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...magical mistery....reminds of Beatles!

The Shock Of Lightning!!!!

7 minutes!

Wow...wonderful competition on Coldplay.com for Lost? video (and not for Lost!, but for Lost?)...

Anyway, Lost! is 91th in Chile... and Viva La Vida at the top of the Slovakia single chart!

50 minutes! But...why we are ready to listen to the worst Coldplay song ever? :)

53 minutes!

Can i join to the party? :-)

Why right tomorrow? I think it will be aired 'cause it can be promoted as the real Lost!...but why?

Updated!!!

Confirmed by Coldplay.com

Wow wonderful!

Talked today with Davide Rossi... Rainy Day and Prospekt's March will include his Violectra and, according to him, the ep is more beautiful than the album...wow!

Thanks a lot, Alejandra!

It's a great result for both the sites indeed!

My review: Two pure and absolute live masterpieces. There are no other words to describe the excellence, emotional thrill and above all the uniqueness of these two concerts, that Coldplay held at Palamalaguti in Bologna and Datchforum in Milan, on 29 September and 30 September respectively. The two gigs were really eagerly-awaited and tickets had already run out during the days just after they were put up for sale; and actually both venues were really packed, as expected. But that sold out is understandable given the only fact that the passion of Italian people for the four Brit guys has always been growing. After all, 'we're a country of passionate singers’, Chris Martin said in 2005. We slept only few hours and (after some good jokes) the staff of Coldplayzone moves to Milan, at the Datchforum, ready to live hard another magic night. The queue to enter the parterre is one and as the staff arrives at the building, there's already some guys and girls mainly, also coming from Sardinia to live the show. All the Coldplayzoners that were missing in Bologna but equally longing to see the show, plus the Milan 'survivors', arrive little by little: some come from Milan, some from Rome, Naples, Reggio Calabria. It's sure as hell: nobody would ever miss this emotion. In the morning, as happened at Palamalaguti, the banner of Coldplayzone was strung up on the fence of Dutchforum. And suddenly our minds remember last night. And to those that did not have those memories, some thoughts are now good hopes. In the afternoon the distribution of the balloons begins. We do not have many balloons and we get a little discouraged. We were ready to repeat the choreography also here in Milan, but balloons are actually lacking. So the seeking starts: the balloons are bought in the neighbourhood or brought by friends, and then distributed. We try to make up for it. We really want Miller to shoot a video of that colours' rain that surprised Bologna, to be put later on Coldplay.com, since no one was expecting nothing like this, and therefore, it was not shot a video of that amazing choreography. The doors open and as we turn around it was clear that everyone was supported by other people: a real Italian 'music army', united and ready to scream ‘Viva La Vida’. All were running to the stage, and finally we all get in. We're more than yesterday: 17.000. The gallery becomes full very quickly and everybody can't wait to (re)-see the band performance. The atmosphere is different tonight. We're even more playful. We've the inkling that this atmosphere would multiply. We are waiting the end of the supporting act performed by Albert Hammon Jr. (definitely more lively than yesterday). And then...here they are. There's a camera, that is shooting everything. On the screen, the live images of the camera are showed, producing a 'domino effect' of the shaking balloons. And the fear about not showing our choreography, like we did in Bologna, is suddenly swept away by hundreds of coloured balloons. A huge amount, so huge that Coldplay are again astonished. ‘Life In Technicolor’ is played with more energy, and then 'Violet Hill’ embodies all the enthusiasm the audience has been waiting for: the strength of their sound. At the end of the performance of the first release of 'Viva La Vida Or Death And Al His Friends’, Chris makes the lights on and thanks the audience of Milan and all the Italian people. They weren't expecting so much warmth. But we have to say that: we've been waiting for three years to give them this warmth! ‘Clocks’ is obviously a masterpiece, with those lasers and those piano keys, waiting for Chris' hands to played them by memory. We dance. ‘In My Place’ involves everyone. We sing. ‘Speed Of Sound’ resounds, like a powerful and precise sound. We sing and dance. ‘Cemeteries Of London’ is perfect, the setlist is the same of yesterday, and the band plays ‘Chinese Sleep Chant’ with more energy. Also ‘42’ is sung by everyone and, thanks to a middle part perfectly performed by Jon Buckland and his guitar, it enters our souls. Then the organ of ‘Fix You’ and it's pure passion. No one can possibly be silent and retain his voice, we join Chris singing. The last part of the song, as usual, is sung by everybody and makes Chris to repeat the 'names' ‘Bravissimi!’ and ‘Perfetto!’ as soon as he can. The atmosphere is getting really excited and the intimacy between Coldplay and the audience enhances its strength. Then ‘Strawberry Swing’, and like yesterday, its the refrain perfectly describes how we feel: today is such a ‘perfect day’. Jonny Buckland is great, plucking the strings so purely and genuinely that, closing the eyes, some people can see Ireland. Then, the more astonishing moment of the evening: the band moves to the B-Stage, on the right of the main stage (and of the audience) and they perform the two alternative versions of ‘God Put A Smile Upon Your Face and ‘Talk’, with those waving beams of laser lights that remember us of a bird flying. Then, the band leaves Chris alone with his piano and what was unbelievable happened, obviously in a nice way: for the first time in this tour, a superb ‘Don’t Panic’ is fully performed. Delicate, smooth, light, sinuous and so unexpected that it's really appreciated from the first note. Martin decides to offer to us a grand performance of the song that opens the album ‘Parachutes’ and he really gets the singing of the audience carried away, so whispering and soft. We can't sing out right now: it's the best way to talk to ourselves. After a never-ending ovation, it's the turn of a song, rarely performed live during this tour: ‘Reign Of Love’, a beautiful ballad, entirely played. There's only few balloons flying, the fans are now quietly listen to those piano notes, played with an enchanting perfection. Then, ‘Postcards From Far Away’. A trilogy of songs played on the eighty-eight ivory keys that the fans will never forget. Just a second to come down to earth, and the notes of the Violectra of Davide Rossi and the drum of Will Champion carry us back to the main stage, to savour the most awaited song, that makes the entire world dance – like a bad fever – youths, the older ones, girls and family men, those that are not so young anymore and housewives not so desperate at all, all together: ‘Viva La Vida’. The main choir is so powerful, so unbreakable and so wholehearted sung that no one could or should miss it. Before the last choir, Chris says some words of an Albert Hammond Jr.' piece, ‘In Transit’. Then it's the end of the world. Will sings so loudly, as he was the ruined king described in the song. That's living a song… And then ‘Lost!’ and its peculiar drumline. The dance of Chris in the middle of the stage says it all. It shakes our bodies and minds like a tribal dance from that Africa that he closely knows (his mother has Zimbabwean origins) and he wants to share it with us. It's a song that proves that this album has a multi-ethnic inspiration. Great. All the world is enclosed in it, and this live version is making it clear to everybody. We can stop running. So many stairs, and stairs again, more steps, and finally here is the band on the gallery for the acoustic set with ‘The Scientist’ (really cheered by the audience, because it's a very well known fact, we Italians like love songs) and the Champion's ‘Death Will Never Conquer’ with a superb mouth organ played part by Chris Martin. Then the four guys talked about a possible song to be played, but the ‘Viva La Vida’ remix is pressing on and splits the show in two parts: back again on the main stage. As the pair of piano-drums of ‘Politik’ starts, a swirl of strobe lights runs over us. Great vocal interpretation by Chris and brilliant e and the bass notes of Guy Berryman on the final part. ‘Love Over This’… A rain of coloured paper butterflies enhances the ambience that eternizes this show as we listen to the central part of ‘Lovers In Japan’. What more could we ask? Some paper butterflies are picked up to be later given to friends, relatives, acquaintances, or to be jealously hold for ourselves. After all, they will remind to us about the joy we felt and that endlessly coloured rain. On ‘Death And All His Friends’ the friendship of Datchforum are now sealed, the hugs are more close, the air fills up with so many emotions. But one of them is the most passionate: the immense exciting power of the music, that distinguishes Coldplay in the music history. And on the final choir, the verse ‘I Don’t Wanna Follow Death And All His Friends’ is like a postcard of this evening. We can admire the best music in the world, because we are here, we're living... The band is in the backstage now, but they are compelled to come back. The audience is calling them, to hear them performing some other hits, that cannot be missing. As they appear on the stage, an unceasing request: ‘Yellow!’. So, why not? Here we go, a sudden start of the song. Chris already knows he is not going to sing it: 'It's our turn'. Everyone welcome. And the ‘Yeah’s, that belong to that song, resound in the building like a earthquake rumbling. At the end of the song, Chris plucks his guitar's strings with those notes that the long standing fans carry in their DNA and would recognize even blindfolded or turned upside down. On these notes, there's only a verse you can sing: ‘Don’t You Shiver, Shiver, Shiver…’. And that's enough. Only fifteen seconds are worth almost two hours of this show, that could be defined with tons of adjectives, among which we can possibly pick this one: ‘unforgettable’. How can we come back home and go to sleep after a show like this? How can we possibly come back to our quiet life after such a hot emotion? How can we think that Coldplay weren't giving us all we need? Sure, ‘We can't'. It's only consent. But it's the fairest and greatest consent that Italian supporters would ever want to be given. No voice anymore, in a sweat, with shattered legs and numbed arms, we go back home. Still smiling. Coldplay were magic. We can only invite those who missed it to appreciate them and this world: VIVA LA VIDA!

