto” (2011), “Ghost Stories” (2014), and “A Head Full of Dreams” (2015). Art associated with the albums has already raised more than £1 million (about $1.4 million) for charity, with the most recent album, commonly referred to as “AHFOD,” raising £45,000 before the event has even started. Within two weeks of the news appearing on social media, Album Art had sold 10 lyrics, handwritten or drawn by singer CHRIS MARTIN, for £4,500 each. These will be on show, in addition to works by Argentinian artist Pilar Zeta, who produced the original collage and “Flower of Life” which became the final cover of the album. There are also numerous unseen pieces from the artwork’s development and a series of Zeta’s personal works which inspired the band to commission her. The biggest item is her collage, 3.5 meters long, on offer at £120,000 plus VAT (value added tax). The collage was specially created in a London studio and incorporates many images from Zeta’s childhood, as well as photographs that she scanned from found postcards and vintage books. The surreal juxtaposition of images such as planets and cherubs was also used on the cover of the single “Adventure of a Lifetime.” The same surrealism influenced the video for “Up&Up.” While “AHFOD,” the seventh and most recent studio album by Coldplay, received mixed reviews following its December 2015 release, it had still achieved sales of nearly 2 million worldwide by the end of that year alone. The album followed its predecessors to the number 1 slot in the British chart after being held off initially by Adele’s album “25.” Other prices of art for sale start at £25 plus VAT for an unlimited edition print. For fans with more cash, £1,500 plus VAT secures an 80 x 80 cm work, signed by each member of Coldplay and Zeta — one of a limited edition of 50 images. Coldplay is using the funds to set up a space to help disadvantaged youngsters through its charity J Van Mars. Zeta is also donating proceeds to the same causes. For the earlier “Mylo Xyloto” album, released in October 2011, Album Artists sold the cover — a 16-meter long multicolor painting by the band and graffiti artist Paris — for £500,000, as well as other prints and posters. The graffiti wall was overlaid with the title “MYL-OXYL-OTO” on the final cover. The group also set up a page allowing people to superimpose their own initials on the work. According to Fraser Scott, director of A Gallery and Album Artists, for Coldplay's “Ghost Stories” (released May 2014),Album Artists worked with British-based Czech artist Mila Furstova, and sold out the original etchings signed by the band and preliminary drawings at a show opened by Coldplay. The album art was again surreal, with the main cover featuring angel wings against a night sky. Other interchangeable components on the wings included lovers, white doves and candles. Coldplay and Pilar Zeta’s “A Head Full of Dreams” exhibition is open from June 15-19 at 205 Royal College Street, Camden, London, NW1 0SG. x

Ah good :)

the thread title or the article title? because the thread title was chosen by me with the only somewhat interesting tidbit of the whole article. definitely wasn't trying to mislead you :)

hey nicola! welcome to coldplaying :)

good points @guy42 ! reading that reminded me of one chris quote that is one of the most aware and powerful he has made. that "life is a consequence of geography" (paraphrasing). just think how many mass deaths occur all over the world every week, month. but most of these go unnoticed. the public outcry is a matter of geography too unfortunately. it is the sad state of the world.

haha! love that metaphor! will - the solid anchor guy - the navigating compass jonny - the mighty sail chris - the running around, free loader rat :laugh3:

aww :) thanks guys! and yes, some of my family members forgot my birthday today too. happens.

yeah, i do think most of us are just speechless and taken aback. i have a more pessimistic view of the world unfortunately, and although the human race has made tremendous steps for the better, i'm not too sure about the optimism chris has for the humans. damn it is such a bummed out mood to be in on your birthday!

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yeah the show off! what a change from the nerd here :lol:

this sure looks like a time chris hides himself away to use the oxygen tank.

check here for chris' comments about strawberry swing

interesting.. so it sure sounds like the 7 lp parlophone contract is coming to an end with a greatest hits release. so sounds like something really new is possibly beyond that! exciting.

