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[2-Jul-2014] Royal Albert Hall, London, UK

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REVIEW :cheesy:

 

I'm sorry for any weird grammatical structurs/mistakes/total absence of fotos because Jelena has all the cool ones/ because I can't be arsed right now :wacky:

 

I'm looking down at myself this moment realizing that my legs and feet are all swollen up twize of their usual size uhh :uhoh:

I guess that proves I've been walking around London quite a bit *cough*

So, last thursday I got lucky and bought two stall seat tickets for Danceteacher aka Jelena because she really wanted to attend one of the RAH concerts. I managed to get two for the 2th and told her she can probably sell the ticket to some of you guys because I didn't want to go. She was like "DAFUQ WHY ARENT U COMIN" and I told her that I'm out of cash and it's gonna be really expensive if I'm gonna book a flight that is starting in 4 days lol. She grumpily agreed and we didn't talk for the rest of the day. Then at exactly midnight she called me again and told me "So uhhh, I still have that ticket you bought me, because the person I wanted to give the ticket got one herself..."

Me: "I see..."

Her: "Yeah"

Me: "..."

Her: "...*cough*

Me: ".. GODDAMMIT JELENA"

Her: ":awesome: I'm just saYINNN :awesome:"

Me: "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS UGH!"

So she was trying to convince me to come with her, I was anxious about the whole thing because I barely had any time to plan the whole trip, and traveling by my own (yeah I'm a loser). Well, in the end I booked my flights, slept in Jelenas hotel room incognito on an air matress and went with her to the 2th concert :wideeyed:

We finally met at tuesday 7pm after a chaotic journey through half london and 3 hours late :freak: and then went to see London's iconic buildings and spots for the rest of the evening.

 

The next day was a totally new difinition of epic though. It was crazy, mindblowing, unbelievable, but Jelena and I found the most fitting word to define the whole day:

absurd.

On wednesday morning we went to see Violet Hill and Abby Road and took some silly pics of myself :lol: Mind you, I was wearing my silly batman the whole time AHAHAH :batman:

After that AT 11am we met up with a huuuge group of Coldplayers (Row, Anita, Hannah, Raphaele, Imke, Priscilla, I'm sorry if I'm forgetting anyone I have only slept like 7 hours the past three days and my eyes are burning) at the Odeon cinema. Imke brought beautifully metal necklaces in the shape of the wings of the Ghost stories album and we all wore them immediately, making us look a little bit like some weird sect :sweatdrop:

 

Oh man you were all sooo lovely :wacky: We sat down at a nearby restaurant to eat and then went on to make silly photos of our group HA. After that we split up and Jelena, Raphaele and I went to see the bakery. I felt my hear trate picking up so I really tried to contain my inner fangirl but DAMN it was hard! :lol: When I saw the the little church-door of the beehive I kinda lost it and kept on rambling until Jelena told me to calm the fudge down because I was being annoying. So we went down the street until we saw the bench in front of the bakery and now it was REALLY hard not to fangirl all over the place :sweatdrop: Jelena took some pictures of me standing in front of the bakery like a total dork and then we sat down on the bench. There was already a girl sitting on there, and when she saw us she smiled at said "Coldplay fans, eh?" And we all grinned and nodded and talked about Coldplay in general and the things Coldplay fans usually talk about :lol:

 

Then a post van pulled up right in front of the beehive, some man went out, walked over to the doors, and the next moment he was carrying a package that he got from the beehive back to his car.

And THEN something weird happened. So we sat there squished together on this bench when suddenly a grey car raced past us, honking right in front of us so we all jumped, then the person driving waved in a greeting manner at the post man who waved back, and then the car took a sharp right turn and disappered into a nearby street. The whole thing was over in 3 seconds. But I cought a short glimpse into the car and saw the back of the drivers head. And I think it was Phil :surprised: Because his haircut has this recognisable shape and I'm certain it was him!

