[2016-07-05] Telia Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark

[nancyk58]

I am listening to P7 Mix's Coldplay Marathon and will you let know later what happened and what was playing plus the Coldplay top 10 as chosen by the listeners.

 

While listening I have looked through the reviews in detail. Google Translate will help me in a few sentences. I plan to post the reviews later.

 

I will also post the P7 Mix Coldplay marathon - if not today, then tomorrow.

[nancyk58]

Reviews from GAFFA and Soundvenue of Coldplay’s concert in Telia Parken on Tuesday, 5 July 2016

 

Soundvenue: Timed and organized for emotional strings. 4 stars

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Gaffa.dk: 2016-07-06 02:45:00 Review 06.07.201602:45 4 stars

 

The great festival of lights, yes, but also a band in a creative ford. And Chris Martin, who sang worse than heard long (!! I totally disagree. For once I found his voice really good)

 

Coldplay, Telia Parken, Copenhagen

 

When not everything that glitters is gold

 

Reviewed by Torben Holleufer | GAFFA / translated by Nancy Boysen

 

I have been quite charmed by Coldplay and especially frontman Chris Martin's way of reaching out to the farthest corners of a packed stadium. This has been true for many years, and especially when the Coldplay classics Fix You was served.

 

At the same time, I have been quite annoyed. One is to have U2 and Bono as declared role model / ideal, and it was obviously tempting to get Brian Eno as a producer, but to be inspired by (rather than the reviewer’s “steal” from) the Irish band to such an extent both in terms of basslines, Jonny Buckland’ s The Edge inspiration / fascination and the national anthem-like songs, created for greatness, often with Celtic instruments meaning bagpipes, but also bands like Scottish Big Country, or a certain group from Dublin. It is and has always been rather rigid. It has at any rate sounded in this way for the reviewer.

 

Where on the other hand it has been quite cool is the way in which it almost sounded as created the group the very catchy hits right here in front of - yes, inspired by and together with - the audience of that evening. They have always managed to arouse enthusiasm. As tonight when we were told that we are "the best audience on a Tuesday night, ever!", you try to forget that the audience at the Glastonbury Festival in England ten days ago was told that they are the best audience at all. He is an extremely nice guy, him Chris Martin from neat Camden in London.

 

But here we were in Parken in Copenhagen, for the first of two concerts, and a set where especially the latest album, A Head Full of Dreams, is represented, and although Coldplay with especially Adventure of A Lifetime has a reliable hit, then – as is the case with the previous album – it lacks the bright/brilliant inspiration from the first years of the ride to the top. It seems more to be the template, rather than the fresh sound, as were the geniuses just tossed out.

 

For this occasion (the concert) a light and laser show had been created that involved the audience. Each concert-goer was given a wristband/bracelet that controlled from the stage would light up in all colors of the rainbow. It was impressively beautiful to look at, even if the reviewer again saw clear inspirations from U2's Zoo tour. The light was so nice, while in return it was just too sugary/sweet when balloons and other effects in all sorts of colours were colorful in the same way as if we had all been poured out of a bag of M & M's.

 

Like many others, Coldplay had discovered that David Bowie has died. And they broke into probably the most pathetic version of Heroes the reviewer has heard. Devoid of nerve, we were as far away as possible from the two lonely people at the gate that separated East and West. And where Bowie hit with / fitted Robert Fripp's guitar, the combination of Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland was like kissing your sister. Well, David Bowie did not live to hear Coldplay’s version of this iconic song.

 

I think it was a pity that the band apparently used back track so much. For as it was, the band often seemed placed in a no man's land where the screaming crowd, singing along to every stanza as if it was the national anthem, formed one side and where the pre-recorded track back then was the second (side).

 

Coldplay would get through concerts using three different podiums/stages, where especially the stage at the back, where the band appeared amidst the audience all the way down, was a really good idea. Here they would almost play as if you met them on the street. While Chris Martin showed a striking/blatant lack of coherence in the political statements, when he first said that he was sorry about the upcoming British withdrawal from the EU (“Brexit”) and then put on a Danish flag and thereby paid tribute to the national state.

 

The audience, however, did not seem to care at all, because they were at a party with a band that just could not fail. And so it was. An apparent triumph, but as far as the reviewer is concerned, it was significantly more form than contents.

 

An okay concert by a popular band. But more from the gold vein next time, thank you.

[nancyk58]

Translation of review of Coldplay’s concert on Tuesday, 5 July 2016 in Telia Parken in the Danish newspaper ”Berlingske Tidende”:

 

Colourful Party (paintbox party) for the People

By Michael Charles Gaunt Translated by Nancy Boysen 6 July 2016, 07:46

 

The British stadium band filled Telia Park with colourful explosions and a naïve hope for a better world.

 

4 stars (out of 6 possible)

 

Coldplay goes for it. 100 per cent . The big mass seduction. Here all can contribute. You and me and the whole globe, Charlie Chaplin , David Bowie, Rihanna, Tiësto and Muhammad Ali.

 

Yes, they all appeared in one form or another, when the British arena band hit Telia Park on Tuesday night for the first of two sold-out concerts on their current ' A Head Full Of Dreams ' world tour.

 

With their countless explosions in all the most fluorescent colors of the rainbow, songs about unspecified dreams and about looking up, up, up in the expensive community’s ecstasy – it was like being trapped in a kind of quasi - religious Benetton advertising.

 

I was not pleased with »A Head Full of Dreams«, when it was released. I thought that it appeared too dallying (flattering), stupid and clever in its production. But I must say that these four Britons get it to work in the stadium format. That is what the music is designed for, and new tracks such as »Birds«, »Adventure of A Lifetime« and »A Head Full Of Dreams« were great among all the classic Coldplay songs.

 

The stadium show fully revolved around the excellent musical performance. As early as during the first song of the concert Chris Martin ran down the unlikely long runway in an explosion of coloured dust. At that time we had already received greetings on the big screen from fans from all stops on the current tour.

 

On top of it, everyone in the audience in Telia Park had been equipped with a bracelet/wristband full of LEDs controlled via musical cues. And thus effectively converted the entire Telia Park into a large luminous organism.

 

Four vanilla ice creams on the stage

 

But I cannot let go of (escape) the feeling that Coldplay are four vanilla ice creams that this night would like to be rainbow ice creams (Google: Neapolitan ice cream). They are not the great personalities, and frontman Chris Martin is not a rock frontman you can cut yourself on. He is a pleaser like no other man who, this evening, was running around with a Danish flag fluttering out of his back pocket while he tried to make us believe that he had never heard any crowd sing as well on a Tuesday.

 

His manner is probably one of the reasons why so many like the band. Along with the songs of course. For one must not underestimate the group's ability to continue to write songs to which people can sing along and feel something. It may well be that Coldplay have it sound simple, but it does require something to keep writing songs with so much power through 16 years.

 

And Coldplay have also developed (moved), as the evening’s concert showed. It is far from the whining rocking breakthrough hit »Yellow« to the pop maximalism on songs like »Charlie Brown« or »Paradise«, which here got a proper shot of steroids in Tiësto’s hard pumped (hard pounding) EDM remix.

 

That they have developed their distinct signature was underlined when they got David Bowie's ' Heroes ' - of course they chose that Bowie song ! - to sound like a Coldplay song. We got a verse and two choruses, and then there was a sudden transition to the oh- oh- oh- stadium song above them all, ' Viva La Vida ', and then Bowie was forgotten again.

 

Dear Coldplay, if you must pay tribute to one of the biggest pop stars, then do it properly. Otherwise, it seems just like a hostage-taking of a dead man.

 

" Adventure of A Lifetime ' was allowed to end the regular set with lots of colored balloons. Had it been an all-time adventure? It would be wrong to say. But Coldplay certainly did their bit to make it a reliable evening in Telia Park. But they also had to work hard for it. Not the big pay-offs compared to how much they invested. The encore ' Amazing Day ' would like to make it big, but they have written that song in a better version earlier in their career.

