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Coldplay reveals more album details
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-12 14:19  U.K. band Coldplay debuted several tracks from its as-yet-untitled new
album last Friday during an intimate concert for fans and industry personnel in
London.
New songs "Speed of Sound," "A Message" and "What If" were
unveiled, while time constraints prevented a fourth tune, "Fix You," from being
played.
Frontman Chris Martin also described another song, "Square One,"
as "designed to be played live" during a Monday interview with BBC Radio One.
The band previously said tracks such as "The Hardest Part," "X&Y" and "'Till
Kingdom Come" were contenders to make the final cut.
The artist
elaborated on why Coldplay scrapped its first batch of new material last summer,
after it had begun rehearsing the songs for a planned tour.
"We realized
that we didn't really have the right songs, and some of them were starting to
sound better, because we were playing them, than they did on record. So we
thought we better go back and record them again," he said.
Martin said
the new album was days away from being finished, and that only one song was left
to mix. The set will arrive in June via Capitol. One new song, "Talk," has been
circulating online in the past few days. Reports suggest it may be earmarked for
a B-side.
Coldplay will make its first public live appearance since 2003
on Saturday (March 12) during a KCRW benefit at Los Angeles' Universal
Amphitheater.
Martin admitted Coldplay is nervous to trot itself back
out in front of audiences. "We've been away for so long now, and the only public
feedback we get is tabloid gossip, which is generally vitriolic," he said. "So
at this point we feel so unpopular and so out of the loop."
In addition
to its April 30 headlining appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts
Festival in Indio, Calif., Coldplay will play a rare club show the night before
in Las Vegas. The group will begin a European tour June 15 in Hamburg,
Germany.
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