February 19, 200917 yr I am officially uploading the video with Coldplay+Killers+Gary Barlow+BONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is youtube slow for you as well? I uploaded three videos and it said it was successful but they're nowhere to be found! I'm trying again now...
February 19, 200917 yr From War child LAST NIGHT'S GIG “This is going to be the greatest encore you'll ever see!” – Chris Martin In the early hours of this morning The Killers were joined by Chris Martin, Bono and Gary Barlow to perform an epic encore of 'All These Things That I've Done'. It capped off an amazing night and we're really glad you were able to share it with us. We're also enormously grateful to all the artists involved – their wonderful generosity and support for War Child has been truly humbling. "Tonight was such an honour, it was one of the most exciting gigs we've ever played" – Brandon Flowers "We couldn't have imagined that we'd make this work. The fact that the money raised from tickets have enabled War Child to extend the reach of their work is astonishing." – Chris Martin "War Child's work is vital and being able to have a moment with Brandon and Chris tonight is a salute to an awesome night for them. U2 love Elbow's new version of 'Running To Stand Still' for War Child's 'Heroes' album. They deserve all their success.” – Bono CHANGING LIVES The money we raised from the gig will literally transform lives. The proceeds are going to our vital work protecting children living in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. For example in the Democratic Republic of Congo where £50 can help to reunite a street child with their family after they have been separated by years of conflict. WAR CHILD HEROES – OUT NOW Our new album 'War Child: Heroes' was released on Monday. It contains 15 fantastic cover versions of classic tracks selected by some of the greatest recording artists in history, recorded by 15 of the hottest contemporary musicians and bands. OTHER NEWS Grab yourself a memento of last night's amazing gig – buy a Hero gig T-shirt from our shop. We've also got some limited edition Paul Smith T-shirts on sale too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're ebay auctioning a Gibson guitar signed by Paul Weller, Jimmy Page, Lemmy & others -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking of guitars, our Facebook page is the place to get the latest news on all our music projects. Become a fan now and you have the chance to win a copy of Guitar Hero World Tour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Uganda we're measuring up 1,200 kids for their uniforms so we can send them to school. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . This email has been sent to you by War Child
February 19, 200917 yr It happened to me for the second time!!!!! Just after I leave, Chris comes out!!! :\ Glad you guys got to meet him though :) Nice to meet you and nice review Anna :D I can't believe how many jaffa cakes I ate yesterday :embarassed: They were my lunch and dinner mixed into one though :lol: Btw....my long arms enabled me to get Jonny's setlist :dance:
February 19, 200917 yr yesterday has really now caught up with me, could not pay attention today and almost fell asleep during my Global Perspectives & Cultures of popular music keep looking at my camera pics, can't wait to upload them
February 19, 200917 yr Ok, we have a game! It's called "Look for the celebrity!" :) (look how stunning she is..!)
February 19, 200917 yr Ok, we have a game! It's called "Look for the celebrity!" :) :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3: Great pics!!!
February 19, 200917 yr thanks for all the great reviews and pics! It sounds amazing!!! You guys had such an awesome night! can't wait for September .....
February 19, 200917 yr After a horrific 7 hour coach journey to London, a moment of panic when mine and Lori's (kissesbirds) mobile phones decided to stop communicating meaning I couldn't find her and Kelly (Kspillers) and a squashed sleep we headed out for the Empire. We (Kelly, Lori and I) arrived at 11.30 to find we weren't the first in line, a huge group of Killers fans (or Victims :dozey:) were there before us, I won't say much about them other than the fact that they were very rude to us upon arrival, they spent about 5 or 6 hours AWAY from the queue in their hotel rooms and just waltzed back into the front of the line and had nothing but bad things to say about Coldplay (which made the announcement that Coldplay would be 'headlining' and not The Killers even more sweet) We stood for a while before finally other Coldplayers started to join us, Ben (I hope that's right) and his wife were first, Ben posts on the board, but not often, they were lovely and provided us with blankets. Then came Kirsten (LittleMissMessy) and Carol followed by Jen and Ian (King and Queen of Coldplaying), Kara (crazyduckette), Anna (SueDiNimes) andMari (marianslt). The THIRTEEN hour wait was fun, tiring, dull and exciting all at the same time. Hanging out with so many Coldplayers was AWESOME, despite the hours dragging the longer we stood/sat around waiting. The press were setting up outside and there was a blue carpet for the celebrity guests which took FOUR hours to lay! Then another two hours to vacuum. And Elton John didn't even turn up! :lol: As it came closer to doors opening time some guys with guitars came and sang some (mostly) Coldplay songs! Everyone joined in with the singing, it was a really great moment. I have it on a crappy phone video, which I'll upload soon. The impromptu Viva La Vida was the best. Really amazing. A TV camera then came over and interviewed Kelly (who gave a Coldplaying shout out) and Mari. They also