Cutie :nice:

He thinks the best gigs were the Paris ones!! I agree, I was there!

OMGGGGGGGGGGG Their best concert was Paris Bercy!!! I WAS THERE on the 10th september (which was also my birthday) and it was really awesome!! Parisian crowd is difficult but that night, we were on fire and the 'Chris-balloon-incident' during the encore after greeting Jonny happy birthday was just priceless XD the guys were laughing big time on stage, it was a great moment ^^ I'm glad they feel our love!!

uh... so this soundcheck they did where they performed LiT II - anyone happen to get video? or audio?????

Yeahhhh Paris Bercy I was Here !!!!!!!! Thank U Chris !!!!

And " None more so than Guy, who now has somebody else to take photos of..." 42 :D I have pictures too but I'm not Guy :D !

Yeahhhh Paris Bercy I was Here !!!!!!!! Thank U Chris !!!!

Copine ^^ Ca fait plaisir de l'entendre dire ça, surtout qu'ils avaient de mauvais souvenirs de leur précédent passage sur Paris ^________^

Bah oui en même temps je crois que la foule de téléphones portables y est pour quelque chose !

Yes at the same time I think the crowd of mobile phones is for something, it was a really great gig !

Coupineuhh ^____^

Chris is very sweet :D

 

I love how he asks after Jonny's team too :nice:

 

Great interview :dance:

They're called Curzon Ashton.

Hang on, you're telling me they got beaten by Demi Moore's husband?!

i died laughing at this.

Although that would be a good double bill.

It would be a great double bill. And we wouldn't mind opening. I would also, funnily enough, open for Take That. We were in the dressing room yesterday and, for whatever reason, we started singing

Back For Good

 

 

. We sang the whole thing, word for word, with all the right chords on our piano, without having to learn it or anything. It was great. So I'd like to use this forum, the Coldplay website, to announce that if Take That want us to open for them, we'll do it. The only problem is that we'll have to get down the gym for a bit.

 

Oh.

My.

God.

 

Is it possible that I love them EVEN MORE NOW?!??!?!?

That whole "we couldn't get Knebworth, but we got the same place as Oasis" comment--would that imply that they're going to play Wembley? I mean, he also followed it up with a stadium reference, so that's sounding pretty likely to me at the moment.

 

How massive would that show be?

PLEASE do another UK leg in fall 2009 and/or winter 2010...PLEASE.

 

i would kill to see coldplay in england. it sounds like they're gearing up to hit the UK again anyway. i just (unrealistically) hope that they'll do it after septembder 2009.

Man, I love Chris' personality! :heart: I was cracking up, because of that interview. :lol:

Although that would be a good double bill.

It would be a great double bill. And we wouldn't mind opening. I would also, funnily enough, open for Take That. We were in the dressing room yesterday and, for whatever reason, we started singing Back For Good. We sang the whole thing, word for word, with all the right chords on our piano, without having to learn it or anything. It was great. So I'd like to use this forum, the Coldplay website, to announce that if Take That want us to open for them, we'll do it. The only problem is that we'll have to get down the gym for a bit.

 

 

That's hilarious.Can't believe they know the words.:laugh3:maybe they shouldn't brag about it

Roadie #42 - Blog #53

November 17, 2008 8:05 am

#42 and the exit strategy

 

I start the day in Minnesota by going to the wrong arena. I've left the hotel in search of breakfast and spot the Target Center where we played last time we were here. Although I'm not due in for a good while yet, I know that catering will be up, so I wander over. I spend a good couple of minutes explaining to the folks on the back door at the Target Center that I've left my laminate at the hotel before eventually realising I need to back up and ask a fundamental question. "Do Coldplay have a show here today?" "No sir, that is the Xcel Center," comes the reply. I thank them kindly and wander off looking for somewhere to get a coffee.

 

I turn around the next corner and bump into the first band I ever went on tour with. They have a show at a theatre here and their gear is being rolled off the back of the truck into the loading dock. I wander in to say hello and end up having my breakfast with them instead. Touring is excellent for the fact that not only do things like this happen out of the blue quite regularly but also, they seem completely normal until later. These are people I haven't worked with for over ten years and here we all are a few thousand miles from home having a catch up over coffee. If I'd have taken a left instead of a right out of the hotel, I'd never have even known they were in town.

 

It's another soundcheck party today and there's a bit of work to be done on the Prospekt's songs before the band arrive, so myself and soundman Dan Green head in early. When the soundcheck gets going, Chris notes that someone in the gathered crowd has two broken legs. It seems the least they can do to play a song for them, so Chris asks what they'd like to hear. The request comes up that they'd like "Parachutes". There has to be a gag somewhere in someone with two broken legs wanting a parachute, but I might have to get back to you on that. After Life In Technicolour II and Prospekt's March, Chris gets out the acoustic and gives Parachutes a go. I can't imagine when the last time he played it would be, but I'll wager it's been a few years at least. Wonder if it'll ever get played again?

 

The St Paul show is notable particularly for the return of the mobile phone glowsticks during the Viva Remix. Not seen that for ages and it always looks utterly utterly amazing. Lets hope it's making a comeback...

 

After the show, I make my way to the van for the runner. The band's vehicles are inside, close to the stage at the bottom of a ramp in the loading dock. The van I'm in is outside, so I head up the ramp and hear Jackie, (who is in charge of venue security) shouting up at the guy who controls the roller shutter. She's rather keen that the huge metal shutter go up so that the band's vehicles can get out. He seems to be cheerfully oblivious. She's shouting louder and the door is doing a lot of nothing. As I get closer, I begin to realise that it's not that he can't hear, rather that his key is having no effect. He's employing the age old technique of swearing rather colourfully at the key, but to no avail.

 

It's all rather excellent. The police car has started up outside, there are fifteen thousand or so folks streaming out of the venue. The band are in their vehicles inside and a man with a bit of a worn out key has ground everything to a halt. I decide that the most useful thing I can do at this point is get my video camera from the van and so head outside. Sadly, before I get back to record the chaos, the shutter groans into life and things continue as planned.

 

 

We arrive at our new hotel after a few hours' travel. We're staying at a rather posh 'resort' which means that it's not like a normal hotel where you walk in, get given your key and then walk to the lift (elevator). Here, somebody has to "meet us at the gate" and then we are escorted on by golf buggies. Things soon descend into a farce of driving back and forth trying to work out where exactly everyone is staying. The fact that everyone is half asleep means things are surreal enough. The fact that they keep referring to the blocks of accommodation as 'compounds' as the golf buggies swarm around like angry bees means that it feels a little as though we've landed in the middle of some weird religious cult run by the Banana Splits.

 

I think I may spend the day off keeping my head down...

 

Roadie #42

Holy shit that really great!!!

They are the best!!!!!!!! Such lovely fellows, so sweet! <<<<< that was cheesy

Hmm, so all it takes to get Chris to sing a song for you is two broken legs???:idea2:

 

 

 

:P

They should rename the band : The Care Bears!!! It was a really sweet gesture ^^

Roadie# 42 Rocks! oh yeah, so does Coldplay hehehehehe. i totally remember the show the Bananna Splits, that is insane

awww

note to self: brake leg before going to a coldplay concert. :lol:

"... it feels a little as though we've landed in the middle of some weird religious cult run by the Banana Splits.

 

I love the fact the Miller remembers who the Banana Splits were.

 

Classic!

check out this offer online, for those of you who want a song sung:

 

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"You'll be garunteed to get a song sung to you by Mr. Chris Martin"

For a limited time only (before Coldplay perform in your city)

check out this offer online, for those of you who want a song sung:

 

YELLOWTALK'S OFFICAL LEG BREAKER

50% of Leg Breaking Sale

 

GET IN QUICK FOR YOUR HOT, HOT LEG BREAKING SALE

I'll break your leg

 

"You'll be garunteed to get a song sung to you by Mr. Chris Martin"

For a limited time only (before Coldplay perform in your city)

:lol:

"The St Paul show is notable particularly for the return of the mobile phone glowsticks during the Viva Remix. Not seen that for ages and it always looks utterly utterly amazing. Lets hope it's making a comeback..."

 

That was brilliant! I wish that my camera battery hadn't died before then, it would've been awesome to get a video of it. I figured it couldn't be something unique to our show, but lo and behold it was. Fantastic. <3 Coldplay fans