July 9, 201115 yr Scotsman: T in the Park review: Coldplay http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/T-in-the-Park-review.6798980.jp Coldplay Main stage ****/5 Any act following Beyonce Knowles onto the main stage at T in the Park on Saturday was going to have their work seriously cut out for them, so kudos to Chris Martin and co for giving it a go. The start they made was impressive, bucking the tradition of closing a festival with fireworks by sending multi-coloured rockets crackling through the air as they took to the stage, beginning with the hurtling, Arcade Fire-sounding Hurts Like Heaven and then the old fan favourite Yellow. The latter song was lit up by a red signal flare amidst the crowd, a new trend at Scottish gigs that's already earned perpetrators threats of expulsion at this year's T. What followed this opening was a set which, despite a healthy dose of Martin's customary earnestness, was pretty much a textbook example of how to work a festival crowd with a series of effortlessly affecting guitar anthems. Addressing the Beyonce issue early, Martin cheekily added the "to the left, to the left" lyric of her Irreplaceable to In My Place and warned "we don't really have her curves - we don't really have anything she's got, so you can go home if you want." Major Minus featured an arena-standard guitar line in the style of U2's The Edge from Jonny Buckland, Lost saw multicoloured balloons thrown into the crowd and The Scientist, featuring just Martin, his piano and the entire audience on backing vocals, had the singer bait the crowd's affections to perfection when he changed the song's lyric to "nobody said it was easy / I'm going to T in the Park." Every song was warmly familiar, from Shiver to God Put a Smile Upon Your Face to the heart-warming highlight Everything's Not Lost and the symphonic Viva La Vida, their welcome reception from the crowd topped off by Martin's proud introduction of bassist Guy Berryman as being "from Kirkcaldy, Fife."
July 9, 201115 yr Yet another fantastic show from the lads, the best version of GPASUYF that they've played yet. Looking forward to seeing you at Camden in 2 weeks time. Good set fella's!! Kris.W
July 9, 201115 yr Do they keep ketting better or do I keep forgetting how stunning they are? :o Thanks very much for the stream!
July 9, 201115 yr WOW Guy ended up ON TEARS! AMAZING PERFORMANCE COLDPLAY ROCKS AND KEEPS GETTING BETTER!!!
July 9, 201115 yr I like everything except fix you because it's not a song for the public but a song about personnal life... :( sorry but... :lol: Great show.But Not as good as Glaston because of the crowd.
July 9, 201115 yr Scotsman: T in the Park review: Coldplay[/size][/b] http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/T-in-the-Park-review.6798980.jp Coldplay Main stage *******/5 Any act following Beyonce Knowles onto the main stage at T in the Park on Saturday was going to have their work seriously cut out for them, so kudos to Chris Martin and co for giving it a go. The start they made was impressive, bucking the tradition of closing a festival with fireworks by sending multi-coloured rockets crackling through the air as they took to the stage, beginning with the hurtling, Arcade Fire-sounding Hurts Like Heaven and then the old fan favourite Yellow. The latter song was lit up by a red signal flare amidst the crowd, a new trend at Scottish gigs that's already earned perpetrators threats of expulsion at this year's T. What followed this opening was a set which, despite a healthy dose of Martin's customary earnestness, was pretty much a textbook example of how to work a festival crowd with a series of effortlessly affecting guitar anthems. Addressing the Beyonce issue early, Martin cheekily added the "to the left, to the left" lyric of her Irreplaceable to In My Place and warned "we don't really have her curves - we don't really have anything she's got, so you can go home if you want." Major Minus featured an arena-standard guitar line in the style of U2's The Edge from Jonny Buckland, Lost saw multicoloured balloons thrown into the crowd and The Scientist, featuring just Martin, his piano and the entire audience on backing vocals, had the singer bait the crowd's affections to perfection when he changed the song's lyric to "nobody said it was easy / I'm going to T in the Park." Every song was warmly familiar, from Shiver to God Put a Smile Upon Your Face to the heart-warming highlight Everything's Not Lost and the symphonic Viva La Vida, their welcome reception from the crowd topped off by Martin's proud introduction of bassist Guy Berryman as being "from Kirkcaldy, Fife." Which was Beyonce issue on stage that chris said To the left to the left?
July 9, 201115 yr ^ Beyonce went over her alloted time by 10 minutes, so the guys had to hurry to get all of their stuff set up
July 9, 201115 yr ^ I think no dont know but jonny played guitar awesomely! ---------------------------------- one comment. Awesome how Will sings more and more each gig. More backups,and sometimes more than just a back up voice. another comment " Shiver " was Twitter TT for a while today. So far Major Minus , Violet hill and Shiver were TT worldwide :D the other 2 during glaston gig...
July 9, 201115 yr They do. Chris went on his keyboard a bit late but you could hear a slight difference once he started.
July 10, 201115 yr Sorry if the stream was a bit crap tonight i was not around so could not keep an eye on it From what i heard there was a menu bar on the screen that didnt go but apart from that the stream should have been ok Hope you enjoyed I can replay it tomorrow night if need be without the menu bar
July 10, 201115 yr Sorry if the stream was a bit crap tonight i was not around so could not keep an eye on it From what i heard there was a menu bar on the screen that didnt go but apart from that the stream should have been ok Hope you enjoyed I can replay it tomorrow night if need be without the menu bar Sorry if I sounded like I was complaining. Not at all!! VERY grateful for the experience even if there were some technical issues. Sounds like it was my isp or computer. Thanks SO MUCH for sharing!!:)
July 10, 201115 yr We have the audio? Try MM. I only got one or two songs without glitches, and they're on one long file that has the whole show, so if people want them, I'll have some editing to do. :)
July 10, 201115 yr Author Too tired to function. I know you all saw it and yes it was awesome. 20x better than Main Square, it was a completely different band. Brilliant! As for T...think that's my first and last time there...
July 10, 201115 yr Ok. Just come in from a night out and I've now got the programme playing on my playstation 3 iplayer. Hope it's a good one!
July 10, 201115 yr Sorry if the stream was a bit crap tonight i was not around so could not keep an eye on it From what i heard there was a menu bar on the screen that didnt go but apart from that the stream should have been ok Hope you enjoyed I can replay it tomorrow night if need be without the menu bar It was great for me, so thank you for it. :)
July 10, 201115 yr Too tired to function. I know you all saw it and yes it was awesome. 20x better than Main Square, it was a completely different band. Brilliant! As for T...think that's my first and last time there... you went to both gigs,dont you?
July 10, 201115 yr multimedia update [thanks zzz] http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4869737#post4869737
July 10, 201115 yr Too tired to function. I know you all saw it and yes it was awesome. 20x better than Main Square, it was a completely different band. Brilliant! As for T...think that's my first and last time there... yay :D and that crowd did look rough :shocked2:
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