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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 18, 2005, 11:56:00 am
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http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/18707189?source=Evening%20Standard (http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/18707189?source=Evening%20Standard)
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By Alexa Baracaia, Evening Standard
18 May 2005
Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin today launched an attack on his record label EMI and the company's shareholders.
t came after EMI, the world's third-largest music company, warned that profits would be lower because the band took longer than expected to finish their first studio album in three years.
But as Coldplay prepared for a concert in New York to promote their new album, called X&Y, Martin said: "I don't really care about EMI. I'm not really concerned about that.
"I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."
Martin told reporters at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre that the band was uncomfortable that they sell so many albums they can affect a major corporation's stock price.
"It's very strange for us that we spent 18 months in the studio just trying to make songs that make us feel a certain way and then suddenly become part of this corporate machine," Martin said backstage.
He criticised what he called "the slavery that we are all under to shareholders". However, having sold 20 million albums worldwide to date, their album release on 7 June and subsequent two-month tour of America in August and September will play a large role in determining EMI's profits.
Martin said the album was delayed because their first eight months of recording sessions produced songs that lacked the "spark" of such earlier hits as Yellow, Clocks and The Scientist.
The band was formed in 1998 and made a massive impact in the United States in 2002 with the release of A Rush Of Blood To The Head.
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if they're attacking the evils of profits, why are they playing venues that are 2x the size of last tour and charging 2x as much for tickets and playing a tour that is 40 dates just in north america?
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i think the picture here is hilarious
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some artists think that they deserve thier money because they are the ones making the music. but if it wasnt for shareholders, labels, execs, "big wigs" etc, then no one outside of England would give a rats ass about Coldplay.
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
i think the picture here is hilarious
it just goes to show, no matter how much of a superstar you are. British people are still just ugly....
(just kidding)
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he need not worry about getting my money.
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Originally posted by sonickteam4:
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
i think the picture here is hilarious
it just goes to show, no matter how much of a superstar you are. British people are still just ugly....
(just kidding) [/b]
Yet we still get to marry the doodle actresses! ;)
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
he need not worry about getting my money.
ditto
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Originally posted by sonickteam4:
but if it wasnt for shareholders, labels, execs, "big wigs" etc, then no one outside of England would give a rats ass about Coldplay.
EH?
I don't understand what you are trying to get at.
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Coldplay should attack 'triteness' of their lyrics.
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Originally posted by distance:
if they're attacking the evils of profits, why are they playing venues that are 2x the size of last tour and charging 2x as much for tickets and playing a tour that is 40 dates just in north america?
The band dosen't have any say on the price of tickets or the venues that they perform in. These factors are left to the management, the venue, and the record label. Bands want to play larger venues so more of their fans come out. Please do not bash the band.
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Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
Originally posted by distance:
if they're attacking the evils of profits, why are they playing venues that are 2x the size of last tour and charging 2x as much for tickets and playing a tour that is 40 dates just in north america?
The band dosen't have any say on the price of tickets or the venues that they perform in. These factors are left to the management, the venue, and the record label. Bands want to play larger venues so more of their fans come out. Please do not bash the band. [/b]
does the band not hire their management?
if they really cared, they would say 'hey, we don't support this.' you're not going to hear this, though. they're going to play the shows, they're going to get the money and chris martin is going to dance around on stage like an idiot.
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gotta love it... at one point the spark was usually found in the first couple of takes, i chuckle everytime i hear about bands laboring in the studio for that perfect record. in contrast "i can hear the grass grow" by the move sends shivers down my spine and i'll it was recorded essentially live in the studio on a four track recorder. laboring over the perfect snare sound is a sign of one's ego not one's talent....
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Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
The band dosen't have any say on the price of tickets or the venues that they perform in. These factors are left to the management, the venue, and the record label. Bands want to play larger venues so more of their fans come out. Please do not bash the band. [/b]
Gimme a break.....that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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Originally posted by Fine French Chaz:
Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
The band dosen't have any say on the price of tickets or the venues that they perform in. These factors are left to the management, the venue, and the record label. Bands want to play larger venues so more of their fans come out. Please do not bash the band. [/b]
Gimme a break.....that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. [/b]
You may not like it but it is true. Do you really think the band sits there and debate what ticket prices will be. I bet you ticket prices in each city are different. If you think Chris Martin and Co. decide what fans will pay to come see them you're dead wrong.
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Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
You may not like it but it is true. Do you really think the band sits there and debate what ticket prices will be.
You're telling me if Chris Martin and the Coldplay guys wanted a price cap of, say, $30, that they couldn't get it? I mean seriously, that's absurd.
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I'm sure a staph member will know, but I was under the impression that ticket prices are set by the venue after they find out how much the band want to be paid for the gig. For example.
Band wants 40 big ones.
Venue holds 1,500 punters.
26.66 per ticket
15.00 Seths boat payment
10.00 Twangirls days pa appointments
12.00 Thatguys new piercing
01.00 employee salaries
64.66 per ticket!
:D
No?
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
You may not like it but it is true. Do you really think the band sits there and debate what ticket prices will be.
You're telling me if Chris Martin and the Coldplay guys wanted a price cap of, say, $30, that they couldn't get it? I mean seriously, that's absurd. [/b]
Can you name 1 show where pavillion seats were $30 or less?
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Originally posted by BLACKSTORM:
Can you name 1 show where pavillion seats were $30 or less?
O.A.R.'s top ticket price @ Merriweather is $32. A check of ticketmaster shows at least ten bands who's top ticket prices at Nissan or Merriweather is ~$40.
Perhaps $30 is an overstatement, but my point stands that if the band said "no, our ticket price is going to be X on this tour," the ticket price would be X.