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12-Sep-2008: Koln Arena ,Cologne - Tickets, Preview, Meetups, Review/Photos

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"Von der Lustlosigkeit der Band, wie Coldplay sie 2005 noch transportierte, diesmal keine Spur."

translated: "There was no trace of the bands inappetency in 2005."

:stunned:

"Von der Lustlosigkeit der Band, wie Coldplay sie 2005 noch transportierte, diesmal keine Spur."

translated: "There was no trace of the bands inappetency in 2005."

:stunned:

 

What does inappetency mean????:embarassed:

Hmm I used a translating website, maybe listlessness fits?

Ok so here is my review:

 

It was not the night of my life.

 

I felt totally different than I did back in 2005. It was not that touching. The show was incredible, yeah, but maybe the fact that there was a big big big show didn't make it as touching as I thought it would be. But it made me happy. Really really happy. I danced a lot.....

 

But let's start at the beginning.

 

everything started with anger. I don't have to explain the problem, because Thalia already explained it. We were not lucky enough to get one of these yellow wristbands, so we stood right behind the 2nd barrier (on Jonny's side). At first I was angry, but then it was ok. We saw everything.

 

At 8pm Albert Hammond Jr. hit the stage. He was ok. Quite loud, but the music was better than I expected. I took the time to get the right settings on my camera. And it didn't work. All pics I took were crap. You couldn't see anything. That made me a bit disappointed, but it was ok at that moment.

 

Mr Hammond left the stage quite fastly and the roadies started to prepare the last things for the big show. The curtain went down and the crowd started clapping and all that audience stuff. And then there was this Jay - Z song first and the waltz afterwards. And then there was Colplay. The first tones of "Life in Technicolor" appeared and the curtain went down. The crowd was going mad! Right after that they played "Violett Hill". Can't remember if there was anything special about that.

And then there was "Clocks". How long did I wait for this moment? Listen to this song live with this great laser light show. I loved it, but it didn't blow me away as much as I thought.

"In my place" was great. First there was this Jonny smile (awwwwww:blush:) and then I took out my camera to try it again and got this:

 

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I seriously couldn't believe it. My camera was working! I took the first pic of Jonny and became incredibly happy as I saw it. I jumped in the air had a big big smile upon my face and showed the pic to my sister. Haha how happy I was only because of a pic....

 

"Speed of sound" was the next song. Really good. The big balls came down the ceiling and there were certain patterns on them.

And then: "Cemeteries of London" Mr. Guy Berryman's big performance at the piano. He sat down and my sister said to me "uuuhuuuuuhuuuu he is going to play the piano" (note: we always had to look at him, because he is so funny for some reason and sexyyy of course...:wink3:), so he sat down and started playing really concentrated and then after 3 seconds he stood up (the piano was still playing) and sat down again and continued "playing"...we couldn't stop laughing:lol:

 

"Chinese Sleep Chant" and "42" followed. Can't say anything special about that....same as "reign of love"...

when they started playing "Fix you" the crowd was getting crazy. Everybody was singing along. It was a great feeling.

"Strawberry Swing" another great moment for Berryman. Will and him started clapping (this motivation clapping for the audience) and OMG this pose was so unique. Guy Berryman the coolness himself standing there and clapping. My sister and me couldn't stop laughing, because he was looking as if they said before the show: "Ok so we've got Jonny playing the guitar and Chris singing. But Will and Guy what should you do meanwhile?Ahhhh I have an idea, you two clap." and Guy thinks "whaaaa no I'm not bothered to do so. Stupid clapping...mimimimimiiiiii" haha . This man is THE man!(haha I love him).Oh and btw. except for this clapping the song was really boring...:uhoh:

Then they went to the b-stage. Unfortunately we were standing on the wrong side, because they played on Guy's side.

I really enjoyed the new versions of "GPASUYF" and "Talk" and I had the feeling as if the audience didn't. Everyone around me was just standing there and watching and I was dancing. I liked the electronical touch of it (where can I find an audio of this?). My sister said she didn't like it at all.

Chris piano session was really nice. "The Hardest part" is much much better in this version and "Postcards from far aways" was sweet, too. Chris invented a new dance before thp. The duck dance. He said he looked stupid anyways and with this dance he did even more, but he kept doing it. It looked really funny.

"Viva la vid" blew away everyone. For sure. There is not much to say about this. It was so energetic, esp. with those kettledrums.

Same as "Lost".

 

After that Chris said goodbye. I was like WTF? That's it???it surely wasn't.

