So.. Elan??? I don't think it's his middle name, but I can live with that :P

he's Will (Elan or not Elan) Champion ♥

 

btw...

I've just found out that my birthday and Ava's are on the same day! OMG! :stunned:

That's great : D!

 

So Willuvers, how are you gonna spend 31th of July?

I'm gonna wear my Will T-shirt all day bake a cake (AND EAT IT OF CORSE HASJKFNASBIDAS :uhoh:), then drink some drinks with my mum. Last year I didn't balance those activities and I ended up drinking with my friends way too much for Will's health :lol: . Oh I already told my friend to lend me his Live 2003 DVD and I'm gonna stare at Will for hours. Hm. Then maybe I'm gonna sleep with a drawing that my lovely friend made for me.

I think it's an obsession.

Just a bump to remind everyone that our amazing Mr. Champion's 33rd birthday is Sunday. Once again, he will be celebrating with several thousand of his friends, this year at Splendour in the Grass in Australia.

It's tomorrow. July 31st. Monday is the 1st of August.

It's tomorrow. July 31st. Monday is the 1st of August.

 

I know...I've got vacation brain...I know it's the 31st, I just didn't know what today was! LOL...

:) It's the 31st of July in England.

Well it was the 31st of July an hour and seven minutes ago. :rolleyes:

In Poland it is for like almost 12 hours, but I wasn't able to use my computer since I was sleeping and resting after the wedding (which I of course was celebrating for Will's sake : P).

I won't repeat what I wrote in other thread especially that no one gives a shit :D But anyway, still, thanks for changing my life Mr. Champion I owe you sow much that if I could I would give you anything on your birthday. Please just stay the way you are cause you're great and I wish you health, friends, happiness, and a lot of love of course.

 

:blush:

Happy Birthday mister :will: Champion! Have a good one!

Hey Willuvers !

 

Can you tell me where's this picture from ?

Thankies :awesome:

 

 

Oh, and Will is THE man :dazzled:

Happy Birthday Will!

 

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Arise.

I'm seeing Mr. Champion tomorrow. No big. :D

:( And I saw Him month and few days ago... I want that day again, eh.

 

I'm happy for you Dianne! ^^ Enjoy the concert (of course you will)! And send greetings, hugs and kisses to Mr. Champion from all of us.

How much I would give to watch the sexiest man alive move on the scene again :dead:

I just love William's chest :heart:

 

Did you guys see this from the Lolla thread??? I'm so proud of our Will :) Finally getting some recognition he so deserves. :drummer:

 

 

Lollapalooza 2011, Friday: Coldplay

 

I forget that Coldplay is a band. Not that it exists, but that it is a collective of four flesh-and-blood musicians banging on instruments. Instruments that can be loud. Because it's easy to think of Coldplay as Chris Martin and some other dudes. He dates the famous actress, and the quartet's hits tend to be the ballads with Martin hunched over a piano. The production of Coldplay's four albums is clean, wine-party friendly and bloodless.

 

Before the Brits took the stage, three large, square LED screens displayed a circle intersected with an X. For all the shots taken at the band for being treacly pap for white people, the icons might as well have been targets.

 

But then the Brits took the stage. Multicolored lasers shot over the crowd. Fireworks erupted in sparkling white columns, as high as the skyscrapers towering behind the park. Those LED screens shimmered with more color, then displayed a silhoutte of a running man made of rainbows. At the climax of this opening tune, the rainbow man flies like superman.

 

It was a new tune, "Hurts Like Heaven." Despite that, wIth all the razzle dazzle pyrotechnics and the shocking, inescapably awesome volume of the band, the audience leapt and cheered. Two of the first four songs were new, from an upcoming record. Other to-be-released cuts, lit like Christmas trees and pulsing with more keyboards and dancefloor savvy, came throughout the set. And I've never seen a band's unheard material go over so well. Martin helped a bit, cheerleading the crowd along, prompting them to jump. And they all jumped.

But this likely wouldn't happen if not for Will Champion. The drummer is vital to the band. And I don't know that I've ever paid attention to his work on the albums. Or if I'm even supposed to. Yet he beats the shit out of his kit onstage. He's a muscular, bearded, Bonham lover. No, seriously. I'm talking about the guy from Coldplay. He drummed harder than anyone I saw all day, and that includes an art metal band.

 

He also sings. Dueting with Martin on "Us Against the World," another newbie introduced facetiously as being about a love affair between Bill O'Reilly and Sarah Palin. Maybe it was his bald head, maybe it was the hammy superimposed faces on the big video screens, but seeing Champion belt choruses into a microphone, I couldn't help but think that if Martin ever dumped the other three to go solo, a la Peter Gabriel, they've got a Phil Collins in back ready to step up.

 

I forgot how melodically sophisticated the early work is. "Shiver," which Martin pointed out as being the fisrt song Coldplay ever played in America, zigs and zags and swings and soars. "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face," started with a stripped rearrangement, actually whipped up a beautiful squall over some gorilla percussion. Coldplay can be a great rock band. Jonny Buckland's guitar sounds like a snarling electric guitar, not a toy Japanese keyboard, as it does coming through the filter of Brian Eno.

 

But then all those piano ballads sound like church hymns. Or, I should say, like the same church hymn over and over.

 

Chalk that up to Martin's self-help lyrics. Listing to a big batch of his writing, its struck me as Christian rock with a big dollop of doubt. The sky, choirs, cathedrals. Two songs go on about not being lost. I just wish the band weren't so repetitive. And obvious. When they play "Yellow" all the lights turn yellow. As dramatically rocking as the material can be, Martin's dweeby, common-denomenator earnestness makes it all feel too scripted. Their instruments look like movie props, covered in faux finishing and neon graffiti. The acoustic guitar looks like a blackboard, and like a hired artist spent three days decorating it.

 

There were silly rumors circulating earlier backstage that Jay Z would appear. Only his "99 Problems" made an appearance, introducing the band before a bit of John Williams pomp. Instead of surprise guests, Coldplay offered a version of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab." Sorry, everyone else, you were beaten to the punch, rather wonderfully. Next to Foster the People's Neil Young cover, an unlikely highlight of the day.

 

An honest to god lighter was held aloft at one point. Typically nowadays you just see the azure glow of iPhone screens at the end of all those pale arms. It was a hearwarming reminder of rock's classic era. And it made me overlook the band's bright new Ghostbusters uniforms and postmillennial pastiches. For a moment I was swept up in the hallelujahs. For a moment I considered Coldplay a classic.

 

http://timeoutchicago.com/music-nigh...riday-coldplay

Oh he totally deserved it. I'm so glad that they gave him so much credit.

 

He's a muscular, bearded, Bonham lover. He drummed harder than anyone I saw all day, and that includes an art metal band.

 

He also sings [...] they've got a Phil Collins in back ready to step up.

 

That's so lovely. I love this !

But lol Will is not bald :lol:

Aww, that's great!! I love it when he gets recognition!! :thumbsup:

I would just like to mention how much of a fucking beast Will Champion is. He drums harder than any Heavy Metal drummer, he sings like an freakin' angel, and he plays almost every instrument known to man. He also taught himself to drum just for Coldplay...

 

Best member BY FAR!!!

 

He's just too beautiful.

 

Will can't even look at the camera, he's so ashamed to be on Page 2.

Since it's my birthday (oh fuck it's already past midnight ; /) I Will please myself and all of You with those: