After reading these posts I am getting more and more pissed off..It's a shame Coldplay didnt meet people's expectations..Complaining about the food,that they didnt make it special for you because thats what you expect from Coldplay..You didnt get anything less then what you were promised..

 

Sure it would have been nice to arrive on the boat with a beautiful buffet spread out and then the band coming out and singing a few new songs..But that's not what it was supposed to be

 

I have to say many of you sound like whiny babies..If you decided to travel 3000 miles for this,no one forced you to..No one promised a concert or meeting the band..

 

Aw, that's a bit unfair!

If you spend 500 dollars (could be more, I'm not really sure. :uhoh2:) only to get some sandwiches and be in a video, you'd feel a bit bummed too!

And yeah, I'm sure they're still happy and excited about being in the video, but in the long run Coldplay could have put a bit more effort into the whole ordeal.

After reading these posts I am getting more and more pissed off..It's a shame Coldplay didnt meet people's expectations..Complaining about the food,that they didnt make it special for you because thats what you expect from Coldplay..You didnt get anything less then what you were promised..

 

Sure it would have been nice to arrive on the boat with a beautiful buffet spread out and then the band coming out and singing a few new songs..But that's not what it was supposed to be

 

I have to say many of you sound like whiny babies..If you decided to travel 3000 miles for this,no one forced you to..No one promised a concert or meeting the band..

I think you're being harsh in your judgment, but I do agree that no one promised a meet and greet with the band or anything like that

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Aw, that's a bit unfair!

If you spend 500 dollars (could be more, I'm not really sure. :uhoh2:) only to get some sandwiches and be in a video, you'd feel a bit bummed too!

And yeah, I'm sure they're still happy and excited about being in the video, but in the long run Coldplay could have put a bit more effort into the whole ordeal.

 

Im older than most of you and I guess as you get older you learn not to expect,except from yourself..When you're younger, you would like all your expectations met,as I guess happened to a lot of people tonight...

Im older than most of you and I guess as you get older you learn not to expect,except from yourself..When you're younger, you would like all your expectations met,as I guess happened to a lot of people tonight...

 

I understand what mean, but imho they should have at least gotten what they were offered: a meet and greet

I must say that i feel a little bit dissapointed with what i've heard ( didnt go). I thought that they were giving them signed cds , and that they were going to meet coldplay members and all .

 

but GUESS WHAT ?

 

its all our fault :smug:

 

I mean just read the title and what they said . They never promised us with gifts (signed cds etc) they never said the band was going to be on the boat , or that they were doing a special gig , or whatever you imagined :angry:

 

okey , so yes , they didnt do the Q&A :rolleyes: but im sure it was a last minute thing and they didnt want that to happen. im like : should they have stopped the video shooting so that phil and roadies go to the boat to talk to you :confused: while them were waiting ?

 

if u look it from other perspective , not only you got the chance to go to a boat ride over the thames ( which i would love to do some day :( ) not only that , but you got the chance to hear Coldplay's next single before than all the people ( take not that 100 coldplayers + 10 people more know the song right now :D you should feel special :) ) but you also got the chance to be on a COLDPLAY VIDEO :wink3:

 

so , i think that coldplayers got their hopes and aspirations to high to this trip , and PROBABLY Coldplay.com announcing the new christmas single yesterday didnt help either.

 

Imagine that you went to the boat trip , and they announced that they were releasing a new single next week and that you were in the video ( they announce it on the boat ) and then coldplay.com confirming that the next day. YOU WOULD HAVE GONE CRAZY !

I understand what mean, but imho they should have at least gotten what they were offered: a meet and greet

 

WHEN ? when did they offered a meet and greet ? :shocked2: . Show me where in the official announcement they said that .

 

They didnt said , that's what people from coldplaying thought , and they were wrong :)

After reading these posts I am getting more and more pissed off..It's a shame Coldplay didnt meet people's expectations..Complaining about the food,that they didnt make it special for you because thats what you expect from Coldplay..You didnt get anything less then what you were promised..

