23-May-2009: Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CT, USA

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

when i post the videos, you're going to have to excuse A) the shaking, and B) all of our singing and fangirly screaming :P. it's actually embarrassing, how loud we were all singing and how much we squeed :lol:. luckily, by the end of the night, i had almost no voice left, so you can't hear me so much :sneaky:

[Mimixxx]

Can't wait :D

[LittleMissMessy]

@ Chelsea

 

You're excused ... but only this time :laugh3:

Can't wait either :)

[Maj2004]

Very quick video just to be the first =)

 

I have more, better ones but this was the smallest to upload.

 

I know my seats arent perfect...but it was still amazing

[Maj2004]

Very quick video just to be the first =)

 

I have more, better ones but this was the smallest to upload.

 

I know my seats arent perfect...but it was still amazing

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5gm0SLA45U]YouTube - MOV00318[/ame]

[Lore]

mindblowing amazingness last night. fucking wonderful. hope everybody had a really good tyyyyyyme... leaving hartford now for hershey!! couple pics from hartskies

 

 

 

nothing could be better, and nothing ever was

 

much love, the "drunk girls" :)

 

awesome pics :o

 

 

ok, the girls are still sleeping and me and hubby are making the breakfast - where do i start? the girls got here around 12 -(Halokiti, Sarah, Stephberryman, Pris and cooky) jumping out of my skin when pris got here with sarah, iwas litteraly in the street directing the car to the side so i could hug her. got on the road and tons of effing traffic - but no one cared, my car has this thing where you can download cd into the harddrive of the car, so i have the complete library of Coldplay and we listined to the whole thing on the way up in alphabetical order!!!

 

we were like the first people there so we were pumped, met chelsea and lauren and started the 3 and a half hour wait outside, eating butterfly cookies, (also had butterfly cupcakes becasue it was ERica's bday) will up load pics soon and making posters. i was freaking couaes i was not sure the sweet cheeks banner would make it inside so i was going to shove it down my pant leg. it sucked becasue we ddnt have portable ipod or anything but we could hear some of the soundcheck. oh i hear girlfans upstairs, be back in a minute..............

 

ok, they have been fed, so we line up to get in and we storm the gates, then we had to get stupid (purple though) wristbands and wait on another line. so then we run in and head to guy's side - front row on the bariier and we are squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing like manicas, this is the closest i have ever been, and right next to Ramp of love. yada yaada perter yorn was good. so now we realize there is no way we can go to the bathroom casue we are not losing our spots but we didnt have much liquid anyway

 

so it all begins and we are jumping out of our skins and Guy is looking hotter than ever and the jonny love was devine. cutie will was banging away and chrissy was running aound like a manic and was in an amazing mood. silly, funny, charming - in top form. i cant remember set list but strawberry swing and glass of water was amazzing. our signs were soooooo cool and chrissy totally loved the phil sign. Erica made a beautiful warning sign and i was shoving it in Chrissy's face the whole time but to no avail. we were screaming the whole time and the guys knew that we were the die hard fans, they were on our side most of the time. chris go bored of the peeps on Jonny's side. ok, i gotta do the family thing and will post more details later, the girls will prob log on soon to give better accounts. we have amazing pics and vids, Politik is insane sooo close your gonna love it. bye for now be back later

 

OMG :bomb: Christa, I'm so happy for you!!!! it's so cool that the guys saw the sign and noticed that you girls were the die hard fans in there :dance:

[busybeeburns]

Fellow New Yorkers who went to this show-

I was just reading the back of the tour shirt and since when are they playing Wantagh, New York at the end of July?! I'm pretty sure that was never announced on either the coldplay website or the jones beach website that I looked at last week for other tickets! My dad is going to kill me when he finds out I could get tickets to a show 20 minutes away instead of 3 hours...

what date did it say? :shocked2:

[busybeeburns]

Pics! :D

 

[ame=http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbone_bill/sets/72157618722487442/show/]Coldplay[/ame]

[busybeeburns]

More pics! :D :D

 

[ame=http://www.flickr.com/photos/blankslatephotography/sets/72157618716801816/show/]Coldplay - Comcast Center - May 23, 2009[/ame]

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

ok, everyone, here's my selection of best pictures :D

 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016244&id=1083570023&l=edcce28834

 

i'll hack away at videos slowly, i hope to have some up by today.

