"feliz navidad Guy, feliz navidad!"

 

:lol:

Lol, what an idiot.

 

Lovable idiot though.

"feliz navidad Guy, feliz navidad!"

 

:lol:

 

:laugh3::laugh3:

I think its important for Coldplay to get the live DVDs out there as it is atotally diff experience when you watch them live comapred to listening to the CDs. I remember the first time I watched the 2003 live DVD I was blown away by the energy Chris and the boys created with the audence and also how energetic Chris is live. It would be great if they filmed Glastonbury too and Wemblyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

He definitely mentioned the filming being for a concert DVD tonight.

 

Does that mean concert DVD for release? don't know. But he mentioned it several times...he knew mentioning that we were being filmed would bring out our maximum energy and it did. So whether or not he's saying things he's not supposed to? Eh... I think as long as it seems a little wishy-washy and there's contradicting info out there, he wouldn't be getting into any trouble with anyone if it were to actually be released, (aside us, who are confused) for telling the crowd they were going to be in a DVD.

 

And if it's not going to be released...then he just wanted to film an energetic crowd that thought they might be able to see themselves on dvd sometime.

I was at the Vancouver show last night and I think it's pretty set in stone that this was filming for the DVD.

 

They had big screens set up showing video of the show, and judging by the variety of camera angles and the way they were being cut, it looked like they had a full crew out shooting for a DVD.

 

Also, those of you who were talking about how you wished the DVD would be from Wembley because of more songs, Chris confirmed that they are filming both shows in Vancouver. I don't know if tonight's setlist was the same, but if they played a different setlist then you may get the additional songs you were hoping for.

 

All in all, the show last night was the best I've seen in Vancouver, and I've been to many. The crowd participation was phenomenal and it made a HUGE building that I've been to countless times seem like a small venue.

 

If this is indeed the show that gets on the DVD, everyone is in for a HUGE treat.

ROFL for the Feliz Navidad thing :lol:

 

And Chris... don't try to play with us:whip:

How dare someone point out something stupid Chris has said :angry:

 

;) :P

I've read this interview some days ago ... (look at the end of the article!)

 

 

Coldplay's Martin thankful for job - Sun Media

 

Even rock stars get tired of talking about themselves eventually.

 

Case in point: Chris Martin. The 32-year-old Coldplay frontman has spent the last year being interviewed by reporters far and wide about the band's gazillion-selling, chart-topping, Grammy-winning album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. And now that the awards are shelved, the sales are tabulated and the Britrockers' lengthy world tour is finally wrapping up in September, the last thing he really needs to do is another interview.

 

But along with being fabulously rich, internationally famous, boyishly handsome, skinny and married to the equally fabulous actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin also seems to be something you don't always come across in the music industry: A gentleman.

 

So when Coldplay returned to Western Canada this week to make up for a series of concerts postponed from last year, Martin not only agreed to a chat -- he sat down with me in the front lounge of the band's tour bus on its first stop in Winnipeg. Clad in a light purple shirt he would wear onstage later that night, a militaristic jacket (surprisingly, not part of the band's costumes; guess he just likes that stuff), a pair of dark blue warmup pants, multiple bracelets and peacock blue socks -- "That's not rude, is it?" he wondered about his stocking feet -- he slouched sideways on a couch with his feet up on the sofa opposite. We were asked not to discuss his personal life and legal cases -- that would be claims by both Joe Satriani and Yusuf Islam that he plagiarized Viva la Vida -- but Martin was only to happy to weigh in on the current tour, the next Coldplay album and that weird dream he keeps having.

 

SUN: I'm kind of surprised that you're still doing press after a year on the road.

 

MARTIN: Yeah, me too. (Laughs). Well, we, uh ... yeah, good point. I know what you mean.

 

 

SUN: I would think you've already said everything about yourself you want. Plus, you're a rock star and it's almost showtime. Shouldn't you be off having yak tea or meditating under a pyramid?

 

MARTIN:I've already done all that. I just have to have some goat's milk and a French masseuse.

 

SUN: You kept us waiting a year out here in Western Canada over "production issues." Is that a euphemism?

 

MARTIN: Well, production issues was the official excuse. And normally when you say that, it's because one of you has had an overdose. But I think it actually may have been the truth. Hopefully in this case it's better late than never. Though some places we go, they would rather it was never than late.

 

SUN: Are we getting the 'been doing it so long it's streamlined and perfected' show or the 'been at it so long we're sick of it' show?

