Jenjie

nope, new Wembley :)

Its even simpler than that - the cousin's wife is Chris Martin's cousin. For is to be the wife's sister's brother means that the cousin's wife is also the sister of the brother. and if the brother is Chris Martin's cousin, then the 2 women are as well.

itv uses Coldplay as well. they used LiT in that programme on cosmetic surgery with Coleen Nolan this week.

awesome! i might be able to spend some of my Christmas Next voucher now :D

There's a DVD discussion thread here Is there going to be a Viva La Vida tour DVD?

Comic actor Mathew Horne has collapsed on stage during a performance of Entertaining Mr Sloane in London. A BBC producer in the audience said the star fell to the floor in the middle of a scene with actor Simon Paisley Day. Paisley Day called out for any doctors in the house to come forward. Horne lay prone on the stage for 10 minutes before paramedics arrived. He was treated on stage before the manager asked the audience to leave the Trafalgar Theatre. The theatre have confirmed that an understudy will play the role of Mr Sloane tonight. While Horne was being treated, co-star Imelda Staunton walked on to the stage and apologised to the audience for the interruption. She said that she had also been feeling unwell. The theatre has confirmed that she will also be replaced in tonight's performance. Concern John Rigby, a BBC producer in the audience, reported that Horne seemed "absolutely fine" during the first half of the Joe Orton play but that there was an unexpected delay after the interval. It was announced the play would resume in three minutes but a further 10 minutes elapsed before the actors took to the stage. Rigby said that the audience seemed to be under the impression that Horne's collapse 15 minutes into the second half was part of the show until fellow actor Paisley Day called out: "I think something has gone wrong, is there a doctor in the house?" One audience member came down to the front of the stage to help whilst another called out for someone to dial 999. An actor on stage replied: "Don't worry, it's been done". The house lights were brought up and a further audience member asked whether the actor had been placed in the recovery position. Several stage hands had come on stage to help out and one offered reassurance. Horne fell with his back to the audience and did not move except to shake his head once while the ambulance crew were treating him. During Imelda Staunton's address to the audience, she said she was "incredibly sorry" for the events and that the box office would repay the ticket costs. She was interrupted three times by rounds of applause from the audience. Rigby said: "I think everyone was just trying to show their concern for Mathew's wellbeing" Horne's agent was unable to confirm whether the actor had been released from hospital. The actor was sending messages on his Twitter feed until the early hours of the afternoon. At 2pm he posted: "What a beautiful day!!! ... For doing a matinee and evening performance!" Horne, who is best known for the sitcom Gavin & Stacey, is currently starring on television and in film as well as on stage. Horne & Corden, his sketch show with comedy partner James Horne is running on BBC3 and the two can also been seen in at cinemas in Lesbian Vampire Killers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7979891.stm

this is a good one http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/tgoodman/detail?entry_id=37560

I think it has rained twice since we have lived here. Both times it was short lived, barely a glimpse of bad weather. Most days, even all through winter show blue skies and clear air. So, I could not believe the ONE night Coldplay was coming to town severe weather was forcasted..NO WAY! Well, during the day it rained a little bit and it seemed as if the weather was going to hold out. Around 6:30pm, on our way to the concert we noticed lighting looming over the Emirates Palace Ampitheater--the exact direction we were headed. We had barely walked in the venue and the rain started..the only protection we had were the garbage bags I threw in my purse--as we have no rain coats, or even coats here and I never thought I would need them!! Well, the rained cleared for the concert but started up again about half way through. The lightning struck throughout the night in the distance over the stage. It was a very surreal experience and a memorable one. Coldplay in Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace in the background, lightning striking overhead, soaking wet clothes, beer mixed with rain water and enjoying it all with the company of great friends..who could ask for more!!! http://sanddiving.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay-literal-translation.html

