Friday, April 25, 2008

What's Happening?

The world of Coldplay has been surprising quiet despite the album release coming closer every day. Most of the talk on fan forums has been about false alarms on leaks and people claiming to have heard some of the songs that are set to be released. Since the announcement of the final tracklisting of the album there have been no more additions to the official website. But news services have announced that Violet Hill will be released as a single on the 6th of May and it will premiere of BBC radio on the 29th of April as will Xfm. I am more than certain that there will be recordings of the song on websites everywhere and I will most certainly include a link here for people to download the song. Xfm is also claiming that they will have the most exciting Coldplay news we have ever heard on Monday morning, it will be very interesting to hear what this news is.

The most dramatic news of the past two weeks has been the announcement that the band will be giving away multiple songs through the UK music mag NME. The preview CD will be included in the May 7th issue of the mag and will contain two new songs including most probably Violet Hill.

Also the band has announced that they will be presenting their entire upcoming album Viva la Vida (some claim that the Death and All His Friends is simply an alternative name for the album) in Barcelona. The album will be showcased in front of only 1000 people including mainly journalist. It is expected to take place in the week leading up to the June 16th release date (although music retailers HMV claim to be releasing it on June 13th with shops in the Netherlands stating that they will also release the album on the 13th).

There have been reports of a video shoot in the Italian island of Sicily yet others claim that they have shot a video in Spain. We will need to wait another week to find out just what the video is like even though i must admit I personally am not looking forward to the video as Coldplay has repeatedly failed to make half decent videos over and over again. With the exception of The Scientist I've struggled to stay awake to the end of any video no matter how much i liked the song itself. Let's hope they can get their acts together this time around.

Sadly there is not even a hint of tour news which is really the only type of news I am really after.
Would people prefer to see Coldplay in a small arena style venue or a larger football stadium? I would really appreciate it if people left comments.

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