During interview, Chris Martin of Coldplay is jealous over Gwyneth Paltrow relationship with Brad Pitt
July 25, 2008
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During interview, Chris Martin of Coldplay is jealous over Gwyneth Paltrow relationship with Brad Pitt
Everybody gets jealous, even big stars like Coldplay’s Christ Martin - who revealed that wife Gwyneth Paltrow’s relationship with Brad Pitt was still a sore spot for him.
Chris told ‘Life&Style’: "I feel like I constantly have to confirm that she made the right choice when she picked me. Whether I believe that myself, that is another question."
It sounds like Chris is suffering from some serious self-confidence issues. The singer doesn’t see his feeling as negative, however. He believes that people can grow from these challenges.
Are you ready world? New U2 album out in October.
June 23, 2008
Are you ready world? New U2 album out in October.
Just in time before the US presidential election. I would hold off Bono so you can complain to Obama on how the US is not paying enough for world hunger. Why don’t you just shut up and pay your Irish taxes just like everyone else.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness recently spoke on BBC radio about the super-band’s next album. When asked about when we can expect the album to be released McGuinnes said “I would think towards the end of October”.
During interview, Chris Martin of Coldplay claim that the band is even sexier
June 19, 2008
During interview, Chris Martin of Coldplay claim that the band is even sexier
The Coldplay frontman told journalists at a free gig in Barcelona on Tuesday - which showcased new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends - that the band’s latest offering is sexier than their previous record X&Y, reports Reuters.
Chris apparently joked: "I think we are definitely more handsome now than we were three years ago. I think that’s reflected in our music, it’s much more sexy."
The 31-year-old musician - who has two young children with wife Gwyneth Paltrow - revealed the new album is very personal to him.
He said: "When you finish a big tour two things go through your head: one is maybe we need to do the same thing again and again because the most people will like that.
Chris Martin walks out of BBC interview after questions about latest album from Coldplay
June 16, 2008
Chris Martin walks out of BBC interview after questions about latest album from Coldplay
Chris Martin has walked out of an interview with BBC Radio 4 in discomfort at being questioned about Coldplay’s new album.
The frontman was being interviewed for the station’s art programme Front Row when he asked to leave the studio after nine minutes of discussion.
Will Champion, the four-piece’s drummer, was left alone in the studio to answer the questions of interviewer John Wilson until his bandmate returned to stammer an answer to the final question.
The band’s fourth album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends was released on Thursday June 12th and is expected to shatter sales records for the year, with HMV estimating more than 250,000 copies will be sold in its first three days on release.
However, Martin appeared uncomfortable with being interviewed about the album and its lyrical content.
"I wouldn’t agree with you there at all, no," said Martin after Wilson questioned whether the album’s title reflected an obsession with death.
"I’d say you’re journalistically twisting me into saying something I don’t really mean," he added.
And when Wilson asked if the band started with the song Viva La Vida and "the idea within that song of the deposed dictator looking back at his life", Martin replied: "I’m not enjoying this. Can I have two minutes?"
When asked if he was feeling the pressure, he explained: "I just don’t like talking about things."
Judging by the album’s sales figures, Martin can afford to let his music do the talking after it sold more than 100,000 copies on its first day on release.
According to HMV, the speed with which Viva La Vida is flying off the shelves means it has the potential to become the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history behind Oasis’ ‘Be Here Now’, which sold 695,761 copies in its first week when it came out in August 1997.
"This rate of sales exceeds even our optimistic forecasts, and shows how massively popular a band Coldplay remain despite having been away for the best part of three years," said HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo.
"Aside from having a substantial core fanbase, Coldplay are one of the few acts that can genuinely connect with a much wider audience."
Interview: Chris Martin of Coldplay says band failed at karaoke
June 9, 2008
Interview: Chris Martin of Coldplay says band failed at karaoke
London, Jun 7 (ANI): Coldplay frontman Chris Martin says that his group has failed as a band because they have not fared well in the karaoke market yet.
Martin admits that he would like his songs to be a success in the sing along category too.
“I’m really determined there should be more Coldplay songs in karaoke bars,” The Sun quoted him as saying.
“I’ve been into them and you open the lyrics book and there are a million Beatles songs.
“There’s dozens of Abba, Culture Club or even Bucks Fizz, but Coldplay? There will be two or at best three. If we could just get eight in every bar worldwide I’d be happy. I would know we’ve made it.
