Coldplay front man, Chris Martin has revealed that the band would love to play a big stadium show next summer and would be happy to open one of Take That’s shows on their Circus tour.

Posting on the band’s website, Chris wrote: “I would open for Take That. We were in the dressing room the other day and, for whatever reason, we started singing ‘Back For Good’.

“We sang the whole thing, word for word, with all the right chords on our piano, without having to learn it or anything. It was great.

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BBC Radio 1 announced today (Monday 21 April) that the station will kick off the 2008 festival season with the biggest female artist on the planet headlining Radio 1’s Big Weekend – Madonna.

The event takes place at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May. Chris Moyles announced the big news and the full main stage line-up on his show this morning. The line-ups for the rest of the stages will be announced throughout the day on Radio 1. Read more & comment »

I was lucky enough to be in the audience for the opening concert of Take That’s Beautiful World tour last night, at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. As a massive and long serving Take That fan, I have been anticipating this concert for months, I even booked standing tickets so that I could get closer to the stage, or in truth, closer to Howard Donald.

I knew that I wouldn’t be disappointed by the boys, as long as they showed up and looked rugged enough, the £90 I shelled out on tickets would have been money well spent. True to form though, the boys didn’t just look the part, they sang the part, danced the part and performed the part. It was an amazing show, I think I even enjoyed it more that their 2005 comeback tour. Though I have to admit feeling my age when they started singing snippets of songs from the Take That and Party Album, even more so when I realised that I remembered most of the dance routines to Everything Changes and Pray.

But last night’s concert wasn’t a typical TT concert in many ways. Firstly I was surprised to find that Howard, (the really handsome one) took on a much larger singing role than he normally enjoys. In fact at one point it was mentioned that the band have been inundated with requests for Howard and Gary Barlow to perform a duet. They of course obliged and we ended up with a great version of Everything Changes. Read more & comment »

After the rapid sell out of tickets for their London reunion gigs, The Sex Pistols have added two more shows for fans.

They will now play the Brixton Academy on 9 and 10 November in addition to their 8 November concert.

Original members John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will perform at the concerts.

Here are a few clips for all you Prince fans out there. We are heading to see Prince at the O2 arena later this month so this has really gotten me in the mood.

Click on the Read More link after the video to see Purple Rain!

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Glastonbury fans will be asked to make a difference to climate change by reducing their carbon footprint at the festival this year.

Those attending the event will be asked to join the 1 count campaign as well as eating organic food, showering in carbon neutral showers and will be supplied with recycled toilet paper.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis explained: “We’ve put a lot of effort into focusing Glastonbury on the environment and climate change this year.

“We hope to see at least 100,000 new supporters sign up to the I Count campaign – and I’ll be the first to put my name down.”

Jack Bruce, former bassist for the 60s band Cream, has hinted at a recent show that the band may be reuniting for a concert later this year.

He told the Associated Press: “It came up we’re doing something if I wanted to. Obviously, I’m not going to be the one to say no.”

The band originally split in 1968 after public arguments between ruce and drummer, Ginger Baker.

Music legend, Prince is to play for a week in London’s new O2 Arena this summer, as part of his recently announced 21 London gigs.

Tickets will cost £31.21, a reference to his album 3121. Though he will also be playing at much smaller venues to make it “affordable for everybody”.

At a recent press launch Prince exclaimed:

“I love London,” he explained at a press launch. “I’ve had some of my favourite shows here.”

He added that he hoped to be joined in some of the gigs by Amy Winehouse.

In November 2006, the Pet Shop Boys played a concert in Mexico City featuring hits from their 25 year career.

That performance was recorded by acclaimed director David Barnard who has previously worked on concert videos by Björk and Gorillaz, and released as a DVD called Cubism Live.

I’ve heard that the DVD comes in a special slip case – half feature Neil Tennant and half feature Chris Lowe. Cubism is released on 21st May 2007.

Despite their lengthy career, the Pet Shop Boys are showing no signs of slowing down – they released their 9th studio album -Fundamental – last year and are about to embark on new UK live dates later this month.

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It seems as though another 90s reunion is on the cards as reports come in saying that The Spice Girls have been offered £1 million to do a one off reunion show this Christmas.

The reunion has never happened before as Mel C did not want to take part, but sources say that she is softening to the idea. Maybe she thinks they can be the next Take That….somehow I doubt it!