COLDPLAY is giving away free downloads of their album, both online and at their concerts COLDPLAY LIVE ALBUM TO BE GIVEN AWAY
FREE LIVE ALBUM AT SHOWS AND ONLINE Hello again. We begin with the news that Coldplay will be giving away a live CD, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, at every remaining live show in 2009 (apart from festival shows). Starting with the band's first North American tour date, at West Palm Beach in Florida on May 15th, every fan attending a show will be given a free copy of the nine-track CD. Also on May 15th, LeftRightLeftRightLeft will be made available as a free download from Coldplay.com, for fans everywhere.
According to the band, the give-away is meant as a recession-busting mark of gratitude to everyone who's supported them: "Playing live is what we love. This album is a thank you to our fans - the people who give us a reason to do it and make it happen."
The album was recorded over the past year in various cities around the world on the Viva La Vida tour.
FULL SUPPORT BILL FOR N.AMERICAN SHOWS We're pleased to confirm the final list of support acts for Coldplay's North American tour. Click on the links to check out their music at your local iTunes store.
Opening act: Howling Bells: May 15th-21st - iTunes page Kitty, Daisy and Lewis: July 10th-August 9th - iTunes page
Main support: Pete Yorn: May 15th-June 4th - iTunes page Snow Patrol: June 5th-21st - iTunes page Amadou & Mariam July 10th-24th - iTunes page Elbow: July 25th-August 9th - iTunes page
To see the full list of Coldplay's upcoming shows across North America and Europe, click here .
DOWNLOAD JON HOPKINS' VIVA TRACK At the beginning and end of Coldplay's current album, you can hear a snippet of Light Through The Veins by Jon Hopkins, the band's friend, collaborator and frequent support act. That track will be released in full on Hopkins' terrific new album, Insides , on May 4th. But it's currently available to download for free by clicking here .
WIN A SIGNED COPY OF THE LIVE ALBUM The CD version of LeftRightLeftRightLeft will not be available anywhere apart from the gigs, but we have managed to nab one copy, which the band will sign, to give away to you folks. To win it, simply email your name and address to competitions@coldplay.com before Tuesday 12th May. One entry per person, please. The winner of the Coldplay iPod Touch from TCM14 was Paolo M from Croydon, UK (congrats Paolo!).
We'll leave you with an oddly compelling film of a chap playing In My Place on the new Coldplay Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game .
will be made available as a free download from Coldplay.com
It's not available until the 15th, so a direct link right now may not exist... I would suggest checking Coldplay.com in 14 days and see what you can find.
Godis1coolguy said: will be made available as a free download from Coldplay.com
It's not available until the 15th, so a direct link right now may not exist... I would suggest checking Coldplay.com in 14 days and see what you can find.
Your title says APRIL 15
partialinsomniac
Tired Member
posted: May. 1, 2009 @ 11:49a
Heh. I might have posted five minutes too late, but I took the time to actually include the details (like the [correct] release date and album cover, neither of which was in the OP when it was initially posted).
This is the link: http://lrlrl.coldplay.com/leftright.php. You get asked for an email address and your country. There's a checkbox for opting out of email from Coldplay. (According to the privacy policy, the info you submit goes to the record label, EMI).
(FWIW, about a half hour after the album became available, I'm getting about 50KB/sec. download speed).
By the way, for those of you who got "Viva La Vida", the following news item on coldplay.com might interest you:
Good afternoon. At either end of Coldplay's current album, you can hear a snippet of a track called Light Through The Veins by Jon Hopkins, the band's friend, collaborator and frequent support act. That track will be released in full on Hopkins' terrific new album, Insides, on May 4th. But its nine minutes of electro loveliness are currently available to download for free by clicking here.
Apparently, the track is still available for free download, though a different link than the one in the news item was required to get it, as described below. It's also freely available to listen to via streaming.
This download link takes you to a shopping cart. You have to create an account (just first name and last appear to be required) and then you get to download it. Note: because the file is encoded as a 320 kbps MP3 (i.e. high quality), it's large--21 MB.
cogan said: Snyder81 said: I think my download died at 73MB...doh.
Given that the download is only 55MB large, that's quite a trick
I noticed when I started a new download the size was smaller...mine said 88% done at 73MB. Maybe the "original" download included the track they have to remove that was mentioned a couple posts above.
youngcoolguy said: The link for the download appears to be dead now...Maybe they decided to wait until the originally posted time of 9 AM to begin.
That "originally posted time of 9 AM" was for 9 AM UK time, which is the same as 1 AM Pacific time, 2 AM Mountain time, 3 AM Central time and 4 AM Eastern time.
So people have been downloading the album now for almost 3 hours.
Tracklist:
1. Glass of Water 4:43
2. 42 4:52
3. Clocks 4:40
4. Strawberry Swing 4:16
5. The Hardest Part/Postcards from Far Away 4:15
6. Viva La Vida 5:24
7. Death Will Never Conquer 1:39
8. Fix You 5:38
9. Death and All His Friends 4:22
worth it for The Hardest Part. I saw them live in Boston twice, this part of the show was amazing. The rest of the album kind of seems like a bit of an ego trip for the band. Can't really complain about a free album though.
cogan said: This is the link: http://lrlrl.coldplay.com/leftright.php. You get asked for an email address and your country. There's a checkbox for opting out of email from Coldplay. (According to the privacy policy, the info you submit goes to the record label, EMI).
(FWIW, about a half hour after the album became available, I'm getting about 50KB/sec. download speed).
Just tried clicking on and cutting and pasting the link, and it does not seem to be working.
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