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lyneday
03-03-2006, 11:06 PM
Coldplay Calls On Fans To Shoot For DVD
(http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002115814)

March 03, 2006, 4:15 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Coldplay will film its March 22-23 stand at Toronto's Air Canada Centre for potential use in an upcoming DVD. Taking a page from the Beastie Boys, who drafted fans to shoot footage for their upcoming movie " Awesome: I F***in' Shot That," Coldplay is launching a contest to find five fans to handle the same duties.

Beginning Monday (March 6), Canadian fans can enter the sweepstakes by watching Entertainment Tonight Canada and then logging onto Global TV's Web site. Winners will take home a digital video camera that they will use to film the March 22 show. The footage will then be eligible for inclusion on the Coldplay DVD, a release date for which has not been announced.

The band is in the midst of a North American tour, which visits Milwaukee's Bradley Center tonight. International dates begin June 23 in Brisbane, Australia, and will run through July 18-19 in Tokyo. Afterward, Coldplay plans to quickly get busy working on new material.


Meanwhile, next month will bring the release of "The Hardest Part," the fourth single from the band's 2005 album "X&Y." Current single "Talk" is No. 13 this week on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

lyneday
03-03-2006, 11:09 PM
Coldplay: You F***in' Shot That!
By Jim Welte | more stories by this author
March 3, 2006 at 05:14:00 PM
UK rockers will take a page from Beastie Boys and hand over digital video camera to lucky fans in Toronto for a concert DVD.

With a tip of the hat to the Beastie Boys, Coldplay said today that it will be giving five fans in Toronto the chance to film footage for a live concert DVD later this month.

Much in the way the Beasties doled out 50 digital cameras to fans to film footage for the concert documentary, Awesome: I F***in' Shot That!, Coldplay said it will use footage from five fans to supplement its own high-definition footage for its sold-out March 22 and 23 shows at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.

The contest begins Monday, March 6. Fans can enter by watching Entertainment Tonight Canada, listening for the "Coldplay Song Of The Night" and then logging on to Global TV's Web site.

"Several of our all-time favourite gigs have happened in Canada, so what better place to film our shows," frontman Chris Martin said in a statement.

Coldplay is in the midst of their North American tour, and they'll head to Australia in June and Japan in July.

The band caused a ruckus last month when Martin hinted at an extended hiatus for the band while accepting a Brit Award. The band subsequently said they plan to hole up in a studio later this year to work on their follow-up to their smash hit X&Y. Coldplay plans to release "The Hardest Part," the fourth single from X&Y, in April.

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gaselite
03-04-2006, 12:58 AM
I kinda resent them for this. Not a massive fan of theirs anyway when you realise every song of theirs sounds exactly the same, but like, this is a bit iffy. Somebody's gone and done the idea and now they're just ripping it off as some kind of contest/competition promotion. I guess it's ok as long as the Beasties are getting name dropped in the press for the idea like they did in these two articles.

YoungRemy
03-04-2006, 03:53 PM
now thats just wrong...

kleptomaniac
03-07-2006, 07:52 PM
what's the movie gonna be called? "Awesome, We Fuckin' Stole That"? :rolleyes:

ggirlballa
03-07-2006, 10:23 PM
Coldplay: You F***in' Shot That!

is it seriously gonna be called that? :confused:

that ain't original :mad: (n)

Justin
03-08-2006, 03:04 AM
Who the fuck are coldplay?

Are they a band?

lolinaray
03-08-2006, 07:57 AM
Again we can see why the beastie boys are known as originators. I mean really now. I bet every alternative band is gonna jump on this when our guys started it 1st. Well I hope they do give props to who started the trend instead of just running around as if they did it 1st

talita
03-08-2006, 08:09 AM
i think coldplay is awesome.
and the idea of bboys is worth, so coldplay aint stealin, just making a copy of a good idea, i think it is not wrong, it is a kind of honor.

YoungRemy
03-08-2006, 11:14 AM
Coldplay: You F***in' Shot That!

is it seriously gonna be called that? :confused:

that ain't original :mad: (n)

its just the name of the article, breathe easy....