Coldplay touring US starting in May

Kicking off their tour on May 17th in Atlanta, GA, Coldplay will be playing 16 US dates. Will they be playing in your town? The British formed band will than head for Canada for a few dates. On April Fools Coldplay came out with a statement on their site saying  that they plan to record their next album not in a traditional studio, but on a modified Boeing 727 aircraft, in zero gravity.

“Later this year, the band will board a modified Boeing, which can provide zero gravity for periods of 20-25 seconds at a time,” a statement on the site read. “Wearing self-designed outfits based on early Russian cosmonaut suits, they will be joined by producer/collaborator Brian Eno, who will use custom-made ‘heavy’ microphones to record the sessions on a 1969 analogue cassette player.”

“We’ve been searching for the right environment to record the perfect snare drum sound for many years now,” Chris Martin added, “and I’ve just got a gut feeling that zero gravity is the place to do that, y’know?”

[via mtv]