joiedevivre
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Post by joiedevivre on Feb 20, 2016 3:34:08 GMT
Hello and welcome!
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lis84
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Post by lis84 on Feb 20, 2016 23:24:36 GMT
Hi guys, thank you. Will defo check out that thread. Loving their new album, all songs are so catchy, I have a good old sing song in the car  , and so glad Chris is in a happier place. |
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Post by gai on Feb 20, 2016 23:38:00 GMT
Hi guys, thank you. Will defo check out that thread. Loving their new album, all songs are so catchy, I have a good old sing song in the car , and so glad Chris is in a happier place. welcome to coldplayers so good to see new coldplayers joining in! |
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Post by chipotle on May 20, 2016 22:47:43 GMT
Not exactly an interview but a few words from the mysterious Anchorman (more from others non-Coldplay in the article): You don't need a million YouTube subscribers to turn the internet into your full-time job.In fact there are loads of ways to get paid for your social media skills! We sat down with some of the pros who look after huge social media profiles to find out how you can follow in their footsteps. The Anchorman (not his real name - obviously) has known Coldplay from before they had a record deal, and reckons that the first step to nabbing a career in social media is to really understand who you want to work for. He isn't the only person who tweets from Coldplay's account - the band all use it too. But when the boys are writing their next album, or are busy playing Radio 1's Big Weekend, it's his job to make sure they stay in touch with more than 60 million online fans. "If you give your social media to someone who doesn't understand your voice, and doesn't share your values, then they're not going to represent you properly." "For example, you'll never see American spellings on a Coldplay account because they're an English band, and it's important to have an English voice." BBC Radio 1's Academy |
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Post by gai on May 25, 2016 13:46:00 GMT
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Post by comicforce on May 25, 2016 20:15:50 GMT
Thanks as always gai.  |
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joiedevivre
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Post by joiedevivre on May 26, 2016 3:11:08 GMT
Yes thank you!
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Post by chipotle on Jun 23, 2016 18:30:33 GMT
Long interview in The Guardian: Chris Martin: "Coldplay are saying the opposite of walls and Brexit"The Glastonbury Sunday headliners get emotional about the power of music and their quest for the perfect hook It is rather gratifying, when meeting a band who have sold 80m albums and are about to headline the world’s biggest music festival for the fourth time, in front of a global audience of millions, to find out that things were not always like this. Chris Martin, sitting backstage at a Zurich stadium on Coldplay’s world tour in mid June, tells me that he never got to go to Glastonbury before performing there, because of school terms and university exams. Read it here |
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Post by comicforce on Jun 27, 2016 20:50:37 GMT
Thanks Carina that was great!  |
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Post by comicforce on Aug 23, 2017 18:38:32 GMT
'You've got to grab life while you can': Coldplay's Chris Martin on success, mortality and the future. Toronto Sun August 21st 2017 linkOver the last 17 years, Coldplay has quietly solidified themselves as one of rock’s biggest touring acts.
“I think we’re well-rehearsed,” Martin says down the line en route from Chicago to Cleveland as the band’s A Head Full of Dreams trek, which hits Toronto Monday and Tuesday, as well as Edmonton and Vancouver next month, winds its way across North America. “We left it a long time before coming to Canada for this tour and I’m happy that we did because now we know what we’re doing as it comes through Toronto and everywhere else.”
The band’s A Head Full of Dreams outing – its seventh large-scale trek – finds the British pop-rockers settling into their role as one of music’s biggest acts, performing stadium shows in Canada for the first time in eight years. This comes after Coldplay played its biggest gig ever – last year’s Super Bowl 50 halftime show.
“We never think that,” Martin replies when he’s asked if the band is aware of how huge they’ve gotten since their debut album Parachutes in 2000. “We still feel like we have to go out there and make something good.”
We spoke to the Coldplay frontman about how the band deals with success, what the future holds and how it feels to be described as a “modern-day Shakespeare.”
A Head Full of Dreams and your new EP Kaleidoscope are full of anthemic songs. How did you find your way back to that big, stadium sound after 2014’s Ghost Stories?
I think that one of the things we learned by looking at artists like Bruce Springsteen is that it’s okay sometimes to go smaller and more intimate, and then somehow when you return to the bigger sound it feels fresh again. I think that’s what we’ve started to do; do things that people don’t expect us to do.
You guys first started to break big 17 years ago. Did you ever imagine this kind of success for Coldplay?
No, and I think that one of the reasons why we’re really loving this tour so much is that we’re really grateful for everything. We’re still the same band, and we’re able to remember the shows when there was no one there. We can remember that grind... When we first came to Toronto, we were just excited to be there. But when I look back all I can think is, ‘Wow, I never thought we’d ever get to this place.’
AY-Z recently called you a “modern-day Shakespeare,” what did you think about that?
Man, I don’t know how to answer that. First of all, he’s my friend and he’s an absolute genius. I’m always going on about how great he is and he just dropped in that beautiful Christmas present of a compliment.
What albums have you been inspired by this year?
Of course you can’t deny popular music right now, with Drake and Bruno (Mars). There are newer artists too, like Izzy Bizu (who is opening for the band). I’m also getting an incredible amount of enjoyment from Chopin and I’m going through a Paul Simon obsession.
A Head Full of Dreams has led to your biggest tour. Is it your favourite Coldplay record?
I don’t have one. I think that some of them are more cohesive than others in terms of their structure and stuff, but each of them have songs that we still play. And none of them would have existed without the one before it.
U2 is out playing songs on their Joshua Tree Tour that they’ve never performed before. Is there a Coldplay song you guys won’t play live?
There are a few from 2005 that we don’t play very often... Really, we’re suckers for sing-alongs, so we tend to play ones that we know the crowd is going to join in on.
Recently, the music world has lost a lot of greats. Has that made you take stock of your own mortality?
Of course. Chester (Bennington), Chris (Cornell), the great David Bowie, Leonard Cohen... it’s a lot of people. I personally try to be grateful for every day because you never know when it’s going to be done. That’s the way that we’ve been approaching our work and every show. We want to really give it up and do our best because you just don’t know. When people you grew up thinking were superheroes pass on to the next phase, it reminds you, you’ve got to grab life while you can because it’s finite.
You sent the internet on fire when you suggested that Coldplay might be done after this record. What does the future hold?
Really what I said was that this album and the EP (A Head Full of Dreams and Kaleidoscope) and this tour marked the end of a chapter. It’s our seventh album and it’s the end of that first stage of the band. I think what the future holds is us doing things slightly differently and trying to create music in ways that is graceful and honest. But we’re still just trying to figure it all out – the next phase, and what that will be.
What’s your motto?
It’s very simple: treat others like you want to be treated. That’s it.
If you were stuck on a desert island, what albums and movies would you bring with you?
I would take the Bob Marley best-of Legend, I would take the Waltzes by Chopin, and I would probably bring Graceland by Paul Simon. For movies, I would take the Roberto Benigni film Life is Beautiful, Back to the Future and Mary Poppins.
Last question, my wedding song is Strawberry Swing. What are the chances you can play that Tuesday night?
[laughs] Let me submit it to the committee and see what they say.
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Post by LdySpace on Nov 24, 2019 13:36:56 GMT
Chris Martin's school bulliesBy Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 24 November 2019Chris Martin says he ''bullied'' at school as a teenager for his ''weird world-views''. The Coldplay frontman has opened up about his younger years, admitting he was ''made fun of'' for being so ''closed-minded''. He said: ''That's more telling me and any young people going through what they're going through that you can do it. I struggled, like a lot of young teenagers ... 13 to 15. I had weird world-views that didn't help. I was closed-minded, which is easy to make fun of, but I am happy, because it lit the fire. That's fair [to say I was bullied]. Like any zealot would be in a boarding school for boys.'' And the 42-year-old singer feels very ''aware of mortality''. Asked if he thinks about getting older, he replied: ''Yes ... There are two options: 'Get older. Or don't.' But I am aware of mortality. All day, every day. Partly as I have a number of friends who have already moved on, partly because it drives me to make the most of every second.'' Meanwhile, Chris - who has Apple, 15, and Moses, 13, with his ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow - admits he still struggles with anger but has learned to try and ''alchemise it'' rather than act on it. Speaking to The Sunday Times' Culture magazine, he shared: ''I still get very angry inside. But it's better to alchemise it. I don't believe telling people they're stupid or wrong ever changes anything, so it doesn't work to be angry for me. I just feel bad. I couldn't control it. Something had to change to keep the band together, and to keep the people I love around.'' link
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Post by comicforce on Feb 2, 2020 11:02:16 GMT
Interesting. Alchemise.. what does that mean? Internalise it? Doesn't sound very healthy?
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joiedevivre
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Post by joiedevivre on Feb 6, 2020 2:54:03 GMT
Probably he means, to turn it into something positive. al·chem·ize /ˈalkəˌmīz/ verb verb: alchemise transform the nature or properties of (something) by a seemingly magical process. "she selected ingredients to be alchemized into a majestic feast" |
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Post by spiderman on Feb 7, 2020 5:01:35 GMT
I believe when Chris says that, it's that he means you have to sit with those experiences, emotions and try to make the most of them. In his case, music is his medium in which he can alchemize those experiences and emotions and channel them into something positive. Hence the Japanese form of molding broken bits and pieces into pottery with gold. Music is his gold. We all just have to find our gold. I'll get off the soap box now |
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kittybitty
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Post by kittybitty on Feb 7, 2020 19:44:17 GMT
Not a soapbox, just a great reminder that the terrible things we go through can turn into something good.
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, and so glad Chris is in a happier place.
