i was just watching spaced on DVD when i noticed a certain yellow poster in the background:

 

i made the :freak: face when i saw the first band listed. and my mind exploded when i saw what other bands were on that flyer: muse? elbow? badly drawn boy? doves? :stunned:

 

this episode of spaced is from 2001, before coldplay really were anybody! if only simon pegg knew he would become best friends with the lead singer of that first little-known band on the list and become godfather to his children!

 

:stunned:

Yesterday I went to a music shop to ask them about Prospekt's March, and when I got there they played Lost! And then when I got to the desk Viva La Vida Album was there :D. Those two things really made me smile!

 

My friends who went with me of course thought it was weird. And he thought it was even more weird that I had to wait in the store until the song was finished!

^Haha, some people... :rolleyes: They just don't understand.

Nice story. :D I would have smiled like an idiot myself. :lol:

Haha, I know! People just don't know what love is, do they?

 

Btw, I would have definitly done the same, if I was at the salon :P! I'm sure they would have kicked me out or something :lol:!

^^:lol:

 

My mom and friends think I'm odd only because my idiot smile when I hear a Coldplay song on the street :lol:

So do I

aww daniel, i love your new avi :D. i can't wait for snow and christmas!

 

and i definitely do that too. we went to a restaurant on my birthday, and the first song that came on the radio when i was there was VLV :wacky:

Chelsea I think Chris and Simon were already friends at this point...which is why he probably put the poster up :D

 

Thanks for the cap :nice:

you think they were friends back in 2000 and 2001? definitely could be, but i thought they met through gwyneth, who was already friends with him, and gwyneth and chris didn't even meet until 2002, right? or am i completely off? :thinking:

 

wiki says i'm wrong, though. who knows? :P

I think Wiki is off. They were friends waaaay before Chris was with Gwyneth. I've heard Simon tell the story a few times cos the poor guy always gets asked about Chris :dozey:

 

They met in 2000, Chris went up to Simon at a gig and started saying how much he loved Big Train and they've been friends ever since. Simon played harmonica on Don't Panic at the V2001 festival :D

aww daniel, i love your new avi :D. i can't wait for snow and christmas!

 

and i definitely do that too. we went to a restaurant on my birthday, and the first song that came on the radio when i was there was VLV :wacky:

 

Thanks chelsea :lol: Yay! Christmas time is so soon! :dance:

I think Wiki is off. They were friends waaaay before Chris was with Gwyneth. I've heard Simon tell the story a few times cos the poor guy always gets asked about Chris :dozey:

 

They met in 2000, Chris went up to Simon at a gig and started saying how much he loved Big Train and they've been friends ever since. Simon played harmonica on Don't Panic at the V2001 festival :D

 

oh dude. i was totally off! :laugh: that was in 2001?! i thought that was like, late 2002 or something, and i totally thought they met through gwyneth somehow :dunce:. i remember that video, though, haven't seen it in ages.

 

anyway, still cool to see that poster in spaced :D

Well Chris, Jonny and Simon did an OXFAM gig with Noel Gallagher in late 2002, but he'd played harmonica at V2001 before that too :D

 

Definitely cool though. Gotta love Spaced :D Did you buy the Region 2 version of Spaced when it came out there? :idea2:

nah, actually, some very nice coldplayer gave it to me when i was in england :blush: :P

 

i have to watch it on my computer to unlock the region, but it's totally worth it :D

My computer only allows me to change the region code 5 times before it's set for good. It's such a pain in the ass, since I got this awesome limited edition numbered version of Concert for Bangladesh when I worked at Apple Records. When I got home, I was so excited to watch it, and alas- wrong region code! :bigcry:

 

Anyway, my random Coldplay thought of the day is: How awesome are Coldplay that they drop butterfly confetti on stage and in their video when some musicians are singing about pimps, etc.? Can you imagine sending a video with butterflies to MTV these days? :P

(I'm not criticizing other music, just saying...)

you can download programs that enable you to watch DVDs from any region. i use AnyDVD :D

 

and that's definitely true about music and videos these days. thank god for bands like coldplay for keeping up the posterity and integrity :nice:

Really?! Well this changes everything! :P I've been waiting almost a whole year to watch that damn DVD...

 

Yeah, I was just imagining some music video marathon on VH1 (which doesn't happen at all anymore with all of those crappy shows), and between all of those gross videos... butterflies? :nice: I respect the band a lot for that. It must take guts.

 

Other random thought: What does it mean that a lot of Coldplayers immediately gravitated towards the PM song that Chris called their "only safety net"- LIT2? :thinking:

that it was definitely one of the ones chris was talking about when he said there are two songs everyone needs to hear before they die :wink:. that's what i think, anyway :D

 

where did chris call it a safety net? i guess he might mean that just because it's poppy and could be a major hit even if their "new direction" didn't catch on. but it did, so he's got nothing to worry about.

Here is an old video of Coldplay preforming Yellow @ TOTP in 2000:

 

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(sorry if it was already posted) :D

I went to a few bars in a city yesterday and a friend of mine parked the car in the garage.

When we went to the elevator (since we had to park waaaaaay high) VLV was playing in the garage.

I was like: omg :O Ans I just stood there and listened to it. My friends laughed their asses off :p

 

Btw.. that video is so cute :o

1. LOL so funny how the music is backtracked, especially the backing vocals. You can even hear the piano lol.

2. HOLY SHIT! Jonny's "playing" a strat! when the heck did he get a strat!?!?

the other day i was at a resturaunt and i heard dont panic :)

How is Coldplay's fifth album going to beat Viva?

How is Coldplay's fifth album going to beat Viva?

Same way the Joshua Tree beat The Unforgettable Fire, with pure music godliness!

I was just listening to the preview of "Rainy Day", and my brother walked by and said: "Is that one of the preview songs for Coldplay's new album? It's good... not excellent, but pretty good."

 

:stunned:

 

:wacko: