Q. Hi Oracle! Just wondering reading back through the questions I see a "Martin" from the UK submitted a question on 17 September 2009 about the band signing. Was this Chris Martin?

No it wasn't. Er, Chris is called Chris so that's clue number one. To be honest Chris hasn't got time to submit a question to which he obviously already knows the answer. I know there was speculation as to who the person that passed on the band was so I shall say here that no, it was not Alex James. Personally I don't recall his version of events being altogether correct either!