Chris Martin’s lost James Bond theme goes on auction with unheard Coldplay tapes

Chris Martin performing with Coldplay at the Bull and Gate, London, April 1999. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

A lost demo recording of a song Coldplay’s Chris Martin reportedly intended for 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough is going up for auction, alongside other recordings from the band’s earliest years.

For the auction by Wax Poetics, the British producer Chris Allison is making available an archive of recordings the band made prior to their Allison-produced second EP The Blue Room, released in October 1999.