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Coldplay 2008/2009: The Viva La Vida Tour - The Reviews Coldplaying.com needs YOU. We want to have the most & the best concert reviews. Quality & Quantity!! And we need you to help us achieve that. If you're going to a concert, don't forget to check back in here with your review, photos, stories, etc. We'll include them in WikiColdplay here Here's what you said in previous years ty muchly :D

arrrghhhh want the uk dates. fingers crossed for an xmas concert again :D

they're great!! I listen to them when I'm cleaning/ironing/knitting etc. Means I can "read" a book and still get things done

liked "Violet Hill" when i heard it, still in 2 minds about "A Spell" but know absolutely and certainly from the first listen that I love "Viva La Vida". Can't wait to hear it live. In fact darn it, I want a Coldplay concert to go to this weekend. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

boooooooooo they'd better not have ditched ash too

Hmmmmmmm thats a very 80's electronic feel to it. Not sure about that one. With Violet Hill, I knew the moment I first heard it that i liked it and the tune just stuck. May have to listen to "Spell" a few more times.

About to start "Lark Rise to Candleford". Had it on my wish list wayyyy before the BBC decided to put it on the tv, and finally getting round to it.

Lost but before that a marathon Charmed session.

Ohhhhhh an episode which answers a question!!! Is the toddler, Claire's Aaron, or has Kate had a baby and called him that? It's Claire's Aaron. Why would Jack not want to see Aaron? Going back to the above question possibly because a) he feels guilty that Claire went with Locke & something happened to her or b) he thinks/knows its Kate's baby and thinks the Dad is Sawyer? Dunno but we know it defintely isn't option b) now. New Question That surely can't be it for Claire?

There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet. The tax authority's website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities or sports stars were making. The Italian treasury suspended the website after a formal complaint from the country's privacy watchdog. The information was put on the site with no warning for nearly 24 hours. Sour grapes? The release of the information was one of the last acts of the outgoing centre-left government and has shocked many tax-shy Italians, says the BBC's Mark Duff in Milan. But it was also hugely popular, and within hours the site was overwhelmed and impossible to access. The finance ministry described the move as a bid to improve transparency. Deputy Economic Minister Vincenzo Visco said he could not understand what all the fuss was about. "I can't understand what the problem is," he is quoted as telling Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper. "This already exists all around the world, you just have to watch any American soap to see that. We had the system ready by January but we delayed publication to avoid arguments during the election campaign." But critics condemned it as an outrageous breach of privacy. The timing of the move, just days before the current administration hands over to incoming Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was intriguing too, says our correspondent. The outgoing government came to power promising to tackle Italians' notoriously lax approach to paying tax. According to an Italian government report from 2007, the amount of unpaid tax in the country is equivalent to 7% of gross domestic product. Some sceptics have seen the move as just end of term sour grapes, our correspondent adds. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7376608.stm

ouch, that shipping hurts. do you not get the freebies from the front of mags if you pick a copy up in the US?

if we're gonna be picky, they're technically in the wrong section of the board anyways :P methinks threads about a new single release probably fit better in Releases :D and merging them would confuse the hell out of me. it can be bad enough trying to make sense out of threads anyways without doing that to me :laugh3:

Might want to try asking the guys who run the Official shop. their email is [email protected]

:laugh3: :cry::cry::cry: Someone out there doesn't like me. Who let Utd get into a Champions League final which is scheduled for the night of my wedding anniversary? :rolleyes: :laugh3:

Found a Vinyl listing on amazon.co.uk. I posted it in this thread

ooooh and this Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends [VINYL] ~ Coldplay (Artist) No customer reviews yet. Be the first. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Availability: Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available. Ships in Original Packaging: This item ships separately and in the original manufacturer's packaging. There will be shipping labels attached to the outside of the package. You may mark this item as a gift if you do not wish to reveal the contents. See Product details for more information Vinyl (16 Jun 2008) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Parlophone ASIN: B00180OSX6

hmmmmmm just spotted this on amazon Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends: Special Edition Audio CD (16 Jun 2008) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Parlophone ASIN: B0017NCVWY

:P at you all. Was in work so no access to radio. Have had to wait just under 6 hours after its was released to get to listen, but as I walk in my front door Scott Mills was playing it on Radio 1 :D And I had to browse coldplaying as a guest from work, so with the slow work computer, and mega traffic here, didn't even get to really read what you guys thought either.

Hiiiiiiiiiiii!! Man its been a long time! But definitely worth the wait. :D

hmmmmmmm subliminal messaging? not seen them/heard naything new for a while and the first single they release has lots of repeats of "If you love me, Won't you let me know?" Erm, in answer, yes we still love you doh!!! So if you're in agreement, and you haven't already, get your butt into Tracie's thread and let them know :D oh, and nearly forgot to mention love it, but not as much as Clocks which is still my all time favourite.

Introduction by John Walsh Saturday, 26 April 2008 Whatever did British people do in summer before there were music festivals? Did we spend our weekends planting sweet peas in the garden? Or flooring pints in the pub? Of course we knew festivals existed somewhere. We knew the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was going on; it had been luring revellers into its muddily spaced-out embrace since the early Seventies. Gradually it was joined by Reading, then Leeds, then the Monsters of Rock Festival at Donington Park if you fancied banging your head with other heavy metal zealots to the subtle riffs of AC/DC and the mighty Maiden. But that, by and large, was it. Now you can't move for music festivals across the UK. Three-day rock events now sprawl across every weekend in the calendar, from May to September. And the punters are just as likely to be well-heeled and middle-aged parents as poor, groovy students. You can pay £150 for the full Glasto experience, complete with cosmically significant "healing" fields and an alternative township of ramshackle stalls selling wire jewellery, organic halva and mung beans. Or you can pay a mere £60 for the Truck weekend. You can pitch a tent, hire a caravan or sleep up a tree. You can dress as Satan or Amy Winehouse, paint yourself blue or clothe your naked body in feathers. But whatever you do, you stand a good chance of being immortalised by the lens of Stuart Roy Clarke. Clarke has been a football photographer for 16 years. But a few summers ago, he decided to visit pop festivals with his camera, "to ride the new wave of enthusiasm" and catch some music fans off their guard. There were, by his computation, 600 in the UK and Ireland last summer. Clarke went to 37 of them, discreetly snapping the revellers, day and night. The charming, sometimes eye-opening results of his quest are published, later this year, in the bluntly titled new book Scenes from a British Summer Country Pop Music Festival. Did they all blur into one after a while? "I don't take drugs or drink," says Clarke. "They never blurred for me. Photo-wise, I'm never confused by where I am, or where I was." What did festivals have in common apart from music, grass, canned cider and people kissing in the sunshine? "Idealism. Some festivals have the capacity to change lives." Really? "Oh yes. Festivals can make people change the tempo of their lives, by taking them away from all the things they're used to, into a communal arena." Why do no bands appear in the pictures? "As a football photographer, I'm drawn to photographing the crowd, and I followed the same line with the festivals. Most people's experience of festivals is travelling, dealing with tents, human interaction – these outweigh the experience of watching the bands perform." Clarke doesn't welcome comparisons with Martin Parr, the photographic satirist of people misbehaving in social arenas. "I never really liked his stuff," says Clarke. "He's too down on people. I prefer a warmer, humanist approach." Warm, indeed. His pictures are full of embraces. Lovers insert their hands into each other's jeans and sleeves, out of fondness or chilliness. A tattooed desperado twines himself around his girlfriend without relinquishing his cigarette. A couple enjoy a snog to the fury of their neighbour. You can feel the photographer's combination of amusement and sympathy for the yuppie using his mobile to phone for help after a downpour has flooded his tent. Clarke approves the spectacle of festival-goers dressing up in masks, angels costumes or Grim Reaper robes. "It's part of the desire to become somebody else," he says, "stepping outside your clothes, shedding your reptilian skin. There's a lot more to it than fancy dress." His favourite photograph, however, features no clothes at all. "It was the Big Green Gathering, in Cheddar Gorge. I went there with high hopes, but found it very dull – until I came across some people digging a hole in the ground. It gradually evolved into the scene in the photograph. There was nakedness – though nothing orgiastic – and music, and people chucking mud everywhere. It was so tribal, so primeval. On the edge of the hole, you can see a woman playing the saxophone. At first she seemed terrified that a speck of mud might land in the sax – but after a while she just didn't care. She became abandoned." He sighs, sounding just a touch of an old hippie himself. "It was just a joyful, beautiful scene." Right on. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/features/photographing-the-festivals-a-really-in-tents-experience-man-813727.html

By Shaun Walker in Moscow Sunday, 27 April 2008 They lobbied hard to win the prestige of hosting a Champions League final in Moscow, but now the Russian authorities are wondering if they have scored a spectacular own goal. The problem is that there is a good chance of two English teams contesting the match for the first time – which would mean the nightmare of at least 45,000 visas to process in a short space of time. The Russian embassy in London usually issues 60,000 in a year. But it will face a tsunami of applications if Manchester United beat Barcelona on Tuesday night to earn a place in the final on 21 May. Either Liverpool or Chelsea will be their opponents. Relations between Russia and Britain are already at their chilliest since the Cold War, but now the prospect of bureaucratic chaos, coupled with the fear of violence from frustrated fans, make the showpiece event look like a diplomatic disaster waiting to happen. Accommodation is an even bigger problem. Moscow recently came top of a survey of the world's most expensive hotel rooms, with the average bill for a night coming in at £250. But even those willing to pay through the nose will be disappointed, with travel agents reporting that there is not a single hotel room left in Moscow for the night of the final. Given that the game does not kick off until 10.45pm local time, this is likely to mean thousands of drunken fans with nowhere to sleep. They will also have Russian hooligans to deal with, many of whom model their "firms" on 1970s English football hooligans. "We've all read books and seen films about the Chelsea Headhunters, and other English firms," said one Spartak Moscow fan, "and people can't wait to test themselves against the best and most violent supporters in the game." Then there is the fearsome Omon riot police to contend with. Likely to be present in their thousands at the game, they have no qualms about using violence to quell trouble. In Moscow, a Manchester United vs Liverpool final is considered the most dangerous outcome. A spokesman for the British embassy in Moscow said that the mission was looking at "a range of measures to make sure people have an enjoyable time", but said that the largest part of the organisation of the event was down to the Russian authorities. He praised the handling of the England-Russia game that was played last October in the capital, despite the fact that some English fans ended up in hospital after fights with locals. But that game was of a different magnitude, with fewer than 5,000 fans coming from England. At Russian insistence, the four teams in the semi-finals have already started ticketing procedures, without knowing whether they will be playing in Moscow. In London, the Russian embassy has promised an easier application system for fans who have tickets, saving on the invitation letters and paperwork normally required for visa applicants. But the embassy may struggle to meet the surge in demand, and London travel agents are warning clients planning to do business in Russia this year to get applications in straight away. Renovations have been made to Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium (formerly Lenin Stadium) in preparation for the game. Most notably, real grass will be laid on top of the usual artificial surface. Spartak Moscow host FC Moscow today in the last game to be played before the pitch is altered. Chelsea have special connections with Russia because of their owner, Roman Abramovich. Besides the travelling supporters, hordes of rich Russia-based fans are expected to want tickets if their team qualifies: one Moscow agent said he had received many inquiries, with callers not put off by his starting price of £2,000. The new Russian rich will not want for places to sleep, or be allowed to see the trouble – and they will be able to join Mr Abramovich in a rare chorus of "Football's coming home". http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/russia-braces-itself-for-an-invasion-of-the-english-hordes-816234.html

A Premiership footballer had to play a key match moments after discovering his cousin, her husband and their two young children had been found dead after a house fire. The bodies of Reading star Kevin Doyle's cousin Lorraine Flood, her husband Diarmuid and their children Mark, 6, and Julie, five, were all discovered in the burnt out house in Ireland. It has since emerged that while the children died in the fire early on Saturday morning, their parents both had gunshot wounds. Police have refused to name a suspect but are understood to be focusing their investigations on Mr Flood, whose body was found downstairs near to a gun. It is thought he may have murdered his wife, a former Rose of Tralee beauty queen, and then started the fire before shooting himself. Doyle, who has also represented Ireland, was told of their deaths shortly before his team was due to play Wigan in a battle to avoid relegation. His family had wanted to wait until after the match to tell him of the tragedy but manager Steve Coppell decided to break the news before in case he heard some other way. Despite the horrendous news, he decided to go through with the game which ended in a nil-all draw and managed to stay on the pitch for 69 minutes. When he finally came off the field, Doyle was embraced by Coppell as well as several of his backroom staff. The manager said later: "Kevin felt — I think very bravely — that he wanted to play. Playing a game took his mind off it. "It was his decision, having spoken to his family, that he wanted to play. I don't know what he might have been thinking before the game, but now he can make contact with his family, find out what happened and do his mourning. "I asked him to speak to his family, I felt it was the right thing to do to break the news, because we had heard something was going to come out before the game." All four bodies were found in the family home in the village of Clohnroche, County Wexford, after the fire ripped through the house at around 5.30am yesterday morning. They were so burnt that initial visual visual inspections were inconclusive and post-mortems were being carried out today. It had been thought all four died because of the fire, but forensic teams found the parents were already dead before it took hold. Ballistics tests were due to be done on a shotgun found in the house, which is thought to have been licensed to Mr Flood. Mrs Flood, now 38, took part in the Rose of Tralee beauty contest in 1991 Gardai said there was no sign of a break-in at the home and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the fire or the deaths. The family was well-known in the village and Mr Flood had been running his father's firm Sean Flood Water Filtration for the last few years. They were considered well-off but the business is thought to have slowed in the last year. Mrs Flood, now 38, took part in the Rose of Tralee beauty pageant in 1991. Norma Doyle, principal of St Aidan's National School in Clonroche, said today: "We are all devastated. "We are all struggling to come to terms with this dreadful tragedy - our school has lost two beautiful students. "They were happy, bubbly children and we will miss them dreadfully." The blaze was spotted by a neighbour yesterday as dawn broke over the quiet Wexford village. Three locals tried to get into the house and attempt a rescue but the flames beat them back. Mrs Flood was found dead in the couple's bedroom, her daughter Julie in her own bedroom while Mark perished on the landing. It is the second time in just over a year Wexford has been hit by similar devastating tragedy. In an apparent murder suicide in the nearby village of Monageer last April blind father-of-two Adrian Dunne, his wife Ciara, and their two children were found dead at their home. Local Irish MP Brendan Howlin said the small community of Clonroche was devastated by the latest deaths. "As a public representative I am shocked at the terrible tragedy that unfolded in Clonroche" he said yesterday. "The tight knit community is absolutely devastated today at the loss of this family. "People in the village are reeling from this dreadful incident and it will take a long time for them to come to terms with it. "I wish to express my deepest sorrow to members of the local community and to those bereaved." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=562253&in_page_id=1811

As an ex-policewoman, Julie Pickford thought she knew how to deal with rowdy teenagers. So when she politely asked a boy to stop throwing popcorn at other passengers on a tram she was confident he and the rest of his gang would behave. Nothing could have prepared her for the shocking and violent attack that followed. Without warning, one girl stood up and punched her in the face and then a mob of up to 30 teenagers joined in, punching her and stamping on her. Mrs Pickford, 47, a mother-of-two who has a judo black belt, was powerless to stop the attack and briefly blacked out. With blood streaming from her injuries and £50 stolen from her handbag, she was thrown off the tram at the next stop in Sale, Greater Manchester. She was taken to hospital with a suspected fracture to her eye socket, a badly-cut mouth and severe bruising and grazes. Mrs Pickford, who runs a commercial property firm, was discharged the next day but went back to hospital after she began passing blood because of suspected kidney damage. The attack has chilling similarities to the murder of Garry Newlove, 47, who was kicked to death last year when he challenged a gang of drunken youths who he believed had vandalised a car outside his home in Warrington. Last night, Mrs Pickford, who spent three years with Greater Manchester Police, warned that there would be more deaths at hands of violent teenagers unless tough action was taken. "They were a pack of animals," she said. "I'm a fit and healthy woman. Had it been someone a bit older it could have been another Garry Newlove. "With Garry Newlove, I thought, 'How could a grown man of his stature get killed?' Now I know. If they can get you on the ground you don't stand a chance." It is believed the gang may have been attending an illegal rave in Sale on Friday night. Mrs Pickford, from Northwich, Cheshire, was making her way home after an evening out with colleagues. The former constable, who was sitting on tram heading from Manchester to Altrincham, said: "A young girl came flying forwards towards me. "I wasn't quick enough and she punched me in the mouth. "All of them started kicking me around the floor of the tram. The doors opened and I was kicked on to the platform. "They were like a pack of animals, screaming and hammering on the windows. I can still see the face of the girl who punched me. She must have been on drink or drugs." Mrs Pickford, whose husband Mark, 46, is a production manager for an aviation company, has two grown-up sons aged 22 and 25 and an 11-year- old stepdaughter. Police have arrested a girl, 15, on suspicion of assault. She has been released on bail pending further inquiries. Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority has ordered an inquiry into the attack. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562508&in_page_id=1770

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning. But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper. Tibet independence The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet. Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by going online. Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping. Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this week. The authorities have now stepped up the inspection of cars heading to the Shenzen Special Economic Zone and onwards to Hong Kong. The Olympic torch is due to tour Hong Kong on Friday. It will then travel to a series of cities in mainland China before reaching Beijing for the start of the Olympic Games in August. Its progress around the world has been marked by pro-Tibet demonstrations in several cities - including Paris, London and San Francisco. Rallies began in the main Tibetan city of Lhasa on 10 March, led by Buddhist monks. Over the following week protests spread and became violent - particularly in Lhasa, where ethnic Chinese were targeted and shops were burnt down. Beijing cracked down on the protesters with force, sending in hundreds of troops to regain control of the restive areas. But it has since agreed to resume talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7370903.stm