[06-DEC-2014] BMW Welt, Munich, GER

[grids]

Great photos guys! I hope the next tour they will still play Midnight because playing laser harps are the best part yeah :D

[Batman]

 

Anyway, they asked two fans, what they had paid for their tickets. Hearing the price, the lady replies "oh, we got ours as a gift. I actually had to check on Youtube, what Coldplay sounds like. But unfortunately, we couldn't get any seating places, just standing". :angry::angry::angry:

 

[Mortilorie]

At the end of the show, a man started to put everything away. He began by launching the playlist in the public, a woman catched it ; and then, he did the same with the towel and I catched it and I tightened it strongly.

 

Ahh I wondered, because I did not see him throw it

[grids]

 

Hahah :lol:

 

Yu mad bro?

[dianab]

Last night was Magic, Paradise and everything in between:heart::heart::heart:

http://instagram.com/p/wUXiGbxmjQ/

[Stepsi]

Wohoo, just came to the forum and re-lived the concert by reading your posts and I see, my tweets and photos made it to you here - thanks grids and Sparky for your nice words :) great. To those, who said we should stop tweeting and enjoy the show, who says I didn't enjoy the show? You know how fast you can take a picture with Twitter and press "tweet"? I certainly enjoyed the show very much so! You can take that for granted ;)

 

I was surprised how small the venue was. I mean, Paris was small, too, but this was really a small room and even though I arrived late I managed to get pretty close to the stage. It has some advantages they play small venues hahaha, sorry! ;)

 

The set was amazing. I know it's seems short but with anthems like Charlie Brown, VLV, ETIAW, ASFOS a concert can get pretty exhausting ;) I am very happy with their performance. All were in a great mood and smiling and interacting. Especially Chris, he was so focused yet very relaxed and really interested in the crowd - read posters, looked fr eye contact etc etc. And making speeches and jokes as we know him best. Even Will was smiling again after Chris leaked LP7's name :D and Jonny was so cute how he smiled really at everything Chris said or did (as mentioned above already).

All in all, the evening was splendid. Afterwards Phil took time to make photos with us and signed everything as you can read above haha. And I found Jonny's plectrum in the confetti. Matt threw it to the crowd after the concert but nobody caught it and wasn't able to detect it in the massive amounts of confetti. Eventually I spotted it randomly. Lucky girl ;)

Ah, and nice to have met you too BuckinParadise - short but nice ;)

 

I uploaded some videos on YouTube by now. Instagram and Twitter is known by now ;) I hope I kept you up to date and as I said, don't worry, I enjoyed the show ;)

[Mortilorie]

Posting now, since only back now with some time to spare. We are probably unusual Coldplayers since we are twice the age of the first row at least and therefore we did not make it there... Had to arrange babysitting and therefore only were there at around 5:10 PM. Forgive me but I had a sneak to the front of the people queuing, knowing there would be a lot of cold players .... I am pretty sure I recognized Mafuyu, as he is the only one with a real picture of him in the avatar (or at least I saw a person that looked a lot like his avatar!) Even with this little queuing we made it to the tenth row or so, which was pretty awesome. I talked to the people next to me and they had about 1.5 hours to drive to Munich and thought they were far away and I told them that there are people flying here from all over Europe!!!

It was my 5th Coldplay concert and my first intimate one. Before I saw them in the Olympic Hall, Riem, Rock im Park and Arsenal Stadium - All big venues. This was quite different. For the first time it felt so real from the first tune, it was so authentic. With other concerts I was always so overwhelmed by the shere size and had to pinch myself during the concert to convince myself that this is really happening. Even when we were 2nd row (first and probablylast time ever) at Rock im Park it was not so good, as even when Chris was standing right in front of us, he was not looking at us but far in the distance. Not so this time. I had the feeling the Band really saw all of us and we saw all of them. The setlist was great and the sound too. The boys were really cheerful. I was surprised that Chris did not get up to dance during Fix you, as every time in the last third of the song or so I see him jumping across the whole stage in my mind as he did that at the concert in Riem (Munich). When they played a Sky full of stars I was disappointed since I thought they would not play Christmas lights, but it came afterwards and made me very happy. I was also pleased to catch some confetti, since in London 2012 none of the confetti made it up to the seats. The atmosphere was fantastic right from the start and the audience dancing and singing enthusiastically latest with the first sounds of Charlie Brown. Chris was singing true love really with his whole heart - this is how I felt it and it was nice to see that. All around a great amazing concert - even though as always recently a bit short. But we knew that before.

