Good afternoon. We’re very pleased to announce that Coldplay will perform at iTunes Festival at SXSW, on 11 March. The show will take place at ACL Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas.

The performance will be available to watch worldwide* for free as a live and on-demand stream via the iTunes Store on Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The show can also be seen in the iTunes Festival app on your iOS device or in HD with Apple TV. For more information, please click here.

Tickets to the show are not available to purchase, but we will be giving away 50 pairs of tickets via Coldplay.com later this week.

Anchorman

* The concert will be running in 104 countries where iTunes is available, but unfortunately iTunes is not able to stream it in Bahrain, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Egypt, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates or Uzbekistan.

ps – we’ve also unveiled this new photo of the band today (it was taken by Anton Corbijn)