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Innocence Project, Coldplay Team Up in Fight Against Wrongful Convictions Posted: February 5, 2016 2:55 PM Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to join organization’s Artists’ Committee as an Innocence Ambassador (New York, NY– February 5, 2016) – Coldplay lead vocalist and global rock icon Chris Martin joins the Innocence Project’s Artists’ Committee as an Innocence Ambassador to help bring attention to faults in the criminal justice system contributing to wrongful convictions. Martin will now join other notable Innocence Ambassadors – including actors Tony Goldwyn, Whoopi Goldberg and Ryan Phillippe – voicing support for the Innocence Project’s work to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. This latest announcement comes amid a busy week for the British rock band as it prepares to headline a star-studded roster of musicians and performers at Pepsi’s Super Bowl 50 Halftime show in Santa Clara, California on February 7th. In addition, the group last week also released the dates for its upcoming A Head Full of Dreams Tour, which is slated to kick-off on Saturday, July 16th at New York’s Metlife Stadium. (For additional information about the tour visit http://coldplay.com/tour/.) At each venue throughout the tour the Innocence Project will have people on hand to educate concertgoers about the organization’s work and the problem of wrongful convictions. “We are grateful to Coldplay for giving us this incredible opportunity to reach new audiences about our work,” said Maddy deLone, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. “We look forward to talking to Coldplay fans across the country on how they too can help bring an end to wrongful convictions.” To date, more than 337 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 20 who were at one time sentenced to death. The Innocence Project was involved in 177 of the DNA exonerations, and its groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events but instead arise from systemic defects. Contact: Paul Cates, 212-364-5346, [email protected] innocence project

according to the source, no sign of using xylobands, but they say there will be some sort of crowd participation.

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Coldplay's Halftime Show Director: 'No Other Show Comes Close' With the Super Bowl just a few days away, everybody is speculating not just about which teams will take home the big rings, but about what Coldplay is planning for the Halftime show—the most-watched concert stage in the world, year after year. As the group was putting the finishing touches on what promises to be a very special performance, I spoke with their director and creative collaborator Hamish Hamilton, the man who has been behind many of the more Super Bowl Halftime shows. OFFENBACH, GERMANY – DECEMBER 08: Artist Chris Martin of Coldplay performs onstage during the Telekom Street Gigs at Capitol on December 8, 2015 in Offenbach, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) What’s working with Coldplay like? Well, I’ve worked with Coldplay for many years now and they’re always a band who actually surprise. I think as a frontman, Chris [Martin] has really come into his own. The other three also. They’re a band of four quite interesting and individual characters. Will, the drummer, has this very powerful onstage presence. They’ve got great ideas. Of course, this year is going to be the first daytime Half Time show that there’s been in many years, so that provides a whole new set of opportunities and challenges. It’s the Super Bowl Half Time. It’s the biggest in show business. How does their creative process differ from any of the other performers you’ve worked with on this show? Artists now are, in many ways, brands in their own right. Each artist has a very different brand essentially, don’t they? Brand Beyonce is very different to Brand Bruno is very different to Brand Katy is very different to Brand Coldplay. I think that Coldplay’s show will be in some ways bigger, in some ways more inclusive. I think there’s going to be a lot of people involved in the show and a lot of color involved. For the first time in quite a few years, you’ve got a band onstage as opposed to a, essentially, a solo performer. Some of the most recent shows have been more about movement in terms of artists’ movement or I think Coldplay. Again, not really what they are about. They have challenged us and themselves to come up with moments that are both intimate and spectacular. Each Super Bowl is a completely different experience because not only is the music different, but the working practice is the people around the artists are different. It’s every year is a completely unique creative logistical and organizational challenge. How early did you guys start brainstorming this show? You start thinking about the show almost the moment the previous year’s is finished. It is really an all-year-round proposition and there are various stages to the creative process. Some of the creative process is based on very practical considerations like the width of the tunnels. This year, as I mentioned before, the very fact that the show will be in daylight is a huge creative, practical, and logistical consideration. Once the artist is chosen and says yes, then that’s when everything really does start in earnest. We’ve been working now with Coldplay for a few months to kind of hone a show, which is a Super Bowl spectacular and Super Bowl appropriate. Of all the Super Bowls that you have worked on, do you have a favorite moment that stands out? Well, my first Super Bowl was The Who. you only do your first Super Bowl once, so that’s obviously very close to my heart. I couldn’t quite believe that. I was this guy from England who was directing the Super Bowl Half Time in America. In each of the shows, there’s great moments both in the room and on television. I can pick great moments from every show because they’re all really special. You spend such time crafting them, worrying about them, thinking about them, and working with the artists on them. I mean, that Madonna opening was fantastic. The Beyonce fire girl moment was great. Katy and Left Shark, the [black Eyed] Peas dropping from the roof, the James Brown doing James Brown. There’s a really impressive body of work in Super Bowls that goes way back to Super Bowl I. Is there anybody else that you would love to see do the show in the future? That you’d love to work with? I honestly, just from a personal point of view, I would love to do Led Zeppelin. I guess for many, many reasons, that’s unlikely to happen, but you know what? Their music has been around for all of my life. On all of my various digital devices, cassette players, CD players, radios all the way through my life. I think that that would probably be my ultimate Super Bowl. Honestly, this can’t happen, but The Beatles. That would have been incredible. What a great Super Bowl that would have been! What would you say is the most difficult part of the entire process? Stress and expectation. Everybody expects such amazing things from the Super Bowl. There’s no margin for error. It puts tremendous strain on you. You want to deliver the best that you can possibly do for the great American and global public, for the artist that you’ve been working with. There’s so much that could go wrong technically. You have no control over many things. There’s a huge team of people who really, really are working, fully stretched, maxed out to get these things to happen. That’s, I think in many ways, what makes it so special because every year, the team pulls off the impossible. Much has been written and much has been said about what it takes to put a Super Bowl on. Every year, the team tests those parameters to the max. You’ve also worked on the Oscars and several huge live concerts. How does the Super Bowl differ from any of these other massive events? In many other jobs that I do, we do, the term “Super Bowl” is almost now used as an adjective to suggest the biggest, the best, the most challenging. “It’s the Super Bowl of this” or “It’s the Super Bowl of that”. A hundred and twenty million people watch it. It’s a drama filled, white-knuckle adrenaline ride for about thirty minutes for thousands of people working on the show and a hundred and twenty million people watching it live. No other show comes close in terms of drama, numbers, spectacles, or ambition. It’s not the Super Bowl of anything, it’s the motherf—ing Super Bowl. forbes

these are the kind of reporters that would be covering the half time show afterwards. expect plenty of barbs... it's unfortunate, but that's the truth. and i sure hope beyonce would not premiere a new song. that would be so inconsiderate.

no problem :) thanks for making it. it will come up in facebook in a while, and should be added to the ticker on the forum sometime too.

i know we've all been wondering about how much time coldplay will be allocated during the super bowl. we have some concrete timing information from a very highly reliable source at the stadium! if you'd rather be surprised, feel free to skip the spoilers. but if you want to know just the rough time allocation they get, take a look. again, this includes just the time allocations. no setlists or any other spoilers.

exactly! specially when they are treated in the media as if beyonce is too good for them to even polish her shoes!

i find it quite strange too. but i wouldn't miss it :) still, very strange.. and that gives you at least one non-coldplay song in the setlist.

hahaa! Chris Martin, Coldplay shine at Super Bowl presser What will be Coldplay's "left shark" moment at Super Bowl 50? That was the question posed by a reporter at Thursday's news conference for the Grammy-award winning band that will play the halftime set at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday. After joking about a veritable army of sharks being involved in the show, Coldplay frontman Super Bowl Media Center in downtown San Francisco. Martin has the sensitive rocker shtick down. I counted three "Awwwwwwwws" from women seated in my vicinity during Martin's interactions with the media from around the world. Martin and the rest of the band -- guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion -- revealed little about what was in store. "We decided we'd play all our No. 1s and work out how to fill the other 10 minutes," Martin said in reference to " ," the band's lone No. 1 hit in the United States. Martin praised Beyoncé -- who will have a part in the show -- as one of the greatest performers in this era and hinted there will be another past halftime act who will be part of the proceedings. When told that the band's 2002 hit "Clocks" was Cam Newton's favorite Coldplay song, the band broke away from a previous stance that they didn't have a favorite team in the game. "This changes things significantly," said drummer Will Champion. "They have a Scottish kicker as well and Guy, our bass player, is Scottish is well, so we feel a certain affinity with the Scots, so I think we'll go Panthers." Added Martin: "He's speaking of the Denver Panthers. Put that in your paper." Like I said, that Chris Martin is a charming British fellow. Hide your girlfriends. NFL

to me, not playing hftw shows their musical integrity that some long time fans have been complaining that they are loosing. still, it is a huge missed opportunity..

check here for a link to the download, thanks to the wonderful newscoldplay.

yep, no hftw. looks like beyonce will do a song and bruno mars will do a song. the rest coldplay hopefully.... that was a mess of a press conference. guy just sat there looking pretty. will and jonny talked twice each i think. and think most of the reporters were from tabloids. a lot of beyonce questions. you'd think this was something beyonce centric..

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so here's what's to expect in the coming days: today: 3pm est coldplay press conference on nfl network 8pm est coldplay interview with rich eisen on nfl network (x) friday: [parsehtml]<iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen src="http://up.anv.bz/latest/anvload.html?key=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" width ="640" height="360"></iframe>[/parsehtml]mobile link

found a couple of sketchy links if you really are interested: http://www.feed4u.me/watch/200/1/NFL-Network.html http://www.cricfree.tv/nfl-network-live-stream

awww... this is the sweetest.. you can see chris, davide and chris' kids :wacky: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl/0ap3000000632171/Young-L-A-musicians-get-the-Super-Bowl-chance-of-a-lifetime

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awww.. people are catching up. etonline

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updated the post :)