^well done! but I can't find the twitter picture I was talking about....

^well done! but I can't find the twitter picture I was talking about....

 

Is it the one in Japan?

yeah, it was taken by someone (not sure if they were part of the band or not) but it showed the band (outside the cab) posing for a photographer. It was taken from their right side if it helps....you don't have to actually find it, i just wanted to see for myself and prove i'm not crazy, lol

Oh you're not crazy I saw it before :D

*is 18+* :charm:

 

Oh shush :phu:

 

 

:P

 

yeah, it was taken by someone (not sure if they were part of the band or not) but it showed the band (outside the cab) posing for a photographer. It was taken from their right side if it helps....you don't have to actually find it, i just wanted to see for myself and prove i'm not crazy, lol

Here's the thread:

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78320

:nice:

Watch three songs from Friday's ACL show

17 September 2011 9:04 pm

Check out Paradise, Charlie Brown and Viva from the Austin gig

 

Good evening. If you missed the live webcast of last night's Austin City Limits headline show, you can watch three songs on-demand below.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvr4CRF7Idc&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Paradise recorded live at Austin City Limits, September 16th, 2011 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0mg4fBpMgw&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Charlie Brown recorded live at Austin City Limits, September 16th, 2011 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4nD8aUr5g&feature=player_embedded]Coldplay - Viva La Vida recorded live at Austin City Limits, September 16th, 2011 - YouTube[/ame]

 

The gig will also be shown again on Sunday (18 Sept) at 8pm CST / 2am UK time at http://www.youtube.com/aclfestival.

 

Anchorman

Here's the thread:

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78320

:nice:

 

that scratched my itch, thanks!

 

doesn't look like the cab anymore, that one has more green in it...

They must have caught another cab! :p

Roadie #42 - Blog #144

18 September 2011 7:39 pm

#42 reports from two Coldplay's two Austin shows

 

The customs officer at Houston airport greets us with a cheery “howdy”. One of his colleagues shouts over, pointing at the entire entourage, informing him that non-specifically and collectively “this is Coldplay”. It turns out that our guy knows of Coldplay. He’s even got one of the records: “The one with all the old soldiers on the front”.

 

For reasons that are never made quite clear, he’s bought it five times now. It’s certainly not the coldest welcome any of us have ever received from the TSA, so we thank him and move along.

 

We’re on a layover at Houston airport before a short flight to Austin. It’s been a long flight from London and the time difference is just enough to make things feel spacey. It’s mid evening here, but deep into the night where our bodies think they are.

 

We’ve been allotted a conference room in the airport lounge. A huge heavy oak table with massive, overstuffed swivel chairs. The over-tired state helps this to be far more hilarious than it really should be.

 

Mr Berryman takes the head of the table and fiddles with the speakerphone. “Get [Coldplay manager] Dave Holmes on the line, lets do a conference call.” Will suggests doing some mediation and Jonny asks for a phoner interview to do. (Surely the first time - and doubtless the last, that Arlene from management will ever hear Jonny *ask* for promo - her job being to drag the band into doing press like a parent pleading for vegetables to be eaten.)

 

We’re in Texas, of course, for Austin City Limits. A cab driver in town informs me, that Austin is the “live music capital of the world”. Well that explains the quality of the crowds at least…

 

The band have two shows here, each very different. The first is a taping for the Austin City Limits TV show. This takes the form of a TV show in a smallish theatre. A small stage, with the crowd right up close and personal.

 

The ACL TV show is a wonderful thing to experience. Being a “public access” show, this is less of a high budget corporate affair than many TV shows and hence staffed entirely by folks that are here because they genuinely love it and have a passion for music. This isn’t to say that we don’t do TV shows elsewhere that have great people involved - it’s just that the spirit of the thing here is very tangible. Very warm and very much geared towards great music and great performances.

 

 

It’s a huge shift from the vast outdoor shows they’ve been doing lately. It’s “whites of the eyes” stuff, for sure. The theatre has a couple of balconies, but they’re not really visible once the lights go down for the show. This increases the feeling of intimacy greatly. The vibe is almost like a club gig, now.

