Chris Martin’s lost James Bond title is up for sale along with Coldplay’s silent tapes | Coldplay

A lost recording of a song by Coldplay’s Chris Martin is said to have been made in 1999 James Bond The World Is Not Enough video is being sold, along with some of the band’s earliest hits.

About sale of Wax PoeticsBritish artist Chris Allison presents a archive of the band’s pre-release EP The Blue Room, released in October 1999.

The World Is Not Enough is being sold as a single on cassette tape, performed by Martin on guitar. It has never been released, and it is not known if it was even given the famous film by Pierce Brosnan, whose theme song (also called The World Is Not Enough) was written by Garbage.

Coldplay are on record as James Bond fans. In response to a question from a fan on their website, they said about the song Spies from the first album of 2000 Parachutes: “The band had (Bond writer) John Barry (the best composer in film & tv ever!) in mind and there was a Bond film in the pipeline,” the latter says of The World Is Not Enough.

Elsewhere in the shop are the master tapes of The Blue Room, the first release for their band Parlophone, who they signed in April 1999 while studying at University College London (their self-released EP Security came out in 1998).

The tapes, which are described in the trade list as “one of the most important and direct records of Coldplay’s early years”, contain unheard versions of the three songs that ended up on Parachutes – Spies, We never Change and and Shiver – as well as an unheard version of the Blue Room track Bigger Stronger.

Some lots go way back: the self-titled Coldplay Tracks cassette contains nine tracks, including reruns of Shiver and We Never Change and the unheard and impressive Ode to Deodorant.

A cassette called Coldplay: 5 Tracks contains development recordings from their first client, and another contains songs from an old show in Chester. Allison is also selling rare versions of The Blue Room on CD and vinyl.

There are things beyond Coldplay, too. Allison created another Parlophone-signed act, The Beta Band: went on to sell commercials and tapes and other types of recordings for the first EPs The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos and their debut album, as well as Steve Mason’s solo project King Biscuit Time.

There is much material from the early years of another Allison-produced band, Wedding Present, including early recordings of their 1987 debut album George Best, the 1988 EP Ukrainian John Peel Sessions, and the 1989 second album Bizarro.

Allison is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale to the music education project Music Recovery.