I hope you don’t mind me sharing your video with the blog crowd dayi531.

Um yeah, I'm pretty sure the person doesn't mind getting lots of views on their video. :lol:

Hamish and Andy are always awesome, I'll have to watch that tonight!

Um yeah, I'm pretty sure the person doesn't mind getting lots of views on their video. :lol:

 

Hmph. Wonder if they'll get a copyright violation note from Youtube like I did with my Up in Flames video from the ACL taping last week? KRLU complained and YouTube took it down, but left other's videos.

 

This is what I got when I tried logging into my YouTube account.

ATTENTION

We have received copyright complaint(s) regarding material you posted, as follows:

from KLRU-TV about Up in Flames Coldplay - Live Debut 09/15/2011 ACL Taping - lfdianne

Video ID: q60WdWLAUtU

Please note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos you have uploaded. Please delete any videos for which you do not own the necessary rights, and refrain from uploading infringing videos.

If you are unsure what this means, it is very important that you visit our Copyright Tips guide.

If one of your postings has been misidentified as infringing, you may submit a counter-notification. Information about this process is in our Help Center.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material was disabled due to mistake or misidentification may be liable for damages.

 

AND YouTube made me watch a "copyright school" cartoon video and take a quiz before letting me log in!

^ Has the ACL studio show aired on PBS yet? If not that might be why you got the CR infringement warning, whereas Letterman already aired (and that video was something that wasn't even on the show anyway).

Hmph. Wonder if they'll get a copyright violation note from Youtube like I did with my Up in Flames video from the ACL taping last week? KRLU complained and YouTube took it down, but left other's videos.

 

This is what I got when I tried logging into my YouTube account.

ATTENTION

We have received copyright complaint(s) regarding material you posted, as follows:

from KLRU-TV about Up in Flames Coldplay - Live Debut 09/15/2011 ACL Taping - lfdianne

Video ID: q60WdWLAUtU

Please note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos you have uploaded. Please delete any videos for which you do not own the necessary rights, and refrain from uploading infringing videos.

If you are unsure what this means, it is very important that you visit our Copyright Tips guide.

If one of your postings has been misidentified as infringing, you may submit a counter-notification. Information about this process is in our Help Center.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material was disabled due to mistake or misidentification may be liable for damages.

 

AND YouTube made me watch a "copyright school" cartoon video and take a quiz before letting me log in!

 

Hah! Then again I'm not surprised YT would do that. :dozey:

Paradise lyrics

22 September 2011 9:09 pm

By popular demand, here are the new single's official lyrics

 

Good evening. Quite a few people have been asking for the official lyrics for Paradise (which you can download from Coldplay's iTunes page). And so here they are...

 

Paradise

(Berryman / Buckland / Champion / Martin)

 

When she was just a girl

She expected the world

But it flew away from her reach so

She ran away in her sleep

and dreamed of

Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise

Every time she closed her eyes

 

When she was just a girl

She expected the world

But it flew away from her reach

and the bullets catch in her teeth

Life goes on, it gets so heavy

The wheel breaks the butterfly

Every tear a waterfall

In the night the stormy night she’ll close her eyes

In the night the stormy night away she'd fly

 

and dreams of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

She’d dream of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

 

lalalalalalalalalalala

And so lying underneath those stormy skies

She’d say, "oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise"

 

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

 

 

Anchorman

thats nice

 

but i want the official lyrics to UATW!! highlighted when Will "sings like an angel" comes in

thats nice

 

but i want the official lyrics to UATW!! highlighted when Will "sings like an angel" come in

 

^This :angel:

 

"Like a river to a raindrop/rainbow" LOL I laugh every time I see the Glastonbury version.

European tour general sale begins today

23 September 2011 7:33 am

Tickets for all shows go on sale this morning

 

UPDATE: Following yesterday's pre-sale and today's general sale, tickets for Coldplay's shows in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Paris, Rotterdam and Antwerp have now completely sold out. Big thanks to those of you who bought one, and apologies to those who missed out.

 

As of 11.15am, there are still some tickets available for the three shows in Germany - click here for those.

__________________

 

Good morning. Following our pre-sales, tickets for Coldplay's European tour go on general sale today (Friday). Info is as follows:

 

3 December - Glasgow, SECC

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

Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65*

 

4 December - Manchester, MEN Arena

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

Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65*

 

9 December - London, O2 Arena

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

Ticket prices: £47.50/£55/£65*

 

14 December - Paris, Bercy

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

Ticket prices: €50/€55/€70*

 

15 December - Cologne, Lanxess Arena

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

Ticket prices: €45/€55/€60/€65*

 

17 December - Rotterdam, Ahoy

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

Ticket price: €59*

 

18 December - Antwerp, Sportpaleis

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

Ticket prices: €50/€60/€65*

 

20 December - Frankfurt, Festhalle

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

Ticket prices: €50/€60/€65*

 

21 December - Berlin, O2 World Arena

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

Ticket prices: €55/€65*

 

* Tickets will also be subject to booking fees and delivery charges.

 

Anyone buying a ticket will also be able to add this exclusive MX T-shirt to their basket (for £20). It will only be available during this ticket sale.

 

 

Anchorman

Cool T-Shirt :blank: Why are those limited and the crappy ETIAW ones available for everybody? :blank:

I would love to have one but it was impossible to buy tickets today. No tickets, no t-shirt :(

 

edit: t-shirt is mine! :wacky:

Hmm, I ordered some Antwerp tickets, but didn't see anything about the T-shirt.

Wonder if I'll get one.

I had to order it separately

Oh, congrats! :D

If anyone has a spare one or anything I'd be glad to buy it :)

I really like that kind of original T-Shirt.

 

edit : There's something written in the back of it... "Coldplay"? :\

Shazam contest for UK and N. American fans

23 September 2011 5:40 pm

Tag a song for you chance to win a trip to a show

 

Good evening. If you're a Coldplay fan living in the UK, US or Canada and you have the Shazam app on your snazzy Android, iPhone or iPod Touch device, then you have the chance to win a VIP trip to see Coldplay live (including flights and accommodation).

 

To enter, all you need to do it activate Shazam Friends from within the app (if it's not there, you might need to update to the latest version) and then Shazam any Coldplay track, before 15 October. For more information and T&Cs and wotnot, click here.

 

Anchorman

Regarding Shazam:

 

so as not to annoy your friends and family(as i did) on twitter, fb or whatever your communication platform you use, I was advised to read the rules and regulations ( i.e. stupid fuse competition 24 hours jeez) you can email them to enter and its only once a day!. so don't be an annoying ass like Moi!

^ you weren't annoying :hug:

awww thanks Tash, i do need to read the directions in real life too not just in coldplay contest land hehe

Roadie #42 - Blog #146

23 September 2011 8:20 pm

#42 stares down the barrel while being fired from a cannon. And Coldplay do too.

 

So we’re officially slap bang inside the pre-release promo phase. The clearest indicator of this is the proliferation of thousand yard stares and slightly tattered nerve endings visible all around. Every album’s launch phase is its own pinball machine of utter chaos. If the recording process was a year or two of pulling the sprung launcher back, everyone involved is now packed tight in the shiny silver ball bouncing around the schedule at an alarming rate.

 

Besides the travel and the sleep deprivation, the toughest thing about all this is the lack of consistency. Every day is a completely unique assault course. By the time we’re into the relative calm of “just being on tour”, we’ll have done shows in tiny theatres, a bunch of massive festivals, umpteen tiny TV studios, a few stadiums, a tennis court, an arena or two, a bucket factory and a parking lot. This is just the performance side of it. For the band, there’s an additional layer of interviews. Radio, TV, magazines, newspapers, blogs and websites.

 

The point we’re at is illustrated beautifully by a conversation overheard in customs after landing in Toronto. Phil Harvey turns to tour manager Franksy and muses, “These few weeks feel a lot like staring down the barrel”. He’s doubtless feeling the weight of expectation, how the press will respond, how the album will be received by fans. The trigger is about to be pulled, but for the moment, all there is to do is look cross eyed at the shotgun and sweat.

 

Franksy’s reply is lighthearted, but similarly revealing: “I feel more like I’m being fired out of a different cannon every few hours and I still haven’t caught sight of a net”. Whilst it’s chaotic for all of us aboard, Franksy is right at the sharp end - we just go where we’re told, get in the van or climb on the plane. Making sure there’s always a van to get into, a plane on the tarmac, a hotel room to collapse in - that’s Franksy’s responsibility.

 

Details and plans are changing by the minute and if he overlooks something while he’s attending to another detail, the wheels pretty quickly come off the whole thing. I’m reminded of a scene in an old cartoon where someone is sat on the front of an out of control steam train frantically laying track right ahead of it.

 

We arrive at MuchMusic where today’s parking lot show is to be held and the chaos is in full swing. The crew left the hotel at 4.30am this morning to fly in from New York after loading out of Letterman late the previous night. Understandably, they’re all a wee bit pooped. The show is outside, so of course it’s pissing down with rain. The stage has little in the way of a roof, so the gear is being wrapped in plastic sheets. Side stage, all the mixing desks, computers, guitars and gear racks are under temporary tents. These naturally, are peppered with holes and pour in at the edges where one tent joins another.

 

I’m re-programming a bunch of stuff in the keyboard rig in the middle of a torrential storm, while all around me everyone is busily constructing elaborate waterproof homes for the gear out of giant tarpaulins. It looks like one of those survival shows on TV where the first job is to build a shelter. I’m half expecting folks to start foraging for food in a minute - but I suspect they’re all too knackered.

 

There’s a rumour doing the rounds that one sight of lightning and the whole event will be pulled on safety grounds. I’m half tempted to get a flashgun out of my camera kit and start letting it off under the production office window just to put everyone out of their misery, but I hardly think it’d be fair to the crowd who have already gathered and are getting wetter than any of us.

 

I finish up and head inside in search of caffeine. Franksy and Production Manager Wob Roberts are on the phone to unknown persons trying to get a sensible answer about the latest flare-up “What’s the story with this juggler?” I watch bemusedly as the conversations unfold. “We weren’t told about any juggler and I just don’t see why it’s necessary before the band go on”.

 

I’m convinced it’s a wind-up at first. We are after all, on George Zorin’s home turf in Canada. Not even he would be so heartless as to throw a spanner into the works for his own amusement when everyone is already frazzled to a crisp.

 

Thankfully, this resolves itself fairly quickly as it turns out it’s just the standard TV warm-up guy. Pretty soon, he’s out there doing his stuff and before we know it, the band are up there and the show is underway.

 

The rain has miraculously shifted and holds off for the whole show. The band are firing on all four cylinders and it turns into a solidly great gig. Reports from all quarters are that it looked great on TV. I’d almost forgotten that there were people watching - my criteria for a successful show was simply getting through the setlist without my gear being submerged by a downpour. It’s being hailed, though, as a huge success. Result.

 

 

It’s a microcosm of the whole promo phase really. When you’re in amongst it, you forget that there’s folks at home getting excited by the whole thing. And that’s the name of the game. The fellas have spent a long time pushing themselves insanely hard to make the best record they possibly can. Maybe an album that will become a defining point in their career.

 

There’s no point doing that and then not telling the whole world about it. Trying to get everyone as excited as you are about this new bunch of tunes. There would also be no point in going through all of this hoopla if you had a mediocre record.

 

I’ve heard it, though, and can confirm that it’s a monster - and it’s coming your way very soon.

 

R42

 

 

Anyone buying a ticket will also be able to add this exclusive MX T-shirt to their basket (for £20). It will only be available during this ticket sale.

 

 

Anchorman

 

So not fair! I want that shirt so much!! :(

The rocket on the shirt has a derpy looking face :|

The rocket on the shirt has a derpy looking face :|

Damn you're right :|

It looks like a shark :|

its a spaceship right :thinking:

no no no, its a T-REX :stunned:

Roadie #42 - Blog #147

26 September 2011 2:24 pm

#42 is watched in his hotel room and sees Queen Elizabeth moshing...

 

We’ve finished the most exhausting six day sprint in recent memory - and, somewhat predictably, I can’t sleep.

 

The final two days of this leg of promo-mayhem first take us over the desert and into Vegas. The venue is a huge arena with an even huger hotel / casino complex on top of it. We have “day rooms” upstairs to give us somewhere to rest up until we’re required. An absolute godsend given how knackered everyone is. It would appear that the event has produced promotional materials extending to the DND signs.

If anyone can think of anything quite so disturbing as closing the door to your hotel room thinking of crashing out for an hour and finding your employers glaring down at you from the back of the door, I’d like to know what it is…

 

The Vegas show is a big radio festival affair on a revolving stage. It’s a full-sized arena with a huge stage and video screens and Coldplay share the bill with Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Jane’s Addiction, The Black Eyed Peas and several more.

With this many large bands all arriving with all their complete touring kit, these events always have the feel (from the crew end), of catching a massively oversold economy flight on a public holiday. We’re squashed cheek by jowl alongside all the other folks trying to do their job in difficult circumstances.

 

Each act has a short set of around 30 minutes. For the first time I can ever remember, the setlist kicks off with Viva today. It’s not Coldplay’s audience. It’s a Vegas crowd in amongst a bill of pop and hip-hop heavyweights. Today is about hitting them very hard and then getting out.

 

Everyone sticks around to watch Jay. His band are absolutely on fire and he’s a total master at his work. Always a joy to witness.

 

The whole crew is travelling on the band plane tonight, so we wait until load-out is finished and we’re in the air by not long after 1am. Given that we left the hotel at 7 this morning, it’s turning into something of a long day. By the time we arrive in Atlanta, the clocks say 8am. The entire touring party look more wrinkled and dishevelled than a pile of wet laundry.

 

Everyone staggers around the tarmac saucer-eyed. It’s like an out-take from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The inmates in that particular asylum, though, didn’t have to go and load in a festival show in just four hours. These folks are beyond hardcore.

 

The Atlanta crowd, by contrast to last night, are clearly very, very excited from the word go and are not “too cool” to be enjoying it. The Viva chant starts up a whole hour before the band are due onstage. Once the intro rolls, the cheers are positively thunderous. What a superb way to end an exhausting leg.

It’s a high point of recent shows, for sure. Coldplay and Atlanta have a long history. They played here on the Parachutes tour and had one of their first truly great American shows. On Rush of Blood, Elton John joined them for a show here, to play Trouble to the most deafening applause I have ever heard. A few years later, Michael Stipe turned up and duetted on a wonderful version of Night Swimming.

 

And tonight, well Michael might not be here in person, but REM are very much in everyone’s minds. Us Against The World takes a break from the acoustic section tonight and instead there’s a rather wonderful version of Everybody Hurts in its place.

 

The guitar Chris plays in God Put A Smile has been the subject of much discussion of late. Its one of his nicest sounding telecasters, which Dan Green loves recording. The song has seen the guitar launched high into the air rather a lot on this tour - each time landing rather dramatically on the stage. It’s only a matter of time Dan says, before something unthinkable happens to one of Chris’s best guitars. Tonight it refuses to co-operate after the first chords of the song. As a result, Chris heaves it over his head and it gets perhaps its last flight skyward for this tour. Chris then starts the next verse guitar-less and grins goofily and mimes playing guitar in a slightly “when I’m cleaning windows” fashion. Clearly the exhaustion and delirium is universal.

 

My other standout memory of the show was the fact that someone down the front (presumably a Brit) had a huge sign with a Union Jack flag on one side and a photo of Queen Elizabeth on the other. At regular intervals, I look out over the crowd and see what appears to be the Queen of England pogo-ing along to the new tracks. It’s definitely time for a few days off…

 

R42