 

Sure it would have been nice to arrive on the boat with a beautiful buffet spread out and then the band coming out and singing a few new songs..But that's not what it was supposed to be

 

I have to say many of you sound like whiny babies..If you decided to travel 3000 miles for this,no one forced you to..No one promised a concert or meeting the band..

 

Haha I didn't mean a full spread. I don't know if you were there, but it was biscuits and some sandwiches. I only expected more cause we had to be there at 5. It wasn't that I expected something special. It's just...I didn't know I should have eaten. That's certainly not even worthy mentioning in the scheme of my other complaints, but it's just true.

 

And we were told we'd meet Phil, Matt and...someone else. I forget the other. But Phil and Matt could have told us some really cool stuff. THAT IS WHAT I THOUGHT I SIGNED UP FOR. Why you might ask? Cause that's what I was told. If I was supposed to read "a few surprises" as "we won't do anything we've told you at all but the boat part", it would be different.

 

Meet and greet meant with Phil and Matt, not the band - at least not for me. I really do feel the band dropped the ball on this one. I think, even though we are fans, to ask everyone to drop their lives for this without giving us even a clue of what it would be was really presumptuous.

WHEN ? when did they offered a meet and greet ? :shocked2: . Show me where in the official announcement they said that .

 

They didnt said , that's what people from coldplaying thought , and they were wrong :)

 

We were told we'd meet Phil and Matt. You can check out the page. :)

Wow, I got back from Thanksgiving dinner and there are like a BILLION new posts?!?! WTF? What is up with all this back and forth banter?!

 

Ok, so I can understand how many might feel jilted by the fact the evening didn't apparently go according to what was initially planned on. However, this thing was last minute and obviously stuff could change. Personally, I missed out on this because I changed my plans to visit home from this week to xmas. I would have loved to have been there, even if I didn't know anything of what to expect. Just to be a part of something coldplay-related is pretty amazing.

 

By committing to go specifically for this event, you should have been prepared for anything and everything. Many of us don't know all the logistics involved in putting this together. It's easy to say they could have done more, but like many of you saying that those of us who didn't go weren't there and didn't experience it, you also don't know all the details in setting this whole thing up in order for you to be there! For all we know, it could have been a nightmare to set up, but they still took the time to do something for the fans.

 

Just be happy you got to do it. You were so lucky. Sorry, rant over...

We were told we'd meet Phil and Matt. You can check out the page. :)

 

i thought he was refering to the band :)

Awkward silence... :whistle:

 

LMAO

i thought he was refering to the band :)

 

She, and no, I meant Phil, Matt, and Matt. . . Sorry for the confusion by not specifying.

 

I didn't expect Coldplay to even be in the country

Just got home! I haven't got the time to read all the posts tonight, but some of the reaction on this page tells me (perhaps) a lot of what to expect.

 

I appreciate people's right to look at the evening very positively, with appearing in the video enough (thanks to Coldplay HQ) and seeing old and dear friends (thanks to ourselves!) enough for many. I hope people will respect my right to feel disappointed by almost everything at Coldplay HQ's end tonight (although they were absolutely incredible, lovely people as always), apart from hearing the song and the video appearance.

 

I can see why some didn't like the song especially, even if I did. I guess it depends on the style you like from the boys? Some people are biggest fans of Parachutes for example, and like that it certainly is not!! I thought it followed on very much from the Viva era-type songs and absolutely loved it just on second listen :heart: It's very commercial (in a Viva La Vida - the song - way) and if it's not number one this Christmas there's no justice in the world - it's the best Christmas song I've ever heard!!

 

The absolute highlight of the evening was meeting so many old friends again - you maybe cannot iamgine how happy I was to see so many of my oldest and greatest friends from here, as well as meet some very nice new folk :dance:

 

For that I'm so grateful that this event happened, because there is no chance that all of these people could have been brought together without the promise that the evening held (at least until the next UK arena/stadium gig ;))

Negative opinions follow - please DO NOT read if you don't want to feel the evening might have been a bit disappointing

 

I know that so many people spent a huge amount travelling from abroad for this, and I tried to be as positive as possible after I felt let down (about halfway through the evening). I only let on that I was 'a bit' disappointed to most people, and talk honestly to people who first said they felt the same way. I'm going to be critical of the night from here, so if you'd rather avoid reading something like that I'll say it again please skip it, and at least if you quote me to reply put this paragraph in there so people can do so. Folk spent fortunes to get here so I DO NOT want to get them thinking negatively about their experience.