 

Nobody knew where they did go. And suddenly there was this spotlight somewhere in the audience. It was incredible. They were standing in the middle of the crowd (not really in the middle) and played their acoustic set....

 

Here are some pics:

 

sl701821sx4.th.jpg

sl701823hq3.th.jpg

sl701830ju1.th.jpg

 

sorry for the quality, but they were really far away, as yu can see in the last pic.

In this set there was my first highlight of the show. My first "touching" highlight. "The scientist". This was the first moment where I could have started crying. I didn't expect that it would touch me this much. I thought I'd like the normal version more.

"Death will never conquer" was sooooo sweet. Will is a great singer and so talented. You just had to dance and smile during this song:D

 

They went down again and there was this strange Viva la vda remix. well, it was a bit too much techno. "Politik" was amazing as usual.

 

 

AND THEN: "Lovers in Japan". The best moment at this night. I never really listened to this on CD. But it just blew me away. And I think I'll NEVER forget the moment when the butterflies came down. First everyone tried to catch them. I loved it, I felt like a child who wanted to get the most butterflies. And then there was such a magical moment: I looked in the air, the butterflies were flying on my face. It was dark, the music was in the background and all I saw were these butterflies. I can't describe the magic of this moment. I had tears in my eyes. I wanted to cry, but I could stop myself from doing it. It didn't feel anything than happiness in this moment and I wished it would never have endend:heart:....

 

"Death and all his friends" was amazing. Same as "Yellow" ...the crowd went crazy again.

 

 

 

It was over so fastly. But I wasn't sad when it was. I still felt this happiness.

 

To sum it up: Amazing, perfect show (but not as touching as former shows). Nice moments. "Lovers in Japan" my personal highlight.

 

I don't really know what else I should tell you, it's quite hard to write a review if you are not as blown away as others maybe are...

 

Man of the night: Mr. Guy Berryman (imo:P)

 

so, here are some more pics. Enjoy:nice:

 

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^My personal pic of the night!

 

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so, after writing this much I can't really say anything more about this concert...Maybe because I'm tired now...Or because of feeling nothing special instead of excitment....this is the strange thing...I'm not excited at all....I also wasn't directlyafter the cocnert. It was nice, I had fun, I was happy and that's it.

Here are some pictures I took, when they did their acoustic set:

 

 

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Ok so here is my review:

 

It was not the night of my life.

 

I felt totally different than I did back in 2005. It was not that touching. The show was incredible, yeah, but maybe the fact that there was a big big big show didn't make it as touching as I thought it would be. But it made me happy. Really really happy. I danced a lot.....

 

But let's start at the beginning.

 

everything started with anger. I don't have to explain the problem, because Thalia already explained it. We were not lucky enough to get one of these yellow wristbands, so we stood right behind the 2nd barrier (on Jonny's side). At first I was angry, but then it was ok. We saw everything.

 

At 8pm Albert Hammond Jr. hit the stage. He was ok. Quite loud, but the music was better than I expected. I took the time to get the right settings on my camera. And it didn't work. All pics I took were crap. You couldn't see anything. That made me a bit disappointed, but it was ok at that moment.

 

Mr Hammond left the stage quite fastly and the roadies started to prepare the last things for the big show. The curtain went down and the crowd started clapping and all that audience stuff. And then there was this Jay - Z song first and the waltz afterwards. And then there was Colplay. The first tones of "Life in Technicolor" appeared and the curtain went down. The crowd was going mad! Right after that they played "Violett Hill". Can't remember if there was anything special about that.

And then there was "Clocks". How long did I wait for this moment? Listen to this song live with this great laser light show. I loved it, but it didn't blow me away as much as I thought.

"In my place" was great. First there was this Jonny smile (awwwwww:blush:) and then I took out my camera to try it again and got this:

 

sl701786ir5.th.jpg

sl701788eb6.th.jpg

sl701789vz1.th.jpg

 

I seriously couldn't believe it. My camera was working! I took the first pic of Jonny and became incredibly happy as I saw it. I jumped in the air had a big big smile upon my face and showed the pic to my sister. Haha how happy I was only because of a pic....

 

"Speed of sound" was the next song. Really good. The big balls came down the ceiling and there were certain patterns on them.

And then: "Cemeteries of London" Mr. Guy Berryman's big performance at the piano. He sat down and my sister said to me "uuuhuuuuuhuuuu he is going to play the piano" (note: we always had to look at him, because he is so funny for some reason and sexyyy of course...:wink3:), so he sat down and started playing really concentrated and then after 3 seconds he stood up (the piano was still playing) and sat down again and continued "playing"...we couldn't stop laughing:lol:

 

"Chinese Sleep Chant" and "42" followed. Can't say anything special about that....same as "reign of love"...

when they started playing "Fix you" the crowd was getting crazy. Everybody was singing along. It was a great feeling.