My review: Two pure and absolute live masterpieces. There are no other words to describe the excellence, emotional thrill and above all the uniqueness of these two concerts, that Coldplay held at Palamalaguti in Bologna and Datchforum in Milan, on 29 September and 30 September respectively. The two gigs were really eagerly-awaited and tickets had already run out during the days just after they were put up for sale; and actually both venues were really packed, as expected. But that sold out is understandable given the only fact that the passion of Italian people for the four Brit guys has always been growing. After all, 'we're a country of passionate singers’, Chris Martin said in 2005. The love of the Belpaese for the band is so incredibly great that the queue started from 8 a.m. on the day of the first concert in Bologna. The full staff (almost) of Coldplayzone arrived in front of the entrance No.7 at 8.45 a.m. and it came as a surprise to us that some fans were already standing here. Great: the more people being here, the easier it would be to understand the meaning of live a Coldplay show, to be deeply experienced in the flesh, because its appeal can't be put in words. During the morning, the queue became longer and longer and those all-aged people came from almost everywhere in Italy: there' re people that had covered more than 1000 Km, or carried some chairs from home trying not to get tired, or had been doing some crosswords to kill time. Everyone is living this day in its own way. When the Coldplayzone banner, arranged for this special occasion (with the unmistakable slogan ‘Hear Your Italian Cavalry Choirs Are Singing’), was strung up on the fence, all the Coldplayzoners moved in, wearing fabric bracelets on which their nicknames were written, and also carrying the thing that was going to become the 'main character' of the shows (no one knows yet what's going to happen): the balloons. It's great to notice that there are so many people supporting this choreography, promoted by the staff. We also found out that this involvement is not happening by word of mouth but actually a lot of people are participating to this choreography, after having visited our website. It's a real gift to us and we're really proud. The waiting turned out to be nice. There's this ritual question ‘Do you have a balloon?’ that have been spread everywhere. There's only an answer: 'I've got tens!’. So, dreaming about the choreography (without kidding ourselves, but keeping our fingers crossed) and finally meeting those people we know only virtually, that magically (by Coldplay, maybe) become real human beings, we're going through our count-down to the doors' opening. At last. It's 6.40 p.m., the doors open and...everybody runs towards the stage. There's a lot of people, so many people that in a bunch of minutes the parterre is swarming with boys and girls that begin to sing the theme of the song, that is already considered as the biggest hit of the music career of Coldplay: ‘Viva La Vida’. The count-down begins (as it also starts on the big screen) while Albert Hammond Jr. is about to perform with his band. Once the opening act is over, the balloons are inflated. At first they are about ten, then hundreds, then more and more. In the background the Blue Danube waltz, that seems to guide and shake the balloons, waiting for the most celebrated band: a huge coloured carpet, as far as the eyes can see, incredibly rich and nourished. That simple cast idea happens to be the ever coolest choreography the band have had during the ‘Viva La Vida Tour’. And when Chris and his friends entered the stage for ‘Life In Technicolor’, the eyes of the frontman are actually incredulous and excited, and he almost decides to come out the curtain to catch the twinkling of lights and colours. That's a ‘life in technicolor’! The band realised that the Italian warmth consists in surprise them or be involved in their shows but also in living deeply their songs. How's that? Just singing them, that's the best and powerful way to do it. During ‘Violet Hill’, ‘Clocks’, ‘In My Place’ and ‘Speed Of Sound’, Chris almost struggles on singing over those 13.000 voices of the building: Italy has been waiting for so long, too long. The country that 'hosted' them while they were deciding about the track-listing of ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’, the country where they were shooting the video of ‘Violet Hill’, it's now asserting its affection, with a load of feelings, joy and passion. Some crying and some smiling, tears and grins, rapture and dancing, seem to lead the 'Italian cavalry’ of the New Millennium's Band away, in a timeless dimension, beyond the limits but following the only rule: heart and soul. During ‘Cemeteries Of London’ the refrain became a lullaby, a request, a reaction. And they realised that. They said ‘you Italians are the best audience ever’, from the famous cliché ‘Italians Do It Better’, but from a musical point of view. With a tense and clear sound, with the voice of Chris, more captivating and plainer than usual, and Jon Buckland on the shields, ‘Chinese Sleep Chant’ resounds in the building like an overwhelming sound stream. Mr. Martin couldn't believe it, when on ‘42’ an amazing choir overwhelms his voice. He seems even a bit annoyed, as if he could not sing, or tell us to stop, he could not quench that willing of screaming we are there, like a stone we hang on in order to not fall, that will be there for us, not to hit us but to support and help us. With those recurring thoughts, Guy Berryman strikes as he realises that here in Italy ‘Fix You’ is not a ditty, but a kind of song to life, a flurry that gets us to be aware of ourselves, about what we’re wishing and how to realize our potential. There’s no point saying that the final is entirely sung by the audience… In ‘Strawberry Swing’ Jon Buckland gives full measure in a guitar loop, worthy of the splendour the actual best band achieved. The handcalpping – those hands, that were shaking the balloons, now beat time of the song that highlights this evening: 'It's such a perfect day'’. The band moved to the B- stage on the right to perform two alternative versions of two past great fortes: ‘God Put A Smile Upon Your Face’ and ‘Talk’. The scene features small lights (mobile phones, cameras and other tech stuff). It feels like listening to the best music in the world beneath a starry sky. The same sky that holds the sound softness and the legerity of Chris' voice (really rebel tonight, without control) in a superb ‘The Hardest Part’, kind of piano melodic lullaby. The audience's choir quietens down, and never disturbing. While we're closing the eyes and listening in silence to the instrumental piece ‘Postcards From Far Away’, a perfect fusion among the piano of Martin, the gentle guitar of Buckland and the subtle bass of Berryman, a passage opens, we're not capable of noticing where we are, with whom or when. Light appears at the end of that tunnel and we hear the violin distorted sound of that masterpiece called ‘Viva La Vida’, acknowledged by everyone as the only best song of the year and chosen to be our hymn to life, joy and craze. It's amazing seeing the many different reaction to this song: there's who sing, cry, dance, jump and even faint. Will Champion opened and closed the singing with an incredibly strong and powerful voice: he really sings following his heart and banging his drums, like a blacksmith, and also that bell that brings us to a big Christmas party. Chris is a dragonfly, a butterfly: he flies everywhere and he receives the excitement of his fans, also catching our banner and realizing that he's living in a parallel dimension, just like us. The audience is delighted, in a trance state, almost 'stoned' and ’rapturous' by this heavenly music, Guy changes place towards the drum and ‘Lost!’ fills up the air. That's a song!!! The guys are really hard at it, with a grit never achieved in the past. And the audience supported them. After a short waiting, and they come back on the C-Stage, among those seats of a literally crazy gallery, that was not expecting this sudden showing up. Chris thanks heart and soul all the Italian supporters. The acoustic version of ‘The Scientist’ begins. The final choirs makes the walls shiver. They makes the hearts pound. They shake the minds. And in a flash, the sound turns into a rhythmic handclapping for ‘Death Will Never Conquer’, while Will Champion ‘from Southampton’ is introduced by Chris Martin. Guitar, mouth-organ and vocals: is there anything more intense than that? The essential becomes wholeness. After a bit of dance music with ‘Viva La Vida Interlude Remix’ (a 4 minutes break, during which disco music is the centre of the world and the choirs of the supporters keep repeating endlessly), the band comes back on the stage and proves its power in ‘Politik’, particularly appreciated. The final part fades into the classic music piece by Satie, thanks to the interpretation by Chris of ‘Six Gnossiennes 1’ that make the eyes of the audience glisten. The last part is like out of control excitement, something that everyone should live before of dying. The first song is ‘Lovers In Japan’. Some pictures of far world slide on the background screen, Asia. The lyrics merge in unison and during the refrains our eyes are caught by this huge rain of paper butterflies. And there's a feeling that joins us: freedom, joy, life. This last emotion ends in a loud scream for ‘Death And All His Friends’. An involving piano in the first part, and then the other instruments, and the final choir that, after this absolute emotion, anyone would ‘follow death and all his friends’. Hope, the need to live, joy of life, the feeling of enjoying all those incredible things the world and time have offered us, are gathered like a wild molecule in this exciting song. The band leaves the stage and then comes back to perform the most awaited song by the audience: ‘Yellow’. ‘Yellow’, with which everyone has been growing up, falling in love, that have introduced the band to us, is not sung by Chris: we want to sing it so badly, our voice is too strong, it belongs to us and we're going on singing it. The band, at the end of the song, thanks us as we are thanking them. But our acknowledgement is never-ending. With the notes of ‘The Escapist’ the first 2008 Italian night of Coldplay is over. Hugs, kisses, tears, new friendships… everything is ready for tomorrow.

No al video portato in diretta sul maxischermo...

The results of shooting a video...

I don't know if it was already posted, but... AllAccess.com and Ukmix.org stated that Lovers In Japan will be broadcast on Us radios from November, 4th on...

Wow! 7th (even if last year we were at 4th)... Coldplaying and Coldplayzone are the first two sites about Coldplay!

Denise io ho fatto di più...sono uscito nelle riprese ufficiali! Very soon i will post my review (eventually!)

It was Apollo: Atmospheres Soundtrack by Brian Eno! I have that cd and the songs were the same!

I'm in the Yellow video posted some pages before! This is the screenshot: I'm the boy at the left, the boy at the right is Gabriele, the webmaster of Coldplayzone! In the very first row! WoW! Soon my review, it was fantastic!

Soon all the updated data and...trust in me, these are all correct!