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Amazing eh. My sister did a sponsored parachute jump, and okay that took a few hours of effort (and a tremendous amount of bravery) but it's nothing to what this guy is doing...and she raised £400. Again - this guy should get many tens of thousands for this. As Kara says, get the local TV stations involved people, and if anyone here can afford to donate just a little please think about doing so (watch the vids if you're not sure).

I'm very happy to be the first one to welcome you here miss Natalia!! Hope you have an incredible time with us :) And by the way, are Coldplay big in Argentina right now? What are your favourite songs by the boys? All the best from England :)

Welcome to the forum, coldplaypassion! I was lucky enough to spend a few weeks once in your country, on Crete and sailing around some of the other beautiful islands, and I'd love to visit again :) Hope you have a great time here!

It's absolutely astonishing what this guys doing, I've just been watching the live feed (from http://www.allisterbrown.com) and he's at over 63 hours now. What he's trying to achieve is just phenomenal, and such a personal sacrifice. I really hope more people will donate just a little if they can afford to - it's for a great cause, and this guy deserves to raise them many tens of thousands of pounds with this... All power to you Allister!! :)

Right, that's the final straw, I'm moving to Thailand :dance::sunny::dance:

Brilliant - thank you so much :)

I loved it, deeply, from the very first minute a link to the acoustic was posted here... Seeing it live with the confetti just took things to a ridiculous new level. Like arriving in heaven and God saying 'here's a big bowl of ice cream, would you like a foot massage while you eat it?' :D And I haven't seen the montage yet - I do hope it's not stereotypical, but am sure Coldplay have the right advisers in all things Japanese for it not to be (and if not then they need me!!)

Sorry, you weren't off topic at all really, and it was a great point. I just don't see why someone would knowingly try to fix this poll :(

No, I don't see it either, they're incomparable for me. It's like trying to equate The Beatles to Pink Floyd - not possible. But then again, this thread's (meant to be) just about which of the two albums we all prefer, I think...and so I do hope the mods are talking to EL_TOPO about how and why he's cheating the system and ruining the results...

Well, whatever you're doing is cheating in some way...both the poll and the other people. Poor show :( Twisted logic indeed. If you were in any sense a fan of Coldplay, you wouldn't try to prove what the lads wrote in that song true, imo. Agreed. And agreed. :)

He continues drumming throughout the days and nights, even when his online support are sleeping soundly, perhaps... What a star he is!! :)

Ah, there's a Coldplay live' section here for everything about the gigs, and the thread you are after dear twistedxxlogic is: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48359

How's our good fella doing?? Give him a huge pat on the back from us!! :)

None of that's a barrier to them playing it at a gig. Your first sentence explains why (they synch with themselves playing it previously) - for evidence just see Lost, VLV, SS, Yes, etc.

Kash (aakashnaik) is a totally trustworthy fella, you guys will have no problems at all getting these tickets from him :)

My word!! What's he drumming by the way? Different stuff all the time to keep it interesting, presumably?

You should re-name the thread 'my friend...' not 'man...' heyday, and you'll get even more hits on here (that your friend so clearly deserves!!) How's he doing now?

Wonderful news, thank you strawberryfields - I don't want to miss my confetti at the O2!! The 18th row isn't an arena experience confetti-wise - it'll be like being at the back of a packed pub concert (distance wise) - it'll be absolutely sure to be flying all over your head there!! Yea, it's so nice they're comfortable enough to have stripped things back all the way to childhood in some ways :). Strawberry Swing is probably the pinnacle of that, but 42 goes a long way close - evoking the joy of unwrapping your most-wanted gift at Christmas for me! CSC's like the wonder of a newly-nascent child in one of its very early naps - confused, dazed, incoherent, yet 'satisfied' - and even DAAHF has that very basic, elemental energy - the astonishing joy of the completely unexpected energy... sorry, what was the topic? Ah yes, the confetti! It's great!! :D

I agreed totally...till I saw it in the flesh. And everyone loved it, was going crazy :) Kara's got a great point, though, about only the people at the front being able to make the most of it (and unfortunately at the UK gigs it's all seating, and those people will be mostly ones who are prepared to pay hundreds and hundreds of pounds on ebay :() But as a spectacle, like I said I think it's the best thing they could have apart from fireworks if they were outside. It really works :)

Bump - just read the OP for the first time, and hope others like it as much as I do (even though the 'over half of Americans...' bit really did need an 'among' to make any sense whatsoever, but that's just nit-picking). Go Chris, and go Obama :)

At Coldplay's expense, though, on Coldplaying.com...:thinking: Very Poor Show :(

Wow, just wow :stunned: Just imagine if they do play Glasto next year, and that happens with 100,000 plus...:D

It is NOT a little bit funny...I have a couple of small phobias myself and we all understand how crippling they can be if serious, but the way that's written... it's hilarious :laugh3: Best of all was one of the responses, something like 'you guys are lucky to have kids for that purpose, I have to use strangers'!! Hehe. A lovely thought Lauve - just right! That's how it felt to me to be under the confetti. Just like being a kid again under a sea of bubbles, or at some amazing theater production. Actually it reminds me of an event I used to go to in London. You could bring your own drinks as it wasn't licensed (:D) and people brought kids (it was a really family-friendly vibe), and ran around and danced everywhere. The light show was fantastic, and the ceiling was covered in old parachutes, which just looked beautiful with the lasers and the lights bouncing off them. One of the highlights of the evening was towards the end when out of the parachutes on the ceiling poured hundreds of huge balloons down of everyone dancing below. (This was years and years before Coldplay did that, and it's a fair guess someone who works for them went to this same event all those years ago - it was pretty famous in London for many years). And then the final highlight! One of the white parachute skins was stretched across the dancefloor, and everyone underneath it sat down, exhausted and hot from a night of dancing. All those around the edge held it, and waved it up and down, in time with the ambient music that was playing, so the air swirled around in a cooling breeze underneath, and the ripples swept across and distorted the lights and lazers to those looking up from below, as those same giant balloons continued to bounce around on top...heavenly :dance::angel::dance: Back on topic - ignore me everyone! - but if parachutes appear at the next Coldplay gig you heard it here first!!

Yes it is RedGirl - having a quick browse around they even have a forum with sections such as 'butterfly horror stories' with hundreds of posts and topics...:confused: Some of the topics that caught my eye: 'thousands of butterflies all over me' (apparently they swarm like locusts :stunned:) 'used my 2 year-old son as a shield' :shocked2: and 'bloodsucking butterfly, anyone know anything about it?' ...poor people, it's a really serious phobia :cry:

Ah, well you learn something new everyday - apparently there is a phobia of butterflies, linked to Mottephobia (fear of moths)!! Perhaps the concert tickets should have a warning on them about the butterflies before someone sues! I don't think the members of the following website would enjoy the gig much either!! http://www.ihatebutterflies.com/