I told my Coldplaying friends that and they all thought that this indeed might have been Phil, AHHH :dance:

 

After another 20 minutes we finally left the place because we wanted to refresh ourselves back at the hotel to get ready for the concert. After a quick shower we went back to the RAH and right in front of the memorial where alll of the Coldplaying people were sitting. Holy crap that group was HUGE. I've took some pictures of ourselves, although I'm not sure everyone of you wants to be displayed on here so I won't post any pics yet!

 

We continued sitting/chatting/eating/drinking when I decided to finally move my butt inside the RAH because I was feeling anxious and unrelaxed and REALLY excited about the inside of this awesome building. We walked around inside and it looks really astonishing in there! You can google for yourself, my cam pictures turned out to be rather crappy because there were a lot of people around bumping into me the whole time while taking pics :dozey:

Then we got to our seats that were really nice, as I said, we'd got tix for the stall seats and we were facing the front of the stage :D Then I discovered that Frank and Ellen were chatting right down THERE NEXT TO THE STAGE and I was like "wha-HAT hold on I'm totally gonna sneak down there, too LOL" so I casually strolled back through the entrance of the stall seats area, outside of the inner corridors, down to the toilets and then up again and oops I just totally found myself right next to the stage as well :awesome: Frank told me I could try sneaking in there when Coldplay were starting and maybe the security people wouldn't notice me, but we had our doubts because they kept staring at me the whole time (I've taken off my batman hoodie at that time though heuhehu). So yeah, Anita told me that maybe after the encore I got sneak down there. I tried my luck both times with Jelena, right at the start of the gig and at the encore and both times it didn't work and they caught us, argh! :lol: And at the second time the security people got REALLY angry haha oops :sweatdrop: We just ran back to our seats and hid in the darkness and contiued enjoying the show from our seats. But at least we tried! :laugh3:

Now to the awesome things that happened during the concert! :dance:

- I haven't had time yet to read the thread, but the setlist was amazing (they played Don't Panic and Jonny had to sing the refrain THREE TIMES because Chris wanted him to :lol: And everytime Jonny was singing the whole place went NUTS) everything's not lost and the scientist :dead:

- Chris kissing Jonny on the cheek (I think, they were too far away to see any details) after he fought his way through singing Dont Panic :lol::wacky:

-Chris holding a very heartwrenching speech about a friend of his that got some kind of disease, but I couldn't really understand what it was because I was surrounded by drunk people shoving their beer into my face and yelling useless stuff :veryangry: Apparently the person Chris talked about was very sick and Chris was dedicating Fix you to his friend (he was called James, Jamie? I couldnt really understand. but OMG THE FEELS)

- Chris saying absolutely hilarious stuff about Guy/Jonny/Will (I already know it was posted somewhere here in this thread, like Guy beeing 55 years old and such things! :lol:)

-Chris kissing the stage at the end of the gig :dazzled:

- Will playing the Viva drums up in the row in front of the people with Chris being all over him.

- Chris BEING ALL OVER EVERYONE I MEAN RLY:

1) he hugged Guy, he hugged Jonny so excessively that Jonny's playing arm/hand went off the strings and the playing stopped for a tiny moment.

2)As I said Chris being all over Will and in his face so that Will as having trouble hitting the drums without hitting Chris, he had to move his arms in very funny circular motion to avoid Chris HAHAH :lol:

3)Chris hugging some lucky male fan during ASFOS :lol: And I mean like full-body-contact-hugging-with-both-arms-for-3-seconds :dead: I was watching the fan after he got hugged and I think his brain had a melt-down :laugh3: Can't blame you dude though HAHA

4) Running around during viva and giving handshakes/highfives to people

 

That's the most awesome things I can think about right now :surprised: The atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was yelling their lungs out, and the band surely felt that, judging from the look on their faces.

This gig was totally worth all the stress and physical hurt my body went through :wacky:

 

And now I have to take care of some blisters/bruises/sleep deprivation/sore spots LOL

 

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/Batman out :batman:

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cheeetaz

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First video is up. Quality is a bit shitty and shaky (recorded on iPhone 4) but it gives you an idea about what was going on.