 

i'm eagerly awaiting everyone else's! and i can't wait to steal more cute group pictures too :D

[asia]

Hey I was there too!!!!!!!!!! It was AMAZING, but it felt like half an hour, seriously time passed by so fast. It was my 9th time I saw them live, and for the first time I was in a first row :), unfortunately I was dumb and instead of standing in the center of the stage, i went more to the left, closer to Jonny (wtf i could stand at the very center) BUT I had the best time so I can't complain. I have too many videos, next time I'm not taking my camera with me haha

 

 

[miumiu]

More pics! :D :D

 

Coldplay - Comcast Center - May 23, 2009

 

 

Wow! Great! :stunned:

[LittleMissMessy]

Chelsea ... :bomb: :dead:

 

You're pics are amazing :) :) :D

Thanks so much for sharing! :)

[asia]

[SwallowedInSea]

I promise promise promise I will write a full review ASAP but for now we are all still riding on our Coldplay high and have decided to take a road trip out to a little town called Hershey in Pennsylvania. :wink:

 

SEE YOU LATER!!!!! :dance:

[yeahhright]

what date did it say? :shocked2:

 

On the back of my tour shirt in the third row it lists East Troy, WI then Wantagh, NY before Toronto, ON...I don't see any other differences of dates so I wonder what's happening with this one not being announced yet...even the PA show that was cancelled isn't there so they must be planning to go...

[cold_love23]

okay here goes my review :D

 

My sister and I got a ride to the venue because we were not sure about parking and didn't want to risk anything. So we got there at about 1pm. We were the first ones there. We stood in line, feeling pretty ridiculous because every staff member that would pass would be like "You guys are here for Coldplay already?!?!" but then one guy passed and was like "Here for Coldplay? RIGHT ON! You guys are devoted!" :smug:

 

At about 3:30, a couple of other people showed up. And then I saw a bunch of wild girls coming towards us and knew that it was probably the coldplayers. :lol:

We all sat in line counting down the minutes. I wasn’t feeling very excited/talkative because I had barely eaten anything all day, and was feeling pretty weak. I tend to faint if I don’t eat, so thanks again to Christa for providing snacks, because without them I would have been a lost cause.

 

We got our tickets scanned at 6:30 and all ran like crazy to the general admission area. It was complete chaos there. You had to get a bracelet first, and then line up against the wall, but it was just mass confusion. They need to organize that better.

 

After about 10 minutes, they let us in and we all ran to Guy’s side. I placed myself directly in front of Will’s VLV area. :wacky: The opening acts were great. I definitely liked Howling Bells better than Pete Yorn.

 

And then after what seemed like forever, they were on! I’m surprised that I still have my voice today after all of the screaming that I did last night. I screamed from the moment they walked onto the stage, until the moment they left. I didn’t get to see Jonny much last night, but that image of him walking out onto the stage smiling and twirling his sparkler, will forever be in my mind. So adorable. They all came out and danced around with their sparklers for about 10 seconds, and then picked up their instruments.

 

I seriously couldn’t believe how close we were, I mean I knew we would be in the first row, but this was crazy. I couldn’t see Jonny that well because there was a speaker blocking him, and I had to jump up to see Will, because he was so far back on the stage. They need to move that man front and center, seriously. Whenever Chris was sitting at his piano, all I could see was his head bopping up and down. So to be honest, I spent about 90% of my time last night staring at Guy.

 

Yellow was the 5th song, and Chris made us sing the ending to Will, who was adorable and clapped for us at the end. :wacky:

 

Okay, I just have to say that Guy is so hot. I had truly never realized how good looking he is until last night, when he was 4 feet from me, sweating and smiling and rocking out. He is stunningly gorgeous in person. Sorry for all the fangirling, but it’s true. I just kept taking pictures of him, and none of them came out bad. He looked outrageously good in every single one.

 

A few Guy pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m not going to talk about each song individually, but I have to talk about Viva La Vida.

