23-Jun-08: New York - Tickets, Preview, Meetups, Review/Photos

[melanieau]

its ok! thanks for posting it;)

[Denise]

my friend went, but didn't invite me because he thought i was in europe already :bigcry:

 

he was sitting RIGHT where they played "yellow" and "if death will ever conquer me" from, and took this cell phone pic:

 

needless to say, i'm beyond jealous. it's almost painful.

*hugs*

 

aww I really hope you'll be one of the lucky people to get the VIP pass for the Today show :nice:

[CRYSTAL]

whether Gwyneth parties or not why they're posting in live section.

 

they have to make a seperate thread or post in her thread anyway no.:P

[Cris_Santos]

There are loads of people moaning all over the place though. :rolleyes:

 

 

This will make the band be totally discouraged to offer something like that again... how sad :(

 

my friend went, but didn't invite me because he thought i was in europe already :bigcry:

 

he was sitting RIGHT where they played "yellow" and "if death will ever conquer me" from, and took this cell phone pic:

 

needless to say, i'm beyond jealous. it's almost painful.

 

Don't worry, mate! Your time will come and I'm pretty sure it's hell close :D Fingers crossed!

[CRYSTAL]

Last night's MSG show was agreeably enthralling. As a huge coldplay fan myself though, I was dissappointed in several things. First I don't understand how a megaband such as coldplay that hold 4 full albums worth of well-recieved material can only pick up their instruments for 70 minutes and think they served their audience. I understand it was a free concert but people came far and wide to hear them and I know many left feeling like there was something more. Most importantly, there was not enough clarity between the set and the encore. After rejoining on stage after YELLOW, they went on to play fix you & lovers in japan as their closer. This was not evident though due to Martin not saying anything other than goodnight and walking off stage. In all the shows i've been to I have never seen what I witnessed last night. 10,000 insane coldplay fans continuing to scream and clap in unison for 8-10 minutes after the band left the stage. We wanted one more song so bad and many didn't even realize the show was over until the set began to get stripped. I love coldplay but at such a monumentous show like msg, I don't know how they could go backstage, listen to the deafing begs for an encore, and call it a night. Anything would have done,spare the lightshow and play an acoutic anything. I think they really blew a big chance to connect with energy, intensity, and loyalty of their fans.

 

 

don't feel fashionable to slag Coldplay okay!

 

if you've given your ticket to me i may have enjoyed the show!

[coldplaytree]

My hubby- who drove from Michigan to MSG just in hopes of actually getting in to the show last night was totally thrilled with it. He went with no tickets, waited outside for quite a while and someone from the venue came and gave out some more free tix. He was absolutely satisfied! He said the show was excellent!

 

He also said that as he promised- he taped it and it came out amazing....he will be sharing asap

[laveryd]

ENCORE!?!?!

 

My friend was at the MSG show last night and tells me the band did NOT play an encore! That's unbelievable. The crowd was going nuts for one and they didn't come back out. It'd be incredibly sad if they think they're too big for encores now.

 

* I should add I understand it was an entirely FREE show, so the idea that I have no right to find the lack of an encore ridiculous is justifiable. BUT, at the very least I think you can call this a bad sign...

[kaykordeath]

We're talking about that in the 23-Jun MSG thread over here

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44934

[fakfak]

It's my understanding that there was an encore, but it wasn't clear that it was an encore (if that makes sense). In theory, everthing played after the band came down off the balcony was intended as an encore, but many people thought it was part of the main set. (on a side note, my friend in NYC was lucky enough to score tix, and I traveled in from Chicago to be her plus one and don't really give a s$#t about the length of the show, it was totally AWESOME!!! IMHO)

[busybeeburns]

Coldplay Rocks the Garden for Free

 

Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, with Will Champion, performing at Madison Square Garden on Monday.

 

Here’s an adjective not commonly associated with the British whine-rock specialists Coldplay: bruising. Here’s another: swaggering. And finally a third: surprising.

 

And yet, on the best parts of their new album “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), these are just the things Coldplay has become. Produced by Brian Eno (responsible for much of U2’s greatest work), Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire) and Rik Simpson, the album rumbles like nothing else the band has done. There is thrust in the rhythms, obfuscation in the arrangements and abstraction in the lyrics, all where there were previously few or none.