 

MARTIN: Well, this week we're building up to filming in Vancouver. So you're getting the 'band trying extremely hard to be great' show.

 

SUN: You probably don't have to try all that hard.

 

MARTIN: We do, we do. Of course we do. And we're lucky because we have the bug because no matter how tired you might be or no matter how many concerts you've done, someone comes in the room and has paid money for a ticket and we think, 'We'd better give it everything.'

 

SUN: Even after all this time, you don't take it for granted?

 

MARTIN: No. Especially not now. You asked why I'm doing press still. Sometimes that's a good way of communicating your gratitude for still being in the job.

 

SUN: You seem to do that a lot.

 

MARTIN: Well, we have a lot to be thankful for.

 

SUN: A lot of people in your position don't share that attitude.

 

MARTIN: I disagree with you there. I think most great bands -- at least most people that we look up to -- have that philosophy. That's where we learned it from, from Bruce and from U2 and from ... well, those two. Those two in particular, that's where we learned the work ethic.

 

SUN: You've been on this tour for a year. And it's not like you can change the set list every night ...

 

MARTIN: Well, we could. But it would be chaos.

 

SUN: Right. So how do you keep it fresh after a couple of hundred shows?

 

MARTIN: Well, between you and me and your millions of readers, if I ever question my motivation, I just try and find a muse. Normally it would be a pretty girl or the fact that your dad is there. There's always something that makes you think I'd better give my best.

 

SUN: I'm not allowed to ask about your muse.

 

MARTIN: You can ask anything you like, man; I just don't have to answer.

 

SUN: Fair enough. But does it feel like you're at the end of a marathon?

 

MARTIN: Well, I think we might not tour for a while after this tour. I think we see it as a solidification of something by going to all these places. You're showing you are real. I think when you become a big band, people somewhat don't think you are really real. So when you come to a town and play, it brings it all back to earth again. Because most of the time you read about a big band or see them on TV and it's all lawsuits and numbers and all these big things. It doesn't feel like there's real humans in the middle of it. The reason I love the fact that I can do one-on-one interviews or play a show is that it reminds me of why I do what I do. It's direct feedback and it's what it all boils down to; whether people want to sing along to a song or not.

 

SUN: You've been doing a lot of smaller cities lately -- places you haven't been before and places a lot of bigger bands don't play often. Do you find these audiences respond differently than those in bigger centres?

 

MARTIN: It's funny how a place can have a characteristic. If you go and play in Japan, say, there's enthusiasm. But it's expressed very pointedly and then everyone goes very silent to listen. So if you've just come from Italy, you think 'Oh God, this Japanese crowd hates us.' Or if you go to Mexico, there's craziness the whole time. So the more we go around the more we learn. And then you go to someplace like Des Moines for the first time and just try to get the measure of it. But the only thing we would take as a bad response would be a mass exit.

 

SUN: I'm guessing you don't get many of those.

 

MARTIN: Not for a while. Often in a dream I get that. I get a recurring dream where we can't quite get the song together and after about 15 minutes people start leaving. And I'm looking at my fingers and I can't remember what to do. It's terrible.

 

SUN: Have you shared this with a therapist?

 

MARTIN: Not with a therapist, but with Jonny (Buckland) our guitarist. He's the next best thing. That's his role.

 

SUN: Any other interesting dreams?

 

MARTIN: They're all interesting. But none of them can be shared in daytime news.

 

SUN: Is there anything about this tour you'll be glad to see the back end of? One particular song or element?

 

MARTIN: We've kind of weeded out the songs we didn't like. The great blessing of having some hit singles is that each time you get a new one you can drop something you didn't like. So gradually you can build a set you like from start to finish, five years after. For us at the moment, it's like touring in Cats. It's less of a gig and more of a show. There's something very nice about that. Because you know what's coming. It's a nice machine to be a part of.

 

SUN: There is a lot of production in this show -- a satellite stage, balloons, butterflies. Why go to all that trouble? At this point, you could come out and play on a bare stage.

 

MARTIN: And we will do that at some point. The bare stage thing would be good in a small theatre. But not in an arena. And have you seen our butterflies? They look f---ing amazing. That's why we do it.

 

SUN: I wanted to ask how much of that stuff is for us and how much is for you.

 

MARTIN: Something like that is for us. When you fill a room with neon butterflies, it looks pretty great. So we keep it. But the show all comes from us. It's what we think fits with the music.

