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[22-May-2012] Coldplay @ Stade Charles Herman, Nice, France


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This week deserves two blog posts just because of the fact that Jose and I took a whirlwind 24 hour trip to Nice to see Coldplay. Every step of the way I told myself we were crazy for doing it (particularly since I hate flying!) but it was well worth it. The stadium was packed with 45,000 fans and when they sang "Viva La Vida" you just couldn't help yourself but jump and down and act like a crazy 20 year old (which I'm soooo not!).

And "Fix You" literally brought tears to my eyes the minute Chris Martin started singing. What an amazing song to hear live!

I had wanted to see Coldplay since forever, one more scratched off the bucket list!

 

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The Scientist

 

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Viva La Vida/Charlie Brown

 

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In My Place

 

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Viva La Vida

 

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Charlie Brown

 

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Paradise

 

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Clocks

 

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MX/Hurts Like Heaven

 

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Hurts Like Heaven

 

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In My Place

 

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Nice, the city of energy!

Posted by Rachel Edwards

 

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I’m just sat on my tour case back stage in Nice as I write this. The band finished a few hours ago and the crew are packing up around me but I just needed to tell you guys about the volunteers and atmosphere tonight!

 

In the Europe dates Coldplay have increase the volume in so many ways. They now play stadium gigs which hold up to 60,000 people. Can you imagine what this sounds like when people sing viva la viva all together whilst they wait for Coldplay to start. It makes you smile no matter what mood you are in. Not even at a world cup football game would you get such an amount of people singing together at the same time.

 

Today I went out to meet the Nice volunteers, the volunteers today were very special as they had responded to an advert I’d put out to recruit campaigners in Nice. This was special for me as it was my first time recruiting people for the tour. At 3pm I went to meet them and I knew instantly we had a winning team as everyone knew the campaign and were excited to talk with Coldplay fans. From 5pm we starting to talk to the people of Nice, before long people started approaching us wanting to sign up with Oxfam. The energy for getting involved with our GROW campaign blew me away! By 9.30pm 500 people in the Coldplay crowd had joined our campaign and the new campaigners were full of energy and excitement. They fed me with their new French energy. I was so excited to see their energy and enthusiasm about campaigning with Oxfam and spending their time before the gig talking to others about the food system and making sure we fix it! The topic is something we have in common no matter what language you speak or country you reside in, everyone knows the food system is injustice and wants to do something about it! To celebrate this I even dressed as a carrot to attract people’s attention with my opening line “photo avec le carrot?” (my French is minimal, I apologise!).

 

As we packed up I hurried back to the tour case to pack my things as tonight was the night I was going to watch the band from the beginning with the lovely Nice volunteers! I went back stage to drop off the food costumes and as I walked back to watch the band they all appeared and walked on stage, in such a cool manner, they didn’t seem scared that 40,000 people were screaming for them. Even I was nervous, my heart was in my mouth. Then the music started and the fireworks lit up the sky. Wow, this is amazing, I’m in Nice where the sun had warmed the night and everyone was dancing to Coldplay! I was full of French energy the volunteers had given me and I couldn’t help it, I just started to dance! It was lush! Such a great end to an inspiring day of meeting new Oxfam volunteers and seeing them talk so confidently to others, with the people in Nice agreeing that we needed to ensure people didn’t go hungry!

 

So off to Turin, or by the time you read this we will already be there. I can’t wait to feed off the Oxfam Italia volunteer’s energy tomorrow! Merci beaucoup pour ces soir Nice, Au revoir, Rachel.

 

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Hurts Like Heaven

 

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In My Place

 

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Charlie Brown

 

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Clocks

 

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Fix You

 

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The Scientist

 

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Violet Hill

 

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Viva La Vida

 

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Charlie Brown

 

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Us Against The World

 

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Clocks

 

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ETIAW

 

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Last night in Nice

23 May 2012 6:03 pm

Another great panorama shot, this time for Monday's Nice show

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Good evening. As promised, Roadie #42 is going to be taking a panorama shot of the crowd shortly before stage time at each of the European stadium shows. Here's his amazing shot from last night's concert in Nice, France. Click the photo to see/save a full hi-res version.

 

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The Scientist

 

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Viva La Vida

 

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Paradise

 

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Have a good night :) which seat/place you got ?

When you watch the video you posted, I was on the right on the first floor of the balcony :D

 

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Posted by @ebolf on Twitter.

 

 

& I'm out! Nightnight! Looking forward to vids :)

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Thanks to Astrid on Twitter for these pics

 

VLV Live.

 

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Awesome piccies :D

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Lovely :dazzled:

 

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@coldplay hi guys! I'm in Nice and couldn't afford to come last night but i just wanted to say i'm a huge fan since 1994! You're genuises!!!

 

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1994? :facepalm:

 

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@coldplay erratum!!! 1996!!!! Sorry! I was too young in 1994!! Love you anyway xxx

 

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Hahahah OMG :o

 

Even in '96, she'd have pretty much had to be a UCL student, and Coldplay wasn't fully formed or named yet... :confused:

 

Love that pic!:D

LOL YES :laugh3:

 

 

Thank you for all the wonderful pics and vids :D

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MX/Hurts Like Heaven

 

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MX/Hurts Like Heaven/(part of) In My Place

 

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Princess Of China

 

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Up In Flames

 

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Viva La Vida

 

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MX/Hurts Like Heaven

 

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Viva La Vida

 

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EMLp_iy2lY[/ame]

 

Paradise

 

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Us Against The World

 

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Speed Of Sound

 

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Fix You

 

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Dont wanna kill the atmosphere :) But...i am always thinking when reading things like"it looks great...and so on" that theyre doing the same show,with the same effects and songs once more...except its in another city :\ i love them too,it just happens when i read that ;)

 

 

Judging by the ongoing things people post on twitter etc. so far this tour, I now think even less people in their audience are aware of what the set is going to be ahead of time than I previously thought. Witness the girl who asked oracle if they were going to play Yellow or Clocks;) (and that also applies to the people who think it wouldn't be a big deal if they dropped those songs)

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Ask why their setlist is as short and fixed ahah

 

 

They actually have been asked that before, and they have a standard response.

 

They've said many times that they prefer to establish a set they think is strong and stick to it.

 

If someone asks, that's all the satisfaction they're going to get.;)

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Chris really sounds weird on HLH,awful singing...like a bit drunken:confused:

 

 

It's really weird.:confused: At least it sounds like his voice was ok later in the gig, so whatever it was it's probably not too serious.

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I'm in this pic, covered from someone! :laugh3:

 

15 minutes to go. Nearly shaking of excitement! Kristal deserves it so much to be there :)

 

Oh GOD yes! Oh wow.. I am so excited for them all! :heart: Only one and a half weeks until I am there doing that too!

 

Awwwwwww :dazzled:

 

Well, apparently not the weather. It's been raining up til just before the show,lol.

 

Rain? It was really sunny during the queue

 

:-) thinking of little K.. do you think they'll do SoS next? :)

 

 

Nice is boring on twitter compared to Madrid :dozey:

 

The explanation is that we were mostly Italians so we can't use internet from ours phones

 

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If I would not be so small you would see me in this pic :laugh3:

 

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I can see myself and my boyfriend :lol:

 

 

I did take some pics, not so good but if you want to see them this is the link of the album on FB http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4063548629894.172754.1317598420&type=1&l=2d5d31ba1d

I hope you don't mind my tired face, 12 hours [plus 12 hours to return] of bus are not nice :laugh3:

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