Topshop has launched a new line called “Bandstand” featuring miltary-style clothing:
Perhaps Carl Barat is excited as well…and Chris Martin a distant fourth.
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June 2008
The favorite new party haunt of TMA…
VICE LIVE
NYC Edition
Vice Magazine Mexican Issue Release Party
Free with RSVP to:
http://www.viceland.com/vicelive
21+ w/ ID
Complimentary 42 Below Vodka & Colt 45 until it’s gone.
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Come out to After the Jump Fest this Saturday!
Bands playing the fest and charity night show: Alex and the Horribles, Dinowalrus, DJ XXXchange (Spank Rock), Health, papercranes, Pattern Is Movement, Ponytail, Power Douglas, Project Jenny, Project Jan, The Antlers, The Austerity Program, The Forms, The Shackeltons, The Swimmers, Titus Andronicus, Wakey!Wakey!, Autodrone, Bell, Bridges and Powerlines, Brilliant Sweaters, Cursillistas, Extra Life, Fiasco, Montract, Noveller, Phil and the Osophers, Senryu, The Bloodsugars, The Swimmers
And hey, let us know you are coming! RSVP here ny@metromix.com for your chance to win an Ipod Shuffle courtesy of Metromix.com
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I know how much you guys love giving Coldplay’s Chris Martin–and even the occasional Coldplay drum machine–captions (see your handiwork here and here), and when I saw this photo taken at last night’s free Coldplay concert at London’s Brixton Academy, I just knew that you’d be itching to have your say.
UPDATE: I Am Fuel, You Are Friends have posted MP3s of the entire Brixton concert. Head there for a download.
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Coldplay’s newest album, Viva La Vida is finally out. What do you think? Is it the musical masterpiece that many have herald it to be? Is it a winning album, truer to their hit record A Rush of Blood to the Head, and far superior than the somewhat lackluster X & Y?
Thoughts?
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Hooray! Today Coldplay’s new album Viva La Vida finally hits US shores. In honor of the release, and Chris Martin’s uncanny ability to simultaneous annoy and endear, below will be a billion links to stories relating to Coldplay.
I’ve compiled a (growing) list of this week’s best quotes about the band, so you don’t have to. So embrace your inner “sensitive man” and read on:
Review of Coldplay’s Brixton Academy show from last night. “For a 30 million selling supergroup, there is something endearingly gauche about Coldplay.” (BTW- Will did a cover of the The Goldrush song “Death Will Never Conquer” at the show, which was broadcasted on Radio 1) [Telegraph UK]
“How many albums would Coldplay have to sell to save recorded music, the side of the business we’re all familiar with from movies and television? Approximately 900 billion.” [NY Mag]
“Chris Martin must have just read Chapter 7 of the How to be Like Thom Yorke Handbook: Walking Off and Other Moody Outbursts. Seriously…he’s not cool enough to walk out on anyone. That’s like the nerd getting up to go eat lunch in the phone booth.” [Ricky, TMA commenter]
“I pity the poor bastards who have to watch them. They are utterly humourless,” barked Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten. [The Sentinel]
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You can visit the photoblog and listen to the concert live on Radio 1 from 7-10pm GMT (aka 2pm-5pm EST).
Coincidentally, Brixton Academy was the very first place I ever saw Coldplay. Here is a picture from that April 30, 2001 show:
At the end of the show, Chris lifted up his arm in the air, guitar in hand and then THREW HIS ACOUSTIC GUITAR INTO THE CROWD.
I remember being in a complete panic on the tube ride home to the dorms since the next day around 11am my final 20 page 19th and 20th Century Novel paper was due. I risked flunking out of college for sweet sweet Coldplay. Luckily, everyone else in my class wrote even worse papers than I did, so I squeaked by. (THANKS NEIL VICKERS!)
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Last Friday the BBC reported an incident that occurred during a pre-recorded taping of Radio 4 arts show Front Row which resulted in Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin excusing himself from the interview, leaving drummer Will Champion to answer questions for almost the full remainder of the interview.
[LISTEN TO THE CLIP OF CHRIS WALKING OUT]
[LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW ON THE BBC SITE]
Writes the BBC:
Martin appeared uncomfortable with the interview from the outset.
When asked [by presenter John Wilson] about a speech he made at a music awards ceremony in 2005 where he said the band would be away “for a very long time”, Martin said: “I always say stupid things and I think Radio 4 is the place that will most remind me of that.”
Presenter Wilson questioned whether the new album – full title, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends – was a morbid reflection of the band’s lyrical obsession with death.
“I wouldn’t agree with you there at all, no,” said Martin.
“I’d say you’re journalistically twisting me into saying something I don’t really mean.”
A few minutes later, Martin said he was “not really enjoying this” and that he did not really like “having to talk about things”.
Perhaps it was the end of a long day and Chris had had it up to hear with dumb questions? It should be noted, that if you listen to the full interview, the part where Chris says he “says stupid things…” he was saying it jokingly.
Chris does seem to get peeved right around when John says he made a sexist joke about Frida Kahlo. Wilson then goes on to vaguely insult the absurdity of their title, then says that the new album is “morbid.” Wilson presses the idea that Coldplay is lyrically obsessed with death, to which Martin becomes more and more defensive saying that if they only wrote about being happy, it wouldn’t be an accurate image of life.
I must say, it’s pretty amusing to an American listening to it when Chris walks off. There is this kind of uncomfortable silence then Wilson asks “Have I upset him?”, then poor Will responds, “I don’t think so.” The conversation carries on for a few seconds with Wilson and Will muttering to each other. Says Wilson, “I don’t think I said anything conscientiously….” Will interrupts, “No, I don’t think so.” SO BRITISH!
Do you think the storming off was justified?
Presenter John Wilson wrote a story for the Guardian on Sunday, trying to clear up the matter:
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Yesterday was the perfect weather for a special acoustic performance on the top of the EMI Building in the Flatiron District. Better yet, the band performing was The Kooks!
As their bandmates got to sit back and munch on some of the complementary hot dogs and hamburgers, Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris took to the stage set up overlooking downtown Manhattan.
Luke stopped after the first song, “Naïve”, and asked if anyone had a pair of sunglasses because he was “dying up here,” and quickly someone produced a cool pair of white Wayfarers. Luke glanced over at Hugh, who was wearing a pair of tortoise shell Ray-Bans as well, and declared that they were like the “yin and yang of sunglasses.”
With eyes properly covered, the duo continued to strum out a total of three additional Kooks songs: “Ooh La”, “Always Where I Need to Be”, and my personal favorite off of their new album Konk, “Tick of Time”.
Here’s R’s video of them doing “Ooh La”:
In a flash, the set was over, much to the dissapointment of the crowd. But the boys did have to head over to get ready for their Terminal 5 show, so c’est la vie.
More at Black Book, Limewire.
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Last night The Kooks played to a quite young and enthusiastic crowd at Terminal 5. As per usual, the Kooks performed their songs with stylish precision–doling out each song in such a perfect manner that if I didn’t know any better, I would have thought that they were pulling a Milli Vanilli on us all.
Luke Pritchard, look into my eyes…and give me Blue Steel.
During the time I was waiting for the band to go on, I remained amused and entertained by making some observations about the first few rows of the crowd:
1. Teenage girls L-O-V-E The Kooks. Seriously, if I was a 16 year old Anglophile female living in the suburbs, yet somehow managing to have great taste in music, I too would be in love with at least one of the members of the Kooks. OK, I’m not even 16 years old any more and I am still probably in love with one of the members of the Kooks. (Try to guess which one.)
2. Boys love the Kooks equally, but will not admit it. So right behind the hold steady of female fans lined up and down the front row was a solid string of MALE fans in the second row. I swear to you, first row = all girls, second row = all dudes. Which made me think two things: A. Sausage-swingers love the Kooks as well and B. Guys at Kooks shows are at least nice enough to let little girls stand in front of them instead of being the obnoxiously TALL GUY in the first row. (All you dudes who have ever stood in front of my during my youth at Coldplay and Travis shows, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I BET YOU ARE STILL ALONE BECAUSE NO GIRL LIKES A GUY WHO STANDS IN FRONT OF SHORT GIRLS AT SHOWS.) Err.. sorry.
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