Coldplay finally reached down under as they headlined Sunday at Splendour In The Grass festival in Australia tonight (31st July 2011). The concert was streamed live across the internet on Virgin Mobile's Australia YouTube channel. The directing was a bit dodgy and all over the place but otherwise it was an enjoyable stream with YouTube doing their best to keep it up for everybody (at least those who had changed their country to Australia for a couple of hours...). Shiver and Everything's Not Lost were played again (despite them being withdrawn for the previous show at Fuji Rock festival), but Lost! was missing from the set.
Noteable highlights included a cover of the late Amy Winehouse's Rehab by Chris Martin immediately before Fix You during the encore. Will Champion celebrated his 33rd birthday by being sung to with Chris starting a rendition of "Happy Birthday To You" which the crowd joined in, with Will sporting two sparklers and a huge bunch of balloons on stage. Chris had guitar problems during God Put A Smile Upon Your Face and ditched his guitar early in the song, a minute going by before he was given another one. Chris jokingly said that Us Against The World was about Scott and Charlene from Ramsay Street.
If you are on YouTube later you can rewatch the performance at Virgin Mobile's channel via the link above. More live discussion on this show is at the Coldplay Live forum (40 pages and counting!). Thanks to everyone who has contributed on the forums, Youtube and twitters. We'll have more on this show over the next few hours/days!
Setlist confirmed):
MX/Hurts Like Heaven
Yellow
In My Place
Major Minus
The Scientist
Shiver
Violet Hill
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Everything's Not Lost
Us Against The World
Politik
Viva la Vida
Charlie Brown
Happy Birthday To You (sung to Will Champion)
Life Is For Living
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Clocks
Rehab (Amy Winehouse tribute)
Fix You
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
Image via live stream: Virgin Mobile Aus
Saw the show from start to mid-Scientist, then from mid-Clocks till the end. Nice to see an Amy tribute. How was the Will birthday tribute? I missed that. For the rest, seemed to me like business as usual, having seen so many shows of this Tour (via stream or delayed most of the time). They were sharp, doing what they can, but not the best show ever of course. I'd like to add that I like Everything's Not Lost and Shiver back again. They always seem to switch Shiver around with Cemeteries Of London, another song I love, but not as much. ^Yeah, the filming was pretty bad imo. Always those close-ups. Kaiser Chiefs were shot way better. [thanks Tryptophan]
All the new songs sounded better than they usually do live, the video was really jumpy and disorienting but the energy of the band was like this was their first gig, the crowd was really into it, Will had a birthday, Chris threw his balloons in the air and then cursed staining their environmentally friendly image, the opening chords of Fix You turned into an Amy Winehouse - Rehab tribute, and altogether the show couldn't have gone better. [thanks splintercell37]
Just putting it out there... Whoever was in charge of the cameras for the live stream has NO IDEA what they're doing! Seriously, they were practically showing footage of the toilets in the next village whilst the stage was going ballistic. We didn't see any fireworks, we didn't see any full stage shots - the best we got was some side-of-the-stage shot, we didn't get to see Will end the show with his drumming in ETIAW. It was all close-ups. What is this? Amateur hour? Yeah, the streaming was good. But seriously, all these shots of the crowd (and I mean the crowd way up the back where they're not doing anything) when there is intense energy on stage (like Fix You build up, ETIAW ending). Brilliant show though, really good to see them in such high spirits - I'm sure they're shot from all their travelling and probably having a hell of a time with jetlag. Apart from that! WOOOOO! COLDPLAY ARE IN AUSTRALIA! Great show! Happy Birthday Will you champ! (ay, see what I did there?!) I'll be looking out for those balloons! [thanks crestingwaves]
Caught the show from Everything's Not Lost onward. The show was at 8:45 a.m. EST for me and I couldn't get up that early sunday morning Highlights from that are obviously the AW tribute and the crowd. I havent caught a live show stream since the itunes fest but this crowd was something special. Could tell the band was really into it and was giving it a little something extra. Vividly remember the 'Balloons incident' (Chris releasing Will's B-day balloons and then regretting the environmentally unfriendly act), Chris's ad-lib at the beginning of Politik and long intro to Us Against the World. Only lowlight was not being able to stream properly in the beginning so i had to down the quality of the video and also the shoddy camera direction by the crew film this (too many crowd shots and overlay glitch during Charlie Brown). Just waiting now for MM to up the whole show so I can catch my favourite LP5 era song Hurts Like Heaven. [thanks jc90]
Guys were pretty energic and also I was energic too I put on the headphone then started to sing...The songlist was same other concerts. Did you notice that videoshoot?? The shoot was amazing. Especially in major minus,what the hell was that?? I think guys should use this MM shoot for their clip. Tonight's best performs are: God put a smile upon your face and politik (as usual) Chris throw away his guitar during gpasuyf and change the words during politik. ''Give me Splendour In The Grass on a night like this" and also we can clearly hear Jonny's voice, during politik. I saw only one Happy birthday will poster there would be more..anyway Chris & guys celebrate their best friends' birthday in front of thousand of people...wow.. in the end beginning of Fix You : 'They tried to make me go to rehab but i said 'no, no, no' tribute to Amy Winehouse. I don't like Amy but this tribute impressed me so much. death and life. [thanks jeremyy]
Screeshots of Coldplay from the live stream - Splendour In The Grass festival, Australia (31st July, 2011):
Images via live stream: Virgin Mobile Aus
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