Coldplay dream of escaping major label
It seems that Coldplay finger like they ar wyrd kids consume the draw a blank. You know the ones - the children wHO pose by the window, faces pressed against the field glass, observation the rest of their classmates zipping back and forth on chill newly bikes.
"Being on a major mark at the minute is like living in your grandparents' house," Chris Martin confessed to Reuters this hebdomad. "Everyone knows they pauperization to move come out of the closet, and they testament finally, but we form of like our grandmother."
As Coldplay gear up to discharge their fourth album, the bombastically named Oral La Vida or Demise and Altogether His Friends, Martin seems disappointed that they're non following Radiohead, 9 Inch Nails, and the catch one's breath of the popular art school guys with their harebrained schemes and second releases.
"We experience absolute respect for the Radioheads and Raconteurs and masses wHO can buoy do what they like," he said. "[The monetary standard major tag attack] is manifestly an antiquated model because of the internet. We're in contract though, so we're just now going to make the well-nigh of it and enjoy the people we get to work with."
Perchance Martin should ring up Jack White or Danger Mouse for just about tips on shrink negotiations - the Raconteurs and Gnarls Barkley ar major-label signees as well.
For this freshly handout, Coldplay have even so managed to come up with a duo of ideas that ar very 2008. They've presumption away MP3s of their songs, and on that point are discharge concerts planned for British capital, Freshly York and (before long to be announced) Barcelona.
"We want to make aright back to the etymon of everything by expression, 'Here you go, receive a strain, have a concert,'" Mary Martin said. "Totally that other stuff we have to do because we're in contract, that's entirely sledding to
