It was Sunday 5th May and after playing a more compact setlist at the earlier 5PM show, the band were ready to arrive on stage at the planned time of 10PM Eastern time. for the 'big one'. The boys wasted no time and started off with Always in My Head, a song that seemed made for these sort of venues. As missing_an_eyebrow pointed out on reddit, all of the classics have been slightly revamped for the Ghost Stories tour to give them more of an understated and mellow feel such as Fix you which Chris Martin played for Mick Jagger who recently sang at the funeral of partner, L'Wren Scott who had taken her own life in March. Other highlights of the wonderful evening included God Put a Smile Upon Your Face which if you were wandering, starts off in old school style to how the studio version sounds then turns into the rock behemoth at the end we became so used to during the Mylo Xyloto tour. Not sure whether there was any guitar smashing this time though! Another's Arms sounded as haunting as ever and with a slightly more mellow touch than previous performances. Chris had his usual funny chat with the fans in between the former two tracks, talking about places to visit in New York :
Til Kingdom Come proceeded the show to which Chris expressed his sorrow of Johnny Cash passing away since the track was originally written and ready to record before we passed away and dedicated as for each live performance of the sincere hidden track off X&Y to the late legend of music.
Image above thanks to @Coldplay_turkey on Twitter
The final part of the show was finished off by the atmospheric Oceans, the magnificently energetic A Sky Full of Stars which must of been very hard remaining seated in the theater at that point! And finishing off with the first live performance of Life is For Living since 2011.
That was not all though. The band appeared back on stage to which Chris Martin asked the audience not to film and upload to Youtube (the radio broadcast had ended as in Germany) as he previously insisted back when A Sky Full of Stars was given its debut on the Ghost Stories promo tour as the boys went on to play True Love for the first time on the tour! Chris started the forth track off Ghost Stories with a heart symbol made by his hands with Will playing on the drum pad and Jonny's guitar having a 'banjo-like quality to' according to thedrpepper08 on the Coldplaying forums who also added the song was "Very laidback but also completely different to any other song I've heard on the album". Chris bellows out "Once upon a time I was yours, you were mine" in the broken heart themed track.
The setlist for the show is shown in full below, thanks to last.fm
There is a brilliant review here with loads of images of the gig by Consequence of Sound! (Thanks Gai for finding this)
Fans reviews will be on their way soon, stay tuned!
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