 

Hope is always good

In return, " A Sky Full Of Stars " finally created something of the redemption that they had chased so fiercely throughout the evening. With his giant David Guetta–pounding (pumping) climax squared, ejaculatory confetti cannons and an overflowing starry sky on the big screen, before the song ' Up & Up " was the uplifting " Heal The World "-like closer to go home to.

 

A song that dares hope and be positive on behalf of humanity. " We're gonna get it together somehow ." It was not clear what exactly we should base the hope on. But hope is always good. And someone has to stand up on the stage and be the babble happy (raving happy) optimists, even though deep down inside we know that all this shit goes down about our ears.

 

Band:Coldplay

Where:Telia Parken, Tuesday, 5 July 2016

[nancyk58]

Coldplay, Parken, Copenhagen, Tuesday, 5 July

 

http://ekstrabladet.dk/musik/koncert_anmeldelser/coldplay-triumferede-i-parken/6174444

 

Updated 5 July 2016 around midnight By:Thomas Treo / translated by: Nancy Boysen

 

Coldplay triumphed at Telia Park (5 stars out of 6 possible)

 

Irresistible Chris Martin led the pop band to colorful great victory in front of 46,000 concert-goers

 

Coldplay does not make great art, but they master the rare art to make Telia Park work as a concert venue.

 

They did it in 2012, and tonight they did it again. It was a pleasure.

 

Coldplay simply understands to use a stadium. Both musically and visually.

 

Telia Park’s roof was rolled on during the afternoon, because torrential rain threatened to ruin the celebration party, but Coldplay's colorful show ensured that it felt like seeing an indoor rainbow.

 

Effective use of confetti, balloons and big screens made the gray National Stadium appear almost appealing, but Coldplay's most powerful trick was again to hand out flashing bracelets / wristbands to the concert-goers.

 

It does beat lighters and mobile phones. Wow.

 

Excellent acoustics

Already in the second song, ' Yellow', the sound was excellent by (compared to) Telia Park's notorious standard, and again you just have to realize that it pays for multi-millionaires to spend some bucks to hang additional speakers along the tribunes.

 

It may even Bruce Springsteen and his amateurish sound engineer soon grasp.

 

The excellent acoustics made it easy to hear that Coldplay's abilities as songwriters are not quite what they used to be. But it tells more about the high quality of older hits like ' The Scientist ', ' Clocks ' and ' Fix You '.

 

The quartet pumped up their newer, electronic material very much so that for example 'Paradise ' reminded of a climax (peak) during Sensation White.

 

Three quarters of Coldplay are as anonymous as Telia Park's draught beer (draft), but in the course of nearly two hours Chris Martin delivered a heady (an intoxicating) stellar (magnificent) performance. The man is seemingly born enthusiastic (fit).

 

He makes even Rasmus Seebach appear unsympathetic in comparison.

Dannebrog in his pocket

The front man, who sang magnificently, did not even have to invite the 46,000 concert-goers to sing along. They sang along all by themselves.

 

The roof was nearly blown off again when the concert-goers sang along to ' Viva la Vida ', while Martin raced down a giant ramp with the Danish national flag, Dannebrog, curled up in the back pocket. I think that most concert-goers forgave Chris Martin that.

 

The pop heroes’ tribute to David Bowie was somewhat flat in the form of a clumsy interpretation of ' Heroes' , but the few dead/dull moments were quickly replaced by ecstatic joy.

 

And Coldplay’s concert seemed extra “live” because they used as much as three stages without disturbing the show's flow. You would think that the gracious orchestra had tried it before.

 

The good ones do not always win, but they did indeed Tuesday night in Telia Park. Is there anyone who has a spare ticket for Wednesday ?

[nancyk58]

COLDPLAY FLOODED WITH APPLAUSES ON SOCIAL MEDIA (Berlingske Tidende 7 July 2016)

 

Coldplay have been bombarded with gratitude and hearts from fans being so crazy about Tuesday’s concert at Telia Park in Copenhagen that they readily share their enthusiasm with the band and everybody else on the social media. Fans have evaluated the concert with words as “wonderful concert” and “amazing show”.

 

Whether you turned on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, a confetti image from Tuesday’s concert is popping up.

 

The concert-goers want to send a greeting of praising words and heart emojis.

 

The jubilation is mostly in English so that the Coldplay members can understand what the happy fans are writing if they have the time to scroll through the unusually many updates and pictures / images.

 

Often social media are synonymous with negativity and tiresome comments. But not when it comes to the Coldplay concert. In some magical way the band has managed to spellbind the audience so that only happiness, love and a big thank you remain in the mind (consciousness) of the social media.

 

Also Coldplay themselves seem to be happy about the #ColdplayCopenhagen audience. Each city visited by Coldplay on their world tour has been awarded its own hashtag.

 

Last Monday Coldplay visited Sweden, and pictures / images from that concert were shared under the hashtag #ColdplayStockholm.

 

While front man Chris Martin has posted a double picture of himself on his Instagram profile from the stage on 5 July 2016, Coldplay’s official profile has shared a picture of some “Danish monkeys”.

 

By Stefanie Mather ([email protected]) / translated by Nancy Boysen

[nancyk58]

Review of Coldplay's concert in Telia Park on Tuesday, 5 July 2016 - review from Danish newspaper www.politiken.dk

 

(I went to the library on Thursday 7.7.16 to get a copy of the entire review from the printed newspaper version. Only subscribers can read the entire articles from www.Politiken.dk )

 

Coldplay gave the audience at the Telia Park a big ride in the elevator

 

In a color explosion of a visual concert Coldplay gave a sold-out Telia Park a wild ride to the upper floors of their feel-good palace

 

By SIMON LUND Music editor / translated by Nancy Boysen

 

Telia Parken, Tuesday, the 5 July 2016 4 hearts (out of 6 possible)

 

Coldplay showed their hands immediately.

 

The choir from ' A Head Full Of Dreams ' mounted a mountain range over the rainbow-colored confetti storm through which Chris Martin ran like a nine-year-old boy and with the tongue hanging out (of his mouth). Around the Telia Park's square / four corners, 46,000 bracelets / wristbands distributed to all the concert-goers at the entrance were flashing red.

 

Concert-goers in their finest Tuesday clothes and polite to each other had travelled (streamed) through a wet Copenhagen (due to many rain showers) in order to fill the sold-out Telia Park.

 

They were not here to be challenged, moved out of their comfort zone or whipped up by rock indignation. They had come for the elevator ride. The one leading up to the upper floors of the feel good palace.

 

The message to them was clear: This will be visually spectacular - and Chris Martin will run to the end of the world for the good concert.

 

Or, in the cynical way: Coldplay is a band that shamelessly will press any button that can bring its audience in an uplifted, excited state.

 

That was what the four Englishmen did during the following just under 2 hours. Sometimes with the full benefit of their songs' banal potential, sometimes slightly in the template’s idle. They even made David Bowie's "Heroes" sound like a generic Coldplay anthem.

 

But that song as well was delivered with the soaring intensity that made the concert seem like a pop religious revival. Coldplay created euphoria through 23 songs, all beating bombastically – in Martin's case – the bird’s chest.

 

From start to finish, not many in the sold-out arena did not have their hands clapping over their heads, and not many did not sing along to every "oh - uh – oh – uh - ooooh", while Coldplay dipped Telia Park in paint (Dyrups).

 

All bracelets/wristbands colored Telia Park yellow to "Yellow", blue laser light cut through the resounding sing-along during "Clocks", white confetti cannons fired confetti in all directions during "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall", the colored balloons bounced around over the audience as if it were a birthday party during "Adventure of a Lifetime", and the audience exploded in a flashing rave as "Paradise" ended in a Tiësto remix.

 

It was like being in a commercial for Sony Bravia TV.

 

For a band that for almost 20 years has been vilified as the high priests of whining rock and teasingly called " U2 Light" (and at the same time reaching sales of 80 million albums), Coldplay did not only display the arsenal of stadium effects. They also reviewed the musical catalog they have built up on 7 albums.

 

There was intimate campfire atmosphere out on a small island of a stage with the request song "Shiver" and "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face"; there were broken hiphop rhythms on the Rihanna collaboration

"Princess of China", unrestrained (wild) soul with clapping hands on "Hymn for the Weekend", "a Sky Full of Stars" was as anthemic as obstreperous (unruly), and of course the intimate feelings were magnified in wide format when Chris Martin was lying on his back singing “Fix You” with a devoted audience.

 

While U2 is still struggling to join the new century, Coldplay showed that they can handle (orientate themselves in) all keys of the present time, that they can tie the big community together and effortlessly take on the role as the biggest rock band in the world right now.

 

Along the way, I lost the sight of him a couple of times in the visual confusion, but I knew all along that the smiling Chris Martin constantly was frontrunner in the fun. A likeable man who together with the rest of the band had only their fans in mind.

 

As the songs from the new album "A Head Full of Dreams" piled up in the set list, the idea came to me that Coldplay are moving around the world now to make things right again after the previous, subdued and very personal "Ghost Stories".

 

It was about Chris Martin (and his "conscious uncoupling" from his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow). The new songs are designed for stadiums and are all about the audience and what they want.

 

Of course, it is manipulative, speculative and an expression of an emotional monoculture. Such is the greatness of stadium pop when it works. It is higher and simpler. With built-in risk of altitude sickness.

 

The melodramatic blockbuster movie (epic) in technicolor breaks for Coldplay in a combination of overplayed effects (such as Muhammad Ali quotes on the big screen or Chris Martin kneeling and kissing the Danish flag Dannebrog, mon dieu) and elevated empty (idle) talk.

 

It sounded like a neo- (new) religious quack doctor when Chris Martin sent us home with the pompous "Up and Up" and the lines:

 

”How come people suffer, how come people part? / How come people struggle, how come people break your heart?”

 

His answer was not surprisingly love, we'll be all right together.

 

But it is that kind of color-happy naivety that makes me think of the wise words: Optimism is lack of information.

 

Coldplay is not so serious about their clichés about diamonds, stars in the sky and the chirping of birds as they pretend to be.

 

And maybe they should turn down a bit the new age charm and self-righteous / saved messages bent in yoga positions and only go for the big crowd pleaser of a pop party they have perfected.

 

For the only thing you want during a Coldplay concert is to fasten/buckle your seatbelt and enjoy the ride.

 

By [email protected] Translated by Nancy Boysen

 

 

http://politiken.dk/kultur/kultur_top/premium/ECE3286841/coldplay-gav-parken-den-store-elevatortur/

 

By DITTE GIESE, Culture Journalist at Danish newspaper ”Politiken” / translated by Nancy Boysen

 

It took only 35 minutes to sell all the tickets for the Coldplay concert in Telia Park. Therefore, Coldplay immediately announced an extra concert. Therefore, on the evenings of Tuesday 5 July 2016 and Wednesday 6 July 2016, Copenhagen will therefore be in a Coldplay mood. It’s fun to make fun of a band like Coldplay. Coldplay have sold over 80 million albums, yes, and played virtually all stadiums in the world, including headlining the prestigious Super Bowl break. Yet, their music is called crying rock, whining rock and stadium rock with a wrinkled nose, and a reviewer once described the band as "four Hugh Grants staring out into the rain."

[Lars Gimse]

What a great show with Coldplay 5. july. My best concert ever, and I have seen at lot before (like Pink Floyd twice..). I have try to figure out on YouTube clips when my Norwegian little flag was show on big screen but can't find it. Now I hope anyone in this forum can help me to remember? I have also made a YouTube clip from some of the songs right beside the catwalk and in the confetti. Hope you like it