Something along the lines of "If you gave up your Wednesday to see a Coldplay show"; and something involving "if you're going to make a lot of noise" :P Forgive me, I'm old ;)

and as per chris's request..im downloading howling bells album....i have to...cuz he said so. or at least the song nightingale.

I have plenty of pics/videos but it might be a while til I upload them. Being about a foot away from them during the b-stage set was unreal.

The highlights to me were seeing the audience knocking the balloons back at the band, and seeing the butterflies flying back at the stage..drenching the band.

xxKels- Yes, I've got both, though I don't know how well they turned out. My videos aren't very long as the big, burly security guy right in front of me frowned upon us recording. "PICTURES ONLY!" he kept yelling:(

That sucks, where were you sitting? I was taking video right in front of this security guy and he didnt say anything.

RE Pics and vids, also meant to add, I'll be getting back to Austin tomorrow afternoon and will post them then.

We were in the first row, pretty much dead center. The guy was pretty cool, actually, just took his job very seriously. During Yellow he kept grabbing balloons and popping them down on the floor- the guys behind us started booing him!

That sucks. Ha there was dude about 6-7 row center who held on to a yellow balloon til the end of the concert. Probably tried to take it home or something lol.

I think I saw you. You were the only ones sitting in your row for a while before the opening acts came on right? I could be wrong. We were the only ones in our row for a long time, right side row 13, behind b stage.

That was us.

 

Angie that's awesome! I was looking for anyone I thought might be you, but obviously had no luck as I have no idea what you look like :) So YOU guys were the ones Chris was referring to when he dedicated the song to Vicki and said, "you guys don't know her... well, some of you do..." :D

:D:D:D

 

 

so we each got 2 LRLRL, 1 signed, 1 unsigned. :smug:

the stage looked beautiful as all the butterflies flew back at the band...i sat up high and imagined looking at an amazing abstract painting of neon butterflies.

@ Goot- yeah, I think you're right, I think he did do chasing cars during IMP.

 

@Kels, don't know if you're question got answered, no, they didn't bring Vicki out onto the stage.

lol...oh yeah, does anyone remember that serious freaking stare chris made at the crowd during cemeteries of london? he just glared at everyone for a moment, then broke out laughing.

Angie- awesome sign! and hey, did you see Jonny blow a kiss out to someone after DAAHF??

That was us.

 

:D:D:D

 

 

so we each got 2 LRLRL, 1 signed, 1 unsigned. :smug:

 

 

:laugh3:^^^and that folks...is the Bed Of Dreams.....

:)Vicky`s sign is beautiful, Angie- it should make it on the official website!

fix you improvisation: sitting in the back of the coldplay show....if you dont make noise, how can we know.....

 

i was listening to my cell phone recording, best i could decipher/ remember.

OK, everyone, it's past my bedtime! I'll be back tomorrow with a longer review, pics and video!

 

FANTASTIC show... so glad everyone had fun! :)

Goodnight jenflor! Thanks for sharing, glad you had an amazing night!

Hi guys, just got back from San Antonio (after a nearly 3 hour drive to Houston) and I have to say the show was incredible tonight! All four of the guys were in top form tonight. The set list didn't change as far as I could tell... The crowd was great (Chris even mentioned this a few times) and it was just a great time had by everyone I think. I really need to hit the hay, but I'll leave you with these - I'll post more pics/vids/info tomorrow! Oh, and I think I saw Angie on the floor, but didn't get a chance to introduce myself :(

 

Awesome Angie and Lori :dance:

 

Can't believe they didn't embarrass her though....:P Maybe she'd warned them not to. :P

 

And nice pics mrman, Jonny and Chris seem to be laughing a lot :D

ahem. *clears throat*

 

First of all, may i just start out by saying that i owe an enormous thanks to anyone and everyone (especially all my berrygirls and buddy miss Lizzy :wacky:) who sent Coldplay Karma my way.

It fucking works. GET READY....