"Strawberry Swing" another great moment for Berryman. Will and him started clapping (this motivation clapping for the audience) and OMG this pose was so unique. Guy Berryman the coolness himself standing there and clapping. My sister and me couldn't stop laughing. This man is THE man!(haha I love him).

Then they went to the b-stage. Unfortunately we were standing on the wrong side, because they played on Guy's side.

I really enjoyed the new versions of "GPASUYF" and "Talk" and I had the feeling as if the audience didn't. Everyone around me was just standing there and watching and I was dancing. I liked the electronical touch of it (where can I find an audio of this?). My sister said she didn't like it at all.

Chris piano session was really nice. "The Hardest part" is much much better in this version and "Postcards from far aways" was sweet, too. Chris invented a new dance before thp. The duck dance. He said he looked stupid anyways and with this dance he did even more, but he kept doing it. It looked really funny.

"Viva la vid" blew away everyone. For sure. There is not much to say about this. It was so energetic, esp. with those kettledrums.

Same as "Lost".

 

After that Chris said goodbye. I was like WTF? That's it???it surely wasn't.

 

Nobody knew where they did go. And suddenly there was this spotlight somewhere in the audience. It was incredible. They were standing in the middle of the crowd (not really in the middle) and played their acoustic set....

 

Here are some pics:

 

sl701821sx4.th.jpg

sl701823hq3.th.jpg

sl701830ju1.th.jpg

 

sorry for the quality, but they were really far away, as yu can see in the last pic.

In this set there was my first highlight of the show. My first "touching" highlight. "The scientist". This was the first moment where I could have started crying. I didn't expect that it would touch me this much. I thought I'd like the normal version more.

"Death will never conquer" was sooooo sweet. Will is a great singer and so talented. You just had to dance and smile during this song:D

 

They went down again and there was this strange Viva la vda remix. well, it was a bit too much techno. "Politik" was amazing as usual.

 

 

AND THEN: "Lovers in Japan". The best moment at this night. I never really listened to this on CD. But it just blew me away. And I think I'll NEVER forget the moment when the butterflies came down. First everyone tried to catch them. I loved it, I felt like a child who wanted to get the most butterflies. And then there was such a magical moment: I looked in the air, the butterflies were flying on my face. It was dark, the music was in the background and all I saw were these butterflies. I can't describe the magic of this moment. I had tears in my eyes. I wanted to cry, but I could stop myself from doing it. It didn't feel anything than happiness in this moment and I wished it would never have endend:heart:....

 

"Death and all his friends" was amazing. Same as "Yellow" ...the crowd went crazy again.

 

 

 

It was over so fastly. But I wasn't sad when it was. I still felt this happiness.

 

To sum it up: Amazing, perfect show (but not as touching as former shows). Nice moments. "Lovers in Japan" my personal highlight.

 

I don't really know what else I should tell you, it's quite hard to write a review if you are not as blown away as others maybe are...

 

so, here are some more pics. Enjoy:nice:

 

awesome Julia.:)

Nice to read your review.

Gonna sleep now, later folks :)

Here are some pictures I took, when they did their acoustic set:

 

 

BILD2443.jpg

 

BILD2446.jpg

 

BILD2449.jpg

 

BILD2450.jpg

 

thanks.:)

And then: "Cemeteries of London" Mr. Guy Berryman's big performance at the piano. He sat down and my sister said to me "uuuhuuuuuhuuuu he is going to play the piano" (note: we always had to look at him, because he is so funny for some reason and sexyyy of course...:wink3:), so he sat down and started playing really concentrated and then after 3 seconds he stood up (the piano was still playing) and sat down again and continued "playing"...we couldn't stop laughing:lol:

 

-------

 

AND THEN: "Lovers in Japan". The best moment at this night. I never really listened to this on CD. But it just blew me away. And I think I'll NEVER forget the moment when the butterflies came down. First everyone tried to catch them. I loved it, I felt like a child who wanted to get the most butterflies. And then there was such a magical moment: I looked in the air, the butterflies were flying on my face. It was dark, the music was in the background and all I saw were these butterflies. I can't describe the magic of this moment. I had tears in my eyes. I wanted to cry, but I could stop myself from doing it. It didn't feel anything than happiness in this moment and I wished it would never have endend:heart:....

