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Small Reminders/Updates on Coldplay.com (feat. Roadie #42!) // PART II

 

Part 1: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45262

 

(ends on 16th December 2010)

 

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(begins on 17th December 2010)

 

Coldplay Roadie #42 - Blog #125 (Christmas Lights, shivering and Shiver...)

 

<i>Bloody HECK, but it's been busy. I'd forgotten what it's like when they release a record. I've experienced 3 album launch campaigns with this band and I swear that the mind blocks out the memories. It's only as your brain starts to feel as though it's doing the wall of death round the inside of your skull that the vague recollections become somewhat disturbing flashbacks. I could moan about mountains of email and exploding to-do lists, but frankly nobody likes a whiner. And besides, there are more interesting things going on...</i>

 

<i>So yes, there's a new Coldplay song out in the world. (Although this feels like an album launch in terms of the amount of stuff we've had to get done, it is just a one-off.) The video shoot already feels like a lifetime ago. Recollections of that night include (in no particular order): Rather a lot of shivering, realising that Simon Pegg is quite possibly even funnier in person than on the telly and getting a constant stream of amusing texts from my colleagues on the boat full of fans. ("We're doing Coldplay Karaoke! Frida is nailing Yellow...").

 

As I say - it was a certainly a cold one that night. Here's a few photos I got whilst I snuck into the trailer to see if I could get some feeling back in my fingers...

 

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Today we are set up in a rehearsal room getting ready for the Christmas shows in Liverpool and Newcastle. We've been here a couple of days already without the band, scratching our heads and pondering exactly how everything used to fit together. It's been a very pleasant couple of days getting re-acquainted both with the equipment and more importantly the wonderful crew family. As ever, the arrival of the band steps the urgency level up several notches as it's time to give the setlist a good thrashing and prove that it is all going to work.

 

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The band arrive bright and early, swinging into the set right away. Inevitably there are more smiles raised at getting things wrong than there are getting them right, but the first run through is gratifyingly reassuring.

 

As much as anything else, getting from the beginning of the set to the end is a stress reliever for everyone concerned. After most of a year off the road, the doubts as to whether you can actually hold your end of things up the way you used to are natural. Pretty soon though, it all falls back into place. One noisy and excitable run through is all that's required to decide that it'll be fine. After all, there is such a thing as being over-rehearsed...

 

Ever the multi-taskers, the band decide to head back to the studio - there's an album to finish, after all. Whilst they're waiting for a car though, Chris and Jonny did have time to blow the cobwebs off this one:

 

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17912881" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/17912881">Rehearsal Room Shiver.</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/coldplayyalpdloc">Coldplay</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

 

R#42</i>

Please please PLEASE do not create unnecessary threads when there is already a place for blogs. The #125 thread was lost when it was unsuccessfully merged with the coldplay.com thread, which itself is having problems on page 319. As a result I've had to create a new thread, PART II.

 

Any new threads created unnecessarily will be deleted instead of merged next time!

 

Thankyou! :)

Thanks Ian!

 

Shiver :awesome:

 

Shiver :awesome:

 

:bomb:

yeah...shiverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

From:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20101217_coldplayfinal.shtml (audio of the earlier BBC news article)

 

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From:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20101217_coldplayfinal.shtml (audio of the earlier BBC news article)

 

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Thank you! Archived in MM. :)

:dance: SHIVER

Shiver sounds great!

loving this day! 42 is back!!! although judging from his post, LP5 is still far away...

Shiver! :cheesy:

Woohoo!! Those going to these gigs are sooooo lucky! :bomb:

:bomb:

I hope Shiver will be on setlists more often for the LP5 tour. That would be very nice. :nice:

Live photoblog fom Christmas shows

December 18, 2010 10:06 am

Join us for a two-day blog from Liverpool and Newcastle

 

Good morning. As long-term readers will know, we love a live photoblog here on Coldplay.com. And, tomorrow, we'll be joining Coldplay for the trip to Liverpool for the first of the Hidden Gigs for Crisis. We'll then head to Newcastle with the band for the show there on Monday. And, all along the way, we'll be posting updates, pictures, videos and wotnot.

 

If you've not seen one of our live blogs before, check out the ones from Exeter and Wembley last year.

 

See you tomorrow...

 

Anchorman

 

 

 

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+ something on my own account:

Haleema kindly posted a link to yesterday's second interview (with Greg James).

You can find a download link in MM or listen directly here for 6 more days.

Roadie #42 - Blog #126

December 18, 2010 8:17 pm

#42 reports back from the Live Lounge trip

Evenin folks, Here's a bit of video from yesterday's Live Lounge recording of Christmas Lights (there are also pictures and audio at the BBC's site). I'm just loading my car to drive home to Manchester before the Liverpool gig tomorrow. I've got a blanket and a sleeping bag just in case - Britain doesn't really *do* snow. We're much better at drizzle.

 

If you don't hear from me, I'll be spending Christmas halfway up the motorway…

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-jBnA5nc0&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Live Lounge Chat[/ame]

 

R#42

 

 

 

 

 

we're just a step ahead of the game, arent' we? :P

Guy looks so cute in the new video! :blush:

All fidgety and such.

 

Extra Hidden Gigs tickets on sale this morning!

December 19, 2010 9:00 am

200 extra tickets on sale this morning for Christmas shows

 

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=685

 

Good morning. We're pleased to announce that 200 extra tickets each have been made available for Coldplay’s Hidden Gigs for Crisis at Liverpool's Royal Court (tonight, Sun 19th Dec) and Newcastle's Journal Tyne Arena (tomorrow, Mon 20th Dec).

 

These extra tickets cost £50. A maximum of two tickets may be purchased per person. The tickets for both shows will be sold FROM 10AM TODAY (Sun, 19th Dec) on a first come first serve basis at the box offices at the following locations:

 

LIVERPOOL

Royal Court Theatre

1 Roe St

Liverpool

L1 1HL

MAP

 

NEWCASTLE

PLEASE NOTE - TICKETS ARE NOT BEING SOLD AT THE GIG VENUE

Metro Radio Arena Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

Arena Way

Tyne and Wear

NE4 7NA

MAP

 

If it's snowy where you are, then *please* take care getting to the venues (and don't set off unless it's safe to do so). We'll let you know as soon as the 200 tickets for each show have been sold.

 

Anchorman

 

Extra Hidden Gigs tickets on sale this morning!

December 19, 2010 1:27 pm

UPDATE: Last few Newcastle tickets now at Journal Tyne Theatre

 

 

13:26 UPDATE: The Liverpool tickets have now all been sold, while the remaining Newcastle tickets are now on sale from the show venue, the Journal Tyne Theatre on Westgate Road (and no longer at the Metro Radio Arena). We'll let you know when those have sold out.

 

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Christmas Lights (Live from Liverpool)

December 21, 2010 10:20 am

Watch a wonderful video of Saturday night's performance

 

As promised, here's the video of Coldplay performing their new single Christmas Lights at the Liverpool Royal Court on Sunday night, joined by Take That's Gary Barlow. Christmas Lights is, of course, available now from all download stores, including iTunes at iTunes.com/Coldplay. Enjoy...

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCM1iA8lbcY&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Coldplay - Christmas Lights (Live from Liverpool)[/ame]

 

 

That was the first time the song has ever been performed on stage, and was the big finale of an amazing show which helped to raise £250,000 for Crisis (to establish a new centre for the homeless in Liverpool). If you'd like to support Crisis's amazing work, you can donate here. Thank you.

 

Anchorman

I see meeee and my front row buddies :wacky: