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I guess the first you'll hear is when I or Anna text Ian or Jen from the ceremony and they post on here :nice: My goodness, to be there and hear Coldplaying win...that would be so incredible :o And, of course, I'd be in the audience videoing Anna as she goes up to collect the award and make the speech :sunny: Thank you my friend :)

I'm not sure Kat, that's just what I saw when I looked on the website: http://www.btdma.com/default.aspx It says highlights repeated three times on ITV2...so maybe on there? <edit> Doesn't seem to be listed for TV next Thursday... Perhaps I'll 'do a Jarvis' during McFly?! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZEWomOQVno]YouTube - Jarvis Cocker vs Michael Jackson (Brits '96)[/ame] Absolutely stunned here...thanks SO much...just WOW :shocked2: Ian you put it so well, it's just such a shame that there isn't a table so a group of us could all go together, that would have made it absolutely perfect... Thank you so much Anna for thinking of me and messaging me quickly about this. Incredible thanks, as always, to Ian and Jen for starting this forum that's brought me and innumerable others so many priceless experiences and real-life friends. Thank you to the wonderful Lore (who I haven't yet met, but WILL!! :nice:) and others who thought of me. Thank you to my parents, my parrot, and my nephew for not sticking his wet hands into the power point today. Thank you.... Alright, alright, just practising for the big night (and if Coldplaying wins that'll more or less be my speech so Anna better prepare something herself!! :P)

Many thanks Nancy... I think I need to lie down :stunned: Bloody hell it's live on TV... <edit> Doesn't seem to be listed for TV next Thursday...

Thanks so very very much everyone...still in shock here :o

I can make it! And I have a devoted and lovely Coldplayer from far away (Anna, who organised the London meet-up with Julie) who'd make the trip specially from Sweden, and would love to join me :) Anyway, many congrats Ian, Jen and Coldplaying!! :dance:

Yes, yes - I am'nt. Just wanted to clear that up, as there seems to be more and more confusion about this :) (And if this thread gets more than three replies I'll eat my official Oxfam backstage pass that I don't have anyway - promise!! :laugh3:)

I got the full-on weird glare he does for absolutely ages at the Brixton (first Viva) gig, does that count (fangirl parts *ahem* aside)? We locked eyes until one of us turned away, and it wasn't going to be me! We got the glare only cos we were dancing as much as the rest of the crowd put together...and perhaps being tall, and with the sloping floor at Brixton, I stood out like a glowstick at a funeral...oh, and we were the only ones in the crowd who knew every single word to all the songs, even though the album had only been out for three days (all hail King Cedric and the leak in Justin!!) I swear Chris was looking to us for the words at times :laugh3:

Happy birthday!! :dance: Please say 'hi' to your Mum for me :) Pete

Has it really been a year? :cry: 9:30 I wake up and curse whoever it was that recommended the Travelodge as a cheap (!!) and convenient place to stay for the gig, after a night of little sleep due to the all-night party in the bar a few meters away, and the projectile vomiting down my window from the room above. 9:45 I 'enjoy' the Travelodge breakfast of two Weetabix and some cold toast, coffee and watered down orange juice. I'm sure D:Ream were from Manchester, I muse, as things can only get better... :laugh3:

Of course it doesn't you silly sausage (if you ever thought it might?!)...:P

I really hope it's not on the next album (at least in the form it's in*)...nice inspiration, but it's just about the most formulaic 'song' I've ever heard from Chris - I simply can't believe he played this rather than further exploring some of the ideas from Prospekt's March - the title song or, say, Glass of Water (not my favourite even) as piano solos anyone? :\ The very fact he did play it worries me deeply... * Unfortunately I can't see any other form, the structure seems set in stone. Basic songwriting 101 in my book, not good :(

An absolutely incredible arrangement - it's amazing to see them still taking such performance risks after so many years, and them all coming off :) Unfortunately though, no vocalist can come anywhere close to Liz on Teardrop. I've heard a few others make a great stab at it live, and the original arrangement just about pulls the song through, and makes it a delicious moment to cherish still, but I'd rather they just dropped it completely from the sets than have that experimental version with such a weak singer... Now! If someone could edit that new version with Liz singing then...wow :o :dance: <edit> I've also, so happily, seen Liz sing it live a few times herself on the Mezzanine tour, so I know what to compare it to...my goodness :heart: :heart: :heart:

:laugh3: I don't think there's much chance of that, particularly as she hasn't replied!!

So where's the lady of the moment, huh??! Out partying I'm sure!! :dance: :P

Thanks so much guys, it means a lot :) I had a good day, but it was all the better for sharing it with you all - thanks!! :hug:

Happy birthday dearest Anna, I hope you're having a wonderful day, and that karaoke's involved, or at least a good amount of beer!! ;) :D A big, special birthday hug :kiss: Pete xxx

Aw thanks so much guys, I'm really really touched :nice: And so lovely to see many real life friends (all thanks to Ian and Jen for starting, and devoting themselves to, this site) posting here - and some people I have yet to meet but know very well from their own posts, and hope to one day, Zeus willing :sunny: Without exception everyone I have met so far from here has been lovely, and I treasure our friendships greatly :dance: It's basically my policy not to post outside the Coldplay section on here anymore. This has been a very hard rule not to break recently, with the return of our beloved Lore and Ren, Nancy's 10,000th post...quite a few threads...but how could I not post here, when people have been so kind??! :hug: So, till now I've been contacting people privately, but I think I'm going to have to re-write the rulebook and post in birthday threads and for big events like the return of Lore (so glad to see you welcomed back my friend, you're one of the very special people who make this place what it is :kiss:) Now, as it's my bday, can someone please let me know who this other Pete is who's been mentioned on here too? Alright, he sounds like a decent guy (I guess :\), but how dare talk of him invade my thread!! :P Ooh yes please! I've almost run out, and I'm fast becoming the talk of England as 'the man who has the unbelievably strange and awful candy from foreign countries'!! :P

P.S. Thanks so much to the girls for leaving me with all the leftover candy! I am now the number one uncle for my little niece and nephew!! :dance: BUT who left me the Djungelvral?! :shocked2: My sister, niece and nephew all tried some at the same time - you should have seen the looks on their faces! Two of them spat them out straight away. My little nephew Ethan though (1 1/2 years old), has just learned the word 'yuck' and happily practised it again and again as he kept trying the candy :laugh3: Next time he's here I'll give him some more and video it, it was absolutely hilarious :P I came back later and Dad was sitting in his chair chewing on something and grimacing. I didn't need to ask what it was :laugh3: I also forgot before, who wanted the Warning Sign acoustic and A Message (remix) MP3s I played in the car? PM me please! :)

What a wonderful, detailed, write-up Nancy!! :dance: Bless you, you brought back many wonderful memories, and also reminded me of so many moments I wish I had been able to be with you all, but thanks to Julie and to Anna I could spend some really lovely times with most of you, and all because of Julie's original idea I know have many more true friends from around the world :sunny: '...every moment was so precious...' Absolutely! I am so glad that people enjoyed the day out in the area where I grew up. I was worried in advance that it might be dull for some or all of you, but everyone seemed to have fun, and it was such a pleasure to welcome you all here. Alright, we didn't see a ghost, but we made it close! :P Just a reminder to everyone, that if you want to see inside the house (as we were too late to visit) it's in the movie The Other Boleyn Girl (starring my sweetheart, Natalie Portman :heart:) I'm so glad you enjoyed Viva in the car Nancy, played especially for you, and thank you so much again for your summary of the trip. In particular your story of Violet Hill has made me want to play the whole album, for the first time in perhaps a year!! The entire time spent with you all was tremendous, such a joy :hug: Miss you all! Pete xxx

^^ My goodness Macintosh, any idea where I wrote 'What next, a harmonica-only version of Politik?!!'??! <edit> mystery solved by PM :P

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And so yesterday was time for goodbyes :cry: After the disappointment of missing the picnic and the night at the Dublin Castle and Bistro, it was such a short time to say goodbye, but so lovely to see everyone again :heart: (Even though Nancy resisted my final chance to get her wet :P) I missed the French ladies who left in the morning, and the others who were at the hotel I think. I met (most of?) you only briefly, it would have been nice to get to know you better, I hope you had a great stay in London :) I will treasure the memories of the days I had with the meet-up, and look forward to seeing all the photos :D Thanks so much to Julie for originally planning and organising everything, and to Anna who did such a great job once we were in London. Thanks to you all, I have many more good friends now, I can't wait to see you all again :sunny: Pete xxx

Well, it's time for goodbyes tomorrow :cry: But it'll be wonderful to see everyone again :dance: :sunny:

I'm so glad that so many people enjoyed the picnic, and in such wonderful weather :sunny: I'm sorry to hear that not everybody could make it or find each other, but it seems like everyone enjoyed themselves even in their own groups :) I'm very sorry that I wasn't able to come myself. I'd been planning this for so long as my biggest contribution to the meet-up, and had many things prepared. The only thing I hadn't been able to prepare was the venue, because I thought Hampstead Heath was the best place but I don't know the area well...so I asked and asked on this thread and on the meet-up group if people could help me with that, but no-one replied. Thank you so much my friend, it's very kind of you all, and I missed everybody too, a great deal. I was terribly upset I couldn't make it :hug: I'm really glad you had a great day, but I'm very sorry you weren't able to meet up with everyone else. I have no idea about that as I wasn't able to come (I'll explain about that in a minute) but I posted my mobile telephone number on the meet-up group, and if anyone had any trouble they only needed to call me and I would have arranged everything for them. I don't know what else I could do? I don't know how you could decide to go to any place for the picnic without internet access for a week, as the venue wasn't decided then? I would say that was a huge mistake, wouldn't you? There are internet cafes in London you know? I also find it very strange that you have managed to get internet access after the picnic to complain, but not beforehand when it would actually have been useful... About the text messaging I'm very sorry to hear that. I don't understand what happened but I'm absolutely certain it was an honest misunderstanding. The main ladies who organised today (in my absence) are good, honest people. As for your complaint that the organiser (me) did not turn up, why didn't you contact the organiser when you had problems meeting up with the others? Although I couldn't come I have spent the day checking the forum here and helping to organise things between people on my phone as I could, when people asked me. I've been planning and looking forward to this for so long, only a life or death matter would have kept me from coming, and that is what happened. Whilst you had a 'great day' despite your disappointment, I have not. I missed the picnic because a close family member is gravely ill and I'm taking care of them. I tried my best, and think I did pretty well given the circumstances. I wish I could have been there and done more. Everybody I have met on the meet-up will tell you, I hope, that I try my very best to organise things, to make sure everybody is included and comfortable, and that everybody gets everywhere OK, but it was impossible for me to do more today. I did everything I could.

This picnic's going to need video cameras :laugh3: Has Nancy brought her swimming costume? I hope so :sneaky::P