Fri, 09 May 2008 18:12:29 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/ Coldplaying.Com en-gb http://www.coldplaying.com/images/logo.gif http://www.coldplaying.com/ helpdesk6@coldplay.org http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4236 So far... 4% of the puzzle has been unlocked. Keep up with progress here. No idea what we're talking about? Then click here [thanks ravrat, Jpw48, Zemy101 & BostonSportsTD]. We have unlocked the following pictures (in order): 1. Reign Of Love & 2. Cemeteries Of London P.S. Those who have seen and/or heard 'Life In Technicolor' please keep it to yourself until it's been officially unlocked... thanks! Fri, 09 May 2008 18:12:29 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4235 Exclusive: Bosses at Coldplays record label Capitol are baffled by frontman Chris Martin's claim the band is running a two-for-one promotion on its new album. Chris Martin [pictured] told British newspaper the Daily Mirror the band wanted to encourage fans to pay for LP Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends, by offering a deal to those who download it online. He claimed that for every track that a fan downloads, they will get to choose another one free. Martin told the newspaper, "Buy one get one free, it comes from working in Kwik Save (British budget supermarket), I think. As I said before nobody buys albums any more, certainly no body buys full albums and we've made an album that you have to have from start to finish." But Capitol executives know nothing of the promotion. A high ranking boss tells WENN, "I checked with their (Coldplay's) management. This appears to be incorrect." Fri, 09 May 2008 09:23:55 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4234 Your chance to win tickets to Coldplay's two free shows in June Coldplay.com has been updated to include details of the free shows in June, at London's Brixton Academy on June 16 and at New York's Madison Square Garden on June 23. The competitions to win tickets for both gigs have now opened this morning via the official site. One lucky winner for the NYC show will also win flights from wherever they live, plus hotel accommodation. Plus, by entering either competition, you'll help to unveil exclusive Coldplay videos and artwork. Click here to enter the Brixton competition (Full rules here) Click here to enter the MSG competition (Full rules here) More on this here [thanks BostonSportsTD & Texasluvsjonny] Fri, 09 May 2008 08:41:15 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4233 Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" world tour -- which will land in North America, Europe and Japan -- is set to begin at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center on June 29 and extend well into next year, Billboard.com can reveal. Save for the Pemberton Festival in Vancouver on July 27, Coldplay will play arenas in North America, the U.K. and Europe on the tour’s first leg. Some North American dates will go on sale May 16-17, but the majority go up June 14, the weekend before "Viva La Vida" is released. Ticket info will be available at www.coldplay.com. As previously reported, Coldplay will play free concerts in London (June 16 at the Brixton Academy) and New York (June 23 at Madison Square Garden). Information on how to win tickets to these shows will be available at the band's website beginning today (May 9). The contest runs through June 1 and winners will receive notification on June 5. Roughly 50 shows are planned for North America, followed by Europe and the U.K. Coldplay will also headline the Summer Sonic festival Aug. 9-10 in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. About 90 dates total are expected for this year. More shows are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. "Last time we ended up doing 150 shows; we’ll probably end up roughly the same," Coldplay manager Dave Holmes tells Billboard.com. Fri, 09 May 2008 06:55:59 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4232 It has been announced that Coldplay are giving fans the chance to own their new album for half the usual price by announcing a buy one get one free offer on Internet downloads. So this means that whenever you download a track from their new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends you will automatically get another song of your choice for free. Chris Martin has said that “Buy one get one free, it comes from working in Kwik Save (British budget supermarket), I think. As I said before nobody buys albums anymore, certainly nobody buys full albums and we’ve made an album that you have to have from start to finish.” In other news Coldplay have just signed a deal with the American television network ESPN which means that their music will be used during the broadcaster’s coverage of Euro 2008 which kicks off in Austria next month. It’s said that ESPN will broadcast Coldplay’s songs in the US, Canada, Mexico, India and South America. Coldplay’s fourth album ‘Viva La Vida’ is due for released on the 12th June. Thu, 08 May 2008 22:08:23 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4231 This is an exerpt from an article about Madonna's world tour: Arthur Fogel, a one-time Torontonian now based in L.A. as Live Nation's CEO of global touring and chairman of global music, says this year's Madge tour will do extremely well, what with no other major tours in the works from such acts as U2 and the Rolling Stones, although he points out the Coldplay tour "will be huge in a different way." More on this here [thanks Fixed] Thu, 08 May 2008 20:58:44 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4230 Since becoming available for pre-order, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" pre-order has shot to #1 on the iTunes Top Albums chart. and with it the "Viva la Vida" single has shot to the #5 spot on iTunes Top 10 Songs. More on this here [thanks twistedlogic149] Don't forget, when you preorder with Itunes you get two extra songs: Lost! (Acoustic Version) [Bonus Track] Lovers in Japan (acoustic) How does it work? The new album comes with an acoustic version of the new song "Lost!". When you pre-order, the title track will download immediately and you'll receive an additional acoustic version of "Lovers In Japan" when it's released on June 17. Thu, 08 May 2008 08:18:42 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4229 Planetrock.com.au sat down for an exclusive interview with Coldplay's Will Champion and Guy Berryman.Stay tuned for the full video interview, but they've given us a little taster to keep you going - Will and Guy discuss Coldplay's brand new single 'Violet Hill': here {Thanks Gary] Meanwhile, Take 40's UK correspondent caught up with a couple of the boys from Coldplay recently as they geared up to release their new single 'Violet Hill'. We'll have the full interview online for you in the coming weeks, but listen to parts of the interview below... On the new single 'Violet Hill'.... and they also asked them what they were trying to achieve with the new album 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends'... listen here Thu, 08 May 2008 08:10:16 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4228 Blender magazine is giving you the opportunity to ask Coldplay's Chris Martin any question you want. Look for the answer in a future issue of Blender. You can submit your question here Don't forget, following news that Coldplay will be performing on Today on June 27th 2008, the show has announced that they will be airing questions fired to the band. You can now submit your questions online here. Curious about the meaning behind their new album? Do you wonder what they do before a show? E-mail your questions for the band! Don't forget Coldplay will hit Rockefeller Plaza the morning of Friday, June 27th for a live performance on the Today show. Have you already sent in a question for the band? Why not share it with the Coldplaying messageboard (and read all the other submissions) here [thanks WCfan] Wed, 07 May 2008 22:56:06 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4227 Check out the 2008 section of Coldplay.com for a new star. Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends is now available to pre-order from iTunes Stores worldwide. What's more, anyone who pre-orders will be able to download the album's title track, Viva La Vida, immediately. More on this star Wed, 07 May 2008 22:50:11 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4226 This week's edition of NME is now available, and with it Coldplay's vinyl 7" single. Here's a excerpt from the magazine article: Chris Martin said the sales figures for their first three albums can't be topped, so the group decided that they didn't need to make "big songs" on Viva La Vida. "We thought, 'We can't possibly get any bigger, let's just get better," Martin told NME. "We're actually a bit scared because we've taken the safety off this time. It's not like we've got any songs on the record where we think, 'Oh, it's OK because we know the big songs are on there', we had some of those, but we took them off. We decided it was time to push what the band could do forward." More on this article (and see the full sized scans) here [thanks jpw48] Wed, 07 May 2008 19:05:00 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4225 Coldplay and ESPN have signed a marketing deal that will have the rock band promoting soccer and the sports network promoting the band's new album. The marketing campaign announced Wednesday will use Coldplay's music in promotions for ESPN's coverage of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament, which is scheduled for June 7-29 in Austria and Switzerland. ESPN has also agreed to incorporate music from Coldplay's new release, "Viva La Vida," into game and studio production. The CD is due out June 12. ESPN has the broadcast rights for the tournament in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and India. The matches will be broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNHD, ESPN2HD, ESPN Classic, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Deportes Radio, ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN360.com. More on this breaking story here [thanks zsub & Fixed] Wed, 07 May 2008 17:36:25 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4224 Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" recently went up from pre-order from Apple's iTunes store, and those who make the pledge for the album will get immediate access to the title track. Viva La Vida (individual track), is now available for purchase on iTunes at a price of €0.99. The new album comes with an acoustic version of the new song "Lost!" When you pre-order, the title track will download immediately and you'll receive an additional acoustic version of "Lovers In Japan" when it's released on June 