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Quote: Coldplay's 'Violet Hill' Video Available From Monday 19th May
The video to Coldplay's new single Violet Hill will officially be available from Monday 19th May. To whet your very large appetites for the video, Parlophone have posted a sneak peak of it on their official Youtube channel. You can watch it here.
Yesterday's exclusive screening on Channel 4 of Coldplay's new video for Violet Hill had been removed from television listings. The video was replaced by a Sex and the City: World Premiere Special. Meanwhile, rumours that MTV Germany would broadcast Coldplay's new video yesterday (May 13th) on Berlin's TRL show were proved unfounded.
It was thought that the video may also have been part of the secret content slowly being unveiled on the official Coldplay site.
Check back here at 11am (GMT) on Monday 19th for the full video.
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Quote: Coldplay To Perform 'Violet Hill' Live At MTV Movie Awards On June 1st
Coldplay will perform the new single 'Violet Hill' at the MTV Movie Awards on June 1st.
The MTV Movie Awards will air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Angelina Jolie and Zac Efron are among the stars up for the coveted golden popcorn trophies – while the comedy Superbad leads in total nominations, five. Juno follows with four.
Comedian Mike Myers is onboard to host the annual ceremony.
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Quote: Billboard: Coldplay On Mission To Connect With Fans
LONDON (Billboard) - The album that will put the new EMI under its greatest global scrutiny to date is also 2008's most eagerly awaited release. That's the official word from Coldplay's new boss.
The band's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" will be released June 12 internationally on Parlophone/EMI and on June 17 in North America on Capitol. EMI Group chairman Guy Hands, who led the buyout of the music company last summer through his private-equity firm Terra Firma, says, "Right across the world, this is the most anticipated album of the year."
But Martin [pictured], sitting in the band's own studio, the Bakery in northwest London, offers a typically relaxed and realistic interpretation. "Being on a major label at the moment is like living in your grandparents' house," he says. "Everyone knows they need to move out, and they will eventually, but we kind of like our grandmother.
"It's obviously an antiquated model, because of the Internet, but we really love the people we work with. If we knew what the solution was to everything, then we'd do it. We have absolute respect for the Radioheads and Raconteurs and people who can do what they like. We're in contract though, so we're just going to make the most of it and enjoy the people we get to work with."
A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE WEB
In a bold move to reassert its close relationship with its fans, Coldplay made the album's first single, "Violet Hill" -- a track, with something of the flavour of 1967-68 era Beatles -- available as a free download April 29, shifting more than 2 million units in its week of being available for free, according to EMI. A cover-mounted 7-inch vinyl edition of the single was given away with the May 10 issue of music weekly NME, which went on sale May 6 -- the only physical version of the single to be made available, although it also went on sale at digital outlets the same day.
"Of course we want to sell a lot of records," Martin says. "But we want to get right back to the root of everything, by saying, 'Here you go, have a song, have a concert.' All that other stuff we have to do because we're in contract, that's all going to happen, of course, but it's just starting from that place. It makes us feel good as a group of people."
Drummer Will Champion adds, "More than ever, you've got to give people a reason to be excited about music. With content being so available, you just want to give people as much as possible."
Coldplay will stage free gigs June 16 at Brixton Academy and June 23 at New York's Madison Square Garden. Another free show in Barcelona is expected to be confirmed soon.
The concerts will be unsponsored, and Martin points candidly to a similar stage of the band's previous campaign to explain why.
"We felt last time we f---ed up so royally in New York when we were setting up 'X&Y.' We did an AOL thing, which was fine to do, but we tried to mix it with a buzz gig and we just came across as a huge and very impersonal corporation.
"So this time we want to do the ultimate buzz gig and have it not attached to anything or anybody. We're all very nervous because no one's done it before and it's a bit risky. When we first got asked to close (the) Glastonbury (festival) in 2002, it was a similar feeling of something a bit bigger than we felt we could do. But we really like that challenge."
The free shows will be followed by extensive touring throughout 2008 and beyond. Roughly 50 shows are planned for North America, followed by Europe and the United Kingdom. Coldplay will also headline the Summersonic festival August 9-10 in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. More international touring is on tap for 2009.
'OUR OWN PLACE'
On the new album, produced by Brian Eno and Markus Dravs, Coldplay sounds like a band quite certain of its creative course. The set was recorded during a deliberate period out of the limelight for the band, and in particular for Martin, who's ever keen to discourage media attention to his marriage to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
For the record, the band acquired its own, self-contained studio facility, converting a former bakery in a northwest London backstreet.
"We took a long time to recharge," Martin says. "It's weird being in Coldplay, because we've taken onboard a lot of opinion, a lot of different experiences, and we had to hibernate for a while to feel like we had anything worth doing."
Reminded of his comment, when the band won two BRIT Awards for "X&Y" in February 2006, that it would go off the radar for an extended spell, he smiles and says, "Well, there we are. I laid out a business plan.
"The place we got to two years ago just felt a little dirty," he says. "We weren't really speaking to each other. We all had our corner office in a big tower block, but there was no vibe.
"I just felt, 'We have to get our own place, we have to call Brian Eno, get Phil back' (Phil Harvey, the band's former manager and creative consultant, described by Martin as "our fifth member that no one ever sees"), 'we have to play in a little room, burn all our awards and reviews, not go to swanky dinners, erase all that.'"
According to Champion, "We always have the intention of giving ourselves time to decompress after albums and tours, (but) by the end of a recording session we're anxious to get on with it and tour. Then, by the end of the touring cycle, you're thinking, 'We've written some great songs, let's get back in the studio.'
"You never really feel like you have time to settle, but we did give ourselves some time this time, time to write (songs) off tour. We basically spent eight months in (the studio); we approached it as a rehearsal room and a recording facility. We were just here playing through songs all day, every day."
Eno's role was crucial, Martin says. "Whether or not the songs are good, you can hear that the band is hungry, just in terms of the playing. He'd say, 'You can do anything you like, fellas, but it's got to sound like there's life in it.' So there's probably some magnum opuses that we've left off that are very clever, but they don't sound like they're alive."
As to the changes at the label, Martin expresses regret that some friends are no longer with the company, but also stoicism. "A lot of our lives have been about people leaving or dying -- so much has changed for everybody -- so it is sad, but that's life."
Asked about the band's contract and whether it might consider forging a different path when it ends, he jokes, "Well, I think we're in contract until ... the end of the Space Age. On my deathbed, someone will come up and say, 'You still owe me three records.'"
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Quote: Coldplay Speak Out About New Single 'Violet Hill'
As previously announced, Triple M (Australia) posted an clip of an exclusive interview with Coldplay. Now more of that interview has been released in video format, as well as pictures of the band and 'The Bakery' where much of LP4 was recorded. Here is their summary:
On the eve of the release of their fourth album, Triple M's Myf Warhurst flew to London for the country's one and only chat with Coldplay ringleader Chris Martin. It's also the very first glimpse of the band's brand new studio The Bakery in northwest London. In this first video preview, find out what motivated the band to try something different with their first single and the secret location that it was recorded.
Triple M will also have a 'MMMassive Coldplay Special' on Monday June 6, where they will be premiering the band's full interview on the radio with a whole lot of extra Coldplay goodies online.
Watch the video and see the new pictures here.
| source: coldplaying.com |
That's not cool at all...now I'm going to have to make a road trip out of it. 
Maybe I can wait until they post more dates and see if they'll be going to Milwaukee or something? 
I just adore the translation of it. 
And that's why they're my favorite band. They're so passionate about the music they make. 
However - it should be available for viewing again by this monday 
And Guy? All kinds of hot. 