[dalekslayer96]

Regarding those "VIPs". We were standing in the queue to get entrance to the Auditorium, where the concert was held. En elder couple (with VIP wristbands) had a little dispute about getting here so late etc. Truly not the usual Coldplay audience.

 

Anyway, they asked two fans, what they had paid for their tickets. Hearing the price, the lady replies "oh, we got ours as a gift. I actually had to check on Youtube, what Coldplay sounds like. But unfortunately, we couldn't get any seating places, just standing". :angry::angry::angry:

[Stepsi]

And the way Chris sang...as you said it Mortilorie. Really good and with such a passion. I am still not over Magic. He sang it with a "dark voice" and the only word that crosses my mind when thinking back was: sexy! :D

[dalekslayer96]

And the way Chris sang...as you said it Mortilorie. Really good and with such a passion. I am still not over Magic. He sang it with a "dark voice" and the only word that crosses my mind when thinking back was: sexy! :D

 

>Still not over Magic

And I can't get over, can't get over you.

[whenIlookintoyoureyes]

And the way Chris sang...as you said it Mortilorie. Really good and with such a passion. I am still not over Magic. He sang it with a "dark voice" and the only word that crosses my mind when thinking back was: sexy! :D

 

Sounds like it was a very special show. Give me quality over quantity any day.

 

Sexy sounds well very sexy :smile:

[BuckinParadise]

Wohoo, just came to the forum and re-lived the concert by reading your posts and I see, my tweets and photos made it to you here - thanks grids and Sparky for your nice words :) great. To those, who said we should stop tweeting and enjoy the show, who says I didn't enjoy the show? You know how fast you can take a picture with Twitter and press "tweet"? I certainly enjoyed the show very much so! You can take that for granted ;)

 

I was surprised how small the venue was. I mean, Paris was small, too, but this was really a small room and even though I arrived late I managed to get pretty close to the stage. It has some advantages they play small venues hahaha, sorry! ;)

 

The set was amazing. I know it's seems short but with anthems like Charlie Brown, VLV, ETIAW, ASFOS a concert can get pretty exhausting ;) I am very happy with their performance. All were in a great mood and smiling and interacting. Especially Chris, he was so focused yet very relaxed and really interested in the crowd - read posters, looked fr eye contact etc etc. And making speeches and jokes as we know him best. Even Will was smiling again after Chris leaked LP7's name :D and Jonny was so cute how he smiled really at everything Chris said or did (as mentioned above already).

All in all, the evening was splendid. Afterwards Phil took time to make photos with us and signed everything as you can read above haha. And I found Jonny's plectrum in the confetti. Matt threw it to the crowd after the concert but nobody caught it and wasn't able to detect it in the massive amounts of confetti. Eventually I spotted it randomly. Lucky girl ;)

Ah, and nice to have met you too BuckinParadise - short but nice ;)

 

I uploaded some videos on YouTube by now. Instagram and Twitter is known by now ;) I hope I kept you up to date and as I said, don't worry, I enjoyed the show ;)

 

 

so you got Jonnys plectrum lucky girl :)

 

love you review and all the others..I had a long trip home and a little bit in tears cause weekend is over....have to work much next week but will try to upload the video of Always in my head , where Chris spotted my posters and smiled at me :loveshower:..very soon :)

[BuckinParadise]

>Still not over Magic

And I can't get over, can't get over you.

 

Chris is such a precious jewel :love:

[charley]

It was a very nice show. I did Casino de Paris + the 2 RAH gigs and this was the smallest and most intimate.

I'll miss that. It felt pretty much like a private concert, even more so considering I was front row once again.

 

Also it was really nice to meet the German Fanbase, lovely crazy girls most of the time :) haha

See you soon everyone.

 

Charley

[luci&lia]

my review:

 

 

There must have been some good ghost bringing me back to my computer on 6 - Dec.- 2014, high noon. Back to an open window right at that moment when one of the last returned single tickets for the Coldplay show in Munich, only a few hours later, suddenly popped up. After four weeks hopelessly trying to get tickets I still almost can’t believe I was there. So it’s easy to understand all those who did not get any tickets,they hope for vids and pics and are disappointed about less than 90 minutes show. To me in the end time is not really an issue. This Coldplay phenomenon is neither to explain in length nor in amount, there is no measuring jug for something unique like this.

