[2-Jun-2012] Coldplay @ Emirates Stadium, London, UK

[bosly1]

I'm sorry if this has been answered before - please redrect me to the answer if it has.

 

Is the tour program the same as for the Arena tours in December? - I got one on 9th December - as I'm in GA Standing and if it is I can be free and not worry about looking after it tomorrow.

 

I didn't go to the European arena tour in December but I was at the Emirates show last night and bought a tour programme. It was multi- coloured on the front and said Mylo Xyloto on it.

[bosly1]

Can anyone tell me how much the tour tshirts & the tour books are? Thanks.

 

The tour books were quite expensive, they were £15

[conny]

did anyone collect tickets from the emirates? was just wondering what time it was open til and if they asked for photo id? thanks!

 

yes we did the friday. i bought them online from abroad, so had to show the print and my credit card where i purchaged the tickets with.

it openend at 1, but cause we had reserved seats we were late to pick them up.

[Jamesfish]

Well, let's go back 7 months ago, who thought Coldplays choice of London Stadium, would be Emirates Stadium. Not me. This is the best way Arsenal could have rewarded me after this season.

[Jamesfish]

See you all tomorrow evening. Let's attempt to enjoy ourselves and let our hair down, hopefully there may be a slight change in the setlist.

[Comicforce]

Can anyone tell me how much the tour tshirts & the tour books are? Thanks.

 

Added a few photos (not as good as all the ones already on here but it's more to look at :) )

 

 

 

 

(also, no idea how to do the fancy embed thing so the link will have to do...)

 

thanks for the photos, they are great. Particularly love your Warning sign shot. In the rain highlighted.. SUCH a perfect moment. I love it.

[kestrel]

http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s314/VolunteerRussia/Facebook/Coldplay/

 

There's a link to about 40 pics I took last night...most a little blurry I'm afraid.

 

Here's one of my favourite ones! :) ...action shot...

 

[Comicforce]

Hey Kestel.. looks like we were very close as you say.. :)

[Freeone5914]

Im going to see them June 23rd in Dallas and financially can only afford seats that are behind the stage. Does anyone know what the view is like from behind and if it's worth even getting tickets for behind the stage?

[Mon]

Here's some links to yellow I found on YouTube,

 

[ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNmhcLYe-mA]YouTube - Coldplay - Yellow - Live London Emirates 2nd June 2012[/ame]

 

 

[ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-ARXcIELs]YouTube - Coldplay Yellow (HD) @ Emirates Stadium, London 2 June '12[/ame]

 

 

 

The second one is better quality but only the first one has chris' dedication :)

[The Red Army]

Another review:

 

http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2012/06/03/coldplay-raise-the-bar-of-stadium-rock-shows-at-the-emirates-stadium-in-london/

 

All the reviews I have read from the MX Tour have been very positive and even the critics gave it high acclaim and praise. (the only exception being the Guardian review posted on the previous page)

[kestrel]

my attempt at a somewhat hazy review...now off to bed :)

 

I’ve been thinking of how to go about writing a review of yesterdays Coldplay gig...truth is I have no way of describing what I experienced. It sounds cheesy, but it’s really difficult to put it in words! I’m watching videos now of the show...fantastic. Today I am shattered – sore feet, legs, shoulders and no voice...lol...being 36 doesn’t help with that either! This was my first gig in 15 years! Between then and now I’ve had three children so there hasn’t been much of a chance. I actually only managed to get a ticket I could afford on Weds via eBay.

 

What to write first...the most awful journey home that took over 3 hours instead of 1, the pouring rain, freezing (and then briefly burning!) while waiting outside, the very rude ppl who tried to push in front of me, the very friendly (but somewhat unorganised) staff at Emirates, the smiley people I made friends with, the support (didn’t mind Rita Ora, could live without hearing Robyn again)...or to get straight to Coldplay! ;)

 

I got to Emirates sometime between 11 and 12 to find about 25ish ppl at my entrance. I had a standing ticket, but was still undecided about standing or getting a seat (opted to stand in the end). The wait till the doors opened wasn’t too bad, the run to the front of the stage was kind of funny...I ended up on Guy’s side a few rows back as that was closest to where I came in and after about 5 mins there was no chance of moving and it was a good spot :D ...

