Wooooowww what an amazing review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:dance:

 

:)

REALLY nice review !

Seems like you had such a wonderful time :nice:

Thank you :blush:

yeh, great review!

Wonderful pics and videos everyone, thanks so much :)

 

Well, I've been back through the thread up to Jen's first posts of the morning (great work guys!) and I'm sure I've missed some stuff, but there's just so much to take in! I heard rumours that there was a pic of Jizo and myself being silly with lip-balm in front row centre, or at least a link to a pic on Twitter, but seeing as I have no idea how to use that it's probably for the best so that in my tired state I don't see the evidence!

 

Seeing as I'm going to be angling for some writing commissions soon I was going to take my time and try to write the best review possible. But I'm lying here on my bed after a very tiring weekend, still in a daze from the gig last night, listening to LRLRL, so I reckon I'm just gonna go ahead stream-of-consciousness stylee, and get it all down while it's fresh in memory (if I can distract myself from the ringing in my ears!)

 

Firstly the personal observational-type stuff. It was so nice to meet everyone at the meal on Friday, a great choice of restaurant by Jen - top-notch - and lovely of Jizo to bring gifts for everyone, and order the champagne (even if I didn't get actually get any myself :laugh3:).

 

It was never my plan to aim for front row, in fact it was very much my plan NOT to, as I do like the overview you get from further back, and the freedom to leap around like a loon, with ample refreshment in hand. So, I didn't bother turning up at the breaking of the day like all the others, I just thought I'd mozy on down around lunch, spend a few hours with everyone, and then chill further back.

 

Well, after queueing for a few hours with the Vivacrew I realised that wanting to be with them for the gig was much more important to me than my dislike of the various discomforts of six and a half hours stuck at the front, so I too did the run-walk-run-walk (speed of footwork dependent on the number of stewards yelling at everyone not to run) and joined my fellow Coldplayers dead-centre stage.

 

Really I should have apologised to them all at the time for turning up four hours after them but still nabbing a place at the front, but it was never my intention, just an irresistable opportunity. I also have the defence that I probably had as little sleep as anyone due to the various 'goings-on' at Manchester Central Travelodge until five in the morning (both nights I stayed there). There may be a short story idea in there somewhere - it really was an experience. Highly recommended if you like to be entertained but don't care for sleep.

 

I suppose the consolation is that Jizo and myself were at least involved in some of the madness on the night after the gig (last night) as he managed to get us involved in a limbo dancing competition at four in the morning which was almost followed by a 100m hurdles race across the Travelodge bar/cafe area over the tables...but I digress :cool::laugh3:

 

So, very many thanks to everyone for letting me join them in the queue and at the front. Thanks to jen for all her invaluable assistance with my planning. Thanks to Ian for turning up to the pre-dinner drink pre-drinks, it was great to meet you and have a good chat. Thanks to Jizo for organising a lot of stuff; for the kind presents; for all the laughs we had after the gig in town; and for almost causing a riot in the kebab shop by producing a fifty pound note :P

 

Right...very tired review to follow...

thanks for your pics!

 

I want a butterfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I managed to grab a handfull of butterflies when they second burst came out of the cannon type things, i can post you some if you want, just pm me your address :)

 

awesome pictures. What time did you get there?

 

I got there for around 2.30, queued up with everyone else in the massive long queue before remembering busybeeburns post about entrance 3. After asking a steward i realised entrance 3 was directly behind me and had a massive total of 0 people queuing there so just moved over there with some friends

 

thanks for the photos gib, its nice to see a perspective from someone from the other queue on Brian Statham Way :D

Cheers for the advice on entrance 3, doubt i would have made it so close to the front otherwise :D

Thanks for your review Tonsu!

It seems you all enjoyed yourselves very much!!! :D

So...onto the gig itself. I will tell it exactly how I saw it myself, and I know some of the other guys disagreed with me, but all this is just my opinion...

 

So, we were absolute front centre and I can only say that when the White Lies came on the bass was THUNDEROUS. I've been to many a gig, but never felt anything like that in my life. I'm well used to bass hitting one right in the chest, but I've never before quite had the sensation that all my brain cells were being re-arranged everytime the bass drum kicked...

 

I was more impressed with them than I thought I would be. Two or three songs were really very good indeed, even if almost all their material is about death. But I just wanted them to finish because the bass was too much for me.

 

Jay-Z: very good. Rocked the place with about half the numbers I thought. The other half was standard rap fare for me. But he and the band do what they do well very well indeed. Unfortunately even during the good songs when I was rocking out (is that right? 'rapping out' doesn't quite seem to work!?!) I was just praying it'd finish and the bass would stop, along with the strobe that was nicely placed right between my eyes if I looked up at Jay-Z who was eight or nine feet away.

 

Coldplay (the important stuff) next...

The rest of my photos are here: http://s337.photobucket.com/albums/n398/RedGirl76/Coldplay%20at%20the%20LCCC/

 

A bit blurry, but there are a few good ones in there

it would be wonderful Gib! Last Monday I was in Paris but the butterflies didn't come as I was seated...

I managed to grab a handfull of butterflies when they second burst came out of the cannon type things, i can post you some if you want, just pm me your address :)

 

 

 

I got there for around 2.30, queued up with everyone else in the massive long queue before remembering busybeeburns post about entrance 3. After asking a steward i realised entrance 3 was directly behind me and had a massive total of 0 people queuing there so just moved over there with some friends

 

 

Cheers for the advice on entrance 3, doubt i would have made it so close to the front otherwise :D

 

wow busybeeburns.... any ideas about gates or queuing tricks at wembley, on the 18th? I can only get there at 2pm. I wanna cry - I would spend the night if I was aloud but I have school, mums annoying etc.etc.

