Jenjie

squeee its fri!!! only 5am though :angry:

very sneaky!! its the same if you want thurs-sun. you can get a twin or double room for £95 per night if you're staying those 3 nights http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/rooms_rates.php?hotel_id=309&from=list

I hadn't realised it was booked up. We booked ours as soon as we bought the tickets. *Nearest Travel Lodge with rooms still available for 18th & 19th Sept, at a not too scary price, is Kew Bridge @ £42 per night. http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/rooms_rates.php?hotel_id=48 but that's a bit of a trek to Wembley because its at the end of the M4. * Heathrow Central Travel Lodge is further out, but rooms are from £29 per night. * Premier Inn at Wembley is now asking £260 for a 2-night stay :stunned: http://www.premierinn.com/pti/checkHotelAvailability.do * Wembley Plaza hotel (Hilton chain) has a room from £166 per night either a twin or a triple (sleeps three adults) https://secure.hilton.co.uk/HiWayWeb/appmanager/portals/reservation?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=bookReservation_portlet_1&bookReservation_portlet_1_actionOverride=%2Fcom%2Fhilton%2Fhiway%2Fportlets%2Freservation%2Fbook%2FshowRooms * this is the link for LateRooms.com. http://www.laterooms.com/en/k17235343_wembley-stadium-hotels.aspx?d=20090918&n=2&rt=0,0 they list 10 hotels in the wembley area, maybe someone who knows the area can advise if any of them are any good. Name Miles* Location Guest Rating Star 17 Sep 18 Sep 19 Sep 20 Sep Hollingbury Hotel 1.6 Harlesden 2 £45.00 £45.00 £45.00 £45.00 Quality Hotel Wembley 0.2 Wembley 3 £135.00 £169.00 £169.00 £135.00 Brent X 1.7 Kingsbury 3G £65.00 £65.00 £65.00 £65.00 The Wembley Hotel 0.4 Wembley 2G £50.00 £80.00 £80.00 £50.00 Wembley Plaza 0.1 Wembley 4 Full Full Full Full Euro Hotel Wembley 0.4 Wembley 1G £50.00 £50.00 £50.00 £50.00 The Fox and Goose 1.5 Wembley 3 £99.00 Full Full £99.00 Crowne Plaza London Ealing 1.7 Ealing 4 £235.00 £235.00 £235.00 £235.00 Goldblaze Trading Ltd 1.8 London B £40.00 £40.00 £40.00 £40.00 North West Hotel 1.9 London N/A 2 £80.00 £80.00 £80.00 £80.00

:kiss: you wanna borrow the pink umbrella? :P

Premier Inn is across the road and last we checked it was £90+ per night Not sure if he means this or not, but we're booked in at the Wembley Travel Lodge. Think it was about £50 per night. And its about 40mins walk from the stadium. or a couple of tube stops away (tube there & walking back I think)

I know! :D

Doves Just got my ticketmaster update through. Intriguing venue!! Doves Delamere Forest Cheshire Sat 13 Jun 2009, 19:30 http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/2200425AA12E8B50

the possibilities are endless :laugh3: new costumes, new setlist, new acoustic set......

better it pours down now, and gets it out of the way :lol:

that'd be awesome thanks! but don't spoil your enjoyment of the show for updating us, a great review afterwards is just as good :D

boooooooo I got over-excited :cry: oh well, I know what time I have to be on the computer tomorrow now :laugh3:

<iframe src="http://free.timeanddate.com/clock/i1fl79zt/n196/tluk/fs20/fcf00/tt0" frameborder="0" width="383" height="25"></iframe> 9pm it must be concert time :D

