Coldplay cancel South American tour

By Staff in February 10, 2013 • Filed in: News & Rumors

The band were due to play a run of already postponed dates starting next week in Chile

Coldplay have cancelled their South American tour.

The band were due to play a number of dates starting next week in Chile, but the shows have now been pulled “due to circumstances beyond our control” say the ‘Mylo Xyloto’ group. The dates were already postponed from last year.

Coldplay posted a message to fans at their website, coldplay.com, it read:

Dear friends in Latin America, We’re sad to say that, due to circumstances beyond our control, we’re unable to reschedule the postponed ‘Mylo Xyloto’ tour dates in 2013. For this we’re very sorry. It may seem small consolation now but we’ll definitely have your corner of the world at the front of our minds when the time comes to do it all again. Thank you for your incredible patience and support.

Late last year, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin revealed that he had begun work on their next album.

Martin told the Daily Star: ”I’ve been writing songs and I’m so fired up about the band’s future.”

He added: ”I’m fortunate to do what I do and no way do I want to stop.”

Coldplay have promised fans that the title of the album will be easier to pronounce than 2011′s ‘Mylo Xyloto’. Chris Martin told Australian radio station 2dayfm: “The next one we’re releasing is much easier to pronounce.” [Source]

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Coldplay’s Clocks Is Best Track Of The Last Decade

By Staff in February 4, 2013 • Filed in: News & Rumors

Coldplay’s hit Clocks has been voted the best song of the last 10 years.

The track topped a poll by British radio station BBC Radio 6 Music to name the top 100 tracks of the past 10 years, ahead of Arctic Monkeys’ I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.

Coldplay star Will Champion says of the honour, “This is extraordinary. We’ve been listening to 6 Music since it started and I feel like our band’s career and this station have grown up in parallel. This top 10 is amazing – what an amazing 10 years of music… We all said not bad for a song that hasn’t got a chorus.”

More rock groups make up the rest of the top five – Elbow came in third with One Day Like This, ahead of Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National in fourth place and The Killers’ Mr Brightside at five.

Other songs in the top 10 include The Flaming Lips’ Do You Realize?? and Johnny Cash’s cover of Nine Inch Nails track Hurt. [Source]

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Stars Contribute Songs To Tinnitus Charity Album

By Staff in January 24, 2013 • Filed in: Alerts, Chris Martin, News & Rumors, Upcoming Projects

Tinnitus sufferers Chris Martin and will.i.am are among the stars who have contributed songs to a new charity album to help raise awareness of the hearing condition.

The singer and the rapper have both talked openly about their struggles with tinnitus in the past, and now they are both backing a new project to help other sufferers.

The two stars’ bands, Coldplay and the Black Eyed Peas, have both contributed songs to the I Am The One In Ten album in aid of the British Tinnitus Association.

The record features songs from bands and artists who have all been affected by tinnitus in some way, and British radio host Eddy Temple-Morris, who has been among those driving the project, insists Martin’s involvement has really given the campaign a boost.

He says, “I’m so happy that Chris Martin has given this his blessing. With Coldplay on board, at last we have a real chance to get through to (the) government now… this record could be a game changer… One in 10 people has tinnitus, and the (U.K.) government have never spent a single penny on awareness… It’s not just musicians and soldiers that get tinnitus, its every layer of society, and I want to reflect this by putting together a compilation album where every single person involved has tinnitus.” Read full article.

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New photos of Coldplay added!

By Staff in January 21, 2013 • Filed in: Gallery Updates

I added some new photos of Coldplay to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look and enjoy!

Coldplay

Gallery Links:
– January 19th, 2013
– January 12nd, 2013
– Jay Z & Coldplay In Concert
– Coldplay concert in Brooklyn

Coldplay Delivers in the Usual Way

By Staff in January 2, 2013 • Filed in: Reviews

Near the end of its allotted time at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Sunday night, Coldplay offered up “Fix You,” a vow of encouragement about as earnest and ingenuous as its title suggests. The song opens like a processional hymn and stays in that realm awhile before tipping decisively toward rock grandeur: a cue for Chris Martin, the voice and face and soul of the band, to shrug off any lingering scrap of pensiveness or decorum.

He did so in a very Chris Martin way, swiveling from his neon-graffiti-scrawled upright piano and bounding down the catwalk that jutted onto the arena floor. A few strides in, he threw his lanky body into the air — chest forward, head back, arms splayed — and deftly crumpled as he landed, rolling back into a somersault. He called to mind a jack-in-the-box or some other spring-loaded toy, blithely singular in purpose.

You could say much the same for the show, an elaborate and efficient production clearly meant to provide one dopamine hit after another. There were LED wristbands that went aglow in coordinated bursts, making each concertgoer a part of the arena’s lighting design; there were blizzards of pastel confetti, cut into custom shapes; there were dozens of beach balls bouncing along the crowd. All within the first few songs. (The full-tilt laser display was yet to come.) Read full article.

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