Coldplay Live Reviews and Setlist - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Charlotte, NC (7th August 2009) - Coldplay News

Coldplay's Viva La Vida tour is closing in on its conclusion to the third North American leg as they played at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC last night, with only the Tampa show to go. The Coldplay-shaped puppets were last seen going for a police car ride in Charlotte - see those pictures after the jump. No major changes to the arena/amphitheater setlist as Billie Jean replaced I'm A Believer in the acoustic set again. Thanks to iriden who captured these amazing pictures from the front. See more of reviews and iriden's photos after the jump.

[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

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 iriden

By far the best show I have ever seen them do. We got front and center in the pit, and the boys were sure on fire tonight. Politik still is one of their best songs live, but boy the crowd was into it tonight. The boys sure did love us singing to fix you. And Chris and Jonny messed up Death and All of His Friends, and Chris blamed it on a good looking girl that distracted him. We were also by a bunch of Coldplaying people. I have pictures and an almost full audio recording of Billie Jean (which was great) that I will upload very very soon. Other than that what a show! [thanks holycatfish87]

3 words. Chris. Martin's. Towel. he gave it to my little brother on his way to the C stage..he saw him, gave him a nod, and gave him the towel!! My brother's seats were near the c stage, and I told him to not let me down...he did not!Before the show started, I saw Hoppy walking around & told my little brother to go talk to him & he went running after him,calling his name, but he didn't hear before he went into the back. The show was really good, Jonny messed up where he begins in Death & All His Friends, and Chris was like "wait wait wait, Jonny boy you fucked it up! don't put this on youtube!" At the beginning Chris sounded like he was sick & didn't talk too much to the crowd as he usually does. I didn't sit in the seat I was supposed to because I was in the middle & Could not see a thing when everyone stood up, so I moved to the aisle and was there the entire time, except for when I went to see the guys run to the C stage. aka Chris Martin give my brother his towel! I promise pictures & maybe a video tomorrow!! it was kind of sad when Chris said, "we won't be back for a couple of years" then I remembered. I'm seeing them again Sunday then I will be sad! [thanks greeneyes1207]

A FANTASTIC show to say the least! Way better than last nights show! EVerybody was into it including guy hahaha. Met some really cool people on the board. Was directly front and center with Pguild and catfish. Everything was flawless except when they messed up DAAHF, but its always funny when they mess up! Sad its the last time I will see them in awhile....but thank you Coldplay for everything and being such a good group to follow. [thanks gmalool]

I'm starting thinking I saw someone from coldplaying since everyone says they were fron row dead center, there was a guy with his sister who showed us the way to the pit, is it anyone from here? Anyway, was front row on the right with a damn videocamera blocking my view to Guy and Chris' piano blocking it to Will for most of the show, but damn it was great, since I need to make a fool of myself we prepared an Italian flag with "Coldplay's missionaries in foreign fields" and all the dates I've been to and will be to written on it and Chris read it and like bowed down to us (and my friend nearly passed out)..did the same with the Crests of Waves banner, while Guy laughed at it. I went crazy with the tiny little snippet of A Rush Of Blood To The Head at the end of In my place. Must say it's abolsutely great not to start queuing up early in the morning to get front row as it always happen here in Italy, and also not having people pushing from everywhere, I'm really having a great time in these US shows. [thanks iriden]

Holy cow. I mean... holy cow. I want to do this all over again tomorrow. My goodness, was this EVER worth the six-month wait. An absolute blast. I won't bother posting my few pictures/videos since you guys in the pit got incredible stuff, but I will say that I was pleased with where I was (for not being in the pit, I had pretty decent seats)... minus the annoying event staff constantly telling us to stay close to our seats. No problem, though... me and my friend still went insane like we wanted to. And I ended up getting a buttload of butterfly confetti like I wanted... it's sitting in a plastic bag right now, safely packaged to avoid harm. This was just so freaking awesome... I love this band! What a night... what a night. [thanks heelsrule1988]

More on this concert including reviews, videos, pictures and tweets here onwards.