17. To hear the title track, as purchased from iTunes, one will essentially have to fork over $9.99, and the cut unfortunately comes encoded with DRM at 128 kilobits per second. What do you think of the song? Listen to it here and tell us! [thanks Shawndorman] Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:06 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4223 Triple M (Melbourne) has an exclusive interview with Coldplay, to talk to them about the new album Viva La Vida. Soon you will be able to see the exclusive video interview, but for now here's a sneak peak with some audio and photos. Download the interview here and here [right click, save target as] More on this story here [thanks be my green eyes & eFlat] Wed, 07 May 2008 08:25:51 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4222 Last week’s phenomenally successful free single download was just the start, claim Coldplay management and label. Coldplay have not finished with surprises in the run-up to the release of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, with a “significant major initiative” planned around another single [42 maybe?] taken from the album on May 21. With the band recording additional material that did not make the album’s final cut, Parlophone is also promising a treat for fans, with a number of other non-album tracks eventually seeing the light of day. [Seperate releases, one for Viva La Vida and one for Death And All His Friends perhaps?] Downloads of the giveaway digital single Violet Hill hit around the 1.5m mark at the end of last week, and the band’s management company, LA based 3D Management, and record company Parlophone are now ratcheting up the marketing campaign to follow the free download that started on April 29. Coldplay’s manager Dave Holmes is already promising something special for the third week in May. “It’s one pretty significant thing, although I can’t afford to have it get out,” he says. “You’ll understand why when I tell you, but it is a major initiative with huge global reach.” More on this story here onwards [thanks sebile, Stefan-C8, ApproximatelyInfinite & a2iel] Tue, 06 May 2008 19:24:50 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4221 Free with this week's issue of NME magazine comes a 7" single and a stunning new track from Coldplay. Featuring 'Violet Hill' from the forthcoming album 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends', plus the never-heard-before (until-yesterday) track 'A Spell A Rebel Yell', the vinyl release is a world exclusive. See this week's NME magazine for the first new interview with Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland, plus the iconic new photo shoot done by NME with all four band members. Just to whet the appetite, below you can see one of the photos. More on this story here [thanks cephaus] Tue, 06 May 2008 18:55:00 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4220 Coldplay will announce a new marketing campaign later this month, which their manager says will have “a huge global reach”. Dave Holmes, the band’s long time partner, said the idea was “pretty significant” and that he couldn’t “afford to have it get out.” Holmes’ announcement comes after it was revealed that the band’s new single ‘Violet Hill’ was downloaded 2 million times for free from their website. The single, which has now been released as a paid-for digital-download, was available to download from Coldplay’s website for one week. According to Music Week, the band are currently recording material which didn’t make it onto their forthcoming album, ‘Viva La Vida’ - which is out on June 12th. The songs are expected to be released by the band’s record label EMI alongside the new album. As previously reported, Coldplay will play three free shows this June in Barcelona, New York and London. Tickets will only be available via the band’s website. What do you think Coldplay are up to? Discuss this story here Tue, 06 May 2008 18:07:48 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4219 2 million people downloaded Coldplay’s new single ‘Violet Hill’ while it was available as a free download, it's been revealed. The song, which is the first off the band’s new album ‘Viva La Vida’, was uploaded onto the band’s website last Tuesday (April 29th). Had the song been chart eligible it would have outsold last week’s Top-40 four times over. The song, which was released officially on digital-download today (May 5th), is no longer available to download for free. As previously reported, the band will play three free shows – in Barcelona, New York and London - this June in support of their new album. More on this here Tue, 06 May 2008 17:02:53 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4218 Coldplay's new vinyl single B-side song 'A Spell A Rebel Yell' will get its debut play on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio One tonight, from 7pm (BST), according to the station, and The Sun. More on this here onwards [thanks Vector] As far as I can see All time and circuitry Is wrong As far as poetry Sit down and sing to me A song It's/Cos' all I want in this world All I want in this world Is for you to come home A spell a rebel yell A spell Soldier come home to me You've been away from me So long All I want in this world All I want and deserve Is for you to come home A spell a rebel yell (8x) You can discuss the lyrics for the new song here [thanks ApproximatelyInfinite, MasoKnight, Zemy101] For those who live outside the UK you can listen to the BBC Radio One webstream via the Coldplaying toolbar - which you can download here prior to tonight's first play of A Spell A Rebel Yell. Mon, 05 May 2008 18:23:22 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4217 US visits to Coldplay.com increased 1,800% since the band's new single, Violet Hill, was released for free online, Hitwise said after comparing the daily US visits for April 29, 2008 versus April 27, 2008, MarketingCharts reports. On April 29, 2008, the day the single was released on Coldplay.com, the website ranked as the most visited website among the Bands and Artists category. A little more than 1 out of every 40 visits to Bands and Artists category went to Coldplay's website. Mon, 05 May 2008 09:29:26 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4216 Radiotimes.com has announced an exclusive broadcast of Coldplay's new video for the forthcoming single, Violet Hill. It will be broadcast on UK's Channel 4 on May 13 at 11.05pm. Coldplay recently arrived in Sicily, Italy to shoot the video for the first single, Violet Hill, taken from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. It was originally thought that only 'Prospekt' was present in Italy, but Italian media has confirmed that it was the whole band, ready to film a video for the first single of the fourth album. The film set had been a very restricted area, and is located in Enna (the Italian city at the highest altitude), near Nicoletti lake. 4 Music:Coldplay: Video Exclusive - Tuesday 13 May 11:05pm - 11:10pm Channel 4 Exclusive first screening of Coldplay's new single Violet Hill from their forthcoming album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. VIDEO Plus+: 291955 More on this here Sun, 04 May 2008 10:17:44 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4215 The Sun newspaper [15/04/2008] reports that not many rock stars could run a marathon - buy Coldplay's Guy Berryman completed the gruelling London course in less than four hours. Impressive by any standards. Gordon Ramsay may have pipped him to the line - but he trounced Ronan Keating! Meanwhile, alyssa created this superb drawing of Guy. More on this here Sat, 03 May 2008 09:16:16 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4214 The Los Angeles Times has posted an interesting article, using Violet Hill as a starting point for comparisons between Coldplay and U2. Here's what they wrote: In their most starry-eyed moments, partisans of Coldplay have envisioned the English band as a potential successor to U2's throne. Well, the group has taken at least a small step in that direction. Its new album "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," which comes out June 17, was co-produced by Brian Eno, a principal player in U2's studio team. The first single, which was released to radio and as a free (for one week) download on Coldplay's website Tuesday, is "Violet Hill," and while one track might or might not define the entire album, this one does send a signal that the group has broken out of an increasingly confining formula. It opens with a slow-building orchestral/electronic mass, a meditative moment that's interrupted suddenly -- almost abruptly -- by Chris Martin singing an ominous line: "Was a long and dark December/ From the rooftops I remember there was snow, white snow." Read the full article here Fri, 02 May 2008 20:16:09 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4213 Carl Barat has criticised the decision by Coldplay this week to release their new single for free online. 'Violet Hill' has been available to download completely free from Tuesday at coldplay.com, and will be withdrawn on Tuesday, when it goes on general sale. The band had hoped following in the footsteps of Radiohead and Nine inch Nails, both of whom released music for free in recent months, would drum up interest in their forthcoming fourth album 'Vida La Vida'. However, Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl says it simply makes the climate a tougher place for smaller bands. He says, "You could say they (Coldplay) were jumping on the bandwagon a bit. You can't escape the fact that big name, big money bands who release their stuff for free are harming the scene. The industry is struggling financially and this is like missile after missile. How do new bands compete?" More on this story here Fri, 02 May 2008 18:12:03 +0100 http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4212 In this week's NME magazine, Chris Martin talks about the bands new base, where they can avoid the paparazzi he hates. He has revealed that Coldplay have hired a new headquarters for the band, specifically designed to deflect attention from the group and help them avoid photographers. Shifting topics Martin explained how Coldplay ended up working with the legendary Eno. "It was Brian's idea," he revealed. "I would often meet up with him for tea and start playing tabla machines...and that just turned into a years worth of production." The band also revealed how Arcade Fire influenced the new album: "After he worked on 'Neon Bible' Win Butler told us, 'You should work with this guy, [long time Eno-collaborator] Markus Dravs - he'll whip you lot into shape!' " explained Martin. More on this article here and here [thanks mimixxx & Dejan] Read the small print! 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