Jenjie

Debs is pretty good at finding out stuff like this. if anyone can give you an answer, she will :)

not that I'm obsessed with the 19th Sept or anything :P they do a pack of yellow ones :D so we can co-ordinate with the t-shirts :laugh3: http://madewithloveinbrazil.com/africa_bangles.html

I saw :P so we're coming up to approx 50 entries now, possibly more :shocked2:

you can tell Ian just re-promoted the comp. no PM's for a few days and today I come home to 23 new ones :stunned:

Just something I was thinking about on this: Do we as fans have a responsibility to the photographers? Most venues half-heartedly operate a no cameras policy, but we all know how easy it is to sneak a camera in. Some of the photos you see in the gallery have been taken by fans who bought tickets, but easily look as good as some of the professional photographers work. So are we therefore eroding the value of the professional photographers work?

we're not going on the 18th. arriving in London on the 18th though.

i don't know :thinking: its such an addictive episode, he may well lose track of time

brave man :P I can see why they would want to. I'd quite happily queue outside for 7/8 hours again, which would put me in the queue around 8/9am :D that front standing enclosure is where I intend to be.

because there are some plans to camp out over night to be at the front of queue. there are I don't know how many entrance doors we'll be spread around. so getting everyone in one place for a pic is near impossible, unless we were to try and do one after the show. and as I say, I'm not going to try & organise a coldplayers photo if it means someone loses out on front row. (there are certain people on this board who could be verrrrrrrrry scary if they missed out on a jonny/chris spot, mentioning no names :P) at the Warchild gig, we took it in turns to leave the queue, and always left 3 or so people behind to make sure we didn't lose our place in the queue.,

that would be my only worry. I don't want a bunch of angry coldplayers after me because we arranged a group photo and someone didn't get to be front row of the gig.

this seem accessible enough? if you don't want to say the hotel, we can always just put the area eg, Wembley, Park Royal etc. Who's Going? (94 so far!!) (In order to co-ordinate meet-ups, hotels/area stayiing are in red) .: Fix You :. a-chan ACNN94 airieslady aniskywalker ApproximatelyInfinite ariadnasquire asia atomgrill bello-lo beubeu2k blue_girl bta5857 Busybeeburns (TravelLodge - Wembley) but a dream cafc4eva charley cleeson7 Clocks In My Place Coldplayer75 CookyMnstr Carlaatje Chavi crazyduckette cleeson7 Dan 6N -DAN- Dark_Sofie davebrown19 Drop Fraetes Frenkerd glover3492 Gretel Hamsterdam helokity623 Hot Burrito iriden Iwona Jenjie (TravelLodge - Wembley) Jojo JSalyers Jsweeting kspillers2 Khalplay kimchi +3 KissesBirds Kite (W17 Coach home after show) lindam LittleMissMessy Lolly Pop Lost! in technicolor loudefix lozm Lyla27 MagooUK marsu mayurshikotra mc_squared melanieau Miha milesahead89 Mimixxx mygdalom nickyh1 Ollyc OnMyOwnInASeparatSky politik* Passenger Plug_in_coldplaying Pix & family professa95 Ron Burgandy rush rushofbloodUK r25d01 scusi sharp-boy shesawsparks StarlightChaser Steo87 SueDeNimes Swiny TexasLuvsJonny thegreatone2003uk themaster Timon twistedleksi2008 Twisted mind Vegard90 Viva Viper xxKels +2 zemy101 ------------------------------------

Breaking news: despite empirical evidence to the contrary (ie, the weather), we can exclusively reveal that summer is almost upon us. To prove it, in the last few days a number of festival organisers have announced their lineups for this year, and tickets are already on sale. Can’t you just feel the sun on your face already? Here’s what we know so far. Grab your wellies and take your pick. RockNess(Loch Ness, June 12-14) is always lively, and this year’s lineup is already excellent - the Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Basement Jaxx, Dizzee Rascal, the Prodigy and, out of retirement, Orbital. Tickets are available from rockness.co.uk , priced £139 for three days with camping, or £130 excluding camping. Another electronic heavyweight giving the Zimmer frame an airing is Underworld, headlining the Glade Festival (Winchester, July 16-19). Tickets are £125 from gladefestival.com . Chagstock (Devon, July 17-18) is a small do - about 5,000 people - but with a big, friendly atmosphere. Its headline act will be Squeeze, but attention should be turned towards the Bad Shepherds, Ade Edmondson’s new band recreating punk classics on mandolins. Vyvyan from The Young Ones would surely not approve. Until the end of March, tickets, with camping, cost £40 for adults, £20 for children, and £105 for a family of four, from chagstock.info. Last year, the Human League provided a hit of 1980s nostalga at Lovebox (Victoria Park, London, July 18-19). For 2009 the stakes have been thoroughly raised - Duran Duran have been annouced as Saturday’s headliners, along with N*E*R*D, while on Sunday, Groove Armada, Ladyhawke and Simian Mobile Disco do the honours. London’s largest purpose-built tree house, and an enormous famer’s market, are other attractions. Tickets are £42.50 for one day or £75 for both, from lovebox.net or 0844 847 2436. Camp Bestival (Dorset, July 24-26) may only be a relative newcomer on the festival scene, but its big brother, Bestival, has been around for a while now, and clearly the family has a useful contacts book. The big name announced so far is PJ Harvey, ably backed up by Mercury Rev, Chic, Candi Staton and Roots Manuva. Also at the three-dayer will be various DJs, comedians and chefs - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage is making an appearance, with plenty of his nettle beer. And the English National Ballet will be offering kids’ workshops - one of 100 things to do for youngsters. Adult weekend camping tickets from £130, children aged 13-15 £65; ticketline.co.uk, 0844 888 4410. Ignore the dodgy name: Get Loaded in the Park (Clapham Common, London, August 30) has booked Orbital for a London exclusive. Tickets from £35 at getloadedinthepark.com . Names beginning to emerge for Glastonbury (Pilton, June 24-28) include Bruce Springsteen, Doves, Lily Allen, Franz Ferdinand and the mighty Paul Croughton Rolf Harris. Tickets have already sold out, but if you’ve previously registered, a small number of returns will be available from 9am on Sunday, April 5 at seetickets.com/g2009 . Good luck. Elsewhere, a new almost-festival has just been announced in Turkey. SunSplash Antalya (May 3-10) is a beach party/boutique hotel affair - a week-long knees-up featuring Norman Jay, Gilles Peterson, Phil Asher on the turntables and Jamie Lidell playing live. It’s £540 for seven days, half-board, including entry for all parties, plus yoga and belly-dancing workshops and whatnot - see sunsplash-antalya.com . Fly from Gat-wick to Antalya with British Airways (0844 493 0787, ba.com ), from £250. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5823285.ece

Killers to headline V Festival Mar 1 2009 by Ben Goldby, Sunday Mercury AMERICAN rock superstars The Killers are set to headline this year’s V Festival in Staffordshire. Although organisers have yet to finalise the list of band’s playing at Weston Park in August, the Las Vegas chart-toppers have confirmed they will be topping the bill. The news follows The Killers’ two sell-out nights at Birmingham’s LG Arena last week, reviewed on Page 8 of today’s Preview pullout. “We’ve come a long way since we played the Academy in Birmingham,” said frontman Brandon Flowers. The V Festival annuals attracts tens of thousands of fans from all round the world, and this year runs on August 22 and 23. The full line-up is expected to be announced tomorrow and is likely to include superband Coldplay, the reunion of Britpop legends Blur, Leicester stadium rockers Kasabian, and Scottish indie favourites Franz Ferdinand. Tickets go on sale from 10am next Friday. http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/mi...6331-23035481/

On the 27th of February, 2009, Coldplay played their first show in the Australasian part of their Worldwide Viva la Vida tour! The tour was announced on the 28th of November, 2008 and tickets went on sale in early december, the first days tickets sold so fast and had such high demand that Coldplay opened a second day on the 28th of February, 2009. Coldplay are being supported by Sydney band Decoder Rise and American band Mercury Rev. The Perth event was being held at the Burswood Dome, Burswood Entertainment Complex, for the first night approximately 16,000 tickets were sold. Tickets went on sale for the general public on the 4th of December, 2008. Coldplays support bands performed well in the Perth show and recieved large rounds of applause from the audience when they finished each song, and dare i say an even larger applause when they left the stage.” After seeing the advertisement on television at the beginning of December last year i was over the moon to hear that they were coming to Perth, i have been an avid fan of Coldplay for quite some time, and missed their concert back in 2006 when they performed the songs from their X&Y album, this time around they were partaking in a Viva la Vida World Tour. Anyway as soon as i found out i let a mate of mine, Michael, know about it and asked if he would like to come with me if i could purchase the tickets, he said yes and thankfully i succesfully got the $140 Gold General Admission 1 tickets, basically meaning we were at the very front, right infront of the stage. We left for Burswood at around 4.45 so we could catch a train to get to Burswood at 5.45, we got there exactly at 5.45 so it was well timed on our behalf, upon Arrival we had to head for Gate B so we had to walk all the way around the dome from the train station, when we got to the gates we had to line up, and as it turned out the line wasn’t to bad at this point, the gates were supposed to open at 6.15 but didn’t open till nearer 6.30, when we got in, Michael and myself walked straight into our area of the stadium, picked where to stand and just stayed there until everything started, we were approximately 15-20 metres from the stage and around 5 metres from the right cat walk. The music all started at around 7.10pm with Decoder Rise from Sydney coming on first for around 20 minutes, they were an alright band but there music was all basically the same which was a shame because they were realively good, but they didnt sing so that is saying something. Mercury Rev, the next support band to come on came on around 7.45pm after a 15 minute stage change for the bands, they were a good band and the drummer played his role very well, also the bass guitarist was quite interesting with a pretty cool afro working for him. After around 20 minutes of Mercury Rev, they went off stage to a cheer, half because they were good and half because it was nearly time for Coldplay i expect, after another 25 or so minutes the moment of the night occured… Coldplay came onto the stage to a roar that i would consider comparable to that of a football player in England scoring a goal for his team at his home ground, it was absolutely huge, the celebrations of Coldplay walking onto the stage i would say lasted atleast a solid two minutes of people yelling, screaming, wolf whistling, clapping and going absolutely nuts. The set list layout for the concert was very good, and every sing recieved a huge around of applause as well as thousands of fans singing a long to them. Chris Martin, the leader of the band, is a man i would consider fit enough to be an athlete, he never ever stopped moving around, even when he had to jump back to his piano or keyboard to play the rest of the song, he was continually running around and enjoying the atmosphere. By the time the third song had come on i had pretty much lost my voice, it was absolutely insane, after an encore of people yelling the viva chant, they came back out again to perform 2 or 3 songs, before they made a massive thank you to the crowd and eventually went off stage to cool down, rest and prepare for the performance the next day. In my mind, the boys deserve many awards, there ability to work the crowd and support the people who support them is absolutely amazing, in my opinion no one in the dome would of felt left out after the performance that Chris Martin, and the rest of the band put on. http://itzeddie.com/wordpress/?p=302

Coldplay last night. oh. my. god. Honestly, truly the best concert I've ever been to. I'm still buzzing from it. It was absolutely magical from start to finish. During 'Yellow' they had these gigantic yellow balloons filled with yellow confetti, that shot into the crowd and everyone was leaping up to hit them, I kept trying when one came near, and then finally I hit one, and it flew into the air. After a couple of minutes they started to burst sending confetti raining down on everyone During 'Lovers in Japan' they had confetti butterflies streaming from the roof, thousands and thousands of them, so of course I grabbed as many as I could. Chris Martin is such an amazing frontman. He's so charismatic and you just can't take your eyes off him, and he really leaps around the place, skipping and spinning and at one point doing a backward roll. He was incredible. There was also one of those amazing moments, that make the hair stand on end, where Coldplay took a bow and left the stage and instead of just shouting etc for an encore, people started singing part the oh,oh,oh, ooohhh part of Viva La Vida. It's hard to explain unless you know the song, and then they came back out and performed the Scientist and one other song that I can't remember! Ok, Ok, I'll stop. I still haven't come down from the show I think. This picture kind of sums up how I felt about the whole thing anyway. http://red-beret.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay.html

Going to a Coldplay concert brings high expectations. You expect to hear Yellow and have a huge singalong, to see Chris Martin and the band in military jackets and generally have a rocking good time. You don't expect to see giant yellow balloons being tossed around the Dome, the band running off the stage 3/4 of the way through the gig to sing in amongst the audience and wishing you'd caught one of the thousands of paper butterflies released into the crowd during Lovers in Japan. The first Aussie concert of the Viva La Viva world tour ranks as one of my top five absolutely amazing concerts. The sheer scale of the show - from the lights and lasers, the hanging globes and projected screens and then there's the music. Mostly songs from the current CD with a good dose of Coldplay classics with a few medleys of songs thrown in. Chris Martin has a great voice and ability to make the audience hang off each word. He brought the Dome down with his emotional encore of The Scientist and seemed almost self-conscious before he sang The Hardest Part solo. Fix You - a song that failed to inspire me on iTunes was heartwarming live. My favourite song - Lovers in Japan - was beautiful (even if the butterflies hadn't been there). The best part though - the Viva La Viva chorus that had the audience chanting all the way back to the carpark and stuck in my head all weekend. My top five concerts are, thus far: Michael Buble, 11 June 2008 Justin Timberlake, 9 November 2007 West Coast Blues and Roots Festival, April 2007 John Mayer, 22 April 2004 http://hightealadies.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay-viva-la-viva-perth-concert.html

Friday night we went to the Coldplay concert in Perth. There is a geat big luxory resort there that has a golf course, tennis facility, massage, casino, hotel etc. They also have a dome there- the Burswood Dome. It kinda looks like the old RCA dome in Indianapolis, but smaller and not as nice. We had looked for tickets online, but were a little unsure when we saw that they were $150 for the tickets that we wanted in the standing section right in front of the stage (the best and most expensive tickets). A guy in our group took a shot and looked on Ebay for some tickets and it worked out - we got 10 tickets for $75 AUD each (works out to about $50 USD). We left early and took the train to Perth where it was a change but then three quick stops away put us right at the dome. We were there very early, so we decided to head to the hotel for some food. After we ate, we decided to kill some time at the casino before we headed over because none of us were interested in the first band to play (some Australian punk band). Matt actually ended up for the evening, Kevin was up on blackjack but down some on roulette and slots to be slightly down, Raul was down more, another guy down a lot, and I ended up even (except for the 2.50 chip that I decided to keep as a souvenier). Not that bad of a performance overall. Wine in the casino was 3 dollars a glass (it was terrible but strong) due to the casino wanting people to get drunk, so we sat down to relax and have a glass before heading over. We got there in time for the second band, Mercury Rev, to play. None of us thought that they were that good, but they were not terrible and allowed us to settle into where we would be standing. We had a tremendous spot. We were dead center of the stage, about 10 people thick back- close enough to see the sweat on the faces of the performers, but not too close for it to be overpoweringly loud by the speakers. Coldplay was awesome! They played every single hit they have ever had, everything off of their new album. They did some different stuff accustically, and also "technoed" a few of their normal songs. The special effects were also tremendous and always changing. They always fit the theme of the song that was being played. Chris Martin actively engaged the crowd and really got into it at a few points. He always kept the crowd in it, and it was never like they were just playing at the crowd, but rather for the crowd. They even did a segment from up in the stands of the upper deck. What I liked the most about the concert is that the music sounds like Coldplay. Sometimes when you see bands live they don't sound like they do on their albums, but this is not the case. I think my favorite song they played was Yellow, also my favorite song they have, as enourmous yellow ballons filled with confetti were dropped into the crowd, and bounced all over before they were popped sending the confetti everywhere. The video screens, lights, and special effects were the best I have ever seen, and the music was great. The crowd was involved and loud the whole time and I really cannot say enough about the show- I loved it. Coldplay played for over two hours straight, and really it was absolutely worth every penny. After the show we enjoyed free drinks back in the casino before taking the train back to Perth to meet up in a bar with people who had not gone to the show. We then took the train back home and called it a night. What a night. http://abroad-fremantle.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay-viva-la-vida.html

you should be fine, with it being saturday. the trams run late for the clubbers in town Trams from Old Trafford:

Perth was the first station where Coldplay performed their 2009 Australian tour. I had the chance to attend the first night in Burswood Dome on 2009-02-27 (Fri) and it was simply one of the best performance I’ve ever seen. Here’s are just some personal experience from this concert. 1) I arrived early around 7pm and Coldplay was sort of warming up and performed Life in Technicolor. Then there was a band who performed and the lead singer voice wasn’t that great at all, and I went to hibernation mode (yeah, I slept) soon after listening to their first song! It wasn’t until 9pm-ish where we started seeing the real thing - Coldplay - playing. 2) Should have chosen to stand and bought the gold ticket. Instead, I bought seats and the bronze ticket. If I were to see a band performance/concert again, I’m gonna stand and JUMP! 3) The best song performed was definately Viva La Vida as the WHOLE crowd were standing and dancing with the rythm. No wonder it’s the song of the year. But I still wonder why its MTV looks like it was filmed in 1970s. 4) I love Fix you and Violet Hills, not to mention Coldplay classics such as Clocks and The Scientist, where Chris Martin shows just how good he can lay his long and skinny fingers on the piano. 5) Yellow was the first single which made Coldplay famous back in my high school years. Reminds me of the good times 6) Getting in and out of Burswood wasn’t too bad with a bit of traffic jam as expected. Again, great concert, great drums+guitars+piano+vocal, great execution, great sounds system, great atmosphere and I’m happy for the AUSD$220 I paid for the experience. http://www.davidtan.org/coldplays-perth-2009-burswood-concert/

Jen doesn't know :embarassed: she can't think of any songs off the top of her head to answer the question. I'm the worst person to take to a music quiz. I'll sit and sing happily but can very rarely tell you who the song is by or what its called. so the jury is out whilst I go check :laugh3:

Coldplay shows U2 how it's done ON the same day that the biggest band in the world, U2, released its new album, Coldplay were in Perth showing why its the No.1 contender for the heavyweight crown. Friday was the first show of the band’s Australian tour, which comes to Melbourne this week, and the British quartet thrilled the packed house with a no-nonsense, high-energy rock show that featured hits from their four mega-selling albums, drawing heavily from the Grammy-winning Viva La Vida, the world’s best-selling album last year. Playing on a relatively simple stage, Coldplay proved that you don’t need pyrotechnics, fancy props or dancing girls when you have a catalog of superb songs to choose from including Clocks, sing-along favourite Fix You, Lost, The Scientist, Violet Hill and the evening’s highlight Viva La Vida. Breakthrough single Yellow was accompanied by a sea of yellow balloons bouncing around the euphoric crowd, each one spraying forth confetti when finally popped. Flitting between guitar and piano and generally capering around the stage like a madman, the passionate Chris Martin cements his reputation as one of the best front men going around - and one of the most humble. At one point early in the show he thanks the audience for “remembering who we are”, resulting in deafening scream that made it clear that nobody had forgotten. Martin and his band mates turn the arena show intimate by venturing out onto gangways into the crowd for a mesmerising electronica-tinged version of God Put a Smile On Your Face, and later literally take it to the people. Disappearing off the stage, the four then sprint to back of the arena, popping up in the crowd. Suddenly the nose-bleeds are the best seats in the house for a stripped-back, acoustic version of Speed of Sound, with Martin apologising to the lucky few nearby “for making you stand so close to four sweaty men”. Before the show, Martin told the Sunday Herald Sun that they were proud to be headlining the Sydney Sound Relief concert on March 14. The band had seen the terrible bushfires unfold from Japan and immediately said yes when approached by promoter Michael Chugg to perform. “I’m really pleased to be doing that concert,” Martin said. “Something like this you would never say no because it would be terrible. “That’s been worldwide news, so it seemed liked we would be real a---holes if we just sat in our hotel rooms saying ‘we’re not playing that’,” said Martin. “When you come to Australia, you realise that Australians think of themselves as being far away from everywhere but the rest of the world is watching - everyone likes you and everyone is watching you.” Martin also revealed the band has been working with two of Australia’s favourite singers: Kylie Minogue and Natlie Imbruglia. “They are both amazing,” Martin said of the former Neighbours starlets. Minogue recorded the song Lhuna with the band last year that nearly made it on to Viva La Vida, which the band gave to Bono’s charity organisation (RED)WIRE, which aims to eliminate AIDS in Africa. Imbruglia has been working with the band in London and has been recently seen out and about at shows with Martin. “Our best ever song and we just gave to her,” Martin said. “We obviously can’t release anything for a while because people are a bit sick of us so we asked her if she wanted to do it.” James Wigney http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25122471-2902,00.html

nope, i lied, they're a headliner :laugh3: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7914129.stm

don't think Blur were mentioned on T In The Park list. just read an article about the queues for t tickets closing part of the road in Edinburgh

i only found out on fri :D there's a search page http://search.twitter.com/search?q=coldplay so you can pick up twitters from anyone who's left their twitters open for all to read. (there is the option to make your twitters viewable only to people who are following you) its been a different way of getting mini concert reviews & live concert updates the last 2 days.

SOME of ITV’s best-known programmes, including The South Bank Show and Sharpe, the Napoleonic war drama, are facing significant cutbacks or cancellation because of a slump in the broadcaster’s revenue. Prestigious costume dramas are likely to be the biggest victim of the funding crisis, which could mean ITV announcing up to 500 job losses. Presenting the broadcaster’s annual results on Wednesday, Michael Grade, the executive chairman, is expected to reveal a marked fall in profits, a huge debt and the prospect of dwindling advertising income in the coming year. Insiders believe that ITV’s £1 billion programming budget will be cut by about 3%, or £30m, during 2009 and by even more next year. Department heads, covering genres such as drama, comedy and entertainment, are likely to learn this week how they will be affected by the company’s poor performance. Among the programmes under threat is The South Bank Show, the award-winning arts series, which has been presented by Melvyn Bragg for more than 30 years. It is likely to face an initial cut from the 20 programmes it produced last year and could be phased out altogether when Lord Bragg, 69, decides to retire. ITV dramas, which can cost up to £1m an hour to make, will take the biggest hit. Sharpe, starring Sean Bean as a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic wars, will not be returning to the screen, and Wire in the Blood, with Robson Green, will also be scrapped. ITV has already canned a multi-million-pound adaptation of EM Forster’s A Passage to India, which was due to be filmed on the subcontinent. A new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, starring Tom Hardy as Heathcliff and Charlotte Riley as Cathy, was completed last year, but it has not yet been given a transmission date. It could be one of the last period dramas ITV produces. Indicating the channel’s future direction, Laura Mackie, head of ITV drama, said: “Crime thrillers and 20th century are things that ITV does very well.” The future of Heartbeat, the police drama set in 1960s Yorkshire, and The Royal, a spin-off show, are also in doubt. ITV has already recorded 18 months’ worth of the two series, but it refuses to say if any more episodes will be made once they have been broadcast. The uncertainty places a question mark over the network’s Leeds studios, which were previously owned by Yorkshire Television. The impending programming cuts follow a £40m streamlining of ITV’s regional newsrooms, with fewer areas of the UK receiving purpose-made bulletins. Observers point out that one of ITV’s key problems is that about 85% of its advertising income comes from about 10% of airtime, which means that many programmes are bringing in hardly any revenue. One method of saving money - already used by the BBC - is for ITV to enter into more co-productions, where programme costs are shared with an overseas broadcaster. Its remake of The Prisoner, with Sir Ian McKellen, involves an American company, whilea new thriller called Father and Son will be made with RTE, the Irish broadcaster. Last week ITV floated the idea of a merger with Channel4 and Five, but the plan is widely regarded as a nonstarter. Boat Race a casualty One-off dramas will suffer. An Englishman in New York, with John Hurt reprising his role as Quentin Crisp, is finished but has no transmission date. The Boat Race is sunk for ITV after its final screening on March 29. Having won the contract from the BBC, ITV has dumped the event. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5822245.ece