Jenjie

Ian's been busy uploading photos from all the gigs so far. All in one nice easy place. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gal...y.php/cat/1478

Ian's been busy uploading photos from all the gigs so far. All in one nice easy place. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1478

methinks its not to much the drivers as the union. of strike talk recently, the name Unite seems to pop up alot. those drivers union is Unite. When the NU job losses were announced, the union was talking about strikes. who was the union? Unite.

Punishment to be a review of the gig. Whaddya think, Mich?

Ben Jones, I can't believe you went to the friends and family gig and didn't tell us!!! Just got that VIP email thingy.

you'll be fine. you'll be so excited about the show you won't have time to be airsick

They're brilliant photos :D once the gallery's back up again, we'll be adding everyone's photos into there. Ian had me set all the albums up last week ready.

plus the bad reviews are reading so much better with Ugly Kid Joe's 'Everything About You' in the background :laugh3: (its what media player had random'ed to whilst I was reading a particulalry dreadful review)

the amazon one closed a week ago. the hmv one had closed before that. not sure when either one is announcing winners.

http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/18_June_2008:_Coldplay_Live_at_the_BBC updated. thanks for the reviews & the photos :D

that was fantastic! I am now even more miffed than I was before at the BBC. and I love the confetti butterflies. I'm gonna have to catch some to bring home in Dec.

hi melanie, by the way :D i may be being slow, but I did't work out how to reply to profile messages yet

he was on the radio last night. apparently, comparing that song that that band wrote to Viva La Vida is like accusing Snow Patrol of plagiarising Iron Maiden!!!

someone's frantically backtracking aren't they?

ty Lore. nice translation :grin: may I ask where you found it so I can put the source on Wiki?

Any one go to Barcelona last night? got a setlist? any reviews?

yay. will add those 3 in, ty :grin:

Wiki updated again

those photos are amazing :D I love them

Coldplay at the Brixton Academy Pete Paphides With new album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends sitting atop the charts after just three days and 300,000 sales, you would think Chris Martin might finally relax. But after a month which has seen Coldplay’s frontman walk out of two interviews in the face of the most gentle of interrogations, it’s best to assume nothing. He may have befriended high-rolling rap tycoons such as Jay-Z and Kanye West, but their sense of entitlement has yet to rub off on the man who, in this month’s Q, preemptively referred to his group as “the world’s biggest bland”. Perhaps coming back to the live arena with a free show – tickets “won” on a raffle basis – was a further lowering of the stakes, easing Martin into a role with which his modest ego seems to struggle. “I know there’s been complaints about the ticket price,” he joked prior to the cathartic squall of Chinese Sleep Chant. Usually when a band returns with product to flog, trusted hits are spaced out in order to rack up goodwill for the new, less familiar stuff. Coldplay ought to take pride in the fact that the evening’s most exciting moments came with songs that the assembled throng were only just getting to know. Switching from piano to guitar for 42, Martin bobbed about in his customarily awkward legs-apart manner before guitarist Jonny Buckland lit the touch-paper on the song’s propulsive middle section. Next to that and the instrumental opener, Life In Technicolour, 2003 hit Clocks sounded like a half-formed idea that – under the current regime – would be lucky to fill 30 seconds of a new number. Similarly, the seismic current single Violet Hill sounded like a song with enough going on to sustain its creators a year down the line when they have had to sing it in five continents. That the same couldn’t be said of Coldplay’s last album X&Y perhaps accounted for its almost entire absence from the setlist. Only Fix You made its way into the set – a mawkish memento of a period when creative complacency seemed to render Coldplay irrelevant. [That said, some things remain unchanged. Martin couldn’t resist a deferential allusion to Radiohead – a band whose continued envelope-pushing serves merely to compound his own insecurities.] Three years on, Coldplay sounded like a band who may have finally found an acre of sonic terrain to call their own. The journey travelled to this point was elegantly marked by an acoustic version of their maiden hit Yellow. If the ovation that greeted it doesn’t silence the voices in Martin’s head, only a psychiatrist or, maybe, hearing specialist can help him now. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article4153524.ece

Coldplay, Brixton Academy, London Singing does power of good for predictable Martin By Elisa Bray Tuesday, 17 June 2008 As soon as they begin their show, we know that everything we had expected of a Coldplay gig, we are going to get. It's this predictability that has made Coldplay at once so loved by the masses and so rejected by everyone else who errs from the mainstream. By Coldplay's standards, this is a tiny gig – so accustomed to the arenas and even stadiums are the fourpiece. Tickets for this show were won by fans on the band's website and in a piece of promotion, broadcast live on Radio 1, Martin makes sure we recognise just how generous he and the band have been, with self-congratulatory jokes throughout – "no refunds". Coldplay may have helped guitar music into the charts in 2000, but their instant commercial success spawned the onslaught of bands Keane, Athlete and Embrace, simulating their brand of inoffensive indie rock, thus steering British rock straight down the middle of the road. While their answer to Radiohead's earlier indie-rock was to remove their interesting sharp turns in direction and the disarming quality of Thom Yorke's angst-ridden vocals and lyrics, Coldplay have nailed a formula for the heart-tugging epic anthem of the masses. It's early days for the new music, as seen by the crowd's varying reactions. "Violet Hill" is a success tonight, and one to join their line of hits which include "Clocks", whose emotive piano chords and Martin's falsetto has the crowd erupting. "When you think you're going to lose, just sing this song," Martin says earnestly "singing can do the power of good," he says, introducing the title song of their new album "Vida La Vida". It's just one of the many moments in the gig that turns the crowd into a hug-athon. "Trouble" is disappointingly dirge-like. But new song "Lost!", its organ chords of epic proportion, actually creates a ripple of emotion. For the first encore they disappear up to the balcony to play a couple of acoustic songs, brilliant for the portion of fans at front left of the stage, perplexing for the rest of us following the spotlight. The effect, half comedic, especially with one well-timed heckle "Go on Chris, jump!" and emotive at the same time, as they played their first hit "Yellow". Martin unveils a new acoustic country song sung by drummer Will Champion, adding variety to their set. "Fix You" is flawlessly performed, and is the best example of the band's ability to manipulate the strings of their audience's heart. This they follow up with the solid new track "Lovers in Japan" as colourful confetti butterflies start showering the crowd. It's a tasteful way to end the night and shows that Coldplay continue to do what they do predictably brilliantly. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/coldplay-brixton-academy-london-848556.html

Wikicoldplay page updated Thanks for your reviews guys. Gonna have a look at your photos when I get in from work so I can use one of them instead of the official one I have on at the moment. I'll also update any new reviews where possible as I go.

I hope she has photographic evidence :D

there's a few threads in the individual song forums at the top of this page

awwwww i wondered what on earth was going on when i saw Hicksy's name then