Jenjie

The Museum of Science & Industry is pretty awesome, and its free :D They have an amazing hands-on science section to play in, some pretty interesting stuff on the cotton industry (if you're a history geek like me), and they have the interesting opportunity to walk round a Victorian sewer (not as gross as it sounds)!! Eating, depends what you like, there's loads of places in town covering most eventualities. One of my favourite places is Dimitri's on Deansgate, who do delicious greek tapas.

Ladies & Gentleman!! For those of you who don't want to sift through the last 30 pages looking for reviews, I present to you a completed Wiki set up Unfortunately, Coldplayers type too much :P and the media got a bit over-excited too!!! Its a 3-pager, I'm afraid :lol:

welcome back :D

woot :D

I did say relatively normal :p what you choose to use as your baseline for normal is another matter :laugh3:

More fans in Japan greet Coldplay So we were out there again in the lobby and entrance area, distributing flyers and talking to Coldplay fans about the FOR ALL campaign. 18000 people came out to Saitama, despite it being a weekday! Hundreds more of those fans, signed the petition. Oxfam Japan was also interviewed by the TV crew from Channel 4’s evening news program, NEWS ZERO. The main focus of the program was about Coldplay’s charity work, and how it has made an impact on the lives of so many people. All those fans that stopped by our booth will make an impact on Oxfam’s work. Eevery one of you can make a difference. A big thanks to the Tokyo volunteer team, and now the team in Kobe will take over the campaigning! http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=148

ace :D

Anymore submissions?

UPDATE: 8th MARCH 2009: COMPETITION DRAW HAS BEEN MADE: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE6294qobMg]YouTube - Music-Skins.com / Coldplaying.com - MP3/Phone Skin Competition Draw - 8th March 2009[/ame] Well done to the five winners! Congratulations: macky, karenc, coldplayloveintexas, everybodystilllovesandrew & mc_squared ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In association with MusicSkins, Coldplaying.com are offering 5 people the chance to jazz their MP3 player or mobile phone up with a Coldplay skin. The skins are easy to apply and fully removable, helping to protect your MP3 player from scratches and scuffs, but without adding extra bulk. You can check out how the Photo style looks on the different devices here, as the style varies depending on the shape of your device. All you need to do is PM me (Jenjie) with your name by 00:01 GMT on Saturday 7th March 2009. 5 winners will then be selected at random. The successful winners will receive an email from us shortly afterwards. All winners will need to provide a valid postal address, and also let us know what type of MP3 player/phone you need the skin for. The skins will be distributed directly from MusicSkins. http://www.Music-Skins.com sell skins for ipod, Microsoft Zune, Sandisk Sansa Player, iPhone, RAZR Phone, Sidekick, Blackberry, and G1. Here's the one I tested earlier on my iPod Nano (4th Gen): Skin on its peel-off backing Skin on the iPod

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Is this the bit where I have to go all unbiased on you and say that obviously there are other hotels in the Wembley area, not just the Travel Lodge :P :laugh3: :D

yay :) welcome to the board :D Queuing was actually more fun than I imagined, and it has to be done to the great people we were with. first time I've ever seen The Killers, and I thought the same about Brandon :laugh3: I'll buy one :D just so long as that wasn't the camera which was recording us queuing & singing. next time, don't be (Wembley?) :D . you can see that we don't bite, and are relatively normal :P :laugh3: that is awesome :D

I give in!! I can't cope anymore, I need some sleep! I've had 5 hours in the last 40 and its not enough :( Wiki is semi done & will be done in more detail tomorrow. Media Reviews are on, I need to go back through this thread to pull out the fan reviews & add them. Night all :kiss:

We tested the Travel Lodge for a second time :D

I don't know what I am anymore! :laugh3: Of all the songs, I have Mr Brightside on repeat in my head, and it won't go away :confused:

I'm an expert after yesterday :P Ronnie's the drummer

Coldplay and Bono team up with Take That for charity gig By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - It's not often that Coldplay, one of the world's biggest bands, agrees to play backing vocals to a one-time boy band heartthrob like Gary Barlow of Take That. But that is exactly what happened in the early hours of Thursday when the rockers performed on stage with Barlow, and later with U2's lead singer Bono and U.S. band The Killers at a charity show following the BRIT pop awards. The event was in support of the War Child charity, which aims to protect children living in the world's most dangerous war zones. It has just released a compilation album "Heroes." Coldplay put behind it the disappointment of the BRITs, where it was nominated for four awards but won nothing, to play to 2,000 people at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire. "The band to see at the moment is Take That," said Coldplay's Chris Martin. Take That were one of Britain's most successful groups in the 1990s and have topped the charts again since reforming. "We've just come back from Japan and lost all the BRITs. It's been a s--- day, quite frankly," he joked at the end of a set where the band played a string of hits including "Yellow." Barlow entered stage left and performed Take That classic "Back For Good," with Coldplay providing the music and Martin the backing vocals, much to the crowd's delight. The finale of the concert was a rendition of The Killers' "All These Things That I've Done" sung by the band itself, Coldplay, Barlow and Bono, lead singer of Irish rockers U2. The concert, which started late on Wednesday, was the highlight of the night for many fans and journalists who had been at the BRIT awards earlier. Welsh singer Duffy won three awards including the coveted best British album accolade. War Child has billed Heroes, its fifth record, as "the ultimate covers album." Fifteen young acts were selected by established names in rock and roll to perform one of their own songs. They include Duffy performing former Beatle Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die," TV On The Radio covering David Bowie's "Heroes," Estelle singing Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and Elbow with U2's "Running to Stand Still." "War Child's work is vital and being able to have a moment with Brandon (Flowers of The Killers) and Chris (Martin) tonight is a salute to an awesome night for them," Bono said. "U2 love Elbow's new version of 'Running To Stand Still'," he added in a statement. Record major EMI made a "substantial," undisclosed payment to War Child and has released the album on its Parlophone label. Parlophone donates UK profits to the international charity. War Child's first album was "Help!" in 1995. The charity said the concept of rock legends selecting tracks for younger artists to perform reflected its own work in investing in the next generation. (Editing by Paul Casciato) http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKTRE51I2TB20090219

Revenge is dish best served Coldplay... War Child: The Killers, Coldplay 4/5 stars John Aizlewood's rating As days go, yesterday wasn’t an especially good one for Coldplay. Still bedraggled after flying in from Japan, Britain’s most popular band and the British music industry’s most popular export spent the evening being humiliated at the Brits, an unfathomable snub which almost single-handedly illustrates why the music business is in steep decline. Wounded, Coldplay hot-footed it to the newly christened O2 Shepherds Bush Empire and at 40 minutes into today, they took the stage and things finally began to look better. The event was a benefit to celebrate the War Child charity’s 15th birthday and nominally a co-headline with The Killers, who hurtled through their hits, asked us whether we were “human or dancer” (er, a bit of both, I suppose, all things considered) on Human and proved once more that however peculiar their little singer Brandon Flowers is, they remain a formidable live proposition. Yet, Brits idiocy notwithstanding, Coldplay remain the people’s choice and even the late start failed to stop more than 200,000 people applying for the opportunity to purchase the 2,000 £50 tickets. Indeed, such was the demand that while U2’s The Edge managed to wangle himself entry, he couldn’t get a seat. Coldplay specialise in making giant venues seem small. In a more intimate setting, buoyed rather than burdened by expectation, they were magnificent, whether it was Chris Martin singing much of In My Place sitting on the corner of the stage like a broken schoolboy; the thumping Viva La Vida (were there a Best Use Of Timpani Brit last night, they’d have been celebrating today) which Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant gleefully conducted from the audience; Yellow, stopped by Martin to announce the presence of X-Factor judge Louis Walsh or 42, as it exploded from a piano ballad into near rock opera. Like no other band, they can simultaneously comfort and thrill. “This,” promised Martin, not one to knowingly undersell himself or his band, “is going to be the best encore you’ve ever seen.” It wasn’t, but it was special. Gary Barlow, looking every inch the Cheshire cat as he basked in credibility, emerged to sing Take That’s Back For Good with Martin on wailing backing vocals and, finally, to send us off into the early morning with a spring in our step, Barlow, Bono and The Killers joined the headliners on a ramshackle but heartfelt assault on Flowers’s All These Things That I’ve Done. Who needs a Brit anyway? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23402528-details/War+Child%3A+The+Killers%2C+Coldplay/gigReview.do?reviewId=23646726

my brain isn't working properly yet. I forgot about online newspapers :embarassed: :laugh3:

Any Londoners out there picked up a copy of the evening Standard tonight and able to share, please?

I don't think I could cope!! :laugh3: I still think my dream world has invaded reality as it is. When Chris mentioned in some interview a while back that he'd like to play with Take That, I never envisioned it actually happening. Plus, channelling a 14 year old is very exhausting!!! :lol:

there are some more pics on my facebook (3 albums), but they're mainly blurry, dark, or completely unrecognisable :lol: http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=557815010#/album.php?aid=106441&id=557815010 http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=557815010#/album.php?aid=106443&id=557815010 http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=557815010#/album.php?aid=106444&id=557815010

squeeeeeeeeeeeee for the setlist!!

in roadie #42's pics? I can't see myself, but I am directly behind Gary's bum in this pic. the security guard you can see was stood slightly to my right, and rescued me with more water after 'Back For Good'!!!