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[19-Dec-2010] Crisis: Coldplay in Liverpool (ROYAL COURT THEATRE, 1 ROE ST, L1 1HL)

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Noémie

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Thanks for this amazing review Mich! :)

Nice pictures too.

Very funny how you 'ordered' them not to play on the X-Factor :D

 

So nice of them to let you enter for the soundcheck, obviously. :)

Anchorman said on the live blog that you were people who won VIP ticket auctions :D I guess this was not the exact story here :D

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Hi everybody!

I`m still speechless, it was unbelievable, amazing and everything, not sure I can write anything more, maybe when I get home.

Thank you to all fellow coldplayers whom I`ve met and who made the experience even better!

See you at next concerts!

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Massively delayed train so I've just quickly fired offthe second part, sorry if the spelling is dodgy, can't be arsed going back and checking, am tired man :P

 

So we made to go back outside again, we begged security to let us wait in the foyer :P But of course they said no, so they moved the queue that had formed whilst we were inside back (so we were at the front again, very important :P) and we had to face the bracing cold again. Chelsea arrived not long afterwards :D So we passed the remaining time chatting to her excitedly about the soundcheck and her crazy last minute adventure to Liverpool. They took for freaking ever to open the doors, we were all cold and as anyone who has ever been to a gig with me would recognise, my front row anxieties had kicked in :P

 

We were finally let in and we legged it and me, Als and Anna got a spot right in between Chris and Jonny, perfect :P We got chatting to the guys behind us, one of them is on here, Nathan42 and his friend, who were also on the boat trip. :D

 

The Choir with No Name were bizarre, but in a good way! They were singing their hearts out and you could tell they were absolutely thrilled to be there! I've got a video ofthem singing Poltik which was good. They also did a few Christmas songs which was nice :nice:

 

After they had finished there were some messages from Crisis and then the roadies started setting up, it seemed to be taking forever and they were well past the stage times they'd posted earlier on the blog, eventually someone came out with a megaphone and said they were having sound problems, it was then we noticed the roadies had stopped working. It was a bit :uhoh: for a while as nothing seemed to be happening, but thankfully the music started up again and the roadies scurried back into action. Phew!

 

Unfortunately this meant Peter Kay's 10 minute slot was reduced to only a few minutes, but he made a few funny Liverpool jokes and did this hilarious rendition of Good King Wenleslas with us where the top teir was woof, the middle was quack and we were moo :lol:

 

Finally it was time for Coldplay and they bounded onto the stage and launched into In My Place (lucky for them they opened with this, if they'd opened with LIT, Chris may have been surprised to see the anti X Factor girl jump on stage and scream change the effing setlist at him!! :P)

 

Chris messed up the end of IMP, he started it again, but then went off on a tangent about how if we were here to see the Panto that usually played in that theatre then we would be sorely disappointed and then just kind of gave up on the end of the song :lol:

 

Yellow was next, played with the usual gusto, great crowd sing along even at that early stage :D

 

Chris was busting out the moves during Lost :P Actually Jonny was too, he was proper shaking his thang whilst he playing the keyboard :P Chris came down the steps towards us during that song and me and Anna were holding our arms out, we had a running joke that since he'd touched them both at the soundcheck that he had created monsters and must do it again :P Obviously we didn't actually shout this at him. The security guards looked a bit worried when he came down actually as everyone went a bit mental and think they were worried they were actually gonna have to do some work :lol:

 

GPASYF was next, full version! :D I've missed the proper version. It was stonking! Chris let us clap the beat the the first verse and was impressed with our efforts. Jonny completely rocked out during the end too! He was really giving it some welly! He's more confident than ever!

 

CoL was next, excellent as usual followed by TROUBLE!! Ahhhh. Perfection. I can't remember exactly but he messed up somewhere and Will was giggling at him, Will acually spent most of the night giggling at Chris as he messed up quite a lot, he pulled it off though. The "they spun a web for me" singalong was loud and beautiful and Guy had a big smile on his face at the end.

 

I THINK GoW was next - I can't quite remember as they didn't follow the printed setlist. I remember Chris was sitting at the piano and turned to Jonny and mouthed "glass of Water?" Jonny looked confused and turned to Will who mimed drinking a glass of water :lol: Will was all about the miming yesterday :P

 

'Til Kingdom Come was next, people were shouting at Chris, two MEN shouted "I LOVE YOU CHRIS!!" at him :lol: He thanked the first and the second he said "oh if you got to know me you wouldn't love me, I have nothing but shit lyrics and no personality" :P Something else was shouted at him which he didn't understand and then he made some jokey comment about Coldplay being shit then back peddled and said something along the lines of "no no i didn't mean that, if there's anyone form radio 4 or journalists or FUCKING bloggers here I was joking, I do not thing Coldplay are shit, I think we're middling to average and have sold so many records thanks to our very handsome bass player and the ten year void in the charts when Take That were split up. Now they're back, we can't complete but goddam we'll keep fucking trying" :lol: Everyone was cracking up. He was on top, top, hilarious form.

 

TKC was beautiful, played acousticly with Will on piano and Guy on harmonica, Chris dedicated it to his dad :nice:

 

SHIVER follwed, Guy and Will left the stage and it was just Chris and Jonny as Guy left the stage Chris said loudly "oh you're going for a fag? Okay" :P Shiver with the two of them was beautiful. I was filming it but my memory card filled up halfway through :angry: Which is a pity cos I missed the best C&J moment ever, so good that me and Anna SQUEALED soooooooooooooooooooooooo loudly, they must have heard us and then collapsed in giggles as we were so embarrassed. I can't even explain it properly but Chris singing "from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep I'll be there by your side just you try and stop me" and gave Jonny SUCH a look. Haha. :shame: I think Denise filmed the whole thing so you'll know the moment when you see it cos you'll hear us screach!! :lol:

 

DAAHF followed, which I don't think he messed up, which is unusual as he always seems to mess that one up :P Then Clocks which was stonking as always and Viva which had an absolutely fantastic sing along that lasted way after the song finished :D I was so out of breath afterwards. Hard work :P

 

Fix you was next which Chris completely and utterly messed up and had to restart. During the middle section Jonny fest he picked up a mic stand and smashed it to smitherines...as you do :P And hilariously as he was finishing the song at his piano his microphone fell to the floor at Guy's feet. Chris and Guy peeled into laughter and Chris just held the last note until Guy placed it back on the stand :lol:

 

They went off, but Chris said they'd be back, the woah-oa-oahs started back up and everyone was clapping and stamping their feet :D

 

They launched into Politik which was absolutely blazing. Followed by The Scientist, which Chris managed to mess up so badly he put his head in his hands and was like "oh fucking hell, we're really trying!" he was giggling though. :lol: Also he spent the last two minutes of the song staring behind him at Jonny. Eyes on the job Chris! :lol:

 

He started playing Back for Good then stopped and said "what am I doing, I can't play this, if only we had a genie who would make the best song writer in Britain just appear from the wings" this was when Gary Barlow SHOULD have walked out but there was a slight delay :P Gary was on piano and singing and Chris sang beautiful backing vocals, we all sang along :D Bizzarly Peter Kay came back out and started throwing bags of crisps, sweets and BANANAS into the crowd :lol: Then he was playing Jonny's keyboard and singing along.

 

Finally it was Christmas Lights which was flawlessly performed complete with Elivises, Phil, Chris' dad and a third I couldn't place.

 

Perfect.

 

Also somewhere, I can't remember where, he started to play a new song and then stopped, all the guys were laughing at him as he must have got it so wrong, he said something like "the new music is atrocious and I can't even fucking play it!" :lol:

 

Oh and I've just remember Chris had all the teirs cheering, he gave the top teir 5, the middle 6 and us 7, then calculated the result (took him longer than maybe it should :P) he finally got the answer as 18 and was like "18? That means they were shit and wouldn't make it to the next round of X Factor :P So he made us do it again. He also called himself a Matt Cardle lookalike :P

 

It was honeslty by far the best I have ever, ever seen the boys play. They were on fire, even with all the mess ups it was absolutely stonking!!!

 

Videos and photos later today :)

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RedGirl76

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Can't really compete with that review from Mich!

 

Will try and put some thoughts together later, for now I will just agree with Mich (the Coldplaying Fairy Godmother :wink3:) that it was the best I've ever seen them: happy, confident, goofy, yet with rockstar swagger. The mistakes were dealt with in the sweetest, most charming manner and just added to the whole thing.

 

I think they all, but Chris in particular thrive off a small, intimate crowd, but perhaps Exeter was a little too small. I guess the audience was about double the size last night and it made all the difference.

 

But also it seemed they seemed really refreshed - the shackles of touring are off, there was no pressure to deliver new material - Chris announced early on that it would be "the greatest hits" last night, then joked "We've only got three so we'll be off in 10 minutes" :D

 

I feel so lucky to have been there - and actually glad that I'm an idiot who left her camera at work, it left me free to just enjoy. Although I'm aware that I enjoy other peoples posts from concerts so I tried to tweet during the show, I hope they somehow caught the atmosphere of the night.

 

When I came out, my initial reaction was "I might never go and see them again" It was so perfect, I doubt it could ever be topped. Of course, when the next tour comes round I'll forget about that. Then Mich will tell me what ridiculous time we're queuing and I'll forget that this morning my feet are still throbbing from yesterday. She's such a bad influence, that girl :p

 

Ok, that's enough from my tired brain now. Need food, painkillers, then more sleep....

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lndnsky

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SHIVER follwed, Guy and Will left the stage and it was just Chris and Jonny as Guy left the stage Chris said loudly "oh you're going for a fag? Okay" Shiver with the two of them was beautiful. I was filming it but my memory card filled up halfway through Which is a pity cos I missed the best C&J moment ever, so good that me and Anna SQUEALED soooooooooooooooooooooooo loudly, they must have heard us and then collapsed in giggles as we were so embarrassed. I can't even explain it properly but Chris singing "from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep I'll be there by your side just you try and stop me" and gave Jonny SUCH a look. Haha. I think Denise filmed the whole thing so you'll know the moment when you see it cos you'll hear us screach!!

hahaha that made me :lol:

So sad your memeory card was filled. But well you've seen the bect C&J moment live, and the rest of us will hope for someone's video. :D

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RedGirl76

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Mich, thank you so much for your review!! :hug:

You got us all very excited yesterday with your twitter updates! (so, how many new followers? :P)

Travel safe and good luck with work! :*

 

Alison, thank you for your review as well! :kiss:

 

Mich picked up about 30 new followers and I got nearly 20. Think lndnsky was promoting us heavily :laugh3:

 

They'll lose interest soon enough when they see how boring my life normally is :rolleyes:

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