Exeter Castle, Exeter, UK (19 December 2009):

Ladies' man Ricardo Bomba to start alongside Chris Martin in The Simpsons

Recently, to celebrate the show's 20th season, there was a contest to create a new character for The Simpsons. Well, the winner has been announced as Peggy Black of Orange, Conn., and the character is Ricardo Bomba, who is quite the ladies' man.

"Rrrri-carrr-do Bomba," Black said, extravagantly rolling the "R's" in Spanish-language fashion. "He's someone that all the women love and all the men want to be."

Bomba will be introduced in the episode featuring guest star Chris Martin of Coldplay. The episode had been mostly completed, with a spot reserved for the contest character. In "Million Dollar Maybe," Homer Simpson is rushing to meet Marge for a date when he encounters Bomba in the episode that centers on a winning lottery ticket.

As recently announced online Coldplay has been announced as special guests on the 20th anniversary episode of The Simpsons. According to Coldplay.com, the episode will air on January 14th, 2010. An earlier report by RollingStone.com suggested that in the episode, Homer Simpson hires the band to play privately for him and Bart after he wins the lottery -- with the band having to stop their performance while Bart goes to the bathroom.

Coldplay as they will appear in the Simpsons episode, to air in January 2010

It's possible Bomba could appear again, said executive producer Al Jean, who helped judge the contest. He described the contest, part of the show's celebration of its 20th year, as a thank you to loyal fans. Black, who counts herself among them, was encouraged to enter by Dwight Vann, 42, a colleague at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, Conn., where she is operations manager for the cancer center and a radiation therapist. Her favorite character is Bart Simpson, she said, "because he's such a bad boy. He's so misunderstood."

In pondering her contest entry, Black decided there was a void on "The Simpsons" and that Springfield needed "something like a Casanova," she said. Bomba, a handsome, smooth-talking South American nicknamed "La Bomba," works at the town's nuclear power plant by day and "by night, works Springfield's singles scene," as Fox describes him.

So is Bomba the man of her dreams? "I'm married to the man of my dreams," Black replied. She'd bounced ideas for her creation off co-worker Vann, and then rewarded him when she won the grand prize of a trip to Los Angeles to work with the show's producers: She invited Vann to join her. A highlight of the visit was watching Bomba brought to life by animators. "I described the character and they drew him so I could see if that was my vision of him," she said. "It's amazing to see how they captured what I imagined. He's over the top."

Black, who's still marveling at her sudden brush with Hollywood success, brushes away a question about the lack of a cash prize. "I'm going to be immortalized forever by making a `Simpsons' character," she said.

12th November 2009

Pictures: Chris Martin opens the Kids Company Charity Auction

Internet sources reported on Chris Martin's attendance at the Kids Company charity designer fashion sale called 'Gladrags and Handbags' at the Music Room in London last night, which you can discuss and see more pictures at the Coldplay forum. Other pictures are after the jump also. As we reported recently, Coldplay have donated £1million to the South London charity Kids Company, which provides practical and emotional support to children who come from deprived families in the city. [thanks mimixxx]

The band's donation will help fund the opening of a new centre in Camden, a place where individuals searching for flats to rent in Camden might want to get involved with through volunteer work. A spokeswoman for Kids Company said: "Coldplay were inspired by the work they saw so decided to make this donation."

Kids Company, founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh, provides emotional and practical support to children from deprived families in the capital. Coldplay will help fund the opening of a new centre in Camden, plus they have offered to give free music lessons to the kids. Coldplay have, however, been trying to downplay their donation and didn't inform the press about their kind-hearted gesture or make any mention of it on their official website.

On Chris's attendance, Holy Moly for example reported online today with an article and pictures with headings entitled 'Chris Martin needs a macrobiotic pie - QUICKLY' and 'God Put a Ryvita Upon Your Face', saying: "Chris Martin from Coldplay looks as though he has finally succumbed to wife Gwyneth's mental diets. How else could he be looking so thin all of a sudden?"

