Coldplay have announced the first single to drop from their eagerly awaited new album “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” will be “Violet Hill”.
The track will begin airplay on radio and music television from May 5th, and will be available for purchase a couple weeks later in record stores and iTunes.
The new album itself will be released on June 16th or 17th depending where you live in the world.
The track listing is as follows:
1. Life in Technicolor
2. Cemeteries Of London
3. Lost!
4. 42
5. Lovers in Japan/Reign of Life
6. Yes!
7. Viva la Vida
8. Violet Hill
9. Strawberry Swing
10. Death and All His Friends
“Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” will be Coldplay’s fourth studio album since their formation years in 1996.
Despite frontman Chris Martin saying the fourth Coldplay studio album will not be released until 2008, Amazon.com have set a release date of September 3rd this year on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed X&Y.
The band have been working with producer Brian Eno on putting together material for the new disc.
There has been no word from the band recently that their intended release date might be brought forward. But Maybe the e-tailer giant knows something the rest of the band doesn’t.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed how he took revenge on an old schoolyard bully.
Martin told how he was picked on at the school for being ‘a bit of a swot’ because he preferred to play the piano instead of sports. Contactmusic.com reports that Martin was out with his wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and he ran into the sane boy who used to bully him.
He said: ‘He was a bully who always said I wouldn’t make anything of myself. I had great pleasure asking what he was up to now. He wasn’t up to much. Then I turned around and said, ‘This is my wife Gwyneth.’
‘His face dropped and he looked really embarrassed. It was a proud moment. I’m not one to get my own back and look for revenge - but that was pretty sweet.’
Coldplay have hired Timbaland to produce their new album.
The British band have asked the American hip-hop mogul to take the helm on their upcoming fourth LP and help them come up with a fresh sound.
Timbaland is thrilled the group, fronted by Chris Martin, have chosen him to be their producer and insists he cannot wait to get “into their heads”.
He said: “I will try to get into their heads, to see what they thinking about. I will just try to figure out how they are feeling. And if they are feeling a certain way, I will go by that. It’s more about everyday life then it is about music.”
Timbaland has worked with some of the biggest names in pop, including Missy Elliott, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez and P Diddy.
He masterminded Justin Timberlake’s worldwide hit album FutureSex/LoveSounds and also produced Nelly Furtado’s singles Promiscuous and Maneater.
Chris co-wrote Nelly’s song All Good Things (Come to an End) with the Canadian singer, Timbaland and Nate ‘Danja’ Hills.
He originally recorded backing vocals on the track but his record label EMI allegedly stopped the version from being released.
UK alternative band Coldplay are reported to be ready to join some of the biggest names in the world of music by committing to a ‘Live Aid’ style extravaganza in the name of saving the planet.
The idea of a green global music show is being headed up by the former vice-president of the United States Al Gore, who has been championing global warming issues since he retired from politics.
ContactMusic.com reports that U2, Robbie Williams, Oasis, and Kylie Minogue are among artists who would be willing to perform at ‘Green Aid’ style shows. The concerts are set to be staged in the UK, USA, Japan, Brazil and Africa.
Gore said: “Television hypnotises billions but it is a one-way conversation filling minds with junk food. The only way to breathe meaning back into our words is through music. We need you.”
More details are expected to be announced next week.
In-vogue American hip hop and R&B producer Timabaland would like to work with British alternative band Coldplay, and the chart toppers are reportedly giving it serious consideration.
”It would give me a new energy; it would take me to a whole other place,” Timbaland told Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday. ”[Coldplay] are so talented, it would help me as a person. Working with them would be great. It’s about the music — not clothes or jewelry, just pure passion for music.”
EW report that Monique Idlett, who handles publicity for Timbaland’s Mosley Music Group, told them Timbaland is planning to meet up with the band in April to discuss their plans for their follow-up to their 2005 triple-platinum selling album X&Y.
Last month, Timbaland told Billboard.biz that the band was high on his hypothetical list of future musical partners. ”It takes a lot to really excite me,” he said then. ”But I am excited about Coldplay.”
The band have already retained the services of Brian Eno to co-produce their next album, he has worked with U2 and Talking Heads among others.
Chris Martin has sung on a Timbaland-produced track (All Good Things) on Nelly Furtado’s Album loose. And he’s also worked with rap legend Jay-Z, providing vocals for a track off his latest album Kingdom Come; Martin is working with Kanye West on a track that is destined to be the first single off his next album later this year. So it’s clear there’s plenty of mileage in these rumours. However, represenatives for Coldplay are so far refusing to confirm or deny the reports.
Chris Martin has told BBC Radio 6 in the UK that his band Coldplay are unlikely to make the much anticipated return to the Glastonbury music festival this year.
The frontman says he doesn’t feel the will of the people, and a return to the UK’s most celebrated music festival before the year 2020 might even be too soo for them.
“I think Glastonbury is bored of us,” he told BBC 6Music. “I don’t think we can even take a harmonica down there for a good 15 years. We might go, but you’ve got to know when you are welcome and when you’re not.”
The best-selling band were among the headlining acts when the festival was last staged back in 2005.
Fans of the British alternative band Coldplay will be able to enjoy a film of the gig they played in Toronto back in March 2006.
The recorded gig is to be shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on February 11 at 11:50pm. In France, Canal J have snapped up the rights to broadcast the film on two separate nights, first on February 24, and then again later on March 2nd.
Meanwhile, fans in Israel are already able to enjoy the show. It’s being made available on the on-demand channel VOD hot cable channel right now.
It’s widely expected the film will be shown elsewhere in the world. As soon as we have those details, we’ll let you know.
UK Coldplay fans will for the first time be able to buy the complete collection of the band’s 14 previously released singles collection in one box set. This special collectors-edition set will only be distributed in 7″ Vinyl format.
The set will contain 5 singles that were never previously released in the 7″ format. The box set will also feature the international singles, ‘Don’t Panic’, ‘God Put A Smile Upon Your Face’ and ‘What If’, none of which were released in the UK.
The limited edition release is set to be made available on March 26. Here is a complete list of the singles that will be featured in the collection:
Bigger Stronger
A.Bigger Stronger
B1.Don’t Panic
B2.See You Soon
High Speed
A.High Speed
B.Such A Rush
Shiver
A.Shiver
B1.For You
B2.Careful Where You Stand
Yellow
A.Yellow
B.Help Is Around The Corner
Trouble
A.Trouble
B.Brothers & Sisters
Don’t Panic
A.Don’t Panic
B.You Only Live Twice (Live From Norway)
In My Place
A.In My Place
B.One I Love
The Scientist
A.The Scientist
B1.1.36
B2.I Ran Away
Clocks
A. Clocks
B. Crests Of Waves
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
A. Got Put A Smile Upon Your Face
B. Murder
Speed of Sound
A. Speed Of Sound
B. Things I Don’t Understand
Fix You
A. Fix You
B. The World Turned Upside Down
Talk
A. Talk
B. Gravity
What If
A. What If (Tom Lord Alge Mix)
B. How You See The World (Live From Earls Court)
The Hardest Part
A. The Hardest Part
B. Pour Me (Live At The Hollywood Bowl)
There are no plans to make the set available on CD.
Legendary record producer Brian Eno is working with Coldplay in their London studio to finalize their fourth studio album.
In an interview with the BBC’s Radio 4 show “Front Row”, Eno said that the new material will be “very original and very different from what they’ve done before. The band have been working on the new album since they finished their last record X&Y.
Eno has worked with an impressive list of bands and artists in the business, including U2, David Bowie and Roxy Music.
Coldplay have promised to debut material on their upcoming Latin America tour next month, starting out in Santiago, Chile on February 14.