I'm going to tell you all about the VIVA COLDPLAY concert in Abu Dhabi. Yes, Vikvik was able to get me in with the press passes Tita Victoria --Vikvik's bestfriend's mom-- has...... .....Anyway, it's a long drive from Sharjah to Gardens to Abu Dhabi. And it's effin traffic, and it started to rain. But when we arrived, the rain stopped. We got there and we stayed at the front part (since there were no seats) of the concert area. I can't believe it's cold this time of the year. Goddamnit! I didn't bring warm clothes! I had to borrow some from my mom. And my brother and I forgot to bring jackets. Good job! So there I was trying not to feel cold and trying not to fall asleep cause I was sooo effin sleepy and tired. Cause it's taking them sooo long to start up the show and play.But it's soooo worth the wait. They were fucking great! XD Chris Martin's voice is the same on album as it is live. Oh the lights design is fantabulous! I loved their Yellow performance cause everything was yellow, and they had big yellow balloons flying all over. And that's when it started to rain. Here are the downsides of the concert: 1) I felt really small and my feet ache from tiptoeing cause people around me were fuckin tall! Specially the two guys who moved in front of me were fucking posts. 2) It started raining. The rain droplets were big and cold. Biting cold. 3) It didn't help that the breeze is cold. 4) I didn't finish watching the concert because I would die from hypothermia if I stayed there. But I caught the cold from 2-hour car drive back to the Gardens. http://clementinestar.livejournal.com/41041.html

We saw Coldplay on Saturday night outside on the grounds of the Emirates Palace. It was a pretty good concert with the band coming out to the cheap seats 'standing section in the back' to play a few songs. Seemed impromptu, but most likely planned and very cool. Although I really get frustrated when the 'small' girls get on the shoulders and make it even more difficult to see, perhaps if I weighed 20 lbs less I might have been able to do that too. All night there was lightning in the distance which made for a pretty cool atmosphere. The rain came....only a few minutes into the second song and it poured! Now of course rain can always be an issue at outdoor concerts in most countries, but here in Abu Dhabi, where rain is really quite rare, it was extremely odd. Since we got here in January, we've seen a few sandstorms, but other than that it's been clear blue sunny skies. It rained for a good half hour soaking everyone to the core, thankfully we brought along garbage bags to try and keep us dry :) http://jenandnickyates.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay-in-rain.html

Hi everyone I’m back and I’m sure you can already tell where I’ve been this weekend. That’s right I went to Abu Dhabi to see Coldplay play live in concert. I’m not really into concerts but Coldplay are one of the very few groups I’ve wanted to see live so I was really to glad get to good tickets, even though I thought I had left it late. All I can say is that they were FANTASTIC ! It was a memorable experience on so many levels. We got into the outdoor venue at Emirates Palace about 20 minutes before Coldplay came on stage. The tickets were for standing near the stage (Diamond Standing) and I’m so glad I bought those tickets as the seated ones were really far away. I was looking around. The place was packed. I later found out that 15,000 people were there ! Then all of a sudden the lights went out and all you could see were torches of fire spinning around on the stage and then the opening intro from the album Viva La Vida (Life in Technicolor) being played by the band from behind a screen where you could only see their silhouettes. An electric opening. The band then reeled off songs from the album with classics such as Yellow, In My Place and the brilliant Fix You in between. Oh and in between the songs there was thunderstorm which completely soaked everyone. But no one cared. In fact it added to the atmosphere. With every clap of thunder we sang even louder, our hands and faces getting wetter from the warm tropical rain. Coldplay was the perfect soundtrack to this evening. But what made this concert really memorable was the performance of lead singer Chris Martin. What a show he put on. It wasn’t just him standing up there singing the songs going through the routine. His use of Arabic, “Shukran” and “keefik” were nice touches and you got the feeling that a lot of this was being improvised. Not the songs, the interaction with the crowd, which he never missed an opportunity to do. He would bring in “raindrops keep falling on my head” in one of his songs while the rain was bucketing down. When doing a rendition of the 60’s song of “I’m a believer” he cracked a joke each time before asking different sections of the crowd and the band members if they”feel in love”. Other great parts of the show were when celebrating Earth Hour, all the lights were turned off as Chris Martin asked everyone to light up the screens of their mobiles while he sang on a small stage in the middle of the crowd. Before that, one lucky girl who was celebrating her birthday actually got on the stage with Chris Martin where they did a “special duet” as Martin put it. Only he would sing but asked if she wouldn’t mind turning the pages of the song book on his piano. But joke of the night had to be when he said that the band has been together for 13 years but the first 12 years were just spent practicing for this concert in Abu Dhabi LOL ! Back to the music, so many good songs were performed really well but the pick were Lost, Clocks (great laser show), Viva La Vida, and of course Fix You. But what made this show (it was so much more than a concert) so refreshing was that the biggest band in the world right now are really down to earth ordinary guys who play great music, fantastic songs and always engaged the audience. I arrived at the concert liking Coldplay. I left, absolutely loving them. http://q80mix.com/2009/03/31/coldplay-live-in-concert/