They go on to say that, "Here he is at the charity designer fashion sale 'Gladrags and Handbags' thing in London last night. He certainly appears to have laid off the pies and gone for some other form of nourishment to keep the weight down. Mysterious. He seems to have contracted the same staring, shocked look that Robbie Williams was sporting last night and on the X Factor too. It would be churlish of me not to mention the fucking lunatic he's stood next to wouldn't it? Her name is Camilla Batmanghelidjh. It had to be really didn't it? Tek me length Gal...".

Typical Holy Moly charity article!

COLDPLAY -S trawberry Swing Live & Acoustic video performance on I Heart Radio

COLDPLAY - Billie Jean (Michael Jackson cover)

Nov 09, 2009

Chris Martin attends Mark Owen's wedding in the Scottish Highlands

Take That's Mark Owen married long-time girlfriend Emma Ferguson yesterday, and they led their small group of guests - including Mark's bandmates Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Jason Orange, Coldplay singer Chris Martin and his wife Gwyneth Paltrow and former Take That member Robbie Williams - to a lavish UK reception at nearby Cawdor Castle.

The Take That singer couldn't stop smiling throughout the candlelit ceremony at Cawdor Church in the Scottish Highlands. Emma, 33, kept the 37-year-old star waiting at the altar for more than 30 minutes. When she finally arrived, dressed in a white lace gown and flanked by two bridesmaids, she was cheered on by hundreds of fans who had gathered outside the tiny chapel. After the ceremony, the happy couple emerged to greet fans, showing off their rings under a shower of red rose petals.

Mark and Emma have been engaged since 2006, and have two children together, Elwood, three, and one-year-old Willow.

The group did everything possible to keep their arrival on a 17-seater Lear jet a secret. After landing, the band headed to a luxury accommodation six miles away at Cawdor Castle, near Nairn. “They tried their best to keep their visit low-key. Mark wants to keep this wedding very private and away from public eyes. However, it is the worst-kept secret in the world,” the Sun quoted a source as saying.

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Brian Eno talks to Pitchfork about Coldplay


Any way you look at it, Brian Eno is one of the preeminent producers and thinkers of our time. Indeed, the once prolific Eno's own output has slowed considerably since the 1970s and 80s, in part due to these extracurriculars and of course thanks to his ongoing work with U2 and Coldplay. He spoke to Pitchfork online, in which he mentions his work with Coldplay on several occasions...

Pitchfork: In some way you bore the brunt of similar suspicion and ire when you agreed to work with Coldplay. It even forced people to miss that you made a good record together.

Brian Eno: Well, again, there are ways of playing it safe, and for me playing it safe would be to-- since I don't really need the money-- to work with only sort of critically respectable, obscure, experimental indie bands. Everyone would say, oh, that's fine. I would be that kind of producer who does that kind of thing. But when I met Coldplay and got to know them, I so much liked those people and I so think that they really want to do something. Again, it's like U2 were. They are hungry to do something else. And they will. I'm sure they'll turn out to be a great band.

Pitchfork: When you have a band like U2 or Coldplay, in theory they can do whatever they want. They're popular, they're wealthy, that should afford one complete freedom. But there are imposed limitations of stardom.

Brian Eno: Yes, though funnily enough that doesn't produce such a strong effect as you would think in the studio. What I think produces a strong effect is the feeling of not wanting to disappoint people. Because one thing you are aware of when you're very popular is how much stock people put in your work. You know that there are 11-year-olds who are saving up to buy your record. [laughs] Though that's probably not true anymore.

Read the full interview courtesy of Pitchfork at the feature section of their website now.

Second Mexico City show added

Good afternoon. We're pleased to confirm that Coldplay will be playing a second show in Mexico City on Sunday, March 7 at Foro Sol (the night after the previously-announced show). Tickets go on sale on Wed, Nov 4 at 11am local time, from ticketmaster.com.mx.

For details of all the Latin American shows, please click here.

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El tema es: ¿Por qué coldplay no hace ni siquiera un show en chile?

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