‘Thank you everyone for waiting for us’ are Chris Martin’s first words to the already fired-up Nokia Isle of Wight Festival revellers. Clearly, most people are actually here to see this English world-wide sensation anyway. But Chris and the other members in Coldplay don’t care. They know where they’re from and they also know who got them where they are right now; at the pinnacle of musical superstardom.

 

There’s no big fuss. Coldplay take to the stage, the audience is ready – flags bearing the band’s latest album’s title, ‘X&Y’ are being held up and pig and horse shaped balloons floating are off into the near night sky. And the odd inflatable ‘air guitar’, too. If you can spot a pair of available shoulders, now is the time to claim them and salute the boys on stage.

 

Despite the blistering sunshine, the mood of the audience remained friendly throughout and there was very little trouble, said IW police chief Ch Supt Stephanie Morgan. Over the festival there were 27 arrests, 13 for drug offences, three for minor assaults, five for public order offences, four for theft and two for being drunk and disorderly. There were 358 drug searches, a ten per cent increase on 2005. Of those searches, 159 found drugs. Eight people have been charged with possession with intent to supply, 75 were charged with possession of class A drugs and 76 with possession of cannabis. Police said the value of seized drugs was £34,000. There were 125 reported thefts from the camp site.

 

The festival proved a success for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. Staff sold around 4,000 sunflowers on site, raising £11,000. Among people to buy one of the £3 flowers was Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland.

 

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good memories :nice:

talk about chris and johnny having fun at the end. looking up in the night sky. awesome!