Chris Martin banned from studio

Chris Martin revealed that whilst the rest of the band are busy recording Coldplay's next album, he's been banned from the studio for two whole weeks!

So whilst the rest of the band are busy working on their next album, Chris came into Absolute Radio to perform an exclusive session and chat to Breakfast Show DJ Christian O'Connell.

Chris told O'Connell that the band received a letter from Viva La Vida producer Brian Eno who is working on the bands new album with them; "The letter was to all of us he said that he thought the last album was OK but it could have been much better. He said that he still wanted to work with us on the next album but that I was banned from the studio! He said that it would be better without me for the first two weeks - 'you can do better without the singer'! He said. It has turned out to be a good idea though because the band's been free to try out loads of weird things without me getting in the way."

Christian then asked what Chris what he had been up to while the rest of the band had been recording and Chris mysteriously replied "I've been working lots of other people's music - I've been really busy…" but the singer didn't reveal just who those people were…

While the world is struggling in this tough economic climate it seems that Chris is already thinking about another possible source of income - as a body double for Piers Brosnan! He told Christian "If I had to re-train it would be as a body model for Madame Tussauds! I'd let them model Piers Brosnan's body on mine. Whenever they needed a six foot something man's body they could use mine. If they were doing an Amy Winehouse then I'd have to sit that one out though."

Talking about the bands upcoming gigs supported by Girls Aloud, Christian asked if it was true that Chris had called all of the girls personally asking them to do the show - which apparently it was not! "No that's not true! Maybe I should have though, in retrospect that would have been the polite thing to do."

Tune in to the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show Monday 2nd February from 7am to hear the session and interview in full or log on to www.absoluteradio.co.uk