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Ah ok. Now this is the ultimate question.

We arrived at 10:30am - some a few hours earlier than that (we were 3rd or 4th there) and waited all day. However, some people who rocked up at 5 or 6pm made it to the front row.

So we toiled out in the wind and heat just to get our front row taken by some punkass kids who didn't even know the name of AROBTTH and said he only liked a couple of their songs. You try and figure out the justice in all that.

Hopefully Sydney's way of doing things is a little bit more organised than Melbourne. I'd say get there around 12-1, you'll still get front (if you're lucky).

 

I got there at 5, could have got to the front if I wanted but chose to be where they played GPASUYF-PFFA.

When we got there some people gave us real greasy stares...

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And shit for getting sick!! Its crazy, and sad. I'm just surprised you weren't sick when the lead singer of Mercury rev started singing, cos thats when my eardrums started to bleed with PAIN!!! :P

 

If I didn't know what was happening to me was a reaction to severe dehydration, I would blame Mecury Rev. DO NOT WANT.

 

Personally me and my sister got there shortly after the gates opened. We were lined up for an hour inside before we were let in, so it's just a matter of quickly getting wristbanded and making it to a door with a short line. :D

 

I got there at 5, could have got to the front if I wanted but chose to be where they played GPASUYF-PFFA.

When we got there some people gave us real greasy stares...

 

Some classy girls pushed in behind us instead of joining the back of the line (which was fairly long) and were just annoying with their chattering behind us. "Oh haha and they went all the way to the back of the line!" Yeah, like you were SUPPOSED to. :shame:

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A very belated short review from the third and final Melbourne concert. This is my first ever Coldplay concert and easily the biggest i've seen. I'm nothing short of being blown away. There were so many highlights, I can't name them all because i'll basically be writing a transcript of the concert. But I was taken by surprise by their encore acoustic performance on the stairs close to where I was sitting. I also loved the trancy rendition of Talk and Viva La Vida was perfect!

 

Another thing I have to say about this band is that i'm convinced they're not motivated by the money, it really is about the music. I say this because out of all the concerts I have been to, I really feel as though I got my money's worth. Given the size of the production, sound and the fact that it's Coldplay, I can't believe I only paid $280.00 for 2 tickets - honestly. Consider this: I went to see Crowded House last year at the Forum, an intimate Gothic Theatre in the city. Each ticket was around $90.00 and the show was very straight forward: band, music and basic light show. I loved it!

 

I'm a huge Neil Finn fan so I was naturally euphoric by the end of it, but with Coldplay, for only $50.00 more, the size and premise of the show was expanded 10 fold. What i loved about the concert is that there was always something to look at. At any concert, no matter how good the music is, it can get boring just looking in the one direction at the musicians doing their thing, as time goes by, your eyes wander around the venue while taking in the music. At Coldplay, my eyes were the busiest they've been. If I wasn't awestruck by the eccentric Chris Martin, I was looking at the screen or the spheres hanging from the ceiling or the confetti showering over the venue.

 

Then there's the merchandise, it's the cheapest its been. The program, being only $25.00 is the largest and most colourful i've purchased from a show. Chris Martin said during the show that he had 12,000 special guests, I walked away that night feeling like one of them. I'm convinced that for Coldplay it's more than money and marketing, they have passion and there's no letting up. It wil be a while before i'm this swept off my feet.

 

THANKS COLDPLAY!

 

Can we do this again same time next year?

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Ok, so. ilovealias4ever already hath given you the setlist, so I don't need to do that. People in GA spotted Shane Warne being escorted to his seat. Also, I think I was right next to alias - or her lively copper-haired friend, at least. If she was wearing a light blue X&Y shirt and chatting to said friend about the roadies and setlist before the gig then yes for a large portion of the show I was next to her friend. Alias if that was you, I was the girl with straight brown hair and a black and gray striped V-neck shirt (don't think you would have seen the navy blue jeans but eh).

