Ok, everyone, hold on to your underpants because it's time for MASSIVE multi-quote.

 

(Lola- thats me in my avi)

 

Really!? Honest when I say you look like a Celtic princess, or like one of the elf characters from the Lord of the Rings. I think is the cape or whatever is in your head that does the trick :)

 

Wowww! What's your ethnicity?

 

Do you have green eyes, Lola?

No, I wish. My eyes are brown.

 

 

That was us.

 

:D:D:D

 

 

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

 

:stunned: WOW! :stunned:

That was nice of you to wish a Happy B-day to Vicky :smug:

 

 

These pics deserve to be reposted because they are AMAZING!

 

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:

 

LAUREN!!!!

 

I'm so happy for you! :dance:

 

And PHIL taking pics of you girls with your cool homemade Coldplay t-shirts!

 

:bomb:

 

I wanted to so bad but he had already asked Neil :cry: Either way it was good to meet him. And no they don't look much alike, only in their accents. lol

 

BRENDA!!!!! :hug:

 

Glad you had a cool concert experience, meeting Chris's cousin.

My question is: is he handsome? :lol:

I know you say they don't look alike, but still....

 

HERE'S PHIL HARVEY TAKING MY PICTURE!!!!! PHIL I LOVE YOU!!!!

 

 

 

 

fhgdfhgjksrngjlbdslfgbd!!!! :freak:

 

Phil is just :charming:

 

LOL, you screaming "I love you Phil" was the best part! :laugh3:

 

Care to join Liz and me on our Phil Phest? :lol:

 

 

omgggggoooooddd Lauren, lucky you, look you can see his cheeks in the dark!!!

 

edit - ya got to put this in the phil is hot thread!!!

YES, this deserves to be on the Phil is HOT thread

 

Hi again, everyone!

 

OK, now that I've had a few hours to let the whole thing sink in, I'm ready to write my review... First off, let me just say that I've been to A LOT of concerts (including CP twice before, U2 and Prince), and this was far and away the MOST FUN I have ever had at a show.

 

I bought tickets for this show after I'd already spent a lot of money on tix for the Houston and Dallas shows in July. So, for SA, I decided to just buy the cheap nosebleeds and take my sister for her birthday. It was her first time seeing Coldplay.

 

Then, after joining this forum and reading about the possibility of being upgraded, I started hoping that we might be able to get an upgrade, too. We got to the venue about 6:15 and picked up some souvenirs (tour program- gorgeous- and Chris' bracelets for me; t-shirts for my sister) then headed up to our seats in the 200s - directly across from the stage. Howling Bells came on a few minutes later. We liked what we got to see of them. Not 5 minutes after sitting down, we saw a guy and a girl with red hair and glasses dressed all in black, holding envelopes in their hands, standing on a landing just below us, scanning the seats. I knew they were roadies there to give upgrades, so I smiled in their direction and made a show of pulling out my program to look at. They then turned and walked up into the section next to us. After giving an upgrade there, they continued on, in the opposite direction from us. We figured our chance was gone, so we got up to hit the bathroom and grab a drink before Snow Patrol started.

 

While walking to the concession stand, I noticed a group of girls standing around a guy. I looked more closely and noticed this guy had a pass and a Coldplay Crew t-shirt on. He upgraded the girls he was talking to, then turned and started walking away. My sister and I turned around and sped up to catch up to him. I tapped him on the arm and said, "Excuse me, are you with the band?" :sneaky: He said yes, then I asked him if he could tell me where the c-stage was going to be set up. He looked at me like he wasn't quite sure he should answer that or not, but then went on to tell me basically where it was going to be. Then he said, "but don't tell anyone you heard it from me!" We assured him we wouldn't, and thanked him (and at this point my heart was sinking because I thought he was going to leave). He then said, "You must be a big fan if you know about the c-stage." That was all we needed. Yes! we said and my sister launched into how I'd seen them twice before and how I was going to see them again this summer and that this concert was her b-day present. I told him I'd seen them twice before on the Twisted Logic tour, and he said he hadn't been with them for that one, but that they were having a blast on Viva. I threw in something about them being in NOLA the night before, and he looked surprised, and smiled. Then he said, "Hey, do you know the name of Coldplay's first album?" :stunned: I knew what that meant and very nearly could not form the word "Parachutes", but I did. He asked to see our tickets and said that there was a problem with our tix, and he would have to take them... but would we like 4th row instead??? :stunned::dance: We said, YES PLEASE! He was really sweet and told us his name, and gave us each a hug and sent us to the floor. THANK YOU, ROADIE MATT!!!