 

Organisation

The sadness of getting no tickets for those limited Ghost Stories shows indeed is a torture for many fans, especially when you notice at the venue there were invited visitors who even not really knew the band, others who admitted they had bought from the scalpers, also from sellers who told them the event was for 400 people only. Those latest still were disappointed about a crowd of 1000, others did not know there do exist any fan forums at all - just to mention this about the “Information Age” and to agree, this "chosen" audience unfortunately did not exist of fans only.

 

The event organisation at the BMW Welt seemed to be missing in experience how to seperate leaving car lovers from entering concertvisitors. Online they had announced the museum would be “closed at 4:00 pm” because of the concert. A visible sign on the museum’s entry failed. People ignored the fences and were sent back person by person from the securities. At the same time inside the building the first concert visitors were sent out again for a ticket control, some could not get their jackets back from the wardrobe and had to stand out in the rain in their shirts for over half an hour. On this concertevening the song “Oceans” indeed was missing.

 

Location

That confusion was forgotten when we finally made it into the Auditorium. A small venue, a stage almost being disrespectful to distance. One of the security guys felt pity for us for “standing too close to those loudspeakers”. He told us stories about other artists and ended up with something like “you all here are interested in those (Coldplay) only anyway.“ Probably about this he was quite right, about the speakers he was wrong, the sound engineering was perfect.

 

Listening recently the GS live album and being back to a live concert now this reminded me what GS era was or still is. The whole thing, A.M.I.H. connecting to the high spirit of MX era (with Charlie Brown, Paradise,ETIAW), including the thrill of Clocks and so on. Between all those the new GS stuff never seemed displaced and the older songs never seemed to break the thread of those mysterious Ghost Stories.

 

The show

 

The setlist, the one from Royal Albert Hall in July,with little changes: without Don’t Panic, Everything’s Not Lost and Oceans, then the change for Christmaslights in the encore.

To me one more GS song except from the opener and the singles would have been welcome. The variable parts were placed very well with TheScientist and Til Kingdom Come. This Munich crowd (although they did come from U.K. , U.S., Italy, Romania, Australia and whereever else) apparently gave more heart to the classics, so the chorus during Ink indeed was missing, not to compare to that live version taped in Paris. So in the end this setlist was exactly the right one for this audience and this show.

An enthusiastic Viva going down into a dark and beautiful Midnight, that rises up again to a raging E.T.I.A.W., before it includes with Fix You four eras during four songs to one of the many highlights of this evening. Not to forget a very intensive and passionate performance of all four GS songs, especially True Love.

To be honest: if they really had played a big surprise like Ghost Story or Miracles for the first time, one of the rare O performances, a never played live song like Up With The Birds to this exclusive audience - would this not be harder to all those ticketless fans? Maybe not the most exotic setlist, on the other hand a fair one for sure.

 

To conclude

 

“Coldplay will celebrate the release of the upcoming Ghost Stories Live 2014 concert film and live album with a one-off concert at BMW Welt in Munich”, this is what it was announced. Whatever made them to play there and the policy of VIP-inviting might be a mystery and sometimes hard to understand. Still we seem to have a more commercial way of thinking like the band themselves. When we hear “release” we expect album merchandising, a bigger venue, Coldplay playing almost the complete new album maybe, plus adding a special like Ghost Story or All Your Friends, and of course the most famous classics.

I think the emphasis belongs to another word here, it is “celebrate”. Finally this is it what it turned out to. All songs played there made you feel that moment you want to hear nothing else but this song at this moment and nothing else. In ancient times before recording was invented music had this special quality we might be not aware of it anymore today: it was only there as long as it was played, by someone who was there to play it (anything else would have been a musical box). Maybe it is this special thing Coldplay make us feel again. This experience is not really to tin, not even in the best live tape. A look at the merchandise stall confirmed my impression. There were only some shirts to purchase, no live album campaigns or ads, nothing, and this some weeks before Christmas. It was clear what this evening was made for: pure music to reload energy or something “like getting some crack cocaine” - to quote Chris about the feeling playing live again after a few months. A dose of drug, one without unhealthy side effects, it is there too on the side of the crowd, a substance that consists of celebrating the moment, not of counting songs or minutes. Let's look forward to the next chance for it, any time.