Coldplay's Chris Martin on how the Hampden fans convinced him the band have a future Chris Martin put frenzied break up rumours to bed after Coldplay blew Hampden away 15 years after they started out in Glasgow. Chris Martin wowed at Hampden Superstar Chris Martin has vowed not to kill off Coldplay. The singer used their spectacular midweek show at Hampden – in front of 55,000 fans – to bury fears he planned to split up the band. Backstage, Chris, 39, said: “I want to tour for the next two years, which is a long time to plan ahead "But I don’t want to miss what’s happening right now. “We’re definitely not going to split up, I don’t think. "We don’t want to do that.” Earlier this year, Martin shocked fans when he announced that Coldplay’s latest No1 album, A Head Full Of Dreams, would be their final record. He said: “I feel Coldplay are really good right now. " But I don’t feel the need to add to anything. “I don’t know how I feel about trying to make people buy more albums.” But the ecstatic reaction from hordes of loyal Scottish fans has convinced Chris – and fellow bandmates Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman, a Fifer, to carry on. Chris added: “We’re just trying to get through this tour to get on to the next thing. “But we’re treating this as if it’s our last one so we can put everything into it. "If you’ve done your job properly at the end of making an album, you should feel that you’ve nothing left to say. I’m sure we’ll do something but this is the first time I haven’t put any real pressure on us to get back into the studio as soon as possible.” READ MORE: Coldplay produce musical masterclass to create a perfect pitch invasion of powerful vibes at Hampden Coldplay’s gig at Hampden was a triumph. From the first note of the opening song – the album’s title track – they treated fans to a spectacular fireworks display, showered them with confetti fired from cannons and threw hundreds of giant balloons into the crowd. Chris Martin stays true to Scotland All 55,000 punters were given special wristbands with flashing LED lights, giving Hampden the appearance of a gigantic Christmas decoration. The band have come a long way since learning their craft gigging in Scotland in venues such as King Tut’s in Glasgow 15 years ago. Chris has a definite theory about why Scottish fans were among the first to take Coldplay to their hearts. Their close friends Travis were a major inspiration in the early days. “I just think Scottish fans have amazing taste,” said Chris, laughing. “Our songs are very pure and up here people like to sing. “You’ve also got one of the world’s best music festivals in T in the Park and some of the best venues too. "You’ve just got it all. “There is just something in the water. Coldplay have vowed they are not splitting up "Why else do so many great singers come out of Scotland?” Coldplay have performed on some of the most prestigious stages in rock – headlining venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York and appearing at the Paralympic Games in London and the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. But none can compare with their headline appearance on February 7 this year at Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California. Chris invited pop superstar pals Beyonce and Bruno Mars to join Coldplay on stage and their spectacular 12-minute performance was watched by a global TV audience of 115.5 million people. READ MORE: Chris Martin and James Corden sing Coldplay songs during EPIC Carpool Karaoke But the event proved a nightmare for the singer, who chose that moment to reveal to the world he was the worst “dad dancer”. He said: “I asked Beyonce and Bruno to be there too and they only happen to be two of the very best dancers in the world. “Bruno said, ‘We should share a moment when all three of us come down to the front of the stage’. “I suddenly thought, ‘I can’t dance’. But I was happy to be representing the large portion of the world who can’t dance but feel like they have to have a go anyway. “Our band is all about one thing –embracing passion and not being afraid of failure. " Whatever you do in life, someone is going to say it’s rubbish.” He added: “Instead of feeling down on myself, I’m trying to re-look at the world differently. " We’re all very lucky to be here. “I’m particularly lucky to have the job I have but it doesn’t make me any more special than anybody else. " It sounds very hippy-ish to say that. But Super Bowl 50 is something we couldn’t have done 15 years ago. " I don’t think we believed in ourselves and weren’t worldly enough to pull it off. “The whole point of our half-time show was to embrace all kinds of music and people.” In 2003, Chris married Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and they had two children, Apple, 12, and Moses, 10. The couple announced their separation – which she famously dubbed “conscious uncoupling” – after 10 years together. READ MORE: Gywneth Paltrow and Chris Martin finalise 'amicable' divorce with 'equal split of £120m fortune ' Chris has followed in the footsteps of music heroes such as the late David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Sting to try his hand at acting. He’s made cameo appearances in Shaun Of The Dead, The Simpsons and Bruno. But his most impressive acting role was in Extras – opposite Ricky Gervais andStephen Merchant – in which he shamelessly tried to plug a Coldplay greatest hits album during the filming of a TV appeal for famine relief. “It was good fun to do and a chance to meet some of our heroes,” revealed Chris. “I love Ricky and Simon Pegg from Shaun Of The Dead – and more recently I’ve been doing some filming with James Corden too. I take my hat off to them. “We might actually be releasing a Coldplay greatest hits album soon – so I might have to do a bit of method acting.” link

well chris must be pretty full by the end of each concert! a belly full of confetti.

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oh my freaking gosh!!! STRAWBERRY SWING!!

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There is going to be a radio livestream for this concert!!! Swiss radio SRF3 is going to broadcast the complete concert on radio. Link: www.srf.ch/radio-srf-3/musik/srf-3-uebertraegt-coldplay-live-aus-dem-letzigrund Livestream link: www.srf.ch/radio-srf-3/player World clock for the starting time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Coldplay+Live+in+Zurich&iso=20160611T2015&p1=268

reminder: today's concert will be live streamed in a radio channel link

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