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17-Jun-2009: Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary, Canada - Tickets, Previews, Meetups, Reviews, Setlists,

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Good afternoon. We're pleased to confirm four more Canadian shows for Coldplay, to add to the previously-announced Toronto Rogers Centre gig on 30th July. The dates are as follows:

 

JUNE

15 - MTS Centre, Winnipeg

17 - Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary

18 - Rexall Place, Edmonton

20 - General Motors Place, Vancouver

 

Tickets will for all four will go onsale on Saturday, March 14th at 10am MST from here.

 

Anchorman

 

Setlist

 

Life In Technicolor

Violet Hill

Clocks

In My Place

Yellow

Glass of Water

Cemeteries of London

42

Fix You

Strawberry Swing

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Techno)

Talk (techno)

The Hardest Part (acoustic) - Chris piano

Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)

Viva la Vida

Lost!

Green Eyes

Death Will Never Conquer (will)

I'm A Believer (Neil Diamond Cover - acoustic)

Viva La Vida (remix interlude)

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Politik

Lovers In Japan

Death and All His Friends

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The Scientist

Life in Technicolor ii

The Escapist (outro)

 

Photos

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1768

 

Wiki reviews

 

http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.ph...ipeg%2C_Canada

 

Videos

 

Life In Technicolor

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLIQWAIIpJw]YouTube - Life In Technicolor Coldplay Live in Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

Violet Hill

 

Clocks

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbM80CpBMFo]YouTube - Coldplay Clocks Live In Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

In My Place

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elQnW9ia2J0]YouTube - Coldplay - Live in Calgary,AB Canada 06-17-09 - "In my place"clip[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weP4GEgnMFQ]YouTube - Coldplay In My Place Live In Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

Yellow

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HgpJJNdlP8]YouTube - Coldplay - Yellow in Calgary 2009[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLSGaCR_rTc]YouTube - Coldplay - Yellow Calgary, June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

Glass of Water

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNao4ZQkQhk]YouTube - Coldplay in Calgary - Glass of Water[/ame]

 

Cemeteries of London

 

42

 

Fix You

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXNHnEhlKOE]YouTube - FIX YOU Calgary Coldplay Live[/ame]

 

Strawberry Swing

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxEymn8rT4]YouTube - Coldplay - Live in Calgary,AB Canada 06-17-09 - "Strawberry Swing"clip[/ame]

 

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Techno)

 

Talk (techno)

 

The Hardest Part (acoustic) - Chris piano

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxxfpm0AdaI]YouTube - Coldplay - Live in Calgary,AB Canada 06-17-09 - The Hardest Part clip[/ame]

 

Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)

 

Viva la Vida

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4BJ6rvL3kE]YouTube - Coldplay Calgary[/ame]

 

Lost!

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWmJq5eKB4]YouTube - Coldplay Lost! Live In Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

Green Eyes

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnu9lh3mteo]YouTube - Green Eyes Calgary Coldplay Live 2009[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf1DEAvBc8]YouTube - Coldplay - Green Eyes Calgary, June 17th, 2009[/ame]

 

Death Will Never Conquer (will)

 

I'm A Believer (Neil Diamond Cover - acoustic)

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT211n6T_hQ]YouTube - Coldplay - I'm a Believer Calgary, June 17 2009[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-6694jJvtw]YouTube - Coldplay I'm a Believer Live In Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4XINNITglc]YouTube - Coldplay Coldwave Calgary I am a believer live 2009[/ame]

 

Viva La Vida (remix interlude)

 

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Politik

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtTBkf8lho]YouTube - Coldplay- Politik - Calgary AB, June 17th 09[/ame]

 

Lovers In Japan

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9womddn_Zs]YouTube - Lovers In Japan Coldplay Live In Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l89VO1eEv8s]YouTube - Coldplay Calgary[/ame]

 

Death and All His Friends

 

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The Scientist

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI4e2DkVZF0]YouTube - COLDPLAY THE SCIENTIST CALGARY[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvmWZDp0h4]YouTube - The Scientist Coldplay Live In Calgary on June 17, 2009[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycH-aYNPu6o]YouTube - coldplay[/ame]

 

Life in Technicolor ii

 

The Escapist (outro)

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Coldplay heats up ticket debate

 

Let the scramble begin. This morning at 10, when tickets go on sale for a June 17 concert at Pengrowth Saddledome featuring the popular rock band Cold-play, thousands of fans are expected to flood ticket sellers.

 

Many of them may be disappointed.

 

The Internet age was supposed to make ticket-buying an easier, more efficient process than it had been in the past, when folks used to line up overnight, or longer, in the desperate hope of getting decent seats for major concert events.

 

But these days, securing a ticket for a show seems more complicated than ever, unless you've got some sort of inside track. And the ins and outs of the game are leaving a lot of music fans with a bitter taste.

 

Most of the public ire has been directed at Ticketmaster, with the company defending itself from accusations of facilitating scalping and driving up prices though its ticket auction website TicketsNow. It's now facing lawsuits and government investigations.

 

Ticketmaster, however, has denied any wrongdoing, insisting it has attempted to police the situation, removing tickets that show up on TicketsNow before they are available to the general public.

 

Further, Ticketmaster stresses there are plenty of challenges in today's market when it comes to accommodating ticket buyers.

 

"We completely acknowledge the fans' frustration at being unable to get tickets," says Ticketmaster spokesman Albert Lopez. But he is also quick to point out there are several factors that contribute to hot shows selling out before fans can secure seats on the general sale day.

 

For one, promoters and artists frequently offer pre-sale initiatives for concerts. These include sales opportunities through artists' fan clubs, radio station promotions, and through programs that are typically available through companies such as Best Buy and American Express.

 

In addition, at most arenas, the Saddledome included, a large block of seats are put aside for club members and season ticket holders, which gives those people the first right of purchase for tickets. At the'Dome, that usually accounts for about 1,000 seats.

 

According to independent concert promoter Bryan Taylor, this can pose a problem because often these tickets wind up being resold, frequently on the Internet, at a huge markup.

 

"The first inference people draw is Ticketmaster is scalping their tickets, but in reality it's (often) the people that have access to these tickets that are selling them," Taylor says.

 

Libby Raines, building operations manager at the Saddledome, has seen it happen, much to her chagrin.

 

"The hockey team experiences the same thing," she says. "Tickets for the big games show up on eBay and StubHub and all these secondary ticket locations. It's something that's becoming more and more a fact of life as these Internet sales vehicles have become available."

 

Another issue has emerged on the technology front as ticket scalpers have reportedly found a way to lock up front-row seats which they can then resell at ridiculously inflated prices.

 

"It's 2009,"says Lopez. "We're constantly protecting our system. There's always going to be somebody trying to circumvent that system and we are constantly working on our network to ensure that doesn't happen."

 

According to Lopez, another problem is that large blocks of seats are regularly held by the artist and the promoter.

 

This is something Ticketmaster has little control over, he says.

 

"We are selling tickets specifically at the direction of our clients, the promoters," Lopez says. "One hundred per cent of the allocation is theirs. They tell us when we can sell them and how we can sell them."

 

In Coldplay's case, the promoter is Live Nation.When asked how many of the 13,000 Coldplay tickets would actually be available to the general public today, Live Nation did not reply and they did not respond to interview requests.

 

But at the end of the day, Lopez says, the main contributor to tickets selling out at a startling rate is, as ever, high demand.

 

"The Internet is like a huge outlet and there's about 2,000 windows open for fans," Lopez says. "When those 2,000 people belly up to the digital counter and they start looking for tickets . . . say they each ask for four tickets . . . well, we've already taken 8,000 tickets out of the inventory. Immediately. . . . So when the 2,001st person in line finally gets to look at some tickets he may think, 'Wait a minute, why aren't these tickets as good as I thought they could be?'

 

"Well, they're not as good because you've had presales, VIP and platinum tickets, season ticket holders, holdbacks from the artist, the promoter and the venue, and then you've got 2,000 people in front of you."

 

However it shakes down, its not fair to the average consumer says Alberta Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman, who has criticized the provincial government on the issue of consumer protection surrounding event tickets.

 

"It's an elitist system," Blakeman says. "It's about money and connections."

 

Denis Lapointe, director of the Alberta Liberal caucus office in Calgary, seconds that.

 

"Unless you've got some sort of in, some sort of privileged access, or you belong to a group that has access to tickets . . . it's very difficult," Lapointe says. "(The average concert goer) is at a real disadvantage and, arguably, if it's a big name event they don't even have a chance. . . . By the time they actually get online and in the position to buy a ticket, everything is gone."

 

http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Coldplay+heats+ticket+debate/1389237/story.html

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What a load of fucking nonsense. The best thing the band can do is revert to the old system and let people queue for tickets, first come first serve.

 

June 6th 2005: The day X&Y was released (in the UK) and the boys played Koko, I woke up at 4am got the first train into London with pals and queued up for 6 hours to ensure I got a ticket for the show that night. It was one ticket per person, £20, 1500 people and you got a wristband so that you couldn't sell ticket...Perfect! They got it right that day. All this other crap, registration this, pre-sale that is not progress as touts will always beat it. And now increasingly it seems like the promoters themselves are in on it and we have this form of blatant legalised touting as has been seen with the whole MJ charade. Ok, of course it's not always practical to queue on the day for tickets but I just firmly believe that this is one area where the web really hasn't helped music fans. The December o2 gigs were a great example, unless you knew someone working for the o2 box office, were an EMI executive or wanted to pay £500 for a ticket you were fucked and had to sit a mile away from the stage! Thank god there is some standing at Wembley, I don't expect to get anywhere near the front but I'm not that fussed as I was lucky enough to attend Brixton, the BBC and Shepherds Bush on this tour :-)

 

The band themselves have a lot to answer for, they need to get more involved. Don't tell me that they do not have any kind of say in where they play and how tickets are distributed? If I lived somewhere liked Australia or Canada and my only ever opportunity to see them was to fight it out for these second rate (at extortionate prices) arena tickets I would be feeling very disillusioned.

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Today was a real pain getting tickets. I got on right at 10 am and they were already sold out. I kept trying for 15 mins straight until finally something came up....I ended up getting section 219 row 23. Really sucks, I am probably gonna have to look at ebay now for better seats. Ticketmaster is very very frustrating.

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cudos for this editorial

 

It's great to see this issue aired by the Herald. The reader comments following the online article could easily be confused with those from Coldplaying.com.

 

It seems to me that every link in the ticket-selling chain is deflecting responsibility for the problem to the others links - the band, the promoter, the contracted ticket-sellers and thier sub-entities (e.g. Ticketsnow), the internet, the hackers who misuse the internet to get big blocks of tickets, and us, the fans, who partake in contracted presales.

 

I don't think we can blame the internet. It ony does what people tell it to, so if the problem is hacking, it's the responsibility of the company selling the tickets to secure the process against abuse. And it's the responsibility of the promoter to contractually ensure that.

 

I don't think we can blame the (Coldplay) fan clubs sites. Any information posted about presales is available to anyone who has access to the www.

 

And I don't think we can blame the band. They're perfect!

 

So that leaves us with the promoters and the contracted ticket sellers to blame. In the case of Coldplay, they are so closely linked corporately, and are trying to get even closer (Live Nation is trying to buy Ticketmaster) that they're almost the same entity. We can assume that the motives for both corporations are profit and there's nothing wrong with that unless people get hurt by their business practices. And clearly, fans are being hurt. Someone must take responsibility and stop this outright scam. I have made my thoughts known to them and I suggest that anyone affected by this does so too.

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Same thing happened with the Edmonton show ticket sale. By 10:05am you couldn't get 2 seats together. Only singles were left. Ticketmaster is a huge scam and has weak security in order to make it easier for those scalpper websites to get the tickets first then, I'm sure, Ticketmaster gets a kickback or something from them for this service.

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Chris Martin may be Coldplay's most famous face, but for 25 local fans, guitarist Jonny Buckland is the star of the show.

 

Buckland has several relatives in Alberta, many of whom will be taking in the British rock group's sold-out Saddledome show tomorrow.

 

"We all can't wait to see him," says Jacky Joki, whose late father Ernest Buckland was a first cousin of the guitarist's grandfather.

 

"A bunch of us are travelling to Vancouver and Edmonton to see him as well."

 

Joki and her husband Roger first made contact with Buckland's family in 1978, when they visited his grandparents in England.

 

"I sent Christmas cards to them for 30 years and they would keep me abreast of what he was doing," she says.

 

"They told me about this little band he was in and how they were doing."

 

In 2000, that little band started to fill arenas, thanks to its breakthrough album Parachutes. Its platinum-selling follow-up, A Rush of Blood to the Head, spawned four chart-topping singles, including Clocks, which won Record-of-the-Year at the 2004 Grammy Awards.

 

Joki's mother, Lillian Buckland, says she didn't realize Coldplay was so successful until she saw a newspaper ad for the band's first Calgary concert in 2002.

 

"The name rang a bell in my head," recalls Buckland.

 

"I remember (Jacky) talking about this band and how (Jonny) was trying to get this band off the ground. I knew right away when they were coming to town that I had to get a hold of this guy for my husband."

 

Joki says because of her parents' persistence, Ernest was able to make contact with his famous distant relative.

 

In 2007, Joki and 14 others made the trip to Vancouver to see the band and were able to meet the 31-year-old guitar player at an after-show party thrown for the family.

 

"We gave them a few gifts of Alberta and B.C. and enjoyed some beers and company," she recalls. "He enjoyed having us there. I was very surprised he was so grounded."

 

The family hopes to meet Buckland during his stay in Alberta, but because the band's schedule is so tight it might be difficult. Buckland did supply a block of seats for his Canadian relatives at Coldplay's Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton shows.

 

"I think we'll be able to get some backstage passes," says Joki. "My nieces are teenagers so they're pretty excited.

 

http://www.calgarysun.com/

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