Coldplay - Coldplay Slam Plagiarism Claims

British rockers COLDPLAY have denied reports they plagiarised the music of an American band for their new album VIVA LA VIDA.

New York-based Creaky Boards claim that frontman Chris Martin was spotted attending one of their gigs and his band went on to use one of their melodies for a track on their latest LP.

Songwriter Andrew Hoepfner said: "We were flattered when we thought we saw Chris Martin in the crowd that night. He seemed pretty into it. Maybe too into it.

"The crazy thing is that my song is actually called 'The Songs I Didn't Write'."

But a spokesman for Coldplay has dismissed the claims, saying, "Viva La Vida was written and demoed in March 2007, which is more than six months before this band claim Chris went to see them!

"We totally refute their claims."

Martin has also denied attending the Creaky Boards gig - claiming he was in London at the time.

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Kidman looking to relocate

Nicole Kidman wants to live closer to Cate Blanchett, femalefirst.co.uk reports. The Moulin Rouge! star is so keen to relocate she has put two of her Australian properties on the market. Her Sydney villa has been valued at $19 million US, while her beachfront retreat on the New South Wales coast is on the market for $3.8 million.

Kidman � who is expecting her first child with husband Keith Urban in July � wants to buy a house with a larger garden, and is rumoured to be looking at properties that are closer to her family and friend Blanchett.

Kidman lived in the Sydney villa with her ex-husband Tom Cruise, and was awarded the property in their divorce settlement. The 40-year-old actress bought the beachfront retreat in 2004, but has only visited it a handful of times according to local residents. Kidman and her husband are also planning to spend more time in the U.S. at their Nashville property so Urban can concentrate on his music career.

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The Streets announce final album

Fresh from walking between Dover and the south of France, the Streets' Mike Skinner is not just murmuring about his upcoming fourth album but also about record number five, which he says will be the Streets' last.

"The weird thing about being a music artist is that you live your life approximately 12 months ahead of your fans," Skinner explained in a MySpace blog posting. "I'm about to wrap my latest album. You're going to hear it in a few months (unless it leaks before then) but I'm already planning the next one."

First things first. Skinner let slip the title for album four, Everything is Borrowed, and he promised that it is a work of "peaceful positive vibes", perfect as a follow-up to the "disturbing work" of 2006's The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. The latter was taken to task by critics for its charmless, cokey mania, and even Skinner now calls it a "guilt-ridden indulgence".

Skinner is less concerned with Everything is Borrowed, however, and mostly with the one that will follow. "The final Streets album, the fifth one, will be dark and futuristic," he wrote. "This could not be further from the album you're about to hear, but it's what is on my mind at the moment. I feel inspired by the synthesiser exhibition we visited in Graz."

"Of course, I'm not supposed to tell you about this dark vision of the future because I'm about to promote my peaceful coming-to-terms album. I'm told the peaceful one is quite good, although I've heard it so many times that it's just noise to me now. But the really exciting thing for me is the dark Berlin-influenced electronic album that'll come next."


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