I spoke to a friend of mine who works for a radio station in the Bay area, they were given 25 tickets in the 3rd, 4th, 5th rows and 100 lawn seats. A huge thank you for the extended air play the last album was given.

Geez, maybe they are all promo seats lol.

It is according to my friend very generous! The more they played coldplay the more quality tickets they would get. So the incentives were there.

^^^what radio station is this? I want to find out so I can start listening to win!

anyone else going to try to get decent tix to the sacramento show and make the trek out there?

anyone else going to try to get decent tix to the sacramento show and make the trek out there?

 

We might. My dad and I were actually contemplating going to an Oregon show, as we have extended family up there, but I'd really rather get a ticket here if possible. So we will be looking into Sac for sure.

I was very disappointed with the Livenation experience. I tried to buy tickets during the presale and they had nothing less than the 200's sections. Where are all the lower section tickets? And why should you have to pay as much as $650 per ticket to get them? Very sad, greed sucks!!

my ticket just came in the mail today, that was fast, they changed the format of the ticket a little, it's way bigger...maybe so we don't lose it so easily...lol

anybody else going to the Shoreline, Chula Vista and Carson?

OH I'm going!!!! and you can bet your ass i'm buying the sacramento show on the 27th!!!!

I'm going to both the sac and San fran shows. I will get decent tickets for one show and buy a ticket that is like third row to the other. I will go alone to one or both shows but I will see them!

I'm disappointed that they waited as long as they did to announce the Sacramento show. That's miles closer than Mountain View for me. Ah well. The Shoreline is supposed to be a great venue, anyway. I might try for tickets for the Sacramento show if one of my local radio stations holds a giveaway for it.

Yesssss! Sacramento and San Francisco. :wacko: Hopefully I'll be able to go to both; although my parents aren't willing to drive me an hour and a half to Sacramento. I can take the train, but I'm not sure how late at night it runs. :confused:

I wasn't able to buy tickets on the presale date, and now I can't find any good ones. I just spent ages an craigslist looking for some section 100 ones, but I can't find any. Someone find me tickets!!!!! :bigcry:

I plan to go to both shows. I may go alone, but I'm going!

Coldplay Go Viva in the Bay Area

 

 

Coldplay and their army of music are coming to the Bay Area.

 

After surfacing in 2000 with the breakthrough single "Yellow," Coldplay quickly became one of the biggest bands of the new millennium, honing a mix of introspective Brit-pop and anthemic rock that landed the British quartet a near-permanent residence on record charts world-wide.

 

The band will bring their Viva La Vida Tour, which kicked off in Australia on Monday, to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on July 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale.

 

The group's emergence was perfectly timed; Radiohead had just released the overly cerebral "Kid A," while Oasis had ditched two founding members and embraced psychedelic experimentation on "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants." U.K. audiences were hungry for a fresh-faced rock band with big aspirations and an even bigger sound, and Coldplay was more than happy to take the reigns.

 

"Parachutes" went multi-platinum in several countries and earned the band their first Grammy, but Coldplay continued to grow into the 2000s, topping their debut album's success with higher record sales and an increased public profile.

 

Chris Martin (vocals/piano), Jon Buckland (guitar), Will Champion (drums), and Guy Berryman (bass) were all born into families in which music was encouraged. Martin, the eldest of five, began playing the piano as a young child and later took solace in the work of Tom Waits. Buckland, on the other hand, grew up with the heavy guitar sounds of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.

 

Scotland native Berryman preferred funk to indie rock, thereby leaving him to play bass, while multi-instrumentalist Champion didn't plan to be a drummer until he joined Coldplay's lineup. The bandmates came together in 1996 while attending the University College of London, and the Safety EP was issued shortly after their first gig at a Manchester festival for unsigned bands. The release only saw 500 pressings, as did the subsequent Brothers & Sisters EP. Nevertheless, it was enough to win the band a U.K. deal with Parlophone in April 1999, and the five-track Blue Room EP arrived that fall. With nods from the media, the foursome was hailed as the next Travis, thanks to their simplistic acoustics and charming personas.

 

Parlophone ushered the band into Parr St. Studios in Liverpool, where they recorded the bulk of their debut album.

"Parachutes" was released in July 2000 and became a swift hit on the strength of four U.K. singles, several of which enjoyed popularity in America as well. With "Yellow" climbing the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, Parachutes was released in the U.S. in November, where its sales soon rivaled -- and eventually surpassed -- those in the U.K.

 

Riding on the strength of their universally popular debut, Coldplay headed back into the studio in fall 2001 to work on a sophomore album. They emerged with "A Rush of Blood to the Head," releasing the album worldwide in August 2002 and embarking on a global concert tour soon after. "The Scientist" enjoyed regular radio rotation, while both "Clocks" and "In My Place" won Grammy Awards.

 

The CD/DVD package Live 2003 was issued to highlight the group's popular tour, and Martin specifically earned a higher notch on the celebrity scale by marrying actress Gwyneth Paltrow in December 2003. Paltrow gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, the following April.

 

Fatherhood didn't stop Martin from working, as Coldplay began recording material for a third album within weeks. Previously recorded material with longtime producer Ken Nelson was scrapped early on, while Danton Supple (Morrissey, the Cure) joined Coldplay to complete the recording of "X&Y." "Speed of Sound" marked Coldplay's first single from their long-awaited third effort in spring 2005; the album followed in June, topping charts around the world and selling more than eight million copies during its first year. Such success put Coldplay on the same commercial level as U2, and Coldplay retreated to the studio in late 2006 to work with famed producer Brian Eno (who had teamed up with U2 two decades prior for The Joshua Tree).

 

Recording sessions with Eno were completed within one year, followed by several months of mixing and growing anticipation from the band's audience. Viva La Vida -- also known by its extended name, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" -- ultimately arrived in June 2008.

 

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anyone know if we can bring cameras to shoreline? i never go to this venue.

apparently we can bring point-and-click digital cameras, but no "professional" cameras. next question: is anyone planning on recording this concert (audio) somehow? haha.

Not from where I'm sitting. Currently I'm in possesion of lawn seats. I'm desperately hoping to find something better thats not outrageously expensive before July. I'm just so annoyed. There are still seats left for Sac, but not 1 for shoreline?

same here, but i'm happy with the lawn seats. everyone says that they're basically just as good as the real seats, unless you want a chance to meet the band.

My cousin got 8th row seats in D.C....He got them through general sale...How is it that no one got better seats than in the 200's? I'm so mad.

I think it's because of the crazy scalping that happened. A lot of the "best" tickets were sold prior the general sale and the rest have been hoarded so the price can be raised.

I've been delaying buying lawn tickets, even though that's probably what I'll have to end up doing, because it seems that the closer we're getting to the concert the less the good tickets are going for (at least on Craigslist). So far there haven't been any drastic differences in price... but people who have been trying to sell them for high prices are realizing that no one will buy them, and the prices are gradually going down. I don't want to cut it too close and not be able to get any tickets at all, but I'm still gonna wait a little longer and try and get some seats in the 200's for a cheap(ish) price!

I just went on ebay and literally there are no lower level seats...where did they all go? this is ridiculous!

If your interested in getting better seats...you might want to check livenation right now...:stunned:

If your interested in getting better seats...you might want to check livenation right now...:stunned:

 

 

I checked a couple of hours ago...

 

I WAS LIKE WTF!!!!!

I already bought tickets to the ones in the Sleep Train Amphitheater!

 

Anyway, I got Section 101 tickets.

 

:D

 

SO CLOSE!!

 

What did everyone else get?