Coldplay Would Open For Oasis

11/17/08 1:15pm

Coldplay would be happy to open for Oasis or reformed '90s British boy band, Take That.

That tidbit was one of the things revealed by frontman Chris Martin in an interview on the Coldplay website on Friday.

Martin hinted that Coldplay are working on a major U.K. headlining concert for next year, but says they'd also consider doing something with Oasis.

"It would be a great double bill. And we wouldn't mind opening. I would also, funnily enough, open for Take That.

"We were in the dressing room yesterday 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. So I'd like to use this forum, the Coldplay website, to announce that if Take That want us to open for them, we'll do it. The only problem is that we'll have to get down the gym for a bit."

Martin also professed his love for Oasis' spotty 1997 release, Be Here Now, and urged people to listen to "My Big Mouth" from the album because it's "wonderful."

Gwyneth Paltrow's husband also talked about the band's forthcoming Prospekts March EP — which he calls "the right hand to [current album] Viva La Vida's left hand." Prospekts March can be purchased as either a stand-alone record or packaged with Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends on Nov. 25.

"I'm super-pleased with the EP, I've gotta say," said Martin. "And I'm allowed to say that because it doesn't have the same pressure as an album coming out.

"I think the people who've got Viva La Vida already and like it will hopefully really like the EP because it's from the same family, if a little more catchy. And the people who haven't got Viva La Vida can get both together. I just feel good about it."

And if you're wondering what direction Coldplay might go in on their next record, Martin confesses to writing a song "about when your uncles get drunk and sing" that "owes a slight debt to 'Altogether Now' by The Farm."