Well, now, everyone's saying that Coldplay are splitting up, following Chris Martin's comments at the Brit Awards on Wednesday night. Collecting his awards at the Brits, Martin said: "Thank you. That's it. We won't see you for a very long time," and continued "people are fed up with us and so are we. You won't see us at one of these for many, many years. We mean it."
Where exactly he slipped in the subliminal message "we're splitting", I don't know. Personally I inferred his comments thus: "we're taking a long break, and then when we come back we're going to do an experimental album that completely departs from our old sound that will only be popular with a couple of critics and be a minor success with the public". Oh yeah, look, it is easy to carelessly read things into what Chris Martin says.
Anyway, nearly everyone on the planet is reporting that Coldplay are to split, but the band's label have, not surprisingly, denied this, saying "Coldplay are not quitting. They are on the road until July, when their 16-month 'X&Y' World Tour ends in Japan. They will then continue working on new material."
Fellow Brit award winner James Blunt said "It's time to leave Coldplay alone and stop all of this ludicrous speculation." No, you're right. He didn't really. I just made that up.