 

I think Coldplay started around 8.45...maybe a little bit late as it had started to rain a bit before, and they were wiping the instruments down with towels. The rain wasn’t too bad at first but pouring done by the end. It was still light, but it made no difference (to me anyway) and by the end it was really dark so the xylobands and fireworks looked amazing.

 

To be honest once CP were on I couldn’t tell you what they sang when or how hard it was raining, it felt like they were on stage for about 10 mins - it went by so fast! I couldn’t actually believe that Coldplay were right there in front of me...and with all the confetti, balloons, lights, lasers, fireworks, etc it was a little bit dream like!

 

It was all fantastic, the energy coming off the boys and esp. Chris dancing around like a maniac! Guy was in front of me most of the time looking very handsome :D ... I loved it all...Chris asking everyone to sing along, jumping with the crowd in time to Charlie Brown with all the xylobands glowing around me, singing along to Fix you was magical – Chris was just listening to us all singing at the end with his hand on his heart.

Yellow was beautiful - I phoned my daughter at this point and just held the phone up for her to hear :)...Warning Sign was unbelievable – with the rain pouring down and the boys all lit up. I’m not a huge fan of Paradise, but it sounded so good live with everyone joining in. The Viva la Vida chant with Chris shouting ‘louder, louder, louder’... I adored Lovers in Japan which is one of my favourite CP songs (even though I was getting whacked on the head with ppl trying to reach the balloons!)...the confetti cannons were going mad at this point!

 

Every song was wonderful; the whole thing was so much fun - from Chris singing a few lines from ‘singing in the rain’ to the boys having to start Speed of Sound over because Chris messed up. :D

 

If you’ve still got a gig to come you are soooo lucky. Enjoy every minute. I’d love to do it all over again...except the journey home ;)

[LINNEAH]

FANTASTIC CONCERT. After my first MX-gig I thought Vivatour was waaay better but after yesterday I changed my mind. Almost perfect setlist and such an amazing show. Didn't care about the rain until after the show and it seemed like Chris was gonna explode any second jumping around and doing his things making us happy more than ever, EVEN though it was mentioned he had a little cold :) I had a really really great time and I think it was my best concert so far.

 

BUT there is a buuttt and it's not Chris'....... saw some people mentioned the so called system at the arena, why open all the doors at the same time? The best thing would have been to have 2 or maxium 3 doors for standingtickets. When we got inside there were ~50 people or even more already inside and when we came to the arena just around 8am there was ~15 people queuing!! I hope the ones who got inside first of ALL really did wait for hours just like others. Luckily we managed to get to the fence and had a fantastic experience anyway, but still, I saw Comicforce mentioned it who was there 1 hour before us got 2nd row and it's so unfair, never been to a venue who organize so dumb.... :(

 

To end with something good... the best part was, Chris standing infront of where I stood (several times), looking at me who was crying tears of happiness more then ever before, pointing right at ME and waves with a look on his face like ah don't cry haha and my friend did capture it BUT she dropped her camera EXACT the moment he waved, so all you can see is his hand reaching out towards us and then floor and me screaming to death haha... still one of my best moments ever :')

 

Well, here's some photos, took around 1100 pictures and I'm not kidding, 10% are "good" ones though...... think I bring something else then my iPhone next time :p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(hmm after these pictures I wonder if it was Coldplay or Chris Martin's concert haha)

[conny]

first of my movies of second night: warning sign; filmed from 1th row X-stage

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uAJ9UW64aE]YouTube coldplay@emirates-warning sign 2-6-2012[/ame]

[FixYou*]

^ What a great video ! Thanks for sharing it. I also want to be front of the X Stage tomorrow.

[randomnames]

Not sure about the tour book as I had one from the O2 already, but the tshirts were £25

 

That is an expensive tshirt... wow.

[conny]

In my place, from 1 row X stage

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6GlI9ZfDgQ]YouTubeColdplay-In my place@emirates[/ame]

[conny]

Up in flames 1th row X stage

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAoAoV2xkXY]YouTube coldplay@emirates-Up in flames[/ame]

[bosly1]

Did anyone else think that both of the support acts were shit?

