Chris made Will sing at the end of Billie Jean :D

 

 

How funny :lol: I love that Will glares at him then tries to ignore him."No, not happening" He did a great job though

Anis....I love the story of you getting the jacket....& glad you had such a great time at your shows !!!

Anis....I love the story of you getting the jacket....& glad you had such a great time at your shows !!!

 

Thank you :)

Hi everyone! :cool:

 

I uploaded some pics from the gig here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sara-maria/sets/72157622183757104/

 

And here is another review (in German): http://www.laxmag.de/laxlive/1189-coldplay-muenchen

 

Cheers @ Ilione, it was nice to meet you there, hope you enjoy Keane + Athlete. :)

^ Brilliant pics, thanks for sharing! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Svenky, your pictures are amazing!! What great quality! What kind of camera do you have??

Here pics from Munich.They not so good but okay ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nice pics and videos guys, thanks for sharing :D!

I know! It's so cute that Chris was like...JUST ONE TIME....and when the audience screams and Will begins to sing Chris is all surprised and does a lil scream. Hahhah absolutely adorable!

 

How funny :lol: I love that Will glares at him then tries to ignore him."No, not happening" He did a great job though

Here's Chris forgetting the lyrics, he seems really embarrassed, bless him.

 

 

Awww he's so adorable. I love how he chnages the words too:)

Hello everyone!!!

 

I'm back home from Munich, a bit exhausted but SOOO hyper about the MOST AMAZING CONCERT OF MY LIFE. Or perhaps the best NIGHT of my life, I can't decide..! I flew to Munich from Athens and at 11 o clock I was in Munich. Had to rent the car first and decided to park closer to the stadium since the parking area was a long way and I couldn't waste my precious time! Thankfully at 12:15 we arrived at the area before the bars that lead to the ticket control. I figure there were approx 15 people there already but I really liked the mood cause almost everyone seemed to be in a 100% viva mood, humming/singing along at the soundchecks -that started later on. We heard Chris' voice about 3-4 times and I was pretty sure it was him since I had never heard that exact same delivery, however I couldn't be so sure cause it was my first coldplay concert.

 

I don't remember the exact time but at some point before 1:30 they let us in closer and we were positioned 2nd after the ticket control bars. Time passed rather quickly and we bought some merchandise from the stands. At 4:00 entries were opened and the race began! The area was huuge-much larger than i expected it, quite maze-like, but my sister was pretty quick (much quicker than me thankfully :nice: ) so we got 1st row places at johnnys side! I'm not sure but around 6 or perhaps 5:45 the killians were on, they were good I think I liked a couple of songs but they were a bit repetitive imo... Their frontman talked quite a lot but it was in german so i have no idea what he said. Then it was time for howling bells who were ok, not my cup of tea though. Of course, I was clapping and all cause they are support acts so its nice for the crowd to be enthusiastic :D

 

Anyway, almost immediately after howling bells ended, the crew started preparing the stage for coldplay even though it was close to 8 or sth which meant they had 1 more hour. In the end Magnificent went on earlier *got SO excited then cause i knew it was time!* and after the beautiful blue danube and the thing where the crowd waved their hands Life in Technicolor was on!!!!!!!!!!! I really thought i was in heaven then, first coldplay concert ever and with the boys SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!! I think i totally hyperventilated, for the first three or so songs i just sang my guts out without really thinking :lol:

 

I won't get into details as far as the setlist and the songs are concerned since they obviously were AMAZING and all of the boys were like COMPLETELY HEAVENLY! Only changes is that indeed Green Eyes is back on the setlist but i cant remember postcards from far away, are u sure they did it? :thinking: When Chris made a mistake at THP it was soooooo cute and he swore a couple of times :P

 

The highlights for me were when CHRIS POINTED AT US during VLV when he read our sign "you STILL rule the world" and in the end when the boys ran along the whole stage he smiled again at our "happy birthday phil!" sign and johnny smiled 3 times (on the whole cause he had seen us before the rest) and the Will actually laughed and did a little bow and looked at guy and he read it and smiled at us too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

 

All in all WHAT A NIGHT! i had an ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL time and i CANNOT WAIT FOR WEMBLEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

I have printed the following two articles with the intention of translating them into English one of these days (Monday or Tuesday).

 

http//www.laxmag.de/laxlive/1189-coldplay-muenchen

 

and http://www.tz-online.de/nachrichten/muenchen/coldplay-beenden-mini-sommertour...

 

There was a short review of the concert on 29.08.09 that I translated. Now there is a more detailed review (the one mentioned here with a link to the article).

 

If intested: Today I have posted three translations (on the Herning thread) of reviews in Danish newspapers of Coldplay's concert in Herning, Denmark on 16 August 2009. :)

^thanks so much :D

Photos posted by Kirsten (LittleMissMessy) via twitter.

 

edit: she has posted them herself down there :P

Thanks :)

 

But I have uploaded them with Photobucket instead as well, probably the better place ... ;)

 

Here we go:

 

 

 

Guy' hair screams SEXY all over it..

Guy' hair screams SEXY all over it..

Not only his hair :laugh3:

 

Even though I have no right to critizise his appearance, I used to say that he looked too skinny in the past but I reckon' that was down to his shorter hair.

Now with the 'longer' haircut, he looks sooo fine :)

wonderful pictures, littlemissmessy:nice:!

wonderful pictures, littlemissmessy:nice:!

Thank you :)

 

Here are some more:

 

 

 

 

 

At last I´m back from Munich today....What a great show!!! I was in Hannover too, but on Saturday it was my best show ever!!! I was waiting there only one hour and then they opened...some security women didn´t want to let in our line, so we had to wait, but other people could go on...too bad..but finally I was in pretty much in the front, I was so lucky! The people there were amazing, we tried a mexican wave before... when Chris forgot lyrics in The Hardest Part, he was so lovely! he was in pretty good mood..... Will during Billie Jean didn´t want to sing, but Chris hustled into this...it was funny.... I´m so lucky that I was there! Thanks Coldplay for my best night ever!

Our video from "Yellow"

 

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But the quality isn't the best :(

Thanks Nicole :D

 

Seems it was Chloe's birthday too, as well as Phil's :D Chris said happy birthday to her at the end of SS.

 

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Review of Coldplay Concert on 29 August 2009 in Munich, Germany

 

Review of Coldplay Concert in Munich on 29 August, 2009

(long review, the ONLINE version of TZ (TagesZeitung) a German newspaper covering the Munich region)

 

Coldplay: Tausende Schmetterlinge für München (tz-online.de)

München - Die Rockband Coldplay um Sympathikus Chris Martin verzauberte Samstagabend in der ausverkauften Olympia-Reitanlage in Riem 30 000 Fans.

Der erste Moment ist der kostbarste. Man hat das Debüt-Album einer Band entdeckt und lieben gelernt. Man hat den ganzen genervten Freundeskreis mit den Newcomern missioniert. Man hatte absurderweise das Gefühl: Die singen nur für mich. Doch dann besitzt diese Band die Frechheit, weltberühmt zu werden. Ihre Songs laufen auf Radiosendern, die man nicht ausstehen kann, sie treten bei „Wetten, dass . . .?“ auf, und der Sänger heiratet Gwyneth Paltrow. Plötzlich soll sie allen gehören, diese große Liebe – eine ganz schöne Kränkung.

Vor dem Konzert am Samstag also die bange Frage: Ist das noch was für mich? Die Antwort gleich vorweg: natürlich! Coldplay sind was für mich, für die Oma, fürs Kind. Coldplay gehören der ganzen Welt. Von der ersten Note – dem Donauwalzer von Johann Strauß – an feiern 30 000 Fans im ausverkauften Reitstadion Riem dieses Quartett, das so allürenlos und normal rüberkommt, dass es eine Art hat.

Sänger Chris Martin ist der rare Typ, den die Damen nicht von der Bettkante und die Herren nicht vom Barhocker stoßen würden. Während der ersten Songs – darunter Hochkaräter wie „Clocks“ und „In My Place“ mit ihren treibenden, melancholischen Piano- und Gitarren-Themen – rennt er pausenlos von einem Ende der Bühne zum anderen, was seinen jungenhaften Tenor in keinster Weise beeinträchtigt. „Dankeschön, meine Freunde!“, ruft der 32-Jährige in den Jubel. „Everybody okay da hinten?“

Es ist auch alles so schön hergerichtet auf dem halbrunden Areal. In den Bäumen und auf den Lautsprecher-Masten hängen riesige Lampions unter der Mondsichel. Der Bühnenhintergrund funktioniert mal als mordsmäßige Mattscheibe, mal als blinkender Lampenladen. Dann kommt „Yellow“, und zu Coldplays schönstem Song regnet es gelbe Ballons. Der Charmeur hinter der Graffiti-Klampfe singt, „Schau dir die Sterne an, schau, wie sie für dich leuchten“, und alles singt und zelebriert den Kitsch.

Darin ist Martin Meister: Seine romantische Poesie, seine Selbstbespiegelungen, seine Durchhalteparolen kann jeder mühelos auf sich selbst beziehen. Deshalb sind Coldplay legitime Erben von R.E.M und U2. Die Musik kommt ähnlich hymnisch daher, neuerdings auch mit prägnanten Chören, die einfach auf eine Feilichtbühne gehören. Die vier spielen perfekt – aber nicht perfektionistisch. „God Put A Smile Upon Your Face“ geben sie augenzwinkernd im Stile einer New-Wave-Disko-Kapelle. Und als Martin bei „The Hardest Part“ einen Hänger hat und ihm der Text nicht mehr einfällt, singt er einfach darüber: „I tried to sing, but I couldn’t remember the words – and that’s the hardest part.“ So geht das, wenn man keine Allüren hat.

Langeweile kommt nie auf, im Gegenteil: Bei „Viva La Vida“ haut Schlagzeuger Will Champion auf die Pauke, und Martin lässt sich ekstatisch auf den Zuschauer-Steg fallen, bei „Lovers In Japan“ schneit es Schmetterlingskonfetti aus der Kanone.

Und plötzlich ist die Band weg – nur um am anderen Ende der Menge auf einer Bierdeckel-großen Bühne wieder aufzutauchen, „Green Eyes“ zu zu spielen und das lustige Michael-Jackson-Cover „Billie Jean“ im Schein abertausender Handy-Bildschirme. Am Ende, nach dem Tränendrücker „The Scientist“, schießen sie Raketen in den Nachthimmel. Dort leuchten gelb die Sterne, und man ist sich sicher: Noch kostbarer, als diese Band kennengelernt zu haben, ist, sie live zu erleben.

Von Johannes Löhr

Translation of review in tz (TaagesZeitung für München) of Coldplay Concert on 29 August 2009 in Munich

 

5 Mal positiv bewertet = 5*

 

Kommentare (aus ”tz”):

vor 6 Stunden meint dammerl (anonym): absolut legendär, bekomme jetzt noch eine gänsehaut wenn ich daran denke oder mir die cd anhöre....

vor 5 Stunden meint derdings (anonym): Spitzen Konzert! Ganz im Gegensatz zur katastrophalen Shuttlebus-Organisation.

vor 4 Stunden meint Axel Moos (anonym): Was machen die für Musik?

vor 4 Stunden meint Katharina (anonym): Einfach der Hammer ! ich bekomme Gaensehaut und kann nicht aufhoern mir die CD reinzuziehen. Beste Konzert bei dem ich je war.

vor 32 Minuten meint Fade to black (anonym): Ich bekomm bei Metallica Gänsehaut.

vor 9 Stunden meint aba echt he (anonym): Wer is des?

 

Review of Coldplay Concert in Munich on 29 August, 2009

(long review, the ONLINE version of TZ (TagesZeitung) a German newspaper covering the München region)

Coldplay: Thousands of Butterflies for Munich

(link: http://www.tz-online.de/nachrichten/muenchen/coldplay-beenden-mini-sommertour-...)

Munich – Saturday evening the rockband “Coldplay” around the like-able Chris Martin charmed 30,000 fans in the sold-out “Olympia-Reitanlage” in Riem.

The first moment is the most valuable. You have discovered a band’s debut album and learned to love it. You have over and over again told your quite nervous circle of friends about the newcomers. In an absurd way you had the feeling that they were only singing for you. But then this band has the nerve to be world-famous. Their songs are played on radiostations that you hate, they make an appearance at the German television broadcast „Wetten, dass . . .?“, and the singer marries Gwyneth Paltrow. Suddenly they belong to everyone, this true love – it is quite an offence.

Before the concert Saturday you have this fearful question: Is the band “Coldplay” still anything for me? No doubt about the answer: Of course! Coldplay is something for me, for grannies (grandmothers) and for children. Coldplay belongs to the entire world. From the very first note – the Danube Waltz by Johann Strauß – 30,000 fans in the sold-out “Reitstadion Riem” celebrate this quartet / these four band members that act in a most irreproachable and normal way.

Singer Chris Martin is the rare guy that the ladies would not push down from the edge of the bed and that the gentlemen would not push down from the bar stool. During the first songs – among them songs of high calibre such as „Clocks“ and „In My Place“ with their pulsing, melancholic piano themes and guitar riffs – he runs non-stop from one end of the stage to the other what by no means affects his boyish tenor. „Danke schön, meine Freunde!“ (thank you, my friends), the 32-year-old singer shouts to the enthusiastic audience. „Everybody okay da hinten?“ (Is everybody in the back okay?)

Everything is also beautifully adapted to the semi-circular area. In the trees and at the loudspeaker masts, huge fairy lamps are hanging under the half-mond. The stage backdrop functions partly as a huge black screen, partly as flashing lamps. Then „Yellow“ is played, and accompanying Coldplay’s most beautiful song is a flood of yellow balloons. The charmer behind the graffiti-decorated guitar sings, „Schau dir die Sterne an, schau, wie sie für dich leuchten“ (“Look at the stars, look how they shine for you”), and everybody sings and celebrates the kitsch.

Martin is master of this: Everybody can easily relate to his romantic poetry, to his self-centredness and to his slogans in relation to endurance. Therefore Coldplay is legitimate successor to R.E.M. and U2. The music is similarly anthemic, recently also with characteristic choruses that simply belong in an open-air theatre. The foursome are playing quite well – but not like perfectionists. They are playing „God Put A Smile Upon Your Face“ with a wink in the style of a new-wave-disco-orchestra. And as Martin, when singing „The Hardest Part“, has to stop because he cannot recall the lyrics, he quite simply sings about it: „I tried to sing, but I couldn’t remember the words – and that’s the hardest part.“ He gets away with it because his behaviour is not outré / outrageous.

Boredom never occurs, on the contrary: In connection with „Viva La Vida“ drummer Will Champion is playing the kettledrum vigorously, and Martin lets himself fall ecstatically on one of the ramps near the audience, and when playing „Lovers In Japan“ the confetti gun is emitting confetti in the form of butterflies.

And suddenly the band is gone – only to reappear at the other end of the crowd on a very small stage, where they play „Green Eyes“ and the funny Michael Jackson cover „Billie Jean“ in the glow of thousands of mobile phone displays. At the end, after the tear-jerker „The Scientist“, fireworks are displayed in the evening sky. There the stars shine – gelb -, and you are sure of this: Even more valuable than having got to know this band, it is to see and hear them “live”.

By Johannes Löhr / translated by Nancy Boysen

Translation of review in tz (TagesZeitung für München) of Coldplay concert on 29 August, 2009 in Munich, Germany

 

Rating: 5*

 

 

 

 

Comments:

6 hours ago said by dammerl (anonymous): Absolutely legendary, I am getting goose-bumps when thinking of the concert or listening to the CD....

 

5 hours ago said by derdings (anonymous): Tiptop concert! Quite contrary to the disastrous shuttlebus organisation.

4 hours ago said by Axel Moos (anonymous): What are they doing for music?

4 hours ago said by Katharina (anonymous): Quite simply outstanding! I get goose-bumps and am quite enthusiastic about the free CD. The best concert ever for me.

32 minutes ago said by “Fade to black” (anonymous): I get goose-bumps when hearing “Metallica”.

9 hours ago said by aba echt he (anonymous): Who is it?

Aaaaww.He said happy birthday to Chloe.That's cute :) Did he say "...and from you husband over there?" :D