A dressing room warm-up video from the UNSTAGED show
Coldplay "Best Act in the World Today"
24 October 2011 3:18 pm
Good afternoon. We're very pleased to report that Coldplay have just been named
Best Act In The World Today at this year's Q Awards ceremony in London. Enormous thanks to all of you who took the time to vote for the band in the online poll.
Anchorman
Mylo Xyloto album sampler - Side B
22 October 2011 11:55 am
Preview the songs from the second half of the new album
Here's a video which Parlophone have made about the special limited edition Pop-Up Album version of Mylo Xyloto.
It ships in December - but you'll receive the full MP3 version of Mylo Xyloto on Monday. You can order the Pop-Up edition from the following links:
- UK/Rest of the world
- USA/Canada
Anchorman
Design a butterfly for the Unstaged Show
20 October 2011 2:17 pm
Your butterfly it may be featured during next week's American Express Unstaged show
Good afternoon. Would you like to make a butterfly which may be featured during Coldplay's American Express Unstaged show in Madrid on Wednesday next week (26 Oct)? Well, then head to http://www.amexunstagedcoldplay.com now.
Final allocation of Norwich tickets
20 October 2011 1:10 pm
Coldplay.com readers can buy the final tickets for the UEA show online
UPDATE: These tickets have now sold out.
Good afternoon. As previously announced, Coldplay will play a special show at Norwich's University of East Anglia on Thursday, 27 October, as part of BBC Radio 1's Student Tour.
Tickets, priced £20, were sold at the UEA box office to personal callers on Saturday, 15 October (after fans queued over night).
However, a final 100 tickets to the show have just been released for sale - and Coldplay.com readers can buy them online from here now. (We wanted them to go to you folks - but you'd best be quick if you want some.) UPDATE: These tickets have now sold out.
If you can't make it, the gig will also broadcast live on BBC Radio 1 (listen live on your radio in the UK, or online anywhere in the world).
Tickets are limited to two per customer. To avoid these tickets being resold at inflated prices entry for these shows will be via wristband only. On the show day, 27 October, wristbanding will open at midday at the venue. Ticket buyers will need to go to the box office with their ticket receipt, photo ID matching the name on the receipt and if they have purchased two tickets their guest must be in attendance with them. Each customer will be wristbanded and can then return to the venue in the evening for the concert. Doors open at 6.30 pm and the show starts promptly at 7.00 p.m. so please arrive early. Please note that any wristbands that have been obviously tampered with will be refused entry.
Anchorman
Roadie #42 - Blog #151
19 October 2011 10:05 pm
Neill Lambert (my keyboard-world partner in crime) has just been on stage to check the piano before the KROQ webcast begins. Before he’s even got back to our rig at stage left, Anchorman (my website co-conspirator) has emailed me a screen-grab...
I point at the image on the laptop when Neill returns, telling him he’s just been live on the internet. His reply neatly sums up the timezone roulette we’re all living right now.
“Well at least I’m live somewhere…â€
I’ve always tried to steer away from discussing jetlag in these musings, on the grounds that it could be construed as trying to make myself sound windswept and interesting by just complaining that I’m a bit tired.
Realistically, though, it’s pretty much unavoidable, given that I’m documenting the touring experience. But it’s working in a somewhat interesting manner at the moment. We’re in LA, which is 8 hours behind our beds at home. Usefully, though, a lot of the TV shows we have here mean early starts.
Initially, looking at the schedule and seeing 5.30am lobby calls was a little shocking. However, jetlag here means that we’re all waking up at four anyway - so maybe two wrongs really do make a right?
(Guy with Coldplay manager Dave Holmes - early risers, both)
Today’s show is a radio thing for KROQ, who have been behind Coldplay here in the states since the very word go. The band are playing in a tiny black box room with a crowd that Chris points out is smaller than at their first ever show.
The building is so small in fact, that production manager Wob Roberts informs me that the only way to get most of the gear into the building was to take the single back door of its hinges. As for the Viva Tympani - forget it…
Yellow blasts the tiny space rather wonderfully and they’re off. It’s six songs over the course of two hours, but even so we’re done by 10am.
It’s difficult to know what the best strategy for the jetlag is. If we adjust to west coast time, that’ll wreck us when we leave for the east coast in a day or two - and by the weekend, we’re back in the UK and need to be alert and on the ball during daylight hours.
I’ve decided to follow my standard policy of simply feeling knackered, dazed and confused all the time regardless of what time of day it is.
It’s got me this far…
R42
Watch the Paradise video
19 October 2011 7:34 am
See the brand new video now
Take from Mylo Xyloto, out 24 October, 2011. Order it now from the iTunes store or find your local retailer.
Get your own personalised MX artwork initials here.