took some footage of us screaming and cheering. Not sure if it turned up anywhere. Finally after much pushing, shoving etc. the doors opened and we ran for it. Front and Second row for us all! Amazing. Me, Kara, Lori and Kelly were right in front of Jonny! Weeeeeeeee. Another two hour wait followed (marred further by news of Coldplay being ROBBED at the Brits). We passed the time by searching for celebs (we spotted Gwyneth, The Pet Shop Boys and The Edge, oh and Phil of course :D) Steve Lamacq emceed the event and promptly introduced The Killers who were AMAZING! Brandon is sooooo intense, he was really going for it and he had the tightest pants ever on! :lol: They really impressed me. He sounded great. (And he looked goooooooooooood) We saw Will bopping away throughout the whole thing! He was having a whale of a time :lol: Chris joined him for a few songs too, he was singing away. You can see Will in this one :D After The Killers left Al Murray (pub landlord and friend of Chris) came to do a bit of standup, but unfortunately he died a little bit of a death. But it killed some time :D FINALLY it was time for Coldplay to come on (to the sounds of Blue Danube) us hardcore fans at the front conducted and clapped (to the amusement of the Security people) and kicked off with Life in Technicolor, followed by Violet Hill. Jonny's guitar was turned up WAY too loud so his fluffs during his solo were really obvious, he looked so awfully embarrassed, no doubt the presense of The Edge was shredding his nerves. He recovered well though. He complained about the sound of his guitar but unfortunately it remained as bad throughout the show. Seeing them sooooooo close was amazing, they were literally inches from us. :stunned: Was hard to take in. Chris changed the end of the lyric to "If you're pissed, won't you let me know" followed by "If you love The Killers won't you let me know" Next was Clocks (I think, I'm so very tired, the order escapes me) which was rocking with Jonny's vamped up guitar, but didn't go down as well as it usually does, bizarrely. At the end he leaned right back off his stool to the floor! Impressive and sexy, but I missed capturing it. We then got In My Place, the crowd was far more receptive to that one, Chris was going WILD, he was crazed, he was all over the place, kicking his leg out to The Killers fans, running around, he then came over to our side, slid down the wall and sang in a heap on the floor! RIGHT IN FRONT OF US! :stunned: Was awesome, he was sweating buckets :lol: He also did the usual kneeling down, falling back routine, with Jonny helping him up. I have a few vids but here's that one for now (yep, that is Gwyneth he's pointing to in this vid, he did that A LOT last night) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNmJhrV22c]YouTube - Coldplay - War Child - In My Place[/ame] YouTube has reduced the quality loads :( Is really good on my camera, you can also hear how loud Jonny's guitar is. 42, which was awesome as usually, Chris' moves were unusually bad tonight, really throwing himself around. Yellow next. Went down very well. At one point Chris took his microphone over to Jonny and sang by him. I have a video of that which I'll upload in a bit. Chris made us sing the last part again and again, he was making some really silly comments about Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh and meningitis and Will had his face in his hands! Haha. He was so embarrassed. Was hilarious. Then Chris stopped mid conversation to ask Will what song was next, to which Will mouthed 'Lost'. We were then allowed to sing the ending again. Haha! Lost next, Guy's drum was all the way at the back, weirdly, not that you could even tell Guy was there last night, more on that later. More terrible dancing from Chris, he was coming right up close to us though, which was nice :D :drunk: "Finally" Fix You, which was a great big sing along. Chris' dancing was INSANE. I looked up towards Gwyneth, just briefly to see what her reaction to the song was (I know, I know curiosity killed the cat :shame:) and she caught my eye :stunned: I turned away quickly embarrassed. :lol: Oooops. Thankfully she was quite far away. Chris looked ready to collapse at the end of that :P They went off for a bit, we managed to start a fairly healthy "woah oh oh oooooh" chant, which they came back on to. Chris said the this was to be an awesome encore that would begin with VLV. Everyone got into it of course. Chris had us doing the "woah oh oh oooooh's" over and over. Next he introduced Gary Barlow (which we had all kind of expected as The Sun had reported it would happen) and they sang Back for Good. Nice big sing a long. Chris looked very excited :lol: We saw Vicky sneaking in for a look :D After Gary had walked off he said the "The Killers were pretty good, Coldplay were not, but we have something amazing lined up for you. We've just come back from Japan and lost all the Brits so have had a shit day, but now we're about to perform with The Killers and Bono" which they did! All These Things That I've Done. Poor Guy and Will had nothing really to do so were stuck with tamborines and such behind the drum kit. Bono came on and sort of minced around a bit, was very strange. Then Chris pulled Gary back on to join in. It was really bizarre, didn't seem really, all these stars on the stage singing over each other. It was cool! But so very strange :lol: Finally it was over, so short, and yet so late. Already 2am. We stuck around for a bit, called Matt for a guitar pick (he seemed very taken aback that we knew his name) but obliged. Ripping up the set list too and handing out some promotional picks. We also saw Phil hanging around the balcony. We all called him and waved. He looked a bit shocked and waved back. "How do I know you?" he asked, we told him that he didn't but we were Coldplay fans from Coldplaying.com and that we sent the postcards, he was very pleased at his and said they were great, he also said that he loved Coldplaying.com and visited it all the time :D (Hi Phil :P) He was very nice and little bit shy. But it was lovely of him to talk to us for a bit. :nice: We went to wait outside for a bit to see the boys but it started to get late, after talking to a pap who showed us some pictures and told us that Chris was actually really quite nice to them and it was someone else related to him that was not (which is understandable really, watching them at work was scary, running around, pushing them in people's faces, in front f cars, I'd be pissed off too) We headed home about 3am as the girls had flights and we'd been on our feet for 16 hours at this point. Chris did come out and sign autographs, but hey ho. Sleep was more important. Next time ;) All in all a great day! I LOVED meeting all the Coldplayers, especially Jen and Ian who gave me a lift home so I didn't have to endure the coach again. :nice: So thank you very much :nice: :D I just want to add a few things down here. I didn't want this to be a negative review because it was a great day, BUT I think a little bit of constructive criticism didn't hurt anyone. I'm not sure if it was Brits disappointment, or jetlag or general exhaustion, but the boys just didn't seem themselves. Chris was acting especially weird, really manic (well more so than usual) but he was sort of disconnected, wouldn't make eye contact with the crowd even though they were right in front of him (and we know that Chris is ALL about the crowd interaction) it was like he was playing to an arena, not to a small theatre. Guy seemed especially despondent, at one point he wandered over to Will, with his back to the audience, like I said before, it was like he wasn't there :\ They seemed a little bit like they were on auto-pilot, and like I said, just not themselves, we all agreed later that it was just a really weird vibe. Not something that you usually get from a Coldplay gig. The were great, don't get me wrong, and for anyone who had never seen them before would have been impressed. They were good, great! But it just seemed like something was off. Their touring schedule is insane, like Chris said, they got back from Japan the day before, then spent the day doing Brits stuff and had to do a gig at 12.30am! I hope they're not pushing themselves too hard. Like I said, it wasn't a bad gig, it was AWESOME, I think they just need to remember that Brits are just clumps of metal and that taking a break won't kill you! In fact, exactly the opposite. They have a nice long week off now, so I'm sure they'll be back to their best for Australia :D This was just a quick selection of photos. I'll upload them all and my video soon :D Michie out :P
February 19, 200917 yr we're hoooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Just uploading pics, because I intend to insert them in my review. Part 1 was written on the back of my print-outs, in the hotel this morning. Will type up shortly for you. Part 2 will be written a bit later. I'm still so excited, I'm afraid its going to be humungous!! There are so many amazing tidbits to put in. In the meantime, some Killers pics for any fans: Cool swirly pattern on the side of the big light-up K
February 19, 200917 yr wow Mimi, the pics are awesome, I'm glad you met many coldplayers and your review is lovely... :kiss: can't wait for the vids :P edit: Hi jen :D wow... Brandon pictures :blush: cool!
February 19, 200917 yr wow, you girls are fast :shocked: ace reviews :D suppose I'd better start typing mine up :lol:
February 19, 200917 yr I was right infront of Guy so definately knew he was there.:D He was grinning alot and was looking around alot, perhaps if anything he seemed almost overwhelmed by it all as if "I can't believe I'm here infront of these people." I think he and Will were quite happy to go to the back for the encore and let the others shine, he and Will both gave Ronnie a hug afters and had huge grins on their faces.
February 19, 200917 yr ok so I took something like 700 photos, 176Mb worth so I figured instead of spending another day to post the best ones I will upload the whole lot to a file sharer so you can grab them all. a lot are blurry but there are some jems too :D should be finished uploading later :D
February 19, 200917 yr ok so I took something like 700 photos, 176Mb worth so I figured instead of spending another day to post the best ones I will upload the whole lot to a file sharer so you can grab them all. a lot are blurry but there are some jems too :D should be finished uploading later :D cool!! thanks a lot :D
February 19, 200917 yr Thanks so much for the pics and reviews..I have had a great time reading them. Looks like you had so much fun!!! Yay Lori & Kelly & everyone!:dance: Cheers
February 19, 200917 yr ok so I took something like 700 photos, 176Mb worth so I figured instead of spending another day to post the best ones I will upload the whole lot to a file sharer so you can grab them all. a lot are blurry but there are some jems too :D should be finished uploading later :D 700 :stunned: Whoop! :dance:
February 19, 200917 yr haha I went through mine and deleted loads, still have over 140 at the end of it plus 2 more vids :laugh3:
February 19, 200917 yr Awwwww I loved your review Mich, like a photoblog :) and yeah.... I wish Chris had made eye contact with the audience.... Brandon did :wink3: I've just found a squished hot dog at the bottom of the plastic bag :laugh3: :laugh3:
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