Coldplay want to perform with Take That.

The "Viva La Vida" rockers are looking to play a big stadium show next summer and frontman Chris Martin says he would happily open for the reformed boyband when they play live next year.

Posting on the band's website, Chris wrote: "I would open for Take That. We were in the dressing room the other day and, for whatever reason, we started singing "Back For Good".

"We sang the whole thing, word for word, with all the right chords on our piano, without having to learn it or anything. It was great. "So I'd like to use the Coldplay website to announce that if Take That want us to open for them, we'll do it.

"The only problem is that we'll have to get down the gym for a bit!" Coldplay have been left looking for appropriate venues for their proposed 2009 tour after failing in an attempt to book legendary concert venue Knebworth House, in Hertfordshire, England.

Take That will perform at London's Wembley Stadium, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Sunderland's Stadium of Light.

(CRI November 18, 2008)