June 22, 2008 6:48 pm
Viva La Vida tops UK charts
BBC Radio 1 have just announced that Viva La Vida has become our first ever UK number one single. Amazing.
(Where are you now Crazy Frog?)
Coldplay.com
Well that was one of the more intense weeks I’ve had in this game. To be honest, these promo shows have wiped us all right out. The thousand-yard stare has been replaced with the utter ‘man down’ exhaustion where merely being awake and having to function feels like cruel and unusual punishment. We’re off for a few days to get home, do some laundry and then pinball off to New York. Nobody said it was easy!
In the meantime, here’s some photos from Paris TV day this week. Note Mr. Berryman being admonished for leaving his iPhone on during an interview!
R#42/Coldplay.com
(Thanks to Wendy for the pics)
Coldplay.com

17.6.08 - Barcelona
The crew is running entirely on espresso today. I sneak along to the press conference in a nearby swanky hotel. When we get to the rather impressive and imposing foyer, there is a gent in a suit at a grand piano playing a lounge jazz version of Trouble. Given my level of sleep deprivation, it seems wonderfully twisted. Lord only knows how the band manage to be so affable and approachable throughout. The wit and good humour flows and soon the press conference is done. Just a gig to do and a flight back to London. See you at the BBC!
Roadie #42
Thanks Coldplay.com!

Thursday 12th June, London
I feel very relieved that the album is finally released out into the big wide world today. it’s out of our hands now. It doesn’t belong to us anymore.
I hope that you like it. I hope that there’s song on there that will make a shit day slightly less shit, or a good day even better!
Thank you for your patience and support.
Prospekt/Coldplay.com

Hi
We are at the MTV Movie Awards - there’s a big fire next door at Universal Studios.
We are performing ‘Viva La Vida’. We are testing our confetti butterflies for the first time.
Guy Berryman/Coldplay.com
