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Paris LRLRL album update

September 7, 2009 10:23 pm

Album to be available from FNAC and Virgin stores

 

 

 

Unfortunately, Coldplay were forbidden from giving out the Left Right Left Right Left live album at tonight's show in Paris. However, ticket holders will still be able to get a copy of the album CD from selected FNAC and Virgin record stores. Please check back in the morning for details of the stores where it will be available. Until then KEEP YOUR TICKET STUBS.

 

Malheureusement, Coldplay était interdit de donner le Left Right Left Right album au show ce soir à Paris. Toutefois, les détenteurs de billets pourrez encore obtenir une copie du CD de quelques magasins FNAC et Virgin. S'il vous plaît, retournez ici domain matin pour vérifiez les détails des magasins où vous pouvez trouvez le CD. Jusque-là, TENIR VOTRE BILLETS.

 

You can, of course, still download the album for free from here.

 

Anchorman

 

ps - apologies for our dodgy French

Paris ticket holders: where to get your LRLRL CD

September 8, 2009 7:21 pm

Details of where to collect your album from

Good evening. Further to the previous update on how to pick up your Paris LRLRL album, here is the info: ticket holders will be able to get a copy of the free CD from selected Fnac and Virgin record stores from Sept 11th onwards in exchange for Paris/Parc des Princes ticket concert stubs. The full list of stores where you can pick up the album is as follows:

 

Fnac – available from all stores at the ticket sales office (limited stock)

 

Virgin – available from the following stores at cash desk/point ofinformation (limited stock): Virgin Champs-Elysées, Virgin Quatre TempsLa Défense, Virgin Montmartre, Virgin Louvre

 

Bon soir. Suite à l’annonce faite hier, voici l’info pour que les fans français puissent récupérer leur album gratuit LRLRL: à partir du 11 Septembre, en échange de votre billet de concert du Parc des Princes dans les magasins Fnac et Virgin, il vous sera remis une copie de l’album LRLRL. La liste des magasins ou l’échange est possible figure ci-dessous.

 

Fnac – accueil billetterie de tous les magasins en France (dans la limite des stocks disponibles)

 

Virgin – caisse ou accueil des magasins suivants: Virgin Champs-Elysées, Virgin Quatre Temps La Défense, Virgin Montmartre, Virgin Louvre (dans la limite des stocks disponibles)

 

Anchorman

Greetings from Paris

September 8, 2009 8:17 pm

Wish you were here

 

 

 

eiffel tower, been there this year on a schooltrip!!

Signed prints of Chris in aid of Trinity Hospice

September 10, 2009 11:05 am

Buy yourself a print, give money to a great cause

 

Good morning. London's Trinity Hospice recently put on an exhibition entitled Larger than Life, showing portraits of well-known folks with a personal reflection written on the artwork on the theme of life and laughter. One of the photographs (taken by Rich Hardcastle) is of Chris. The hospice is now selling 50 of the prints, each individually signed by Chris, for £250 each. The money raised will go towards their valuable work. Click here to check out the prints, or to buy one.

 

 

Anchorman

Theres a new section on the home page...interviews...that and LRLRL link have been put at the below the tour dates

Theres a new section on the home page...interviews...that and LRLRL link have been put at the below the tour dates

... to not make the left side look so empty I suppose :bigcry:

 

They could change the "more tour dates" to "more details" as well as there are NOT more... :bigcry: :bigcry:

Hopefully soon there will be more for our Latin American friends

Hopefully soon there will be more for our Latin American friends

 

And our Tampa friends :thinking:

The link they posted doesn't work, so they just posted an update on that :nice:

UPDATE: It looks like Trinity Hospice are having a few problems with their website - so although the link below is correct, it isn't currently working. Until they can get the site back up, please either call them on +44 (0)20 787 1086 or email [email protected] if you'd like to purchase a print. Thanks.

Signed prints of Chris in aid of Trinity Hospice

September 10, 2009 11:05 am

Buy yourself a print, give money to a great cause

 

Good morning. London's Trinity Hospice recently put on an exhibition entitled Larger than Life, showing portraits of well-known folks with a personal reflection written on the artwork on the theme of life and laughter. One of the photographs (taken by Rich Hardcastle) is of Chris. The hospice is now selling 50 of the prints, each individually signed by Chris, for £250 each. The money raised will go towards their valuable work. Click here to check out the prints, or to buy one.

 

 

Anchorman

 

 

did the website crash?