 

 

 

 

 

Ok so i'll keep this to the main highlights because im tired and i dont feel like writing a full review. maybe later. though im guessing this still might be kinda long :laugh3:

I'll start with when we are already in the venue. we're in our seats which were in the center but more on jonny's side and the second row up from the ground level. my friend and i were directly next to the aisle on the left so that was good in my opinion. it was certainly on of the best spots i could be in, and you'll see why. so anyways, the howling bells (which were fantastic, even though we got there a little after 7, missing part of their set) were finished. the crews were setting up for SP. i was just sitting there, looking around. suddenly suddenly i see a familiar face. I started freaking out and telling my friends it's Hoppy it's Hoppy! it's one of the roadies! he walked up the aisle at the other end of my row. i was so mesmerized that i recognized him and i was actually seeing him, that i forgot to call out his name! i could have kicked myself for not calling out to him.

....

skip ahead, coldplay comes, i freak, yah...

and so since my friend and are are so close to the railing at the front of our section, we go and stand next to our other two friends who are one row in front of us, one section to the left, but seated directly next to the same aisle as us. anyways, so we're standing at the bottom of the aisle next to the railing. and, during some song (i cant remember which) i look and there on the floor level a few feet below us and about 10 feet to the right, i spy a man holding a very nice, large camera, pointing it at the 4 of us! so i start smiling at him and his camera, y'know, posing (but not in an extreme way) for the camera. suddenly some realization hit me. it clicks in my head and about 2 seconds before he lowers his camera from his face, i start thinking NO! it cant be!

but it was!!!! he lowered his camera and there is mr. phil harvey! he was taking pictures of us!!!!!!!! and with good reason! we all were standing up having a great time, and wearing our homemade coldplay t-shirts. so i start flipping out, and i wasnt going to make the same mistake as i made with Hoppy, so i immediately scream PHILLLLLLL!! he gives me that gorgeous smile and playfully put a finger to his lips making a "shhh" motion, while still smiling. he takes a few more pictures (my friends are wondering what the hell was going on :P) and i realize i'd be a fool not to document this. so i grab my camera and start recording. he didnt stay much longer, but i do have a short vid which clearly shows him pointing his camera at me, then he looks at the picture, smiles, and as he begins to turn to leave, he gives us one of those "ok" signs with his hand (what do you call it? :thinking:) with his pointer finger and thumb touching and his other fingers up, and i yell "phil i love you!" which you'll hear when i decide to upload the vid. :P

after a quick explanation to my friends of who he was and how big of a deal it was that he took our pictures, we freaked out a little :D. i already couldnt believe that i was lucky enough for that. but, the best is yet to come....

 

so at one point after SP had finished, we were just waiting around next to the railing in our little aisle spot, and a bunch of security guards come up with caution tape and start running it up the length of the aisle all the way back to the door where you enter the arena. we were thinking umm what? because we looked around and this was happening to no other aisles in the whole arena.

....skip way ahead....so while the band are playing Viva La Vida, a bunch of guards come over and tell us we have to go back and sit down in our seats, which were a only few feet away, but it was still annoying because we had been standing there at the bottom of the aisle the whole show without any of the passing guards telling us to move. so we went back to our seats and the guards (a lot of them) started doing all kinds of stuff to the rail where we were standing. there was a gate there, but it had been closed the whole time, and they opened the gate and started taking boxes up past us and up the stairs of the aisle. the also put little foot steps on the floor level so that the gate could be reached. they also started roping in all of those who were sitting right next to the aisle guards were standing there. so, we started to get really excited and thinking OMG are they going to go by here?! and of course, right after Lost, there go coldplay, running down the stairs of the main stage, down the aisle around the side of the floor level, and....

right up through the gate RIGHT FUCKING PAST US :dead: and

I LUNGE OUT AND I TOUCH GUY BERRYMAN'S BICEP! I GRABBED HIS FUCKING GORGEOUS MUSCLY BICEP!!! MOTHER OF GOD!!! and my friend who was sitting next to me touched chris martin, and my two other friends who were the row down and to the left, well one of them got a high five from both jonny and will, and the other touched jonny and guy. :dead: so at this point my friend and i are pretty much combusting. we're crying and freaking out and shit screaming I TOUCHED CHRIS MARTIN! I TOUCHED GUY BERRYMAN!

