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Tour Journal: Brisbane, Show Two

Jonny gets a good cheer tonight for his vocal contribution to “Don’t Panic”. The crowd continue cheering and even chant “Jonny, Jonny, Jonny” as the song finishes.

I make my own contribution to the acoustic section. From where my gear is set up, I can’t actually see them doing this section of the show. I think that they’re done after two songs, and so kick off the drum machine that throbs the intro to Clocks. I see Will running back to the drumkit, however, eyes bulging with a look that clearly expresses displeasure. It seems that they were just about to start playing ‘Trouble’ when the kick drum and synth from the Clocks intro appeared in the sound system. Panic all around and profuse apologies on my part in the encore break.

Thankfully, they see the funny side and decide to slot Trouble into the encore instead.

I think it’s far better there, so frankly, I reckon I did ‘em a favour…

The Coldplayer

Loads of video from Coldplay’s Sydney gigs are up on YouTube.

Here’s some good ones [in no particular order...]

Again from frigginawesomeimontv

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

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Tres cool [esp Jonny!]. Thanks Juli

British band COLDPLAY have shrunk their jamming and composing sessions for their upcoming fourth album, after being disheartened by over 50 people during the recording of X+Y. On the CLOCKS rockers’ previous albums, frontman CHRIS MARTIN has always been open to hearing friends, family and studio colleagues’ opinions on the new tracks. Martin says, “I don’t want to listen to 55 people next time we record. “We went through a period of believing everyone. I literally listened to the tea boys last time.”

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Coldplay at their Sydney press conference at the Park Hyatt Hotel. Photo: Peter Rae

The British band could be living it large, driving fancy cars and playing with expensive toys.

They’ve sold millions of albums, played stadium gigs around the world and are arguably one of the biggest bands in the world, often referred to as this generation’s U2. But a playboy lifestyle couldn’t be further from their minds.

“At a time when we could just buy speed boats we are really fired up about trying to do something,” said frontman Chris Martin. “We have had three albums now, sold lots of records and we’ve taken a lot of shit … played to lots of intelligent people. Now it is time to do something great.”

Coldplay have been on the road for 15 months, touring for their third album, X&Y. Australia is the second last leg of the tour, with the band wrapping up in Japan in July.
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As alerted yesterday. This is on 2nd July @ 7.30pm on VH1 UK.

One year on from the historic Live8 concert, MTV Networks International is celebrating the first anniversary of the momentous music event by airing a new special called Live8: What A Difference A Day Made, through a partnership with Network LIVE. An estimated three billion people from all over the world watched Live8, billed as the greatest show on earth, where the creme of the world’s music artists came together to perform with one message — make poverty
history.
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Here’s a new video clip from The Hour: Coldplay from CBC posted yesterday.

Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland of Coldplay do Dylan, sympathize with Brad and Angelina, and put in a plug for fair trade.

Thanks EverydayIColdplay

This is a great new website devoted to Jonny Buckland!!

http://www.thebucklandreligion.tk/

Well done mate…8)

[thumb:23947:l]Boring, bankable, inoffensive, easily duplicated - is Coldplay the ultimate 21st-century rock’n'roll band?

BIG numbers sure come cheap these days. A year ago, New York’s discerning culture filter The Village Voice awarded Coldplay a hefty 7.5 rating for their third album, X&Y, at the end of a review that was nothing less than damning: “Precise, bland and banal, their sensitivity emotionless and their musicality never surprising, they’re the definition of a pleasant bore - easy to tune out, impossible to care for.”

Even London’s often rancorous New Musical Express succumbed to the album’s easy listening charms, stamping a giddy nine out of 10 on a review that read more like corporate prospectus than artistic appraisal: “Confident, bold, ambitious, bunged with singles and impossible to contain, X & Y doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it does reinforce Coldplay as the band of their time.
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With one of the most expensive films ever made, however, audiences aren’t packing into theaters for stellar acting or three-dimensional characters. Like most films in the new school of CGI superhero flicks, Superman Returns aims for eye candy first and relationship melodrama second. There’s plenty of both: One moment, Superman takes a slow motion bullet in the eye, in another, he uses his super powers to spy on his secret love Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) and her husband, Richard White (James Marsden), a perfectly decent albeit unexciting man - the human equivalent of a Coldplay song.

DailyIowan

How rude…