ColdplayJoe

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38 - Strawberry Swing 28 - Viva La Vida - 27 - Cemeteries Of London + 21 - Death And All His Friends 11 - 42

Yellow - 94 - Trouble - 6 +

My pictures from Section 113, Row 3 came out well. I will be posting them on photobucket.com once I have a chance!

Hey everyone! First of all, I would like to give a special thanks to everyone who helped out in this year's Coldplay Sign Gang campaign. It was amazing to see the entire floor section and 3/4 of the lower level covered with our signs (even though only about 1/4 of them were actually held up during the encore :() I kept getting asked about what Coldplay had done and why we didn't like them for awhile (in regards to the USA Still Loves Coldplay signs). Anyways, Pam, thank you so much for the Section 113, Row 3 seats. They were perfectly elevated over the floor level and provided us with some astonishing views for when Chris would use the runway and for their 2 song set! I will be posting my pictures online within the next few days, so please check back! Ian, thanks again for your help in contacting Pete from Oxfam; he was a great guy who was truly amazed that we wanted to help out Oxfam while passing out our signs. He took a picture of myself, my girlfriend, Jasmyne, and Jasmyne's Mom to post on the Oxfam Tour Blog. He said that he was also going to link coldplaying.com to their blog site as well! Anyways, thanks again everyone! I'll be talking with you all soon! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

I driving down now! Please check your emails for some final news about working with Oxfam! See you all there! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

Coldplay Sign Gang Members: I have received an email back from Pete at Oxfam. We might be able to say that we are with Oxfam if we have trouble getting through security. Nothing is certain right now, so please keep checking your email or the forum. We might be passing out fliers or something from Oxfam while also handing out our Coldplay Sign Gang signs. Again, nothing is certain right now... take all of this with a grain of salt. I will keep everyone updated. Thanks, ColdplayJoe

Hey Everyone! Show time! I will be arriving at the Wachovia Center between 5:00 and 5:30 PM. I will be wearing a jacket designed around the style of jacket that Chris has been wearing at most of the shows on the Viva La Vida tour and will be carrying around two large green bags filled with the 4,000 signs I had printed. Jessica and I will be sitting in Section 113, Row 3, but if you see us running around the arena passing out signs, please stop and say hello and possibly grab a handful of signs. For the people who are sitting on the floor, unfortunately I will not be able to meet you down on the floor itself considering that I don't have a floor ticket. If you run out of signs while passing them out on the floor, please stop by my section or look around the arena... you'll probably see me jumping from row to row. If anyone has any questions, my cell phone number has been posted on most of the emails I sent out over the past couple of months. I hope everyone has a great time at the concert and I can't wait to see all of you! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe P.S. -- I never received an email back from the Oxfam coordinator (:()

Haha, that would be awesome! Attention Coldplay Sign Gangers: Both Ian and I are currently talking with the Oxfam head coordinator to see if they could possibly use our sign campaign as an additional means of promoting Oxfam as well as coldplaying.com. If things work out, we might be able to volunteer as Oxfam members for the evening. While distributing the signs, we might also hand out small Oxfam fliers, pins, etc. Nothing is certain at this point, so as of right now, our plans will still be to meet in front of the Wachovia Center before the concert or to meet at my seats in Section 113, Row 3 before beginning our sign distribution. I will be in contact with everyone throughout the evening and will post an update sometime tonight. Thanks everyone for your ongoing efforts! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

Attention Coldplay Sign Gang Members! Please be on the lookout for an email from me tonight regarding finalized plans for tomorrow. If you still haven't sent me a message with how many signs you are planning on bringing, please do so by tomorrow at 12:00 PM! Also, if everyone could mention in that email when they plan on arriving, we will try to coordinate a central meet-up area. Thanks, ColdplayJoe

oOo... this might be serious! I think I'll have to look for some imported ''medicine" for this one!

I'm hoping that using the "I'm from coldplaying.com, the official Coldplay fansite, and we are distributing signs for a band recognition community campaign" will be enough to get my 4,200 signs through security... Ian, could you write me a (doctor's) note ;)

Hehe... Thanks Ian :)

June 18th!

OMG! Guy and Jonnyfest! I am so happy for you guys! Angie, I guess your patience at the Today Show by not tackling Jonny and making a Jonny/Phil sandwich on stage paid off (Guy might be the only substitute suitable for Phil... maybe ;))

To put our efforts into perspective, the Wachovia Center holds roughly 19,000 - 21,000 persons depending on performance or sporting event. With the 4,000 signs that I will be bringing into the concert, we will be covering roughly 21% of the entire capacity (equivalent to the entire floor and Sections 113, 114, 101, and 124) With an additional 4,000 signs, we will be covering roughly 42% of the entire capacity (equivalent to the seats mentioned above as well as Sections 102-112 up to the 17th row) If we can get 10,000 signs like last time, we can cover close to 53% of the arena, or the entire lower level and floor with enough extra to cover some of the CLUB seats or Section 200 seats. I know that we can reach the goal of distributing 10,000 signs. Please send me a PM or email telling me how many signs you plan on distributing. As of right now, JasmyneBirch and I are going to be bringing 5,000 signs combined. Let's make this another stop in Philadelphia that Coldplay won't forget! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

Remember, the more signs we can bring, the more seats we can cover! Thanks, ColdplayJoe

Thanks Chavi... the boys loved it the last time we distributed the signs back in 2006 for their final stop on the Twisted Logic Tour. They actually ripped our 'USA Loves Coldplay' sign to read 'Coldplay Loves USA'! For everyone in the Coldplay Sign Gang: I have just gotten 4,000 signs printed for the show tomorrow from Staples. 4,000 signs in black and white on recycled paper cost about $145-$175, depending on your corporate discount. While waiting for the signs, I made a couple of quick estimates for the amount of signs needed just to cover the floor and first 17 rows of all of the lower level seats. They are listed as followed: Sections A, B, C (Front Rows): 429 signs Sections D, E (Middle Rows): 504 signs Sections F-H (Seats around the front of the sound booth): 390 signs Sections 106A-108A (Back Rows): 330 signs Sections 114, 113, 101, 124: 1,300 signs Sections 112-102: 3,800 signs Sections 115, 125 (adjacent to the stage): 650 signs To cover the entire floor, and all of the lower section (up to row 17): 7,403 Rough estimate to cover entire floor (with some slack): 8,000 Again, I will be bringing roughly 4,000 signs in addition to the additional 250 signs that I had left over from 2006. Therefore, if everyone else brings at least 500 signs each, we should be able to easily cover the lower level and floor seats. If anyone has any questions, suggestions, or ideas, feel free to send me a PM or email. Thanks, ColdplayJoe

Hey everyone! I will be arriving at the Wachovia Center between 5 to 5:45 PM, most likely towards the earlier time. I will be posting my cell phone number for members of the Coldplay Sign Gang so that they can call and check-in with me once they arrive at the venue. Seeing as I am bringing between 4,000-4,200 signs, I will definitely need help bringing them into the venue and checking in through security. When we meet up, I will give everyone some additional signs to bring into the arena. What I am planning on is for the people with floor tickets to distribute signs to everyone seated in the floor area. Considering that people in specific bleacher sections are not allowed onto the floor without a floor ticket, we will need the assistance of everyone seated in the floor sections to help distribute signs to those areas. For the rest of us, we will be distributing signs throughout the lower level sections until we run out or we need to move towards the upper sections. For those of you seated in the 200 section, please try to distribute signs to the lower 100 sections first, while saving some signs for your 200 section and the people seated around you. For everyone in the Coldplay Sign Gang, please send me an email as to when you will be arriving, if possible, by no later than tomorrow, Friday July 25 at 9:00 AM EST. Thanks again for everyone's enthusiasm! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

Ian, Thanks again for the reminder on the home page of coldplaying.com and for combining my .pdf's into a sendspace file! Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

Excellent point Galaxy6013. I know that it might cost a little more money, but if you can't (and you probably shouldn't for the sake of your printer) print on your home printer, take a copy of each of the signs over to Kinkos or Staples. Their prices are reasonable when you print in bulk, black and white, on partially-recycled paper. The concert does start at 8 PM, but some of the opening bands might play earlier, Robins32. I am going to be bringing over 4,000 signs to the concert for distribution. I will be posting throughout the day as to the date I will be arriving at the concert. I am definitely going to need help bringing the signs in through security, so please everyone try to meet up with me with your signs as well before entering the concert. Additionally, please remember to bring your own signs as well (500-1000 most people committed to). The signs I am printing are in addition to the signs that you will be printing for the show. I am hoping that we can get the entire floor covered, along with some of the lower level seating (especially on the sides closest to the stage like 113, 114, 123, 124 and the back sections of 102 through 108). I will post an update through our email tree as well. If you have any questions, either PM or email me! Thanks, ColdplayJoe

I will be printing off roughly 2,000 to 2,500 signs for distribution. I can give some signs to people who haven't been able to print them off (The Joker, etc.), but if you are able to print the signs, please bring your own! I will post more information tomorrow as to when I will be arriving at the Wachovia Center so that we can all meet before the show. Send me any PM's if you have any questions. Sincerely, ColdplayJoe

Hey everyone! I have just emailed out copies of the final sign design for Friday's show. Please check your emails as soon as possible. If anyone wants to become a member of the Coldplay Sign Gang and help distribute signs for Friday's Philadelphia concert, please send me a PM with your name, email address, and seat location! Thanks, ColdplayJoe

I'll be wearing my Viva La Vida (Chris Martin's Design) jacket that I wore to the Today Show, but with some additional modifications ;) My girlfriend took one of the extra shirts I got from the Circuit City album release and made a dress out of it, so she will be wearing that to the show.

Awesome! Thanks for helping Maxx!