As enticing as this spot has been, after we arrived on Saturday evening, Kim led us out for the Coldplay concert at Emirates Palace, the hotel that put Abu Dhabi on the map and makes the Shang look like a newer Best Western (more on that later, as we're going to explore the interior today). While the skies looked a bit threatening, no one really thought it would rain, since, as Kim told us, it rained just once for a very little while all of last year. The concert was set near the beach to the side of the hotel, so that the stage backed to the water (though too dark for us to see) and the Palace dominated the skyline to the right. This was Coldplay's last stop on their Viva tour, and first time in the Middle East, so we saw a mix of around 15,000 fans, a rather blended international crowd. As is the standard for this trip so far, Kim scored us--along with two of her friends--VIP tickets in the section most removed from the stage, but also the most comfortable. We were slightly elevated, which gave us a better view than those on the ground, and because the crowd was a bit smaller, the entire setting seemed rather intimate, yet still a little raucous. I've always enjoyed listening to attractive British men do just about anything, so Chris Martin and the boys didn't disappoint. Added bonus, just as the concert got going, a lightning storm began illuminating the sky behind us. While we were excited about the additional light show, Kim and I kept commenting on the fact that the main stage, what with all the metal and wiring, was an ideal conduit for all that electrical power. Fortunately, none of us went up in a ball of electrocuted flash, but we did get absolutely drenched when the sky unleashed pebble-sized rain drops...which inspired Chris, as I like to call him, to incorporate impromptu "rain" lyrics (think, raindrops keep falling on me head) into his songs. At some point, the rain did let up, and we soaked in the rest of the concert, with the band really playing to the crowd (good video to come), traveling out to different spots nearer to us and entertaining us with more acoustic arrangements (and a harmonica solo). http://cornfedchics.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/a-manicured-life-becomes-us.html

I was at the Coldplay concert last Saturday, and all I can say is WOW! What a show! We got there early so we could secure good spots...and what amazing spots they ended up being! Chris Martin was so close, we could almost touch him! The rain, lightning and thunder show that accompanied the band only made the whole experience even better in my opinion. The band was incredible...they looked like they were having fun on stage, they interacted with the crowd, they improvised, and they sang their lungs out! Their rendition of "I'm a believer" was amazing, and Chris often burst out into spontaneous rain-related songs such as "Why does it always rain on me" and "Raindrops keep falling on my head". He even invited a girl to go up on stage with him to celebrate her birthday. Lucky b*&^h :) The venue at the Emirates Palace was perfect once again (although more traffic on the way out this time around, and it seems that the wristband section was a bit more chaotic). Abu Dhabi has proven once again that when it comes to attracting the big names and putting on a show, it beats Dubai hands down! http://dxbsunshine.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay.html

KILLERS Pre-sale Tickets for Hard Rock Calling through Absolute Radio See The Killers live at Hard Rock Calling! Hard Rock Calling returns to Hyde Park for a fourth year and for the first time ever it will be a three-night event. Having sold out Sunday night with Springsteen, added Saturday with Neil Young we are now able to exclusively reveal the brilliant line-up for Friday 26 June in the royal park. Fresh from selling out V and adding to their legendary festival performances, The Killers will be headlining Hard Rock Calling on Friday 26 June. Joining them as very special guests at this prestigious festival and kicking off the Festival in extraordinary style are The Kooks. Book your tickets here from Thursday 9am. More artists will be announced soon and you’ll hear about it first on Absolute Radio. http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/the_killers/index.html?utm_source=carousel-0

I added the group to the first page Coldplaying Wembley 19/09/09 Group http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/group.php?groupid=89

War Child have an ebay auction of Coldplay/Killers goodies from the gig :D More info in this thread

This week we've filled our ebay shop with some exclusive Heroes goodies - including the original artwork painted by former Stone Roses guitarist and now renowned artist John Squire. The hard-hitting artwork featuring child-like crayon drawings of machine guns was created by Squire in his familiar abstract style and influenced by the drawings of children dealing with the trauma of living in war zones. Squire has been involved with War Child since 1995 when The Stone Roses donated a track for the original War Child ‘Help!’ album and he provided the cover artwork. Squire has created the album cover artwork for all subsequent War Child album sleeves. John Squire said “For me the appeal of War Child is pretty simple, they help the hungry, the displaced and the traumatised children in certain war zones to deal with that situation and they involve them in deciding how that help is organised. Anything I can do to support them is no trouble at all” The original artwork and five signed prints have been donated by John Squire for the eBay auction. Based in Macclesfield, John Squire’s work has been informed by his dual experiences as a musician and artist. He is renowned for his paintings and sculptural works, which have, since the late 1980’s, frequented covers of albums and singles. Since 2004, Squire has held seven acclaimed exhibitions in London and Manchester, with future exhibitions planned for Oldham, Austria and Japan later this year. http://www.johnsquire.com We're also selling some Heroes merchandise which was signed by some of the acts at our now legenedary gig featuring Coldplay, The Killers, Bono and Gary Barlow. In our store we've got: John Squire's original painting 5 prints of the painting, each signed by John Squire 2 Heroes 7" box-sets signed by Coldplay 2 Heroes 7" box-sets signed by Bono 6 Heroes gig T-shirts signed by Coldplay 2 War Child Heroes CD albums signed by Coldplay 1 War Child Heroes CD album signed by Brandon Flowers A limited edition print of Peter Doherty's 'Glastonbury blood painting' Click here to visit our ebay store http://www.warchild.org.uk/heroes/ebay_auction

ONE AMAZING NIGHT... We're thrilled to announce that our now legendary Killers/Coldplay gig featuring Bono and Gary Barlow raised over £200,000 for War Child. This money will transform the lives of children living in some of the world's most dangerous places and protect them from the horrors of war. You can read more about the night here and as an exclusive gift for our email subscribers we've got an iconic image from the gig that you can download and use as a screensaver or desktop background. ...20 AMAZING SOUVENIRS... We're auctioning some amazing goodies from the gig in our ebay shop. There's signed T-shirts, CDs and box-sets as well as John Squire's original painting that forms the design of our 'Heroes' album... and a very limited edition print by Pete Doherty With 20 exclusive items, our ebay store is a must-see for all you Killers, Coldplay or U2 fans. http://twi.to/bzL

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2408320&postcount=19 Post 19 Page 2 :)

I think there were some age restrictions last time, but I'm a bit hazy. Will go find last year's thread

if you do want it changing to a general one, post me the link to the group and I can change the name for you :)

Head - hurts the only way round it that I can think of is that old Ben has found a way to warn young Ben who was wearing some sort of bullet-proof vest

I think it'll be hard to avoid Coldplay fans on the 18th/19th :D

no-one's mentioned it. we're staying at travel lodge because they were half the price of Premier Inn when we were booking.

Interesting, surely there has to come a point where Tesco take on too much and are stretched too thinly. Also interested to see who will be running Tesco Bank, as their car insurance is underwritten by the RBS Group, and the RBS bank was bailed out by the government.