Roadie #42 - Blog #103

September 11, 2009 10:05 am

#42 and the "best gig we've ever done - ever"

 

 

It's utterly crazy. I've heard crowds excited before the band come on, many times. Here in Paris though, it's completely berserk. They start Mexican waving, Again, not unusual. Then they start the Viva Chant. This too, happens very often. Here though, they get louder and louder until there is just a fantastic roaring cheer going on - a full 20 minutes before the band have even left the dressing room.

 

It actually feels quite peculiar - it's like they can see something we can't. As us roadies scurry about making busy with gaffer tape and cables, they're screaming like it's time for the encores. Myself and Neill do a lot of checks via walkie talkie and the crowd is so loud when he's at the B-stage that I simply can't hear his voice over the noise. I've been doing this for over 20 years now and I have never experienced this.

 

On a tour of this length, the repetition and fatigue can easily leave you punch-drunk and numb a lot of the time. Sometimes though, things like this happen that jolt you out of that. Cynicism and a refusal to be impressed are almost a job requirement amongst roadies, but it is impossible to ignore the level of excitement firing off all around the stadium tonight. This is plainly going to be a night that a lot of people here will remember for the rest of their lives. It's hard not to be affected by that.

 

Now, Chris is an enthusiastic fella. He's said on more than one occasion "that was the best gig we've ever done - ever". For me though, tonight I might just be in full agreement. There's something completely unquantifiable about what makes a show truly outstanding. It's not something you can take a photograph of, or point a video camera at.

 

For me, the Paris show genuinely is the best show I've seen on this tour so far. Quite possibly in the time I've worked for them. There's an exchange of energy between the audience and the band that feeds upon itself until it feels like the whole place is humming. A very special night on a tour of great shows.

 

This brings us to Nijmegan. You'll have to forgive me now, for talking a while about the Flaming Lips. As a show, they're utterly the most joyous thing that you'll ever see. Their gigs are the most gloriously bonkers thing you'll ever see. Again, sleep deprivation robs me of the words to do them justice. Go see for yourselves, you have my personal guarantee that you won't regret it.

 

 

 

As people, they're every bit as wonderful. As I potter in my workstation below the stage, I spot Chris sat at the side of the stage with Wayne Coyne, both watching Bat For Lashes play. Despite the hugeness of the show and the machine that this tour has become, it's great to see two folks simply enjoying each other's company and having such genuine shared enthusiasm for another artist.

 

 

 

Neill, who works alongside me, is an old friend of the Lips, having worked for them some time ago. Stephen, their drummer spends much of Coldplay's show standing with Neill and I, watching the show on our little monitor and out of the peephole through the stage. He's animated, enthusiastic and clearly having fun.

 

When the band bust out a very rare version of Trouble on the C-stage, he lets slip that it was for him. Apparently, Chris asked the Lips guys earlier if they'd play Somewhere Over The Rainbow tonight. Stephen asked for Trouble in return. Seems like a fair deal to me. Everyone's a winner...

 

We leave the huge site at Nijmegen, racing the 60,000 punters out with the help of a police escort. All very flash. For some wonderfully odd reason, the only hotel available to us tonight is a nice, but somewhat basic place a little out of town. When I get to the room, it reminds me of the hotels at motorway services that I spent so much of my early roadie career staying in. Now, admittedly, I'm not sharing rooms like the old days, but the nostalgia is kicking off nonetheless.

 

When I head into the bar, there's a very small group of us gathered for a free bar and a wind down. It continues the "just like the old days" vibe perfectly. The barman has stepped outside to collect glasses on the terrace. Will leans over the bar and picks up a glass, proceeding to pour himself a beer. It really is like the old days. It's always the drummers...

 

Two shows in a row means a very rare chance for the crew to enjoy a break from the constant (and rather gruelling) schedule of loading in and loading out the show. The fact that nobody can string a sentence together means it's hard to find out how exactly they went about celebrating their night of freedom, but it's a fair bet that they were extremely thorough.

 

There's no impromptu version of Trouble out on the C-stage tonight. Instead, the audience take matters into their own hands and seize a between-song moment to start singing Happy Birthday to Jonny. It's another "this is the second time we've sung him happy birthday on this tour" moment.

 

I'm writing this laid on a sofa in an empty hut that used to be a dressing room. The sounds outside the door are of hundreds of flightcases being wrestled into trucks. People shout in several languages and forklifts buzz about busily. Tonight I've bypassed the runner in favour of a ride back to Manchester on the crew bus. Two nights of "just like the old days" - dear god, will someone please stop me....

 

R#42

The pics:

 

 

 

 

:dance:

 

So nice (and true!!) what he said about Paris! :heart:

 

I'm still a bit disappointed he didn't post a single one of the many pics he took before the show :(

 

It's not something you can take a photograph of, or point a video camera at.

