13-Nov-08: Kansas City - Tickets, Preview, Meetups, Review/Photos [originally 09-Jul]

[melanieau]

that is the old version we already know. the video was uploaded on the 4th of october... anyone got the new one?

 

damn...i didn't even open it up in youtube to see when it was uploaded....i'm guessing its going to be rather painful waiting for this video from Kansas City to show up:dozey:

[Montreal]

that is the old version we already know. the video was uploaded on the 4th of october... anyone got the new one?

 

 

HAHAHAHAHHAAHHA

:laugh3:

[jo_saw_sparks]

GLASS OF WATER!!!!

 

*explodes*

[fieldingmellish]

Setlist: Life in Technicolor, Violet Hill, Clocks, In My Place, Glass of Water, Speed of Sound, Cemeteries of London, 42, Fix You, Strawberry Swing, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face/Talk (techno-mashup), Green Eyes, Postcards From Far Away (piano interlude), Viva La Vida, Lost, The Scientist, Death Will Never Conquer, Politik, Lovers in Japan, Death and All His Friends, Yellow.

[Ultravioletlight25]

Yay! They finally played Glass of Water in the U.S.

 

Sounds like it was a great show :D

[melanieau]

Setlist: Life in Technicolor, Violet Hill, Clocks, In My Place, Glass of Water, Speed of Sound, Cemeteries of London, 42, Fix You, Strawberry Swing, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face/Talk (techno-mashup), Green Eyes, Postcards From Far Away (piano interlude), Viva La Vida, Lost, The Scientist, Death Will Never Conquer, Politik, Lovers in Japan, Death and All His Friends, Yellow.

 

 

Thanks! Did an extra guitarist play Glass of Water with them??:inquisitive:

[jo_saw_sparks]

DUDE they plalyed green eyes AND glass of water?!

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By the way, the people that are "calling out" the Coldplayers in Kansas City...there might not be many on this site, but the crowd was really good last night.

 

I had a good time with oxfam getting out information (I Sold my floor seats just to have free seats and that paid for food, parking, etc. and lots of extra money). The Oxfam coordinator said we had over 700 signatures. A lot of people I talked to said they had already signed up, or had heard about it, or just wanted to take a flier.

 

The concert was amazing, and I will confirm once again, Glass of Water was played in America for the first time.

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DUDE they plalyed green eyes AND glass of water?!

 

Yep. My girlfriend didn't like Green Eyes and I shunned her. Her excuse was that she had only heard it once. :rolleyes:

 

If she had actual green eyes, I'd play it more often....

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section 231 ... I'm only a casual fan but I went because I had bought my girlfriend tickets since CP is her favorite band. I was impressed, though, it was fun.

 

and just a note: SPRINT CENTER IS IN MISSOURI, NOT KANSAS.

 

not that anyone really cares and I know Coldplay is from England, so I give them a of a pass on this, but there IS a KANSAS CITY IN MISSOURI.

 

Little known fact: Missouri was the first Kansas City and, because we had so much going on back in the Jazz-era and whatnot, Wyandotte County Kansas actually took the name Kansas City so that people coming from the West would stop in Kansas first, thinking it was Missouri.

 

Just a little FYI in case Coldplay reads these boards.

 

 

Cry about it. Coldplay isn't the first to mess it up, and won't be the last. The majority of people believe that Kansas City is in Missouri...And who can blame them, considering it says Kansas in it.

[Silverado Man]

We even had the youngest kid that he said he saw at a concert. A 7 year old Haha. Chris told the little boy that he would be in a better band than Coldplay. :P :laugh3:

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We even had the youngest kid that he said he saw at a concert. A 7 year old Haha. Chris told the little boy that he would be in a better band than Coldplay. :P :laugh3:

 

and better than the Jonas Brothers

 

"You're young enough to bein the Jonas Brothers'

[Jsalyers]

Green Eyes and Glass of Water!!!

 

Thats great:dance:

[fieldingmellish]

Thanks! Did an extra guitarist play Glass of Water with them??:inquisitive:

 

I didn't see one.

 

It was my first time hearing the song and thought it was excellent. Crowds never know what to do when they hear new material, but since it was so early in the set, no one ran for the bathrooms or the concessions. It got a nice response.

 

Overall the show was very good with a decent sound mix where you could hear Chris' vocals. Sometimes, at the Sprint Center the sound can get a little muddy. I was in the top level, which I learned, is a horrible mistake. The seats are awful.

[jo_saw_sparks]

Yep. My girlfriend didn't like Green Eyes and I shunned her. Her excuse was that she had only heard it once. :rolleyes:

 

If she had actual green eyes, I'd play it more often....

a girl that DOESNT like green eyes?! is that possible?? :P

make her listen to it a few times, she'll change her mind ;)

[melanieau]

I didn't see one.

 

It was my first time hearing the song and thought it was excellent. Crowds never know what to do when they hear new material, but since it was so early in the set, no one ran for the bathrooms or the concessions. It got a nice response.

 

Overall the show was very good with a decent sound mix where you could hear Chris' vocals. Sometimes, at the Sprint Center the sound can get a little muddy. I was in the top level, which I learned, is a horrible mistake. The seats are awful.

 

Thanks for the info....they need to be able to play it without anyone else...or maybe Matt was playing a guitar part off stage:inquisitive:

[busybeeburns]

Concert Review: Coldplay at Sprint Center

 

Coldplay

November 13, 2008

Sprint Center

By JASON HARPER

Photos by SCOTT SPYCHALSKI

 

To the question at hand: is Coldplay cool? Cool enough, that is, for a discerning, punk-bred, 45-collecting, uncomfortable-shoes-wearing music blog reader such as you?

 

Well, if you’re reading this review at all, most likely you already love Coldplay and you’re just waiting for me to (a) report on awesomeness of band and give the setlist so you can feel affirmed, or (b) dis Coldplay for being loved by squares so that you can eviscerate me in the comments.

 

But on the chance that you are a certified hip dude who thinks that Coldplay is the Target of major bands, let’s look at a few attributes of the band. First of all, these guys are British. Next, they have guitars -- lots of them -- plus lasers and glowing orbs and waterfalls of butterfly confetti when they play live in enormous, sold-out arenas. Feeling like a chump yet? No? Alright, one of them – the good-looking one – is married to a famous, beautiful actress, and they have a child named for fruit. The other members of the band are fruit – two grapefruits and a pummelo, to be precise.

 

They dress like extras from Les Miserables.

 

They’re wildly successful and play songs that boom in your miserable skull for years.

 

Get the picture, hipster douche? They’re cooler than you. On to the show.

 

The first words out of Chris Martin’s mouth, and people were singing along. It was a new song, “Violet Hill,” but never mind that; people were prepared.

 

(White people, of course. Many of them hot and svelte. In fact, one of these hot-svelte people asked me and the people around me before the show began, “Do you smell Plato?” “Plato?” people asked. “Yeah, Plato – everyone’s been saying they smell it!” I leaned over and asked, “Plato or Play-Doh?” “That’s it!” he said.)

 

As the band rolled through a set weighted on the Viva la Vida side (not surprising, as it’s their richest, most musically sophisticated one ever) and peppered with songs from X&Y (three years ago) and A Rush of Blood to the Head (SIX years ago) with maybe just a sprinkle of Parachutes (like, 30 years ago), the stage setup moved from simple and livingroomlike to A Space Odyssey. At first, the only screen being fed by the two closed-circuit video cams down front was on a tiny antique TV on a pedestal. The backdrop was the Renaissance battle scene from the cover of the album: goddess with tits out, Frenchmen with muskets. Then, the big orbs descended from the ceiling, flashing marble patterns that eventually became images fed from the cameras. Later, a giant screen came down, showing chopped and screwed images from the stage.

 

Musically, the sound was BIG. Way bigger than four guys with one instrument and microphone apiece. How's that? Backing tracks, that's how. For all of Chris Martin’s wide-eyed, sweating-on-piano, knees-bent-running-about charisma and his switching between piano and craftpainted guitars, live, Coldplay’s music tends to plod along, dependent on the musical prowess of three-fifths of its members (Martin, drummer Will Champion, the aforementioned backing tracks) and is all but weighed down by the other two-fifths: the guitarist and bassist, a.k.a. two dudes who should be absolutely thrilled to flash their chops and strut around before crowds of thousands but who look and play, most of the time, like cranky old fudders stuck playing at a fairground on the off season in Blackpool.

 

In short, I was shocked to learn that Coldplay doesn’t do bona fide live versions of its songs.

 

Johnny Buckland, guitarist, did have his moments, most notably when he and Martin wound up on the stage-left platform that jutted a dozen rows in the audience during “Clocks,” playing off each other like toy soldiers reenacting the French invasion of Russia. But let's stop a minute: When critics compare Coldplay with U2, they seem to overlook the fact that Buckland and the Edge have only a rhythmic-echo sensibility and a chorus pedal or two in common. Buckland is the diet, caffeine-free Edge. (Likewise, for those who insist on comparing Coldplay to Radiohead, God is in the guitars.) He even flubbed up one of his only spotlight moments, the jig-like riff from “Strawberry Swing,” which, oddly, occasioned one of the only smiles he and Martin shared the whole show.

 

And what’s with the frownies? Even when the four dismounted the stage and wound their way high, high into the crowd to do two remote acoustic numbers – “Scientist” and the delightful, Champion-sung “Death Will Never Conquer” – all three except for Martin looked like schoolchildren forced to learn recorder (only in this case, it was guitar, mandolin and resonator guitar; why not, like, just one guitar and four guys singing and having fun?)

 

Maybe they’ve been on tour too long. Or maybe they just had an off night.

 

In the end though, as a whole, they ended up sounding fine and putting on a good show. They’re Coldplay after all. Cool as hell.

 

Setlist

Life in Technicolor

Violet Hill

Clocks

In My Place

Glass of Water (unreleased)

Speed of Sound

Cemeteries of London

Chinese Sleep Chant

42

Fix You

Strawberry Swing

God Put a Smile Upon Your Face

Green Eyes (solo Martin)

Postcards from Far Away (piano solo)

Lost

Viva La Vida

The Scientist (acoustical jam)

Death Will Never Conquer

 

Encore 1

Politik

(piano solo)

Lovers in Japan

Death and All His Friends (Will Champion, drummer, sings)

 

Encore 2

Yellow

 

Critic's Notebook

 

Personal Bias: I like guitarists who can make it howl and move.

Random Detail: Coldplay has sold somewhere around 40 million albums since forming in 1998. Oh, wait, that's not random at all.

By the Way: I came down with a cold right in the middle of this show. For real.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2008/11/concert_review_coldplay_at_sprint_center_kansas_city.php

[jo_saw_sparks]

im not quite sure how i feel about that review :confused:

[jo_saw_sparks]

also he got Death WIll Never Conquer and Death and All His Friends confused on the setlist

 

rookie mistake.

[clm994]

Hello! This is the first time I've ever posted a message on here. Just wanted to say that I was at the Sprint Center last night for Coldplay & it was absolutely fantastic! It's been 3 years since they were here last (I'm sure that goes for pretty much everybody) so it was a long wait. Especially once the concert got postponed from July 9th to November 13th!!! But it was definitely worth it. We were in section 106, row 10 so we had awesome seats. And when they came out in the audience to play "The Scientist" & "Death Will Never Conquer," they were right in the next section so I got some incredible pictures!

 

Production was incredible for the concert. The amazing video, the confetti, the lazers...everything. Can't imagine how much work goes into each & every show.

 

It was slightly disappointing that Chris didn't talk as much as he usually seems to. Don't get me wrong, it's great that they probably play more songs that way, but I, for one, always enjoy listening to their hilarious stories! And being that Coldplay is the best band EVER, it's always incredible when they make you feel like you know them personally by talking to you.

 

I have to say, I got a huge kick out of the fact that Chris kept calling it "Kansas" instead of "Missouri"! I'm from Kansas so I loved it & like someone else pointed out, the name of the city is Kansas City! Plus, when they were here last, for the X & Y tour, they really were in Kansas, in Bonner Springs at Sandstone.

 

Thank you also for clarifying that the guys played "Green Eyes" last night, not "The Hardest Part". I can't believe someone would not like that song! It's one of my favorites! And I was sooooo excited to hear "In My Place" too!

 

(Sorry about the novel! I have a tendency to do that!)

[the.hardest.part]

Hey Mel, no one helped Jonny out with Glass of Water. Just our four boys! ;)

 

My review will be later...

[melanieau]

Hey Mel, no one helped Jonny out with Glass of Water. Just our four boys! ;)

 

My review will be later...

 

Gianna! Thanks...finally a pro who was paying attention:lol:

[Silverado Man]

Who thought the animation from Jon Hopkins was weird and to long?:\

[busybeeburns]

thanks for the review, welcome to coldplaying! ;)

 

Hello! This is the first time I've ever posted a message on here. Just wanted to say that I was at the Sprint Center last night for Coldplay & it was absolutely fantastic! It's been 3 years since they were here last (I'm sure that goes for pretty much everybody) so it was a long wait. Especially once the concert got postponed from July 9th to November 13th!!! But it was definitely worth it. We were in section 106, row 10 so we had awesome seats. And when they came out in the audience to play "The Scientist" & "Death Will Never Conquer," they were right in the next section so I got some incredible pictures!

 

Production was incredible for the concert. The amazing video, the confetti, the lazers...everything. Can't imagine how much work goes into each & every show.

 

It was slightly disappointing that Chris didn't talk as much as he usually seems to. Don't get me wrong, it's great that they probably play more songs that way, but I, for one, always enjoy listening to their hilarious stories! And being that Coldplay is the best band EVER, it's always incredible when they make you feel like you know them personally by talking to you.

 

I have to say, I got a huge kick out of the fact that Chris kept calling it "Kansas" instead of "Missouri"! I'm from Kansas so I loved it & like someone else pointed out, the name of the city is Kansas City! Plus, when they were here last, for the X & Y tour, they really were in Kansas, in Bonner Springs at Sandstone.

 

Thank you also for clarifying that the guys played "Green Eyes" last night, not "The Hardest Part". I can't believe someone would not like that song! It's one of my favorites! And I was sooooo excited to hear "In My Place" too!

 

(Sorry about the novel! I have a tendency to do that!)

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http://backtorockville.typepad.com/back_to_rockville/2008/11/review-coldplay.html

 

 

The biggest post-1990s band from Britain that doesn't give away its music came to Sprint Center on Thursday. And a large crowd was on hand with a loud, long and warm greeting.

 

And though it may not know its U.S. geography ("Thank you, Kansas"), Coldplay knows its own history: That's the first time we've played this in the U.S., said lead singer Chris Martin after singing "Glass of Water." That one will have its place of prominence in Coldplay trivia and lore; Thursday night, it was the rare lukewarm moment during a show loaded with bright highlights. (Nobody knew the song.)

 

The rest of the setlist visited more familiar material from each of the band's four full-length albums, none more frequently than the latest, "Viva La Vida ..." This was the rare show when the crowd welcomed a lot of the more recent songs as warmly as the older ones. The title track to the new album got one of the loudest reactions of the night.

 

Martin played his usual affable, humble self. He apologized for postponing the show back in July. He stopped the show to say hello to a 7-year-old boy in the crowd (and crack wise about the Jonas Brothers; read the mom's blogpost here). And he chastised himself after he muffed the start to "Green Eyes."

 

The sound in the Sprint Center was OK to good: At times there wasn't enough bottom -- the bass and kick drums disappeared in the mix. But the volume felt right and the vocals sounded good most of the night. The light show was nice, too; so was the confetti that rained on the floor during the start of the encore (it looked like falling leaves).

 

Speaking of vocals, there were plenty of big sing-alongs, starting with "In My Place" and especially during "Fix You," when the band stepped back and let the crowd take over the final chorus. Other highlights: The techno-mashup of "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" and "Talk"; "Politik," which sounded more invigorated than usual; and the short acoustic set that took place high in a lower-level section towards the back of the arena. (Although I could have done without the Billy Ray Cyrus bit in the middle of "The Scientist.")

 

They ended the 95-minute show with their biggest hit, "Yellow," which prompted the evening's loudest and longest response and sing-along. For a moment, Martin stopped to enjoy the enormous chorale singing back at him. It was that kind of a show: The crowd and the band spent all night entertaining each other.

 

| Timothy Finn, The Star

 

Setlist: Life in Technicolor, Violet Hill, Clocks, In My Place, Glass of Water, Speed of Sound, Cemeteries of London, 42, Fix You, Strawberry Swing, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face/Talk (techno-mashup), Green Eyes, Postcards From Far Away (piano interlude), Viva La Vida, Lost, The Scientist, Death Will Never Conquer, Politik, Lovers in Japan, Death and All His Friends, Yellow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JDavis note: No one knew Glass of Water? I did :), I listened to it on the Coldplay facebook app :)