 

Might Coldplay, that most staid of rock bands, be capable of growth?

 

In flashes, maybe, yes. But over the course of its performance Monday night at Madison Square Garden — a free show, tickets for which were distributed through a promotion on the band’s Web site — the band steadily regressed to the mean.

 

The night began with uncommon verve. The guitarist Jonny Buckland pierced through “Violet Hill” with forceful jabs. On “Viva La Vida,” one of the new album’s most invigorating tracks, the band, outfitted in a look that suggested 19th-century military chic, clustered intimately at the front of the stage. But the drummer Will Champion loomed large, hammering ferociously at his floor tom as if it was a particularly stubborn railroad spike. Mr. Champion shined throughout: on other, less successful numbers (“Clocks,” “42”) he was intense and brawny, giving the band an appealing, hypnotic density.

 

On its early records, Coldplay was exquisite verging on precious, largely because of the plain falsetto of the lead singer Chris Martin. Its songs sounded fragile, which is perhaps why the band incurred so much bilious response — even when troubled, rock stars are supposed to stomp and preen, while Coldplay only moped.

 

“Viva La Vida,” currently the No. 1 album in the country, still centers on doubt, but of the sort that follows a fall from hubris rather than the kind that comes before it. Still, for all the anguish of Coldplay on record, it can be self-assured on stage.

 

For “Yellow” — its 2000 breakthrough single, and still its most durable song — the band marched through the crowd and set up across the arena from the stage, back by Gate 60 in the mezzanine. After one false start and a bout of profanity by Mr. Martin, the band found the groove, and Mr. Martin took some impressive liberties with the song’s sturdy melody.

 

But even when the band was at its strongest on Monday, as on “In My Place” and “Lovers in Japan,” it was dull to watch (Not much has changed since it released a pretty, stultifying live DVD in 2003). Toward the end of the night, a decidedly U2-ish version of “Fix You” had the expectant air of an empty pub at last call: things are happening, somewhat, but the room feels stagnant.

 

But then Mr. Martin flubbed a line, spitting yet another curse into the microphone. As if to explain, or compensate, for the gaffe, a couple of moments later he altered the words of the song, perfectly in rhythm and in key: “Lyrics to old songs that you don’t know/And you embarrass yourself at M.S.G./But it doesn’t matter one bit, everyone got in for free.”

 

On first blush it was a clever save. But one couldn’t help the creeping sensation that even this seemingly spontaneous trick was little more than a neatly executed, contrived stab at humility in a show measured to the last second. And even when it was done, the band didn’t drop its veneer: the crowd stuck around and cheered well after the house lights went on, hoping for an encore, but Coldplay was long gone.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/arts/music/25cold.html?ref=arts

[mrrogershood]

FREE MSG SHOW

 

Last night's MSG show was agreeably enthralling. As a huge coldplay fan myself though, I was dissappointed in several things. First I don't understand how a megaband such as coldplay that hold 4 full albums worth of well-recieved material can only pick up their instruments for 70 minutes and think they served their audience. I understand it was a free concert but people came far and wide to hear them and I know many left feeling like there was something more. Most importantly, there was not enough clarity between the set and the encore. After rejoining on stage after YELLOW, they went on to play fix you & lovers in japan as their closer. This was not evident though due to Martin not saying anything other than goodnight and walking off stage. In all the shows i've been to I have never seen what I witnessed last night. 10,000 insane coldplay fans continuing to scream and clap in unison for 8-10 minutes after the band left the stage. We wanted one more song so bad and many didn't even realize the show was over until the set began to get stripped. I love coldplay but at such a monumentous show like msg, I don't know how they could go backstage, listen to the deafening begs for an encore, and call it a night. Anything would have done,spare the lightshow and play an acoutic anything. I think they really blew a big chance to connect with energy, intensity, and loyalty of their fans.

[mrrogershood]

Last night's MSG show was agreeably enthralling. As a huge coldplay fan myself though, I was dissappointed in several things. First I don't understand how a megaband such as coldplay that hold 4 full albums worth of well-recieved material can only pick up their instruments for 70 minutes and think they served their audience. I understand it was a free concert but people came far and wide to hear them and I know many left feeling like there was something more. Most importantly, there was not enough clarity between the set and the encore. After rejoining on stage after YELLOW, they went on to play fix you & lovers in japan as their closer. This was not evident though due to Martin not saying anything other than goodnight and walking off stage. In all the shows i've been to I have never seen what I witnessed last night. 10,000 insane coldplay fans continuing to scream and clap in unison for 8-10 minutes after the band left the stage. We wanted one more song so bad and many didn't even realize the show was over until the set began to get stripped. I love coldplay but at such a monumentous show like msg, I don't know how they could go backstage, listen to the deafing begs for an encore, and call it a night. Anything would have done,spare the lightshow and play an acoutic anything. I think they really blew a big chance to connect with energy, intensity, and loyalty of their fans.

[busybeeburns]

Photos: Coldplay [New York, NY; 06/23/08]

 

Chris Martin, you joker you. "We come over here, we steal your women, and we can't even play one song!" That was Martin last night during a free Coldplay show at NYC's Madison Square Garden. He and his band had hit a few slight road bumps with their newest material off Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, but given that the gig was free and, um, this was Coldplay, it's not like folks minded in the least.

 

The quartet takes a couple weeks off to work out those kinks, then begins their world conquest tour proper on July 14 in Los Angeles. Oh hey, and how about them openers?

 

More photos at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/51484-photos-coldplay-new-york-ny-062308

 

[berrywoman]

As I was entering last night, I overheard some guy say to his friend that he was getting in to the show just fine until security asked him if he had a wristband, and since he didn't have one they wouldn't let him any further. Maybe that was their form of "extra security" instead of checking every single ID?

 

Either way, I am never, ever taking mine off. I will wait for it to disintegrate, even if means I will get a weird tan line. :cool:

 

Oh man, that show was FABULOUS! Viva la Vida was the most epic thing I have ever heard in my life, and GPASUYF rocked way harder than I ever thought was possible. The people in my section were not nearly as into it as my friend and I were, and I think we shocked them a bit by being the most severely intense Coldplay fans in the area! Every time I've seen them they just are even better than the last time. Last night I kept thinking about how lucky I am that I live in a place where I have such easy access to great concerts in NYC and Long Island. Sometimes I think we take for granted that it's so easy for us to get to a famous venue like MSG. I am so lucky to have been able to see Coldplay in NYC, essentially the center of the universe, 3 times (and another time out on the island :)). We are all so lucky to have been there, especially for a free show I would have gladly paid large sums of money for.

 

However, what we should be most grateful for is that we were all there to experience the world premiere of the MAGIC BALLS! Take that away with you, if nothing else. :laugh3:

 

 

^:lol:indeed!!!

[mykittenhatesyou]

I have PICTURES! I was in 101 Row A and RIGHT NEXT to where they played in the crowd! I also took video with my little point and shoot! I want to look through the thread before I post though!

[Bonus_mosher]

Are there any pictures of the magic balls???

 

I'm interested to read about them and see pictures.

[CRYSTAL]

Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, with Will Champion, performing at Madison Square Garden on Monday.

 

Here’s an adjective not commonly associated with the British whine-rock specialists Coldplay: bruising. Here’s another: swaggering. And finally a third: surprising.

 

And yet, on the best parts of their new album “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), these are just the things Coldplay has become. Produced by Brian Eno (responsible for much of U2’s greatest work), Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire) and Rik Simpson, the album rumbles like nothing else the band has done. There is thrust in the rhythms, obfuscation in the arrangements and abstraction in the lyrics, all where there were previously few or none.

 

Might Coldplay, that most staid of rock bands, be capable of growth?

 

In flashes, maybe, yes. But over the course of its performance Monday night at Madison Square Garden — a free show, tickets for which were distributed through a promotion on the band’s Web site — the band steadily regressed to the mean.