The pilots of a Turkish Airlines jet that crashed at Amsterdam airport today were among nine people killed in the disaster, it has emerged. At least 84 passengers were injured, six of them critically and 25 severely, when the Boeing 737-800 smashed into a ploughed field three miles short of Schiphol airport. "There are still three crew members in the cabin. I'm sorry to say that they are dead," said one of the investigators, at a press conference at Schiphol. "We are leaving them there because we have to investigate the cockpit before we take the cockpit apart." The pilots may have been killed by the nose wheel being forced up into the cockpit during the very hard landing. The nose wheel normally shears off in a crash, unless the vertical speed is so great that it is forced upwards. Passengers today told of the panic that broke out as Flight TK1951 from Istanbul apparently stalled on approach to Schiphol. "All of a sudden the back end of the plane dropped and then the plane crashed down on its front end and broke into three pieces," a male passenger told Dutch television. "I was OK because I was in the middle, it was the people towards the tail and at the front who couldn't get out. I heard screaming. "Near the tail there was a man with his feet stuck, and people were kicking him to try to get his feet out." Another passenger said: "For the first ten seconds it was silent, and after that we heard crying and screaming. There was a lot of panic and a lot of wounded people." Witnesses on the ground spoke of their surprise as, within seconds of the jet skidding to rest, 10 or 15 people who had been able to free themselves quickly from their seats stepped out into the mud. "Almost immediately 15 people walked out," marvelled Henk Dijkshoorn. Huseyin Sumer told private Turkish NTV television that he had crawled to safety out of a crack in the fuselage. “We were about to land, we could not understand what was happening, some passengers screamed in panic but it happened so fast,” Mr Sumer said. He said the crash was over in five to ten seconds. A British mother and her two daughters were been rescued from the wreckage, The Times can reveal. Susan Lord and her daughters, Sofia and Lisa, who were freed after the aircraft broke up near the airport today, are not thougt to have suffered any injuries in the crash. Ms Lord was believed to be using her maiden name but travelling with her Turkish husband, Jakavus Labeij. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office said that it appeared that no Britons were among the dead or injured. Robbert Smit said that some of the survivors who climbed free ran away, while others went back in to help. Inside the aircraft, several people were trapped, some of them badly hurt. One of the first rescuers on the scene was John Ansgar, who was driving past towards Haarlem when he saw the aircraft's nose drop and the aircraft fall from the sky. "Fourteen people got out of the plane almost straight away. When I got inside all the oxygen masks were hanging down. There were people stuck in the back and we just couldn't help them," said Mr Ansgar. "There weren't enough stretchers for everybody." Five hours after the aircraft hit at 0931GMT the emergency services had managed to remove all the wounded from the fuselage, but the bodies of some of the dead remained at the front end of the plane. Video from the scene showed that the craft landed in a ploughed field a couple of hundred yards outside the airport perimeter. Traffic roared past only tens of metres away. Emergency services treated passengers in the mud at the scene. Tractors were used to ferry the wounded away, the only vehicles able to cope with the sticky mud of the ploughed field, which was saturated after days of heavy rain. That the aircraft crash-landed in a muddy, ploughed field may have contributed to making the accident less deadly by absorbing the force of the impact, experts said. It may also have helped to dampen sparks and absorb aviation fuel leaking from ruptured tanks and lines on the underside of the fuselage, which appeared to have suffered very heavy impact damage. One analyst said that the engines appeared not to have been turning at the time of impact. There were other suggestions that the aircraft somehow stalled. A plane stalls when the wings lose lift due to slow airspeed or a sudden manoeuvre. Injured survivors were being transported to Spaarne hospital