 

SUN: Is that the kind of show you're a fan of?

 

MARTIN: Yeah, of course. I love the Flaming Lips more than anyone live. And they take stagecraft and gimmickry to the maximum degree. Compared to their show, ours is pretty light.

 

SUN: Will we be seeing you walking on the crowd in a giant bubble?

 

MARTIN: Well, I think that's sort of Wayne Coyne's copyright. There are certain things you don't steal.

 

SUN: But you're covering a Monkees song. What's the story with that?

 

MARTIN: We did a Neil Diamond tribute concert just before the Grammys with a bunch of other people. And we asked if we could play I'm a Believer, which most people don't know is a Neil Diamond song. And we played it the next night in our concert, and it got a bigger response than any of our songs, so we thought, 'Don't miss that trick.'

 

SUN: And you're giving away a live CD -- you guys just keep on giving.

 

MARTIN: We don't, really. It costs money to come and see us and it costs money to buy our records. Even McDonald's gives you a free toy every so often. It's just natural that if you can afford to make a live record and give it to people, why wouldn't you? If feels great to do it.

 

SUN: I would imagine it also defeats the purpose of bootlegging the show.

 

MARTIN: And it makes sure it's a good show out there. Though I don't think we'd have felt comfortable releasing a live album in a conventional way. I don't know if that would work in this day and age. So with this, it's part generosity and part a statement of where we're at.

 

SUN: So instead of a live album, you'll be filming for a DVD in Vancouver?

 

MARTIN: No, not for a DVD. Just for the annals of time.

 

SUN: Just to sit and watch in your basement?

 

MARTIN: When I'm old, maybe.

 

SUN: So what comes after this? A long break?

 

MARTIN: There are no breaks. We'll go right back into something. I can tell you that we're fired up and approaching the wrong side of 32 and we feel very hungry in a musical sense. And where we come from, everyone is always held up against The Beatles. And everyone falls short. So we feel like we have to keep trying to improve. So we might take a couple of weeks just to do some laundry, but then we'll see. I don't think what we do next will be a big extravaganza. But it will be something good.

This just in from the Oracle...

 

June 22, 2009 - submitted by Andrew, United States of America

 

Q. Oh ever-knowing Oracle,

Is it true Coldplay are releasing a Viva La Vida Tour DVD? I heard Chris was talking about it then I heard that Coldplay's Video Manager said that the filming in Vancouver was "for the archive."

Oh please answer, Oracle.

 

Thanks a billion

-Andrew

 

 

The Oracle replies:

 

It's usual to document the live shows for archive but there are no further plans for the footage as yet.

:bigcry: :bigcry:

 

Why not?

 

:bigcry:

Well Debs is clearing all our questions!!

 

*continue to send subliminal message for a Wembley DVD*

*grumbles miserably in corner*

a spamathon plea on twitter perhaps?

@coldplay We demand a live DVD pwetty pwease?

@coldplay We demand a live DVD pwetty pwease?

 

No, we should tweet: @coldplay We demand a WEMBLEY live DVD pwetty pwease?

 

:lol:

How dare someone point out something stupid Chris has said :angry:

 

;) :P

:uhoh: I wasn't the first to talk about it :shame:

But... admit it was too funny :lol:

 

This just in from the Oracle...

 

June 22, 2009 - submitted by Andrew, United States of America

 

Q. Oh ever-knowing Oracle,

Is it true Coldplay are releasing a Viva La Vida Tour DVD? I heard Chris was talking about it then I heard that Coldplay's Video Manager said that the filming in Vancouver was "for the archive."

Oh please answer, Oracle.

 

Thanks a billion

-Andrew

 

 

The Oracle replies:

 

It's usual to document the live shows for archive but there are no further plans for the footage as yet.

Oh.No. :bigcry:

Chris that's just mean:whip:

Chris that's just mean:whip:

Will should teach him to shut his big mouth!! :rolleyes:

Really he should :mean:

"feliz navidad Guy, feliz navidad!"

 

:lol:

 

 

In your own words:

 

 

im pretty sure he was joking :dozey:

 

:whistle:

 

:escaping:

:bigcry: no DVD?

WTF

Haha I think you just got Lauren Mel :lol:

wtfffffffff no DVD??? Chris mentioned that we were gonna be on the dvd several times during the concerts on BOTH days!!! why oh why would you tease us like that *tear*

:bigcry:

and this is why you don't listen to what Chris says. :rolleyes: :P