And so a very tired stone elephant (me:P) moves on to his thoughts of the main event of the night...the boys themselves.

 

Well, there certainly were some lovely highlights! :) Not the best version of Yellow ever, but the Simon Cowell stuff at the end was very witty and went down well :P It was fantastic to hear CoL at long last, and Glass of Water, with probably my second-ever favourite lyric section (the 'hollowest of halos' bit) being sung just feet away. 42 was a delight (though Chris struggled so at the end, but more on that later...) as ever. A slightly extended outro to Strawberry Swing that was just a delicious moment. It was also fascinating to see Jonny and Guy adding depth to Postcards From Far Away with their guitars on stage while Chris was way out at the piano on the ramp, I'd never noticed that, still can't hear it by ear, but they were playing, so I guess it adds something.

 

Lovers in Japan. Wow. I won't say much as this whole board's probably sick of me going on about this song, but it was magical as ever :sunny: I don't know if the Vivacrew's very own Japanese member beans knows that Jizo took a fantastic photo of her Japanese fan fluttering right in the middle of the sea of butterflies but my goodness what a shot that is!! Certainly going to be blown up as big as possible, framed, and hung on my wall. One of the best concert pics I've ever seen, just magical :)

 

Trouble, so lovely to hear again, and my first time for the acoustic. A sad moment in a way, as it's a reminder of so many wonderful songs lost to us all live now more or less forever, and we got another reminder when Chris said something about not playing Shiver, but we're gonna play this instead (Death Will Never Conquer?)

 

Billie Jean was ok for me but went on for too long. Along with the little Manchester ditty I just feel like stuff like that is stealing time when they could be giving us Warning Sign, or Shiver, or Everything's Not Lost, or....so many others :cry:

 

(Last part to come)

<b>More photos of Coldplay at LCCC, Old Trafford, Manchester (12 September 2009):</b>

 

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<i>Pictures by me!</i>

I heard rumours that there was a pic of Jizo and myself being silly with lip-balm in front row centre, or at least a link to a pic on Twitter, but seeing as I have no idea how to use that it's probably for the

best so that in my tired state I don't see the evidence!

 

don't go to Wiki then :P

 

Well, after queueing for a few hours with the Vivacrew I realised that wanting to be with them for the gig was much more important to me than my dislike of the various discomforts of six and a half hours stuck at the front, so I too did the run-walk-run-walk (speed of footwork dependent on the number of stewards yelling at everyone not to run) and joined my fellow Coldplayers dead-centre stage.

 

the obsessiveness is infectious isn't it? :laugh3:

 

 

Thanks to jen for all her invaluable assistance with my planning.

 

you're welcome :)

 

The rest of my photos are here: http://s337.photobucket.com/albums/n398/RedGirl76/Coldplay%20at%20the%20LCCC/

 

A bit blurry, but there are a few good ones in there

 

 

ace piccies & ty for the great review :D

Great piccies Ian, thanks! I know how hard you worked to get as many good ones as you could during the gig (along with editing and deleting them) - great work and some lovely shots :D

 

don't go to Wiki then :P

 

:shocked2:

great pics

hello! This is my first post :D I was there it was awesome :)

lol after reading ur reviews and stuff i feel even worse now

but im glad u lot all had an awsome time

so wish i was coming to wemb after last night disaster

sounds like its gonna be on for the ages

:(

and for almost causing a riot in the kebab shop by producing a fifty pound note :P

:laugh3: I wish I was there!

It feels very weird being sat in a Northampton hotel room 130 miles away just 24 hours after watching Coldplay! At least there is a + point - I'm only 70 miles from Wembley!! :D

lol after reading ur reviews and stuff i feel even worse now

but im glad u lot all had an awsome time

so wish i was coming to wemb after last night disaster

sounds like its gonna be on for the ages

:(

 

Don't worry guy you have a lot of chances.

 

I was there yesterday and when I saw them I burst into tears. Only half of year ago I was worrying that I would never see them cause I was in China. So I tried so hard to come to UK and I succeeded. However there are still lots of my friends who are desperate for seeing them may have no chance in their whole life.

 

Take care, and be well prepared next time. It is never too late to see them.

It feels very weird being sat in a Northampton hotel room 130 miles away just 24 hours after watching Coldplay! At least there is a + point - I'm only 70 miles from Wembley!! :D

 

who are you? and what do you look like? :P

 

130 miles away is pants :cry:

I found a video of that! :dance:

This is coooooooool!!!! (Or "Bloody fantastic" :lol:)

 

 

*ahem*

 

how can anyone not love Coldplay when they are so fantastic and humorous? :lol::heart:

Muzzy, I read your post and feel so very sorry for you :(

 

I've had a number of health issues recently, and have had to miss various events over the last year. It sucks.

 

I had the norovirus just last week, on top of everything else, and barely made this gig but just so thankful I got through it. Luckily for my (long-standing) health condition I recently got some new medicine from my doctor which works quite well for me. I needed to take a lot during the gig just to get through, and I managed it. But (and I didn't tell anyone else at the time because I was just trying to be strong and positive) there was one point I almost had to leave during Jay-Z.

 

I just feel so lucky that I did manage to stay on, but really REALLY feel for you. Is there any chance you can be better for Wembley? I can help you to find a ticket if you can. And, if i were you I would write to Debs about what happened. Nothing may come of it, but your story is such a shame, you would get her great sympathy at least I'm sure.

 

All the best to you for a speedy recovery :)

Jen and Ian you're so cute :P

 

@Muzzy: you could still try to find a ticket for Wembley no ?

And yes writing to Debs is a great idea tonsu !