[BenSpeirs]

I liked Robyn! She was very frightening though aha.

[aprilshack]

I liked Robyn! She was very frightening though aha.

 

I have seen Robyn before & she was pretty good.I take it she has got even weirder?

[Comicforce]

Oh wow your photos are ALL way better than mine.. I love yours..

 

Fabulous reviews everyone.. I love how it's different for all of us, but still once we were inside it didn't matter that it rained or anything.. it was just perfect.

 

Here is my review..

 

Our day started at 4am when the alarm went off.

It was my son, Oliver’s 14th Birthday, and he was awake too! He’s a teenager, so you can imagine my surprise. But I think we were both quite excited.

 

Andy my husband, and I gave him his present, which was an apple iphone and shortly after we left for the station.

 

It was just getting light when we left. We parked our car at Osterley Tube station,and got a train directly to Arsenal Station, which is a mere five minute walk to the stadium. We found it pretty quickly, you can’t really hide a stadium! And after some minutes worked out where our queue station was.

 

My son and husband at the beginning of the queue..

 

 

We arrived at around 7am. Possibly just before. We wanted to be in the front row.

A couple of other people were already in our queue. We subsequently found out that they had been there since 4am that morning! That’s dedication for you!

Adjoining our queue, was queue R, and we discovered my friends from the Little Noises; Mich, Anna, Jo, Laura and Chelsea, who I hadn’t met before, were in the front of the queue there. We all re-introduced ourselves and I was pleased we would all be close by for the long wait.

 

The day went along without too much incident. I had brought far too much food and drink for the three of us, so I ended up attempting to give it away during the course of the day, sharing chocolate and cake and sausages to all comers!

 

It was supposed to be June, so we hadn’t worn winter clothes, but it was, quite frankly cold. Although I don’t think it was quite as cold as it had been in November.

 

I took a trip to MacDonalds to use the loo and stock up on coffee and to get warm, I also popped into the local Sainbsburys and bought us a picnic blanket to starve off hypothermia, whilst Andy and Oli sat in our ‘space’in the queue. Which was really just a place by the wall! A little later on two other girls joined our queue, and we all mostly intermingled with both queues, R and P.

 

Chelsea was also in our queue, which was handy as we could take it in turns to queue sit more frequently.

 

 

A short while later, the world famous Tash joined us, and I introduced myself to her. (she isn't a cyborg LOL).

 

Around Midday, they started sound checking whilst Chelsea, Tash and myself were over in MacDonalds, making use of their facilities. We could hear them quite clearly from what was around half a mile away. I wonder what it must be like to live around there and get a ‘free Coldplay soundtrack’ two nights in a row.

 

Lunchtime, and we broke out the meal, but I was getting a bit nervous and excited now, particularly hearing the sound check coming out of the stadium, and couldn’t really eat a lot. I did however make sure I drank, this time!

 

At around 1pm Oli and I went over to the merchandise stand and bought two t-shirts one for him and one for me, spent a small fortune again, but hey it’s Coldplay and it WAS Cold.. so we needed an extra layer.. honestly! :D

 

Shortly after I went for a walk and took some photos

 

 

Sad confetti in a puddle... from Friday night.

 

Just around then a miracle arrived, in the form of the SUN! At last.. we all started stripping off the many layers and feeling a lot more relaxed.

 

Us..

 

The people in front of us in the queue, two girls and a boy, who had been there since 4am, were getting out paints and making a banner, and then started painting themselves! Oli joined in and got some yellow paint on his face and arms as reward..I also got a yellow stripe across my nose! Very stylish!

The place started very quickly to fill up, the queues started snaking away into the distance and we started to get excited…

 

Then finally we went into the countdown for the beginning of the entrance. At this point the security started organising us into a line. We were all getting nervous, this was it!

