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Because Coldplayers like searching!
Welcome to Coldplaying.com, the internet's largest Coldplay fan community with in excess of 50,000 members. Your definitive online resource for latest news, releases, pictures and tour archive, with concert reviews, setlists and videos. Our sister site, wikicoldplay.com, is the the world's biggest encyclopedic archive dedicated to Coldplay.
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The Exhibition Room
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 06:53 PM (270 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 Remember rsvp@coldplay.com over at the official site? Well, some of the Coldplayers who sent in an email to that address over the past few weeks have been the lucky recipient of the following email, below. If you have received this email, let us know at the Coldplay forum what digital art submissions you have made... [thanks coldplayisawesome, I Bloom Blaum, Nikki84 & The Escapist and everyone else who has contributed to the threads!]
Hello, You're one of a select band of Coldplay fans who sent an email to rsvp@coldplay.com. Thank you very much for doing that. We wanted you to be the first to know that we're about to launch a new feature on Coldplay.com called The Exhibition Room. It's a digital art gallery, which will feature submissions from Coldplay fans. The gallery will launch on Thursday November 5th - and we'd like one of the RSVPers to supply the launch Exhibit.
The Exhibition Room will display all of the following: animation; graphics; home video; claymation; illustrations; paintings; photography; music videos; short films; anything that you can upload. It can be about/of anything you like...
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Weezer Cover Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" in New York City
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 08:56 AM (427 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 Rivers Cuomo made Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" 'significantly nerdier' when Weezer covered it in New York City on Wednesday (Oct. 28) night, that is according to ChartAttack anyway. Here's what they had to say about the Coldplay cover performance:
According to Stereogum, Cuomo, clad in a geeky track suit, performed the Grammy Award-winning tune before the rest of Weezer joined him on stage for the show at the P.C. Richard & Song Theatre. Cuomo clearly isn't that familiar with the song, since he had a music stand with the lyrics to "Viva La Vida" set up in front of him, but he made sure to do a lot of hand-waving a la Chris Martin...
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BBC America's online attack on 'uncreative' Coldplay
Posted by busybeeburns on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 08:49 AM (461 Reads)
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 Last week, BBC America launched their own music section, Tunes From the Thames, and they've included several top 10 lists featuring the best of British pop music.
First thing they go and do? Launch a scathing attack on BBC's fellow coutrymen, Coldplay, whilst boringly comparing them with UK compatriots Radiohead. Never been done before, we're sure. Anyway, below is the article that will infuriate many Coldplay fans. Way to go, BBC America! You can discuss this at the Coldplay forum now.
The most potentially controversial list is the Top 10 Current British Artists in the U.S. After much hand-wringing, Coldplay and Radiohead were selected as our top two biggest UK artists. In that order. But that begs the question: should the imitator (Coldplay) really triumph over the originator (Radiohead)?
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Coldplay's Oracle dispells rumours of 'wrestling' in the band
Posted by busybeeburns on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 06:41 PM (229 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)
November 2, 2009 - submitted by Will, Australia
Q. Oracle, I was reading the other day that to choose who was the singer for Coldplay Chris, Guy, Will and Jonny wrestled. They did this because they knew that the singer would get all of the publicity. Is this true? Thanks a lot.
The Oracle replies:
There's no truth in that whatsoever.
November 2, 2009 - submitted by Jordan, New Zealand
Q. Hey Oracle! I was looking at the cassette tape for Ode to Deodorant, and it has Phil's number on it. Could I still contact him on it, or is he guilty of false advertising after all these years? Thanks!
The Oracle replies:
The only thing Phil's guilty of is changing his phone number many years ago so, no, you wouldn't be able to contact him on the cassette's out of date info.
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Brian Eno talks to Pitchfork about Coldplay
Posted by busybeeburns on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 09:00 AM (669 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 Any way you look at it, Brian Eno is one of the preeminent producers and thinkers of our time. Indeed, the once prolific Eno's own output has slowed considerably since the 1970s and 80s, in part due to these extracurriculars and of course thanks to his ongoing work with U2 and Coldplay. He spoke to Pitchfork online, in which he mentions his work with Coldplay on several occasions...
Pitchfork: In some way you bore the brunt of similar suspicion and ire when you agreed to work with Coldplay. It even forced people to miss that you made a good record together.
Brian Eno: Well, again, there are ways of playing it safe, and for me playing it safe would be to-- since I don't really need the money-- to work with only sort of critically respectable, obscure, experimental indie bands. Everyone would say, oh, that's fine. I would be that kind of producer who does that kind of thing. But when I met Coldplay and got to know them, I so much liked those people and I so think that they really want to do something. Again, it's like U2 were. They are hungry to do something else. And they will. I'm sure they'll turn out to be a great band.
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Wembley Stadium 'in debt long after Coldplay's next world tour'
Posted by busybeeburns on Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 12:04 PM (553 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 Wembley Stadium has suffered another huge pre-tax loss of £31.1million and is not expected to break even until 2014, which means Coldplay will probably have played there on a second consecutive world tour before Wembley manages to pay off its rebuilding-cost debts.
According to the Daily Mail today, accounts released by the home of England football for the year to December 31, 2008 revealed the massive losses, which followed a £53.3m pre-tax loss in 2007. The 90,000-capacity ground, rebuilt for £800m and reopened in 2007, made a pre-tax operational profit of £5.9m in 2008.
But Wembley had to pay out £26.2m in interest on its £300m outstanding loans. It also wrote off another £10.8m in ‘signing fees’ adding up to a pre-tax loss of £31.1m. Stadium chiefs are optimistic of increased revenue this year, with 2.5million people flocking to the stadium since March for 34 events including football matches and concerts by Coldplay, U2, Take That, Oasis.
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Coldplay's Oracle talks about Penny Howle, X&Y photographer
Posted by busybeeburns on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 08:47 AM (372 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)
October 30, 2009 - submitted by Lauren, United States of America
Q. Hey Oracle, I just saw the new pictures from the Great Penny Howle and I knew that she took a bunch of pictures of the boys back in the X&Y days, but was surprised to see pictures of hers from Wembley. So I was wondering, is she or was she sort of like the bands official photographer? Is she good friends with the band. All her stuff is brilliant by the way. She's one of my favorites!
The Oracle replies:
Penny was the much loved and respected official tour photographer during the X&Y tour. They invited her back to take shots at Wembley as they do have a great rapport together. Penny has a knack to get intimate shots without being intrusive. Given the close proximity to the band while she works, it's amazing that you almost don't notice her being there. I agree it was great to see her work again.
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The Oracle confirms Chris Martin's attendance at U2 show in Las Vegas
Posted by busybeeburns on Friday, October 30, 2009 - 02:30 PM (489 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)
October 29, 2009 - submitted by Alison, Australia
Q. Hi Oracle, I was lucky enough to be at the U2 show in Las Vegas recently, and to my great delight,at the end of Beautiful Day, Bono broke into a bit of "Lights will gu-u-u-u-uide you home...." , which was the highlight of the show for me :-) It didn't occur to me on the night, but I was wondering if Chris was at that show?
The Oracle replies:
Actually Alison, Chris was at that show yes.
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Coldplay Latin America tour updates (new Mexican date, Brazilian pre-sale, altered Colombian links)
Posted by busybeeburns on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 11:20 PM (622 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 Ocesa, the production company that have been tasked with managing coldplay's Mexican tour, have today via Twitter announced that a second Mexican date has been confirmed. According to their website, the second concert will be on the 7th March and the presale for the new date will be on November 4th and 5th. [thanks Pris]
In Colombia, tickets for the Bogata concert are no longer on sale on tuboleta.com. However, they've changed it to ticketexpress.com.co and tickets are still available online from worldwide locations. According to Lastfm, prices are: Platinum $305.000 $355.000 $395.000 (€106 €124 and €137); V.I.P. $172.000 $197.000 $232.000 (€60 €69 and €81); Preferencia $75.000 $98.000 $120.000 (€26 €34 and €42) [thanks Aleluvscp & Faust]
Meanwhile, over in Brazil, ticket prices have finally been announced for the two concerts - they range from 160-600 (Brazilian reais, approximately $90-345 US dollars, not including ticket fees.) The layouts for the concerts in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo can been seen after the jump. VIP areas in Rio de Janeiro hold 4000 people and in Sao Paulo there are 5000 available. The exclusive pre-sale for tickets to the Brazilian shows begins this Saturday, 31st October at midnight local time, for Citibank customers: 9AM Call Center / 10AM Ticket Outlets / 12PM Official box office. [thanks Cris_Santos]
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Chris Martin sitting on a Christmas No.1 classic?
Posted by busybeeburns on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 04:10 PM (942 Reads)
Topic Coldplay news
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 The Sun today has published an article about festive songs, revealing that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has a belter of a Christmas song which has been burning a hole in his MacBook for more than 12 months now. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum now.
Chris Martin was part of the last non-X Factor Christmas UK number one five years ago with the reworked Band Aid single, Band Aid 20. He's also the kind of bloke, The Sun continue, who is partial to a novelty reindeer jumper... so they're 'writing a letter to Santa' to ask if he can persuade Chris to release it.
Even bookies Paddy Power back Chris Martin. A spokesman said: "This year is probably the weakest list of contenders we've seen for the Xmas No1 in a long time. If anyone could write a classic Xmas song from the current crop, it's surely Chris Martin."
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