“I think there are three karaoke possibilities on Viva La Vida. It surely has to be the ultimate measure of success,” he added.
Martin also revealed that he is nowhere close to being able to perform a karaoke himself.
“I got up in a bar one night with my mate Tim Wheeler (from ASH) and we chose Bohemian Rhapsody. It was appalling,” he added. (ANI)
Interview: Chris Martin of Coldplay says band failed at karaoke
Chris Martin of Coldplay tries to downplay band’s success during interview
June 2, 2008
Chris Martin of Coldplay tries to downplay band’s success during interview
Chris Martin has said Coldplay have not yet done anything he believes is "that good".
In an interview with Q magazine, Martin was asked about public expectations and being tagged the biggest band in the world.
The singer talked to the July edition of the music magazine about the band’s new album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.
"I’ve just been excited about writing," Martin said.
"After the last record I felt like God, I can’t believe we’ve got away with becoming this huge band.
"And we still haven’t done anything I think is that good yet.
"So it was almost like, ‘We’ve got the job, now we’ve got to prove why we’ve got it’."
Martin, who is married to Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow, added: "The only thing that makes me remember that we’re in a big band is when I remember that I’m married to someone famous. Everything else in the day is exactly the same as it was 11 years ago."
Asked if he felt his fame was mostly related to his marriage, Martin said: "Well it’s a different kind of fame, that we do everything to avoid."
Martin, who said he often dreamt of other musicians, told the magazine: "I dreamt about Radiohead last night and Westlife the night before. Which I think is the perfect blend of what we’re trying to do musically."
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtVwfH_UKhpfhNJXRXtUCIzQn3cg
Chris Martin of Coldplay reveals he dreams of Radiohead during interview
June 2, 2008
Chris Martin of Coldplay reveals he dreams of Radiohead during interview
Today’s top gossip:
Coldplay’s Chris Martin has revealed that he has dreams about Radiohead and Westlife. "I dreamed about Radiohead last night and Westlife the night before," he said. "Which is the perfect blend of what we’re trying to do musically. I always dream about other musicians. And they’re never interested in hanging out with us" (Q Magazine).
http://www.nme.com/news/daily-gossip/36968
Hey kids, MTV and Radiohead’s interview reminds you about kids making shoes overseas
May 29, 2008
Hey kids, MTV and Radiohead’s interview reminds you about kids making shoes overseas
MTV and Radiohead Wish to Remind You There are Kids Making Shoes Overseas
For its song All I Need off the In Rainbows album, Radiohead teamed up with MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) to create a cause-oriented music video.
In the video, two kids — one American, one Asian — go about an ordinary day. As all young Asian children do, the latter spends his time in a factory, making shoes. And like all Americans, the former wiles away the afternoon, coloring and looking bored.
In one particularly poignant scene, the shoes the Asian boy is making sit side-by-side with the ones the American just removed. They are the same shoes.
To recap: "Feel guilty! Your life is easy. Over THERE? OverSEAS? Some kid is making your shoes." It’s like that line your parents fed you to get you to finish dinner: children are STARVING in AFRICA!
If the video struck a chord, visit MTV’s EXIT website. (I’ll synopsize here. Champions against exploitation are invited to team up with a local charity, volunteer at an SOS hotline, or "raise awareness" with MTV EXIT swag. It’s essentially a glorified Neighborhood Watch.)
http://www.adrants.com/2008/05/mtv-and-radiohead-wish-to-remind-you.php
Interview: Radiohead happy to not to have label for future albums
May 28, 2008
Interview: Radiohead happy to not to have label for future albums
By JAKE COYLE,
AP
Posted: 2008-05-28 00:51:56
WASHINGTON (AP) - The breakthrough for Radiohead on "Reckoner" - a song that underwent multiple incarnations on its way to "In Rainbows" - came by way of what Jonny Greenwood calls a "big percussion fest."
Recording in an English country house, all five members of the group make a loud, cathartic racket - a habit-busting trick the band has practiced since primary school, says bassist Colin Greenwood.
"And I’m happy to say that success hasn’t changed us at all," joked Jonny Greenwood, who would rather leave the percussion to Phil Selway’s drums and Thom Yorke’s rhythm guitar.
Whether through the primal release of a "big percussion fest" or by severing ties with its record label, Radiohead is giving the distinct impression of a band that has exorcised something.
Since self-releasing "In Rainbows" as a pay-what-you-want digital download last fall, Radiohead has moved quickly with the tilt of innovation. They surprised fans with intimate webcasts; they offered one track, "Nude," in stripped down audio pieces for anyone to remix; they held a surprise concert so crowded that police insisted they move along.
On their seventh album, particularly on songs like the falsetto-rich R&B ballad "House of Cards" and the languorous "Nude," the music reflects the same sense of freedom. The prevailing tone of the new material is - gasp! - a melodic warmth.
And this is a drastic change for what many consider the gloomiest band on the planet.
Meet the born-again Radiohead.
In a recent two-part interview with the band - first with the Greenwood brothers and Selway, second with Yorke and guitarist Ed O’Brien - a lightness was unmistakable. Much funnier than you’d expect, the quintet bemusedly contemplate wearing Speedos while shuffling into a Washington, D.C. hotel room.
They had just performed in nearby Virginia, where torrential rain caused flooding and enormous traffic jams around the Nissan Pavilion. In the apocalyptic downpour, Radiohead functioned as a hearth, exuding their newfound glow.
Five shows into the first leg of their North America tour, they played confidently. At one point, Yorke urged the soaked crowd to "cuddle," an unthinkable prospect for a Radiohead concert.
Tuneful beauty has always been part of Radiohead songs (like the "rain down" climax in "Paranoid Android"), but such moments have seldom been allowed to linger. Asked the origins of the new mood, Yorke is as clueless as anyone.
"I don’t know where it came from, to be honest," said the 39-year-old singer, laughing heartily. "I think (`In Rainbows’) has its moments of fraught tension, like `Bodysnatchers’ obviously. But it ends up in a good space. It starts off pretty anxious, but the end of `All I Need,’ by that point, everything is like, `Ahhh’ - getting it out of your system."
When the band completed 2003’s "Hail to the Thief," they essentially got what O’Brien calls the "machinery" of the music industry out of their system. Their six-album deal with EMI Music Group expired and they declined all suitors for a new deal.
The band was at a crossroads and low on energy. They were disappointed by "Hail to the Thief," which they felt was unfinished.
"What was great about `Kid A’ was that it heralded a new period and it meant we went off in some cool new places," said O’Brien, 40. "But the downside was that in the whole period up until the end of `Hail to the Thief,’ we picked up some nasty habits."
The band, of whom all but O’Brien still live in their hometown of Oxford, had progressed steadily into more experimental territory after their 1993 debut "Pablo Honey" and the classic guitar rock follow-up, 1995’s "The Bends." The unparalleled "OK Computer" (1997) elevated them to worldwide fame, but didn’t tame them. 2000’s "Kid A" and its companion piece "Amnesiac" followed.
The outwardly political "Hail to the Thief," something of a return to guitar-based rockers, was the first sign that Radiohead’s path had become confused. Afterward, the band members occupied themselves with their families. Yorke released a solo album, "The Eraser" in 2006.
"We were going along in a certain trajectory and then suddenly with `Hail to the Thief,’ it was: we can’t carry along in that way anymore," said Yorke. "To me the hardest thing was finding a reason to carry on."
As unified as "In Rainbows" sounds, it took years to complete. The band began recording it with producer Mark Stent, the first time in years they didn’t work with Nigel Godrich.
The attempt was futile and Radiohead set out on tour to help bring the new songs into shape. When they returned to the studio, they went back to Godrich, considered the unofficial sixth member because of his importance in helping refine the group’s sound. (Colin calls his wealth of gear "like Aladdin’s cave.")
"The key thing in actually propelling it forward was Nigel coming back into the process," said Selway, 41. "The reality when we got in there was it still wasn’t good enough. We really had to raise our standards quite a lot."
Typically, songs begin with Yorke writing something on piano or guitar with vocals and fleshing it out with the multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood. Then the band works together to find the right arrangement, a process that can be tortuous. "Videotape" underwent, Yorke jokes, hundreds of versions before finding the right minimalist sound.
"We still sometimes get overawed by the songs," said Greenwood. "We’ll get very attached to a song as an idea in its very basic form, but we also know we can’t really leave it like that. So that’s what we spend our time talking about and planning and thinking about. Thom will sit and play `Pyramid Song’ on piano, for example, and it’s obviously not finished. It needs a rhythm to propel it along. But what do you do with it and yet not mess it up? So that’s the sort of enjoyable pressure we like to be under."
Though the method of release overshadowed the music of "In Rainbows" somewhat, it’s been almost universally hailed as a masterpiece. Yorke has been quoted as calling it "our classic album, our `Transformer,’ our `Revolver,’ our `Hunky Dory"’ - a statement he said is a misquote: "I do talk some … but I didn’t say that."
His point, he said, is that they strove to make a similarly concise work as those albums.
"In Rainbows" may be a departure, but it’s unmistakably Radiohead. Yorke is still singing about disconnection between people, which he cheerfully acknowledges: "It’s part of my repertoire. It’s what I do. Some people go and work at something they don’t like, others talk about disconnection a lot."
But the album still feels apart from the old Radiohead story line. For the first time, they don’t sound self-conscious. The band says it all starts with being free of a record contract. (The album was also released traditionally on Jan. 1 by ATO imprint TBD Records, topping the sales charts that week. The band has declined to release sales figures for the download.)
"When we weren’t signed to EMI and didn’t have a contract, that threw up all this mad(ness)," said Yorke. "In a way, your possibilities are endless and limitless and meaningless. You actually suddenly have - I don’t know why, it doesn’t make sense - but there was a complete lack of connection with our past."
The band has called the digital giveaway a "one-off" experiment, but they’ve also re-examined other ways they conduct business. They last year commissioned a report from the company Best Foot Forward to judge the carbon and ecological footprint of their touring.
Any adjustments are in the early stages, but the band has posted messages on their Web site urging fans to car pool to concerts. They caution that music is at the heart of any new endeavors.
"The truth of the matter is that none of those rethinking things would be occurring if we weren’t vibed up on the fact that we finished something. The energy always comes from an excitement about what one has done."
And as might be expected for the ever forward-looking Radiohead, new songs are already in the works, though they are still just "on guitars," says Jonny Greenwood. He only hints that the songs explore "absurd musical ideas."
"When you hear Thom and Jonny in the soundcheck and they’ve come up with something and start playing it, it’s good to hear," said O’Brien.
The process of finding the right instruments for the songs will soon begin. Greenwood would like to even throw a banjo into the mix, but said he gets "level looks" from his bandmates whenever he brings it out. "There’s a ban on banjos," said his 38-year-old brother.
"What’s interesting to me is very old technologies like orchestras and pianos and things and how they meet modern recording and treatment techniques," said Greenwood, 36, who also does classical work on the side, including the buzzing, unforgettable score to "There Will Be Blood."
Radiohead will tour Europe in June and July before returning for the second leg of their North America tour, which will kick off Aug. 1 at the Lollapalooza Festival.
In the meantime, Yorke - who said he still considers the album "the most satisfying format" - has already envisioned the next innovation to deploy when they have new music to release.
"Let’s leave it on the street corner with a little sign," Yorke jokes as excitement sweeps over his face. "Now that’s a good idea! I like that idea. With a little photo on the Web: `It’s here.’ A couple of clues. A little doggie bag."
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Scarlett Johansson and Deborah Harry Interview Each Other Exclusively on Myspace
May 23, 2008
Scarlett Johansson and Deborah Harry Interview Each Other Exclusively on Myspace
Screen siren Scarlett Johansson and punk rock icon Debbie Harry met for the first time at a New York recording studio to reveal that Scarlett idolizes Debbie. The Artist on Artist interview was filmed exclusively for the MySpace community.
Scarlett released her debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head on May 20th. The album, which mostly consists of Tom Waits cover songs was recorded in New Orleans with producer Dave Sitek (from the band TV on the Radio). Deborah Harry is currently promoting the 30th anniversary of Blondie’s breakthrough album Parallel Lines. The reissue will be released on June 24th.
The Artist on Artist interview series has showcased more than 30 interviews since the franchise launched in January 2007 with footage of artists like Owen Wilson, Ringo Starr, Jessica Alba, Marc Jacobs, Quentin Tarantino and Fiona Apple being viewed around the world. For more information and to view previous interviews, visit the official MySpace Artist on Artist profile at www.myspace.com/artistonartist.
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