[25-Apr] E-Werk, Cologne, Germany - Links in 1st post -SHOW TIME 9PM (GERMAN TIME)

[cheeetaz]

That would be great! As well as Politik. Hopefully they'll do a proper tour next year will full-length sets where they can play more than just hits and the new songs.

 

Yes, they really need to go to some old ones. They were having so much fun during GPASOYF today and it showed. I was loving it too. They have so many great songs other than the big hits…

 

Listened to X&Y on my drive home, thats when i realized how much i would love it if they would play some of the songs live.

 

One more thing: E-Werk is the hottest venue i've ever been to. Seriously, haven't they heard about AC? It was like a sauna in there.

[yanksrock1000]

I know Chris asked for the encore to not be recorded but I really hope one of us got a recording.

[Batman]

REVIEW

To make it easier for you guys who prefer to only read parts that are actually about the concert, I'll split this review up into different chapters.

THE MADNESS BEGINS

So as you all know, the insanity of getting the bloody tix started last week on friday. The tickets were sold out in TWO SECONDS. We've all been sitting there like this :

 

But you know, sometimes life is like „lolNO“ so all of my Coldplaying friends (Claudia, Claudia2, Julia, Katja, Jelena, Kirsten, Volker) and I didn't get shit. The tix were gone. After freaking out for like 5 minutes we realised the tickets weren't really „gone“, people just all put them into the virtual basket and were still deciding wether to buy them or not. So after another couple of minutes the tix went back online, and luckily and because Coldplay karma was on my side one of my Coldplayers and I got two tix each. But that still ment that 3 of us couldn't come along :(

So we participated in every possible radio show quiz and whatnot to get two additional tix, but no luck T___T

Okay, well that blew but at least some of us could go and were able to witness the concert. I thought about making special tshirts for our coldplaying group so I asked for a design and we decided to make a phoenix in the style of the album's cover pigeon. So I drew this on on the night of tuesday:

 

 

 

and went to university the next day to silk screen it on some blue shirts I got:

 

the next day when I got out of university my guts were telling me to check the forum because... you know sometimes you know something's up and you should really REALLY listen to what your insides are saying. So I went online and saw

that, cheeetaz, the most awesome person of everything that is awesome, mentioned, that the greedy people who bought tix just to sell the for prices like:

 

 

had to put their tix back online because they couldn't sell them (the tix were personalized so you couldn't just transfer them to other people).

 

That meant eventim put the cards back online.

That meant tix were available again.

That meant a chance to get all of my coldplaying family members tix.

I was like HOLY SHIT ON A STICK, logged in with Julia login data, raped the f5 button once again while yelling over at whatsapp at everybody to stop their shit and log in on eventim.

And then I got two tix in the basket, called Julia, payed everything, and then Volker also got two tix, and we were like „ok ok OK CALM DOWN EVERYBODY WE'RE ALL GOING“. Claudia started crying of happiness and tried to calm herself while I was flippin' out in front of my PC. We were alllll going to the concert tomorrow and I was just so happy. People who got tix were also doing their happy dances in the cologne threads.

WE WERE GLOWING IN THE DARK

 

Prior concert day, I made a little something to make our group more recognizable in the huge crowd of people (apart from the tshirts I made for everyone). I still had loads of the xylobands flying around and I remembered a video were someone made them glow again. So I took them apart, brazed some new wires in it, put everything back together, and if you twisted the wires that were now coming out of the plastic shell the xylobands would glow as long as the wires touched:

 

I also took the xylobands of julia and modified them as well, so in total we had like 14 xylobands or so.

 

CONCERT DAY

 

I started my journey at 8:00 am, went to cologne and arrived at 10:00 at the venue. They were already six people standing around (Princes of China, Tash) so I was really happy not to sit around there all on my own. After talking to them they let me know they were already waiting there since 6am these crazy ass fans! :lol:

I wasn't even planning on coming this early because Germany :| German fans don't do camping, they're actually rather lazy and usually come later :lol: So much for that haha

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I was sitting there while over a few hours, took out a little music box I got with me and let it play coldplay songs in the background. It was all pretty chill except for a lady that kept screaming into our general direction because apparently she got tix on eventim one time for her friend and then they were gone. Don't ask me she was weird. And she had two little 3-year old something children with her and was changing their nappies the whole time? :uhoh: After a while she just run off, screaming. Lol

After a few hours the sun was getting really hot. I usually don't get sunburn, and if I do I don't care, but the heat was making my body shut down so I had to find a cool spot. Good for us was the roof above the stairs so we all sat down there. Additionally I had these foil-safety-whatever-blanket with me and it protected us from the sun rather well:

Then suddenly BASS and the windows in our backs were shaking. Soundcheck? SOUNDCHECK!

