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Director: Asa Mader
Year: 2008
From: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

The video of Violet Hill, directed by Asa Mader, was shot in Sicily. The news was reported by the newspaper Il Mattino, revealing that the shooting site was set near the dam of Nicoletti Lake of Enna and it was impossible to get nearby, it was really locked up. Actually most of the video was shot in the Catania district.

Helped by a friend of us from Sicily, we could identify the landscape and the settings of the video, published online for the first time on Thursday, June 15th on a Dutch website, and then with the help of Coldplaying.com too. The first pictures show, we can guess, the volcano Etna (These shootings were then put together, going on, to those picturing the hills of Enna close to the Nicoletti Lake, already mentioned above). The mansion in which Coldplay are busy in playing and moving like soldiers (you know, the set where Chris shakes the hammer) is Palazzo Biscari, the most important private building of that kind in Catania. The period of the building can be dated back around the end of the 17th century, in fact it was risen again thanks to a redecoration wanted by Paternò Castello Prince of Biscari family, after the earthquake of 1693 (in fact, it is still possible to notice some cracks due to the tremors).

The dome is full of wall paintings, pictures, marbles, halls, paintings and it was also, in the past, a site for museums and art galleries. Among the famous visitors of the dome, we can recall the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who, during his trip in Italy, was welcomed by the Prince of Biscari on May 3rd, 1787.

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Director: Mary Wigmore
Year: 2006
From: X&Y

The video of The Hardest Part was shot on March 3rd, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Florida, at a yatch marina. It was directed by Mary Wigmore.

The whole clip is the result of the combination between two different videos: the first that shows two dancers (it’s a clip of short-lived 80s program Attitudes on the Lifetime network); the second that shows Coldplay during their performance of the song (this is confirmed by the different effect of the lights notable in the texture).

So, the video of the two dancers is real, it wasn’t manipulated and the old woman dances right in that way, although she is 84 (the male dancer is indeed 25).

Another version of the video was filmed. In that different version, Anthony Martin, Chris’ father, is hosted in the audience. We can imagine that audience images are belonging to the video of Coldplay performance, and not to the dancers one.

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Director: Anton Corbijn
Year: 2005
From: X&Y

The music video for Talk was helmed by director/photographer Anton Corbijn.

Filming took place on November 5 and November 6 at Ealing Studios, London, just before the band began a European leg on the Twisted Logic Tour. The black-and-white clip invokes a B-movie science fiction theme.

The main plot line of the music video features Coldplay as astronauts landing on an alien planet, where they re-activate a dormant robot.

In the video, when Coldplay walk around on the robot, some strange writings come out (not so hard to understand, for those who have paid attention).

The writing are, more precisely:
LLEW I LEEF EKIL ER’YEHT GNIKLAT NI
A GAUGNAL I T’NOD KAEPS
DNA ER’YEHT GNIKLAT TI OT EM

And actually they match with the sentence from ‘Talk’ lyrics
WELL I FEEL LIKE THEY’RE TALKING IN
A LANGUAGE I DON’T SPEAK
AND THEY’RE TALKING IT TO ME …

but with reversed words.

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Director: Sophie Muller
Year: 2005
From: X&Y

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The music video for Fix You, directed by Sophie Muller, was shot at the end of two concerts on 4 July and 5 July 2005 at Reebok Stadium in Bolton, England. The concert goers doubled as extras for the video shoot, which required two takes on each day to complete.

In the first half of the video, Chris Martin wanders the streets of London, while the slogan Make Trade Fair is projected onto the National Film Theatre, using the same Baudot code colour scheme on the artwork of X&Y. The tunnels that Martin is seen wandering within are located near London Bridge station. The bridge that he walks across is Waterloo Bridge connecting the Southbank with The Strand.

As soon as the electric guitar kicks in, Martin darts through streets corners until finally reaching the Reebok Stadium, where he joins the rest of the band for the song’s finale. The metal steps signal the start of the Reebok Stadium scene.

After the video was released, rumours in the United States suggested that, given the location of some of the footage, the video was a tribute following the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Although this is impossible as the filming took place in June, it is suggested this due to references such as the construction site in the background as one scene with a sign for King’s Cross in the corner, which may referring to rebuilding the damage at station. The band themselves have never denied such a connection.

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Director: Mark Romanek
Year: 2005
From: X&Y

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The video promo for Speed of Sound was shot on a Los Angeles sound stage over 22-23 April 2005. Shooting took place on large sets backed by large LED displays developed by Element Labs and built to spread alternate and diffuse lights depending on the real sound parts of the track.

The performance-based video was directed by Mark Romanek, also director of Faint of Linkin Park, Hurt of Johnny Cash and 99 Problems of Jay-Z videos.

The clip earned 4 nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

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Director: Jamie Thraves
Year: 2003
From: A Rush Of Blood To The Head

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The music video featured scenes of the band performing with the narrative of a distressed businessman (played by Paddy Considine) literally fading into obscurity.

Like The Scientist, the video was directed by Jamie Thraves.

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Director: Dominic Leung
Year: 2002
From: A Rush Of Blood To The Head

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The Clocks music video was directed by Dominic Leung, who previously worked with artists like Badly Drawn Boy. The video was shot at Docklands’ Excel Building in London.
It features the band performing the song in front of a staged audience, mostly local college students with a laser show.

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Director: Jamie Thraves
Year: 2002
From: A Rush Of Blood To The Head

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The clip represented an hard affair for Chris Martin, although the final result is appreciated. In fact, it was very popular with its reverse narrative and its reverse style. It took Chris Martin a month to learn to sing the song backwards.

The video was filmed at various locations, including London and the Bourne Woods, Surrey before the first leg of the A Rush of Blood to the Head tour. It was directed by famed director Jamie Thraves, best known for his work on Radiohead’s enigmatic Just video. Though it was filmed in England, the car driven in the music video features a Wyoming license plate which had a design that was in use from 1983 to 1988 (although the car itself is right-hand drive). The vehicle in the video was a BMW E28 5-series, manufactured from 1982 to 1988.

Irish actress Elaine Cassidy is also featured in the video.

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Director: Sophie Muller
Year: 2002
From: A Rush Of Blood To The Head

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The music video for In My Place was directed by Sophie Muller, a great music video director who has been a long time collaborator with acts like Eurythmics and Garbage.

The video was shot at Saatchy Gallery, on of the most famous gallery of art in London. It features a by-the-numbers band performance. The two women in the background were members of the video crew: a makeup artist/wardrobe assistant and the video commissioner, Faith Holmes (already collaborator of Coldplay in Don’t Panic video).

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Director: Sophie Muller
Year: 2000
From: Parachutes

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Coldplay released officially two different versions of the video for Trouble.

The original UK/European version of Trouble was directed by Sophie Muller, a frequent collaborator with artists like No Doubt, Eurythmics, and Blur.

The video featured lead singer Chris Martin as an apparent prisoner in the dark. He is tied with ropes to a chair, alone in the freezing cold. The other members of the band are seen in a slow motion sequence where Jon Buckland and Will Champion tie up Guy Berryman to another chair and force him to look in front.

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