Coldplay Organize Tour to Spite Us
Coldplay is mad at us. You can tell because when they decided to take a break from the studio and try out some of the new songs in a live environment they didn't pick the US. It would have been fine if they went with the UK or Europe, I mean they just walk out the door and play. Can't complain about that. But picking Latin America over the US was a specific, subtle jab at the United States. From their website:
Having received such a phenomenal response to their last Latin American trip in 2003, they personally chose to return to the region.
Tell me that's not a fuck you everybody else...
Ok, nobody liked X&Y. We're sorry, guys. But you still wrote Rush of Blood
and Parachutes
and we loved those.
Maybe it's not our fault, maybe if the people in Latin America spoke English as their primary language they'd have realized that the lyrics were kinda phoned in. Then you'd realize, it's not us, it's you. Still, we're ready to give you the benefit of the doubt. But not if you're going to be going online saying crap like that. You could have just said something like, "We're going to Latin America because the weather is nice right now." No big deal. Not we personally prefer their hospitality to yours USA.
Anyway, here are the dates:
Feb. 14-16: Santiago, Chile (Espacio Riesco)
Feb. 20-22: Buonos Aires (Gran Rex)
Feb. 26-28: Sao Paulo (Via)
March 3: Mexico City (National Auditorium)
The new album is expected by late 2007. It as yet untitled.
Coldplay Buy Massive Studio Complex
Even though X&Y sucked, I know there are still some closet Coldplay fans still out there. You don't have to say, feel free to insult them and show us how "you're not that guy." It's ok, we believe you, you really don't have any idea how Parachutes got on your iPod.
To really put rumors swirling that the band we're pondering a 5 year hiatus while they raised their children to rest, the ridiculously wealthy and lovey dovey band have put a portion of their savings towards a studio complex in Hampstead to cut down on commuting time.
The massive building will house a studio, their staff, and equipment, so that the band can continue to pump out heart wrenching, tinged with hope, piano ballads and still be home in time for supper.
Drummer Will Champion spoke to the NME about the purchase.
We're trying to find somewhere we can set up and work from. In all of these years working together we haven't had an HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere where we can hole up and see what happens.
The building is unfinished, and likely the follow up to X&Y won't begin until the studio is up and running. In the meantime, Guy Berryman, the band's bassist, hinted that the next album might have a pinch of the electronic in it.
"I don't want to generalize it and say 'We're going to become electronic' because I don't think we're going to become truly electronic," said Coldplay's bassist. "I think there's going to be elements of lots of things. I always like our next record to be a bit harder sounding. Not rock harder -- just edgier."