I got up, left the venue and walked around the building because there were windows at the side that gave me a view directly upon the stage. I totally did not stare through the window and pressed my phone against the dusty window to make fotos...

Pffffff :lol:

 

 

 

 

Of course Coldplay wasn't there, they were still in Paris or wherever the frick they were, but I could see the stage mueuhhueuheuhe :blush:

After that I was bloody hyped and couldn't wait to get in, UGH!

Then finally FINALLY my friends arrived, from 14-17 pm, all of them :wacky: My best friend even got a ticket for her mother haha! Since the venue didn't have any toilets for whatever intelligent reason we had to walk a little to get in some tv-station building to use the toilets in their cellar. People kept staring at us because we were already sweaty, dusty, dirty and had wild hair from spending hours sitting in the dirt, but yeah, we couldn't care less. In the restroom we actually did a little happy dance because we couldn't believe our freaky luck. Weird stares again, not that we gave a damn :lol:

Back in front of the doors of the venue we decided to make signs with the papers and markers we brought along. I cut out little ghost masks (that we didn't end up using because we were to awe-struck later on), a paper with „PHIL“ in a butterfly shape on it, another one with Midnight lyrics on it that got lost lol, and a paper with a pigeon on it filled with #42.

Suddenly soundcheck again and we heard a familiar voice. Holy crap the boys were in! I totally got up again from my spot, rushed to the windows and stared like a creep through the dusty glasses. Yup, I saw a Chris standing in singing, and Guy was also on stage.

Excited Thalia was excited :wideeyed:

I gave my designed tshirts to everyone, as well with the modified xylobands, and were ready!

 

Then people were getting nervous, it was getting close to 19:30. We asked the security guards several times at which gate we had to stand (there were three gates with three papers with different information on it and we stressed about getting to the right gate!). Then this nice fellow from 1live came and chatted a little bit with us and helped us getting some actual info out of the security people. Apparently it didn't matter where to stand, you just needed your ticket and ID. The security people were really REALLY picky about these. Everytime you left the venue for a toilet or something you had to show everything, otherwise they wouldn't even let you near the doors :dozey:

THEN THE DOORS OPENED. We all squished together, went into instant battle mode and flew up the few stairs into the building. Well that was plan. Security people went like „nope“ and squished us back in place :dead: We were all waving our tickets into their faces, while grabbing to the person you take in with you with your additional ticket. I grabbed Katja's arm, pulled her with me, and I yelled into the security man's face like „I'M THALIA HERE IS THE NAME AND THERE AND HERE IS MY POCKET OKAY YUP LEMME THROUGH“ and he was just overwhelmed by everybody else doing the exact same thing so we could pass him unto the next lady who scanned our tix :bomb: MEANWHILE Claudia was just trolling her way through before ANYONE GOT IN. She had just started walking hahah! I still don't know how she managed that lol.

ANYWAYZZ, while I passed the scanner lady we all got yelled at not to run (yeah dude tell that my legs they're not doing what I want anyway) so after the last security guy I fucking rocketed myself into FRONT ROOWWWWWWWWW :dance::dance::dance:

And then all my friends also gathered around/behind me it was so epic :wacky: We all got tickets and we all got into front row I couln't even

I still can't

So much Coldplay karma can't be healthy :dead:

NOW we finally had time to calm down and relax and just take that magnificent stage design in. As I'm writing this I haven't seen any pictures yet of the photos THESE ANNOYING FUCKERS TOOK RIGHT IN FRONT OF US

 

but I believe they must be out there by now? The stage mainly looked like a magical forest with paper stars haning from the ceiling with LEDs inside, one tree (without leaves on them, they had old very nice looking light bulbs hanging from the branches and also paper stars) to the left and right of the stage. Then there was a big screen in the background and LOADS of new instruments all crammed on there. On the left was a huge wall of black boxes with glowing and blinking green/red lights on it.