in Haarlem and other nearby clinics, while other survivors were taken to a sports hall to be reunited with relatives, who had been taken from the arrivals lounge by bus, shocked and weeping. The Turkish Ambassador to the Netherlands, Selahattin Alpar, told the Anatolia news agency there were 72 Turks and 32 Dutch people on board. An official said that at least four of the remaining passengers were Americans who worked for Boeing, the aircraft's manufacturer. Turkey was said to be providing a plane to fly relatives from Istanbul to the scene. Earlier, amid conflicting reports, it seemed that the 127 passengers, including a baby, and seven crew on board may all have survived, as both the Turkish Transport Minister and the chief executive of the airline proclaimed that all were safe. "The good news is that there was no loss of life in the accident" said Binali Yildirim, the Transport Minister. As news of the deaths emerged, however, he said that it was a miracle that no more had been killed. All flights in and out of Schiphol, the fifth busiest airport in Europe, were suspended for a few hours, though traffic was this afternoon said to be returning to normal. The A9 motorway that runs near the crash scene was also closed. The 737-800 is a new aircraft, the re-engineered and redesigned next generation of the original 737 which has for several decades been renowned as the workhorse of the skies. “We have checked the plane’s documents and there is no problem concerning maintenance,” said Candan Karlitekin, the head of the airline’s board of directors. Visibility had been good at the time of landing, he said. Temel Kotil, the chief executive of Turkish Airlines, said that Hasan Tahsin, a former air force pilot who was captaining the crash plane, was very experienced. Today's accident is the most catastrophic at Schiphol since October 1992 when an El Al Boeing cargo aircraft crashed into an apartment building in the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam. Forty-three people were killed but health agencies believe that the aircraft had been carrying radioactive cargo. In April 1994 a Saab 340B on a KLM Cityhopper flight from Cardiff crashed in a ploughed field near Schiphol, cartwheeling as its wing tip dug into the ground and killing three people on board, including the pilot. Turkish Airlines is said to operate a modern fleet of aircraft with well-trained staff, but its record is not unblemished. In January 2003, a Turkish Airlines flight crashed while attempting to land on a fog-covered runway in the city of Diyarbakir, killing 75 people. Five people survived with injuries. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5803352.ece Analysis by Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent: The front of the fuselage broke off just in front of the wingbox, which is the strongest part of the aircraft's structure. Anyone sitting in the window seats on either side of the fuselage at the fracture point was probably either killed or seriously injured as metal panels buckled inwards. Part of the reason the front section broke off is likely to be because the main landing gear, located just behind the fracture point, hit the ground very hard The tail has broken off close to the final seat row. The tail has twisted 90 degrees and is pointing upwards, suggesting this area bore the brunt of the impact, possibly as the pilots tried to recover the aircraft by climbing. Cabin crew were probably sitting in their seats near the toilet at the rear of the plane and would have come to a rest facing upwards. They may have struggled to escape. The emergency exit door is only partially open, suggesting anyone who escaped this section probably climbed over the broken area of fuselage The most intact section of the aircraft contains the middle 25 or so rows. The area furthest from the two fuselage breaks is over the wings. A very strong steel box, known as the wing box, is built into the fuselage to hold the wings firmly in place. The wings contain fuel tanks and are very heavy. The safest place to sit in a modern airliner is in, or near to, the emergency exit rows over the wings. This is for two reasons: the fuselage is likely to remain intact and, if there is a fire, you will be among the first to escape The engines are designed to break off in a crash to prevent fuel from being ignited. That is why this engine is some distance away from the fuselage

