Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Hmm, which 2 days? I thought it was sat and sunday? edit: nevermind, it's Tokyo on the 10th. Friday and Sat :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odvan Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap-X9-Sg-k The performance with Alicia Keys, sorry if it's been posted already! Funny when Chris introduces Alicia he says: "Please welcome the most beautiful woman on the planet except my wife":D I wonder does she play or imitate only? I saw her hands, but sometimes i didn't hear piano. And of course she's hot:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KissesBirds Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Friday and Sat :D OK, really confused now. Summersonic Osaka was 8-9 and Tokyo was 8-10, yes? I don't see a show for 8-8 (Friday).:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A RUSH OF VIDA Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 she plays but i guess she didnt know where tp out her hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraceOddity Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 I wonder does she play or imitate only? I saw her hands, but sometimes i didn't hear piano. And of course she's hot:) I was wondering that too. There are parts missing, and some of her hand positions are questionable. I know she can play, but DID she? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Actually scrap that I think she's playing OVER a loop of the piano. Urgh, wish they'd stop with all this looping shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 OK, really confused now. Summersonic Osaka was 8-9 and Tokyo was 8-10, yes? I don't see a show for 8-8 (Friday).:confused: Wait you're right it was Sat/Sun. I'm getting confused because of the time difference, because they're ahead. :laugh3: :dunce: Yeah it was Sat and Sun. Sorry :embarassed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KissesBirds Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Wait you're right it was Sat/Sun. I'm getting confused because of the time difference, because they're ahead. :laugh3: :dunce: Yeah it was Sat and Sun. Sorry :embarassed: Hey no problem! (Love the dunce hat) Thanks. So they are off for a bit now, right? Dang no new JJ pics.:laugh3::kiss: I kid! Rest up love! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odvan Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Actually scrap that I think she's playing OVER a loop of the piano. Urgh, wish they'd stop with all this looping shit. But why? She can't perform it live? Because it looks now like special guest star performance in serials:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odvan Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Well, i saw it several times - i think it's real. Awesome performance - Alicia is very cute:)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Lovers In Japan :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vjn-qreXB4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris_Santos Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Finally!! Thanks Mimi :kiss: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melanieau Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Lovers In Japan :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vjn-qreXB4 Thanks!:kiss: Chris speaking Japanese at the end...cracks me up:laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 No butterflies until right near the end either. Maybe they couldn't be arsed sweeping them up :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benny Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Can't really tell you how disappointed I am that they don't play their instruments live :-( Look how the keyboard is still playing when Chris leaves. Shouldn't be a problem to put some musicians on the stage, like for example R.E.M. do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 They DO play their instruments live, they're not miming :P What's the difference between someone else playing the part and it being looped though? REM still aren't actually playing the parts that the other musicians are playing, are they? They said they toyed with the idea of having people to play the parts they cannot, but they only ever want to play as a foursome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marie/pims Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The crazy Japanese interview is hilarious Chris:"Breakfast with this lady....Lunch with lady...Dinner..." Will:"Well I know where this is going...." :lol::lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gya Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 *lol* Does somebody know what Chris is saying in Japanese at the end? Cracks me up too, love his intonation. Also, does somebody have a mp3 of the Japanese song?? :wink3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonsu Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 *lol* Does somebody know what Chris is saying in Japanese at the end? Cracks me up too, love his intonation. Also, does somebody have a mp3 of the Japanese song?? :wink3: It means 'are you having fun?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 11, 2008 Author Share Posted August 11, 2008 SUMMER SONIC: Coldplay’s Only Festival Date in 2008 - The Definitive Report Well, had you asked me what I thought of them a month or two ago, just before Coldplay released ‘Livin La Vida Loca’ (or whatever it was called), I would have told you quite firmly, ‘Interesting to read about because Chris Martin seems constantly on the edge of a nervous breakdown, but too fucking boring to ever actually put on the record.’ Then they released their fourth, Brian Eno produced album. The big cheesy choruses were replaced by evokative ambiances and daring, meandering new approaches to making music (relative to their old stuff, at least). Suddnely, they relased something as musically interesting as their press presence had always suggested they could be. And so it was with new-found confidence in their avante-garde leanings that the band headlined Summer Sonic in a way that no other band could pull off… The show climaxed with the band being joined onstage by Alicia Keyes, who played piano on ‘Clocks’. She didn’t have a microphone so just waved a lot, looking a bit lost and awe-struck. It was still very good, mind you. He introduced her on stage as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world… except for my wife.’ I’m guessing he caught a glimpse of Gwenyth stood looking disapprovingly in the wings so added that final compensatory clause as an afterthought so as to avoid martial bickering all the way home. Against a backdrop depicting the French Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix, ‘Liberty Leading The People’, used as the bands album artwork for ‘Viva La Vida’, they performed in costumes aping the style of French Revolutionaries, just like they’ve been doing on the rest of the tour - giving them a way more interesting visual edge than back in the days when they used to dress like geography teachers. Perhaps trying to compensate for Coldplay’s last festival headline slot at Fuji Rock a few years back, where Chris Martin walked out on stage and shouted ‘SAYONARA!‘ (Japanese for ‘Goodbye’) after one song, the curly haired choir-boy spent a remarkable amount of the performance communicating in admirable, if often confused, Japanese. Not that anyone minded. Even if his grammar was up shit creek, all was forgiven when he broke into a section of a song by Japanese pop-juggernauts SMAP. The response was frenetic. Early on in the set, during ‘Politik’, Martin changed the lyrics of the song to sing, ‘Sixty thousands Japanese people watching us / Let Alicia Keyes always play with us’, giving a hint of the special performance that was still to come. He also seemed to spend a lot of the performance running off the stage and through the crowd. Here’s the moment his little legs got the better of him during ‘Fix You’: The show climaxed with the band being joined onstage by Alicia Keyes, who played piano on ‘Clocks’. She didn’t have a microphone so just waved a lot, looking a bit lost and awe-struck. It was still very good, mind you. He introduced her on stage as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world… except for my wife.’ I’m guessing he caught a glimpse of Gwenyth stood looking disapprovingly in the wings so added that final compensatory clause as an afterthought so as to avoid martial bickering all the way home. Against a backdrop depicting the French Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix, ‘Liberty Leading The People’, used as the bands album artwork for ‘Viva La Vida’, they performed in costumes aping the style of French Revolutionaries, just like they’ve been doing on the rest of the tour - giving them a way more interesting visual edge than back in the days when they used to dress like geography teachers. Perhaps trying to compensate for Coldplay’s last festival headline slot at Fuji Rock a few years back, where Chris Martin walked out on stage and shouted ‘SAYONARA!’ (Japanese for ‘Goodbye’) after one song, the curly haired choir-boy spent a remarkable amount of the performance communicating in admirable, if often confused, Japanese. Not that anyone minded. Even if his grammar was up shit creek, all was forgiven when he broke into a section of a song by Japanese pop-juggernauts SMAP. The response was frenetic. Early on in the set, during ‘Politik’, Martin changed the lyrics of the song to sing, ‘Sixty thousands Japanese people watching us / Let Alicia Keyes always play with us’, giving a hint of the special performance that was still to come. He also seemed to spend a lot of the performance running off the stage and through the crowd. Here’s the moment his little legs got the better of him during ‘Fix You’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILKuw80A8gM Elsewhere the band performed all the songs you’d expect to hear, reflecting all stages of their career. For ‘The Scientist’, all four members of the band ran into a specially constructed podium in the middle of the crowd, performing a stripped-down acoustic version of the song, followed by a harmonica enfused ‘DWNC’. I got a video of that, but I can’t really post it here, sorry, but if you’re wiley you might find it elsewhere on the web (ssshhh!). They even gave Tokyo a reson to dance, playing a thumping remix of talk, and a spruced-up, Wah-wah enhanced version of ‘God Put A Smile Upon Your Face’ that sounded like the Doctor Who theme tune. Then, after they finished, there was a massive firework display. Here’s the setlist: Life In Technicolour Violet Hill Politik In My Place Viva La Vida 42 Fix You Chinese Sleep Chant God Put A Smile On Your Face Speed Of Sound 世界にひとつだけの花 /The Only One of All Flowers in The World [sMAP Cover] Yellow Lost! The Scientist (on podium) DWNC (on podium) Talk Remix Clocks (with Alicia Keyes) Lovers In Japan Death and All His Friends The Escapist All in all: bloody bootiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melanieau Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 :o - wow....looks awesome thanks Ian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merwithani Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Alicia Keys is a classically trained pianist; so, I believe she is more than capable of performing live without a backing track and/or loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polkahard Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 at 5:52 "This is our drummer Will Champion. He's 30 years old, He likes football and tennis, and going to the cinema, so he's a regular guy... but ya know what he does? He sings like a fucking angel." omg so true, and also I <3 chris :kiss: Did he plan that? He had to, because it was absolutely hysterical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deborahbr Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Well, had you asked me what I thought of them a month or two ago, just before Coldplay released ‘Livin La Vida Loca’ (or whatever it was called), I would have told you quite firmly, ‘Interesting to read about because Chris Martin seems constantly on the edge of a nervous breakdown, but too fucking boring to ever actually put on the record.’ Hey, I've already posted that! http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2490427&postcount=110 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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