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Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, June 2005
AS A STAUNCH advocate of pop music that's actually popular, that revels in its ability to make human connections, I can't begrudge Coldplay their unquestionable ...
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Profile and Interview by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 23 October 1999
Passionate angst rock ...
No Surprises: Radiohead And Their Kind
Report by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 14 April 2000
After the success of OK Computer, Radiohead's next album is one of the most eagerly awaited records ever. Perhaps, says BARNEY HOSKYNS, that's why copycat ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 13 June 2000
FOR THEIR ardent supporters, Coldplay are the great white hopes of British angst rock. For their equally vociferous detractors, they are miserable musos who have ...
Coldplay: 'Brightness and Hope and Devotion'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 July 2000
THAT'S COLDPLAY'S MOOD, POST-'YELLOW'S' GLORIOUS SUCCESS. WE MEET THE BAND WHO ARE FAST PROVING HOW NICE GUYS CAN FINISH FIRST ...
Coldplay: Shepherd's Bush Empire
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 24 October 2000
The shambolically serious Coldplay. ...
Report and Interview by Angus Batey, CMJ New Music Monthly, November 2000
"MY EYE'S REALLY hurting. I'm really stressed. I worry because my hair's falling out, and I don't know if that's important. Will people still buy ...
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Select, November 2000
Inclement weather. Iffy gig. Coldplay's sojourn to Portugal's Paredes De Coura Festival was no holiday in the sun ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
A KEY STRAIN of early aughties rock is a school of bands desperately emulating the whiteboy guitar angst of Jeff Buckley and Thom Yorke. First ...
Letter From London: Garage and The New Soft Rock
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, December 2000
"TO ME, ALL MELODIES were pure embarrassment," said Radiohead's Thom Yorke recently as he struggled to explain the making of Kid A. It hardly seems ...
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 18 December 2000
FOR A MUSIC whore like myself, even a good album can be a little like a one-night stand. There's that lovely moment of courting, checking ...
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Select, January 2001
...or alternatively, look the other way, mumble about how no-one really likes you and worry about losing your hair. Coldplay are Britain's biggest new band ...
Letter from London, January 2002
Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, January 2002
WHILE, SINCE The Beatles, we British music fans have often affected insouciant confidence in the superiority of our taste over the rest of the world's ...
Interview by Ted Kessler, The Observer, 28 July 2002
He worries about his hair, he worries about women and he worries about death. Chris Martin even worries about worrying. But with the launch of ...
Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 24 August 2002
Chris Almighty! "Mature" follow-up more than lives up to best-selling debut ...
Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Parlophone) ****
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, September 2002
Former "bedwetters" make emotional bid for U2's throne. ...
British Pop Acts Raise The Anti
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 22 February 2003
Celebrity dissent grows during U.K.'s music awards, as Coldplay's singer and Ms Dynamite protest an Iraq war. ...
Coldplay: The Guitar Tech's Insights
Interview by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, March 2004
THERE ARE lots of guitar-related careers in the music industry but being a guitar tech for a large touring band has to be one of ...
Report and Interview by Alvaro Costa, Luis Oliveira, Rock's Backpages, April 2005
AN EVENING IN MADRID - "blessed" by los galacticos Ronaldo and Luis Figo - kicked off Coldplay's world domination plan for 2005. Real Madrid's ...
Coldplay: Englishmen in New York
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, April 2005
CHRIS MARTIN seems perfectly at home in the Big Apple. Although quintessentially English, the Coldplay frontman talks at New York speed, his mouth racing to ...
Profile by Simon Garfield, The Observer, 22 May 2005
From their beginnings as introspective "studenty" whiners, Coldplay are now the biggest band on the planet. We take a sneak preview of their long-awaited third ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Paste, 1 June 2005
COLDPLAY GRADUATED from "intriguing" to "important" with 2002's A Rush of Blood to the Head, a musically and thematically bold statement as fully realized as ...
Live8: Less global jukebox, more local radio
Live Review by Kathryn Flett, The Observer, 3 July 2005
AS THE LIVE8 afternoon shift got under way, it was soon clear that, although the BBC must have been rubbing their hands at the prospect ...
My Travels With Oxfam: Chris Martin's Ghana Diary
Report by Sheryl Garratt, GQ, August 2005
Day 1: Accra ...
Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, September 2005
Coldplay's front man is addicted to the game ...
