Jenjie

awwww poor ickle man, having his hiccups on youtube for the world to see :lol: good job it was dark and you can't see his face properly, will spare his blushes when he's older

Happy Birthday Mr Bossman :D

Hiiiii :) We're fine ty. Sam is working very hard at his baby lessons. He is currently practising sleeping, and from his current efforts will be top of the class :laugh3: :D course he will, he looks like his Dad :thinking:

Sam shares his birthday with some very varied people: 1431 - Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476) :lol: 1656 - Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone With the Wind) 1909 - Katharine Hepburn, Ct, actress (African Queen, On Golden Pond) 1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author 1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter 1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace 2003 - Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

there were still tickets left for last tues night on mon :angry: such a waste. they better include the UK on their farewell tour next year

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm pizza :D rather partial to a Pizza Hut barbecue deluxe on a stuffed crust. also like Goodfellas frozen pizza :) Grinch does a nice crispy duck pizza

april :)

just finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by one of the Brontes, and now starting Persuasion by Jane Austen. am feeling in a classics mood for some reason :confused:

nooooo9o its so obviously a secret message for me :angry:

I doubt they'd get the insurance to cover the event

A baby has survived after his pushchair rolled onto the tracks as a train pulled into a station in Melbourne, Australia. The train had slowed right down as it pulled into the station and the six-month-old baby suffered only a bump to his head. CCTV of the incident was released to local media. It shows the pram rolling off the platform while the baby's mother looks on in horror. Victoria state Police Sergeant Michael Ferwerda called the incident a "lucky escape" and said people should be cautious in train stations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8310051.stm?ls The CCTV footage is on the news article

UK & Ireland section now set up. The meet-up threads are in there too :D

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

it could be a red herring!! tell you they're moving & then stay there. :laugh3: and if they are moving, someone ought to be more careful about what pictures & info go out in the press/interview :lol: or they'll be moving studio every time

yup, that's how the answer reads to me. he can't read music, but he's a talented enough musician that he can play other people's work after hearing it. he wouldn't need to learn the sheet music to play their work.

February 2010 26 February 2010: River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina 28 February 2010: Apoteose Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 2010 2 March 2010: Morumbi Stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil 4 March 2010: Parque Simon Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia 6 March 2010: Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico 7 March 2010: Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico 9 March 2010: Estadio Tres de Marzo, Guadalajara, Mexico 11 March 2010: Estadio Universitario, Monterrey, Mexico

looking promising as Waterstone's have it listed :) http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/matt-mcginn/roadie/6544249/ Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn Format: Paperback List price £9.99 £7.99 (Save £2.00) 216 days until publication Book details Published 04/05/2010 Publisher Portico ISBN 9781906032654

a quick google search for the website, and translate this page and you get stuck in a loop!! but it is trying to load a messabe board. if you check sina/com, its a news site. so I guess someone linked one of your pics

voted. currently on 94%

yup, it would appear so :confused: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/live/stories/index.html?utm_source=left_nav

As we've reached the end of the tour for now (until we hear anything else about South America/Israel), I've started tidying up the Live Section. The 2009 concert threads for the European & US legs are now in their newly created sub-forums (located at the top of the page) UK & Ireland to follow shortly. Plus, the easy-thread finder threads are still stuck at the top on the main live section to help you find individual threads quickly. :D

bumped for Pete :)

Coldplay, Jay zzzzzz and Girls 'should not be' Aloud After the triumph that was U2 at Wembley stadium a few weeks ago, it was the turn of Coldplay to step up to the plate. We have seen them a couple of times before, so I figured there would be no problem. Before the main event we had to endure Girls Aloud who were delightfully awful. Mrs B had read a couple of reviews of their previous shows which were glowing. I can only assume that the reviewer was trying desperately hard to get into Cheryl's tiny white panties, because in truth they were dreadful (No not the white panties, I didn't actually get to see them so don't feel qualified to say). The ginger one makes me want to hurl every time I see her. What were they thinking when they added her to the group? If they were going for girl next door looks they fell wide of the mark, managing instead to corner the hideously disfigured scary woman from up the road market instead. On the plus side for her, it looks like she is breaking into the film industry. That was her I saw her playing the painting at the end in the recent Dorian Gray movie , wasn't it????. Now the same can't be said of Cheryl. While she may have the looks of an angel, her voice has more of the air of a Tyneside docker, and an out of tune one at that. This left the choreographed dance routines. Surely they must have been good? You would have thought so, but the reality is that your great Aunt Ethel, the one with the double hip replacement and dodgy knees (not forgetting the flatulence when she eats sprouts) moves better than these girls. Sad but true and remember, Ethal has always been rather generous at Christmas and Birthdays, you can never have too many pairs of white flannel socks in your life plus flatulence is hardly noticeable, unless you happen to be in the first couple of rows..... Jay Zed (It's a long story)or should that be Jay Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz was up next and as I feared he did nothing for me, other than make me hungry (and I don't mean for more). One of his songs had an Indian rift running through it, which left me wanting a curry and with a strange desire to be in a room surrounded by red flock wallpaper. None of my concert companions - Mrs B, Kirsty or Vinnie - were affected in the same way so my curry crush went unsated.... So having survived the ordeal of "The support bands" what could go wrong.....? Hmmmm, 10 minutes before Coldplay were due on stage the heavens opened (Way to go weather men, with your 20% chance of rain. That's most impressive you normally claim 80% chance of rain and get it wrong). Now most people would regard this as a bad thing but not me as it actually resolved a dilemma for our little party:- Mrs B was not enjoying the crush at the front or not being able to see the stage.........but............ ........Kirsty had lost her glasses (this is the girl who managed to mistake a field of Llamas for a field of cows. Hey, on the positive side she did recognise it was a field) so anything further than a foot back from the stage was going to mean a big blurry ordeal for her. The rain decided for us and we scurried to the back of the stadium and undercover. That way none of us got to see anything other than some stick insects but at least we stayed dry. The rain also turned out to be a relief for Vinnie as well. It has already been established in a previous BlackLOG that he is not a big fan of being in the car with the roof down, so since one of my rules for topless driving is that it has to be dry (the other being it has to be above freezing, although this rule has often been broken on blue sky winter days. It's not that bad, after the first 10 minutes the numbing sensation takes over from the pain of early onset frost bite) he knew he was going to get a lift home with the roof up..... As for Coldplay they put on a good show which was ruined by the acoustics echoing around the stadium. I think it might have been due to the roof - for U2 it was fully opened but I notice that for Coldplay it was partly closed and I believe it was this that caused the echo problem. I like Chris Martin and believe he is a genuinely nice guy, but how many times can you ask the audience if they are OK and having a good time? A couple of times is OK, but once you start reaching double figures it gets a little dull. Nice touch with the X-factor sing along competition, although possibly a bit cheesy with the Simon Fuller video interaction bit, but entertaining all the same. The only thing was how could they bring Jay ZZZZZZZ back on stage for a duet? After all I had only just started to get over his rather dreary support set. http://the-blacklog.blogspot.com/2009/09/coldplay-jay-zzzzzz-and-girls-should.html

A homecoming is often associated with celebration. It is usually special, fulfilling and oozes with optimism. A homecoming finale however, is the icing on the cake and needs something grandiose to completely transform it into a Christmas-esque event. For Coldplay punters, this is their first 'Christmas' of the year and who can argue with that when you got the buzzing White Lies, the -well, fun I suppose, Girls Aloud and the simply storming Jay Z to warm up and open before Coldplay. 9PM and clad in their Adam Ant-esque costumes (lets face it, they raided his wardrobe), Chris Martin and co. take to the stage, accompanied by sparkles and cheers as they open with their instrumental Life In Technicolor from their globally successful Viva La Vida......album. The crunch and march of Violet Hill; guitarist Johnny Buckland's twinkling notes on In My Place; and the hypnotic Clocks are all rattled off in quick succession, demonstrating that both the band and audience are in sync. Chris Martin is one of the last people you would name as a rock star. Instead of demanding attention from the masses, he pleads for attention as he emotionally runs through X&Y's The Hardest Part. His now ever present catchphrase "everybody doing OK?" sends shock-waves of smiles across Wembley, to a point where he comically stumbles on a piano note. And from there, the show really begins. They summon the strikingly familiar string section of number #1 hit Viva La Vida, which causes a nearly natural reaction from the crowd - everyone ascended to their feet like they've recieved a message from the heavens as Buckland coordinated the 'whoooahs.' It was powerful, spine-tingling and down right intimate. Speaking of intimacy, they somehow managed to dodge the crowd and run into a small platform located 3/4 of the way of the pitch for their encore. Compared with the Wembley's past performers such as Muse's futuristic Black Holes and Revelations Tour, Take That's The Circus Tour and recently U2 360 Tour, Coldplay's stage set-up lacks that extravaganza. Yet, their charisma and playfulness with their masses regularly made up for it. The showering of beautiful confetti butterflies during indie sparkler Lovers In Japan is one of many examples of the relationship with their audience (unfortunately, my nosebleed seats prevented me from catching some. Or I could have jumped...). What next for Coldplay? 4 albums in and they are already one of the biggest acts on the planet. Final show of the tour and their spirits are up. Too bad I didn't catch their final applause due to me scurrying out of the stadium like a frightened rabbit to avoid being shackled to Wembley along with 70,000+ people trying to get home at the same time. http://achtungnielsen4.blogspot.com/2009/09/coldplays-viva-la-vida-tour-19.html

Coldplay, Jay Z & Girls Aloud - Wembley 18.9.09 The third trip to Wembley Stadium this year for a gig, and this time for three acts I don't actually own a CD by them. A weird mix granted but we got there in time for Girls Aloud. The High def big screen did them no favours, all members over made up and manky skin. However, they have great pop songs opening up with Sound Of The Undergroud and the great 'Sonething Kinda Ooh!' with a cover of the Pretenders I Stand By You sandwiched between they were good fun. Jay-Z on the other hand has a style of music I just don't get. He wanted the audience to bounce in a triangle shape in each song and therefore I spent most of his set near the bar! (bargain £4 a pint!) Coldplay have some good tunes but Chris Martin, the singer, is just so objectionable. In the audience participation bit at the end of Yellow, a Simon Callow from X-factor clip was shown on the big screen, something that no doubt seemed hilarious in the pub didn't quite work in practice. There was a b stage which we got right down the front at and here they played a cover of Billie Jean with actor Simon Pegg on harmonica. Good but ultimately fairly bland was my overall verdict. Hats off to the chiltern line however meaning we had time for a late beer in Marylebone! http://faceofcheam.blogspot.com/2009/09/coldplay-jay-z-girls-aloud-wembley.html