He did nevertheless and I wanna see it!! :snobby: :lol:

 

So nice (and true!!) what he said about Paris! :heart:

 

I'm still a bit disappointed he didn't post a single one of the many pics he took before the show :(

 

He did nevertheless and I wanna see it!! :snobby: :lol:

 

Yes, what he wrote is so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miller you're the BEST!!

:heart:

 

I wanna see the pictures he took as well :P

French crows are without any doubt the bests !! :D

That night was so wonderful, oh my I'm so happy that Chris said it was their best gig !!

Miller I love you, but I'd love you more if you posted those pics:whip:

Stage times for UK/Ireland shows

September 11, 2009 2:45 pm

Who's on when in Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow and Wembley

 

Good afternoon. Quite a few of you have been in touch with the Oracle to ask what time the four acts will be playing at the upcoming Wembley Stadium shows. So, we thought we'd give you the official times for those gigs, as well as the upcoming shows in Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow.

 

MANCHESTER

4:00pm Doors open

5:40-6:20pm White Lies

6:50-7:50pm Jay-Z

8:30-10:30pm Coldplay

 

DUBLIN

5:00pm Doors open

6:20-6:50pm White Lies

7:10-8:10pm Elbow

8:40-10:40pm Coldplay

 

GLASGOW

4:00pm Doors open

6:00-6:40pm White Lies

7:00-8:00pm Jay-Z

8:40-10:40pm Coldplay

 

LONDON (both nights)

4:00pm Doors open

5:20-5:50pm White Lies

6:05-6:50pm Girls Aloud

7:20-8:20pm Jay-Z

9:00-11:00pm Coldplay

 

Our advice? Get there early.

 

(These times may be subject to change, but they're certainly accurate as of now)

 

Anchorman

 

 

:awesome:

French crows are without any doubt the bests !! :D

That night was so wonderful, oh my I'm so happy that Chris said it was their best gig !!

Miller I love you, but I'd love you more if you posted those pics:whip:

crows? :P

La Caw la caw

Oooh Angie ! :dozey:

 

 

:lol:

 

We were the best and It was the best of Coldplay... They had so much fun on stage !! We love you guys, just come back and we gonna give you our best again :)

Just couldn't say better Moun :heart:

but didn't Wembley have a curfew of 10.30pm?

Flaming Lips interview

September 11, 2009 8:02 pm

We chat to Wayne Coyne about playing with Coldplay

We called up Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips just before the band (one of Coldplay's all-time favourites) played their final show on the Viva tour.

 

 

Hi Wayne. How are you?

I'm good. We're backstage here at Nijmegen.

 

Crikey, you know how to pronounce it.

Well, I only know because back in 1988 we stayed at an abandoned church full of nuns. It was at the end of our tour and we had three or four days before we had to go home. They didn't want to put us in a hotel, so they put us in this makeshift youth hostel thing. It was weird. I remember it was that Christmas when the Lockerbie flight went down, so everybody was afraid to fly home from Europe for fear that they'd be shot down. When we landed in America, people stood up crying and applauding. It was pretty weird.

 

And the church you stayed in was in Nijmegen?

Yeah! So while I'm no expert on Dutch things, I do know how to pronounce that.

 

What's the venue like?

This one is more of a field than a stadium. It looks like a giant Coldplay festival, only instead of it being 20 bands, it's just a couple of us and Coldplay.

 

Have the gigs in Barcelona and Paris felt similar to playing at a festival?

No, because - and this is in no way a reflection on Coldplay - there is just a mentality that when you go to see your band play a stadium, it's different than going to a festival. At festivals you could be the first band on that day and people are ready to greet whatever's on stage. But for these fans to come and see Coldplay - the ones who rush the stage as soon as the doors opened - they really can not be bothered by anything that isn't Coldplay. They'll think, "Oh, Bat For Lashes, you're great, but where's Coldplay?" And then the Flaming Lips will play and they'll think, "OK, you guys are weird and you're old and this could be cool, but where's Coldplay?"

 

Ah. Tricky.

But I can only speak from my own experience when I saw the Rolling Stones in, I think, 1981. I saw them play in a giant stadium in Dallas, Texas and Billy Squier and ZZ Top opened up for them. And I stood in that stadium and thought, "Get the fuck off the stage, where are the Rolling Stones?" I can say for sure, if I'd seen ZZ Top even a week later, I would've thought they were great. It's just a mentality that sort of takes over when you're standing in a stadium full of people, who are just there to see this one group. But, y'know, we expected that coming into this. We're really doing it because we like the guys and we know a lot of their crew. And, y'know because they asked us. And, of all the giant groups out there in the world, they probably are the coolest as far as people and the way they treat their audience and their crew. So we kind of knew going into it that we'd have a good time, even if the audience didn't understand us.

