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6:49 pm - 05/19/2008
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Coldplay's piano gift for school
Coldplay's Piano Gift For School
Pop giants Coldplay have bought a £3,000 (approx $6,000) piano for a Gloucestershire primary school that lost its musical instruments during the floods of 2007.
Bassist Guy Berryman heard about the school's plight from his neighbour. It led to the Grammy-award winning group, who had hits with Speed of Sound and Yellow, buying the Kemble piano for St David's School in Moreton-in-Marsh.
Head teacher Bob Forster said: "It is fantastic. I was impressed they cared enough to want to help." It is believed the band acted after seeing pictures of the school's piano floating in the water-filled hall. Mr Forster added: "Music is important to St David's and gives huge pleasure to people inside and out of the school. "We didn't ask for the money, but Guy Berryman is a neighbour of one of our teaching support workers and that's how they heard about us." All the school's instruments - keyboards, drums, recorders, and handbells - were wrecked when water swept through the corridors last July.
The band, whose singer Chris Martin is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, has sold 30 million albums making them one of the world's biggest acts. The 320-pupil school has now sent a thank you letter to Coldplay and will also send photos of the piano being used.
I think I should stop posting and go do some work, y/y?
Head teacher Bob Forster said: "It is fantastic. I was impressed they cared enough to want to help." It is believed the band acted after seeing pictures of the school's piano floating in the water-filled hall. Mr Forster added: "Music is important to St David's and gives huge pleasure to people inside and out of the school. "We didn't ask for the money, but Guy Berryman is a neighbour of one of our teaching support workers and that's how they heard about us." All the school's instruments - keyboards, drums, recorders, and handbells - were wrecked when water swept through the corridors last July.
The band, whose singer Chris Martin is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, has sold 30 million albums making them one of the world's biggest acts. The 320-pupil school has now sent a thank you letter to Coldplay and will also send photos of the piano being used.
I think I should stop posting and go do some work, y/y?
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wtg coldplay
Edited at 2008-05-19 06:02 pm (UTC)
I agree though, I wish my eyes were that colour!
I want to die.
And post on ONTD all night :(
I know that feeling toooooo well :(
I guess I should get my ass in gear. (good luck for any exams that I assume you have as well?).
Not that it was a ~fabulous~ piano or anything.
I reallllly want to start a piano rock band ;p
i'm working on rachmaninoffs prelude in C# minor (opus 3, no 2) and i think i'm supposed to start some etude, eh idk.
can you score out your own songs? that's what i've been doing a lot of lately, it's fun. i hate learning stuff by ear, it doesn't necessarily take too much time - i just feel the need to score what i'm playing (because i won't remember an on the spot ear performance unless i record it) and that takes forever.
umm I don't usually write them out. I have to play it 3 or 4 times with the song, but then I pretty much memorize it. songs written now a days aren't that complex. sometimes I put my video camera on the piano to record haha.
you know what's realllllly fun? playing piano while someone's playing bass and just jamming.
i'll eat it
oh so its okay to make fun of something you wrote from the heart and put out there for everyone, because what matters in life is money, not real stuff like that. uh huh.