[BuckinParadise]

It was a very nice show. I did Casino de Paris + the 2 RAH gigs and this was the smallest and most intimate.

I'll miss that. It felt pretty much like a private concert, even more so considering I was front row once again.

 

Also it was really nice to meet the German Fanbase, lovely crazy girls most of the time :) haha

See you soon everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

Charley

 

 

 

thank you :)

I love to be crazy :D

[Mortilorie]

Yes, when we left the premises I said to my partner, this was the best Coldplay concert we have ever had! It is only afterwards you start thinking oh could they have played more - but it is the experience that counts! And this evening was truly special.

[cheeetaz]

Ok guys, i'm back home. Arrived last night, got straight to bed and i'm at work right now. Since Viva is playing on the radio as i type this and the memorry is still fresh i figured why not start my review. I'm not very good at this so it will be fairly short and please dont expect too much from it. Pictures will be up tonight when i get home from work and have time to organize myself again.

 

 

Getting there:

 

I basically had 2 options to get to munich. Train or Plane. Car was never an option because i would have had to cover 700km in just a few hours and had no idea in advance how the weather would be. So i decided to fly there. The cheapest flight departed at 6:35 in the morning on Saturday. Got up at 4, drove an hour to the airport and hopped on board. Quick 1 hour flight and i was in munich. As the sun began to rise i began to deccent back through the clouds into darkness, cold and rain. Great, not.

I then quickly got to my hotel and checked in. Since i waited until a week before the show i had to take what i could get. In my case, a very cheap, old hostel. One night was enough...

 

 

Munich:

 

After i checked into my hostel i went to the BMW Welt to make sure i know how to get there by subway and to chek out the place. It was 10am and i had the whole day in front of me. I took a quick walk through the Olympicpark. Pretty cold and windy... *freeeeezing* It was weird when i tried to imagine that the Olympics took place there in 1972.

After i almost froze to death and walked miles i decided it was time to get some food and load my phone back at my stay for the night. So i did just that.

 

 

The Show:

 

It was about 1pm when i made my way to the Welt for the thing i was there for in the first place. When i arrived at around 2pm there were 40-50 people waiting. I met Max aka. Lost Boy who i gave my spare ticket to and we walked around the Welt for a bit just enjoing the place.

Well, then the hole number and list confusion started. I dont want to get in it to deep because it will just confuse me again and it probably will confuse you too.

All i know is it was pretty much a chaos and very, very unorganized.

 

Greetings to the lady from Poland who almost started fighting and throwing punches at people. Maybe you should think about starting some kind of meditation routine to calm yourself down.

 

After all the madness, which resulted in one girl getting transported to the hospital, we finally got in and i got a pretty good spot in the middle/2nd row. We sat down and waited another 1 1/2 hours. Thank god it wasnt as hot as it was in Cologne earlier this year.

 

At 7pm it was finally time to rock. The show was pretty similiar to Cologne. Same stage, pretty much same setlist. No surprises. I loved how Chris was telling stories and jokes every few minutes. You could really tell they had a great time.

So did i. Obviously it was no comparrison to the RAH show but at the end of the day you cant really compare these two. I mean, the RAH is just one of the best venues in the world and since there were only seats back in July i had space to move and yell and dance like crazy. You cant do all that when you have 5 people sorrounding you in not even a square meter of space.

Afterall the show was great, the band was in an awesome mood and i had a lot of fun. I hoped they would play Ghost Story or change the setlist a bit. But anyway, it is what it is.

A lot of people are complaining about the fact they only played 75-80 minutes. Yes, its not that long. If you fly in just for the show and spent 100Euro just on the ticket you could expect a little more and certainly i wouldnt have hated it. But again, it is what it is. Maybe they'll have a longer setlist during the next real tour.

Also dont forget they played Christmas Lights after they finished the encore. They usually dont do that. Chris was struggling a lot with Christmas Lights, which wasnt a bad thing. He had to play the last few notes 3 or 4 times until he got it.

 

The show was just finished and i was just heading back to the main area of the Welt when i spotted Phil sorrounded by a lot of people. Got in line, took a few pictures and waited for thim to sign something for me. Unfortunately i have no idea what happened to my ticket. After i got in and sat down i must have lost it somewhere. I havent seen it again since.