and up they go to about 10 rows directly behind us to the C stage. sooooo not only did i touch Guy Berryman, the were pretty close on the c stage as well! so the whole time of the c stage, im dying. then they're done with that, and they start coming back down the same way of course! and this time the security guard who was standing right between us and the boys wasnt going to be so lenient. my friend and i lunge out again, my friend this time touching Guy, while the guard decides to be a bastard and try to shove me back. WELL im having absolutely NONE of that! :smug:. while he's standing there trying to keep me in my place and yelling STAY BACK, i lunge out again with my arm and

GRAB WILL'S BICEP! AND THEN GUY'S BICEP AGAIN!!! :dead:

and of course this whole time we're screaming there names at the top of our lungs :P

so it ends up that the friend who got a hive five from jonny and will ended up touching both chris and guy too when they were on the way back down. SHE TOUCHED ALL OF THEM! :dead:

i had wanted to try to grab chris and jonny as well, but i was so distracted on both passes that in the end i got just guy and will. but that's just fine with me baby :wideeyed:

 

i have a few good vids (the one of phil, one of the boys approaching, but obviously the view drops out as soon as im trying to grab Guy. :P, as well as the vids from c stage) but i'll post those and a few pics later.

 

 

so that's the best of the best. the rest of the show was of course incredible.

it's not a lie when people say that coldplay shows are the best nights of their lives. :)

 

i might post more tomorrow. umm i mean...later today :uhoh:

That sucks. Ha there was dude about 6-7 row center who held on to a yellow balloon til the end of the concert. Probably tried to take it home or something lol.

 

haha yah i saw that! he kept holding up so it would be on the screen during one song! :lol:

 

That was us.

 

:D:D:D

 

 

so we each got 2 LRLRL, 1 signed, 1 unsigned. :smug:

 

so awesome!

 

lol...oh yeah, does anyone remember that serious freaking stare chris made at the crowd during cemeteries of london? he just glared at everyone for a moment, then broke out laughing.

 

HAHAH that was hilarious! :laugh3:

:laugh3:And yet another "I copped a Coldplay Feel Club" member born here tonight.

 

I think I got more excited about Phil, lol....can`t wait to see the vid!

 

edit: great pics Mrman- love the Chris in butterflies one! *sigh*

ahem. *clears throat*

 

First of all, may i just start out by saying that i owe an enormous thanks to anyone and everyone (especially all my berrygirls and buddy miss Lizzy :wacky:) who sent Coldplay Karma my way.

It fucking works. GET READY....

 

 

 

 

 

Ok so i'll keep this to the main highlights because im tired and i dont feel like writing a full review. maybe later. though im guessing this still might be kinda long :laugh3:

I'll start with when we are already in the venue. we're in our seats which were in the center but more on jonny's side and the second row up from the ground level. my friend and i were directly next to the aisle on the left so that was good in my opinion. it was certainly on of the best spots i could be in, and you'll see why. so anyways, the howling bells (which were fantastic, even though we got there a little after 7, missing part of their set) were finished. the crews were setting up for SP. i was just sitting there, looking around. suddenly suddenly i see a familiar face. I started freaking out and telling my friends it's Hoppy it's Hoppy! it's one of the roadies! he walked up the aisle at the other end of my row. i was so mesmerized that i recognized him and i was actually seeing him, that i forgot to call out his name! i could have kicked myself for not calling out to him.

....

skip ahead, coldplay comes, i freak, yah...

and so since my friend and are are so close to the railing at the front of our section, we go and stand next to our other two friends who are one row in front of us, one section to the left, but seated directly next to the same aisle as us. anyways, so we're standing at the bottom of the aisle next to the railing. and, during some song (i cant remember which) i look and there on the floor level a few feet below us and about 10 feet to the right, i spy a man holding a very nice, large camera, pointing it at the 4 of us! so i start smiling at him and his camera, y'know, posing (but not in an extreme way) for the camera. suddenly some realization hit me. it clicks in my head and about 2 seconds before he lowers his camera from his face, i start thinking NO! it cant be!

