[4-Aug-2012] Coldplay @ Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ, USA

[coldplayman89]

[Texasluvsjonny]

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[coldplayman89]

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[KristenCaNaDiAn]

By far and away another amazing night. i went to both shows, and for both shows was upgraded to the second row from the stage! my group even got lucky and were right near Jonny this time instead of Guy. making eye contact with Chris is amazing, he definitely recognized my group again (we're all 6'3'' and taller) so we stand out. the amount of energy that Chris puts into his craft is really quite amazing. these two nights were the best of my life

 

Congrats!! :D

[ichrek]

I wonder what happened to that Mylo doll ...?

[Texasluvsjonny]

Got into Jersey Saturday afternoon. Christa came to pick me up from the airport. She texted me she was waiting outside while I waited on my luggage. Then she texted back the cops were making her circle back around. So I get my stuff and wait outside.

Then I see her passing by out on some outer loop road waving like a mad woman. :laugh3: OMG she missed the turn and was stuck on some loop from hell. :P

 

She finally finds her way back and we go over to check into my hotel. I tell her the hotel name and she puts it in her GPS. When we get close the GPS says turn right and she does and she says something about there being 2 buildings but I didn't really know what she meant. I go to check in and room isn't ready yet so hotel offers to store my luggage while we go eat. On way bad from lunch I see MY hotel across street from the hotel we went to. OMG CHRISTA! We went to the wrong hotel. AND now we have to look really stoopid by having to go back in a retrieve my stuff. :dunce: :laugh3: Finally get hotel sorted and we rest up for show.

 

Got to venue around 6pm. On way to seats saw Dan Green and talked with him. Told him Christa is world's biggest Warning Sign fan. He said I hope they play it then. I told him to get over there and fix that set list! :laugh3: If Chris trys to play something else to cut off the sound! :P

I asked him what the plans were after the scheduled tour was over. He said that was it for the tour as far as he knew. Where they going back into studio? silence.........:thinking: Are we gonna get that acoustic LP Chris keeps talking about?..........It's pretty much finished. They shelved it for MX. It has some of MX songs on it. Like Charlie Brown. ACOUSTIC CHARLIE BROWN!... I WANT!. Give me that record Christopher Martin! :angry:

Dan: What show is this for you?

Me: #44

Dan: :lol:

Me: I'll see you guys next week in Chicago

Dan: Really, which show?

Me: :dozey: Come on, you know I'm going to both! I can't believe you even asked me that!

Dan: Of course, what was I thinking! :laugh3:

 

Seats were :awesome: About the middle of the X stage on Jonny's side. Seats were 3&4 but the kids in 1&2 stayed out on the rail all night so we had plenty of room to move around. When they came out to the X stage I grabbed Christa and pushed her out against the rail and they played it. Warning Sign just s few feet away from her! It was so beautiful. I asked her if she could see Chris during the song, she said sometimes, he was hidden behind Will's butt. Now that's a terrible problem to have. :sneaky: Best night eva!

 

On to Chicago and #45 & #46

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Texasluvsjonny]

I am an artist. I shoot artistic videos with artistic titles. :snobby:

 

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[halokiti]

Had a great time last night, my aisle seats were in 3rd row of 107 section by the left side of the ramp stage. Also in my section, a rotund middle-aged Italian that really loved to interpretive dance. He really really loves "Yellow" and he only fell on the stairs once. lol. Took forever to get home by public transportation, Izod Center is disorganized.

[butterflygirl]

^^ I'm so glad they played Warning Sign!

 

I can't tell you love Jonny either! :sneaky: Great pics!!!

[Christa42]

OMG I was not ready for my Closeup!! and how sweaty I am :P my pics [pivd and review coming up but basically I died and went to heaven hearing my favorite song in the worlld and I now I have to change my siggy hehehe We had the time of our lives and so glad I was with Miss Angie and I do have a lot of Will Arse shots

[coldplayisawesome]

storytelling time! :awesome:

i wrote this this morning, so the last line is not exactly true anymore. my muscles are more cooperative and i'm starting to get my voice back. :P

 

 

 

My sister Liv and I got to the venue maybe a little under an hour or so before doors opened. Liv wanted to look at the merch they were selling just outside, so we went to look and both ended up buying $40 shirts. :P I also bought the tour program, which is beautiful. :blush: Anyway, then we went to wait for the doors to open. When they finally did, and we walked into the venue, the guy handing out the Xylobands on my side had a yellow one with the blue casing sort of thing on it, and I thought to myself THAT ONE IS MINE. So I asked him if I could have that one, and he seemed indifferent, but gave me it anyway. :P

 

That pretty much made my night right there... if I had left that venue only having gotten the exact Xyloband I wanted, I would have been happy. But this was just the beginning. Liv and I went in and bought a few more things from another merch stand (a nice poster and 3 really overpriced and cheaply made pins), had our pictures taken by some Oxfam volunteers (who gave us another pin for free, which in my opinion looks better made than the Coldplay ones, but anyway), and then headed to the bathroom so that Liv could change into the shirt she bought.