 

At this point a man and woman attempted to join our queue from nowhere! They were attempting to push in basically. I told them that wasn’t on! The man just pointedly ignored me! I was getting quite irate, but nothing was happening, when another guy from a little further down the queue joined me, and then several others too! Sometimes people in England are just TOO polite, and maybe he hoped we’d all just let him in! But not in this case! We were all really shouting at him that it wasn’t on, we really had been there since 7am and so on.. but he JUST was not getting it, so rude and arrogant! We eventually had to get security involved and they made him leave and go down to the end of the queue! Huzzah!

 

Then we started to count down to 5pm.. only 10 hours queuing! Nothing

At this point a lady and her son joined the front of our queue, the lady was blind, so we were all happy because the security guy told us that he would let them in before everyone else. But what we didn’t realise is they were intent on letting them in BEFORE us, but at the same TIME as all the other queues, and holding our queue up! Nightmare!!

 

Consequently when we finally got to go in, racing down the stadium steps and round a corner to our chosen spot it was too late! I managed somehow to get second row, due to sprinting like a greyhound and passing people like Linford Christie, which is no mean feat at my age, and also managed to pull Andy and Oli in with me, they had got separated in the rush, and stopped from running by security! We were in.. sadly not the front as we had so desperately hoped, after our incredibly early start, but better than the back.

 

The support acts started on time. Rita Ora, was not really my cup of tea. Followed mostly on time by Robyn. I've not heard her before and I am afraid she reminded me of a slightly manic Christmas elf! :D :laugh3: But at least her dancing was amusing. But sadly the bass on both support acts was turned up SO high it was actually physically painful, it felt like someone was attempting to pop my eardrum using dustbin lids.. maybe it was our position, close to the amps, but it was so SO loud! So I spent most of their sets with my fingers in my ears and could barely even HEAR them sing above the ridiculously heavy bass.

 

Then the time we were waiting for arrived. 99 Problems started and we knew that the time was imminent, followed closely by the Back to the Future theme song… Excitement central! :dance:

 

Then the band came onto the stage. Amazing. I was again, after my Little Noises adventure, made forcefully aware of just how amazingly good looking they are. They look younger and thinner in real life, and it does take some adjusting to just how close they are. They are REALLY in front of you.

 

The stage is incredibly high, far above my head.. so we did have to crane our necks a bit to see anything. Also the gig was being filmed, maybe for Coldplay’s new DVD which is apparently being made, or maybe just for the big screens, so there was a camera RIGHT in front of where we stood, so every single time Chris stood at his microphone to play the guitar, I could only see half of him, so frustrating! Andy says he couldn’t see him at all, so I did better than he did! We could see the ramp to our left, but we were not in the front for that either, so it was hard, when you had tall people in front of you to see properly. I am 5’3, but apparently most of the rest of the audience is 7’12”, so I was a bit frustrated when someone pushed in front of me. But tried to get over it, after all I had spent 7 months waiting for this hour and a half.. nobody was going to spoil it for me now!

 

Then the gig started.. it was incredible..

 

This is my stream of consciousness to friends this morning..

 

My head aches, throat is sore, my legs hurt, my ears HURT.. The bass in the bloody strange support acts was so loud it physically hurt...

But all in all amazing.

 

Just want to state, in case none of you is aware.

Christopher Martin is THE best looking person on the planet. Period. :D

 

They came out and It took my breath away seriously.. He did one of his 1000 yard stares at our section..:o:o and I swear I was in direct eyeline.. LOL but it may have been my imagination, I was kind of buried in the ‘mosh pit’! Being short is SO not fun in there, but I did have a BRIGHT YELLOW stripe across my nose and under my eyes! A glow in the dark one! Courtesy of our fellow queuees.. Oli looked awesome! OMG a full bright yellow florescent hand print on his face, glow in the darkglasses and about 10 glowbands on his arms!

 

See R42 photo. Here. http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=972

 

The rain came down in BUCKETS.. We all got soaked to the skin, but it didn't matter

He dedicated yellow to 'My wife Gwyneth' ....

 

Other points.. we didn't see ANY Of the C stage stuff.. wrong side and too faraway buried into people.. so I watched it on the screens.. which were amazingly big.

 

High points.. Jumping to Charlie Brown.. balloons.. confetti... Warning sign.. Oh my.. that was beautiful.. then when they had finished, the others all went back to the main stage, but Chris stayed at the piano in the frankly power-shower like rain, and played.. I could see him lit up from behind with the rain coming down and bouncing off the piano, wow.. Heart exploding time.

 

Clocks!! Some of you know how I feel about this song.. but suffice it to say, it's probably one of my favourites! At the end when they go all bonkers.. Chris started wildly hitting the keys with the flats of his hands! LOL! hilarious but actually IN TUNE! HOW?! then he did the famous backwards fall off the stool.. They had turned the piano around during the C stage things, and now he was facing the piano our side, so we could see him better.

 

Other thoughts….Fix you.. Chris came down the ramp around parallel to us, dropped to his knees, opened his arms and we all sang to HIM… amazing, incredible.. probably the high point of the entire gig. But there were so many.. Paradise.. singing so loudly that I thought my head may come off! LOL.. Viva..Charlie Brown.. all amazing.. Jumping, the rain, the confetti on the floor, in my hair, in Olivers hoodie.. the mess of soggy confetti in the rain.. the glowbands.. the awesomeness.. apologies to anyone’s feet I trod on during the jumping.. !

 

Finally every tear drop… sung to the cascading heavens around us. Then the show was over.

 

We hung about a little to say goodbye to friends.. Laura got a pick and Tash got a set list. Sadly I lost everyone again after that, so I am sorry I would have loved to have said goodbye.

 

The place was a mess! COATED in discarded beer and soft drink bottles, not to mention the soggy, confetti draped over EVERYTHING! The poor crew started taking down kit whilst a virtual waa waa waterfall of water fell onto them from above.

 

Then it was time to leave, but as we were going, out onto the stage came Apple, Gwyneth and Moses, and a few other kids. They walked along to the middle of the Xstage.. stood for a bit talking, then Apple set off along the stage alone smiling shyly to people who were all taking her photo and gave us all a little wave. What a cutie she is, and so like her Dad.

 

Then we joined the almost zombie like train of people attempting to get home. London transport in it’s wisdom, (they said they had power issues) shut two tube stations, and we passed around three stations with queues longer than a mile to get into them!

 

We must have walked for around four miles before we found one we could use, I can’t even remember which one it was.. I was SO tired by then! Finally the long long train journey home and I fell asleep.. However the train got stuck at one stop, they gave some excuse, that my tired brain refuses to remember, but they left the doors open for what felt like ten minutes! It was freezing, especially as we were all soaked to the skin, so by the time we got back to our car, we were all shivering so much!

 

Finally home around 2am..

 

What a day… night and morning!

 

Next stop Holland! :lol:

 

a few photos.. So not very good compared to everyone elses..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thinking about all those people queueing up today.. the weather is even worse if possible...

[jeremyy]

lovely review Row, thanks :nice: I read it like I was watching a concert , I imagined every part of the concert :wacky: :wacky: I like your paintings on your face, it's a good way to get attention of Chris :charming: :charming:

[Philibob]

At this point a man and woman attempted to join our queue from nowhere! They were attempting to push in basically. I told them that wasn’t on! The man just pointedly ignored me! I was getting quite irate, but nothing was happening, when another guy from a little further down the queue joined me, and then several others too! Sometimes people in England are just TOO polite, and maybe he hoped we’d all just let him in! But not in this case! We were all really shouting at him that it wasn’t on, we really had been there since 7am and so on.. but he JUST was not getting it, so rude and arrogant! We eventually had to get security involved and they made him leave and go down to the end of the queue! Huzzah!

 

The queues did end up being a bit of a mess because there were no barriers. I only turned up a few hours before so there were probably about 30-40 people in front of me, the second the doors opened, the part of the queue that went back on itself decided to all move across and push in, so there was a crowd around the entrance and there were at least 100-150 that managed to get in at my entrance before I did which was a little annoying :( Still, managed to get a lot closer than I expected to with only turning up a few hours before so can't complain too much :)

[LdySpace]

Awesome review, Row!! Even through the hard parts, I know you relished in this whole experience and it will be something you will remember. I'm sure Oli will remember it! And it's nice to hear the confirmation that we all knew that Chris is INDEED the most handsome man in the world! :D