Cris - i just noticed the wordage on our siggy's are thinking alike!

 

That's true! I wish I could change it to tour dates near me but no success so far :(

can't wait to change my siggy too :lol:

There's been some talk about Guy's puppet.

Yeah, nobody thinks it looks like him, do they? That is absolutely fair. But it is supposed to be a caricature in a Punch and Judy style. And somehow I thought Guy, of all the band, looked most like Mr Punch. So I exaggerated it and gave him this massive hooked nose, weird eyes and a leering grin. I found it funny that we'd made the most good looking one the least good looking puppet.

The worst complement on Guy's looks EVER! :confused:

There's been a slight controversy over whether the man with the video camera swears. The BBC have said they can't put the LITii video on their website because he does.

Really? How funny! But, yes, he does swear. He says "effing 'ell".

That settles it then!!!

Cuz I thought he said "Fucking A" but that interjection isn't British! :P

What's about this swearing? Why are people like the BBC so upset about it? Is it not done in UK?

BBC seems very touchy to me

"So you met up with Phil?

I did. We had a chat and it sounded like they wanted something in the style of what I'd done before, with my kind of silly humour. They were originally going to release a song called Glass Of Water, so that was the one I came up with an idea for. But that idea turned out to be too expensive and would've involved the band, which was looking really tricky because they were on tour."

 

 

I knew it!!! lol it's too bad they were touring they should've released 'Glass of Water' as a single.

 

 

 

"There's been some talk about Guy's puppet.

Yeah, nobody thinks it looks like him, do they? That is absolutely fair. But it is supposed to be a caricature in a Punch and Judy style. And somehow I thought Guy, of all the band, looked most like Mr Punch. So I exaggerated it and gave him this massive hooked nose, weird eyes and a leering grin. I found it funny that we'd made the most good looking one the least good looking puppet."

 

Sorry for not being familiar with Punch and Judy , but it's just as he said: they were going for a bit of irony. Everyone knows Guy is the most handsome person in the band so they made his puppet the opposite.

 

 

"Who did the puppeteering?

These guys called Jonny and Will and a friend of theirs called Martin. And another friend of theirs whose name I can't remember.

 

Um, Guy?

Ha! No, it wasn't the band, despite the names."

 

Dammit!! lol I thought that would've been so cool...I think I even mentioned that way back

 

"Is there any reason Jonny isn't in the helicopter? If that was a Beatles video, people would think it meant he's dead or leaving the band, or something.

No, there was no meaning to that whatsoever. It's just that the helicopter was quite small inside and the puppets were quite big. We had to pull their legs off to get them into the helicopter and even then we could still only fit three in with the roadie. When we tried to put all four in, they were so crushed, they didn't look alive any more. So as it's only a very short shot, we thought nobody would notice if we left one out.

 

But why Jonny?

I think it was probably because he was the one that was flopping forward at the time, because he didn't have enough Blu-Tack on his torso. So I'm afraid I just pulled him out."

 

 

Aww poor Jonny....they should've had him riding on a rope ladder attached to the helicopter or something....you know, so that the rest of us wouldn't think he's missing! :P. I'm sorry but it's a little obvious he wasn't there...he's the only one with a hat!

 

Aww poor Jonny....they should've had him riding on a rope ladder attached to the helicopter or something....you know, so that the rest of us wouldn't think he's missing! :P. I'm sorry but it's a little obvious he wasn't there...he's the only one with a hat!

 

And he thought no one would notice it... :rolleyes: He doesn't know us!! :P

^Hehe :D

"There's been some talk about Guy's puppet.

Yeah, nobody thinks it looks like him, do they? That is absolutely fair. But it is supposed to be a caricature in a Punch and Judy style. And somehow I thought Guy, of all the band, looked most like Mr Punch. So I exaggerated it and gave him this massive hooked nose, weird eyes and a leering grin. I found it funny that we'd made the most good looking one the least good looking puppet."

 

 

 

:angry:

thats not a good excuse!

 

 

:P:P

hahaha, well. nice explanation. poor guy.. i wonder what he thinks of the puppet.

And he thought no one would notice it... :rolleyes: He doesn't know us!! :P

 

 

Preeecisely! :D

Roadie #42 - Blog #71

February 25, 2009 8:39 pm

#42's latest missive comes from a land down under

 

I hope you've packed your Sudoku, folks.

 

After the somewhat demanding past couple of weeks, we find ourselves staring down the barrel of a pretty extensive bit of travel to get down under. We're leaving London on Tuesday at 10pm and not arriving in Perth until 2am on Thursday. Now, even with a half hour to change planes in Singapore and a chunky time difference, there's time enough to twiddle your thumbs to stumps as the world slowly slips past below us.

 

Luckily for us, the springs on our body clocks pinged spectacularly out of place some days ago now. Time is now viewed through the hall-of-mirrors eyes of the truly knackered. I wander about dazed in London Heathrow and a familiar voice jolts me out of my bubble. It's Mr Berryman. I would have walked straight past him. He greets me with a warm smile and I explain that I'm slightly adrift, still a bit on the pooped side. He agrees and between us we try to work out what time it is where we're going. Guy's iPhone tells him around 6am. It feels much more like the middle of the night to me right now than it does the 8pm that the clock above us reads. Perhaps I'll be ok....

 

Not only are my mental and physical conditions beginning to appear well worn, so too are my travel accessories. My suitcase saw me right the way through the X&Y tour and really should have been retired after that. They're such uninteresting things to spend money on though, that I've been struggling on. It's pretty much had it now and no amount of black PVC tape is going to see it through. Every handle is one baggage handler away from being gone for good. Every zip has lost its tag and requires careful coaxing to open or close. I decide to take a look in the Duty Free shops for a bargain. Anyone else think six hundred and fifty quid for a bag is a bit much?

 

My passports are also almost at the end of their tether. I did say passports - it's perfectly legal to have two and also completely necessary. Whilst you're in one country using one, the other is often away having Visas installed and so on. The two that I have now both came into service when I started working for the band in 2002. One is now completely full, but cannot be replaced, as it holds my American Visa. The other, which I am travelling on today now has only two blank pages. My latest installation is a New Zealand visa and a letter from the Australian government letting me into the country.

 

On closer inspection, this folded computer printout is a Temporary Entertainment Visa (Subclass 420, no less). Apparently, I am to be granted entry as an entertainer, provided that I "not cease to undertake the activity in relation to which the visa was granted".

 

This would appear to be saying that I must be entertaining for the entirety of my three weeks in the country. They don't ask for much, do they? I'm going to be double knackered after this. I'm thinking that I'll have to get some kind of comedy mask, or some of those glasses with wobbly eyeballs on springs - if only so that I might get a chance to sleep...

 

The truth is though, that for all the travel, the jetlag and the missing home, I do utterly adore Australia. Visiting here is the best pot of gold at the end of a jetlagged and exhausted rainbow that there is. (With the obvious exception of home and the ones that you love.) I was last here when the X&Y tour finished. Myself and one of the world's most naturally gifted photographers (Miss Penny Howle) changed our flights back home from Tokyo and snuck down to Brisbane into a hired camper van for a month of waking up on the shore in Byron Bay and driving round the mountains up in Cairns. We both decided we could and probably should live here.

 

To be honest, I'm not sure why we don't....

 

Roadie #42

 

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=332

Loverly!

Aw, lets all have a whip-round and buy Roadie42 a new suitcase.... and a pair of wobbly eye glasses...;) Great blog - very entertaining.. :P

So did they take the VIVA plane down there or did they all go on different commercial flights??

 

 

...... snuck down to Brisbane into a hired camper van for a month of waking up on the shore in Byron Bay and driving round the mountains up in Cairns. We both decided we could and probably should live here.

 

To be honest, I'm not sure why we don't....

Roadie #42

 

done that ..... loved it!! I wanna live in Australia too ....

Aw, lets all have a whip-round and buy Roadie42 a new suitcase.:P

 

aaawww that would be cute :)

Visiting here is the best pot of gold at the end of a jetlagged and exhausted rainbow that there is. (

 

WOO-HOO!

That's what I'm talking about. :P

Even though he sounds dead tired, that was a lovely blog :nice:

Aw, lets all have a whip-round and buy Roadie42 a new suitcase.... and a pair of wobbly eye glasses...;) Great blog - very entertaining.. :P

We should totally do that :D

Even though he sounds dead tired, that was a lovely blog :nice:

 

We should totally do that :D

 

hehehe and someone can paint the Viva logo on the side :D

:lol:

all the comments about Oz on twitter and the blog make me wanna go back :cry:

Great blog! makes me want to go there!

So who is setting up the fundraiser to get roadie 42 a new suitcase? :D His blogs are probably the best thing on coldplay.com and this one was just as wonderful as always though I am a bit envious of their trip. I cannot wait to go to Australia one day...

Great idea, All of coldplay can live here!!

Guy has an iphone? I should ask him what apps he has! :idea2:

Phil has an iPhone*