 

Show was great, I was about fourth row from the stage I think? On Guy's side. Probably. Support acts - I think Decoder Ring was okay, my sister thought they were a bit strange. Most of the crowd didn't really get what they were about, they were completely instrumental. Mecury Rev, well. If you're going to a show and thinking of skipping some supports, Mercury Rev are a DO NOT WANT. Their set went on for 45 minutes, tooooo long. Audience didn't like them either :P.

 

Soon enough JayZ and the Blue Danube started, everyone sort of sang and danced along to the Blue Danube, very funny? It was! Then the lights darkened and LiT began. I think a few people where I was freaked out realising how close they were :D. Nice big singalong for Violet Hill, same with Clocks and In My Place. And yes girls, the Ramp of Love was loving that night with Chris and Jonny playing around at the end on it.

 

Out came the balloons for Yellow, everyone had fun with those, great way to keep the crowd entertained because everyone loved them. Some guy near me had cheekily pulled out a pen and was popping them all though :lol:. Cemeteries next, pretty good damn performance of it, and Glass of Water. Only two others including myself knew the words (and I'm pretty sure that was ilovealias4ever and co). Everyone was dancing along to 42 by the middle section of the song. Fix You was a massive singalong like Yellow. Strawberry Swing everyone clapped the beat to at the start. Chris mentioned that it was written in Melbourne too :D

 

Then everyone noticed the boys were moving down Guy's runway. There they played GPASUYF and Talk. After those two Jonny, Guy and Will moved back up the runway while Chris stayed and started blabbering on about his birthday in Melbourne, everyone started singing Happy Birthday to him and he was so embarrassed :lol: It was very sweet. Then he went on about a musical they were going to make about some cricketer or something, can't remember the name, but "the fucking bastards stole our idea!" :lol: Thus he introduced The Hardest Part as one of the songs left over from the musical. Very lovely performance of it :kiss: Chrislovers, be jealous as I had a prime view of his back and all while he was performing it. Hah. After that was Postcards From Far Away, turned around, Jonny was playing a little piece to it but everyone was facing Chris. I think Jonny spotted me and I gave him a smile, heeee.

 

Next up, Viva La Vida. Crowd went nuts. Great great great performance of it. Then Lost! got a play. Afterwards, the boys disappeared off the stage and then reappeared in the crowd :D. Acoustics were Speed of Sound, I'm A Believer (which everyone clapped and sang along to, although it had a false start with Chris' shoddy keyboard not working when they started the song :lol:) and Death Will Never Conquer. Chris asked everyone to get their mobiles out at the end of DWNC and the Viva remix played. Be sure to look around when everyone's doing this, it's amaz-ing.

 

Politik came on, everyone bounced along to it. Lovers in Japan, everyone went nuts with the confetti :lol:. I got some along with Yellow confetti by the waye (even got a neon green one but lost a neon orange one, booo). Next was DAAHF... last song, I thought! Noo! But ALAS! The people wanted an encore. And an encore they got.

 

Chris bounded back on stage and The Scientist was played, full band, non-acoustic. Then Life in Technicolor. Unfortunately I realised I couldn't sing the start of it, and then midway through the song desperately needed a) water, b) air. This was a problem because I was in standing and security had actually confiscated one of our bottles of water, so we were forced to conserve the other one. Anyway had a sip of water, but then felt a bit sick as the boys were taking their final bow. Over to the ramp I go and was sick. Three times. Thank god the boys weren't on stage or Chris would have needed personal assurance I was going to be fine :lol:. Not nice. Few people asked if I was going to be okay, said I was, just stayed there for a bit drinking the water and getting fresh air. The fustrating thing I think about now is, if my bottle of water hadn't been obscured in my bag I could have been sick a lot earlier or a lot worse. Thanks a lot, security, your money-grabbing ways of getting us to buy your ridiculously over-priced drinks forced me to be sick. Congrats, morons. Have fun when the parents of several overly-dehydrated teeny-boppers get on your ass.

 

That's about all... was great though. Two meters from stage, perhaps less. Jonny was cute and shy with his hat on as usual, Will was banging away on the drums although I didn't really see him what with Chris' piano in the way. Berrygirls, I will admit Guy was quite attractive :P although my eyes were not averted from Chris. Bright blue eyes, pretty curls and a v. nice smile :D. He looked straight at me at one point, to which I responded with a smile, although I admit I was wearing a lowish-cut V-neck shirt so uh :uhoh: lol! But he was joking about during the night, you could tell he was very excited and happy to be on stage :nice:

Hurrah, another victim! :P

Great review, thanx! :D

Sorry about your sickness! :sick:

A very belated short review from the third and final Melbourne concert. This is my first ever Coldplay concert and easily the biggest i've seen. I'm nothing short of being blown away. There were so many highlights, I can't name them all because i'll basically be writing a transcript of the concert. But I was taken by surprise by their encore acoustic performance on the stairs close to where I was sitting. I also loved the trancy rendition of Talk and Viva La Vida was perfect!

 

Another thing I have to say about this band is that i'm convinced they're not motivated by the money, it really is about the music. I say this because out of all the concerts I have been to, I really feel as though I got my money's worth. Given the size of the production, sound and the fact that it's Coldplay, I can't believe I only paid $280.00 for 2 tickets - honestly. Consider this: I went to see Crowded House last year at the Forum, an intimate Gothic Theatre in the city. Each ticket was around $90.00 and the show was very straight forward: band, music and basic light show. I loved it!

 

I'm a huge Neil Finn fan so I was naturally euphoric by the end of it, but with Coldplay, for only $50.00 more, the size and premise of the show was expanded 10 fold. What i loved about the concert is that there was always something to look at. At any concert, no matter how good the music is, it can get boring just looking in the one direction at the musicians doing their thing, as time goes by, your eyes wander around the venue while taking in the music. At Coldplay, my eyes were the busiest they've been. If I wasn't awestruck by the eccentric Chris Martin, I was looking at the screen or the spheres hanging from the ceiling or the confetti showering over the venue.

 

Then there's the merchandise, it's the cheapest its been. The program, being only $25.00 is the largest and most colourful i've purchased from a show. Chris Martin said during the show that he had 12,000 special guests, I walked away that night feeling like one of them. I'm convinced that for Coldplay it's more than money and marketing, they have passion and there's no letting up. It wil be a while before i'm this swept off my feet.

 

THANKS COLDPLAY!

 

Can we do this again same time next year?

That was such a sweet review, thanx! :kiss:

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Yer, I saw the concert on the night of the 3rd, I've already mentioned this elsewhere. But the next morning, I saw Jonny with his wife and baby go for a walk, just leaving the hotel. Naww.

 

ps. I got the setlist on the 3rd, and Speed of Sound was a possible Til Kingdom Come and Green Eyes was meant to be I'm A Believer. Wish I saw Glass of Water though!

 

 

'Til Kingdom Come? I'd love to hear that live again :D

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Yep, that was me, Cobalt. I don't recall seeing anyone in a black/grey V-neck, but I'm disappointed I didn't get to put a face to a name -- and also slightly embarrassed because I didn't put any effort into my appearance at all for GA, or the last night in general because I was just so damn exhausted...

 

I wish you'd introduced yourself, even if it is a little strange and intimidating to go up to someone you don't really know. Cool that we ended up right next to each other, though. Good on us for knowing all the lyrics! You've summed up the gig awesomely. Crowd was easily better than the first two nights, for me -- singing, standing, phones out for the Viva remix. Just so much more energy. Actually, that could possibly be attributed to the fact that it was the mosh pit. I think generally it holds a better/different atmosphere.

 

Pretty sure I got a look from Jonny -- I smiled at him. So cute!

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