Well Im not a huge fan but I like them and have cds and dvd.

 

Youth Group were great zI gave them a standing ovation, although the sound was pretty ordinary from my side on position. Its an old saying that you never let the support sound as good as the main act.

 

The 40 minute break was too long. Then there was the non stop dreadful rap. Christ what torture, then the beatles came on and people knew it was about to start.

 

On came coldplay, crowd went nuts, singing like crazy and didnt stop all night,great singing was commented on by Chris several times. Clapping was great. Fantastic crowd, sold out, thousand on the floor alone so in all would have been 15,000 id say. Great range of ages, no trouble, lots of love. Crowd going nuts.

 

Played most popular songs, sound for the first one was way off but it was terrific for the rest of the show. Crowd fgoing nuts.

 

The lighting effects were minimal, one curved vid screen at the year wasnt used anywhere near enough, especially when martin ran out into the crowd, there was no big screen. Infact for the 120 bucks most people paid you expect more visual effect for your buck. As I expected after seeing the sydney 2003 dvd, you go to hear coldplay not see them.

 

Sure martim jumps around in a fashion that must have insurance companies shitting their pants, but thats about it. Not much coverage of the band, not much video coverage of anything for that matter.

 

The sound was overall better than I could have hoped for from where I sat. I made eye contact with Chris which is always good when you are applauding, also the guitarist with the cap and the drummer, lucky me, that always makes a concert special. The drummer drummed his guts out by the way.

 

The riggers up in the gods were excellent with what they had to work with,a few spots, there was too much shadow, at times the spots were off, but thats hard to do with a guy that jumps around at random. Lost a mark for not waving to anyone too. We know youre up there, first time at Rod Laver Arena no waves from above, make sure you guys wave tomorrow night, monday night you can water bomb.

 

The first set was a bit short, the crowd didnt bring the roof down for an encore and were a bit shocked. When they went off after the final weird extended one song encore I think people wanted a lot more than 90 minutes or so.

 

IK cant explain how the encore went, it was different, thats for sure, someone will put it into words better than me. I had to get the crowd around me standing up as I think most people didnt realise the end was approaching and that its COMPULSORY to stand at the end.

 

Overall Id give it an 8/10. The crowd made up for the lack of visual effects and Youth Group got things off to a good start.

 

Some weird Shane Warne references as he was in the crowd, I gather martin is a big fan of him.Infact during the break before the encore a chant of "WARNIE WARNIE " went up as he was moved to a better position from the seats to the floor. Made me sick, not the move but the chant, fuck shiould send a serious message to the band. melboourne people get bored easily during ecore breaks. A weird song and a version of ring of fire towards the end of the first set was a waste of time. The Hardest Part should have been played instead of those with the video on the big idle screen at the back being put to use.

 

Infact the lack of any video screen coverage overall gave me the shits. Im sure the people up in the gods must have been pissed off. When it was used it was great but that was only 20% of the time. Maritn mumbles a bit too at times, although it might have been related to the earlier sound problem.

 

I Know about these things and there really was a sound problem at the beginning and there was a mixing problem at one stage about half way through for about 5 seconds levels all dropped and there was a staccato effect, maybe it was a radio mike problem.

 

Dont get me wrong, Id go again if I had the money, atm there are floor tickets available at ticketek for tomorrow night and side view which is what I had for both nights, theyre cheaper and believe me better than being in front and right up the back.

 

Its a great sound and a great night, the fans made sure of that.

 

sorry if ai rambled, ears still ringing.

 

Big thanks to the security staff at Rod Laver Arena, always so professional, low key and friendly. They know how to judge a crowd and react accordingly. HAd a good view of the front barrier and saw lots of girls being let out over the top to go to the toot and then geting their spots back. Thats an example of sensible security at its best and you guys deserve a lot of praise.

 

AND PLEASE TAKE YOUR CAMERA

 

CAMERAS ARE ENCOURAGED DO NOT BE AFRAID THERE ARE NO SEARCHES AND BOOTLEGG TO BUGGERY YOU COULD TAKE A TV CAMERA IN THERE NO PROBLEM

 

YOU KNOW THERES NOT A CAMERA PROBLEM WHEN THE LEAD SINGER SINGS INTO A PHONE CAM AND THE BAND TAKES CROWD PICS AND THROWS THE CAMS INTO THE CROWD

 

have fun, go see coldplay, its worth it for the music.

I really enjoyed it, i agree that it seemed as short as hell and nobody knew what was going on at the end.

 

The Scientist was REALLY good. I thought the lighting effects were fantastic and everyone around me loved them.

 

The whole Warney thing that went on was funny.

 

The crowd was great but i think alot of people were surprised they went off after about an hour, so the atmosphere for Swallowed In The Sea and In My Place wasnt exactly awesome (until Chris went into the crowd). Fix You was good though.

 

What was the song playing immediatley after the show ended? I would REALLY appreciate anyone helping me out here.

 

Overall great night!!!

Was it good night irene or good night sweetheart? something like that, glad you liked it too!

 

Thats two of us wanting to know about the end then! he came back to the song about 6 times I reckon.

The song at the end of the concerts made me really sad, I'd like to know what it is aswell. And I do agree that the concert just flies by. 16 songs but it feels like 20 mins!!! Which is why I'm going to a third show hehe yesssss.

God the sydney concert going on the tv, lot less energy than tonights show in comparison. Geez this wil be one of those tours when the last night is the best night.............mmmm wheres that visa card.

How do i find out what that end song was? Start a thread in the other forum? Will people be pissed off?

My ears are still ringing, I thought it was a great concert, it could of been longer but thats because they dont have any dud songs and the crowd wanted to hear them all. A very different age bracket there tonight than I would have picked, all ages covered, I even saw a old lady who would have been pushing 80. I was up the back in the corner, when chris went into the crow durring in my place he was right next to me, it was a nice touch to get the crowd involved. The only things that put a damper on the night were the average presentation, lighting and coverage from cameras on the big screen were crap, also my friend told me that coldplay play with backing tracks on certain songs to get that full rich sound and that seemed obvious in points. But I have to say you would be a preety uptight fan to be disapointed by tonights perfromance. If someone bootleged it I would like it to remember the night.

Ahh that explains the sound glitch I referred to, I bet the backing track stuttered at one point, I looked for reaction from the guys at the foot of the stairs but they were inside or underneath the platform to the LHS of the stage on the wing and I couldnt see em. I bet the guys up the back at the main desk broke out in a sweat.

I thought it was my imagination but on the monday night in sydney it seemed the piano started playing before chris got to it. I was confused, maybe it was a backing track. I didnt want to believe it at the time.

the setlist?

That song at the end :)

 

Ah you youngsters ... the song at the end was Goodnight by the Beatles from the white album. In fact Coldplay bookended there show with Beatles, the first being Tomorrow Never Knows at the beginning.

yeah twas beatles. i dunno if anyone else noticed but on the first melbourne concert chris ran up into the audience for in my place. we were pretty lucky that coincidentally he ran up to where we were sitting but as he climbed up the stairs into the isle he dropped the mike. everyone kept on singing and over the top just our area burst out laughing with chris was awesome overall concert. the start of clocks was amazing as well as the light strobes during square one.