Tag: Coldplay

  • A Glastonbury Top Five: Sunday

    A Glastonbury Top Five: Sunday

    The final day of Glastonbury brings a unique feeling of excitement, sadness, relief and exhaustion. Excitement at the prospect of new bands to discover and see. Sadness that it will soon all be over. Relief that soon you won’t have to tread through four inches of mud to head in any direction and that one…

  • The Best Records of 2014 So Far: Embrace – Refugees EP

    The Best Records of 2014 So Far: Embrace – Refugees EP

    A Tale of Two Bands… It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… In 2000, a young Chris Martin must have been feeling good about life. After his band Coldplay had released three EPs without troubling the charts, latest single “Shiver” had broken the top 40. Moreover, Coldplay had been picked…

  • Rock Stars in Comics: Coldplay, McCartney, Elvis and Kiss

    Rock Stars in Comics: Coldplay, McCartney, Elvis and Kiss

    Despite the obvious merits of the comic books I enjoyed many years ago such as Sin City, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns and so on (I lost touch with things in the mid-nineties) comic books have unfortunate baggage that accompanies them. If you ever look up the word “Geek” in the dictionary, there tends to…