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despite the optimism i had, i feel i'm slowly joining the dark side.. :worried2:

more here

Music industry calls for action over secondary ticketing sites Rock band Coldplay and managers of acts including Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Blur and Radiohead have signed an open letter to the government calling for action over secondary ticketing sites. Published in The Times, the letter says fans are being "ripped-off by touts who anonymously exploit fair ticket prices via online ticket marketplaces". It urges the government to put "the public's interests before the touts". A government consultation on the resale of tickets closes on Friday. "As artist managers, we deplore the increasing industrial-scale abuse and insider exploitation of tickets for music, arts and sports events by ticket touts," the letter says. "The consequence in many cases is that fans will attend fewer shows, meaning that the profits made by such immoral practice is also money lost from the industry." It is signed by managers for the UK's biggest live acts including One Direction, Little Mix, Radiohead, Mumford and Sons, Iron Maiden, Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher. 'National disgrace' The letter agrees there is a need for "genuine, transparent ticket resale/exchange" through businesses selling tickets at face value, and urges the review to recommend "all parties in a ticketing transaction should indentify themselves". Earlier this week concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith told the BBC the issue of secondary ticketing websites was "a national disgrace". He told Radio 4's Front Row programme that tickets to U2's recent London shows were advertised for up to £3,300 on resale sites, despite a face value of £182. "We're asking the government to pass a law which says you cannot sell a ticket for more than 10% of its face value," Goldsmith told the BBC. Consumer magazine Which? also called for a crack-down on ticket resale sites earlier this month, arguing consumers face a "stitch-up". The group spent eight weeks monitoring four of the biggest secondary ticketing websites and said it found "some really unusual behaviour". Music fans have until 23:00 GMT on 20 November 2015 to make their views known in the consultation. The industry letter was compiled by Twickets, an online site which allows fans to sell spare tickets only at face value or below. Here is the full list of signatures and which artists they represent: Julian Wright & David Furnish, Rocket (Elton John, The Strypes) Stuart Camp (Ed Sheeran) Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland & Will Champion (members of Coldplay) Richard Griffiths, Harry Magee & Will Bloomfield, Modest! (One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Little Mix, Olly Murs, Cheryl) Chris Hufford & Bryce Edge, Courtyard (Radiohead, Gaz Coombes) Adam Tudhope, Everybodys (Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Keane) Marcus Russell & Alec McKinley, Ignition (Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Catfish & The Bottlemen) Paul Loasby, One Fifteen (David Gilmour, Jools Holland) Ian McAndrew, Wildlife Entertainment (Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, The Last Shadow Puppets, Travis) Ian Grenfell, Quietus (Chrissie Hynde, Suede, Simply Red, Simple Minds) Paul McDonald, Closer Artists (George Ezra, James Bay, James Morrison, John Newman) Jamie Oborne, All On Red (The 1975) Sam Eldridge, Urok (Jess Glynne, Plan B, Tom Odell, Mystery Jets) Rod Smallwood, Phantom Music (Iron Maiden) Tony Smith, TSPM (Nick Mason, Genesis, Phil Collins) Niamh Byrne & Regine Moylett. Eleven Management (Blur, Gorillaz, The Clash, Kano, Jamie Hewlett, Spoek) Stewart Young. Part Rock Management (Foreigner, Zucchero and Emerson, Lake and Palmer) Mike Greek, Emma Banks, Creative Artists Agency Geoff Meall, United Talent Agency Jeff Craft, Ian Huffam, Xray Touring Rob Challice, Coda Music Agency x

doesn't say much. they gave 5 stars to mx! does that mean ahfod is worse than mx? :(

no, they are just suggesting which songs are best and so should be downloaded.

no, as in they are the best songs in the album, so you should download these.

reading this review so far was the biggest downer for me since we've been getting news on ahfod. i really didn't want mx 2.0 and although we assumed this could be it, with the recent interviews i thought it would be different. oh well, haven't heard the album yet, so we'll see..

good to have you here Dea :)

looks like we might be getting a radio edit of everglow as well. possible single? <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-S7xX0wYRb/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">With no intention of ending up where we did, tonight was pretty damn successful I'd say. (P.S. Pretty sure I died and was reborn when they encored with Yellow).</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by sydney markey. (@sydneymarkey) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-20T06:02:05+00:00">Nov 19, 2015 at 10:02pm PST</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script> x

it says album version of everglow from the show today! so does that mean there will be a radio edit down the line? looks like we'll be getting this as a single. <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-S7xX0wYRb/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">With no intention of ending up where we did, tonight was pretty damn successful I'd say. (P.S. Pretty sure I died and was reborn when they encored with Yellow).</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by sydney markey. (@sydneymarkey) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-20T06:02:05+00:00">Nov 19, 2015 at 10:02pm PST</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script> x

btw, did the flubbed viva performance get as far as singing? i wanna see this :)

dianne you have the best coldplay karma anyone could ever have!

you mean chris was playing though viva? anyway, how many new songs did they play? did they play HFTW?

looks like no phones were allowed, although there are quite a few pics out there already. x from a music blogger: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/coldplay">@Coldplay</a> were great tonight at <a href="https://twitter.com/iHeartRadio">@iheartradio</a> theater LA. They played "Yellow"! New album has some disco-soul and sweet doo-wop. </p>— Grimy Goods (@grimygoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/grimygoods/status/667557101896531968">November 20, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> x <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-SwPiFQYUM/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">When you randomly end up going to Coldplay's album release party and get blessed by Chris Martin's beauty from 10 feet away.</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by sydney markey. (@sydneymarkey) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-20T04:21:20+00:00">Nov 19, 2015 at 8:21pm PST</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script> x

umm... i would think the guy who is actually writing the songs may probably know it better.. ;)

nerdy chris [video=youtube;f-KwRLgqY3Q]

done. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/threads/105135-2015-11-19-iHeartRadio-AHFOD-album-release-concert?p=5763972#post5763972 to be streamed on the 3rd dec. 8pm ET.