OMG OMG OMG WILLIAM CHAMPION. I genuinely just went completely crazy during Viva La Vida. I could see Will getting up from his seat after the Hardest Part and I screamed my head off and got my camera ready. He was so amazing and I don’t even know how to describe him. Powerful! His singing, and bell hitting, and drum beating. It was too much.

 

Some Will Pictures:

 

 

 

 

After I took that last picture ^^ I looked at my camera screen to see how it came out and started screaming “OMG WILL’S NIPPLE.” My sister was cracking up.

 

As soon as they got up to the C-Stage, Chris said “Hey let’s all be careful with each other. I know that Guy is handsome, but let’s all be careful with him.” I guess Guy was getting molested, but I couldn’t see. :lol:

 

They sang Green Eyes, Death Will Never Conquer, and I’m a believer. Some cute stuff that Chris said during I’m a believer:

 

“Will Champion, the member of Coldplay most likely to be in a horror film… are you in love?”

“Guy Berryman, the member of Coldplay most likely to be in a porno film… without the explicit bits.. Are you in love?”

 

We did a cell phone wave, like 3 times and then they “left.” Encore was amazing, I got a huge bag of butterflies during LIJ. During the bow, I saw Guy look at the Phil sign and laugh. When Chris passed by he looked at it in confusion at first, but when he passed by the second time, he smiled at it.

 

They came back out and did The Scientist. It was just Chris for the beginning of the song. He came out and explained the live cd thing, and then started playing, and was joined by the rest of the band about half way through, all in Grammy jackets.

 

I was dizzy, deaf, and nearly dead by the end. It was amaaaaaazing. I hope that I get a chance to be front row again in my life, because it was insane.

 

Some more pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[asia]

busybeeburns;3053179 what camera did you use? GOD amazing pictures!

[Lore]

ok, everyone, here's my selection of best pictures :D

 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016244&id=1083570023&l=edcce28834

 

i'll hack away at videos slowly, i hope to have some up by today.

 

i'm eagerly awaiting everyone else's! and i can't wait to steal more cute group pictures too :D

 

thanks for sharing :D

 

Hey I was there too!!!!!!!!!! It was AMAZING, but it felt like half an hour, seriously time passed by so fast. It was my 9th time I saw them live, and for the first time I was in a first row :), unfortunately I was dumb and instead of standing in the center of the stage, i went more to the left, closer to Jonny (wtf i could stand at the very center) BUT I had the best time so I can't complain. I have too many videos, next time I'm not taking my camera with me haha

 

great pictures :o

 

I promise promise promise I will write a full review ASAP but for now we are all still riding on our Coldplay high and have decided to take a road trip out to a little town called Hershey in Pennsylvania. :wink:

 

SEE YOU LATER!!!!! :dance:

 

you crazy girls, the guys should give you all tickets for tonight's gig :lol: have fun!!!!

[technicolor_love78]

okay here goes my review :D

 

My sister and I got a ride to the venue because we were not sure about parking and didn't want to risk anything. So we got there at about 1pm. We were the first ones there. We stood in line, feeling pretty ridiculous because every staff member that would pass would be like "You guys are here for Coldplay already?!?!" but then one guy passed and was like "Here for Coldplay? RIGHT ON! You guys are devoted!" :smug:

 

At about 3:30, a couple of other people showed up. And then I saw a bunch of wild girls coming towards us and knew that it was probably the coldplayers. :lol:

We all sat in line counting down the minutes. I wasn’t feeling very excited/talkative because I had barely eaten anything all day, and was feeling pretty weak. I tend to faint if I don’t eat, so thanks again to Christa for providing snacks, because without them I would have been a lost cause.

 

We got our tickets scanned at 6:30 and all ran like crazy to the general admission area. It was complete chaos there. You had to get a bracelet first, and then line up against the wall, but it was just mass confusion. They need to organize that better.

 

After about 10 minutes, they let us in and we all ran to Guy’s side. I placed myself directly in front of Will’s VLV area. :wacky: The opening acts were great. I definitely liked Howling Bells better than Pete Yorn.

