know what we might be posting in this thread tomorrow? :wacky:

 

*shuts up with excitement*

 

[/dorky]

know what we might be posting in this thread tomorrow? :wacky:

 

*shuts up with excitement*

 

[/dorky]

 

When I saw the activity earlier today in this thread I was all excited!! :happy: :wacky:

Greetings from Osaka

February 15, 2009 11:01 pm

Wish you were here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is sooo Amelie!

 

cuuuuuuuttte :heart:

aww how cute! I want a Jonny puppet!!!! :D

Greetings from Osaka

February 15, 2009 11:01 pm

Wish you were here

 

this is sooo Amelie!

Awwwwwwwwwww you're right Lore :heart:

This blog is so cute :nice:

Coldplay's team is the best!

This post was cute indeed!! It reminds me of the 'travelling dwarf' from the french movie Amelie ^^

Just arrived in London and checked coldplay.com first thing... Those pics are so cute!!!

POSTCARDS UPDATE: http://coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=322

POSTCARDS UPDATE: http://coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=322

:dance:

Lore, you must be so happy now! big hug!

I am! I never thought this would become so big! :D

Watch Coldplay reading fans' postcards from away

February 16, 2009 3:07 pm

Video of the band checking out fans' postcards

 

Good afternoon. Just before Christmas, the fine folks at Coldplay fansite Coldplaying.com came up with the terrific idea of sending the band postcards from across the world. Hundreds of fans did just that. Below is Roadie #42's film of the band reading them at The Bakery a couple of weeks ago (soundtracked, of course, by the song which inspired the project, Postcards From Far Away).

 

http://www.coldplay.com/FlowPlayerDark.swf?config=%7Bembedded%3Atrue%2CautoPlay%3Afalse%2Cloop%3Afalse%2CplayList%3A%5B%7Burl%3A%27%7Be58631c2%2D9172%2D42f9%2D99c4%2D35b67d778d7e%7D%2F%7B48161d8e%2De446%2D4ed3%2D8d14%2Dd578c8e2fe30%7D%2FPostcards%27%7D%5D%2CstreamingServerURL%3A%27rtmp%3A%2F%2Ffl%2Einteroute%2Ecom%2Fstreamrt%27%7D

 

Anchorman

Amazing video!! ;)

Roadie #42 - Blog #69

February 17, 2009 9:19 am

Roadie #42 and the disappearing day

 

 

I've been robbed, readers.

 

Nothing's been taken from my luggage, nobody has held me up at gunpoint. I'm missing no money (apart from what I've wasted on room service - trampling another New Year's Resolution into the dirt). So, what's happened? Well, I've had 24 hours of my life whipped away from right under my nose. That's right, an entire day - stolen.

 

You see, following the Grammys, our schedule had two blank days before the first Japanese show. Granted, one was a travel day, but that still left a glorious day of recovery in Tokyo. As we leave the hotel at 9am for the flight out of LAX, I casually enquire as to the time difference between LA and Tokyo. "They're sixteen hours ahead". Slowly, the wheels whir in my head. "Wuh?? That means it's already tomorrow there, then?" ....and with that, the thief vanishes into the night.

 

Tokyo, as anyone will tell you, is an amazingly intense place. The sheer urban density is astounding. It's very much as though Manhattan, London and Berlin have been caught getting swallowed into a black hole and you've been dumped at a freeze frame just before the last suck gulps down the whole concrete lot for good.

 

Mix this in with the fact that the language is impenetrable, plus an alphabet that is quite simply the most baffling thing imaginable and you have a recipe for feeling upon arrival that you're not just in another country, but you've quite possibly landed on another planet. The woozy confusion of jetlag serves only to round things off with a nice dreamlike glow.

 

As well as the timezone-induced disorientation, our first gig days in Tokyo are the first ones back on the job for a while. It's a little strange to be standing under the stage in my familiar bunker again after a lengthy break. I know that I know what to do, but it's all coming a bit slower than it usually would...

 

The tiny crappy plastic keyboard that made its stage debut at the Neil Diamond tribute gig is clearly suffering from jetlag somewhat more seriously than the rest of us. It makes it to the first chorus of I'm A Believer in Tokyo before falling asleep. It turns up for the Osaka shows, but even the screams of fifteen thousand eager fans won't wake it from it's slumber. Lightweight...

 

Japanese shows tend to be early ones, which has been a blessing for a bunch of tired and dazed westerners. You have to love being back in the hotel for 8.30... The crowds too, have been a huge lift. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Japanese crowds have this reputation for being silently pin-drop polite which I just don't really see. I guess it's true that they do quieten down when the song starts, but in all other senses, they're one of the louder and more enthusiastic crowds on the planet. They're cheering and clapping along in time to the intro tape, they've got their arms in the air (quite literally like they just don't care) through In My Place and they go off in grand style for Viva.

 

 

In all honesty though, the entire Japanese run has passed in a hazy blur of feeling tired and not-quite-right for me. The Grammys certainly seems like a long time ago now, but I'm having a hard time recalling what went on in the days since. We're flying west now, back towards London. In amongst recovering from our third major timezone shift in ten days, we have a couple of rather heavy days coming up trying to get the band set up simultaneously at the Brit Awards and at a War Child charity show in Shepherd's Bush the same night. It's difficult not to wonder whether somewhere, someone is trying to break us. As ever though, when there's a challenge, everyone will rise to the occasion with only a modest portion of grumbling, bickering and moaning. And hey, there's a glorious few weeks of sunshine in Australia to look forward to...

 

Right then, it's 3.30pm where I've been, which means it's 6.30am where we're going. I might have a go at a couple more hours sleep.

 

R#42

 

http://coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=323

wow 16 hour time difference! That must be so tough. I can't even imagine :\

Approximate War Child show times

February 18, 2009 11:11 am

It's gonna be a late 'un

Good morning. For those of you off to the Killers/Coldplay show at Shepherd's Bush Empire after the Brits tonight, we wanted to give you a heads up that it's looking like being a late one. The Killers are due to go on first, sometime after 11pm, which means Coldplay are likely to be on sometime after midnight (the timings are quite loose at this point).

 

If you're going along, please be aware that the last tubes back into London are very likely to have departed before the show finishes. So, if you're using public transport, it's probably worth having a look at Transport For London's Journey Planner to figure out how you'll get home.

 

Anchorman

 

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=324&page=0

 

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Live updates from the Brits / War Child show

February 18, 2009 12:20 pm

All the latest from the awards and the gig

On another exciting day for Coldplay, both Phil Harvey (the band's fifth member) and Anchorman will be twittering updates from Earls Court and Shepherd's Bush Empire. You can read it all below...

http://twitter.com/coldplay

 

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=325&page=0

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=326

Roadie #42 - Blog #70

February 19, 2009 9:26 pm

#42 reports back from a magical night in London

 

Well bugger me - we made it!

 

Obviously, now it's done it seems like it was nothing, but going into it, it felt like there was a lot of potential for trainwreck. We've done a complete lap of the planet in just over a week, a bunch of awards show madness, a quick Japanese tour and topped it all off with a mad dash across town into a charity show, getting a whole gig's worth of gear set up in a matter of hours for an absolute belter of a night.

 

The Brits rehearsals pass in a blur. There's an eight hour gap between dress rehearsal and the show, so there's a move to bail for the hotel. I decide to wait for the second van and kill some time in the dressing room. On the drinks table is a brochure for a bunch of free spa treatments available in the backstage area. Now obviously, these are intended for pop superstars and not grimy roadies, but hell, the band left ages ago. I'm tempted by the spray tan purely for the comedy value, but eventually chicken out, settling instead for a neck and shoulders massage to chase away the long hauls.

 

After thirty minutes of having my spine re-arranged, I feel so relaxed I can barely stay awake long enough to get back to the hotel. I book an alarm call so I'm ready for the 6pm van back to the gig. Needless to say, I pick up and put down the phone and head back off into the land of nod. By sheer fluke I'm awakened by traffic noise and dive out the door into a cab.

 

The Brits performance goes pretty well, I think - not that I'd know, as from my spot I can just about see the back of Guy's bass rig and nothing else. The bass rig did very well though, I thought...

 

Time then to heave all the gear over to Shepherd's Bush. Out the back of Earls Court, U2's crew have kindly let us jump the queue and bring our truck in first. They even give us a hand loading it up - what wonderful gents.

 

So then, the Shepherd's Bush Empire show for War Child.

 

I haven't done a gig inside Shepherd's Bush Empire for years. Back when I was last in here, it was the biggest gig I'd ever done. Today though, it looks very small indeed. It's essentially a theatre. What could be more sensible then, than trying to cram two arena bands onto the tiny stage?

 

The Killers are first up and in perfect Vegas style, they have a wonderfully palm-tree laden stage set. I've never seen these guys live before and they are blindingly good. Indeed, when they steam into Somebody Told Me, the response from the crowd is so huge that it feels worryingly like our fellas' show will just be an after-thought.

 

As ever in situations like this, the setlist changes several times in the approach to showtime. Whilst the Killers are on, the tiny corridor beside the stage becomes our crew office as we pore over the current incarnation of the plan and work out just how we're going to make it work. Will passes through on his way for a watch of the Killers. He leans in to ask Bash a question (entirely unrelated to the gig) and in the belief that he's come with information on just what the hell might happen later, he's immediately surrounded by the entire crew, who crowd him like cattle round a farmer with a feed-bag. He's as non-plussed as the rest of us. We do know that the setlist we have in front of us has had Yellow and I'm A Believer dropped from it though.

 

The changeover actually goes very smoothly. Credit undoubtedly to The Killers' wonderful crew and the calm forethought of Kurt our stage manager. Pretty soon, the fellas are on and it's clear that it's going to be a special night.

 

Pretty soon too, the setlist is all but a memory. Chris shouts across the stage that they're going to do Yellow after all. To me, it makes sense. Just as the last time I worked on a gig here it was the biggest thing I'd done, so too did Coldplay play here in 2000 and I bet it felt huge to them back then. Almost a decade later here they are absolutely blowing the roof off the place with the same song.

 

 

The roof went on to go some distance further as the evening (or rather the morning, it being around 1am by this point) progressed. The encore began with a joyous and celebratory romp through Viva La Vida. The sound of a crowd roaring this back at the stage never fails to impress. There's something though, about the fact that in a venue this size you can actually see the whites of the eyes of the person furthest away from the stage that means that it feels like the biggest New Year's Eve singalong ever. Not bad for February, I guess.

 

Chris has promised the best encore of all time and his first weapon to back up those claims is Gary Barlow from Take That. The fellas have been dropping a short version of this into the live set for a while now, so it was pretty inevitable that they'd give this one a shot. The crowd greet Gary with a riotus reception and the party is into full swing. Jon Hopkins is at the piano and it's one big 1am drunken singalong.

 

 

 

The final blowout comes in the shape of the Killers' track All These Things That I've Done. Suddenly the stage is quite simply awash with folks. The Killers have come up and have plugged into Coldplay's gear, taken over the drumstool and the piano. Bono, from young Dublin hopefuls The U2s has nonchalantly walked on to deafening applause. Chris has dragged Gary Barlow back onstage. It's noisy, it's chaotic - in places, quite frankly it's a complete fucking mess, but this is exactly as it should be and it's completely excellent.

 

 

 

 

I remember weeks ago in the Bakery, Chris talking about doing this gig and mentioning the idea of inviting guests on for a big finale. "It'd be great to turn it into just one big ol' Brits party" he said. Well, they've not just had a party, they've had something to celebrate. It was an absolutely belting gig.

 

Roadie #42

I can see Kara and Lori in those pics! :D

Awesome pix :D

I saw Miller in two pix standing behind Guy :P

Jejejje, coldplayers made it into R#42's pics :P

 

As ever in situations like this, the setlist changes several times in the approach to showtime. Whilst the Killers are on, the tiny corridor beside the stage becomes our crew office as we pore over the current incarnation of the plan and work out just how we're going to make it work. Will passes through on his way for a watch of the Killers. He leans in to ask Bash a question (entirely unrelated to the gig) and in the belief that he's come with information on just what the hell might happen later, he's immediately surrounded by the entire crew, who crowd him like cattle round a farmer with a feed-bag. He's as non-plussed as the rest of us. We do know that the setlist we have in front of us has had Yellow and I'm A Believer dropped from it though.

 

Will :lol:

 

What song is I'm a Believer??? I don't have that one!

 

Ah, I just LOVE roadie 42's blogs :heart: And they become better and better. He's sweet :heart:

 

I can see Kara and Lori in those pics! :D

 

Where are they?

here is 5 of us :D

 

That is really great :dance:

 

Front row! :dance:

I can see myself as well :wacky:

I actually took a pic of Roadie #42 who was tacking a pic towards us, and he was right in front of me during the last song :lol: