[Crystaline]

Bringing over the latest updates.

'Quite Big News' to be Announced on Coldplay.com - Friday 6th Feb, 12pm (GMT) This just in from Coldplay's Twitter - although no news yet (at time of writing) on the official site: Hey folks, we've got some quite big news to announce on Coldplay.com tomorrow at 12noon UK time. Anchorman

Coldplay Will NOT Be Served With Satriani Lawsuit At Grammys Things have been relatively quiet on the Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay front since the guitarist filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against the band in December, claiming that Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" was too similar to the melody of his instrumental "I Just Wanna Fly"... until this week. Reports surfaced on Wednesday that Satriani was so fed up with the band allegedly dodging his attempts to serve them with papers in the suit that, according to Fox News, he planned an ambush at this Sunday's Grammy awards, where the group is up for seven awards. Among the nominations are Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Viva la Vida," which is also up for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Fox reported that Satriani and lawyer Howard King were planning to "fill the Grammys with servers ready to pounce on [Coldplay singer] Chris Martin and his fellow bandmates." There were also plans to send a fleet of photographers to document the event. But King told MTV News on Thursday (February 5) that there won't be any such drama after all.

Chris Martin gave an interview and a live performance on Metro Radio (UK) which was aired tonight. You can now listen to the interview and the live recording (of 'Life In Technicolor ii') at the Metro website here

Full Set of Chris Martin's Absolute Zoo Session tracks Online Now The full set of videos from Coldplay's Chris Martin's Absolute Radio Zoo Sessions is now online following the upload of the fourth and final acoustic track - Life In Technicolor ii. Chris Martin played four tracks and recorded an interview on Friday 30 January. Chris's setlist for Absolute Radio was: 1. Viva La Vida (piano) 2. The Scientist (piano) 3. Life In Technicolor ii (piano) and 4. Violet Hill (guitar). You can watch all the videos at the Absolute site now at here. As well as Life In Technicolor ii, also available to watch are 'The Scientist', 'Violet Hill,' 'Viva la Vida' and DJ Christian O'Connell interviewing Chris in a bizarre interview.

Win a Signed Coldplay 'Thing' From the Grammys Coldplay are offering an exclusive signed prize from this weekends Grammy Awards due to be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The only problem is, nobody yet knows what the prize is. Here is Coldplay's Messenger service to tell us more: We're not exactly sure what the prize to our latest Messenger competition is, but when the band go to the Grammys on Sunday, they've promised to grab a souvenir of some sort, sign it and bring it back to Coldplay HQ for us to send to one of you. It may be napkin, it may be a programme, heck it may even be a Grammy (though that's probably a little unlikely). If you'd like to win our mystery prize, email competitions@coldplay.com before Wednesday 18th February.

Coldplay to Offer Live Online Updates From Grammy/Brit Awards The latest edition of the Coldplay messenger is out now, and it has been announced that the official site will be following the band at both the Grammy and Brit awards, providing exclusive updates. Here is the messenger with more details: Head over to Coldplay.com this coming Sunday (8th Feb) and on Wednesday 18th February, when we'll be offering live, behind-the-scenes updates from the Grammys and Brit Awards respectively. Join us to find out if the band win anything, who they're sitting next to and that sort of thing. Should be fun. Meanwhile, you can still vote for Coldplay in the public voting in two Brit awards. The messenger completes us with more details: Earlier this week, voting opened for two of the four Brit Awards which Coldplay are nominated for; Best British Live Act and Best British Single. If you'd like to vote for the band, then head over to BRITs 2009 – Vote - you'll need to register, but it only takes a few seconds and you can opt-out of future contact. Thanks folks.

