Newsreel: Lost? video competition update

 

Newsreel: Lost? video competition update

October 22, 2008 12:32 pm

Entries beginning to flood in

 

Good afternoon. The entries for our Lost? video competition are beginning to arrive and the official Coldplay YouTube has now been updated with a playlist featuring some of the ones that have caught our eye so far. For information on how to enter, click here.

 

Just to clarify a few points which seem to have come up, your video should contain original material created by you and be soundtracked by the acoustic version of the track (which you can get from iTunes if you don't have it). Oh, and the prize is an all-expenses trip from anywhere in the world to see one of the London shows.

 

Anchorman

 

ps - this one's rather sweet, no?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cydhsGX7iw]YouTube - Coldplay LOST COMPETITION[/ame]

Newsreel: Lost? video competition update

 

Newsreel: Lost? video competition update

October 22, 2008 12:32 pm

Entries beginning to flood in

 

Good afternoon. The entries for our Lost? video competition are beginning to arrive and the official Coldplay YouTube has now been updated with a playlist featuring some of the ones that have caught our eye so far. For information on how to enter, click here.

 

Just to clarify a few points which seem to have come up, your video should contain original material created by you and be soundtracked by the acoustic version of the track (which you can get from iTunes if you don't have it). Oh, and the prize is an all-expenses trip from anywhere in the world to see one of the London shows.

 

Anchorman

 

ps - this one's rather sweet, no?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cydhsGX7iw]YouTube - Coldplay LOST COMPETITION[/ame]

I've noticed that a couple of them have titled it Lost! instead of Lost?

OMG they put mine!

 

JOYJOYJOYJOYJOY

It's really good!Nice job!

yaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!

 

:dance: R#42 42nd post!!!! :dance:

 

Roadie #42 - Blog #42

October 22, 2008 7:43 pm

In which Roadie #42 is too modest to celebrate reaching Blog #42

 

One by one, the band bound onto the stage for soundcheck in Ottawa. I don't use the word bound just because it's easy to type. Ten days of rest has recharged, re-invigorated and positively rebuilt everybody here. Jonny, in particular bounces onto the stage like a boxer entering the ring to claim his title. He's beaming widely and just as the others, has greetings and bear hugs for the crew sitting on the wings awaiting their arrival. We've been through the chaos of "birthing" the tour, we've been through the painstaking revisions and re-workings. We've had a wonderful, if slightly grueling European run. Now at last, you get the impression that everyone is settled. Problems that at first appeared insurmountable, if not completely solved are at least tamed. Folks who were once strangers are already feeling like old friends. Of course strange people are what a good crew is all about. Here's a lovely man named Maynard who keeps all the screens, drapes and backdrops rocking from day to day. He's not at all strange, he's lovely. He is however, having something of a bad hair day today after wrangling a bunch of fifty foot drapes.

 

 

I remember it dawning on me late on in the X&Y tour that for nearly a year, I had spent more time at the edge of the Coldplay stage than I had on the sofa in my own living room. Now don't get me wrong, there isn't a single person here who would trade this for the opportunity to be at home amongst their family and loved ones. What I'm saying is that it's all beginning to feel comfortable enough to genuinely start enjoying it now.

 

The first two shows bear this out, as the fellas dive into it at full pelt. I've seen them confident before, I've even seen them have nights of being "completely on fire". I wonder if what I'm seeing here is more aptly described as a band on top of their game? Knowing them as I do, and their complete refusal to settle for resting on their laurels, I expect they will push themselves further. However, right now, it's a consistently outstanding delivery night after night.

 

With shows pretty much right the way through until Christmas, I'd say that's a good place to be!

 

 

 

 

Edit: Oooh just beaten :D

:dance:

wild hair!

Edit: Oooh just beaten :D

 

sorry!!!! :embarassed:

 

but we can still have a R#42 party!!!!!!

 

:dance::dance:

 

Yay for #42. I've added our new roadie to the collection in our roadie thread :D

 

And I very much like this piccie.

 

:wacky: same here :wacky:

In which Roadie #42 is too modest to celebrate reaching Blog #42

 

Roadie #42 - Blog #42

October 22, 2008 7:43 pm

In which Roadie #42 is too modest to celebrate reaching Blog #42

 

One by one, the band bound onto the stage for soundcheck in Ottawa. I don't use the word bound just because it's easy to type. Ten days of rest has recharged, re-invigorated and positively rebuilt everybody here. Jonny, in particular bounces onto the stage like a boxer entering the ring to claim his title. He's beaming widely and just as the others, has greetings and bear hugs for the crew sitting on the wings awaiting their arrival. We've been through the chaos of "birthing" the tour, we've been through the painstaking revisions and re-workings. We've had a wonderful, if slightly grueling European run. Now at last, you get the impression that everyone is settled. Problems that at first appeared insurmountable, if not completely solved are at least tamed. Folks who were once strangers are already feeling like old friends. Of course strange people are what a good crew is all about. Here's a lovely man named Maynard who keeps all the screens, drapes and backdrops rocking from day to day. He's not at all strange, he's lovely. He is however, having something of a bad hair day today after wrangling a bunch of fifty foot drapes.

 

 

I remember it dawning on me late on in the X&Y tour that for nearly a year, I had spent more time at the edge of the Coldplay stage than I had on the sofa in my own living room. Now don't get me wrong, there isn't a single person here who would trade this for the opportunity to be at home amongst their family and loved ones. What I'm saying is that it's all beginning to feel comfortable enough to genuinely start enjoying it now.

 

The first two shows bear this out, as the fellas dive into it at full pelt. I've seen them confident before, I've even seen them have nights of being "completely on fire". I wonder if what I'm seeing here is more aptly described as a band on top of their game? Knowing them as I do, and their complete refusal to settle for resting on their laurels, I expect they will push themselves further. However, right now, it's a consistently outstanding delivery night after night.

 

With shows pretty much right the way through until Christmas, I'd say that's a good place to be!

 

 

 

 

 

Roadie #42.

sorry!!!! :embarassed:

 

but we can still have a R#42 party!!!!!!

 

:dance::dance:

 

 

That's okay, I don't mind :D :nice:

Chris' hair is going wild as well ! growing back fast :nice:

i love Roadie 42, i need some Chris Hair too

I was kind of thinking there would be something special for blog #42.... Oh well. Still a nice entry.

he was probably a bit too tired and jet-lagged to do something special......... :P

Sleepercar added to US support bill

 

Sleepercar added to US support bill

October 24, 2008 11:52 am

Alt-country dudes to play from Nov 3rd

 

Good morning. We're pleased to confirm that Jim Ward's alt-country dudes Sleepercar will be supporting Coldplay for all the US shows from 3rd November, with Jon Hopkins also supporting from 11th November. The supports for the upcoming gigs are thus as follows:

 

26th Oct - 1st Nov: Duffy

3rd Nov - 9th Nov: Sleepercar

11th Nov - 26th Nov: Jon Hopkins + Sleepercar

 

Click on the names to check out some tunes at their MySpaces.

 

Anchorman

Sleepercar added to US support bill

 

Sleepercar added to US support bill

October 24, 2008 11:52 am

Alt-country dudes to play from Nov 3rd

 

Good morning. We're pleased to confirm that Jim Ward's alt-country dudes Sleepercar will be supporting Coldplay for all the US shows from 3rd November, with Jon Hopkins also supporting from 11th November. The supports for the upcoming gigs are thus as follows:

 

26th Oct - 1st Nov: Duffy

3rd Nov - 9th Nov: Sleepercar

11th Nov - 26th Nov: Jon Hopkins + Sleepercar

 

Click on the names to check out some tunes at their MySpaces.

 

Anchorman

Roadie #42 - Blog #43

October 25, 2008 2:09 am

He's Mr Yahoo! 42

Just when it looked like we were going to be settled into a long run of arena shows, out of the left field somewhere comes a theatre show for an internet company! It's a Yahoo! session and we're at the Hammerstein Ballroom. It's a beautiful venue in Manhattan, literally around the corner from Madison Square Garden. It could easily have been a real nightmare trying to shift gears on the touring juggernaut like this. In reality, it's made very easy for us by the folks who've been putting this thing together. Obviously, we're not putting the arena production in. No balls, no lasers, no screens, just the band's gear - the Yahoo! folks are taking care of the rest. It's a simple setting, but it looks very classy.

 

 

For me, it's amazing to see how legitimate the idea of "internet music shows" have become. In recent memory, the experience of watching a "webcast" of a gig meant a video window not much larger than a postage stamp that mostly showed the word "buffering". At the gig, there would generally be a couple of guys with laptops and video cameras looking rather nervous, spending an awful lot of the day swearing at the screen and shaking their heads. Today, you wouldn't really know the difference between this and a full TV show. It's really only the live element of proceedings that's missing. In another ten years, when bandwidth finally allows us, I can't imagine any live event won't be shared around the world with whoever is interested. People will be sitting at bus-stops watching arenas full of people having the time of their lives. People will be social networked up around the globe, discussing and enthusing in real time as the set unfolds. People will probably be streaming it from their mobile phones and you'll be able to skip around the room from one fan to another to see who's got the best view. I wish the future would hurry up...

 

Meanwhile, here and now, the guys are giving Yellow a spanking. I wander out into the crowd for a look. I'm not sure if it's just me, but this song seems to have undergone something of a rebirth on this tour. It sounds very fresh, vibrant and alive. It's always been a crowd pleaser, plainly - but it's got a bouncing, grooving joy about it this time that I don't remember having seen for a very long time. Watching them crank it out in a tiny theatre such as this is doubly resonant, as the time when they were regularly playing venues this size was way back when this song was in its prime...

 

 

With the setlist finished, there is a short question and answer session to do. The questions here come from members of the audience. Topics are wide ranging and bring the best out of the fellas. It's often easy to forget that they are actually very funny blokes and today serves as a good reminder. It's been a top day, really. They (whoever they are) say that a change is as good as a rest and today has certainly been a most enjoyable stray off the regular touring treadmill. I'm not sure when this'll 'air' on Yahoo!, but I reckon it's worth a look for all you web-savvy Coldplayers.

 

 

Roadie #42

the last pic is so sweet!

web-savvy Coldplayers......are you talking to us :D

web-savvy coldplayers?

 

:cheesy:

 

i figure he doesn't mean us specifically, but :nice:

He's Mr Yahoo! 42

 

Roadie #42 - Blog #43

October 25, 2008 2:09 am

 

 

Just when it looked like we were going to be settled into a long run of arena shows, out of the left field somewhere comes a theatre show for an internet company! It's a Yahoo! session and we're at the Hammerstein Ballroom. It's a beautiful venue in Manhattan, literally around the corner from Madison Square Garden. It could easily have been a real nightmare trying to shift gears on the touring juggernaut like this. In reality, it's made very easy for us by the folks who've been putting this thing together. Obviously, we're not putting the arena production in. No balls, no lasers, no screens, just the band's gear - the Yahoo! folks are taking care of the rest. It's a simple setting, but it looks very classy.

 

 

For me, it's amazing to see how legitimate the idea of "internet music shows" have become. In recent memory, the experience of watching a "webcast" of a gig meant a video window not much larger than a postage stamp that mostly showed the word "buffering". At the gig, there would generally be a couple of guys with laptops and video cameras looking rather nervous, spending an awful lot of the day swearing at the screen and shaking their heads. Today, you wouldn't really know the difference between this and a full TV show. It's really only the live element of proceedings that's missing. In another ten years, when bandwidth finally allows us, I can't imagine any live event won't be shared around the world with whoever is interested. People will be sitting at bus-stops watching arenas full of people having the time of their lives. People will be social networked up around the globe, discussing and enthusing in real time as the set unfolds. People will probably be streaming it from their mobile phones and you'll be able to skip around the room from one fan to another to see who's got the best view. I wish the future would hurry up...

 

Meanwhile, here and now, the guys are giving Yellow a spanking. I wander out into the crowd for a look. I'm not sure if it's just me, but this song seems to have undergone something of a rebirth on this tour. It sounds very fresh, vibrant and alive. It's always been a crowd pleaser, plainly - but it's got a bouncing, grooving joy about it this time that I don't remember having seen for a very long time. Watching them crank it out in a tiny theatre such as this is doubly resonant, as the time when they were regularly playing venues this size was way back when this song was in its prime...

 

 

With the setlist finished, there is a short question and answer session to do. The questions here come from members of the audience. Topics are wide ranging and bring the best out of the fellas. It's often easy to forget that they are actually very funny blokes and today serves as a good reminder. It's been a top day, really. They (whoever they are) say that a change is as good as a rest and today has certainly been a most enjoyable stray off the regular touring treadmill. I'm not sure when this'll 'air' on Yahoo!, but I reckon it's worth a look for all you web-savvy Coldplayers.

 

 

Roadie #42