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STAR BUZZ
Coldplay offers free singles and concerts
Setting the stage for the arrival of Coldplay’s new album, Viva la Vida, the British group is making the first single, Violet Hill, available for free download for one week starting Tuesday. It has announced free concerts in London and New York around the time the album comes out June 17.
The shows will be June 17 at Brixton Academy in London and June 23 at Madison Square Garden. Tickets will be available through a contest on the band’s web site, which also will be the platform for downloading the single before it’s available from digital retailers May 6.
The new album, the follow-up to Coldplay’s multi-platinum 2005 collection, X&Y, is considered one of the year’s biggest releases and was produced by Brian Eno and Markus Dravs.
— Dawn/LAT-WP news service
Floyd inflatable pig goes missing
A Pink Floyd inflatable pig flew away as Roger Waters performed a version of the Pink Floyd song, Pigs. The organisers of the festival have put up a reward of 10,000 dollars for whoever finds and returns it including tickets for life for the festival.
“It wasn’t really supposed to happen that way,” said Marcee Rondan, a Coachella spokeswoman. “People are putting search teams together to find it but it may never be seen again.” She added that the object would most likely lose air and deflate.
Walters is said to have commented “that’s my pig!” as it drifted away during the gig. The inflatable beast is the width of two busses and has artwork of Uncle Sam holding two cleavers for cutting meat and bears slogans “fear builds walls” and “don’t be led to the slaughter.” The organisers of Coachella have asked anyone with any information to contact them on lostpig@coachella.com.
The pig has been a regular feature at Pink Floyd concerts. Originally designed by Roger Waters, he retained the copyrights when he left the band in 1985 and demanded a sum of 800 dollars each time it would be used. Unwilling to pay the sum required, Pink Floyd, the band without Roger Waters, changed the pig’s gender by adding testicles. — MS
Baltimore fest lands Dylan
The record industry might be singing its woes on various fronts, but pop music festival mania appears to be continuing unabated.The Third Virgin Mobile Festival will put iconic rockers Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry and Iggy & the Stooges together with latter-day headliners Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails (NIN), Jack Johnson, the reunited Stone Temple Pilots and the Foo Fighters over the August 9-10 weekend in Baltimore. The lineup also includes Wilco, the Offspring, Moby, Paramore, Bloc Party, the Black Keys, Lil Wayne and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Tickets go on sale Saturday. Details are available on the fest’s web site.
NIN and Stone Temple Pilots will also turn up in October in New Orleans for the Tenth Voodoo Experience festival, along with R.E.M. and Crescent City favorites including the Neville Brothers, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Irvin Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Tickets for the three-day event, starting October 24, go on sale Friday at the Voodoo Experience web site. — Dawn/LAT-WP news service
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