All i had with me for Phil to sign was my temporary ID i got just a few weeks earlier. Why not?

Phil was obviously a bit confused about what i asked him to sign. You could easily see he thought somehting like "what the hell is this" :D

He asked for my name and signed my ID anyway. When i told him it was my ID he looked even more confused. Well, who wouldnt.

And because i forgot it in the heat of the moment: Thank You Phil, it is much appreciated.

 

After the show i met again with Becky, Frank aka fraetes, and Oz aka. Vampire. We chatted a bit, relived what just had happened and then decided to go for some food and a drink to some place in the city. We ended up at a small place where some birthday or something took place and where the owner looked like Tony Soprano. Kim Dotcom was there too! :D

 

So, that is about it. Flew home last night at 9:45 and was happy to get some good sleep in my very own bed.

 

 

Finally, huge greetings to Oz (hope you got some sleep and had a safe trip back home), Max aka. Lost Boy (it was great meeting you in person and thanks for showing me the Welt), Frank aka. fraetes (Thanks for a great trip to the airport at midnight :D , taking me to my Hotel afterwards and the great music during the ride) and of course Becky (Thanks for your overall great companion and introducing me to Glühwein...)

 

When the year began i hadnt met anyone of you before. Now it becomes more and more clear to me, this isnt just about the band and their music, it's about meeting great people in great places and having unforgettable experiences together.

I had an amazing time with all of you this past weekend and it was a perfect way to end the year.

 

See you all again very soon!!

 

 

 

Oopps, looks like it is longer than i expected it to be...

Spelling mistakes are yours to keep.

[galle69]

I can 100% verify that. Just hang around the VIP area and look out for drunk people that won't be let in or something, maybe they will give you their wristbands.

 

Thanks for that...i did it.! I ask one who came out of these area and he gave the wristband to me...unfortunately 5 minutes to late. Chris was gone. The band left Munich by aircraft at 11pm. 9.15 pm Chris was in the VIP-Lounge. i was in there 9.20.....:veryangry2:

 

So..for me, who saw CP live in cologne E-Werk in springtime 2014, it was again a wonderful concert.

Remember, the chance to see a band like coldplay in these intimate situation ("Like in the studio") is very rarely.

Like i said to my friend: The day was like a piece of "Schwarzwälder-Kirschtorte". The only thing missing was the cherry (a meeting with the band) on it.

Now i try to show some pics i made with my HTC...

 

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/coldplay-in-der-bmw-welt-weihnachtszauber-mit-chris-1.2255573

[berrytin]

Does anyone filmed/or know a front row video which has been filmed while Magic? Pretty please? I found one on YT but it's missing a few lines.

 

I'll write my review sometime this week bUT IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL.

[cheeetaz]

Not sure if someone posted it before but just in case, here are some great pictures from the show: http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=1846

[dianab]

[video=youtube_share;Y-5B7NLA_PY]

 

Funny Chris

[DM2zzion]

Wow, the show was awesome. Altough there were some annoying "Schickeria" people there was a cool atmosphere and although there were some mistakes the performance of CP was great.

 

Unfortunately I didn't filmed Magic, but nine songs from somehting like the fifth row. I tried my best with recording this videos and I'm sure that it was useful that I'm very tall.

Furthermore I made a complete audio recording of this show. Currently it's getting remastered and after that I will put a link on this forum (if I allowed to). For now here are my videos:

 

Charlie Brown + Paradise:

[video=youtube_share;u_z-kBPvUPI]

 

Clocks + The Scientist (I think I'm the onliest one who recorded this, didn't see anyone else):

BTW in the beginning there's Chris' good evening speech and apparently he thought the show was on Sunday :laugh3:

[video=youtube_share;rtiM6bqt1F8]

[DM2zzion]

Viva La Vida:

[video=youtube_share;p_Q6sXpHiRM]

 

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall:

[video=youtube_share;EOLja0REyLY]

[DM2zzion]

Fix You + A Sky Full of Stars:

[video=youtube_share;xKiTRhX1ESk]

 

Christmas Lights (with a hilarious ending, and altough Chris forbid it I put it on youtube :P ):

[video=youtube_share;Jyb8qsKde68]