New Coldplay material previewed

Coldplay previewed six new songs and a b-side from their forthcoming album ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’ on Tuesday at a sell out gig at New York's Bowery Ballroom. The new and older Coldplay tracks were accompanied by a number of covers – one of Oasis' ‘Songbird’ (the Gallaghers were in the audience) and one of Bruce Springsteen's ‘Hungry Heart’ (Springsteen was playing a rival gig across town that night). They closed with a cover of Echo & the Bunnymen's ‘Lips Like Sugar’. The new album is released on 26 Aug.