The Twisted Logic Tour started in June 2005 and kept going all the way through to March 2007 – Coldplay played loads of festivals, like Coachella, Isle of Wight Festival, Glastonbury and the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
and hit the shops as a CD on May 23rd 2005.
Speed of Sound was first played on the radio & in the online music stores on April 18th
2004 saw Coldplay up for Record of the Year for Clocks at the Grammys.
In 2004, while recording their 3rd album, the band released a right old satirical music video for a song by a fictional band called the Nappies.
In December 2003, Rolling Stone magazine readers voted for Coldplay as the best artist & best band of the year.
At that time the band covered the Pretenders 1983 song 2000 Miles (which was made available on their website).
On August 28th 2003, Coldplay performed The Scientist at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. They even managed to pick up 3 awards that night.
But then in 2003 at the Brit Awards held in Earls Court in London, Coldplay walked away with two gongs: Best British Group & Best British Album.
Coldplay won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for A Rush of Blood to the Head in 2003.