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December 8, 2011 - submitted by Stan, United States of America Q. Will they be playing Christmas Lights at any of their upcoming shows? The Oracle replies: On 1 December Will wrote "Christmas Lights being dusted off for the festive season" on the band's Twitter. It has been performed live this week already and I have a feeling it will be again...

December 8, 2011 - submitted by Tracie, Canada Q. Greetings, alll-knowing One! I've noticed that some setlists that find their way online have certain titles underlined, followed by a symbol that looks like D#. Since I know that not all of these songs are in the key of D# (Being a geek, I've gone to my piano and checked!), I'm wondering what that means. Cheers, and thanks!Tracie The Oracle replies: I'm pretty sure that's a guitar tuning reference.

December 8, 2011 - submitted by Greg, United Kingdom Q. Hi, I'm going to ask my partner of 5 years and the mother of our child to marry me at the O2 on Friday. I really want to do this during Us Against the World but I know there's a chance you won't play it. So can I humbly request this song and maybe even a shout out to Audrey and Greg? I know it's a long shot, but thanks for your time anyway :) The Oracle replies: What a shame you weren't at Dingwalls on Tuesday as it was played there. It hasn't been played at either of the arena shows so far so it's not likely to be played on Friday. Maybe you could ask during What If? I'm afraid there won't be a shout out but lots of luck - hope it goes well, I'm sure it will.

December 8, 2011 - submitted by Natalie, United Kingdom Q. Hello! I was wondering if the gig at the o2 this Sat the 10th is going to be a full set from you or just a few songs. I'm new to what Under 1 roof is all about. Thanks! The Oracle replies: I think the plan is the band will play for around an hour as there's obviously many different acts appearing.

For North Americans just waking up, Coldplay announced a 21-date USA/Canada tour earlier today. Info - cldp.ly/cpna12 A #MXtour 33 minutes ago @elsoh Aw, thanks. Better late than never! A 3 hours ago

Yes, I really hope someone will record it, I didn't take any video because they would turn out crap and because they were going to show the gig on tv :) So what can I say, it was a last minute decision really to go to London for these few days. It was impossible to find cheap flights from Italy for the weekend since today is national holiday, so we didn't even try for the O2 date (I mean, we tried to buy tickets when they went on sale, but didn't manage to, and while waiting for a Dec 10th date, flights kept increasing in price). We tried the competition with coldplay.com, and didn't win, so me and my friend decided to try on the day. She missed last year's Liverpool gig because of the snow, and today it's her birthday, so it would have been such an amazing present for her. We waited outside Dingwalls from about 11, and we also met another Italian girl there. It was kind of surreal to see all their roadies going back and forth, Fransky, Dan Green and Rik Simpson as well, and then all the VIPs invited to the gig (Jo Whiley, who was the host of the evening, Steve Lamacq, Dermot O'Leary, just to name the first I can remember). We managed to talk to Phil, who is always so nice with us, and also said hi to Debs :nice: The person from BBC in charge of controlling the people with tickets told us there was a really really slim chance for us to get in, but we had been waiting for quite a few hours already, waiting a little bit more was nothing really, even though it was freezing cold. The BBC winners had an 8pm deadline to show up, then they counted us again, we were 25 without tickets, and when 8pm came they let us all in :D Of course the place was already packed up so I had quite a few tall people in front of me, the only thing that bothered me is that they didn't even seem to enjoy themselves that much and there was still a lot of place on the front but people were blocking the stairs down..anyway, it was just awesome to be there. Jo Whiley came in to introduce them, and when they came on, as you've read on the previous posts, MX wouldn't start, which was a good thing since they played it and Hurts Like Heaven twice :D It was the first time for me to hear Up in Flames and I quite enjoyed it, I don't like What If that much (must be one of my least favorites on X&Y) and would have rather heard Daylight, but am really not complaining. I was happy they played Us Against the World, because it really grew on me since this summer, and it was nice to hear Christmas Lights live again. We waited for them after the gig and got to meet Chris, Jonny and Will. Chris said it was one of their worst gigs ever because they made a lot of mistakes. Also I finally have one of the yellow picks used by Guy, thanks to the lovely Hoppy (round of applauses for him for keeping working even using crutches). It's been a nice few days in London, and full of coldplay related hints, so it was bound to be a successfull trip :P It was lovely to meet Cris, I'm so happy she got in as well considering how far she's coming from, nice to see Mich again, I didn't even know what time you arrived to queue up, and also Graham whom I had met in 2009 :nice: Here's a few pics, sorry but they came out kind of crap, lights were not really helpful, and I had to stand on my toes because of the tall people in front of me.

