Coldplay's Viva La Vida tour continued into Canada for a few days last night as they played the huge Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON. There was HUGE anticipation for this show as evidenced by the Toronto thread which reached over 120 pages of discussion BEFORE the show even arrived. Roadie #42 tweeted a picture of the venue before the show - see the picture after the jump. Will Champion turns 31 today and there were on-stage celebrations as Coldplay's fifth member, Phil Harvey, brought a birthday cake with balloons on to stage for Will. No major changes to the setlist as Billie Jean replaced I'm A Believer in the acoustic set again.
[discussion] [photos] [videos] [wiki reviews/setlist] (updated over the next 24-48 hours)
Setlist:
Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Yellow
Glass Of Water
Cemeteries Of London
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)
Talk (techno version)
The Hardest Part (Chris piano)
Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
Viva La Vida
Lost!
Green Eyes (acoustic)
Death Will Never Conquer (Acoustic, sung by Will)
Billie Jean
Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
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Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends
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The Scientist
Life in Technicolor ii
The Escapist (outro)
Picture by TheGreatEight @ Twitter
The guys were amaaaaaaaaaazing tonight as always. The crowd has humongous, Chris said there were 50 thousand fans, and you could tell they were amazed by how loud we were tonight. They kept smiling to each other, and I think Chris even said something like "Shit, that's a lot of people." Setlist was the same as always, with Billie Jean and all. But, they did have a special birthday sing-a-long for Will. Even Phil, who we never see brought out the cake! All in all the boys never disapoint, and the crowd was unreal, amazing singing, and the mexican phone wave was great. And, one of the highlights of the night, before I left I got Johnny's setlist! A little sad that they said they won't be back for a few years, but it'll definitely be worth the wait, especially if they put out a new album sometime soon. Hope everyone had a great night tonight. Coldplay you are truly amazing. [thanks jonbenar]
hi im new here, so forgive me if i sound idiotic, but hooooly crap! i just came back from roger's centre... my first concert ever + my favourite and ever = i had the best night of my life. the first opening band was pretty bad, it just felt out of place, sounded countryish and all the songs sounded the same which wasn't a good thing. the second band (elbow) was amazing, the lead singers voice was really soothing like chris'. nearing the end, chris announced that it was will's birthday so they brought out a cake for him on stage, and we all sang happpppy birthday lol. they also did a tribute song (billy jean) for michael jackson and it was a neat twist. at the end we got a free cd left right left right left. i was upset they didn't play daylight though =( [thanks farb]
This was my first coldplay concert and it was amazing!!! Couldn't stop smiling and singing. Nobody near me knew the lyrics though. Chris was in a great mood, laughing and poking Johnny. I am usually a member of the 'short hair club', but wow, he looks unbelievable, all sweaty. I loved every sinle verse of every song, it was so much better than I had expected. Will's drumming blew me away too. He was all over it. Too bad though the butterflies were only projected on people in the flat section of the place ... Grammy's jackets for the encore and then out came Phil with a cake!!! What a treat! And it was my bithday too so I liked the song as well. oh, I forgot ... at the end Chris thanked people again for 'giving him his job', but then he said something like "you guys will never know how important this day is for us as a band". Does he say that often as well (like the 'best job' thing)? Does anybody know what he could have meant?? Couldn't have been Will's birthday alone ... [thanks lara____]
I was the only one in my area who knew all the words to every song. My sister came in second only because she didn't know Death and All of His Friends, Green Eyes, and Glass of Water. Kitty, Daisy and Lewis were not the best band and we decided to get some overpriced pizza while they played their set. Then Elbow came out and were totally amazing! We started a small chant in our area for the dancing roadie. Then pit started a wave then the lights went down and the band walked out. Right after Violet when Chris sings "If you love me, won't you let me know." I shout "I love you Jon!" into the crowd. I spend the next bit of the concert chanting Jonny and singing along. When they ran to the acoustic stage I thought I'd lost them then saw them right below me. Jonny did a cute little dance during Death Will Never Conquer. The Lovers butterflies didn't come into my area so we had a fun time collected them after the concert. When Phil gave Will the birthday cake, all I could say was Phil's name I could barely sing. It was beautiful and few things could make it better. Oh, and we were the ones struting around in birthday hats. Thank you Coldplay!! [thanks AngelsHaveBlueEyes]
More on this concert including reviews, videos, pictures and tweets here onwards (WARNING: huge thread alert!)
Bloody heck. The back row need oxygen in this place, it's absolutely huge. R#42.
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