 

When she was done, we went to go find the section we were seated at, only to find that several cases for the C-stage equipment were sitting up against the wall between the two staircases. There were a few other people taking pictures, so we waited until they were done and then got a few pictures ourselves. It was at this point that I was recognized for the first time! A nice lady came up to me and asked if I was the one who posted about the Mylo doll on Coldplaying, to which I said yes. And then we started talking a little bit, but she never did give me her name. Anyway, nice lady, if you are reading this, hello, and I hope you were successful in trying to catch the band running to get to the C-stage! :P

 

After that we went up the staircase to see where exactly we would be seated. The venue didn't seem that big at all, so even though we were in the upper level, the stage still looked pretty close. The Coldplay boys might not have looked like ants from there.

 

But we never actually sat down. The upper level seats were quite high up; Liv has a terrible fear of heights, and I have to admit that at first even I was feeling a little woozy at the way the seats were set up. It probably would have been fine, but we still decided to go back into the little hall where all the vendors were – mostly because I knew roadies would be walking around giving out upgrades.

 

So we stood near the C-stage equipment and waited. I saw a bunch of Izod Center people walking around, but no one who looked like they were with the band. We waited, and after a while we decided it might be best to just go back to our seats. But Liv had to go to the bathroom again, and so she went in and I waited outside for her, which is when this one guy walked past me and my Mylo doll, then did sort of a double-take and walked over to me. He asked me about the doll, about the comic, about who I was with and where we were sitting. He said, “As soon as your sister comes back out, we'll talk some more,” and showed me his little Coldplay badge thing, to which I replied, “Yeah, I know who you are.” :P So then he asked me about that, how I knew about the upgrading stuff, and I told him I went on Coldplaying all the time, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, Liv came back out not long after, and this guy, who introduced himself as Brad but who I will probably refer to for a while as THE GREATEST DUDE EVER, exchanged our upper level seats for two FRONT ROW SEATS. Section 9, Row A, seats 3 and 4, so we were on Jonny's side. If I hadn't been shaking already, I was definitely shaking at this point.

 

We had to do quite a bit of traveling around the place to find out exactly where we were supposed to be seated, but eventually we did manage. And we were so close...

 

Brad had told us that he'd just upgraded two other guys, one of whom had already attended over 50 Coldplay concerts. This turned out to be, if I'm remembering names correctly, Jimmy (who was also the second person to recognize me from Coldplaying because of the doll), and his friend Hal. They had really awesome light-up shirts with pins that spelled out Coldplay. Very cool.

 

We all talked for a bit, Liv and I freaked out about being so close, and eventually the first opening act came on, Emeli Sande. MAN can that woman sing! I didn't realize it until she was halfway through singing Next To Me, the last song of her setlist, but they used to play that song on the TVs at my work. Anyway, she was really talented, and even though she didn't do a lot of dancing or anything like that, she put a lot of effort into her singing, which I thought was awesome.

 

Then more waiting until Marina and the Diamonds came on. I liked the music, and I think this Marina girl has some talent and is definitely charming, but I didn't really care for the way she presented herself. I don't know how to explain it, but she didn't seem too genuine to me. In any case, she and the rest of the band were all very relaxed and mellow except for the drummer, who was beating those drums like his name was Will Champion. :P

 

And then the final waiting, which felt like it dragged on FOREVER. We watched the roadies do their thing, watched Miller finally come out to take the pictures for the panoramic. 99 Problems came on and then we started to get REALLY EXCITED. Then the Back to the Future theme came on and I thought I was never going to stop hyperventilating. Before I knew it, the band were on stage, right there, living, breathing, before my very eyes and some of them only about ten feet away. I jumped and screamed and belted my heart out the entire time. I can remember lots of little moments from the performance, but it's difficult now to recall during which songs they happened. In any case, I will just sort of list them I guess.

 

The first thing I will talk about is when Chris changed his shirt right on stage, because WOW. OK, so he was hiding over by Will, but I could still see his back perfectly from where I was standing, and the man has such beautiful shoulder blades, geeeeeez. I may love Coldplay more for their music, but I'm not going to deny that they ALL have rockin' bodies. And I don't know if it's just me, but they all look much skinnier in real life??? Like, Chris's biceps didn't look like cinder blocks from that close. :P

 

OK, on to the next thing. There was much Buckin Love going on, almost like they KNEW I was there. Chris was very smiley the whole concert, which was great, and there was one time I caught him groping Jonny, but he also sort of groped Guy and I think perhaps at one point actually grabbed Guy's butt? It was hard to see that side of the stage at times, and I glanced over very quickly to see Chris's hand down near that general area, but I wouldn't put it past him to do that. :P

 

At the beginning of Fix You, I looked up at Jonny and saw that he was smiling for EVER. Liv and I wondered who he was smiling at, so we looked over and saw, standing off to the side in between the barrier and the stage, a woman who I believe was the lovely Chloe. :blush: So that was really cute. :wacky:

 

The Xylobands were neat, of course, but I have to say that I didn't pay so much attention to them, because I was focusing too hard on the band themselves. :P Major Minus, GPASUYF, always great songs live, same with DLIBYH and Speed of Sound fjdashfiodjsackda. If I'm being honest all of the songs were spectacular, so. :P

 

This is the last thing I will talk about. For almost the entire concert, I had my hands in the air and was waving around the Mylo doll. I tried to look at all of the band members instead of focusing just on Chris, but I think that eventually he did see me, because I thought at one point he looked over at me, but it was hard to tell. :P

 

In any case, after Charlie Brown, Chris said something to the audience about having a good evening or whatever, and then the lights went down a bit and the boys started preparing for the next song. Chris walked over toward Jonny's side, but was facing the front seats. His arm went out into the air, and then seconds later I felt something hit my shoulder. I flung my hand over the spot, but whatever hit me had already fallen on the other side of the barrier. Luckily, the security guy who was standing there was able to shine his flashlight on the ground, and we found it – Chris's guitar pick. :o:o:o So, I don't know if he meant to throw it to me specifically, or if it was just pure luck that it hit me, but I have it now and it will have a safe home with my harmonica. :blush:

 

OH AND I PUSHED ONE OF THE BALLOONS ON STAGE DURING LOVERS IN JAPAN AND IT ALMOST HIT JONNY IN THE FACE. Whoops. Sorry Jonny. :P

 

And now, almost twelve hours later, my muscles and throat are still very sore, but it was all worth it.

 

 

 

pictures coming up next...

[Megalomania]

^Lovely review and pictures!

 

 

This was my first time in the Meadowlands, even though I live about an hour away. I was a bit surprised by the ugly ass building next to the parking garage for the Izod Center; apparently it was a mall that was built and never opened? Anyway, I got to the Izod Center at about 5 minutes after the doors opened. It was slow going in because security was having arguments with anyone that brought a bag larger than a purse, but overall it really wasn't too long of a wait.

 

Inside, it was absolutely packed. I could barely move around to get to the bathroom. D: Made my way over to the merch, waited for about 40 minutes to buy an overpriced $40 t-shirt, and then headed to our seats. When I say we were in the nosebleeds, I mean it. :lol: We were in the twentieth row of the top tier, Jonny's side, only about 5 rows from the top. :laugh3:

 

 

 

 

Despite being so high up, our seats actually weren't terrible. The only two things were: the speakers blocked Guy most of the time (:angry:) and the big screens were angled so we couldn't see them.

 

The crowd was pretty annoying ngl. The only other concert I've been to has been Muse, and the demographics were very different. . . lots of young girls at Coldplay, that had obviously just heard Princess of China or Paradise on the radio, whereas at Muse it was a lot of hardcore fans. That being said, I was happy that the crowd was pretty animated, which is always good.

 

not going to say much about the opening bands, I didn't enjoy either but I suppose that when you have a band like Coldplay that's moved on to pop/rock music you get pop openers. . .

 

This was my first Coldplay concert, so you have no idea how happy I was they played Warning Sign. Must have been because Christa was there :lol: I loved the visual, between the xylobands, confetti, balloons, the symbol balloon thingies in the walkways, and of course the lights on the stage, it didn't get boring at all

I thought the setlist was decent, although of course I'd love less Mylo Xyloto songs and a ton more AROBTTH/Parachutes songs, but I do understand that this is their Mylo Xylotour and therefore they have to play the bleh songs.

The only song that I absolutely hated, even live, was Princess of China. I have to say, even though I hated most, if not all, of Mylo Xyloto on the album, live the songs (minus PoC) were a ton of fun.

My section was pretty good; most people were standing for at least 3/4 of the songs. It was funny, I was dancing and stuff even though it was like dancing on the edge of a cliff. :lol:

Overall, I had a great time and I thought it was a great concert, even if Chris fucked up Speed of Sound and got croaky at one song. :wacky:

oh yeah and I cried during The Scientist OTL

 

I'm uploading my videos, it's slow going though *shakes fist at Youtube*

 

The Scientist and Yellow

 

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Violet Hill and God Put a Smile Upon Your Face (I accidentally made some sort of edit so god only knows when youtube's going to actually finish that)

 

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Up in Flames (but only a little bit)

 

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Warning Sign

 

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[coldplaymom]

And I don't know if it's just me, but they all look much skinnier in real life??? Like, Chris's biceps didn't look like cinder blocks from that close.

 

Exactly! I was surprised as well when I saw them last September. Chris is very skinny and very tall, although very fit as well.

[halokiti]

Here's a snippet of Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

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[coldplayisawesome]

pictures! :blush:

we brought a REALLY cheap camera with us, so the pictures aren't that great. and we didn't take many at all during the show itself, but anyway. :P

 

Before the concert:

 

 

 

Mylo and I had matching Xylobands :blush:

 

And the stage was RIGHT THERE.

 

 

 

The Coldplay boys:

 

 

 

 

 

From the panoramic...

 

 

And then this is just the stuff I bought, and the pick:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: I feel like I keep having problems with these pictures/photobucket... maybe I will try to upload them somewhere else, but for the meantime, here is the album.

[smallnshort247]

Those pictures look great!

[coldplayisawesome]

And I don't know if it's just me, but they all look much skinnier in real life??? Like, Chris's biceps didn't look like cinder blocks from that close.

 

Exactly! I was surprised as well when I saw them last September. Chris is very skinny and very tall, although very fit as well.

 

i guess the camera adds ten pounds, right? :P

[halokiti]

Some photos.

Here's the rest of the album.

[Texasluvsjonny]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention while talking to Dan he says "Oh yeah, you're over at coldplaying right"

:uhoh: ummm yeah, how does Dan know where I am. :stunned:

 

Told him I got to be in the Christmas Lights video through here. Told him how they told us it was gonna be a meeting with Phil and Miller. He thought that was the funniest thing ever! Why would anyone want a meeting with Miller and Phil? :laugh3:

[KristenCaNaDiAn]

Really great pics and videos everyone!!

 

Congrats to those that got upgraded :D

[Megalomania]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention while talking to Dan he says "Oh yeah, you're over at coldplaying right"

:uhoh: ummm yeah, how does Dan know where I am. :stunned:

 

Told him I got to be in the Christmas Lights video through here. Told him how they told us it was gonna be a meeting with Phil and Miller. He thought that was the funniest thing ever! Why would anyone want a meeting with Miller and Phil? :laugh3:

 

fdjaskl seriously? I was absolutely flailing when I saw Miller! :lol: Who doesn't want to meet Miller and Phil?

[Texasluvsjonny]

fdjaskl seriously? I was absolutely flailing when I saw Miller! :lol: Who doesn't want to meet Miller and Phil?

Guess I could have really freaked him out and told him during the live blogs people obsess over how old his is. :lol:

 

Oh Dan, if you only knew. :P

[halokiti]

The lasers from last night reminded me of my school portrait background, so my dream has come true. reference link

[Megalomania]

Guess I could have really freaked him out and told him during the live blogs people obsess over how old his is. :lol:

 

Oh Dan, if you only knew. :P

 

Maybe it's better that they don't know. :lol:

 

 

A Hopeful Transmission/Don't Let It Break Your Heart/Viva la Vida/Charlie Brown

 

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that took just shy of forever to upload

 

 

edit: Last video! (well I do have a video of the b-stage performance including Chris messing up but my singing was so bad I'm not going to upload it :laugh3:)

 

Clocks

 

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[coldplaymom]

pictures! :blush:

we brought a REALLY cheap camera with us, so the pictures aren't that great. and we didn't take many at all during the show itself, but anyway. :P

 

Before the concert:

 

 

 

Mylo and I had matching Xylobands :blush:

 

And the stage was RIGHT THERE.

 

 

 

The Coldplay boys:

 

 

 

 

 

From the panoramic...

 

 

And then this is just the stuff I bought, and the pick:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: I feel like I keep having problems with these pictures/photobucket... maybe I will try to upload them somewhere else, but for the meantime, here is the album.

 

I take it you're the nerd in glasses? My apologies to your sister if that's her.:)

Every time I read a heart warming report, I relive my own Coldplay concert all over again. I'm so glad you had a wonderful time.