strawberryswinger Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 where are the puppets? :bigcry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camarona Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I was there, and I have several things to tell. About the quality of sound I do not repeat nothing, is quite above mentioned. I was in the picht and the sound was so poor... I saw The Police in 2007 practically in the same zone and you have the sensation that a sound wall was coming against you...nothing to see about Coldplay sound (a Playstation Sound I think...) Another thing that I want to emphasize is that the stage was too low for such a wide place. I was more or less in the row 10 opposite to the stage and I can't see anything at all, whereas, I repeat, for The Police, the vision was very good in the same place. I have the sensation of the scene was very very low. Probably is good for Palau Sant Jordi or Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid, but not for the dimensions of Lluis Compayns. The image walls were also very bad placed so no stage vision and also not screen for too many people. I believe that the problem of the vision comes also because a concert in this place never has been done for 65.000 people, when the normal thing is approximately 55.000, in order that the people could see, move in, go in and go out in stadium without risks. At my side was a sick girl and she don't have assistance, the public was so tight that was impossible to the stewards come. In this case, I only blame Livenation. 65.000 is too many people for Lluis Compayns. They are very lucky because nothing really important happened. The people had problems to enter and go out of stadium and there had to be 10 wc for all. I feel very insecure. The question of Cd's was...i have no words to write what I see. I don't blame Coldplay at all, but there's only a thing that one band can do for resolve this kind of disapointing problems before the public leave and is simply and cheap: to play. I believe that they should have repeated the first three songs at the end of the show to give a real gift to everyone. I hope that they improve and fix the problems, since I go to Wembley and I would not like to go out with the sensation that Coldplay is not a good band. In wembley there are no problems of organization, but I'm afraid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I spoke to someone last night who went to her first coldplay concert. She was upset about the horrible things some of us have said about the gig.. she had been looking forward to it so much since the day she got her ticket.. Well at least she still had a great time... played strawberry swing in the pub for in the end... and she loved it. she cried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcitindesigns Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I've read through almost this entire thread and only a handful of you have even spoken about the Flaming Lips - I feel really sorry for Coyne et al because it seems the wrong way around here. Do none of you like good music? If you think you do, why the fuck aren't you talking about the best support act you'll ever see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawberryswinger Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 well, flaming lips were very entertaining, but the music was kinda shit, at least for me :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawberryswinger Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 the goodies i bought/catched: - R#42 tee - butterflies - CDs - Tour Diary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maneel Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Well, after listen mp3 records of live show I remember what happen before video record. Now I update description video for explain what happen exactly... I think Chris is a star but in this situation he no stay in altitude of circumstances! Regards! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ilJJ4ISPJo]Coldplay Barcelona ¡No se oye![/ame] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I am still being negative... sorry ... I was going home tonight from a bar, someone had viva la vida playing in their car... people were dancing signing and clapping in the street..ts a another himmo of Barcelona.. you better come back here... soon... you know we have our own version, and you never really gave us the chance sing it back to you... Did the " mosso d'esquadra " ask you Not to get us started ? Its a pity when we have such a good time here, people here get so excited, we die.. 7 people died the night when Barcelona won the champions leauge.. In total over the course of the month over 30 people died in celerbration releatedd accidents .... "Viva la vida" insperided a new sense of civic pride in our city.. " Please people from Barcelona tell me here if I am wrong ?? Edited... ! now over 1300 people have signed up to the onl line petition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawberryswinger Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Its a pity when we have such a good time here, people here get so excited, we die.. lololololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuls Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 hi everyone!I'm a newby here but I've been following coldplay since 2002...I am italian and attended Barcelona's concert last friday, and I have to say that I only partially agree with some comments I've read on the press....the show wasn't as bad as it's been pictured. There were sounds problems, for sure, but I wouldn't say it was a crappy performance from the guys....I enjoyed myself so much!Maybe because it was only my 2nd concert, and since 2003 I was desperately craving to see them live again...but I enjoyed every second of the show. The fact I was in the front row may have helped me to listen better, I didn't perceive seriouss sounds problems-just a couple coming from Chris' guitar on life in technicolor I and Violet Hill, and half of strawberry swing sounded like "drowned"- a pity because I love this song so much! but overall, I loved the way Chris interacted with the crowd, his cute spanish (though when explaining the ola and nobody followed him, he said "my spanish is fucking terrible, man!":laugh3::laugh3:), the setlist...everything. It wasn't the perfect concert, but to me, after such a long time, it was ok! though,I do understand the disappointment of other people in the stadium who couldn't follow properly the concert.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linlaarie Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 lololololol Sí mejor reírse pq alguno por aquí is flipping in colours!! :D It's so sad that people will remember us as the crowd who booed Coldplay, veeeeeeery sad. We went from "the chosen city" to "the rude city" in less than 2 hours. Sighs. Not fair at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 What exacly happened? Whats the petition for? Seems lots of people in various gigs have complained of poor sound on the ground near the stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Its a pity when we have such a good time here, people here get so excited, we die.. 7 people died the night when Barcelona won the champions leauge.. In total over the course of the month over 30 people died in celerbration releatedd accidents .... Really, I don't understand you most of the times... :stunned: What you are saying is absolutely FALSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linlaarie Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Really, I don't understand you most of the times... :stunned: What you are saying is absolutely FALSE. Thank u... I was wondering if I was alone in the "understanding" thing :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Really, I don't understand you most of the times... :stunned: What you are saying is absolutely FALSE. http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idtipusrecurs_PK=7&idnoticia_PK=624156 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idtipusrecurs_PK=7&idnoticia_PK=624156 Te contesto en castellano porque así lo haré más rápido que si lo hago en inglés. Luego si me apetece lo traduzco. Pones una noticia sobre Sant Jordi (noche con multitud de fiestas populares y por tanto movimiento de tráfico) en la que además se dice que hubo solo una persona muerta y una reducción del 40% en accidentes de tráfico respecto al año pasado. Anteriormente habías dicho que murieron 7 personas la noche de la Champions League... Igual esa noche murieron 7 personas en Barcelona por causas naturales, incluso más... Por la celebración NO. Y luego que durante el mes 30 personas murieron por celebraciones. A ver si me sacas otro link que te "demuestre" eso. Me apuesto lo que sea a que no lo encuentras. Relacionar que en Barcelona/Cataluña si la gente está emocionada o celebra algo hay muertes es delirante. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I would respond in spanish, but I am sure you know my written spanish will be awful with lots and lots of mistakes.. despite my ability to understand and speak it. I rememebr the headlines from the papers at the time... yes they said the night of St Joan only one person died.. more died in 2008 and 2007 etc. It was made out that this was a good thing... ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I would respond in spanish, but I am sure you know my written spanish will be awful with lots and lots of mistakes.. despite my ability to understand and speak it. I rememebr the headlines from the papers at the time... yes they said the night of St Joan only one person died.. more died in 2008 and 2007 etc. It was made out that this was a good thing... ! So what? When there are lots of people moving around, by car, etc... there are traffic accidents. And this happens everywhere in the world. Once again, this has nothing to do with the excitement of the people. And the figures that you pointed out are fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 So what? When there are lots of people moving around, by car, etc... there are traffic accidents. And this happens everywhere in the world. Once again, this has nothing to do with the excitement of the people. And the figures that you pointed out are fake. muy bien... ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mygdalom Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 ¿? Bart, boy, sometimes I don't understand you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 Coldplay fans demand a replay for 'ruined' Barcelona gig <img src=http://www.coldplaying.com/images/coldplay2008a.jpg ALIGN="Left" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5" >Coldplay have incurred the wrath of fans after sound problems marred a concert in Spain, writes the <a href=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23741994-details/Coldplay+fans+demand+a+replay+for+ruined+gig/article.do target="_blank">London Evening Standard</a> online today. Thousands of people have signed an internet petition demanding the band performs a free gig or gives them a refund. Frontman Chris Martin's wife Gwyneth Paltrow was among the 63,000 fans at the sell-out show on Friday at Barcelona's Olympic Stadium. But sound problems began 30 seconds in following the failure of three amplifier towers. By today more than 2,200 concert-goers had signed an online petition calling on Coldplay to perform a free gig or refund the £60 ticket price. A Coldplay spokesperson admitted the problem, but claimed it had been put right by the third song.Fan Juan Manuel Ramos said: "I spent a lot of money to get from Tenerife to Barcelona to see this, and it was the worst concert." <b>#42 and the Catalan chorus, as written on 7th September 2009</b> <i>I remember somewhere back last year I talked about the band's stadium show in Tokyo. It was an absolutely belting night and I wrote the following: "You get the impression that the guys are on such a roll that the PA system could fail, the lights could go dead and they'd still carry on, just them and the crowd, too caught up in the moment to notice anything had changed." Roadie sensibility sometimes approaches the superstitious - so much so that phrases such as "tempting fate" and "touch wood" are commonplace and spoken with completely straight faces. It should come as no surprise then, that the chance to test out the bold claim above, comes on a night with 64,000 punters and a bunch of cameras filming for an as yet unspecified project. <img src=http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/512/medium/20090906roadie1.jpg HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5" > The band take to the stage to absolutely deafening cheers. If any crowds on this tour have actually sung the opening melody from Life In Technicolor, they haven't done it as loudly as this lot. I'm underneath the stage and I can hear them. Great night, guaranteed. There I go again.... Suddenly, as the band hit the huge thumping chords before the verse of Violet Hill, something is plainly up. Intermittently, I stop feeling the thud of the bass through my feet. From where I am, I can't place what's going on exactly, but the scrambling of audio crew makes it plain that the problem-solving hot potato appears to be theirs. Much happens very quickly to get the stage left PA stable. From Clocks forwards, my feet remain shaken throughout, which means that we're back on track. It also means that the problem has been nipped in the bud by the third song. This could easily have turned into a gig-spoiling nightmare, but there are many very experienced and skilled people here who weren't about to let that happen. Lets not forget though, that there's also four very stubborn and determined fellas on stage not about to let that happen either. I remember Jonny telling me about the band's first Glastonbury show, way back when. They were dropped off at the wrong gate, miles from their stage with only minutes before they were due on. Many fledgling bands would have accepted defeat, perhaps been a bit gutted, perhaps just taken it away as a story to tell in the pub. Coldplay however, ran the width of the festival site with their guitars, borrowed as much as they could lay hands on from other bands present and did the gig whilst still trying to catch their breath. There are many stories throughout their history that illustrate this shared personality trait. Problems, setbacks and obstacles seem to fuel them on to succeed out of sheer defiance. If anything, this has got stronger with age. They don't let up one bit tonight and turn in an astonishingly impassioned performance. And then finally, we have the sixty thousand Spaniards. They're jet engine loud throughout, willing the band onwards and chasing away the demons. The decision to film here was down to one thing only - that is, the fact that the crowd are utterly astounding. FC Barcelona, the world-beating football team that play in this city, have apparently adopted Viva La Vida as their unofficial anthem. This means that many of the crowd here tonight are already well-used to belting out the "woah-oh-woah-oh-oh" from the chorus during matches. Today, they've been singing it outside whilst queuing, they've been singing it between the opening acts and they're singing it between songs tonight. When the song itself kicks in, it's the proof that what I said way back in Tokyo is indeed true. The event and the emotion are bigger than any technical concerns. What's important here is the band and the audience and more even than that, the songs. It's the shared experience, the communal celebration of this thing that so many people feel the same way about. It's been an emotional night, for sure. Never a dull moment.... R#42</i> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kmm1482 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 You've gotta be kidding me! THEY FILMED IT!! They'll get to relive it over and over and over again! Quit you're whining!! Lots of people haven't even gotten the pleasure of seeing them yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleeson7 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 They'll get over it, a minor blip on what sounded like a truely impressive performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linlaarie Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Well I just wanted to say that NOT all those who attended Barcelona gig approve this internet petition thingie!!! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 They exaggerate a bit, don't they? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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