 

The night began with uncommon verve. The guitarist Jonny Buckland pierced through “Violet Hill” with forceful jabs. On “Viva La Vida,” one of the new album’s most invigorating tracks, the band, outfitted in a look that suggested 19th-century military chic, clustered intimately at the front of the stage. But the drummer Will Champion loomed large, hammering ferociously at his floor tom as if it was a particularly stubborn railroad spike. Mr. Champion shined throughout: on other, less successful numbers (“Clocks,” “42”) he was intense and brawny, giving the band an appealing, hypnotic density.

 

On its early records, Coldplay was exquisite verging on precious, largely because of the plain falsetto of the lead singer Chris Martin. Its songs sounded fragile, which is perhaps why the band incurred so much bilious response — even when troubled, rock stars are supposed to stomp and preen, while Coldplay only moped.

 

“Viva La Vida,” currently the No. 1 album in the country, still centers on doubt, but of the sort that follows a fall from hubris rather than the kind that comes before it. Still, for all the anguish of Coldplay on record, it can be self-assured on stage.

 

For “Yellow” — its 2000 breakthrough single, and still its most durable song — the band marched through the crowd and set up across the arena from the stage, back by Gate 60 in the mezzanine. After one false start and a bout of profanity by Mr. Martin, the band found the groove, and Mr. Martin took some impressive liberties with the song’s sturdy melody.

 

But even when the band was at its strongest on Monday, as on “In My Place” and “Lovers in Japan,” it was dull to watch (Not much has changed since it released a pretty, stultifying live DVD in 2003). Toward the end of the night, a decidedly U2-ish version of “Fix You” had the expectant air of an empty pub at last call: things are happening, somewhat, but the room feels stagnant.

 

But then Mr. Martin flubbed a line, spitting yet another curse into the microphone. As if to explain, or compensate, for the gaffe, a couple of moments later he altered the words of the song, perfectly in rhythm and in key: “Lyrics to old songs that you don’t know/And you embarrass yourself at M.S.G./But it doesn’t matter one bit, everyone got in for free.”

 

On first blush it was a clever save. But one couldn’t help the creeping sensation that even this seemingly spontaneous trick was little more than a neatly executed, contrived stab at humility in a show measured to the last second. And even when it was done, the band didn’t drop its veneer: the crowd stuck around and cheered well after the house lights went on, hoping for an encore, but Coldplay was long gone.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/arts/music/25cold.html?ref=arts

 

 

not impressed with the review and i got now from where it came.

 

it is from NYTimes.

[mykittenhatesyou]

I'm uploading to photobucket right now. I have a pic of the magic balls but it's not that great. They were just orb screens that either lit up in colors or showed live shots of the band.

[CRYSTAL]

Chris Martin, you joker you. "We come over here, we steal your women, and we can't even play one song!" That was Martin last night during a free Coldplay show at NYC's Madison Square Garden. He and his band had hit a few slight road bumps with their newest material off Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, but given that the gig was free and, um, this was Coldplay, it's not like folks minded in the least.

 

The quartet takes a couple weeks off to work out those kinks, then begins their world conquest tour proper on July 14 in Los Angeles. Oh hey, and how about them openers?

 

More photos at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/51484-photos-coldplay-new-york-ny-062308

 

 

 

wow these days pitchfork are nice at coldplay articles.:)

[busybeeburns]

Chris Martin Brings Coldplay to NYC

 

 

Chris Martin of Coldplay performs at Madison Square Garden on Monday night in New York City.

 

The New York event was the third of three free shows, after similar gigs in London and Barcelona. The band had given away over 7,000 tickets through its website.

 

Last Thursday, Coldplay, led by frontman Chris Martin, 31, scored their first U.S. number one single. They also topped the U.S. album chart.

 

Some celebrities came out to enjoy the concert, such as Chris Rock, Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, and Molly Sims.

 

20+ more pics inside of Chris Martin rocking out at Madison Square Garden…

 

PICS: >> http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/06/24/chris-martin-coldplay-madison-square-garden/

 

 

 

 

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[Ebs757]

I can't believe people are still bitching about this concert! Same set list as every other free show except they didn't walk off stage for 30 seconds! Get over it its becoming embarrassing+ you guys got to see everything Coldplay had to offer as in effects