 

But the biggest surprise came when we got to the floor and realized that due to the stage set up, 4th row was in fact the first row directly in front of the stage, and our seats were DEAD CENTER. :dead:

 

Snow Patrol was awesome. I really only knew Chasing Cars before the show, but I will definitely be buying their albums. They were smiling and flirting like crazy with all the hot chicks (it was ALL women) in the first row and put on a really good show. I have a tiny snippet of video from Chasing Cars that I'll try to post later.

 

Then came Magnificent, Jay-Z and the dancing roadie (he was awesome!), and the Blue Danube. By the time our boys came out I was in heaven. The show was absolutely phenomenal... everything I hoped and more. I do agree with Kspillers about Chris' voice; it didn't quite have the same warmth (for lack of a better word) it usually does. That said, they were still mind-blowing. Everyone around me was having a blast, the crowd was fantastically loud- Chris commented that if they had known SA was so loud, they would have visited a long time ago- and the visuals were incredible. Chris also said some cute stuff in the improv c-stage bit- mentioned SA's beloved basketball team, the Spurs; intro'd Will as the scariest, but secretly nicest member of CP; Guy was nicest, but secretly scariest member of Coldplay and... ACK! I can't remember what he said about Jonny... anyone??

 

I'm sorry for the super long review, I just had to get it all out and I know you guys are the only ones who will really appreciate it! :)

 

All in all, the BEST show I've been to... but I've still got two more in July... :D

 

Here's a link to my facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=89553&id=1074682859&l=597902a76f

 

Jen

 

Congrats Jen on your upgrade! :thumbsup:

Well deserved, and for your sister, the best B-day gift EVER!

 

Snow Patrol...buy their CDs, you won't regret it.

Oh my, Gary & Co were flirting like crazy!? :bomb:

 

I just got back from bringing Lori to the airport. We took a lot of pics and videos. I haven't even started up loading yet. Will try and get some stuff up later tonight if not too tired. I shot almost all of Snow Patrol's set. Lori got a great video of the balloon assault we endured during Yellow. :lol:

 

Kelly I did see Chris point us out. We ran over to the B stage and some guys there were kind enough to scooch over and let us squeeze in with them so we could get closer. I held up the banner and I know he saw it. I wish he had dragged her out there for a proper birthday song, but oh well. Some guys that were in front of us said they had been back stage and they had cake. No wonder Chrissy came out at begining of concert and was running all over with his sparkler, he was jacked up on cake! :laugh3:

 

I thought the show would turn out crap when the crowd just sat there like zombies during Snow Patrol. Gary had to practally beg them to stand the fuck up. :dozey: But they improved once Coldplay came on stage. I thought Chris sounded incredible. I got a good video of him holding his note and checking his imaginay watch and making faces. :P Jonny was VERY dancie. squeeeeeeeeeeee And he wore blue shirt, then switched to short sleeves. :sweatdrop: William wore the red! The Red! :dead:

 

How can people be zombie-like during Snow Patrol? :veryangry: :whip:

 

 

OK here are some pics.

 

Snow Patrol

 

 

 

 

They were great. Gary was much more spazzy then in Indy, the way he should be. My videos are uploading and I'll post them here when done.

 

Thanks Angie!

The SP pics are AWESOME!

Was it hot in there? Because I'm suffocating :sweatdrop:

Oh, Gary looks really cute wearing blue :wink3:

 

 

 

Chrissy

 

 

 

 

Great pics of Chris! :lol:

A couple of (very short) videos:

 

 

 

Chasing Cars:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwsFuXQbxlc]YouTube - Snow Patrol - San Antonio 06.10.09 Chasing Cars[/ame]

 

End of Yellow:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnDpZ_pN9I&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay- San Antonio 06.10.09 Yellow[/ame]

 

A tiny bit of Viva la Vida:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-LLbiUIlo&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay- San Antonio 06.10.09- Viva la vida[/ame]

 

Beginning of Lost!:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGnT6p94ZE&feature=channel]YouTube - Coldplay- San Antonio 06.10.09 Lost![/ame]

 

 

 

 

I wish I had been able to film more... I forgot my spare batteries and was terrified of my camera dying mid-show! Oh, well. hope you enjoy, anyway!

WOW! there was a lot of Coldplaying luck last night!! I'm so jealous!

Hi again, everyone!

 

Here's a link to my facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=89553&id=1074682859&l=597902a76f

 

Jen

 

that's so appropriate that you have 42 pictures in your album!

 

LAUREN!!!!

 

I'm so happy for you! :dance:

 

And PHIL taking pics of you girls with your cool homemade Coldplay t-shirts!

 

:bomb:

 

fhgdfhgjksrngjlbdslfgbd!!!! :freak:

 

Phil is just :charming:

 

LOL, you screaming "I love you Phil" was the best part! :laugh3:

 

Care to join Liz and me on our Phil Phest? :lol:

 

 

YES, this deserves to be on the Phil is HOT thread

 

 

thanks lore! :D

:laugh3: Greeneyes- I hadn't even noticed there were 42 pics!

 

Lauren- your siggy made me :lol: !

 

A tiny bit of Viva la Vida:

 

 

 

OMG yay!! Will in the beginning of this vid :wideeyed: that red shirt is too good for words. does anyone have any more Will specific vids/pics? :wacky:

Lauren- your siggy made me :lol: !

 

:lol: thanks!

it was liz's idea :wacky:

 

OMG yay!! Will in the beginning of this vid :wideeyed: that red shirt is too good for words. does anyone have any more Will specific vids/pics? :wacky:

 

well...in my Im a Believer vid i have the camera on him sometimes....:uhoh:

^^And Lauren dont forget to tell the other Lauren :P that u squeezed WIll's muscular sexy bicep as well :bomb:! :sweatdrop:

OMG Angie and Lauren each had their own Coldplay luck last night! This is getting me pumped for my shows! I want a signed LRLRL album!

^^And Lauren dont forget to tell the other Lauren :P that u squeezed WIll's muscular sexy bicep as well :bomb:! :sweatdrop:

 

oh yes!!

LAUREN!!! I GRABBED WILLS ARM TOO! :bomb:

hawt arms :wacky:

 

OMG Angie and Lauren each had their own Coldplay luck last night! This is getting me pumped for my shows! I want a signed LRLRL album!

 

yes you should definitely get pumped! :dance:

Lori has managed to get out of bed and make her flight. She'll be in Texas soon. :D

 

 

Shut up! :P You know I can for Jonny! :wacky:

 

 

Angie having all kinds of deja-vu tonight. She is sitting in same seat location as when in Chicago with Mel for the 7-22-08 gig.:thinking:

 

:curtain:

 

That was me.

 

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

 

What?? In what direction please? I saw the maid there by the ramp of love. Was it towards there?

 

 

Angie, did you see he also pointed over to yall when he said "well some of you do"...I thought-jeez, Franksie filled him in, he even knows where they're sitting!

 

 

No I didn't see this! Ha! Awesome, thanks Kelly!

 

 

Just a Little review:

I thought the show was solid, Did anyone else think Chrissy sounds like his voice is taking a tiny bit of a beating....just a little more of a hard edged rasp than normal but still beautiful as always. Boys seemed comfortable and in the groove. I thought maybe the crowd came up a little short on the sing-a-longs (I could be wrong) , but they were ridiculously loud in between songs!

 

I grabbed Phil while he was roaming around the front taking pics and gave him my cowboy hat with Viva butterflies glued to it and asked him to see if he could get Will to wear it during the encore.

3 minutes later Chris picked it up from the floor behind Will, put in on his head for exactly 1 second, then on Will's head for 1 second , then off. If you blinked you missed it, but fun for me still.

 

Finally, I was directly on the Guy ramp but as some fellow CPers will not be surprised to hear, I forgot to bring my camera to S.A.:\ Massive bummer.

Awaiting some good pics from other Coldplayers so let's see'em folks!

 

I thought the people in the first 10 rows didn't show very much energy. Maybe the front row did, but I saw lots of peeps in between just standing there, not bobbing their heads, not singing, not moving at all. It looked weird and I was hoping it didn't bother Chris. But they did get REALLY loud in between songs. And were won over by the end.

 

OMG, you just went and grabbed Phil, huh? Why doesn't that surprise me? You are fearless. :laugh3: That is so cool with the hat.

 

look how svettie Jonny is

 

 

 

Heehee, he was extremely dancey, so that's why.

 

 

 

 

I just got back from bringing Lori to the airport. We took a lot of pics and videos. I haven't even started up loading yet. Will try and get some stuff up later tonight if not too tired. I shot almost all of Snow Patrol's set. Lori got a great video of the balloon assault we endured during Yellow. :lol:

 

Kelly I did see Chris point us out. We ran over to the B stage and some guys there were kind enough to scooch over and let us squeeze in with them so we could get closer. I held up the banner and I know he saw it. I wish he had dragged her out there for a proper birthday song, but oh well. Some guys that were in front of us said they had been back stage and they had cake. No wonder Chrissy came out at begining of concert and was running all over with his sparkler, he was jacked up on cake! :laugh3:

 

I thought the show would turn out crap when the crowd just sat there like zombies during Snow Patrol. Gary had to practally beg them to stand the fuck up. :dozey: But they improved once Coldplay came on stage. I thought Chris sounded incredible. I got a good video of him holding his note and checking his imaginay watch and making faces. :P Jonny was VERY dancie. squeeeeeeeeeeee And he wore blue shirt, then switched to short sleeves. :sweatdrop: William wore the red! The Red! :dead:

 

 

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks for having me Angie! I had SO much fun! :hug::dance:

 

.

OK, I'm starting to upload some videos! :bomb::bomb::bomb:

 

Here's the first one!

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEXYxvN9F1Q&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay San Antonio 6-10-09 LIT[/ame]

 

You can see how spastic Chris is with his sparkler from all the birthday cake he just had! He runs all the way across the stage to the left and waves it around. :lol:

 

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:lol:

 

Now you'd think he would have learnt his lesson from running with a sparkler at Hershey :rolleyes: :lol:

You guys are making me so excited for my concert!

All these stories were amazing!

:D

Wanna jump into Coldplay's concert while they are playing Yellow and hit some balloons with me? :surprised:

 

I knew you would! :D

 

 

Let's go! :dance:

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54UZrFthDJ4&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay San Antonio 6-10-09 Yellow balloons[/ame]

heh cool! :D

:lol:

 

Now you'd think he would have learnt his lesson from running with a sparkler at Hershey :rolleyes: :lol:

 

 

:lol:

 

heh cool! :D

 

Thanks! :wacko:

 

 

Here's a good one! Lots of love in this one!

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meA5a_1gEfA&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay San Antonio 6-10-09 In My Place[/ame]

 

 

But poor Guy didn't look like he felt good. Hangover? :surprised: Dancey Jonny goes bouncing on over to him like "Hey Guy! :D Wanna dance with me!?!?!?" And Guy is just "Meh. :dozey:" Eventually, Jonny looks at Guy one last time, then you can see his face kinda go "Fine. Whatever. Sigh. Where's Chris?" Then he looks for Chris, sees him, smiles widely :D, then lifts his guitar head towards him and gets a love tap from Chris. :love::heart::bomb:

 

.

Glad all you guys had fun!! Looks like a great Coldplayer lucky concert!! :D

 

 

Great video :laugh4: :D :dance: :D!!

Glad all you guys had fun!! Looks like a great Coldplayer lucky concert!! :D

 

 

 

Great video :laugh4: :D :dance: :D!!

 

 

Thanks Chris!!!

 

 

Mooooooooooooooooore!

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LegogSlUS14&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay San Antonio 6-10-09 Politik[/ame]

K, this is coming out less clear than I had hoped, but J gives my camera a killer, sexy, angry stare at 0:15. :bomb::bomb::bomb:

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5HxU5J8Is&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Coldplay San Antonio 6-10-09 The Scientist[/ame]

Attack of the balloons :D

My Snow Patrol videos

 

If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUWed-TUhow]YouTube - MVI 2478 If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It[/ame]

Chocolate

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYQdUl0iyQI]YouTube - MVI 2479 Chocolate[/ame]

Hands Open

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUuIo0LL2aE]YouTube - MVI 2480 Hands Open[/ame]

Run

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlq8DRha9o]YouTube - MVI 2481 Run[/ame]

Chasing Cars

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOdNpjqqQA4]YouTube - MVI 2489 Chasing Cars[/ame]

Open Your Eyes

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKhLubuhzk]YouTube - MVI 2499 Open Your Eyes[/ame]

Angie, thanks for taking those Snow Patrol vids, shame the crowd wasn't in to it more really!! :sad:

Angie, thanks for taking those Snow Patrol vids, shame the crowd wasn't in to it more really!! :sad:

At least it gave me a clear shot in all my videos. :P