Jenjie

I vote Prospekt's March. Rainy Day intrigues me. LIT2 I'm cautious about because I love the version without lyrics. Plus in my head, the title Prospekt's March invokes a Politik-style track

:D

Antarctica would be a fabulous idea. no one particular country owns it, so they couldn't be accused of bias.

personal assistant :)

I'm having random ideas again. So far we've had 2 of the EP's tracks inserted into the setlist. Do you think we'll get another one before the EP is released? Which one would you want to hear?

patiently? :o how? I had to go bounce round the coffee table to LIT

type faster :P

that's a very harsh statement. particularly when the timings were the same for Take That at the MEN. i would say its more that the arenas are out for as much money as they can get.

it was Albert Hammond jnr

Carrrrrllllllllaaaaaaaaa!! that looks very much like a ping pong table in a stadium???????? TALK TO US NOW!!

I think, from something #42 said in one of his early blogs, that they vary it from night to night, depending where they're heading. what a sweetie! cool! how's his pronunciation?

as we're getting more and more queries about 2009 dates, and countries which haven't been toured yet, I've merged some threads and created a discussion thread for anything related to 2009 possible tour destinations.

I think they got to Antwerp safely :D Antwerp, Belgium. the end of the European road.. Talking of roads, the buses and trucks are all literally parked beneath one, as this venue is right next to the motorway. We drove past it on the way from Milan to Rotterdam. It’s a big green building, feels like it’s seen a few sights over the years.. The crowds are already patiently waiting outside. Inflatable pillows for comfort and their backs against the glass doors, claiming thier spot at the front of the queue. That metal bar at the front of the stage must be the most sought after piece of steel in Europe at the moment! There are some familiar faces too. I met some Coldplaying.com fans last night, waiting outside to meet the band on their way out. They waited in the rain last night, and said they would see me here today too. So they did. Knocking on the glass doors at the front of the venue, with a friendly wave, as I set up the Oxfam booths. I am constantly impressed by the dedication of these fans. One of the best part of the days, is when the doors finally open, these wide open venues fill up and the buzz starts to build up. We’ve almost reached the end of the road for now. 5 weeks out and time for a breather before heading back across the pond. It’s been an amazing trip. Thousands of people have joined the movement on various campaigns with Oxfam, to make the world a fairer place for us all to live. Oxfam France Agir-ici, Oxfam Deutchsland, Intermon Oxfam, Oxfam International, Ucodep and Oxfam in Italy, Oxfam Novib and now Oxfam-in-Belgium have worked together to make this an amazing tour. A massive thank you to all of our volunteers! Coldplay have really hit their stride. Enjoying each and every concert. The crowd reaction has been incredible. It’s been emotional. http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=75

looks like the girls have got to Antwerp safely :D Antwerp, Belgium. the end of the European road.. Talking of roads, the buses and trucks are all literally parked beneath one, as this venue is right next to the motorway. We drove past it on the way from Milan to Rotterdam. It’s a big green building, feels like it’s seen a few sights over the years.. The crowds are already patiently waiting outside. Inflatable pillows for comfort and their backs against the glass doors, claiming thier spot at the front of the queue. That metal bar at the front of the stage must be the most sought after piece of steel in Europe at the moment! There are some familiar faces too. I met some Coldplaying.com fans last night, waiting outside to meet the band on their way out. They waited in the rain last night, and said they would see me here today too. So they did. Knocking on the glass doors at the front of the venue, with a friendly wave, as I set up the Oxfam booths. I am constantly impressed by the dedication of these fans. One of the best part of the days, is when the doors finally open, these wide open venues fill up and the buzz starts to build up. We’ve almost reached the end of the road for now. 5 weeks out and time for a breather before heading back across the pond. It’s been an amazing trip. Thousands of people have joined the movement on various campaigns with Oxfam, to make the world a fairer place for us all to live. Oxfam France Agir-ici, Oxfam Deutchsland, Intermon Oxfam, Oxfam International, Ucodep and Oxfam in Italy, Oxfam Novib and now Oxfam-in-Belgium have worked together to make this an amazing tour. A massive thank you to all of our volunteers! Coldplay have really hit their stride. Enjoying each and every concert. The crowd reaction has been incredible. It’s been emotional. http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=75

Antwerp, Belgium. the end of the European road.. Talking of roads, the buses and trucks are all literally parked beneath one, as this venue is right next to the motorway. We drove past it on the way from Milan to Rotterdam. It’s a big green building, feels like it’s seen a few sights over the years.. The crowds are already patiently waiting outside. Inflatable pillows for comfort and their backs against the glass doors, claiming thier spot at the front of the queue. That metal bar at the front of the stage must be the most sought after piece of steel in Europe at the moment! There are some familiar faces too. I met some Coldplaying.com fans last night, waiting outside to meet the band on their way out. They waited in the rain last night, and said they would see me here today too. So they did. Knocking on the glass doors at the front of the venue, with a friendly wave, as I set up the Oxfam booths. I am constantly impressed by the dedication of these fans. One of the best part of the days, is when the doors finally open, these wide open venues fill up and the buzz starts to build up. We’ve almost reached the end of the road for now. 5 weeks out and time for a breather before heading back across the pond. It’s been an amazing trip. Thousands of people have joined the movement on various campaigns with Oxfam, to make the world a fairer place for us all to live. Oxfam France Agir-ici, Oxfam Deutchsland, Intermon Oxfam, Oxfam International, Ucodep and Oxfam in Italy, Oxfam Novib and now Oxfam-in-Belgium have worked together to make this an amazing tour. A massive thank you to all of our volunteers! Coldplay have really hit their stride. Enjoying each and every concert. The crowd reaction has been incredible. It’s been emotional. http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=75

translation by stars21.com Concert in Ahoy home for Coldplay AMSTERDAM - Ahoy Thursday night was a living room. And there was responsible for Coldplay. The English band played the first of two concerts in Rotterdam for a sellout and outrageous room. With songs from their latest album "Viva la vida" but also old songs like 'Talk' and 'The scientist' played singer Chris Martin and his bandmates to the public as if it was their best friend. The public began just before 21.30 am impatient to be when the speakers from the Viennese Waltz galmde. If a football stadium deinde everyone, when suddenly the light came and the band began with the song 'Life in techno color "that went on smoothly in the first single from the last album' Violet Hill '. Light Use The public had the taste quickly to tackle from full chest and sang them. The band was barely visible through the little light use, which the music was more important. In rapidly came hits as "Clocks" and "Speed of Sound" over. After this latest issue asked Martin to the light to do so his audience could say goodbye and thank them for coming. This he did in English with the words "Thank you friends." That the general public and mainly Coldplay's Martin's friends, it was clear when he publicly asked to request songs. This was the foreman in alone on the piano 'Trouble' and 'The hardest part. " Here, too, stood by the little light music, creating an intimate atmosphere created in Ahoy. Something more It was "Viva la vida 'Ahoy that continued on its head. The Hot number of the same album everyone sang with full chest and the band played the song full surrender. Even when the song was last gave the public and there is not enough of the singing continued. It was also a bonus that later the number was over again, but in a remix. But that was not the only highlight of the evening. While in the room was dark and the band left the stage, the audience knew not just where it was off. Coldplay until suddenly back in the room on the first ring in the middle of the audience stood. Tambourine Chris Martin said that he felt that the people behind in the room also were entitled to a good view. With just guitars and a tambourine band played the two tracks, where also 'Death will never Conquer', that is not full service progressively was sung by drummer Will Champion. At the end of the concert, during the playing of the new single 'Lovers in Japan ", dwarrelden thousands of colored paper butterflies down. The tape ended with the song 'Yellow' where the audience with a warm yellow light was stained. © Novum http://www.nu.nl/news/1772772/2101/H..._Coldplay.html

translation by stars21.com Coldplay makes it a join celebration of AMSTERDAM - It was a very intimate act that the British pop group Coldplay last night gave in Ahoy. For how big the hall is - the band is so popular that even Gelredome or Arena could have been filled - the group succeeded in Rotterdam in the very "close" with the public to be. The school has popband example of a lightning career. Around the turn of the century jumps the student group in London that the hole left by Radiohead - that the experimental Kid A lot of fans has alienated - and U2, which also appears in a dalletje trapped. Labels that Coldplay get up paste, such as "Radiohead lite 'and' U2 without lancing ', certainly cutting wood, but that does not mean that the band sells tens of millions of albums. By earlier this year published the fourth album Viva la vida or death and all his friends, no less, produced by avant-garde favorite Brian Eno, the group seriously trying to dig deeper. Although very cautious, with a teaspoon almost, but it is certainly their most adventurous album. The band around singer Chris Martin succeeds in Ahoy not to apply any subtleties that Eno has processed in the plate to reproduce on stage, but suggests an admirable spirit opposite. By starting with a handful of audience favorites as Violet hill, Clocks and Speed of Sound, the group join in a celebration of Oasis-like. In musical terms, the men of Coldplay live no high-flyers. Martin must do everything to the numbers a little vocal sound and acceptable to the pedestrian audio tape is sometimes desperately needed. Another downside: the originality in the compositions remain rather hard to find. That lack of artistic depth is more than offset by the more than sympathetic activation and interactions with the public. Fix songs as you are massively meegezongen and the hit Viva la vida, the hall on its head. The small podiumpje in the middle of the hall shows - like the Stones a few years ago - space for an interlude close to the fans. Ttijdens the concert, the group even at the gallery, behind in the room, for a short unpluggedset. ''I hope we can communicate through the language or soft-rock,''says Chris Martin somewhere at the beginning of the concert in Ahoy. The group is exemplary to his word. (PETER BRUYN) http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/23/mu...eest-van.dhtml

translation by stars21.com Coldplay remains in Ahoy 'close' with audience Actually it was a very intimate action, the concert that the British pop group Coldplay Thursday night in Ahoy 'gaf.Want how big the hall is, not only is the band in question so popular that probably Gelredome or ArenA could have been filled, but at the same time the group succeeded in Rotterdam in really 'close' with the public to be. Their history is the perfect example of a lightning career. Around the turn of the century jumps the student group in London that the hole left by Radiohead - that the experimental "Kid A 'album quite a few early fans are alienated - and U2, which also appears in a dalletje trapped. Labels that Coldplay get up paste, such as "Radiohead lite 'and' U2 without sting 'certainly cutting wood, but that does not mean that the young band sells tens of millions of albums. In this year published the fourth album "Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends', nota bene produced by avant-garde-favorite Brian Eno, the group, however, seriously trying to dig deeper. Although very cautious, with a teaspoon almost, but it is certainly their most adventurous album. The band around singer Chris Martin succeeds in Ahoy 'not to apply any subtleties that Eno has processed in the plate to reproduce on stage, but suggests an admirable spirit opposite. By starting with a handful of audience favorites as "Violet Hill," "Clocks" and "Speed of Sound", the group is an equal join Oasis-like celebration of. In purely musical terms, the men of Coldplay 'live' no high-flyers. Martin must do everything to the numbers a little vocal sound and acceptable to the pedestrian audio tape with 'click track' strings and is sometimes sorely needed, while the originality of the compositions far to find remains. But that lack of artistic substance is more than offset by the more than sympathetic commitment and much interaction with the public. Songs like "Fix You" degenerate into a mass community singing and the current hit "Viva la Vida" - a song that you immediately if you are happy at the fairground or in a store belongs - is the room on his header. The decor is very beautiful. A small podiumpje in the middle of the hall shows - like the Stones a few years ago - space for an interlude close to the fans. Later during the concert, the group even at the gallery, behind in the room, for a short 'unplugged'-set. And the finale is accompanied by a festive confetti rain. "I hope we can communicate through the language or soft-rock," says Chris Martin somewhere at the beginning of the concert. The group is exemplary to his word. http://www.brabantsdagblad.nl/algeme...et-publiek.ece

translation by stars21.com Coldplay does Stadionact suddenly modest ROTTERDAM - A beautiful opening of Coldplay, Thursday in a sold-out Ahoy. The tape has samengeklonterd a few square meters of the grand stage, and plays like a gang of friends in a youth center numbers and Life in Technicolor Violet Hill, the last album Viva la Vida. Coldplay wants one thing clear tonight: the band is still a real band and not a singer, beautiful man Chris Martin and popidool plus three stubborn Appendix. The message will still come over repeatedly. With Viva la Vida seems Coldplay global breakthrough after the album X & Y from 2005 to ratify, or even to surpass. The same single won the first place in the American Billboard, and in all of the singles draw plate is hard. They have also invariably a typical Coldplay join in chorus or bridge, and it is therefore of Ahoy 'woo-eee-hooo, woo-HOOOO "(soon in your football stadium). The living room concert enormous amount of hits that included Rotterdam is almost incredible for a band actually quite young with just one fourth album. "Oh yes, you constantly think, 'this too." And despite that success (the two concerts in Ahoy were in a minute or ten sold out) so I would like Coldplay now seem small. For the numbers God Put a Smile Upon Your Face and Talk of the barpiano Chris Martin verreden to an extreme tip of the catwalk in the middle of the arena. The band joins standing around the piano and it is now a living room concert performed. It is much crazier. After the song Lost!, Back on the 'main stage', Coldplay disappears after a short thank you from the scene. Silence, and perhaps last, "you can feel the audience thinking. Then suddenly from the gallery, first ring, rear box, exultation. A target spot floept to hear and yes, there are the gentlemen in a square meter between suddenly very glad that the public with tickets still less thought to have taken. Mandolin, Dobro-guitar, Martin on harmonica and an acoustic set again (fine performance of The Scientist) in a caravan that had passed. And THRUM, leaving them again. Cuts up a great discovery, where some comic-now-back-act. But Coldplay cuts are still included in the fingers. The concert is so particles from each other that it is a very intense experience in the way. It helps that the work of Viva la Vida also has been cut is implemented (intro to one song here, another chorus of song there, suddenly a remix of Viva la Vida as interlude) where you sometimes get the feeling to a medley to listen. And some unplugged and abridged version of Talk on the catwalk is naturally funny, you were also happy nonetheless ecstatic - because if that number is now once - and broad guitar sound over you been flushed. Then, just 'ordinary' and the big stage, but with goose bumps like. http://www.volkskrant.nl/kunst/artic...ens_bescheiden

that's wishful thinking, Ian

Congrats :D super-excited for you yay Pete!!! very cool :D ty :kiss: Ian and I both read it differently, so we wanted to make sure we had it right

you shound go and see Then She Found Her. He's lovely in it, but he does an angry scene and he's very scary :stunned:

whilst trying to find a UK site for PM EP, I did come across the first string rendition of viva la vida

aye!! it would have to be in Pierce Brosnan's character. coz I like Colin Firth too much to ditch him, and the other guy worked really well with Julie Walters

By Alison Wenham Saturday, 4 October 2008 Autumn used to be a bumper time for the record industry, with the big guns lined up to fill the shelves of every high street between now and Christmas. Up to 60 per cent of the industry's annual sales would be forced through a pressure cooker of frenzied activity to sell as much as could be manufactured, distributed and sold in the precious 12 weeks up to Christmas. Guessing the Christmas number one is a great British institution. But we seem recently to have lost touch with the seasons, and not just in the record industry. Our internal barometer is collectively out of synch; our feet have lost their rhythm. For as long as anyone can remember, high street sales were always in January and June, summer came in July and August, Christmas fell in December. Now, Christmas starts in August, summer ends in May and the high street sale is now a fairly routine year-round phenomenon, like our perpetually uncertain weather. Where does that leave the music industry? Unable to capitalise on a seasonal increase, we are beginning to see the seeds of internet invention take root, and ironically, these seeds may well drive business back to the high street. More and more big bands are using the internet to give fans a taster for the real thing. Radiohead, Coldplay and Oasis are just some of the bands who have made news headlines by making some or all of the their new album available online first. Innovation is beginning to creep into the marketing activities of the record companies, slowly but surely. More bands using clever promotional stunts will confirm the internet as the greatest marketing platform of all time. And it may even lead to a renaissance on the high street. Bring back the record shop! But Christmas will always be a special time for the music, driven by that fondness for predicting the number one. So I predict another completely unpredictable Christmas number one, which is another great example of our tolerance and almost indulgent relationship with music. No one knows whether it will be a major company "priority" with a few shed loads of cash spent helping us to make up our minds, or will it be another Nizlopi, out of nowhere with the deliriously infectious "JCB". Whatever, it'll still be fun guessing. Alison Wenham is chairman and chief executive, AIM (The Association of Independent Music) http://www.musicindie.com http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music-magazine/last-word/is-this-the-end-of-christmas-950639.html