"The frontman has been left hobbling after twisting his knee awkwardly during practice sessions for the quartet's eagerly-awaited first gig in London on Monday." Smarto puts the injury down to Martin's apparent newfound love of trampolining, which is a bit weird to say the least, but also, because it's Chris Martin, totally believable. However, if Martin and co are hoping to have their pre-show nerves soothed by Smarto, they've got another thing coming.
"HMV is banking on the new album being the year's biggest seller. Their stock order is the largest they've placed in the chain's history." And that's not all: "EMI will certainly be hoping they set all sorts of records. They are relying on the album being a hit to raise some much-needed cash after their market share slumped to well below nine per cent in America." Wow, with trampoline injuries and the weight of the music industry's woes on their shoulders, Coldplay's live shows sound like a right laugh.
Punk is dead, long live punk! And then fly it to the Isle of Wight festival in a specially chartered helicopter! That, according to Kim Dawson of Kim Dawson's Playlist, is how the Sex Pistols are planning to make their entrance at the bash this weekend.
"The Pistols heard about the Rolling Stones chartering their own ferry to the festival and decided they too needed to travel in style," a source tells the Star's music columnist. That's nothing, apparently Iggy Pop is getting there by speedboat, though one can only hope the results of his performance aren't as gruesome as this little snippet from the Sun's Bizarre pages. The Stooges frontman tells Smart Gordon: "At an early 70s festival they cleared the crowd and some bikers had lashed a man to a tree and stuck an axe through his heart." It makes Rotten's summary of the Isle as "warm beer, old women and Johnny Rotten's haemorrhoids - yum yum", sound positively bucolic.
The Mirror's 3am team, like many others, have been keeping a close eye on what Lily Allen and her pink head have been up to in LA. It's not hard though, the singer has been blogging regularly about her time in the city, which mainly involves posting pictures of what she's been eating. Clemmie and Danielle have some dirt though: "We hear Lil, 22, had to shut down her impromptu party at a bungalow she is renting at the plush Chateau Marmont in LA because staff complained the noise was too loud." Call that juicy gossip?
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