LOS ANGELES (Capitol Records) - Coldplay's new album, "X&Y," will be released by Capitol Records on June 7th; "Speed of Sound," the first single, will be released worldwide on April 18th.
The luminous follow up to the band's Grammy-winning, triple Platinum 2002 release "A Rush Of Blood To The Head," "X&Y" was produced by Coldplay, Danton Supple and Ken Nelson.
Coldplay will headline the first day of the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 30th. Following the release of "X&Y," Coldplay will embark on their biggest world tour yet, beginning with dates in Europe, the UK and Ireland. Plans are in the works for a 40-city North American tour, which will commence in late July and continue through late September.
Coldplay, comprised of Guy Berryman (bass), Jonny Buckland (lead guitar), Will Champion (drums) and Chris Martin (vocals, guitar, keyboards), formed in London in 1998. Their double Platinum 2000 debut, "Parachutes," featured the international hit singles "Yellow" and "Trouble" and received a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
With 2002's "A Rush Of Blood To The Head," Coldplay became the only band to win the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for two consecutive years. (They also won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for the single "In My Place.") The album entered the Billboard Top 200 at #5, was named by the New York Times as "one of the year's best albums," received four star reviews from Rolling Stone and Blender and landed Coldplay on the cover of Spin as 2003's "Band of the Year." The single "Clocks" was released in 2003, bringing Coldplay its fourth Grammy - this time in the prestigious Record of the Year category. To date, Coldplay has sold over 16 million albums worldwide.
CONFIRMED COLDPLAY TOUR DATES:
APRIL
30 Indio, CA Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
JUNE
15 Hamburg Volks Park
17 Koln Fuelinger
19 Berlin Wuhlheide
22 Dublin Marlay Park
27 - 28 London Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
JULY
1 - 2 Glasgow Bellahouston Park
4 - 5 Bolton Reebok Stadium
7 Arnhem Gelredrome
9 Munich Coubertin Platz
10 Vienna St Polten Open Air
11 Verona Open Air
For ticket information, go to coldplay.com.
All shows will have a pre-sale of tickets to registered fans at coldplay.com. Registration is completely free of charge.
Additional European and U.S. tour dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