it'll be there, and on WikiColdplay :D

and just for the record, I haven't voted yet, because i want to give people a chance to decide for themselves. which is why I also haven't said much about either option, just tried to compare them. the poll is up for 7 days, and will automatically close then.

the personalise option is already mentioned in the post above.

Coldplaying is setting up a new shop, and the Wembley shirts will be the first design available. Please check out this thread for a) discussion about which shop we should use (you'll be buying the shirts, so your opinion definitely counts, and if you don't vote & you get high shipping you won't be eligible to complain :P) b) discussion about preferred design c) to submit your design ideas ty muchly Jen :kiss:

We’re setting up a new, permanent, Coldplaying shop, of which the Wembley designs will be the first items. The account will be held by Jen/Ian so that we don’t have to worry about being able to contact the account holder whenever we need. Whichever option we go with, I’ll be needing lots of help setting it up/designing the t-shirts etc. I’m going to set up a poll for this thread, so we can canvas your thoughts. Some of the info is the same, but I've tried to pull it all together into 1 post for the purposes of directing people to the discussion. There are 2 current choices: 1) Cafepress (one site based in US, all orders coming from US) 2) Spreadshirt.net/Spreadshirt.com (we’ll have to have two sites, one in US & one in UK. US doesn’t have as wide a range of product as the UK.) I've put together a comparison based on the info each site has available, and based on my understanding of it. All prices are the basic price with no commission on top, so that’s no money to charity or to fund Coldplaying. Please let me know what you think. 1. Cafepress Variety: They have the Custom Yellow T-Shirt in a dark yellow or a Custom Women's Light T-Shirt in a pale yellow. Pricing: Basic Price: Both t-shirt prices start from $14.99/£10.32 (GBP). Additional prices: $3.00 extra to print on second side 2X-4X sizes surcharges of $3 per item Shipping & any customs charges So: a small t-shirt printed on the front will cost $14.99 + shipping & customs. a small t-shirt printed front & back will cost $17.99 + shipping & customs an xxl t-shirt printed on the front will cost $17.99 + shipping & customs. an xxl t-shirt printed front & back will cost $20.99 + shipping & customs. These prices are based on us not earning any commission on the t-shirt. Shop: A basic shop is free & enables us to list over 80 products in a onepage shop. It produces each item when ordered using print-on-demand technology It handles all payment transactions including major credit cards It ships products worldwide Manages all returns/exchanges 2. Spreadshirt Variety on UK Site: Men's Classic T-Shirt in dark yellow Men’s contrast T-shirt in yellow with green neck & sleeve edges Women’s classic girlie t-shirt in dark yellow Women’s long sleeve in washed yellow (a paler yellow) Womens distressed hoodie in washed yellow (a paler yellow) (they don't do any of the men's hoodies or long sleeves in yellow) Variety on US Site: Men's Heavyweight in dark yellow there's no equivalent for Men’s contrast T-shirt in yellow with green neck & sleeve edges Female slimfit AA t-shirt in pale lemon Women's heavyweight t-shirt in banana - pale yellow (they don't do men's or women's long sleeve t-shirts or hoodies.) Pricing UK: Basic price (t-shirt only, no printing) Men's Classic T-Shirt in dark yellow - £12.60 Men’s contrast T-shirt in yellow with green neck & sleeve edges £13.90 Women’s classic girlie t-shirt in dark yellow £11.90 Women’s long sleeve in washed yellow (a paler yellow) £18.90 Womens distressed hoodie in washed yellow (a paler yellow) £26.90 Additional costs: Design using plot-printing; single-colour £ 2.00 Text (1-5 lines) single-colour £ 2.00 + shipping on top, varies by country & size of order. Can't order from US. I can't work out from this how much one of the ideas we've had would cost. This gives you an example: http://www.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Ser...8/articleId/11 Pricing US: Men's Heavyweight t-shirt - $12.90 (yellow) there's no equivalent for - Men’s contrast T-shirt in yellow with green neck & sleeve edges Female slimfit AA t-shirt - $16.90 (pale lemon) Women's heavyweight t-shirt - $12.90 (banana - pale yellow) they don't do men's or women's long sleeve t-shirts or hoodies. Additional costs: plot designs, single color $3.00 text (1-5 lines) - one color $3.00 + shipping on top, varies by country & size of order. Can order from outside US but shipping is quite high + taxes/customs fees on top. on top. I can't work out from this how much one of the ideas we've had would cost. This gives you an example: http://www.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Service/Help-1328/categoryId/8/articleId/11 Spreadshirt.net & Spreadshirt.com also advise: Quote: ________________________________________ Every article you create is one of a kind: Your design will be placed as exactly as possible on the t-shirt according to your specifications. Because we print your shirt by hand, slight variations may occur. It is also possible that your design looks somewhat smaller or larger on the shirt than in the T-shirt Designer. This is due to the fact that the shirts in the Designer are almost always size M. Spreadshirt also offer the availability to personalise your order so you can potentially add your screen name on, this may well cost you extra. Shop: A basic shop is free They handle everything from collecting payment, producing and distributing the products through to after sales service.

Mariah Carey over Coldplay? Is someone having a laugh?

coldplay"We had to pull their legs off". New interview with the LITii video director, Dougal Wilson - http://tinyurl.com/b43snn A about 10 hours ago from web

heading back into the cafepress vs spreadshirt debate, I have little more to add to that later, but as I'm heading out soon couldn't describe it very well in the time I have. I'll just add that it is going to be a permanent shop going forward. As for the Wembley shirts, they are indeed a special ltd edition one off, not because its Wembley but because its the gig that most people are going to & is therefore a special, unique, one-off, unlikely to be repeated because of the logistics, official Coldplaying meet-up. Ian & I wouldn't even be going if we hadn't seen how many Coldplayers were signing up that morning & started to feel that we might miss out on something awesome. We had already decided we could only afford LCCC, but changed our minds last minute as we watched you guys in the thread. So as far as I'm concerned, the Coldplaying shop would have a Wembley '09 shirt, and one other (viva La vida '09 or something similar with a similar design but non-specific as to date)

it won't be block 144, because that's what ticketmaster offered me a couple of days ago when i was being curous as to any remaining club wembley tickets. £253 a ticket in that block :shocked2:

cool, ty :D

and this on twitter: oxfamgb New voluntary internship opportunities at Oxfam - take a look here: http://tinyurl.com/ard4f7 38 minutes ago from web