 

I was so disappointed tonight, because of the promise vs. the reality.

 

+ We expected possibly to hear a new song - we got it!

 

+ Some people speculated the band could make the video on the boat - we got the next best thing (being in it!!) :)

 

+ We met Debs and she was as lovely and candid (as she could be), friendly and approachable :)

 

We were already messed about on the starting time, meaning my guest (and others) couldn't make it. But on the night, the party was cut short by 1hr30+ from what was said. Why?!! I'd spent all week setting up arrangements for the probability of missing my last train, I almost booked a hotel, thank goodness I didn't! There was a sense for me that, apart from karaoke (huge fun - why not more?) and the raffle (one signed item), there was no planning for any of the rest of the time. We had a lovely boat ride, but it seemed once the video was finished that was more or less the night over - apart from what we could make of it ourselves.

 

We were 'promised' a Q&A and meet-and-greet with Miller, Matt and Phil. I was more than happy if it had been 'just' that - of course that's a huge thing for us!! But it was just a 'trick' to get us on board :(

 

We were promised refreshments. Well, we had tea and coffee - if you wanted something else then you had to pay through the nose for it - and that was only once the bar had finally opened!! The budget for the boat and the video must have been quite a few thousands of pounds. Couldn't Coldplay HQ have put even £500 behind the bar, that at least would have been one or two drinks free each? I know some people spent double that on flights alone just to be there!!

 

It would have taken the band an hour or so to sign enough of one item for everyone to have one, but instead we got one raffled item. How about just a couple of guitar picks or a drumstick?

 

Small things could have turned the evening into an absolute triumph for everyone I'm sure.

 

No other specific complaints. The few Coldplay people there were just as lovely as could be, they always are :)

 

I know some of us expected too much. But many of us would have been more than happy with what we were offered - a party, with a meet-and-greet with Miller, Matt, and Phil, however short. We didn't get it.

 

I saw how deflated some people were who had come from just within England for this. To be fair some people honestly said that just being in the video was enough for them to justify the whole evening (but not many I chatted with).

 

A huge chance missed imo, at relatively little cost to Coldplay HQ. Thoroughly disappointed here. Meeting old friends made it a wonderful evening, but we could have done that in a pub or restaurant and had a lot more fun imvho.

 

I don't understand why we were misled so. They could have advertised it honestly the day before and got 100 screaming people on there for the video. People have hardly slept this week trying to make sure everyone who wanted to go was matched up and could. I feel like we've done what extras could have done, but for free.

 

I could start a poll asking 'was it worth missing more than 1hr30 of the advertised party, and a meet-and-greet with Matt, Phil and Miller, in return for being in the vid?' but I won't. I honestly do not wish to spread my extreme disappointment with the evening, and I hope people who felt it justified their time and expense don't read this, but I'm gutted.

 

I think the guy directing us on the boat said it best when he (inadvisedly imo) joked more or less 'and you probably thought you were getting a private gig with the band!' while we were absolutely freezing on the deck of the boat for the third or fourth time.

 

Lovely night - to see old friends, nice ride on the boat, probably appearing in a long shot in the video (of no interest to me whatsoever but will mean a lot to many) and meeting the lovely Coldplay HQ people.

 

Everything else - :(

 

 

 

 

Very honest in my opinion, I thank-you for expressing it the way you did for all of us who waited on the boards for some kind of updates. I don't agree with the fact you had to pay for drinks, that's crazy. I think the short notice, and from your description it wasn't thought out very well. There was 100 people, I don't understand why a goody bag couldn't have been given out for each, I mean when the band is at the Beehive and the many visitors lately, they seem very generous giving things to people.

I am glad everyone is in the Coldplay vid, I mean years from now, saying "Yeah, I was in a Coldplay Video" can be a good conversation starter.:)

...You didnt get anything less then what you were promised..

 

Sure it would have been nice to arrive on the boat with a beautiful buffet spread out and then the band coming out and singing a few new songs..But that's not what it was supposed to be

 

 

I haven't read many replies to my post (I don't much care, I was there and I know how I feel) but this is absolute nonsense from start to finish.

 

We got far less than we were promised (what it was supposed to be):

 

- no meet-and-greet or Q&A with Miller, Matt and Phil (many people spent many hours finding Matt's book in London to buy for a second time for him to sign, when they were already exhausted after sometimes days without proper sleep). We were 'tricked' (for some people that may be a good thing for the chance to be in the vid, for me and many others I spoke to it was extremely disappointing).

 

- no refreshments on the boat provided except for tea and coffee (which was obviously just to keep us warm for the video). The cups ran out before the many times we were asked to go and stand in the freezing cold again.

 

- We were told the party would end at 11:30 or later. Many people booked hotels or spent huge amounts of time trying to make other arrangements on that basis. Then after the video had been shot we were suddenly told it'd finish earlier (ended up being 1hr45mins~ earlier). My feeling was that we were only there for the long range video shot, and anything after was a bit of an afterthought. Sorry Coldplay, my time is worth more than that!

 

I don't know why I bother replying to you at all when you say 'You didnt get anything less then what you were promised..' Have you followed this thread? Bothered to read the first post with what Coldplay HQ offered? Realise why people spent huge amounts of money travelling to what was basically a video shoot in the freezing cold?

 

I don't think so.

 

The bottom line: if Coldplay HQ had explicitly invited us to a 'party' on a boat, a chance to be involved in something that doesn't involve the band directly, explained that whatever expense we went to plans might be changed at the very last minute meaning we couldn't actually attend, and that there would be limited tea and coffee and sandwiches only, how many people would they have got from here? Not many. It was sold as a huge reward to Coldplaying for the incredible years of support the forum (and mainly Ian and Jen, but also the incredible mods) have put in. I was there, and it was nothing of the sort.

 

They should have just hired extras (that would have been much more expensive for them, but do they really think that being on a long shot in a vid is worth people breaking their necks to travel, for example, from the US or Asia for???)

 

And can you explain why the director on the boat 'joked' that "I know you've all come here expecting a private gig from the band but this is it" (his words weren't exactly that but the same meaning) while we were freezing of cold for the third or fourth time? He knew why we were there and what we were dreaming of, what we'd almost been led to expect - they knew we went expecting more. Fine, not the band, just Miller and Phil and Matt would have been INCREDIBLE. Again, that is what we were told would happen. We were 'tricked' :(

 

 

Don't bother answering any questions - they are rhetorical.

 

I somewhat wish I'd withheld my consent form now (many of us finished signing after the filming). But I couldn't have done that to the lovely people from Coldplay HQ, or the band who were no doubt none the wiser, who came along - Debs chief among them.

 

For me just a very sorry set of arrangements :(

The boys have met hundreds, if not almost thousands of fans. How many can say that they were in a video? I'm not going to sit here and try convince anyone to change their opinion on the evening, but shit, we were in a coldplay video.

The boys have met hundreds, if not almost thousands of fans. How many can say that they were in a video? I'm not going to sit here and try convince anyone to change their opinion on the evening, but shit, we were in a coldplay video.

 

Agreed.

I totally get where those who are disappointed are coming from.

 

Sure, Coldplay HQ didnt promise a band meet-and-greet, but did they not specifically say they'd get to meet Phil, Matt and Miller? And from what I've read, they didn't show up either.

 

I get that Coldplay's a huge band, they were busy etc., but that should also mean they have more resources to at least given the fans something more than just a bitter aftertaste... Free drinks, perhaps? I dunno. Judging from what I've read, I would've been a bit disappointed, too. Would it have been too much for the band to at least stop by for a few minutes to say hi? Yeah, I know that's just expectations, but still. If the fans can spend hundreds of dollars to get there from halfway round the world, then the band could have at least made the night a bit more special for them... It's just... what's expected of them.

 

I'm still happy for everyone who took part though. I imagine it would've been a precious experience to meet people from here and to be immortalised in a Coldplay video. :)

I haven't read many replies to my post (I don't much care, I was there and I know how I feel) but this is absolute nonsense from start to finish.

 

We got far less than we were promised (what it was supposed to be):

 

- no meet-and-greet or Q&A with Miller, Matt and Phil (many people spent many hours finding Matt's book in London to buy for a second time for him to sign, when they were already exhausted after sometimes days without proper sleep). We were 'tricked' (for some people that may be a good thing for the chance to be in the vid, for me and many others I spoke to it was extremely disappointing).

 

Really? What could they have possibly told us that they wouldn't release to the public? Everything they would have said would just end up on this forum anyway.

 

- no refreshments on the boat provided except for tea and coffee (which was obviously just to keep us warm for the video). The cups ran out before the many times we were asked to go and stand in the freezing cold again.

 

You forgot the sandwiches! I ate probably 10+. :D

 

 

I don't know why I bother replying to you at all when you say 'You didnt get anything less then what you were promised..' Have you followed this thread? Bothered to read the first post with what Coldplay HQ offered? Realise why people spent huge amounts of money travelling to what was basically a video shoot in the freezing cold?

 

I don't think so.

 

Again, did people really spend the money for a Q+A with Phil, or because they assumed the band would be there...we need to be honest here.

 

The bottom line: if Coldplay HQ had explicitly invited us to a 'party' on a boat, a chance to be involved in something that doesn't involve the band directly, explained that whatever expense we went to plans might be changed at the very last minute meaning we couldn't actually attend, and that there would be limited tea and coffee and sandwiches only, how many people would they have got from here? Not many. They should have just hired extras (that would have been much more expensive for them, but do they really think that being on a long shot in a vid is worth people breaking their necks to travel, for example, from the US or Asia for???)

 

What an unfair description. How about, if Coldplay HQ had explicitly invited us to a VIDEO SHOOT for the band, a chance to be involved in COLDPLAY HISTORY, and that we would get the same refreshments than any group of extras in a VIDEO SHOOT would get, then I'm sure many people would have gone. Again, there were totally people there that followed their assumption that the band would make an appearance.

 

And can you explain why the director on the boat 'joked' that "I know you've all come here expecting a private gig from the band but this is it" while we were freezing of cold for the third or fourth time? They knew we went expecting more. Fine, not the band, just Miller and Phil and Matt would have been INCREDIBLE. Again, that is what we were promised. We were 'tricked' :(

 

What? He said "I know you were expecting a gig, but this is better, you are now immortalized in a Coldplay video for all of time"...and he was absolutely right.

 

Don't bother answering any questions - they are rhetorical.

 

I'm sorry, but I had to...

Chelsea met the whole band.

it's on her facebook.

I would have too if I'd stayed but I really had to catch my train.

ah well, I'm just happy I got to say 'hey' to Chris as he passed. :D

Im with Tonsu and I feel bad for the people that feel upset with how the evening turned out. I would feel exactly the same....like I'd been jipped.

The boys have met hundreds, if not almost thousands of fans. How many can say that they were in a video? I'm not going to sit here and try convince anyone to change their opinion on the evening, but shit, we were in a coldplay video.

 

 

THIS. SO MUCH.

Chelsea met the whole band.

it's on her facebook.

I would have too if I'd stayed but I really had to catch my train.

ah well, I'm just happy I got to say 'hey' to Chris as he passed. :D

 

You won the signed album, right?

You won the signed album, right?

 

I did.

it got back to my flat in one piece, you'll be glad to hear :P

You just got home to Southampton? OMG go to bed! It's nearly 4AM!!!

i think they make a mistake with timing.

 

Imagine them announcing that there is a new christmas single coming out next Wednesday and that they were going to be a part of the video . Plus that they were hearing it first. Personally i think people on that boat would have come much more excited.

 

And then the next day , maybe doing a proper announcment of the song , saying what it is and when it's released .