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Coldplay performing WE PRAY and ALL MY LOVE at SNL

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Coldplay's special intro at SNL | 05.10.2024

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Coldplay for SNL by Mary Ellen Matthews | 05.10.2024

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During a stop in Dublin, correspondent Anthony Mason catches up with Chris Martin, Will Champion, Guy Berryman and Jonny Buckland to talk about "Moon Music" (the band's tenth studio album), the songwriting process, and their future playing together.

"We don't want to stop Coldplay" (Jon Buckland)

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This Sunday, October 6th at 7:30pm UK / 2:30pm ET Coldplay will host a live album listening party on Spotify! This will be available only for the top Coldplay listeners on the platform with a Premium Premium Individual, Duo, Family or Student subscription.

The band will share behind the scenes stories about their new album and answer fans' questions!

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coldplay Watch live on QVC or worldwide on YouTube at https://youtube.com/watch?v=sp4yyt94O4k Here’s a sneak preview from rehearsals…

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coldplay #MoonMusic #October4 #NewMusic

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Chris "busking" with an unknown song that didn't make it to "Moon Music" back in May | via lizandpat on TikTok

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The last time NME spoke to Martin, we found him getting through a “questioning time of his life” as he overcame a “really hard time” of existential crisis with his past and the wider world. Do overly joyous acts like Glastonbury and this album help him make sense of all that?

“Yes, in the context of, ‘It’s very easy to be not happy’,” says Martin. “In a way, it’s a band manifesto: These are the things that helped me every day to not be super overwhelmed or super down. When things appear overwhelmingly positive, that’s so often because it’s what the singer needs most. My head tends to fill with so much negativity that over the years – in fact from the very beginning – music has been the place where I find a light and an explanation for some of the more challenging things in my life, or the people’s lives that I see.”

Chris in an interview with NME | 01.10.2024

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"Moon Music is kind of the story of waking up in the morning and feeling terrible about yourself, terrible about the world – depressed, isolated, separate, alone, and not able to be yourself.

Through the album, it’s a journey to feeling the complete opposite at the end of the day.”

- Chris talking about the meaning of the album "Moon Music" for NME | 01.10.2024

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"Yes, it is 12 albums for sure, but we’re going to be a bit later than that [initially planned last album in 2025]. There’s one more thing, which is a musical. [That’s] album number 11, but that might have to come out after album 12 because of how long musicals take to animate.

Our last single is on this album, and that’s called ‘All My Love’. That’s the last ‘single’ single. We have the musical thing, then an album just called ‘Coldplay’, which is the final one. I think that will be a year late – I know it will be.

It doesn’t mean we won’t tour or finish some compilation things or outtakes or whatever. It just means that the main story is told. That’s just what feels really right. Just knowing that’s happening supercharges all the work we’re doing now.

A combination of that 12 album deadline plus working with Max Martin means that we’re approaching everything with the same, if not more, hunger than right at the beginning. You don’t want to dilute the early stuff too much.

To the people that might be freaked out when you do a song with BTS, or freaked out when we dropped the acoustic guitar: don’t worry, it’ll all make sense in the end.

[After the 12th album Chris and the band will be] Touring, curating. What Liam [Gallagher] has just done with ‘Definitely Maybe’ has reignited that album. We will get to a point where it will be fun to not re-release but remember the earlier stuff and enjoy it again and do things specific to those periods. I have an idea for another type of show that’s more of a hotch-potch of everything. Maybe it’s not always about trying to be in stadiums, but you can do small things where you try and play the odd songs. I think it would also be nice to help younger artists a bit.

It’s like when someone becomes a football pundit and stops trying to score goals. I feel that within a few years, it might go a bit more that way for myself. Not right now. Right now I’m super hungry and so excited to go to work every day. It’s such a clear picture of what we’re supposed to be doing.”

- Chris Martin talking about the band's last 2 albums and plans for the future in the NME's interview | 01.10.2024

P.S. "You can see why he’s reticent to talk about the inspiration behind his music, especially when it’s the means to an end of a coping mechanism – and now it’s a very real end." (Words by Andrew Trendell)

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Jon doing his magic on We Pray

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Jon smiling in Vienna by Vero on Twitter

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Coldplay rehearsing WE PRAY before the first night in Dublin | 29.08.2024 | via emmanuelaj on IG story

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Jon playing his favourite part of "The Scientist" with the "loud one" at the first night of Dublin | 29.08.2024 | by ColdplayXtra

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coldplay WE PRAY 🧿 Live at Croke Park, Dublin. First ever performance with @burnaboygram, @littlesimz, @elyanna, @tinistoessel.

📹 @p.thechemist

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Coldplay What a pleasure to be back in Baile Átha Cliath. Four shows in the temple of the GAA in front of 82,000 Dubliners in full voice is the perfect way to finish this leg of the tour. W. X