You're a quick reader. That was quite a long ramble on the link Noizy posted.

if being signed to EMI and particularly Parlophone is incindental, then why did Chris Martin's dad fork out hundreds of thousands of pounds to get them signed to this label to start with? it's like booking into the ritz then complaining about the room service.

i'm not exactly sure, you said you know him, maybe you should ask, probably better to buy him a couple of drinks first, and get him talking about how he happened to get a record deal, and how much dad helped him. there's nothing sinister meant by this, just know there was a reasonably sizeable parental investment at around that point in his/their career, also he could have conveniently forgotten, but he's pretty straight up, so if you get him talking on the topic there's a 50/50 he'll tell you.

//it's like booking into the ritz then complaining about the room service.

If you're paying for the Ritz, you damn well deserve good room service! If you book into a backpacker's and then complain about the room service, that's different.

I think you'll find EMI won't vanish from the face of the earth if coldplay bum out .. maybe they'll shead a few hopeless A&R types and lower down the run people, maybe a board member or two, but EMI will live I'm sure.

Yeah, that they can do .. as good as coldplay are, they're along way off being anywhere near worth what the beatles are to EMI.

Wouldn't that be something:

"Coldplay, [now in big lettering]featuring Gweneth Paltrow"

A guaranteed million-seller. Or something...

Know what? "I've found my soldier girl"?

I was asking for it...

aww

Well that's the thing isn't it- good songs don't circulate themselves around the world. Lots of bands choose to retain control of when they record/how they are marketed/blah blah, but Coldplay passed that off. They probably weren't expecting such 'make or break' pressure from the label, but perhaps they didn't grasp the responsibility they were passing off too, or maybe it just wasn't explained to them. I dunno. Like I say, when you're talking about multi-million dollar contracts there shouldn't be any room for misinterpretation (especially on the part of the label), so I think it's a little trite for Chris Martin to complain about pressure, not with a personal fortune of however-many-millions of pounds to keep him going.
That said, I like the new album.

oh yeah, I haven't heard too much of the new album, but word has it that it's not as good as the last two, I know you like it, but do you think it's a strong as the other two ..??

Let's just hope there more to the record than lushness, as lush production can often mask rather ordinary songs - just ask Richard Ashcroft and Spiritualized...

Now if you want lush, and well-written songs to boot, you can't go wrong with something like Pet Sounds.

Pet sounds .. yeah .. new coldplay, maybe the lush sound's down to Danton's input ...

lol .. yeah Dantons worked with a few dodgey bands .. the first time he came here was with .. I think echo belly with Gil norton, or maybe it was with cast with Gil, can't really remember, he's been back a few times, I've got CCTV footage of him jumping over our gate, cheeky bugger .. very, very nice guy though. I'm on that website .. I remember the day Mike came into film and came out of the hall with the bloody camera, I'm not photogenic that's for sure so Hollywood won't be calling either ..!!! and the sound on it .. I sound like Donald duck with a bad kiwi accent ..!

I can say that both are very nice down to earth people, only meet gwenth a couple of times though, and she was pregnant at the time, but Chris I know through work and he is alittle hyper and always on the go :-) but he's a real nice bloke.

Bollinger has a fairly sly way of being critical. His review of Oasis today started out positive, but he eventually laid the smackdown "what starts off as sounding like earnest homage [to their influences] ends up like pure laziness" or something to that effect.