To be streamed 3rd Dec 8pm ET. https://screen.yahoo.com/live/event/iheartcoldplay

True that! Whether I end up loving or hating this album, I'm really excited for it. All the information we are getting the closer it gets, just ends up confusing the heck out of me. And that's a kind of a good thing. We are getting something completely unexpected, unlike most previous coldplay's releases.

say what you will about coldplay, now no one is justified in saying that coldplay are a middle of the road, no risk taking band. although it wasn't that true before, you could argue for it. now with ahfod, it's anything goes! who cares what people think :laugh3: the amount of backlash they (mainly chris) is getting from fans and casual listeners alike, even before the album is out, is proof enough of that. but the sad thing is, still a lot of people would call them just that, a middle of the road band..

if anyone is interested in the video: http://www.kiisfm.com/onair/jojo-wright-27736/chris-martin-talks-adventure-of-a-14137671/?utm_content=bufferae262&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

most people complaining about the lack of rock will be more disappointed with the latest interview

Chris Martin on Post-Divorce Depression, Coldplay's New 'Hippie Album' Coldplay team with Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, Gwyneth Paltrow for Rumi-inspired LP "It's about love and acceptance and embracing what happens to you," says Chris Martin of the upcoming 'A Head Full of Dreams.' Michael Kovac/FilmMagic A few years ago, Coldplay's Chris Martin was feeling  "depressed and overwhelmed." He was in the final stages of his 10-year marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow, and he felt increasingly insecure about the music he was making. "I wasn't looking at things in a healthy way," he says. Then a friend gave him some books, including Man's Search for Meaning, a memoir by psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, and a volume by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. Martin says one poem, "The Guest House" — which suggests "inviting in" dark thoughts — helped him get through the period around his divorce. "It kind of changed my life," he says. "It says that everything that happens to you is OK. The idea is to accept what happens to you and not run away from anything — and trust that things will blossom and become colorful." Martin features the poem in a psychedelic spoken-word section of Coldplay's seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams (due December 4th), which is all about his road back from anxiety and heartbreak. "It's all true," Martin says. "It's about love and acceptance and embracing what happens to you. It's quite a hippie album. All of our records were a journey to get to this one." Martin says that Coldplay's last album, 2014's spare Ghost Stories, was a "smaller record" — deliberately. "It frees you up to do whatever you want next — just look at Bruce Springsteen's career." Instead of touring behind Ghost Stories, the band stayed in the studio. "I was being sent so many songs from the universe that I said, 'I've got to just keep recording,'" says Martin. This time, Coldplay ratcheted up the ambition. They started work with Stargate, the Norwegian producers behind hits by Beyoncé and Rihanna. Nothing was off the table. "We wanted to marry all the music that we love, from Drake to Oasis," says Martin. "There was a feeling that we don't have anything to lose. We're very comfortable now with the fact that we're not for everybody." The producers were demanding. They required demos for every song ("We felt unsigned again," says Martin), and the members had to unanimously agree on which songs to record. "For every song that made it, eight or nine didn't," Martin says. Coldplay were encouraged to recruit outsiders; Noel Gallagher plays guitar on "Up & Up," and Beyoncé guests on two tracks, including the club stomper "Hymn for the Weekend." (Blue Ivy even gets a backing-vocal credit.) But the most surprising guest of all was Paltrow, who sings backup on the farewell ballad "Everglow." "We just did it in the studio one day," Martin says after a long pause. "It was just a friendly kind of thing." Martin's favorite moment on the album sounds the least like Coldplay: "X Marks the Spot," where he spits rhymes through a vocoder over drum loops. "Most of the instruments on that song didn't exist when we made our first album," Martin says. "People who want us to be a rock band might be disappointed, but I don't think we really are a rock band." Last year, Martin sent fans into a panic when he suggested Coldplay's next album would be their last. "I have no idea what's going to happen," he says now. "If one day we make another record, then that's wonderful." Then he clarifies: "We're definitely not splitting up." The band will tour the U.S. next summer, before bringing its show around the world. "I think it will feature some jazz fusion for six or seven hours," Martin jokes. "I don't know if it's going to be wildly different from what you might imagine — [it will be] all our best songs with some awesome production. If you're a Coldplay fan, you'll love it. And if you don't like us? Don't worry about it. It's OK." x

yes! this is the kind of profile i was looking forward to again in this era!

i'm back to believing that coldplay album release party won't be streamed today, but closer to the release date. there is too much silence for this to be streamed live today. not even a tweet from anchorman.