 

And then after what seemed like forever, they were on! I’m surprised that I still have my voice today after all of the screaming that I did last night. I screamed from the moment they walked onto the stage, until the moment they left. I didn’t get to see Jonny much last night, but that image of him walking out onto the stage smiling and twirling his sparkler, will forever be in my mind. So adorable. They all came out and danced around with their sparklers for about 10 seconds, and then picked up their instruments.

 

I seriously couldn’t believe how close we were, I mean I knew we would be in the first row, but this was crazy. I couldn’t see Jonny that well because there was a speaker blocking him, and I had to jump up to see Will, because he was so far back on the stage. They need to move that man front and center, seriously. Whenever Chris was sitting at his piano, all I could see was his head bopping up and down. So to be honest, I spent about 90% of my time last night staring at Guy.

 

Yellow was the 5th song, and Chris made us sing the ending to Will, who was adorable and clapped for us at the end. :wacky:

 

Okay, I just have to say that Guy is so hot. I had truly never realized how good looking he is until last night, when he was 4 feet from me, sweating and smiling and rocking out. He is stunningly gorgeous in person. Sorry for all the fangirling, but it’s true. I just kept taking pictures of him, and none of them came out bad. He looked outrageously good in every single one.

 

A few Guy pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m not going to talk about each song individually, but I have to talk about Viva La Vida.

OMG OMG OMG WILLIAM CHAMPION. I genuinely just went completely crazy during Viva La Vida. I could see Will getting up from his seat after the Hardest Part and I screamed my head off and got my camera ready. He was so amazing and I don’t even know how to describe him. Powerful! His singing, and bell hitting, and drum beating. It was too much.

 

Some Will Pictures:

 

 

 

 

After I took that last picture ^^ I looked at my camera screen to see how it came out and started screaming “OMG WILL’S NIPPLE.” My sister was cracking up.

 

As soon as they got up to the C-Stage, Chris said “Hey let’s all be careful with each other. I know that Guy is handsome, but let’s all be careful with him.” I guess Guy was getting molested, but I couldn’t see. :lol:

 

They sang Green Eyes, Death Will Never Conquer, and I’m a believer. Some cute stuff that Chris said during I’m a believer:

 

“Will Champion, the member of Coldplay most likely to be in a horror film… are you in love?”

“Guy Berryman, the member of Coldplay most likely to be in a porno film… without the explicit bits.. Are you in love?”

 

We did a cell phone wave, like 3 times and then they “left.” Encore was amazing, I got a huge bag of butterflies during LIJ. During the bow, I saw Guy look at the Phil sign and laugh. When Chris passed by he looked at it in confusion at first, but when he passed by the second time, he smiled at it.

 

They came back out and did The Scientist. It was just Chris for the beginning of the song. He came out and explained the live cd thing, and then started playing, and was joined by the rest of the band about half way through, all in Grammy jackets.

 

I was dizzy, deaf, and nearly dead by the end. It was amaaaaaazing. I hope that I get a chance to be front row again in my life, because it was insane.

 

Some more pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOVE LOVE LOVE ur pics! such a great review and glad u had a great time! but I agree about Guy, when I was at the front in Orlando, I also stared at him 90% of the whole entire show :lol: He is absolutely more gorgeous in person...the pics we get here are wonderful, but they don't do much justice because up close he is just too stunning for words! :heart:

 

“Guy Berryman, the member of Coldplay most likely to be in a porno film… without the explicit bits.. Are you in love?” anddd I just read this part...OHH yeah lol

[Lore]

Lauren, your pics are lovely and thanks for the twitter updates :D

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

SARAH, GET YOUR BUTT BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN :angry: :lol:

[Lore]

they're crazy and it's awesome :lol:

[Mimixxx]

Lauren and Chelsea thanks :kiss: :D

[SwallowedInSea]

SARAH, GET YOUR BUTT BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN :angry: :lol:

Do I need an explanation?? We are crazy and have zero willpower!! :lol:

This morning, Noelia jokingly suggested we go to Hershey. And I was like, no, don't say that, you know we'll actually do it if we think about it too much. And then we looked at the website and saw that they have 4 packs for $120 (so 30 each) and well... there's 4 of us (me, Pris, Noelia, and Steph-- Erika had to go home and Christa was busy :cry:) and we can be there in 3 1/2 hours.... so, why not? :P