Pitchfork: Eno Not Done Monkeying With Coldplay's Formula Pitchfork media reports today that Coldplay have kicked Chris Martin Out... of the studio. It's OK. Breathe. They also write about Roadie #42's journal entry from yesterday, and Chris Martin's collaboration with a mystery artist. Here is their article: Admit it: Viva la Vida, Coldplay's first trip into the Eno-verse, has held up pretty well. These guys are some of the last honest-to-God stars on the face of the Earth, and they would've been just fine if they'd just kept biting "Clocks" over and over. They didn't have to head into the studio with a legendary genius producer who pushed them to tinker with their epicness in all sorts of unexpected ways, but they did it, and it worked out. When that chorus kicks in on "Lost!", forget about it. Game over. (Also, because of Viva La Vida, this happened.) Last month, we reported that Coldplay were striking while the adult-contempo arena-alt was hot and hitting the studio with Brian Eno once again. And thanks to a post on Coldplay's website, we now have some insight into what, exactly, these guys all do in the booth. The post is credited to the mysterious "Roadie #42", and according to this guy, Eno's not done monkeying with Coldplay's formula. Apparently, the band usually builds on frontman Chris Martin's demo recordings. But Eno's trying something else out: Banning Martin from the studio, keeping just his vocal track in most cases, and letting the other three dudes build the rest of the songs themselves. The other dudes, understandably, are amped. Reports Roadie #42: "Often, they come in first thing in the morning and listen to Chris's idea once, before going out into the live room and working up something based purely on how the song 'felt' to them on first listen, paying little heed to what chords he chose or how the melody sat." Chris Martin better watch out because pretty soon these guys might start demanding their own close-ups in the videos. Martin, meanwhile, isn't using his time off to think up even more ridiculous baby-names with Gwyneth Paltrow. According to that post, "he's up the road at another studio pouring out songs in a writing project with another artist." Roadie #42 doesn't say who the other artist is, but it's probably a rapper.

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[Carlie06]

Brian Eno is a genius.

[Crystaline]

Chris is working with another rapper? *headdesk*

[Carlie06]

Ohhhh. eff.

[Crystaline]

Why can't he stop?! He's a British lad with a falsetto. What in the blue hell does a rapper want with him on their song?

[Carlie06]

Are you sure you're not Southern?

[Crystaline]

As far as I know, lol. Why?

[Carlie06]

You said 'blue hell'. I just think Southern when I read that.

[Crystaline]

Hee! Well, ever since my sister moved to Georgia and I've discovered the wonder that is Josh Holloway, I have a whole new appreciation for the South.

[Carlie06]

Hehe! We make the best stuff down here.

[Crystaline]

The food, man. Absolutely delish.

[Carlie06]

That is def. our strong point. My Marketing professor is from Colorado and moved down here last year to teach. All he talks about is how amazing the food is.

[Crystaline]

It's seriously da bomb. Just like, everything!

[spotlight]

What are the chances of a Coldplay and OneRepublic collaboration? Or Coldplay and Snow Patrol? Or Coldplay and Stereophonics? Or Coldplay and The Fray? Or do they all hate each other?

Originally Posted by Crystaline (View Post) It's seriously da bomb.

[Carlie06]

Well, Coldplay and The Killers are teaming up....kinda. They're doing a show together.

OMG!!!!!!!!

NEW COLDPLAY TOUR DATES!!!

Coldplay have announced details of a huge tour of North America, which will begin in Portland, Oregon on July 10th. The tour will also include dates in California, Texas and Florida. The band have also promised that more shows, which will take place outside of North America, will be announced on Monday (February 9th). Tickets will go on sale for on February 14th in some states and February 21st in others. Coldplay’s North American dates are: July 10th - Portland, OR - The Amphitheater at Clark County - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 11th - George, WA - The Gorge Amphitheatre - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 13th - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 16th - San Diego, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre - on sale 13th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 18th - Carson, CA - Home Depot Center - on sale 21st Feb [discussion] [wiki] 21st - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 22nd - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - on sale 21st Feb [discussion] [wiki] 24th - Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 25th - East Troy, WI - Alpine Valley Music Theatre - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 29th - Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON - on sale 13th Feb [discussion] [wiki] August 3rd - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center - on sale 14th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 6th - Raleigh, NC - Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion - on sale 13th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 7th - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - on sale 13th Feb [discussion] [wiki] 9th - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre - on sale 21st Feb [discussion] [wiki]

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

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Crytsal, wtf are they doing ignoring NYC!