 

Did they not understand you?

Actually, I think they respond good enough. I beg them to respond, and they do! We're like, "Look, Chris sent us out here as the opening group, we're supposed to warm you up. So if, by the time they come out, you're not fully charged, I feel like we won't have done our job!" So, in that sense, I'm really just pleading to them from a Coldplay point of view. I think they respond to that best! But I certainly don't want to make it sound like it's been a horrible experience. It's just you know there are times while our set is going on that the audience is actually singing a Coldplay song. You can be tricked into thinking they're singing your song, but it's the Coldplay chant they do the whole time. But that's great. I want them to enjoy this spectacle that Coldplay is putting on. It's pretty unbelievable. And we don't mind - we find a way to make every experience we have happy and good.

You've had a pretty crazy summer - playing big festival slots all over the world. This is presumably just another part of your summer 2009 experience.

That is exactly the way to look at it. We wouldn't do it if we weren't gonna find a way to say, "Oh this is interesting and different". That's part of what's great about doing all these different things - you jump from one thing to another. We've been in Australia and Japan and America, we did Coldplay and then we jumped to Ireland for a festival and now we're back. So sometimes you don't really know where you're at. But you make the experience what you can. That being said, everything around Coldplay and their organisation is top notch. It's a great spot to be in.

 

How did you come to be on the Coldplay tour?

When Coldplay played in Oklahoma City, where we're from in America, last November, Chris called me about a week later and said, "Hey Wayne, do you guys want to do some of these shows with us, playing these giant stadiums in Europe next summer?" I just said, "Sure, sounds like fun!" Then I didn't really think about it again until we arrived in Barcelona! And that's what made it fun. I'm not really doing it from a marketing point of view, I'm doing it cos Chris loves us and we like them.

 

Did you go to the Oklahoma show in November?

Yeah. Luckily almost every time that they've played there I've been home. The previous time I went down there in my truck and Chris and Jonny jumped in the back and I gave them a tour around Oklahoma and some of the significant places that are important to Flaming Lips folklore, like the first place we played and where we filmed Christmas On Mars. It was a lot of fun.

 

What did you make of Chris's Flaming Lips cover at the November show?

Oh, he always gives us the greatest shout outs. For days afterwards I'll run into people at the malls or whatever in Oklahoma and they'll say, "Chris Martin talked about you at the Coldplay show!" I think he did Superman and, y'know, when you're sitting there and there's 15,000 people in Oklahoma City thinking, "Wow, according to Chris Martin, Wayne is the coolest guy in the world", that's pretty hard to beat!

 

When did you first meet Coldplay?

I have to say that we've been connected from the very beginning. We both played at a festival in Scotland around the time that Yellow went into the charts in the UK. I remember we were standing there with them when they came off stage and we all talked about each other's music and I think we've just had a connection with them ever since. For whatever reason, we've just stayed real casual and real friendly, admiring each other's ways of doing things. It's mostly just cos they're cool people. There's a lot of musicians out there in bands that are popular but you simply don't like being around them that much when they're doing their thing. I think now that they're so popular they can obviously pick and choose whatever they want. They stick to these hard-fought priorities and think, "We like these bands and this music" and they prove it by inviting you along, it's wonderful! And you can tell the kind of effect they have on their organisation because everybody they work with is really respectful and nice and tries as hard as they can. And that's simply because of the way they are. There's a lot of other groups out there that you travel with and their organisation isn't nearly as nice to be around.

 

The balloons that Coldplay put out during Yellow are, in a sense, a tribute to the Flaming Lips.

I wouldn't want to say we were the first group ever to use balloons! But I think we were the ones within the past decade who made that famous. There's been times when me and Chris will go back and forth and he'll say, "I'm gonna do the balloons and the confetti as a tribute to the Flaming Lips" even though we all know it's just stuff. My suggestion was instead of using confetti they should just let it rain down dollar bills. That would really one up the Flaming Lips. And you wouldn't need to hire a clean-up crew, because the audience would just clean it up themselves.

Having known Coldplay since the start, do you think they've developed as a band.