A drunken donkey could have picked the dates better, geographically speaking... map please note there's a gap in time between G & H (from beginning of May until the end of June, we know the UK stadiums tour is at the beginning of June), and between N & O (mid July)

They need to announce those damn dates already, Phil said they're coming here for sure but I wanna know when and where :bomb: Oh and he also said he didn't know why on earth they're not playing in Italy in December, which is what I'm wondering since the day the dates were announced, so if he doesn't know it too..whoever decides their tour dates is on my enemies list and will burn in hell

So happy we all managed to get in and thanks to the BBC winners for not showing up :P It was quite surreal with all their roadies and album producers, and Phil as well coming back and forth. When we got in we had to stay on the back, but the place was so tiny they were close anyway. So so happy for my friend, it's the best birthday gift she could have ever asked for. Will write more in the next days, going back home tomorrow, night everyone for now :nice:

They just gave a different spin to an already existing country song (this is country right?) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahAdpMszGjk]Cowboy's Christmas Ball -Micheal Martin Murphey - YouTube[/ame] it's not that I'm saying it's a completely different genre

Not sure about the second part since two of them didn't think it was a good idea...

Guy and Will should've told Jonny and Chris to go by themselves if they were so eager to play there :P It seems they won't perform a duet with any of the finalists though, they will probably play Paradise..still next time they should not say anything if they're not sure they're not gonna do it, that is what makes me meh about it.

It's never too late to listen to Parachutes :nice:

A Great Big Sled is still my favourite, but I don't mind this even though country is not really a genre I listen to. I just love how they keep doing them for this great cause :nice:

I love how Will's dressed, so classy :wacky:

They are one month late on this :P http://coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5051396&postcount=49

Yes there is, and it is posted in the multimedia section, it's called like that for a reason, you know :P By the way, I found some HQ pics on dailylife

I just think the timing of the announcement was really bad, people had just bought tickets for next summer's shows, and those who were waiting for a December 10 gig had already lost hope (I'm one of those, and now the flights are too expensive for that weekend, while they are cheap for the beginning of the week). I'm sure the announcement was late because they were still finalising everything, but it's a pity that it's not selling well :/ It's advertised really well on ticketmaster though, Coldplay is the only artist mentioned

To be honest what baffles me is that only some weeks ago they were all "are you crazy, we're too old, it's not for us", now it's ok for whatever reason. But yeah, there are a lot of things that I really don't understand or don't agree with on their part (band and management) lately, so this is just another one.

Found the article here. They said December 13th at Bercy, so they were only one day wrong, and summer for the Stade de France, but no specific month mentioned.

The original article seems to be this, but you need a subscription to read it..if I remember correctly, the Parisien already mentioned a gig at the Stade de France next summer when the band played the Main Square Festival, but I can't recall whether they speculated a date at that time :thinking: We have a radio that announced Coldplay will play in Italy in March, then we have the speculated gig in San Siro in June, they need to make these damn dates official, I'm confused as hell :bomb:

It's called Cinecittà, many of Fellini's movies were shot there, as well as parts of Gangs of New York (just to name a known movie) :)

Poor Hoppy I seriously pitied him yesterday, can't believe he was working considering he can't basically walk

Passiamo alle cose più divertenti va Let's talk about funnier things. It seems that the mozzarella di bufala producers decided to give Coldplay lifelong supplies of mozzarella because they helped to promote their product..but they can only have it when they come to Italy, and they will be given as much as they want while here..so uhm, Coldplay you know what to do :P And looking at the graphs of the audience watching the tv yesterday evening, the peak, with 15 million people, was when Coldplay were there, basically one out of every two people in front of the tv was watching them :awesome: Here's some of my pics

Tanta stima da parte mia, sappilo :nod: Comunque c'erano anche le (brutte) statuine di fianco a me che su Yellow e Clocks non sapevano manco una parola e non si sono mosse di un millimetro e l'unica cosa che sono riusciti a fare è stato fare video, postarli su facebook e aspettare i commenti di invidia dei loro amici, avrei tagliato la testa a tutti :veryangry2: Anyway, I was sure they recorded ETIAW as well and it seems they're going to show it later in December during a best of of the show :) A pic from me, will post more this evening :)