My Coldplay.com - A Coldplay Blog

The Mission: The thoroughly modern music of Coldplay’s fourth album, Viva la Vida, is reconnecting audiences to Romantic era artistry with its visuals. The creative studio Resident (www.weareresident.com) was the ideal visual FX resource to translate the band’s vision into reality, with their classically-inspired work on the highly anticipated Hype Williams-directed video for the record’s stirring title track.

The video marks the latest in Resident’s long string of collaborations with Williams that includes recent videos for Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, and Jay-Z. The in-demand director knew that the international talent roster of Resident, which is capable of wielding a distinctly European approach, would be able to meet Coldplay’s exacting standards within extremely tight deadlines.

SEE THE VIDEO HERE: http://weareresident.com/webrefs/coldplay/master_final.html.

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Coldplay, at Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Wednesday

Long live the kings. And you too, Coldplay. The world’s biggest band hit Toronto’s Air Canada Centre for the first of two sold-out concerts on Wednesday, leaving the impression that while its members are a nice young foursome of Englishmen capable of writing gorgeous anthems and performing them wonderfully, they just aren’t the conquering types.

Appearing as if they hadn’t cleaned the dust from Sunday’s Pemberton Festival in B.C. off their raggedy military garb, the CD-selling giants starting grandly, entering with the swelling instrumental Life in Technicolor that ushered them to an audience that greeted its heroes with something like a soccer-stadium chant.
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by Dr. Hesham Hassaballa

In the Name of God, The Subtle, The Loving

I, like millions of people all over this country and the world, am enthralled and intrigued by English alternative rock band Coldplay’s song “Viva La Vida.” I was first introduced to the song by the Apple iTunes commercial, which featured the song a few months back. The song was somehow familiar to me, even though it was first released June 2008.
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Pictures from Friday’s Philly show are here [including some brilliant ones by Rob Wanenchak - including the above...]. Reviews/Videos below…

All in all, a fantastic show. I didn’t much care for the 2nd opening act… the first guy was good, though he didn’t really have the crowd’s attention.

God Put a Smile Upon Your Face was incredible. It was this odd techno version, but they pulled it off, to make it one of those unforgettable concert pieces. It was rather brilliant. [Read more]

R&B singer Ne-Yo is so busy producing mega-hits and touring that he was caught unaware of a significant achievement - usurping Coldplay’s hold at the the top of the charts.

New single Closer unseated Chris Martin’s band’s single Viva La Vida last month.
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Pictures from Coldplay’s first Chicago show are in the gallery here [including some gorgeous ones by Radim Rotek]. Reviews and videos are below.

Coldplay was in top form!!! They were awesome and Chris sounded amazing!!!

Now some highlights:

When I got to the United Center there were cameras in my section. I was in Section 101. Security told me Coldplay was filming something. Later, during the show Chris said they were performing an old song and then a new song. I don’t remember exactly but he said that the filming was for the new song. He said if we did good he would do the new song twice. The second performance of the song would be for the film. The old song was Yellow. The new song was Lost!. So we got Lost! twice during the concert. I am guessing Lost! will be the next single?

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WOW! Thanks to Coldplay.com for these excellent and yummilicious new pics from their LA Forum show last week. Thanks to Gregg Watermann. Here are some of the pictures. The rest are in the gallery here.

Excellent video by WhiteLandFiIms, who make quite nifty short films [go have a look...]

Thanks Coldpatrix

ALBUM
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

Number of copies sold in Uk during first week: 500,052
Number of copies sold in USA during first week: 721,000 (of which 316,000 in the first day)
Number of copies sold in the world ’til now: 4,000,000 (digital releases, vynil and cd copies)
The most sold album in digital download format of all time
Best selling album in iTunes history until now
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Flickr user benha has taken some babe-o-licious pictures of Coldplay’s San Jose gig. Go check ‘em out!

The Coldplay fans of the world salute you!

And go here to see a video montage of the gig by emma.c who says…

I saw Coldplay live at the HP Pavilion in San Jose last night (7/18/08), and it was quite possibly the most incredible experience of my life. I’m still recovering from the excitement.

And here’s a fantastic clip of ‘Square One’ by pluginbabyrocker07 . Yummity yummity