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The Official Coldplay Thread; New album "A Head Full of Dreams"
Topic Started: Jan 13 2008, 03:17 PM (6,456 Views)
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I'm lazy I guess. I'll do it today.
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The BBC concert was great! I bet most of Chris Martin's comments (Tony Hart indeed!) went straight over the heads of most of the audience!

And who knew the bassist was such a dish. He's been copying John Taylor circa 1985 in getting the whole bass slapping struttin' thing spot on!
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wow @ 'viva's sales

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The BBC concert was great! I bet most of Chris Martin's comments (Tony Hart indeed!) went straight over the heads of most of the audience!

And who knew the bassist was such a dish. He's been copying John Taylor circa 1985 in getting the whole bass slapping struttin' thing spot on!
Oh it really was great, wasn't it? I thoroughly enjoyed it! One fantastic song after another, and such a great atmosphere. Chris's comments were most amusing.

I'm SHOCKED you've only just copped how gorgeous Guy Berryman is! I've been bleating on about him for years!

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Chris chats to Coldplay.com:

Hello Chris. How are things?
Well, it's quite a nerve-wracking time, but it's also tremendously exciting. We've finished the album, it's been released, we've decided what some singles are and we're in the process of making videos. We've also finished planning our actual tour concert, which is a good feeling.

How much do the band control that planning?
A thousand percent. We think about where we're gonna play and what mix of old and new songs we'll have. We think about reinterpreting songs and how we can make the journey of a concert as exciting as possible. And basically we try to make something that's as entertaining as any other night out; we are trying to compete with Cats and Starlight Express. Our one goal is to make sure that people who spend their money get entertained. We think about that a lot. We think about how every song looks and what the ideal place to be is and who will see this best from which place. We probably get a bit too obsessed with it, to be honest.

How long have you been planning the show?
For about four months. But the live side of things always affects how the album sounds. You're thinking, "What does our concert need? What's it missing?" We felt this time that we'd like something that's louder and something that's heavier and something that's more emotional and something where we sing lower and something where everyone can sing along. We've got a lot of singalongs this time, actually.

Can you hear people singing along while you're playing?
Totally. I live for the sound of people singing together.

So, presumably you have lots of exciting plans for the shows which you can't tell us about yet?
Oh, I'll tell you everything. For starters, we've got some incredible balls. And I mean that in the most technological of senses. If you come to our concert, you'll see the most magical balls you've ever seen. In fact, they're the most magic balls since John Lee Hooker had about 50 kids. And ours is the first concert in the world to feature them.

Where did you get these magic balls?
We found them in this place in the north of England that makes clever things. They're part of our continuing mission to make a big room feel as small as possible.

Is that why you play arenas rather than stadiums?
Yeah, we're not a stadium band yet. I think we're still trying to figure out how to make a room full of 10,000 people as exciting as possible, let alone a stadium. To me an arena feels like the perfect size canvas, so we're trying to master that.

Are you thinking about set lists already?
Yeah, we have our set list 90% ready to go. We know where we're going to play which hits and which misses. And what might go down better in Detroit or Philadelphia than it might in Prague or London.

Do you really think about tour plans to that degree?
Yeah, of course. Then once we have some ideas, we hire as many talented people as we can to make them work and be better than we'd thought of them. We care pretty strongly about playing concerts.

And you're not one of these bands who are too proud to play your hits?
No, we'll play as many hits as we can. Although in some places we only really have half of a hit. So we might play Clocks nine times in certain places. And then Fix You 12 times. And then finish off with an encore of Yellow 27 times.

Once you've recorded a new song, is it difficult to learn to play it live?
Not this time, because we spent so much time recording live. And we wouldn't have finished the record unless we thought it would make the concert better. We're still searching for the perfect hour and a half evening out. And given that we can't recreate Terminator 2 everywhere, we've got to come up with something new.

Do you decide your outfits too?
Totally. This will actually be the first Coldplay tour where the clothes are home-made by the band. When we put them on, we feel like we're in a proper little gang.

You've got a lot of shows coming up in the next few months. Does it feel daunting looking at your diary?
No, it just feels like a great big challenge. The time I feel most alive is when we're playing. It's the only time that my head makes any sense.

Does it still feel like that 30 gigs into a tour?
It feels the same after 230 gigs. We can't wait to get on the road. Oh, and we're also hoping to do this thing where we give away a song with every ticket. We have this song called The Goldrush, which Will sings. We want to play it as part of the show, so we'd like to give it away with the ticket. That way the only people that know that song will be the people coming to the concerts.

So they'll be able to sing along.
Exactly! I think Will's gonna need all the help he can get, to be honest. He doesn't love me for making him be the lead singer for a song. But I think now's the tour to do it.

Will he sing the song from behind his drum kit?
That's a surprise.

Ah, so you're not giving everything away.
There are lots of surprises, including butterflies and painted drums and lots of colour and probably some things we haven't even thought of yet. We're just totally focused on making this tour as great as it can possibly be.
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Oh I SO agree with this guy! :clap:

THE Kooks’ Luke Pritchard has slammed Coldplay critics and claims Chris Martin’s crew are “the best band in the world”.

Despite new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends selling shedloads since its release, it has come in for a tongue-lashing.

The band have also received stick, despite being odds-on for a No 1 single with Viva La Vida this weekend.

Coldplay have been criticised for everything from their costumes to 31-year-old Chris’s enthusiastic dancing.
But Luke reckons it’s all down to jealousy.

He told me: “Coldplay are the best band in the world and the single Violet Hill is pure genius, simple as that.

“I can’t believe that they’re getting a hard time.

“It’s weird. How can people undermine them? To me Cold­play are other-worldly.

“I love the whole thing they’ve got going on on this album with the Les Misérables theme.

“I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to see David Bowie in his Space Oddity days and even though it’s not as shocking, Coldplay have got a similar thing going on.”

Luke added: “People diss it because it’s popular.

“Well, whatever. Say that when it sells millions of albums. Coldplay aren’t a short-term thing.

“People still listen to their old albums. How many of the so-called cool bands can you say that about?”

The 23-year-old – whose band release new single Shine On next month from their second No 1 album Konk – understands what Coldplay are going through.

He explained: “When our first album was out people were quite sly, slowly chipping away at us and undermining our confidence. We got a lot of stick for basically having melodic music you can sing along to.

“Some bands get rave reviews, then you listen to them and you’re like: ‘This is absolute sh*t.’

“I’m happy with how Konk has gone ’cos we took a step back as soon as it was released. It’s weird how some bands really seek publicity. I love being in a band but I get paranoid with the attention.”

Stay as you are mate, we love it…
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It's such an amazing album! Highlights for me are Lost (which has The Arcade Fire written all over it), Lovers in Japan with the fantastic Reign of Love and Death.

I can't shut up about the amazing artwork! Nice to see that they continue the French Revolution theme on stage too, with the costumes. The one who came up with that deserves an award.
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They sold 721,000 copies in the US in the first week. "X&Y" sold 737,000 in 2005, but that was a different sales climate then, so this is a rather huuuge achievement! :clap:
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it is an amazing result but to be fair 'X&Y' didnt have the big US hit behind it (like 'Viva La Vida' has..)
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Yeah but come on, the sales climate was quite different back then. VLV leaked almost 2 weeks before the release date and it's so, so easy to download stuff these days. However you look at it, it's a major success!
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Taken from the New York Times...

Coldplay could call on a handy excuse for the slack quality of their Madison Square Garden show Monday night.

Two actually.

First: They were playing material from their new CD, "Viva La Vida," for the very first time.

Second: the show was free (for contest winners).

Frontman Chris Martin kept joking about that last bit. "No refunds," he said at one point. At another, he quipped, "I know there's been some complaints about the ticket price."

But all the jokes in the world couldn't hide the fact that Coldplay was still gingerly finding its way through the new material, and through a whole new show as well. Martin had trouble finding the right chords for one song, and forgot the lyrics to another ("Fix You," ironically).

Unfortunately, such gaffs and hesitancies were hardly the most disappointing aspects of the evening. The gaping Garden swallowed the band's rich studio sound, and erased those filigrees which give Coldplay's latest music its most fetching feature. In its studio version "Viva La Vida" excels at soundscapes, sculpted by co-producers Eno and Markus Dravs (of Arcade Fire fame). Live, the songs felt hollow and flimsy. The element most bands use to make up for such deficiencies - punch and speed - seem beyond Coldplay's skills, or will.

The band has always had a problem with pace and velocity. For a group that aims to be arena showstoppers, they have precious few upbeat songs, and all too many deadly ballads, many of which were on meandering display last night. Songs like "42" larded up the show, while even some prettier ones, like "Strawberry Swing," lost the sweet lacing of guitar work that makes the song sing on CD. Even the band's most rousing number, their new title track, lost some oomph through stick man Will Champion's decision to play kettle drums on the song rather than a full kit.

The group tried to break things up visually by arranging themselves on different parts of the stage every few numbers in the 70 minute show. They bunched themselves up on a smaller stage towards the start, and for their early hit "Yellow," walked out into the audience and performed the song acoustically from a second tier entrance.

As a gimmick the move clicked, but the song itself sounded tepid in this spindly form.

Ultimately, that's the whole problem with Coldplay live. While the group means to be anthemic - boldfacing every sing-a-long choruses as they go - in the end they always seem closer to anemic.

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I've read loads of wonderful reviews of this, so it could be that this guy just has a problem with the band.
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I dont diminish at all the success of 'Viva'...but I find the result for 'X&Y' back then even more tremendous (considering that 'Speed Of Sound' was not very big..)..its amazing to see an english band having such stability and success in US...

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Jun 26 2008, 02:01 PM
Frontman Chris Martin kept joking about that last bit. "No refunds," he said at one point. At another, he quipped, "I know there's been some complaints about the ticket price."
he did exactly the same jokes in the Brixton gig
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Many artists do the same quips during gigs. I've noticed this numerous times from various artists, even from Madonna.
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Riv, if you look at the reader comments from fans there, many of them were negative too.
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Jun 26 2008, 04:29 PM
Riv, if you look at the reader comments from fans there, many of them were negative too.
Yeah, but when you set out to write a negative article about something, you're obviously only going to publish the other negative comments you can find. What about the 1000s who enjoyed it? I remember reading some reviews of Madonna's Slane gig and if you hadn't been there, you'd think it had been a disaster because they only printed negative audience members' opinions. Having been there myself, you could tell it was a huige success. The audience lapped it up.

Anyway, I wasn't at this Coldplay gig, so I don't really know for sure. All I can say for sure is that I've read numerous hugely positive reviews of it from others, so it's far from unanimous that it was a bad gig. You of all people should know not to believe everything you read! :basil:
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Riv, if you look at the reader comments from fans there, many of them were negative too.
Yeah, but when you set out to write a negative article about something, you're obviously only going to publish the other negative comments you can find. What about the 1000s who enjoyed it? I remember reading some reviews of Madonna's Slane gig and if you hadn't been there, you'd think it had been a disaster because they only printed negative audience members' opinions. Having been there myself, you could tell it was a huige success. The audience lapped it up.

Anyway, I wasn't at this Coldplay gig, so I don't really know for sure. All I can say for sure is that I've read numerous hugely positive reviews of it from others, so it's far from unanimous that it was a bad gig. You of all people should know not to believe everything you read! :basil:


the same though applies to Madonna's recent promo tours (in Roseland and Kent)...we all hated them , but most people in MNation loved them (especially the people who where there...)
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Awh, Will has a tattoo of his daughter's handprint. Bless!

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