After reading the Message from Will: "Having performed averagely at the Grammy's a few days earlier we felt we had a bit of redeeming to do. Thankfully it was a much better experience. Award shows are hard, TV shows are hard, award shows on TV are a nightmare."

 

Why are award shows so hard to perform on?

You just have to compare a TV performance vs. footage of an actual Coldplay concert to realise that there's a huge difference between the sound and quality of their performance. With a TV performance they would have less control over their sound and it's almost like performing on foreign turf (for lack of a better word).

and also the crowd... I guess everything is easier when you know that all the people that you're performing for are fans

They are under pressure, live on telly. If they fuck-up playing live in a concert they can restart the track and do it again joking about it, but on Telly with millions of people watching, if you mess up you will be a laughing stock.

And there are a lot of critics

yep the critics sure would be out to get you, and with the Grammy's last year, Coldplay were up for 3 or 4 awards so the pressure would have been on even more.

They shouldn't really care about the awards that much, and just play like they always play. :)

 

That's a bit hard, tho. :laugh3:

 

Sorry to make a comparison to Muse, but hey... they do great!

 

http://www.microcuts.net/uk/musetv.php

 

Just check out the whole TV section of videos--they're all bloody brilliant. :freak:

But then again most of the Muse live set is pre-recorded.

Still kicks ass. :laugh3: And I wouldn't say most of everything is pre-recorded. They've got a 4th person doing live synths anyway. :laugh3:

 

But Hysteria doesn't have many backing tracks, and check out the 04 Brit Awards performance... Or their older raw tracks like Showbiz, In Your World or Plug-In Baby... and Matt's voice isn't pre-recorded or anything. :laugh3: It's pretty much always spot on. Chris on the other hand... :uhoh: It cracks a bit, haha. <3

 

And disregard Sing For Absolution on CDUK, since they were forced to mime... :laugh3:

Another part is that at a concert they can mess up their first couple of songs and still play a great concert otherwise once they've warmed up. At a show, the one and only song is over before they've ever warmed up at all, so they're not at their best.

 

And yeah, I don't know what it is with the people who run the soundboards, but if the Junos are anything to go by (I was there live once), they do a terrible mixing job most of the time somewhere on the way to the tv feed.

yep the critics sure would be out to get you, and with the Grammy's last year, Coldplay were up for 3 or 4 awards so the pressure would have been on even more.

Chris said once

"when you get Grammys, awards and stuff, wich is great, you realised that tha's not the answer that you're looking at.."

and He's right..

maybe they didn't care as a band for the awards..

maybe they were under preassure for the preform..

,maybe they were under preassure for the preform or because the market preassures them to win awards..

We'll never know that, but i prefer to think that they really don't care a shit about the awards! :)

i believe they do music is because they really love it but they want to get award!:)

its hard to play at the award show because not everyone who came loves coldplay... it is very different with their concert because all of the audience there are their fans.. im agree with chris, their show at grammy is just average.. they can do better than that...

its hard to play at the award show because not everyone who came loves coldplay... it is very different with their concert because all of the audience there are their fans.. im agree with chris, their show at grammy is just average.. they can do better than that...

 

I agree with you..

and they might be scared about the audience at the awards..

besides having to perform to members of the audience who aren't Coldplay fans, they're also performing in front of their business peers (other bands/artists, producers, execs, etc.) and probably to people they actually know. i can understand how that's nerve-wracking...

:thinking:what happened to yellowtalk?

sorry, i have been away for about half a week, so i have only been able to go on for short times on this forum.

nice to see you again:D

yep i am, coldplay will still do awards won't they?