Well, I really think that there's an authenticity and a truth in Chris in the way that he sings to the audience. And even though you'd have to think there has to be some difference between playing to a couple of hundred people when they started and playing to literally tens of thousands of people now, I still see that in him. That's why I like them so much, because he is the real deal. He's not faking it when he gets up there and that enthusiasm still effects him. So in that way, I think they're virtually unchanged. They haven't become these unapproachable mega rock stars, even though they're arguably the biggest band in the world right now. If they wanted to they could just walk around and piss on everybody's head. But I just don't get the feeling it's of them. Obviously their stage show has taken over this corner of Holland, but I think that's all fun. That's probably one of the reasons why Coldplay and the Flaming Lips like each other. There's just a sense of "Fuck, let's go for it! Let's get 50 laser beams and 20 tonnes of confetti and let's throw this shit at the audience and sing songs to them". I think we both relate to that a lot.

 

Flaming Lips have got a new album coming soon.

We do. I think it's coming in the second week of October. So we've been playing new songs and trying new things. I think when bands have new stuff, it has a different energy to it. You feel like you're living in the now instead of singing a song that you did in 1990 or something. It's exciting.

 

Have you got any big plans up your sleeves for the new campaign?

Actually, when I get home from this I'm going straight off to Portland, Oregon where I'm shooting a video for a couple of days with a group of bicyclists that cycles through town nude three times a year. I'm gonna grab them and use them in my video, doing various things around Portland. They've promised me anything between 500 and 5,000 naked people. I should ask Chris if he's ever had any experience with 5,000 naked people and see what he would do.

 

It's been 23 years since your first album. It's pretty amazing to have a career that long.

Well, it seems like it's getting more and more normal. We played in Japan a couple of weeks back with Sonic Youth, who's actually been around longer than we have. We've played with Red Hot Chili Peppers who have been around longer than we have. U2 has too. If you stop and think about it, there's quite a few groups that are still going. Beastie Boys have been around longer than us. So as time goes on, it doesn't feel as impossible to keep trudging along.

 

But it's tricky to stay relevant. People half your age still love your band.

That's just dumb luck. In a way, that's the greatest thing that's ever happened to us, that we're still viewed as a band that's making music now, that matters. I think when it was 10 years, it shocked us. We were like, "Well that seems old for a weird group like us". Then at 15 years, it almost felt embarrassing, like "Oh my God, we should break up or something, this just seems pathetic". But then it got to 20 years and we started to feel like, maybe we're one of those "classic" groups. You saw how I lumped myself in with Sonic Youth, U2 and all these cool, old groups out there! But I guess we're just lucky that this has really become our whole adult life now.

 

Do you enjoy it as much as ever?

Yeah, I think really that's the key to being able to do it. If you weren't able to enjoy it, gee what a torturous existence it would be. Because it really demands every bit of your energy and time. You can't do this half asleep. And that's why I applaud groups like Coldplay. When we showed up, they'd been doing this tour for 18 months. And yet their crew and them are still pleasant to be around. That's an achievement. So, yeah, I'm lucky because I'm more obsessed with it than ever. I find more opportunity and more stuff that I like about it all the time. I think that's got to be the secret.

 

You can be a wise uncle for younger bands.

Well, I don't know if it's "wise", but certainly "experienced"! But I can tell them, here's how it was for me. And really that there is an element of being out here, seeing the world and just being able to be around people who love music and art all the time, that's a joy in itself. There are stresses and pressures of being out there every day being a performer, but there's a lot of other things about it that are really wonderful and you gotta hope that the wonderful things outweigh the horrible things. But that's true in life. Everybody's life has stress in it. Even people who work just an 8 to 5 job seem to have more stress than doing this. So I think we're all lucky. Who knows how long the world will let us do this thing?

 

Finally, what is your favourite Coldplay song?

I like a lot of their songs, but there's a song on the album before this one that kind of reminds me of Johnny Cash. Where he says "I don't know what I've become".

'Til Kingdom Come.

Yes, that's the one. I don't think they're doing it at these shows, but they used to do it as part of their acoustic part and I saw that several times. I just felt like Chris was saying that to himself like, "What is this?" Especially with what was happening with them during that time, where they went from, "Are they really gonna be the biggest band in the world?" to being, "Fuck, they're really taking over!". And I thought that was a cool thing for a guy to sing about, like "I don't know what this shit is, what's happening to me?" And not necessarily struggling with it in a bad way, but just looking at himself like, "What am I gonna become?". They've got a lot of great songs, but that would be my favourite for now.

 

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Greetings from Manchester

September 12, 2009 8:31 pm

Wish you were here

 

The Coldplay-shaped puppets on tour

grr, puppets:whip:

I think they stink from the way they look, especially Chris & Will.