Coldplay: Dodge Music Center, Hartford, Connecticut
Live Review by Will Hermes, Spin, October 2005
Even after The New York Times declared them "the most insufferable band of the decade" (does that include the new INXS?), Coldplay continue to exist ...
Coldplay: Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends (Parlophone)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 6 June 2008
COLDPLAY'S X&Y, they've since explained, was the final part of a trilogy — a claim some might consider a cunning defence against accusations that they're ...
Essay by Andy Gill, The Independent, 11 June 2008
Pompous, mawkish, and unbearably smug, Coldplay have conquered the charts with the sonic equivalent of wilted spinach, argues Andy Gill. And in the process, they've ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 June 2008
THE FREE GIG at London's Brixton Academy was packed out with fans and celebs who'd won a ballot to be one of the 4,000 people ...
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2008
COLDPLAY'S FOURTH release has been billed as their experimental record, as well as their political record. And it is both, relatively speaking. Viva la Vida ...
Coldplay: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends ****
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, July 2008
THE POINT AT WHICH CHAPTER TWO OF THEIR STORY BEGINS. ...
Coldplay: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Irvine
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, July 2009
WHY DO PEOPLE CONTINUE to hate on these guys? Is it a corollary of the Sting Effect, where there's just outright jealousy over a handsome ...
Coldplay/Jay-Z: Lancashire Cricket Club, Manchester
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 September 2009
THERE ARE only a few bands big enough to ask artists who are at the very top of their own genres to work as their ...
Coldplay/Jay-Z: Lancashire Cricket Ground, Manchester
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 14 September 2009
THEY MAY BE one of the most successful bands in the world, but Coldplay still really, really want us to love them. ...
Glastonbury: Coldplay and U2 almost spoil the party
Report by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 28 June 2011
The headliners split the crowds, but this year's Glastonbury showed that the '70s dream lives on at Worthy Farm. ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Wondering Sound, 24 October 2011
LIKE ANY prosperous band with a global audience entering its second decade, Coldplay seems to want to venture away from its enchanted cottage, albeit not ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 25 October 2011
It's the music you can enjoy between meals without spoiling your appetite, made by the world's favourite band and hand-built by robots. Lipsmackin', thirstquenchin', acetastin', ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 12 December 2011
THE KRAFTWERK allusions, the Brian Eno productions, the "experimental" new directions: the propaganda which comes with each new Coldplay album would make you think they ...
Coldplay: "We're the best fucking band in the world…"
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, January 2012
Chris Martin may suffer from anxiety nightmares nine nights out of ten, but he knows the value of Coldplay. Join him as he hangs with ...
12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012
IT MIGHT HAVE been the single greatest gathering of talent for a rock show – or it might just have been, as Mick Jagger put ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, May 2014
HEARING GHOST STORIES, it is unclear whether you are listening to a new pop album or intruding on devastating personal grief. ...
Coldplay: Ghost Stories (Parlophone)
Review by Mr. Agreeable, The Quietus, 16 May 2014
TWO YEARS in the making, alternative rock band Coldplay's new album, essentially a concept piece about Chris Martin's break-up with Gwyneth Paltrow, has certainly garnered ...
Coldplay: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Daily Telegraph, 2 July 2014
THE ALBERT HALL was besieged by Coldplay fans desperately seeking a ticket for this week's pair of sold-out shows. ...
Coldplay: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 2 July 2014
A GREAT BREAK-UP album can be a thing of wonder. From Bob Dylan's red-raw Blood on the Tracks to Marvin Gaye's self-lacerating Here, My Dear ...
The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed
Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015
With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...
Special Feature by Ted Kessler, The Times, 21 May 2016
Rod Stewart's dad gave him football lessons; Chris Martin's joins him on tour; Shaun Ryder's broke his nose on stage; Leonard Cohen is funnier than ...
Chris Martin: "Coldplay are saying the opposite of walls and Brexit"
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 23 June 2016
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 ...
Coldplay's Chris Martin: Why Things Have Never Been Better
Profile and Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 7 December 2016
CHRIS MARTIN is up for it. Half an hour after soundcheck and a few hours before showtime at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, the Coldplay singer, flanked ...
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 November 2019
The easy-listening rock kings deepen their politics and globe-trotting sound on a downright compelling LP. ...
Coldplay: Natural History Museum, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 26 November 2019
Arena mainstays downsize for whale of a night at the Natural History Museum ...
Review by Johnny Sharp, Uncut, January 2020
Exit pop glitterati, enter lo-fi eclectica on Martin & co's eighth ...
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