but it was!!!! he lowered his camera and there is mr. phil harvey! he was taking pictures of us!!!!!!!! and with good reason! we all were standing up having a great time, and wearing our homemade coldplay t-shirts. so i start flipping out, and i wasnt going to make the same mistake as i made with Hoppy, so i immediately scream PHILLLLLLL!! he gives me that gorgeous smile and playfully put a finger to his lips making a "shhh" motion, while still smiling. he takes a few more pictures (my friends are wondering what the hell was going on :P) and i realize i'd be a fool not to document this. so i grab my camera and start recording. he didnt stay much longer, but i do have a short vid which clearly shows him pointing his camera at me, then he looks at the picture, smiles, and as he begins to turn to leave, he gives us one of those "ok" signs with his hand (what do you call it? :thinking:) with his pointer finger and thumb touching and his other fingers up, and i yell "phil i love you!" which you'll hear when i decide to upload the vid. :P

after a quick explanation to my friends of who he was and how big of a deal it was that he took our pictures, we freaked out a little :D. i already couldnt believe that i was lucky enough for that. but, the best is yet to come....

 

so at one point after SP had finished, we were just waiting around next to the railing in our little aisle spot, and a bunch of security guards come up with caution tape and start running it up the length of the aisle all the way back to the door where you enter the arena. we were thinking umm what? because we looked around and this was happening to no other aisles in the whole arena.

....skip way ahead....so while the band are playing Viva La Vida, a bunch of guards come over and tell us we have to go back and sit down in our seats, which were a only few feet away, but it was still annoying because we had been standing there at the bottom of the aisle the whole show without any of the passing guards telling us to move. so we went back to our seats and the guards (a lot of them) started doing all kinds of stuff to the rail where we were standing. there was a gate there, but it had been closed the whole time, and they opened the gate and started taking boxes up past us and up the stairs of the aisle. the also put little foot steps on the floor level so that the gate could be reached. they also started roping in all of those who were sitting right next to the aisle guards were standing there. so, we started to get really excited and thinking OMG are they going to go by here?! and of course, right after Lost, there go coldplay, running down the stairs of the main stage, down the aisle around the side of the floor level, and....

right up through the gate RIGHT FUCKING PAST US :dead: and

I LUNGE OUT AND I TOUCH GUY BERRYMAN'S BICEP! I GRABBED HIS FUCKING GORGEOUS MUSCLY BICEP!!! MOTHER OF GOD!!! and my friend who was sitting next to me touched chris martin, and my two other friends who were the row down and to the left, well one of them got a high five from both jonny and will, and the other touched jonny and guy. :dead: so at this point my friend and i are pretty much combusting. we're crying and freaking out and shit screaming I TOUCHED CHRIS MARTIN! I TOUCHED GUY BERRYMAN!

and up they go to about 10 rows directly behind us to the C stage. sooooo not only did i touch Guy Berryman, the were pretty close on the c stage as well! so the whole time of the c stage, im dying. then they're done with that, and they start coming back down the same way of course! and this time the security guard who was standing right between us and the boys wasnt going to be so lenient. my friend and i lunge out again, my friend this time touching Guy, while the guard decides to be a bastard and try to shove me back. WELL im having absolutely NONE of that! :smug:. while he's standing there trying to keep me in my place and yelling STAY BACK, i lunge out again with my arm and

GRAB WILL'S BICEP! AND THEN GUY'S BICEP AGAIN!!! :dead:

and of course this whole time we're screaming there names at the top of our lungs :P

so it ends up that the friend who got a hive five from jonny and will ended up touching both chris and guy too when they were on the way back down. SHE TOUCHED ALL OF THEM! :dead:

i had wanted to try to grab chris and jonny as well, but i was so distracted on both passes that in the end i got just guy and will. but that's just fine with me baby :wideeyed:

 

i have a few good vids (the one of phil, one of the boys approaching, but obviously the view drops out as soon as im trying to grab Guy. :P, as well as the vids from c stage) but i'll post those and a few pics later.

 

 

so that's the best of the best. the rest of the show was of course incredible.

it's not a lie when people say that coldplay shows are the best nights of their lives. :)

 

i might post more tomorrow. umm i mean...later today :uhoh:

 

OMG! LAUREN! I'm so excited for you!:drunk::laugh3::dead: Thats so awesome! Not to mention, I'm entirely jealous of you!

 

You better be back here to post your goodies soon!:sneaky: