[10-Dec-2011] Under 1 Roof charity show @ O2 Arena, London, UK

[scusi]

Brilliant, aww poor Will "nobody knows his name" :)

[Jenjie]

COLDPLAY 'CHRISTMAS LIGHTS' & 'LITTLE DRUMMER BOY' DUET w. ALAN PARTRIDGE @ O2 ARENA, LONDON 2011 - YouTube[/url]

 

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

that is amazing :)

 

Am utterly knackered. Two days of "working" for Coldplay doing wristbands has left me with a barely functioning left hand.

front row always comes with a price :p

 

Brilliant, aww poor Will "nobody knows his name" :)

 

I just liked the reference: coldplay's little drummer boy :D

[Mimixxx]

I'll do a proper review in a little bit :)

[loveintechnicolor]

Last night was absolutely incredible!! I had the time of my life, was such a brilliant gig :D Going to do a bit of a rantish review... sorry if I go on a bit :lol:

 

I didn't really know what to expect from this concert because I'd heard they hadn't managed to sell all the tickets and with the guys having played the o2 the previous night as well I thought that a good deal of the most enthusiastic and dedicated fans would have been at the Friday gig rather than this one as it was announced a while before the other one. I only ended up going to Under 1 Roof because I lost out on getting tickets to Friday night and bought standing tickets to this last minute. Not being a proper fan of Tinie Tempah or either of the comedians I wasn't sure what the crowd would be like in comparison to a full Coldplay concert. The last stadium gig I went to was Wembley and after that Exeter which was a surreal experience but completely different to seeing them in an arena where the guys are really most comfortable and in their element. However I was absolutely blown away by the audience... the atmosphere was AMAZING :D Tinie Tempah was a great warm up act, he had the crowd going mental during his set, everyone was raving to his hits. Was so funny when he got us all to crouch down low and then jump up and go crazy :lol: I wouldn't mind seeing him live again actually!

 

This was my first proper MX gig (was at Little Noise with Jonny and Chris a few weeks back). I was lucky enough to get 3rd row on the right side of the walkway (which gave me a great view of a very handsome and very smiley Guy :wacky:). I was even closer at Exeter given the smallness of that gig but this was my first time properly standing and the closest I've been at a stadium concert having had level 1 seating at Wembley. The enthusiasm of the crowd around me was what made the gig really... the people surrounding me were mainly my age or younger so a pretty young standing audience and everyone seemed to know all the lyrics to the new songs - nearly everyone was singing their hearts out to every song and being very enthusiastic. I was with a few true fangirls which was fun since it meant I could join in with the screaming and general craziness... as I am a bit of a not-so-secret Chris and Guy fangirl in particular :lol: Me and my brother managed to get filmed by the camera guy who was shooting the front of the crowd during Yellow. First time that's ever happened to me :D

 

It was really great being with so many real fans of the band - it sort of ruins a gig for me if I'm with people who can't be bothered to stand up or make much noise because I feel like I can't enjoy myself properly! When Will walked onto the runway to go to the B-stage to play Up In Flames people were shouting 'GO WILL' and 'YOU CAN DO IT' :wacky: And when Steve kept taking a dig at Coldplay by saying 'I'm a big fan of rock and roll - and Coldplay' we were booing and when he called Will 'the drummer' and declared nobody knows his name me and several others in front were shouting 'WILLLL. WE LOVE WILL' I hope he heard us from the back hehe :nice:

 

The bracelets work SO well in connecting the audience and getting everyone involved... I got very excited when we got to the front of the gates and saw the bags of them ready to be handed out. When the band came on to MX and they lit up everyone around me was screaming and squeeing in delight and looking around the stadium in awe... so great to see everyone so excited and with massive smiles on their faces... it really is a real spectacle and I saw Guy smiling and looking around in appreciation of it himself a few times. An amazing moment I'm going to remember for a very very long time :D When Hurts Like Heaven kicked in it was just absolutely euphoric :D Having watched all their summer festival gigs I've been so impatient to hear some of the new MX tracks live and they really are built for a stadium crowd. HLH, Charlie and ETIAW are such joyous poppy anthems and the bracelets just add to the whole experience. It was the most I've ever jumped up and down at a Coldplay gig, my legs are so sore today haha.

 

Chris was mental as per usual and made crazy eyes at us in the front several times :lol: He was performing all his ninja jump moves on the walkway and threw his guitar high in the air. You could tell he was kinda shy addressing the whole stadium when he came on to introduce the nights acts alone - bless him. :wacky: It was really really lovely how the founder of Kids Company came on before introducing Coldplay to talk about child poverty and thank everyone for spending their money on a great cause. She thanked Coldplay several times for making the evening possible as it was their idea - the reception they got from the crowd when she asked the audience to show their appreciation was fantastic, I felt so proud and lucky to be there and to be a fan of such a generous, humble and genuine band :nice:

 

Me and the others in the front were really annoyed when Steve Coogan came on and interrupted Christmas Lights! I was really quite sad they didn't get to play the whole song as I was so looking forward to hearing it live! :( I am not a Steve Coogan fan AT ALL :P It was obviously pre-rehearsed but Chris was such a good actor at pretending to be surprised/pissed off that I genuinely believed for a few seconds that he wasn't expecting it. I'm so gullible :lol: The banter that ensued between him and Chris was worth them not finishing it though - very funny and everyone was laughing at Steve teasing Chris about religion and commercialism. Everyone cheered loudly when Chris said f-f-f*** you :laugh3: Rob Brydon's duet with Chris on a White Christmas was great too and had everyone singing along :wacky:

 

All in all a wonderful gig even though I wished they'd stayed longer! I do agree with others that the release of the confetti for In My Place was a little random and the setlist for the two o2 nights could have included a few less greatest hits. I do hope that they are a bit bolder with the setlist for the summer UK stadium tour because as much as I love Yellow and Viva and Fix You etc. and they are a guaranteed great mass sing-along I think that because they insist on playing them at every concert their gigs end up feeling a little like a 'greatest hits' affair and I don't believe for a second that the real fans paying to see them on tour next year wouldn't be happy to hear other songs instead and more MX tracks. I was gutted they didn't play Daylight/What If/or Don't panic but was very happy to hear Up In Flames! Paradise live sounded a million times better than I thought it would - it's not my favourite track on MX by far and I thought I was pretty much sick of it but I love the strong baseline on the live version and it seems to be a real favourite with the crowd - especially the younger new generation of fans. Everyone got very excited when it started and loved singing along to all the Para-Paras :lol:

 

Legit saw Gwyneth, Apple and Moses backstage last night, Chris kept blowing them kisses from the edge of the stage awwww

20 hours ago

http://twitter.com/#!/heyneesam/status/145510589731577856

 

Molly Foy

@coldplay were absolutely amazing. Chris martin was insane and everyone else smashed it too! Can't believe gwyneth was right there as well..

11 hours ago

 

apparently the family was there yesterday!

 

I guess they were there both nights then! I saw on the Friday o2 thread that someone said they were really near Gwyneth and the kids and Phil Harvey and his wife. Chris kept going to the end of the right side of the stage last night and standing on top of the raised bit and I saw him waving to people somewhere high up in the stands several times - Guy kept looking over that way too and grinning but I couldn't see exactly who they were looking at! Pretty sure it was all their friends and family :nice:

[Stephie]

An evening of rock'n'roll...and Coldplay. :D

 

I'm glad I ended up buying the ticket for this. Sure, it was just a short performance and Tinie Tempah was a bit hard for me to endure (I however admired how he got the crowd going crazy), but after Friday night I was glad to have another evening of dancing and singing. And I love the wristbands so much! On both nights I was standing there like a kid with huge eyes and open mouth admiring the lights everywhere. It really gives a great feeling of unity and being part of something big.

 

I seemed to have been in the Tinie Tempah fan block and the guys right next to me were not very excited about Coldplay, so that was a bit disappointing, but it did not really lower my fun. Rob Brydon and Alan Partridge were a nice little added touch and the lady running the charity actually made me a little teary with her speech (or maybe it was the crazy outfit, she seemed to have adjusted well to the Mylo Xyloto theme :D). And I was really happy to hear 'Christmas Lights', or at least a part of it.

[lorraine74320]

COLDPLAY 'CHRISTMAS LIGHTS' & 'LITTLE DRUMMER BOY' DUET w. ALAN PARTRIDGE @ O2 ARENA, LONDON 2011 - YouTube[/url]

 

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

should be put out as a single for the charity ( made me cry )

[doritji]

Am utterly knackered. Two days of "working" for Coldplay doing wristbands has left me with a barely functioning left hand.

 

Awesome night though. Tonight was better than last night I think. Alan and Chris was amazing. :D

 

At what time does the crew come and ask you if you want to help them out counting wristbands?

 

I'm hoping they'll do it in Antwerp too, beats having to wait outside in the cold all day :p

[Mimixxx]

It's never the same time. On Friday it was 1.30pm, yesterday it was 11, I believe it was earlier in Glasgow.

 

You've basically got to be one of the first 15 in the queue.

[doritji]

It's never the same time. On Friday it was 1.30pm, yesterday it was 11, I believe it was earlier in Glasgow.

 

You've basically got to be one of the first 15 in the queue.

 

 

Well yeah I'm not gonna force it, but it's good to know the approximate time. Thanks for the information ! Must be hard counting 16000 wristbands :stunned:

[JillyBlue]

should be put out as a single for the charity ( made me cry )

 

I agree! This was wonderful!

[Mimixxx]

Well yeah I'm not gonna force it, but it's good to know the approximate time. Thanks for the information ! Must be hard counting 16000 wristbands :stunned:

 

Yeah, but I was just pointing out that even if you get there around the time they come out, if there's 15 people in front of you, you're not gonna get to do it, you know? So if you really want to, you need to be there early to ensure you're one of the first in line :)

[Dany93]

should be put out as a single for the charity ( made me cry )

 

I agree! This was wonderful!

 

Same here! I watched this, then I read Chris's tweet... And I did cry too :')

[teernabh5]

Obviously standing in the beat place to enjoy Coldplay. You may not quite be able to tel but that gwyneth paltrow

[Kroket]

Yeah, but I was just pointing out that even if you get there around the time they come out, if there's 15 people in front of you, you're not gonna get to do it, you know? So if you really want to, you need to be there early to ensure you're one of the first in line :)

I will be there early, but problem is: in Belgium there's never a real queue, so they can't properly tell who got there first. Hopefully the other people that came in later are honest and decent enough to let the right people in.

Maybe we could write numbers on our hands are so

[thierry_hhh]

white Christmas -

 

xmas lights/little drummer boy -

 

HLH -

[LauCH]

Did they play Life is for living? Do they still play it?

[Mimixxx]

Under 1 Roof, O2 Arena - review

 

(4/5 stars)

 

Coldplay do a lot of work for charity but don't like to talk about it - until now.

 

They broke cover with this music and comedy spectacular for Kids Company, which works with vulnerable children in London. The band have quietly supported the charity for years and donated £1 million in 2009 alone.

 

"Sixteen thousand people have gathered here because of the kindness of a man like Chris Martin," said charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh. The concert, which 500 Kids Company youngsters attended, will raise hundreds of thousands of pounds.

 

Soulful newcomer Emeli Sandé was received like an established artist while Tinie Tempah, a recent O2 headliner, was back with a confident performance including an incendiary Pass Out.

 

Steve Coogan, as Alan Partridge, described it as "an evening of rock and roll - and Coldplay," one of several jokes at their expense. Needless to say - to borrow a Partridge expression - they had the last laugh by making arena rock look easy.

 

The wristbands given to everyone in the audience suddenly began flashing in unison during the punchy opener Hurts Like Heaven and Martin was showered in confetti for In My Place.

 

The band decamped to the end of the ramp for the delicate Up In Flames and Martin remained at the piano for an unlikely duet of White Christmas with Rob Brydon.

 

Viva La Vida and Fix You were huge tunes befitting the biggest band in the world, although Martin's curious dancing resembled a man negotiating an invisible assault course.

 

Christmas Lights was interrupted by Partridge demanding something more upbeat -"which is difficult for Chris," he added. Their duet of Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy was a bizarre one-off.

 

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall, an explosion of light and pulsating rhythms, wrapped up this Christmas party, which raised loads of money for charity without resorting to celebrity posturing.

 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-24020447-under-1-roof-o2-arena---review.do

[Silvy14th]

My HD videos (from the first row) here: