Coldplay joined the Twitterverse way back in January, but after a flurry of tweets from Guy and a little nudge from Anchorman at the end of May, June saw the band reach the magical 7-figure mark of 1,000,000 followers. Being fans of the 140 character social network site ourselves, Anna and I thought we’d use it as the basis for our look back at June on the Coldplay calendar.
By the time the boys got to Indiana on the 5th, it seemed as though Guy had been well and truly bitten by the Twitter bug and he actually tweeted live from the stage. Roadie #42 blogged again on June 7th – this time he was feeling all nostalgic for the good old days when the band was in its infancy, playing to small crowds in tiny venues. (How times change! In the month of June alone, Coldplay played to over a quarter of a million people - yes, fact-fans, we searched each arenas capacity to check our figures on that one!)
#42: I'm stood in the corridor where the band grab a drink and a towel before the encores and I realise that despite all else that surrounds the hugeness of the Coldplay circus, they're still the same four mates who started it all those years ago. As the Viva remix pounds through the walls, they dry the sweat and talk of who came into which chorus too early or who hit the wrong note when. Admittedly, when the show is over they leave by police escort in a screeching cavalcade of flashing lights, rather than pushing a transit van. Inside the van though, not that much has changed.
On 19th June, Anchorman announced on Twitter that Flaming Lips and Bat For Lashes would be joining Coldplay on the European leg of the tour while Coldplaying.com was buzzing about the confirmation that Girls Aloud & Jay-Z would be playing BOTH Wembley Stadium shows. Oxfam had their own reason to celebrate in Canada, as they picked up their 100,000th signature on the Viva tour.
Read the full June 2009 Coldplay review article in the Coldplay forum here [thanks RedGirl76 & SueDeNimes]
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