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#42 reports from Canada

So that’s Canada done for a little while, eh? This time out, a good proportion of the crew are Canadians, so Chris’s claim from the stage that it’s a “home from home” have an extra resonance. As soon as Life In Technicolor hits in Montreal, I’m suddenly reminded about this place. Nobody knows whether it’s the crowd or the acoustics, but the cheering is absolutely deafening throughout, which can’t help but lift the show to new heights.
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Coldplay performed a 2nd triumphant night at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Everyone sang Happy Birthday to Will Champion [awww]. Pictures are here. Reviews/Video below…

Chris debuts cool afro-style ‘do as Coldplay thrill Canadian crowds

Normally close-cropped Chris Martin was showing off a fuller head of hair than usual this week. The Coldplay frontman had allowed his ‘do to grow into a funky afro-inspired style to play a sell-out gig in Toronto.
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Happy Birthday Will. Welcome to the club! Here’s a wee vid I made…

Love Nettie xox

Here are some fan clips of Coldplay singing happy birthday to will at the Toronto show.
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With ‘A Little Help From Their Friend’ (brian Eno)!

“All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.”-The Wall-Pink Floyd

Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends (Capitol) is a very, very clever, well-crafted, long-playing record. Coldplay employed Brian Eno, as a suggestion from Gwyneth Paltrow, to help them out of the sand trap they were mired in with their 2005 release, X & Y; namely repetitive melodies, lukewarm lyrics, and inordinate ‘borrowing’ from other bands. Brian Eno is a savior here, and acts as the Pied-Piper for Viva La Vida. [Read more]

Critics may be awarding Chris Martin gold stars for his creative output on Coldplay’s new album, but he flunks the rock-star test when it comes to swagger. In a field notorious for outsized egos and overweening braggarts, the singer delights in denigrating himself and brandishing his imperfections the way his peers flash tattoos.

In a self-mocking voice mail, he identifies himself as the singer for “Britain’s favorite soft-rock experts.”

Describing the surfeit of material crafted for Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, out Tuesday, Martin cracks: “We write a lot of songs, and most are even worse than the ones we release.”

And where does the band’s fourth album rate among its predecessors? “It’s definitely in the top four.”

Pressed to confess one positive aspect about his contribution to Viva, he finally summons a boast. Sort of. “The only thing I can say is I tried really hard,” says Martin, 31. “I give myself an A for effort and man hours. But I’m not going to claim to be as talented as Usher or Beyoncé. I’m surrounded by enough people in my life who are super-successful that I always feel I can do a bit better. And I’m lucky I’m in a band, because we can hide each other’s faults.”

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In case you were wondering what went wrong with the site, I forgot to renew my domain. Silly sausage that I am.

All things are back to normal now…

Oh yeah, the site is 3 years old as of 30th June!

Big thanks to by maloudajave1 for these scans of this month’s Q magazine, which features a 12 page spread of COLDPLAY!

It’s ten years today since a cardboard box filled with 500 copies of the Safety EP arrived on my doorstep from the manufacturer. I sold the first copy to my room mate at university for £3. It took over a year to sell [or give away] the remaining 499. One of those copies found ti’s way to Ms Debs Wild, then of Universal Records.

And that’s how all this got started.

Prospekt!

WOW! CONGRATULATIONS! AND THANKS TO DEBS WILD FOR BEING SO SAVVY IN DISCOVERING COLDPLAY!

I’d still like to get my hands on a copy, but at the moment, I don’t have £500-£1000 spare…