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( 5 stories between 10th May 2008 and 5th June 2010 )Coldplay And Wilco Sponsor Sports Teams
Jun, 5 2010
Traditionally, big companies sponsor sports teams so that their brand name will be displayed to thousands of fans every week, and potentially millions of television viewers too. But this is the 21st century, and in the last week two major rock bands have made the decision to spread their name via lower league amateur sports teams.
Coldplay have sent over $1000 (£750) to Slaughters Utd. to have their name emblazoned across the chests of the Gloucestershire County League Fourth Division cricket team. The attendance of their last game was eight. Club secretary Paul Heming wrote to the band after learning that bassist Guy Berryman had sponsored a village rugby club. Meanwhile in Chicago, little league baseball team the Royals are sponsored by Wilco, as are the unimaginatively titled Northampton, Massachusetts little league team TMM/Wilco (TMM are Wilco's managers.)
Back to Coldplay: Slaughters Utd. secretary Heming told The Independent that Coldplay singer Chris Martin is a cricket enthusiast, and once told a local umpire about his future ambitions. "He told him, 'I'm in this band called Coldplay. We've just made our first album and we think it might do quite well,'" Heming recounted. "And everyone at the bar went, 'Yeah, yeah'."
Coldplay And Eno Back In The Studio
Feb, 28 2010
Coldplay and producer Brian Eno have confirmed that they are working on the next Coldplay album, apparently in an old church converted into a studio in London. It's hoped that the album will be ready for release by Christmas.
Frontman Chris Martin said that extra security measures have been put in place to prevent the album leaking ahead of release. "There's only two people in the whole building who know how to open all the recording files," Martin told Globo.com. "Even we don't know how to do it. We couldn't even steal our own music at the moment."
In a separate interview, ambient pioneer Eno, who produced Coldplay's most recent album Viva La Vida (2008), told the BBC about Coldplay's new material. "It's quite different from anything they've done before," he said. "I don't know how it will end up being, but it's very fresh." Considering Coldplay have been hit with a number of plagiarism claims recently, let's hope the new material is quite different from anything anyone else has done before, too.
Coldplay
Feb, 18 2009
It may be mid-February, but it takes a long time to count up the 2008 total worldwide sales of an album. The results posted by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry make interesting reading, but it’s no surprise that Viva La Vida is lodged at the top with worldwide sales of over 6.8 million; after all Coldplay is the self-confessed bedrock of current music. As Chris Martin said at the Grammys, “We’re not, of course, the heaviest of rock bands, you may have noticed. We’re kind of the limestone of rock bands. Not as hard, but still charming.” While their charm gets them a place at the top, Amy Winehouse’s alleged lack of charm may well have contributed to the fact that her Back to Black album still made 7th place, even in its third year of release. However, the person most likely to be relieved by the list is Axl Rose who, after a promotional effort lasting the best part of 15 years, has made No.14 on the list with Chinese Democracy.