Then we saw Miller come on stage so I screamed his name several times until he noticed me! :wacky: I had my glowing xylobands on already and the pigeon poster up, so he grinned and gave me thumbsup, yay!

 

Okay, so I'm really trying to remember everything, but it's hard :bomb: If I'm leaving something out maybe the other coldplayers will write about it or I'll remember it tomorrow.

SHOWTIME

 

The lights went out and people going freaking NUTS. I saw Chris coming on stage, and the gap between us and the stage was maybe 1 ½ meters. They were soooo close ahhhHHH!!!!

Then the others came onto the stage and the whole place went bawlz.

Chris greeted us in German and told us that he really likes this place because when they were starting with the band they got a warm welcome in Cologne :wacky:

He knows how to charm his crowd, he really does heuuheu.

After that they started with a song. I say A song because my brain doesn't know which song it was. I'm that bad lol. I MEAN YOU'VE LISTENED TO IT ALL I DIDN'T HAVE TO REMEMBER RIGHT? :bomb:

Anyways, what I DO remember are all the little details you couldn't SEE :charming: Here's my list to make it pretty for the eyes:

 

 

• GLOWING XYLOBANDS, they did the trick! They did exactly what I wanted them to do, GET ATTENTION. When Chris was positioning himself in front of us I saw him glancing around to our people with the xylobands on. YESH, PERFECT! Alright, so I put my hands in the air and just waved them around during his singing until he noticed me. Then he grinned. :wideeyed: I wonder if he know it were xylobands :surprised:
  
  
• Since the distance between us / the band was so small we had GREAT interaction. Chris for a change actually looked into the first row several times and not over our heads like all the other times, and then he saw that a few of us wore this tshirt I made. He was staring at my face, then at my shirt, then right next to me at Claudia's shirt and made a puzzled face. To which I screamed like such a fangirl I am and he smiled MWHAU :drunk:
  
  
• During the quieter sections of some songs some of us yelled „JONNY!“ until he grinned into our direction. THEN, because I'm a greedy bat and I want some Jonny for myself, I waved at him when I saw him turning around and he gave me his genuinely Jonny smile. G-guh :drunk: You know his smile, right? RIGHT INTO MY FEELS
  
  
• There was one song, the scientist or so (it was a quiet one) were Will was just sitting behind his drums, and he was looking around everywhere until he noticed our crazy ass waving and he went like „D'AW!“ and also grinned :lol: We had the perfect spot hahaha!
  
  
• Claudia told me Guy was actually grinning as well, but I wasn't looking at him because he kept ignoring us the entire time. I'm still conviced he's a freaking robot :|
  
  
• Chris sitting very close to the edge of the stage during Midnight and being lost in his song. He looked very dreamy and I totally didn't stare because that would be creepy and awkward because the other bandmembers would have seen it. Um. :sweatdrop:
  
  
• LAZERHARP. 2 of them! One for Guy and one fro Chris! Also during Midnight. Chris doing his weird robot-dance-but-not-quite-but-trying-to?-whatever-lol-MOVEMENTS all around the lazer beams and I was like „wow this looks like an art performance“ and then he just leans over and the lazer beams hit him and concentrate on spots on his skin and they are bright as fuck but it looks very magical with the way he moves and I'm totally ignoring Guy on the other side actually playing the harp :lol:
  
  
• THE BAD AIR. It was sooo nasty, it was hot, most, stinky and you cut almost eat it with a spoon. Chris was sweating even before he was saying the first word and we couldn't go nuts as long as usual because it was just hard to breathe.
  
  
• GPASUYF performance was GREAT. Fabian, another Coldplayer next to me, went „HOLY SHIT ARE THEY GONNA OMG YES THEY ARE“ because apparently he really likes the song :lol: So I went nuts with him and we hugged and freaked out and jumped to the beat. The lights flashed and my eyes hurt, and Chris was playing a new fancy shiny black guitar. Will was baning the life out of his drums with his usual rage face while Jonny and Guy laughed at each other before the build up, and the the climax hit and I felt the ground shaking from all the people behind me jumping. Chris threw the guitar into the air and it hit the ground and I actually cringed. That poor guitar DUDE WHAT DID IT DO :angry:
  
  
• Confettiiiii :dance: Shapes: circles and stars. They came when Viva went on anf ASFOS. So nice
  

 

• BUCKIN BUCKIN BUCKIN oh did I mention there was some BUCKIN going on because there was and it was sweaty and subliminaly and a little bit dirty, too, and wow that sounds more pervy than it actually was :laugh3: One time Chris was sneaking up behind Jonny and bumped into him, then kind of slithered around Jonny and bumped his head into Jonny's shoulder :wacky: Another time he did about the same but more of the „you know they know :charming:“-kind of glances :sneaky: … why are they not married yet? :lol:
  
  
• when I was looking behind me in the upper rank of the hall I saw Guy's girlfriend after Claudia spotted her. Guy actually showed some reaction at the end of the gig and threw both his hands into the air and smiled like crazy into her direction. So much for fan interaction *cough:
  
  
• Chris was kissing the ground at the end of the gig! :wacky: Oh my heart.
  
  
• Now all the people want to know about ASFOS. Whew. Okay so, it's made of two separat styles. You guys have been telling me others said it sounds like techno? Well, no it doesn't. It's just the beat that is very fast, like the one from „Dont Let It Break Your Heart“. They lyrics are also very simple and mostly made of the refrain which is the song title. I really REALLY tried to remember, but Chris said he'd really appreciate it if we wouldn't record/tape the new songs. So I tried to hum the melody but I lost it argh. A part of the lyrics that stuck with me was something like „I'll die in your arms“ after which followed the refrain that was the song title:
  
  
• „A Sky full of Stars, A Sky full of Stars, A Sky full of StaaaaaaAAAAARRSSS!!“ with Chris and us jumping to the crazy beat. The refrain had the techno beat, the other parts of the song were slowlier, but always build up to the refrain. Fuck I'm sorry that I can't remember that much, but it was just too much input for my brain. Another thing I remember though is that the song is really RICH of sounds and instruments. It has a very strong melody that gets your body energized. I'm trying to find an example of how to explain it to you: it is a powerful mixture between the songs Viva La Vida, Dont Let It Break Your Heart, and I believe there were again some weird electronic noises in it that gave a new touch to it. The things that bothered me though were the little lyrics (it was mostly the refrain I think) and the song seemed kinda short, but my feeling of time during CP concerts is not reliable so make your own opinion. It is a song that the fans from Mylo Xyloto style of songs will DEFINiTELY like, since it's fast and strong and gets your blodd pumping.
  

Trivia:

 

• After the concert the 1live guy met Claudia and me after he saw my glowing xylobands and asked us the usual concert questions about how it felt to be so close and blah and our fangirliness hit him FULL FORCE :laugh3: HAHAHA we were gushing so bad I fear to hear my voice on 1live later on... if he didn't cut it out already xD My God that was embarassing but at that moment I couldn't keep it down :laugh3:
   
  
  
• They sold limited shirts at the concerts for 30 fucking euros, but I bought one anyway. And I got a plectrum from Jonny from one of the roadies aaaAAAAAAHHH JONNY DNA I HAVE YOU NOW MUAHAHA :lol:
  
  
  
   
  
  

That's all I can manage now. My body is now reminding me PRETTY HARD to get to sleep, and let my muscles rest :dead: So, if you have any specific questions, I'll try to remember.

Good night, Batman out~

[jc90]

I know Chris asked for the encore to not be recorded but I really hope one of us got a recording.

 

Someone said they saw a few ppl recording anyways.

[jc90]

oh damn, I use the same pick as Jonny

 

Thanks for the review

[grids]

I want that pick and THAT SHIRT....WHY IS FREAKING 30 EUROS OMG :(

[AussieProdigy]

Wow, great review! You guys are so lucky who got to go or are going, hope the do something a little closer to Australia it sounds like such a wonderful and intimate experience.

[DieProspekt]

Wow, great review! You guys are so lucky who got to go or are going, hope the do something a little closer to Australia it sounds like such a wonderful and intimate experience.