 

 

For this reason (from my corner at least) the rockier, more straight-ahead band tunes like Yellow and God Put A Smile seem to resonate really powerfully here. From the new stuff, Hurts Like Heaven really sits well in this context, exploding into life and bouncing off the walls with all the urgency and excitement of a band hungry to prove themselves in a grimy little dive.

 

 

Come the quieter acoustic moment, it almost feels as though they could have done “Us Against The World” without any amplification at all - just sing up a bit and hit the guitars harder and even the back row would have heard them.

 

 

Up In Flames gets its first ever public outing. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until the show airs on New Year’s Eve to see how it went - but I reckon it was a winner.

 

 

The NYE moment is announced and the special stage set that they’ve created for the band is lowered in from the roof. It looks splendid in the UV lights - like multiple layers of luminous space junk.

 

The second show here in Texas, is the Austin City Limits festival - huge stage, full production and a massive crowd. The front row here almost as far from Chris’ mic-stand as the back of the room was the previous day.

 

 

Perhaps it’s for this reason that during Fix You, Chris makes the insane jump nearly ten feet to the ground and up the barricades towards the mix tower. It’s chaos all around. The radio mic is lost in the throng and Kelly, Chris’ ever vigilant security chief is next off the front of the stage. Meanwhile the band are wondering whether he’ll make it back for the final line (remember Sydney?).

 

It’s a chaotic show too, in lampy-world, stage-right. There’s all manner of problems up in the truss and in one of the quieter songs, the entire overhead lighting rig is disconnected from the power in an attempt to reset things. (“Turn it off and turn it on again” isn’t just the realm of IT folks…)

 

It’s touch and go whether the system will be alive again in time for the onslaught of Politik. I look around at the crowd of black-clad roadies gazing heavenward. It looks like some ancient tribe waiting for the gods to appear above them. Time to neck some peyote and start chanting...

 

Will clicks his sticks together to count the tune in and there’s a collective crew-gulp. I didn’t see anyone crossing themselves, but that may have been because it was too dark…

 

The band crash in and the rig dutifully blazes forth the lightning storm required for this tune. The relieved exhaling all around shifts the dry ice offstage a good few feet. Beleaguered Production Manager Wob Roberts shakes his head at yet another disaster averted and heads back to the production office - presumably to wonder what normal people do for a living.

 

Never a dull moment…

 

R42

Dang--I hadn't realized stages were so high off the ground :confused: Chris is lucky he didn't break something :uhoh:

Never a dull moment…

 

 

Especially when you work for Coldplay! :awesome:

Ahhh! They were in Houston!!! :bomb:

I figured they went through Dallas or something!

Wish I'd known when they were flying in and I would have been the welcome party! :sneaky:

HAHA loved the IT-Crowd reference :lol:

 

Poor roadies, what a bloody stressful job, not to mention the huge amount of lack of sleep :dead:

Dang--I hadn't realized stages were so high off the ground :confused: Chris is lucky he didn't break something :uhoh:

 

It wasn't quite *that* high. The stage might have been, but there was a big step down, too. When he ran into the aisle, even the camera man couldn't see him, so it wasn't on the video screens. We were in the front row and couldn't see exactly where he went. It was during Fix You. At the beginning of Fix You, Phil came and sat on one of the steps on the other side of the barrier from us, and watched the song. He shook his head when Chris jumped down. LOL As soon as Chris was back on stage, Phil jumped up and left - I was joking with my husband that it was to go yell at Chris. :laugh3:

It wasn't quite *that* high. The stage might have been, but there was a big step down, too. When he ran into the aisle, even the camera man couldn't see him, so it wasn't on the video screens. We were in the front row and couldn't see exactly where he went. It was during Fix You. At the beginning of Fix You, Phil came and sat on one of the steps on the other side of the barrier from us, and watched the song. He shook his head when Chris jumped down. LOL As soon as Chris was back on stage, Phil jumped up and left - I was joking with my husband that it was to go yell at Chris. :laugh3:

 

 

Phil did this:phil::whaaat::uhoh2::worried2::facepalm: then :chris::whip::argue: then Chris went:uhoh2::facepalm: then Phil was like:nod: then Chris :bigcry: and Phil:hug:

 

:D Glad you had fun!!!!!!

European tour announced for December

19 September 2011 8:00 am

Nine arena shows announced, pre-sale for Coldplay's online fans

 

Good morning. We're very pleased to report that Coldplay will play nine arena shows across the UK, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium in December.

 

There will be a special ticket pre-sale for Coldplay online fans for each of the shows. To access it, click the links below at the date/time stated and enter the code MYLOXYLOTIX. The general sale will begin on Friday morning for all shows.

 

3 December - Glasgow, SECC

Pre-sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 22 Sept from here

General sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65

 

4 December - Manchester, MEN Arena

Pre-sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 22 Sept from here

General sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65

 

9 December - London, O2 Arena

Pre-sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 22 Sept from here

General sale, 9.30am (UK time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65

 

14 December - Paris, Bercy

Pre-sale 9am (French time) on 22 Sept from here

General sale, 9am (French time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: €50/€55/€70

 

15 December - Cologne, Lanxess Arena

Pre-sale 9am (German time) on 21 Sept from here

General sale, 9am (German time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: €45/€55/€60/€65

 

17 December - Rotterdam, Ahoy

Pre-sale 9am (Dutch time) on 22 Sept from here

General sale 9am (Dutch time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket price: €59

 

18 December - Antwerp, Sportpaleis

Pre-sale 9am (Belgian time) on 22 Sept from here

General sale 9am (Belgian time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: €40/€60/€65

 

20 December - Frankfurt, Festhalle

Pre-sale 9am (German time) on 21 Sept from here

General sale 9am (German time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: €50/€60/€65

 

21 December - Berlin, O2 World Arena

Pre-sale 9am (German time) on 21 Sept from here

General sale 9am (German time) on 23 Sept from here

Ticket prices: €55/€65

 

Anchorman

Chris's jump down from the stage during Fix You.

 

 

He climbed the rigging right in front of me. He dropped at least 8 feet when he jumped off. I shot some video and mike got some great pics.

Watch tonight's Live On Letterman webcast

20 September 2011 2:20 pm

See the show right here on Coldplay.com

 

Good afternoon. A reminder that Coldplay are performing for Live On Letterman at New York's Ed Sullivan Theater tonight (Tuesday, 20 September). The show will be webcast live and/or on-demand across the world at 8pm ET / 5pm PT / 1am UK, and you can watch it live on the player below. We're told the player will go live two hours before the show (although the adverts seem keen to start now...)

 

 

 

Enjoy the show!

 

Anchorman

Roadie #42 - Blog #145

21 September 2011 12:23 pm

#42, the bucket factory and the unplugged performance

 

 

 

Join a road-crew they said. See the world they said. Exotic locations and glamour they said…

 

I would never have dared dream, though, that if I worked hard enough, one day I’d find myself in a disused bucket factory in Brooklyn.

 

In reality, the place where we find ourselves actually has a pretty spectacular view of Manhattan and is in the process of being transformed into a shabby-chic TV studio. We’re here for “Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year” an Australian TV show being filmed here in New York.

 

The fellas have done several things with Hamish and Andy before and they’re always a good laugh. After soundcheck they come and chat to the band outside the dressing room and the laughter is genuine and clearly audible right down the hall.

 

This mood continues through the warm-up. Rather than the usual vocal exercises, Chris seems to have commandeered the piano and started doing a rather “oom-pah” version of “Living On A Prayer”. Whether it’s the proximity to New Jersey that’s brought on the sudden Bon Jovi influence, I’m not entirely sure. It seems to be out of the system by the time they come to perform, though. Probably for the best…

 

 

In addition to a short interview (which takes place three times due to dodgy radio mics) and the song (Every Teardrop…) there is a short segment where Chris is required to try firing a t-shirt from the street below through an open window and into the studio. I’ll let you track down the TV show for yourself to see how he got on.

 

 

TVs are long days with huge amounts of hanging around, so it’s a great relief when we finally arrive back at the hotel. I walk through the doors into the lobby with sound-man/co-producer Dan Green and do a massive double take as I recognise a face right in front of me.

 

It’s none other than Mr. Jon Bon Jovi himself. What are the odds? Dan Green and I pass by and head for the elevators sharing a look of disbelief. We head upstairs shaking our heads, with only an oom-pah version of Living On A Prayer rolling around our heads to fill the silence.

 

The following day sees us uptown for the David Letterman show. It’s a tiny theatre and we’ve brought far too much gear. My rig is set up in a tiny narrow corridor way behind the stage. I’ve talked before about gig nightmares and how everyone has their own tailor made bad dreams embodying every single thing that could make their particular job torturously impossible.

 

Somebody appears to have watched all of my gig-nightmares and taken notes. They’ve then gone away and designed today, then wandered off cackling.

 

The tiny corridor is massively busy, which means that I literally can’t get thirty seconds of work done without having to move away from my rig to let people past. Worse still, I’m miles from the stage and have no sightline to the band. I’m completely blind. In rehearsal, I can’t hear the presenter mic, meaning I can’t get my cue to start. The band pick up that things aren’t right and that gets nerves fraying and patience wearing. It goes on and on until I’m in a full-on swirling gig hell.

 

In the grand scheme, it’s nothing major and the band’s performance is great. The whole day for me, though, feels like trying to cook a four course meal in blindfold and boxing gloves.

 

But two things lift the whole experience. Firstly, the Letterman crew are lovely and extremely funny. It’s like standing in the middle of a long-running sitcom watching them work. They’ve got the same family vibe that a touring crew has and they rip on each other, have their own in-jokes and finish each others' sentences all the time. They’ve also been very kind and patient with us, despite us ramming an insane amount of our gear into their home.

 

The second thing, is the encore. Setlists for the webcast to be filmed after the TV show have been going round by email for weeks. This has raised a wry smile in all quarters, everyone knowing how prone things are to last minute change. Indeed, the setlist changes twice during the day and then when the band are onstage, word comes round that they might decide to do God Put A Smile as an encore.

 

The band finish the set that’s on the printed sheets (wonderfully headed “Letterman Setlist FINAL -Version 2”). They stand in the corridor considering whether to go back on and the word comes round: “That’s it. All over”. No encore.

 

Roadies commence unplugging and switching off and then suddenly Chris is spotted walking back to the stage. Further chaos and pandemonium ensues as it transpires they’re going to do “Us Against The World”. Poor old Hoppy is legging it about stringing cable across the floor and pressing a guitar into Chris’s hands. Everything works and Chris does a funny intro - tension of the day dispersed.

 

 

Then, for no discernible reason, the guitar pickup cuts out. I’m not sure if someone from the crowd shouted it out or whether it was Chris’s idea - but he decides to do it without the mics rather than wait for the fault to be traced. I did write in the last blog that he could have done the song in Austin with no PA, because the room was so small. If I’m honest, the idea came to mind from a recollection of a tiny club show in Tokyo in 2002 where he did See You Soon with the sound system switched off - so I reckon Mr. Martin can claim rights on the idea, whatever way it came about tonight.

 

It’s a small enough place that he can project and make it work. It’s a total pin-drop hairs-on-the-neck moment. Everyone is beaming as they watch - until suddenly it’s made clear that while this works great in the theatre, out in the sound truck for the webcast, no microphones isn’t quite so much spine-tingling as just plain silent. - Cue more chaos.

 

Slowly everyone joins in on stage. Will realises that Chris has taken the piano stool, so ends up kneeling on the floor. Jonny and Guy have their volume backed almost to off. The whole thing is just a joy to witness. Completely off the script, unplanned and ramshackle, but at the same time completely wonderful. Just the band and the audience sharing the moment.

 

I tried to run out into the crowd to get a camera going for you folks, but couldn’t do it without crossing the stage while they played. But of course, there was someone in the balcony with their phone in hand. Somehow, there isn’t a more perfect way that this could have been captured. I hope you don’t mind me sharing your video with the blog crowd dayi531. It’s a cracker.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sff69gtDbxo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL]Coldplay @ Letterman - YouTube[/ame]

 

They must be in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn. They're in my borough and I'm not out there stalking them. Tragic. lol.

Bon Jovi :D

The photos with Hamish and Andy made me :heart:

That was loads of fun to watch... :D Nice to see a stripped down performance from them.