712 sign-ups at Coldplay’s Japan tour! week has gone by since Coldplay performed in Saitama and Kobe, and we are certainly feeling the impact here at Oxfam Japan. We have inquiries from people who saw Oxfam’s booth, to those who have expressed interest in future campaigning. We are also hearing voices from those who have read the tour blog! 712 people signed up for the FOR ALL campaign during the Japan tour. We will continue to collect the sign-ups and for those of you, who missed the opportunity to sign up at the shows, please visit us and sign up on line! Behind the scenes at the show, it felt like watching a video on fast forward – but I am sure it was even busier for the tour staff. They came to Japan after the Grammy’s and fighting against jet lag is certainly not easy, but I am sure the warm welcome of the fans kept the band going. I would like to thank Coldplay for inviting us to campaign at the concerts. As for the promoters, we thank you for your understanding on this – we realize this is a rare sight in Japan, and without your cooperation, this would not have happened. Thanks also to the staff on site, who looked after us at the venues. All the campaigners who responded despite the really short notice and worked so hard to get FOR ALL sign-ups and give out information. Last but not least, thank you to my colleagues who tolerated me during the hectic week when almost everything else came to a halt – but I hope you all realize this is only the beginning! Campaigning at Coldplay concerts were made possible because so many people took part – and rest assured, Oxfam Japan will plan for more actions for you to take part! You’ve Got Power – and you can make a difference! Lastly, I am going to pass on the blog-baton to Oxfam Australia where the tour continues! … As for me, I cannot seem to get VIVA LA VIDA out of my head, and it seems like just yesterday that I was strolling around the streets of Kobe although I *KNEW* I had to update the concert blog! 712名の方が賛同！ 4公演を振り返って・・・ あの熱いコンサートから早くも一週間が経ち、改めてバンドの影響力を感じています。 コールドプレイがきっかけでオックスファムの資料を請求してくださったり、何かあればボランティアをします、と言っていただいたり、思いがけない人から“ブログを読んだよ！“と応援メッセージをいただいたり・・・。 お陰さまで712名の方がFOR　ALLキャンペーンに賛同し、署名をしてくださいました。今後も皆様の声を集め続けます。今回ブースに立ち寄ることができなかった皆様も是非オンラインでご署名をお願いします。 現場はどちらかというと、ビデオを早送りにして見ている様な慌ただしさでしたが、コンサート関係者はもっと大変だったと思います。グラミー受賞後日本に来日。時差と戦いながらの準備は本当につらかったと思いますが、そのしんどさも日本のファンの熱烈な歓迎で吹き飛んだことでしょう。 まずは、このような機会を設けてくださったコールドプレイ、そしてプロモーター、レコード会社の皆様ありがとうございました。皆様のご理解がなくてはこのような結果は生まれませんでした。コンサート直前の慌ただしいバックステージで、要領を得てない私へのブリーフィングは苛立ちの原因だったという事は察しておりました！また、当日何気に見守ってくださったみなさま、お心遣いありがとうございました。そして1週間をきってからのお声がけにお応えいただいたボランティアのみなさま、寒い中、連日立ちっぱなしの仕事を嫌な顔せずにサクサクとこなしていただけた結果、多くの人に呼びかけることができました。そして最後にオックスファムの事務所のみなさま・・・通常の業務をそっちのけ（！？）で、コンサートに間に合わせるためにバタバタと走り回っていた私をサポートしていただき、ありがとうございました。しかし、これはほんの序章だということにお気づきでしょうか？ ・・・たくさんの人のご協力によって実現できたコールドプレイのブースです。今後もここでつながったみなさまと何かするぞ！とオックスファム・ジャパンは企んでおりますのでよろしくお願いいたします。みんなYou’ve Got Power – このような一人ひとりの行動がChangeを生み出すことを実感した4日間でした。 さて、このツアーブログもここでオックスファム・オーストラリアのスタッフにバトンタッチをいたします。引き続きよろしくお願いします！ 追伸・・・今回これを担当した私と言えば今もなおVIVA LA VIDAが頭の中でグルグルヘビーローテーションしており、毎日ブログを更新しなければという宿題を背負っていたにもかかわらず、神戸では玉子焼き（明石焼き）を食べていた先週の事が遠い昔の様に感じています。 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=150