View from Stalls G Row 3 Seat 1

 

Always In My Head:

 

[video=youtube_share;0nA3HajZBtE]

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Coldplay's final bow on the Ghost Stories tour - a review

 

A quote from part of the article below :

 

The first memories of hearing Coldplay at RAH were shared with thousands of you on Twitter, listening to the brilliant Absolute radio stream with Céline/Coeurli and I updating the Twitter feed as the breathtaking setlist, which saw the return of some golden oldies took shape. The reaction was a joy to see after the gig with reviews on the forums and Twitter straight away from delighted fans. The following morning, the great summer weather in London continued as a group of us on the forums : Myself, Grids/Afi, Linus, Zuzana/wisna and Mayur(shikotra) met up opposite RAH, buzzing in pure excitement for the day ahead, perhaps even more for Linus and I since we didn’t see the show on the previous night. We started the Coldplaying day with a trip around Hyde Park, near the Princess Diana memorial fountain. After lunchtime, we left to roam the streets of Camden and heard through the grapevine that Chris Martin was close by, at about 3pm, enjoying the London sunshine too! We met more Coldplayers on the way such as Thalia/Batman and Jelena/Danceteacher and by 6pm, we met for the planned Facebook meet at the statue opposite the Royal Albert Hall, where around 15 of us turned up, ready for the show of our lives. Met many more friendly faces including Ian/ColdplayAtlas, the hugely popular Twitter page for Coldplay updates and video projects. As we all went in one by one or two by two, we met at door 6, where the merchandise was sold, for a few drinks before the show and meeting more great fans and discussing Coldplaying.com. It was close to showtime at that moment and we had missed the support act, AlunaGeorge who was getting mixed reviews. Me and Zuzana were sitting in the stalls, on row L which was actually a great view, pretty close and overlooking Guy with a clear view of Chris’ mic. There the odd empty seats as there were the previous nights and I was advised to look out for a Scottish fan with a ginger beard if I needed an empty seat closer but the view was clear so we stayed put but I read on the forums of AROBTTH14 getting arena seats, through this gentleman who had a backstage pass. It would great to know who this is as AROBTTH14 wants to say thanks. The generosity seen during the whole tour has been heartwarming, it really has, it really proves we have the best fans in the whole world!

 

I'll add a few more things on here soon, need to sleep now! Enjoy, it was a truly brilliant night :)

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This was one of the most amazing parts of the night. For those who went down South Kensington tube station must have heard the Viva chant echoing round! Even me and my friend started a few! :dazzled: The tourists going past were joining in and filming it too!

We were walking along the road back to the station, when we heard the Viva chant exploding out through the air vents from down below. Massive smiles all round - like you say, a very special experience!

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Coldplay's final bow on the Ghost Stories tour - a review[/url]

 

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I'll add a few more things on here soon, need to sleep now! Enjoy, it was a truly brilliant night :)

Nicely done, Sparky! Was really nice pleasure to meet you and other Coldplayers at RAH. Hope to see more of the band's performance in the future with you guys! :) :)

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During ETIAW, Chris drank from his concoction and left it at the front of the stage, so at the end of the concert, what do you think I did?

"Ewan! Grab the mug!"

"WTF are you talking about, Iestyn?!"

"Don't question me just fucking grab it!!"

So we grabbed it and both took a swig. Tasted like Chris overdosed on the ginger a little bit (my friend nearly gagged :lol: )

Now I have Chris saliva in me ;)

You're so fucking crazy HAHAHA OMG! :lol::laugh3:
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Took all night long but finally uploaded all my videos to YouTube. Some of them are a bit shaky, especially ASFOS, i was partying hard and there was just no chance i could hold that phone still. After all you are at a concert to party, not to record the whole thing.

 

All videos filmed from Stalls G Row 3 Seat 1 using an iPhone 4

 

Always In My Head

[video=youtube;0nA3HajZBtE]

 

Paradise

[video=youtube;LQuyuQZ0KpU]

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