June 17, 200818 yr its okay But i think Chris is really taking a lot of shit! which is worrying me a lot because he had already a big family and now band! and the world is against him with attacks and shit. think how it will be for a human being! he's also like all others with worries. that's what is making me feel bad for him. Not anything because i know people all over the world will have opinions and also they must do.
June 17, 200818 yr Lore- From that link you posted, there's a picture where Chris is playing a piano but there's a TV monitor in front showing his hands playing.. Do we know what's going on there? It looks cool.... I don't know but it looks great =)
June 17, 200818 yr I don't know but it looks great =) Guess I'll have to wonder until my concert in August... Although my seats are so bad that I won't be able to see ANYTHING, let alone a little TV screen! Ah well... It's still going to be the best concert ever! :)
June 17, 200818 yr ohhh lucky you :P.. there's no latin american dates yet.. I'd say.. 2009... I hope so :dance:
June 17, 200818 yr ...So how close do we think this setlist is to the normal tour's? Cause I'll be in heaven if the setlist is anything close to this (especially with Strawberry Swing, I wasn't sure they'd play that one)! Although I've always wanted to hear The Scientist live.... *crosses fingers*
June 17, 200818 yr I hope the normal setlist will have at least 3 more songs.... the scientist live is so good.. and also politik is missing
June 17, 200818 yr Well I'm not too lucky, seeing as I'll be straight off of a flight from England- I'm hoping the jetlag doesn't get me before they come onstage! Stupid rescheduled dates... Yeah, it seems a little short... My dream is to hear both The Scientist and Everything's Not Lost, but I doubt that'll happen :P How many times have you seen them? I've been trying for years, but this is my first time, I'm so excited!!
June 17, 200818 yr everything's not lost? well.. I don't think that will hapen :laugh3: I've seen them 3 times... in 2007... february 14-15-16.. the best days ever!
June 17, 200818 yr Hey, I can dream! And I'm so jealous- 3 days in a row?! I tried to convince my friend to go to the Boston show with me, but she refused :/ . I'm hoping that they come back in 2009, and I can see them again then! I have to make up for all of the tours I missed...
June 17, 200818 yr Yeah, that's the good thing about living in DC- if nothing else, we get all of the best concerts! A couple of years ago I saw the Stones and Paul McCartney at the Verizon Center within a week of each other, and it was the best week EVER. The Beatles are the love of my life (sorry Coldplay, but you're second :P )! I even got a tour of Abbey Road Studios when I was in London (which is hard, as it's closed to the public). The have Parachutes hanging in the hallway there, actually, which is cool.
June 17, 200818 yr really??? The Beatles are my favourite band :dance: and you saw Paul McCartney.. that's so great :bigcry:
June 17, 200818 yr Yeah, I'm sort of ridiculously obsessed with them, have been my entire life. When I walked into Studio 2 at Abbey Road, it was the best moment imaginable! I played the piano Paul played in Lady Madonna :D Paul was AWESOME. And it was the night before John's birthday, and someone held up a sign that said "Happy Birthday John", and it was displayed on the big screen... Paul saw it and then started singing happy birthday! I started sobbing (John's my favorite).
June 17, 200818 yr awwwwwwww how great :nice: I need to go now.. it was nice to talk with you :) this is so offtopic now.. so I'll post some pics :laugh3:
June 17, 200818 yr are there any pics with the whole band? i just came to the last page. n what happened to their jackets??
June 17, 200818 yr Coldplay, Brixton Academy, London Singing does power of good for predictable Martin 3/5 As soon as they begin their show, we know that everything we had expected of a Coldplay gig, we are going to get. It's this predictability that has made Coldplay at once so loved by the masses and so rejected by everyone else who errs from the mainstream. By Coldplay's standards, this is a tiny gig – so accustomed to the arenas and even stadiums are the fourpiece. Tickets for this show were won by fans on the band's website and in a piece of promotion, broadcast live on Radio 1, Martin makes sure we recognise just how generous he and the band have been, with self-congratulatory jokes throughout – "no refunds". Coldplay may have helped guitar music into the charts in 2000, but their instant commercial success spawned the onslaught of bands Keane, Athlete and Embrace, simulating their brand of inoffensive indie rock, thus steering British rock straight down the middle of the road. While their answer to Radiohead's earlier indie-rock was to remove their interesting sharp turns in direction and the disarming quality of Thom Yorke's angst-ridden vocals and lyrics, Coldplay have nailed a formula for the heart-tugging epic anthem of the masses. It's early days for the new music, as seen by the crowd's varying reactions. "Violet Hill" is a success tonight, and one to join their line of hits which include "Clocks", whose emotive piano chords and Martin's falsetto has the crowd erupting. "When you think you're going to lose, just sing this song," Martin says earnestly "singing can do the power of good," he says, introducing the title song of their new album "Vida La Vida". It's just one of the many moments in the gig that turns the crowd into a hug-athon. "Trouble" is disappointingly dirge-like. But new song "Lost!", its organ chords of epic proportion, actually creates a ripple of emotion. For the first encore they disappear up to the balcony to play a couple of acoustic songs, brilliant for the portion of fans at front left of the stage, perplexing for the rest of us following the spotlight. The effect, half comedic, especially with one well-timed heckle "Go on Chris, jump!" and emotive at the same time, as they played their first hit "Yellow". Martin unveils a new acoustic country song sung by drummer Will Champion, adding variety to their set. "Fix You" is flawlessly performed, and is the best example of the band's ability to manipulate the strings of their audience's heart. This they follow up with the solid new track "Lovers in Japan" as colourful confetti butterflies start showering the crowd. It's a tasteful way to end the night and shows that Coldplay continue to do what they do predictably brilliantly. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/coldplay-brixton-academy-london-848556.html
June 17, 200818 yr Coldplay at the Brixton Academy With new album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends sitting atop the charts after just three days and 300,000 sales, you would think Chris Martin might finally relax. But after a month which has seen Coldplay’s frontman walk out of two interviews in the face of the most gentle of interrogations, it’s best to assume nothing. He may have befriended high-rolling rap tycoons such as Jay-Z and Kanye West, but their sense of entitlement has yet to rub off on the man who, in this month’s Q, preemptively referred to his group as “the world’s biggest bland”. Perhaps coming back to the live arena with a free show – tickets “won” on a raffle basis – was a further lowering of the stakes, easing Martin into a role with which his modest ego seems to struggle. “I know there’s been complaints about the ticket price,” he joked prior to the cathartic squall of Chinese Sleep Chant. Usually when a band returns with product to flog, trusted hits are spaced out in order to rack up goodwill for the new, less familiar stuff. Coldplay ought to take pride in the fact that the evening’s most exciting moments came with songs that the assembled throng were only just getting to know. Switching from piano to guitar for 42, Martin bobbed about in his customarily awkward legs-apart manner before guitarist Jonny Buckland lit the touch-paper on the song’s propulsive middle section. Next to that and the instrumental opener, Life In Technicolour, 2003 hit Clocks sounded like a half-formed idea that – under the current regime – would be lucky to fill 30 seconds of a new number. Similarly, the seismic current single Violet Hill sounded like a song with enough going on to sustain its creators a year down the line when they have had to sing it in five continents. That the same couldn’t be said of Coldplay’s last album X&Y perhaps accounted for its almost entire absence from the setlist. Only Fix You made its way into the set – a mawkish memento of a period when creative complacency seemed to render Coldplay irrelevant. [That said, some things remain unchanged. Martin couldn’t resist a deferential allusion to Radiohead – a band whose continued envelope-pushing serves merely to compound his own insecurities.] Three years on, Coldplay sounded like a band who may have finally found an acre of sonic terrain to call their own. The journey travelled to this point was elegantly marked by an acoustic version of their maiden hit Yellow. If the ovation that greeted it doesn’t silence the voices in Martin’s head, only a psychiatrist or, maybe, hearing specialist can help him now. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article4153524.ece
June 17, 200818 yr Aw, I hope Chris and the guys read that last one. It's nice to see a really positive review in the face of so much negativity lately.:)
June 17, 200818 yr Two more live reviews: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1027069/Coldplay-make-triumphant-return-British-stage-year-absence.html http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/livereviews/story/0,,2286012,00.html
June 17, 200818 yr And another: http://www.gigwise.com/news/43889/coldplay-admit-to-copying-radiohead-at-buoyant-free-show
June 17, 200818 yr Roadie #42 - Blog #1 Roadie #42 - Blog #1 June 17, 2008 9:25 am Roadie #42 reports from Brixton Hello there, I am Roadie #42. My good friend Prospekt has asked me to keep you all posted on the goings on from inside the tour. I sit somewhere stage left through every performance. Wherever the band are in the world, I'll be there and I'll be reporting back to you. So here we are in Brixton Academy. The crowd's gone home, the floor's a mess and the truck's nearly packed. It must be the first night of the Viva La Vida tour. In many ways, it feels as though we've run a marathon just to get to the starting line. Rehearsals have been brutally taxing. We've been flitting about across the planet doing TV shows, amidst trying to work out exactly what we need to do to be ready for the guys to play the songs. (Tympani drums? Cast iron bells? Butterfly confetti? Hand painted synths and guitars? None of this stuff comes off the shelf...) Folks have been working around the clock in Wembley Arena to put together a live experience that does the record justice. The show is crafted and sculpted from months of mere imaginings in round table meetings. From the CAD drawings of Lighting Designer Paul Normandale and the "What we really want to do is....." emails from the band, to the "How the hell are we going to...?" 4am headaches of Production Manager Craig Finley. Time comes to crush us, as ready or not, it's time to take the show on the road. After the scale of the Wembley production rehearsals, we rolled into Brixton with a very stripped back and bare show. In many ways, it's a testament to the songs and the performance that the show was as good as it was. Proof (if it were needed) that the huge arena spectacle is about enhancement rather than distraction. You all know how the show went - it was on the radio. As for us, let's just say that there's one very happy band walking out of the venue tonight and a large number of very relieved roadies. See you all in Barcelona - the van's here to take us to the airport. We should get some sleep once we've checked in at around 5am. http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=37
June 17, 200818 yr "Roadie #42 reports from Brixton" Do you think this is Miller writing as for the X & Y tour. BTW Just finished listening to the whole gig again. Awesome! Some good reviews from the UK broadsheets. I suspect the 4s (and one 3) mostly reflect their predjudices and we can safely assume they mean 5! (My predjudice?) "Coldplay have a strength of character – friendly, excitable, charming and passionate – that success cannot erase." Praise indeed from a Coldplay disser!
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