Coming very soon courtesy of Giulia, the South American representative from Oxfam!

 

Blog links at http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/ and discussion in this thread.

 

Hurrah! :D

:o nice, if I see them in BA I'll say hi from coldplaying :P

grrrr you beated me :p

Oh, this is great!! :dance:

:o nice, if I see them in BA I'll say hi from coldplaying :P

Will do too :D

Only 9 days to see them in Buenos Aires!! :dance:

:awesome:

Wooohooo, eagering to meet Giulia then! Three times in this row :dance:

 

Thanks for the info :nice:

Thanks Giulia!:D

Boa noite, Rio de Janeiro!

 

Source: http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/giuliab/boa-noite-rio-de-janeiro/

 

Hello from Rio de Janeiro.

 

Coldplay are just about to play tonight in the famous sambodromo Apoteose and Oxfam is here, as the band have asked us again if we wanted to come along.

This time it’s me, Giulia, trying to make the most of this opportunity for Oxfam to be heard and to involve as many fans as possible. And I will be reporting for you on the fabulous life of the ‘Oxfam Rep’ on tour.

 

The tour started last Friday in Buenos Aires, with about 50,000 people in the River Plate stadium singing along to their songs. I was there, free from Oxfam duty for the first concert and suddenly recruited for helping out with firing butterfly-shaped confetti during Lovers in Japan: an exciting task that is likely to continue for the rest of the tour. So that’s just one of the magic moments of the show, and the Argentinian fans replied with an amazing blue ola made of cell phones (that’s how it goes these days, no more old-style lighters).

 

Now we’re in Brazil for two concerts (Rio and Sao Paulo) and it’s been a long day for the tour crew because of delays after the earthquake in Chile. Oxfam is sending staff to Santiago to assess the situation (just thought it’d be nice to point that out in an Oxfam blog).

 

Right now twenty-one great volunteers from Oxfam Brasil are campaigning on the issues of climate change, asking people to sign up to Tic Tac - you can do it here:

 

http://www.tictactictac.org.br

 

The Apoteose is a strange venue: it’s the place where the carnival parade is held, so it’s a long, long corridor among two huge stands. Oxfam’s tent is opposite the stage, near the entrance, so if you get a moment, come and say hello!

 

Giulia

Mad Traffic

 

Two words that perfectly sum up my first impression of São Paulo. Okay: we arrived just at rush hour and the city is huge, but the journey from the airport took us absolutely ages, despite the driver trying his best to find as many shortcuts as one can possibly imagine.

 

Anyway, we’re finally here, the crew is already loading in for tomorrow’s gig. I haven’t seen the Morumbi Stadium yet, but it’s supposed to be MASSIVE: with a capacity of over 60,000 people, I can only imagine how much noise Coldplay fans will make when they recognize the first few notes of their favourite songs. And from my short experience, that usually happens with every single song!

 

Oxfam will be at the venue with 20 volunteers led by the amazing Carlos: you’ll see them distributing bookmarks and if you ask they’ll be more than happy to have a chat about how you can take action against climate change.

 

Last night’s gig in Rio was amazing, despite the Coldplay Cloud (yes, the crew has officially named it) struck again just before the band went on stage, but Rio de Janeiro’s people kept on singing out loud under their colourful plastic macs.

 

That reminds me that I haven’t mentioned the supporting band on tour yet: Bat for Lashes. When they go on stage with their moon and stars backdrop it’s like being projected into a dream PLUS Natasha wears amazing outfits (sorry… little girly note).

 

Time to go now. See you tomorrow, amigos paulistas!

 

Giulia

 

http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/giuliab/mad-traffic/

 

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Happy Birthday Chris!

 

Morumbi means ‘green hill’. Had it meant ‘Violet Hill’ it would have been perfection. Still, it’s a word of indigenous origin and I love the sound of it: doesn’t it make you think of a crescendo of noise? Appropriate for tonight indeed. It’s Chris’s birthday today and Will sang ‘Happy Birthday’ in Portuguese, reading out some scribbled notes on his guitar, and São Paulo’s people joined in. Feliz aniversário!

 

Our twenty Oxfam volunteers have done a marvellous job, tiredlessly handing over thousands of bookmarks to the public. Visit this website http://www.tictactictac.org.br and make your voice heard for the next fundamental step on the negotiations on climate change. After Copenhagen, Mexico’s COP16 is the place where the world leaders will gather to decide the planet’s future in December 2010.

 

Thanks Carlos and Mirella, and all of you, volunteers in Rio and São Paulo. You have been wonderful.

 

Now time to get ready for Colombia.

 

Giulia

 

http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/giuliab/happy-birthday-chris/

 

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