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Post by LdySpace on Jun 15, 2022 21:39:26 GMT
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 9, 2022 20:48:57 GMT
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 9, 2022 20:37:35 GMT
Chris and Jonny were on the Today Show in the US a couple of days ago, and the interview is below. **He, along with The Weirdos (not sure who else from CP) will be on The Tonight Show, also in the US, tomorrow, June 10th.** I will go ahead and place the article about The Weirdos, ahem, signing a record deal with Atlantic Music, and what Chris has to say about them below the video. Weirdos, Puppet Rockers Signing to Atlantic Records: ‘They’re A Band We’re Trying to Help Out’
The furry freaks will make their network TV debut with Chris Martin on Friday night's (June 10) "Tonight Show." By Gil Kaufman 06/8/2022
Courtesy of Atlantic Records If you’ve been to a Coldplay concert this year chances are you’ve seen singer Chris Martin sing a duet with a spacey puppet named Angel Moon. She’s the rainbow haired lead singer of the all-felt band The Weirdos — a creation of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop — and because Martin and his bandmates are magnanimous and support up-and-coming musical acts, they were all on hand this week to watch the Weirdos sign to Atlantic Records. “The Weirdos are a band who we’re trying to help out,” explained Martin to Billboard recently during a backstage chat just before the band’s first of two sold-out nights at Chicago’s Soldier Field. With a mischievous, knowing grin, Martin explained that it’s really “Bruno [Mars] and Ed [Sheeran]’s label,” maybe Dua Lipa or Cardi B’s, but also Coldplay’s label. And now the Weirdos, too. A team player all the way, Martin will help the band of furry freaks make their network TV debut on Friday night’s (June 10) Tonight Show, where the group will jam with him on “Biutyful” from Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres album. “They have one song at the moment [‘Biutyful’] and we’re on it with them,” Martin continued before taking a brief time out to question if the way he was describing this intergalactically weird off-shoot of the Music of the Spheres universe was making any sense. What is most definitely true is that Angel Moon has been singing a duet of “Biutyful” with Martin on the tour, performing to more than a million people so far across the band’s Latin American and U.S. dates over the past 3 months according to Coldplay’s label. Even as he tried to toe the story’s carefully crafted line, Martin couldn’t help but crack himself up as he navigated the ornate narrative turns. “The way I discovered them was we were working with Angel Moon, this lady… creature,” the singer said as guitarist Jonny Buckland stifled a laugh while sitting on a green room couch in the bowels of the Bears’ stadium as he watched his old friend try to explain the weirdness. “How do I explain this? I think we just felt like…” Martin continued, careful to not blow the surprise or tip his hand, while also earnestly wanting to explain why he’s been singing with a gnome-like puppet on stage during the band’s carefully choreographed, low-emission global tour that has seen recent cameos from Lupe Fiasco, Kylie Minogue and Bruce Springsteen. Regardless, Moon and her bandmates — Donk, Sparkman and The Wizard — will rock the Tonight Show after the band signed a “historic” contract with Atlantic and Parlophone Records on Tuesday. According to a release announcing the unusual deal, their manager, Bruce Cakemix, described the deal as “the biggest step forward in human-alien relations since Close Encounters.” “I think we thought that we’ve sort of come to the end of doing singles as Coldplay. I think we’ve probably basically finished doing that, in general. We can’t go more poppier or single-y [than the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 BTS collaboration “My Universe”] than that and that felt good and we’re a bit older now. So we do have songs we want to bring some attention to, but with this we asked the Weirdoes if they would do the song and front it and we would feature.” According to Martin, some people say the Weirdos are from another planet, and some say, “there’s a room in Los Angeles where all of the rejected puppets live and they maybe come from there.” link
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 9, 2022 20:33:26 GMT
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 9, 2022 20:06:53 GMT
It has always been a special place and not only because of Coldplay but because we've always respected each other and kept the place full of friendship and consideration. And on the band front, and speaking for myself, I know people who like Coldplay, but they just don't share the connection to it like we share here, and we've forged friendships that span lands and waters because of it. All hail Coldplayers!
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 9, 2022 19:53:41 GMT
Anita, hi!!
Of course I remember you, and I've thought about you many times. You'll always be in my heart for carting my picture around London with you and taking pictures of my picture doing this or that (riding the tube, eating in a restaurant, etc., like Flat Stanley for anyone that knows that!) in the hopes that Chris Martin's hands may fall upon it and take a picture with my picture. LOL!! Sounds so confusing to type that out, but I had the best time with that.
Congrats on the tix to Paris. I just finished with my show in DC, and it was awesome as usual. I know you will love it and feel the same ole feels you felt back when after you go. Good job passing the CP love to your son!
I hope you will come back and join us when you can, and def let us know about your show.
Talk soon!
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 7, 2022 15:04:23 GMT
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:52:36 GMT
I can confirm that DC was AMAZING! During HP, right at the beginning of the show, when the lights were sparkling and the confetti was raining, I had this overwhelming sense that I'd stepped into an alternate universe. It was profoundly beautiful and emotional and I cried. I can't describe it. It was HOT as hell, though! And my ears were definitely NOT ok after H.E.R. They were LOUD! LOL! We got there during H.E.R. due to the wonderful traffic, and I volunteered to be the one to get drinks and such because I couldn't sit there for it! And like my other post said, yes, it was hot! Chris commented onstage about both the heat and the traffic. I had confetti stuck all over me because of the humidity.
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:47:52 GMT
Yep, and she's fine. Life and work, etc. just takes over sometimes, and she pops on to check in. She's going to the London concerts in August and is excited about that. No worries, I'm after her all the time to start posting regularly again, lol.
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:37:07 GMT
The traffic was horrendous! I've been to FedEx Field before, and plenty of other stadiums, and I'm not sure what was happening this time, but the traffic was at a standstill, then it was painful inching toward the stadium that took FOREVER. We left to get there in plenty of time, and I was thanking the stars that shine for me above because I was afraid we were going to be late. Afterwards, it was torture getting out as well, but at least I didn't have a show that I was panicked about being late to.
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:30:12 GMT
DC was hot and spectacular! (I think it was still 90 at 9 p.m., lol)
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:18:09 GMT
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:16:13 GMT
Out there making a difference every day and inspiring others to do the same.
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:11:23 GMT
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Post by LdySpace on Jun 6, 2022 20:09:52 GMT
Raise your hand if you love them.
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