 

awesome review !! glad you had a good time !

 

and WHAT ? :stunned: Guy was faking the piano part ?

 

this is the sweetest review of Lovers in Japan :nice: I agree the butterflies are AMAZINGLY STUNNING ! it really blows one's mind ! and I did the same for the last gig in Paris, closed my eyes and felt the confettis falling down on me :nice: :cry:

Ok so here is my review:

 

It was not the night of my life.

 

I felt totally different than I did back in 2005. It was not that touching. The show was incredible, yeah, but maybe the fact that there was a big big big show didn't make it as touching as I thought it would be. But it made me happy. Really really happy. I danced a lot.....

 

But let's start at the beginning.

 

everything started with anger. I don't have to explain the problem, because Thalia already explained it. We were not lucky enough to get one of these yellow wristbands, so we stood right behind the 2nd barrier (on Jonny's side). At first I was angry, but then it was ok. We saw everything.

 

At 8pm Albert Hammond Jr. hit the stage. He was ok. Quite loud, but the music was better than I expected. I took the time to get the right settings on my camera. And it didn't work. All pics I took were crap. You couldn't see anything. That made me a bit disappointed, but it was ok at that moment.

 

Mr Hammond left the stage quite fastly and the roadies started to prepare the last things for the big show. The curtain went down and the crowd started clapping and all that audience stuff. And then there was this Jay - Z song first and the waltz afterwards. And then there was Colplay. The first tones of "Life in Technicolor" appeared and the curtain went down. The crowd was going mad! Right after that they played "Violett Hill". Can't remember if there was anything special about that.

And then there was "Clocks". How long did I wait for this moment? Listen to this song live with this great laser light show. I loved it, but it didn't blow me away as much as I thought.

"In my place" was great. First there was this Jonny smile (awwwwww:blush:) and then I took out my camera to try it again and got this:

 

sl701786ir5.th.jpg

sl701788eb6.th.jpg

sl701789vz1.th.jpg

 

I seriously couldn't believe it. My camera was working! I took the first pic of Jonny and became incredibly happy as I saw it. I jumped in the air had a big big smile upon my face and showed the pic to my sister. Haha how happy I was only because of a pic....

 

"Speed of sound" was the next song. Really good. The big balls came down the ceiling and there were certain patterns on them.

And then: "Cemeteries of London" Mr. Guy Berryman's big performance at the piano. He sat down and my sister said to me "uuuhuuuuuhuuuu he is going to play the piano" (note: we always had to look at him, because he is so funny for some reason and sexyyy of course...:wink3:), so he sat down and started playing really concentrated and then after 3 seconds he stood up (the piano was still playing) and sat down again and continued "playing"...we couldn't stop laughing:lol:

 

"Chinese Sleep Chant" and "42" followed. Can't say anything special about that....same as "reign of love"...

when they started playing "Fix you" the crowd was getting crazy. Everybody was singing along. It was a great feeling.

"Strawberry Swing" another great moment for Berryman. Will and him started clapping (this motivation clapping for the audience) and OMG this pose was so unique. Guy Berryman the coolness himself standing there and clapping. My sister and me couldn't stop laughing. This man is THE man!(haha I love him).

Then they went to the b-stage. Unfortunately we were standing on the wrong side, because they played on Guy's side.

I really enjoyed the new versions of "GPASUYF" and "Talk" and I had the feeling as if the audience didn't. Everyone around me was just standing there and watching and I was dancing. I liked the electronical touch of it (where can I find an audio of this?). My sister said she didn't like it at all.

Chris piano session was really nice. "The Hardest part" is much much better in this version and "Postcards from far aways" was sweet, too. Chris invented a new dance before thp. The duck dance. He said he looked stupid anyways and with this dance he did even more, but he kept doing it. It looked really funny.

"Viva la vid" blew away everyone. For sure. There is not much to say about this. It was so energetic, esp. with those kettledrums.

Same as "Lost".

 

After that Chris said goodbye. I was like WTF? That's it???it surely wasn't.

 

Nobody knew where they did go. And suddenly there was this spotlight somewhere in the audience. It was incredible. They were standing in the middle of the crowd (not really in the middle) and played their acoustic set....

 

Here are some pics:

 

sl701821sx4.th.jpg

sl701823hq3.th.jpg

sl701830ju1.th.jpg

 

sorry for the quality, but they were really far away, as yu can see in the last pic.

In this set there was my first highlight of the show. My first "touching" highlight. "The scientist". This was the first moment where I could have started crying. I didn't expect that it would touch me this much. I thought I'd like the normal version more.

"Death will never conquer" was sooooo sweet. Will is a great singer and so talented. You just had to dance and smile during this song:D

 

They went down again and there was this strange Viva la vda remix. well, it was a bit too much techno. "Politik" was amazing as usual.

 

 

AND THEN: "Lovers in Japan". The best moment at this night. I never really listened to this on CD. But it just blew me away. And I think I'll NEVER forget the moment when the butterflies came down. First everyone tried to catch them. I loved it, I felt like a child who wanted to get the most butterflies. And then there was such a magical moment: I looked in the air, the butterflies were flying on my face. It was dark, the music was in the background and all I saw were these butterflies. I can't describe the magic of this moment. I had tears in my eyes. I wanted to cry, but I could stop myself from doing it. It didn't feel anything than happiness in this moment and I wished it would never have endend:heart:....

 

"Death and all his friends" was amazing. Same as "Yellow" ...the crowd went crazy again.

 

 

 

It was over so fastly. But I wasn't sad when it was. I still felt this happiness.

 

To sum it up: Amazing, perfect show (but not as touching as former shows). Nice moments. "Lovers in Japan" my personal highlight.

 

I don't really know what else I should tell you, it's quite hard to write a review if you are not as blown away as others maybe are...

 

so, here are some more pics. Enjoy:nice:

Beautiful review! Thanks! :)

awesome review !! glad you had a good time !

 

and WHAT ? :stunned: Guy was faking the piano part ?

 

this is the sweetest review of Lovers in Japan :nice: I agree the butterflies are AMAZINGLY STUNNING ! it really blows one's mind ! and I did the same for the last gig in Paris, closed my eyes and felt the confettis falling down on me :nice: :cry:

 

Haha well he must have been faking it, because I observed him and he stood up and the pano was still playing....I couldn't believe it,..:laugh4:

Haha well he must have been faking it, because I observed him and he stood up and the pano was still playing....I couldn't believe it,..:laugh4:

 

i forgot to ask you did you get any butterflies home?

Haha well he must have been faking it, because I observed him and he stood up and the pano was still playing....I couldn't believe it,..:laugh4:

 

that's quite 'disturbing' to know he wasnt really playing.. :confused:

but somehow FUNNY that he stood up before the end of the piano part :lol: oh Guy you know better than that ! :rolleyes:

i forgot to ask you did you get any butterflies home?

 

Oh yeah many...we went to a bar afterwards and I took them out of my bag to see how many I have....and then there was a woman and she said "awwwwww will you give me one of those?" and I said "of course" and gave her one of the butteflies...:nice:

that's quite 'disturbing' to know he wasnt really playing.. :confused:

but somehow FUNNY that he stood up before the end of the piano part :lol: oh Guy you know better than that ! :rolleyes:

 

I find rather funny. But I don't want to tell rumours....maybe he is able to play the piano but wasn't bothered tonight...:P

Oh yeah many...we went to a bar afterwards and I took them out of my bag to see how many I have....and then there was a woman and she said "awwwwww will you give me one of those?" and I said "of course" and gave her one of the butteflies...:nice:

 

so how many do you have then?

 

can you send me too:wink3:

Oh and loved t when Chris said "your singing is fucking incredible tonight"....but he says that everytime..:wacky:

so how many do you have then?

 

can you send me too:wink3:

 

maybe 25 or something like that...haha of course I can send you some

I find rather funny. But I don't want to tell rumours....maybe he is able to play the piano but wasn't bothered tonight...:P

 

it IS funny ! but oh well.. at least he's not faking the bass playing .. right ? :uhoh: :P

 

and just realised you have now a Coldplay related avatar AND sig :nice: Long time it didnt happen !

maybe 25 or something like that...haha of course I can send you some

 

ok glad to hear it i'll send my address to you later...:)

 

thanks Julia.

 

which colors those butterflies are, are there any pink ones in them?

oh thanks Julia! do you have Reign of love video?

it IS funny ! but oh well.. at least he's not faking the bass playing .. right ? :uhoh: :P

 

and just realised you have now a Coldplay related avatar AND sig :nice: Long time it didnt happen !

 

hahaha I said exactly the same thing to my sister...:P

 

now I don't have a coldplay sig anymore...will change it tomorrow..;)

 

ok glad to hear it i'll send my address to you later...:)

 

thanks Julia.

 

which colors those butterflies are, are there any pink ones in them?

 

 

yeah there are also pink ones...

 

I don't have reign of love....didn't find it on youtube..

 

I want to find Chris' duck dance

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