 

AMEN. If they do Aussie and not NZ I'm buying a plane ticket too haha

[wheresmypenis]

Batman i read your review .... that was awesome 10/10

[vanessarrent]

During the quieter sections of some songs some of us yelled „JONNY!“ until he grinned into our direction. THEN, because I'm a greedy bat and I want some Jonny for myself, I waved at him when I saw him turning around and he gave me his genuinely Jonny smile. G-guh :drunk: You know his smile, right? RIGHT INTO MY FEELS

 

I know what you mean! Ahhhh....Jonny's smile is heartwarming. :wacky:

Great review!

Thanks!!

[Blue Nails]

Supertoll review, as usual!

 

I don't think I'll like ASFOS but everything else seems pretty great.

[the_escapist]

Batman liked ASFOS? Then I think that those who are already condemning the song without having heard it are going to have to eat their hat.

[getithom]

Thanks for the reviews, everyone!

 

I must be the only one who really didn't like the setlist. It was mainly composed of their hits, and aside from their new material, seemed rather eh. Wish they played GPASUYF earlier.

[HurtsLikeHeaven42]

Awesome review Batman! Made me laugh soo many times! :lol:

And yes I believe I did hear your screaming on the radio hahaha

 

And that pick! Arghhhh so jealous! I'd be framing that!!

[HurtsLikeHeaven42]

Thanks for the reviews, everyone!

 

I must be the only one who really didn't like the setlist. It was mainly composed of their hits, and aside from their new material, seemed rather eh. Wish they played GPASUYF earlier.

 

Agreed it was practically the same as iTunes except the encore and if you didn't go to the concert you didn't get to even hear them so that was a little disappointing...

[mayrn43]

Oceans though...that was nice. And I thought AiMH sounded great too.

[getithom]

Agreed it was practically the same as iTunes except the encore and if you didn't go to the concert you didn't get to even hear them so that was a little disappointing...

 

Exactly. I was really underwhelmed, except for their new material. Luckily, this is just the promo tour, so I understand they have to push out big hits.

 

Oceans though...that was nice. And I thought AiMH sounded great too.

 

Always In My Head somehow sounded even better than at the iTunes Festival. :dazzled:

[HurtsLikeHeaven42]

Exactly. I was really underwhelmed, except for their new material. Luckily, this is just the promo tour, so I understand they have to push out big hits.

 

Always In My Head somehow sounded even better than at the iTunes Festival. :dazzled:

 

But let's also remember that they didn't play Yellow at either gigs... (Quite odd IMO)

 

And I think every song did sound ALOT better than iTunes fest. I guess they've had more practise and it is their own show and setup this time.

[Jarrad]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but the concert has been uploaded on youtube; [video=youtube;9Yw2pnI9WdE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yw2pnI9WdE Great concert, all the new songs sounded awesome :)

[Dvid]

No signs of asfos on youtube yet!?

[Jonny and the cake]

I don't actually care about ASFOS, i wanna hear GPASUYF

[*Becky*]

Were you one of the people yelling 'JONNY!' that we heard on the livestream?;)

 

No, these two very annoying ladies were standing right to the left of me and were yelling "we love you", "you're amazing" etc at jonny at the top of their lungs everytime a song was over. My left ear hurts :p

[Batman]

^ But I was one of the Jonny yellers as well! :laugh3: I can't really remember what embarassing things I did throughout the concert, but I remember yelling Jonny, but WITHOUT anything else!

I listened to the 1live recording yesterday already (or this morning) and heard my voice :lol: That was me :embarassed:

[TraceOddity]

I figured a Coldplaying member or two might be heard on the radio, lol!

[Change]

^ But I was one of the Jonny yellers as well! :laugh3: I can't really remember what embarassing things I did throughout the concert, but I remember yelling Jonny, but WITHOUT anything else!

I listened to the 1live recording yesterday already (or this morning) and heard my voice :lol: That was me :embarassed:

 

Haha i Screamed "Jonny, I love you!" aswell, right after they joined the stage. Must have been pretty loud because about 20 people were lookin at me like "The fuck?".

Probably because im male.. but whatever :D