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I can't see the gig on BBC iPlayer :( Has anyone found it online yet (torrents or...anything!!)?

Brilliant mate, absolutely brilliant. My sister will be stoked, she was so happy to share all this with you all! Now we just need to have a little chat to get your link back up to Monday's pics with just one or two of that ugly tired fella - (i.e. me!) - removed for modesty and we have a full set of our our incredible three days that we've shared :) Really hope you'll send full-spec pics to me at my email when you have time. It has been a pleasure to meet you fella, you've made this week for me. Thank you. Really. By the way, the group photos are great, but no. 27 is my favourite. Beautiful. Stephie you completed our little group today! It wouldn't have been the same without you, please do stay in touch and continue collecting confetti with us all! :)

Many thanks mate, me neither! Tonight was different, and perfect. It made it all the better to meet such a great small crowd of fine people through here :) I've never seen the band up so close as I have this week, and have been absolutely blown away by Will and the effort he makes, easily equal to Chris imo. All my clapping at the end was pointed in his direction (though of course it was for all of them) and I did my best impersonation of a deeply-meaningful nod in his direction when he looked towards where I was, and thought I got a nod of understanding back. Brilliant.

Yes I think post a request in the multimedia section and your prayers will be answered :) If someone offers you the night I went please let me know - I've never heard it!!

Wow, you girls have lightning quick feet (and not flip-flops like my sister!! haha) You should have sung 'Osaka sun' at me and I would have done a little impromptu dance and embarrassed myself in front of all the suits :D So glad you got home speedily, safe and sound Kara :) Steph texted she's almost home - rocket propelled return transport from Poole to London for £9 - amazing!!

A short gig, thought they'd play one or two extras off camera, but they've had a very tiring few days so fair enough (so have I!) I was still very tired and achy from my typical dancing spectacular :wink3: on Monday, and the set was taken from the same songs (no Politik STILL?!) so I just chilled at the back and took it all in (until LiJ when I couldn't stop meself :D) First off I hooked up with Kash (the guy I gave a ticket to on Monday) and guess who he met right there in the line? Coldplaying's very own Kara (duckette)! Well that was not a bad omen at all for the entire evening, and things pretty much carried on perfectly from there. Stephie showed up all the way from Poole and was just as lovely as the rest of us hehe, Lucas and Kala (really sorry if I spelled that wrong) and two friends joined our little soiree next, and it briefly became a firendly competition of who had seen the band the most times (I think quite a few of us tied with six each!) The soundcheck through the gates was so close by, you could hear it perfectly even if you didn't wander over to look, but me and my little sis (first timer :)) did just that and hooked up (via a quick refresher at the pub!) with another delightful member from here, Sandi, who had come all the way from Brum just to have a look and say hi. I'd missed her except for a brief hello on Monday, so it meant an awful lot to have a chat. She rocks. Right, onto the gig! We all got in early and were two or three back from the front. I stayed with the group until 6:15 when I heard a call to arms from the toilet. I went to the toilet, still I heard something calling me....? Aha, it was the BBC bar after all (bless you BBC bar!!) Back down the steps to the tiny stage, and I took up my position right at the back, and my exhausted face away from the cameras :) The MC (reminded me a lot of Bill Bailey) did the usual Radio 1 stuff of getting everyone jumping in time etc. I did my usual trick of looking glum and inactive so they wouldn't pick me as someone to close-up on (it worked too - only the back of my head came into shot apparently :D) The band were on and a much better, tighter musical start than Monday I thought, they are learning this quick. It was lovely to see them all perform so close, and Guy seemed much more involved which I was happy about. Chris' voice was much better than Monday, he hit a lot more notes, and there were some good exchanges with all the BBC staff on the various terraces, the people outside the gates (not too many there at all and I think almost everyone, if not everyone, witth a ticket got in) and most hilariously the builders on the site well over the road who were very amused and gave a hearty wave. The sound really was loud and good, impressive. And the rain held off thank goodness. The set? LiT's a spine-tingling opener. Violet Hill absolute rocks live, but such a short song alas that blink twice and it's over. Lost sounded better again live than on the album, slightly less cluttered, but still too much. Perhaps the acoustic's ruined the full version for me forever? I guess they like to play it because the whole band's involved and doing something different (except Chris)? Guy on drums etc - for me the set-up's far more refreshing than the actual song. 42 was relatively error-free this time - Chris only messed up the start! - and for me a great live track already. Trouble played again, I hope they'll at least alternate that with Don't Panic on the main tour (and Shiver too much to ask?), but the helicopters bit was fun, the Chris we know and love (and sometimes tear our hair out too lol). Yellow acoustic again seemed popular (and I absolutely loved it!) Will is a great guitar player it must be said, very steady. By this point the crowd seemed a bit more interested in the celebs around and about than the band, which was a real shame. 'Oh look there's Jo Whiley'??? 'OH LOOK THERE'S COLDPLAY PLAYING TO SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE AND THREE METERS IN FRONT OF YOU'!!! (I wanted to shout hehe) Again, lovely that Fix You wasn't the end (though I miss the light). Lovers in Japan is a special song for me and to see it twice in three days as the closer was something else. It finally got my aching limbs and brain-starved sleep into the Perfect Motion that Sunscreem made famous all those years ago. Chris introduced it as saying 'let's see which way the wind's blowing' and it turned out it was blowing towards TV Centre, with the entire front garden area and many of the onlookers enjoying our shower of butterflies :) All was over, everyone happy. It was a mixed crowd again, and I'm sure that many of the best folk were from here, so many of us managed to get tickets somehow! I'd chilled (by my standards!) at the back, but after the exertion and sheer emotion of Brixton I didn't have much more to give. The brain wasn't willing, and the body wasn't either, but the whole thing was magical. The icing on the cake was meeting Ron Burgandy at the end, and finally saying hello to and shaking the hand of a chap who's been my partner trying to get tickets for these last few weeks on here. Perfect. With one newly-impressed younger sister, and new friends and old (Kara and Kash the latter, having met them at Brixton a long two days ago!!) we set off for a drink in Shepherd's Bush, and toasted to everything that life has to offer. Thank you so much to everyone I shared tonight with, directly or indirectly, to the incredible band, and to Coldplaying.com for helping to make these incredible last three days of my life possible. And sorry for the long post lol :D

I'm hooooooome :) First one back? Yippee!! <edit> Last one back? Booooo :D

A very good point! The weather's looking horrible...

I was going to say I'm after the same thing, but I think I was there the next night (the rainy one when they played Green Eyes, Shiver, Warning Sign and ENL iirc) Perhaps this thread should be in multimedia?

I'm struggling to believe anything the BBC has told anyone about this gig, they have just given out far too much contradictory details for me. I've made a complaint about it, but they only promise to get back to you within ten days, so it probably won't help us for tomorrow. That is unless enough other people complain to really bring it to their attention. If you feel, like I do, that this is a shambles so far, please consider doing so.

Voodoo I don't believe I caught what you said, could you repeat that please?! :D (Soz, couldn't resist, I know the forum's been broken again today!) I might end up having a spare ticket for the 16th, but I won't know for some months probably. If I do someone on here can have it. It's towards the back of the block I think, but certainly better than upper tier or not having a ticket at all. Plus you get the free added bonus of me singing along throughout the gig :wink3:

He said that even the non-guaranteed ticketholders would definitely get in??? :o

Absolutely spot on!

Coldplay shows are always too short! That's partly because they actually are, but the feeling's intensified because they have such a huge back-catalogue that's hardly even gone into, and of course they are so brilliant live that you wish it would go on forever. Anyone who goes along to a Coldplay gig expecting more than an hour and a half is quite likely to be disappointed, very unfortunately. That said, last night didn't feel too short to me for a free gig, there was so much packed in, so many different styles of songs and arrangement, so many highlights and quite beautiful moments. Then there was being so close to the band, and the wonderful people I met. I have been to hundreds of gigs down the years, maybe seen bands numbering into the thousands, and that was quite possibly the best ever :)

Last night was so perfect. I missed Politik a little bit, but not as much as I would have thought, and didn't even notice Scientist's absence, the rest of it was that good! I'd be more than happy with a set like last night, and presume those two are certainties for every gig on the tour - the band have said they're more or less untouchable I think. And I don't think they'll ever write a more powerful live song than Politik.

She was hanging around the back of the queue for a while, apparently she hadn't won a ticket. I'm not sure if she managed to blag her way in in the end or not :D

You are a lady of exquisite taste hehe :) It was the last song the band played live, I think The Escapist was just the CD playing.

Thanks so much mate, great job, hope to see you round here more :)

Yellow's always been one of my favourite songs live, but to hear it done this way was just so fresh. It was incredible. If there's one thing Eno did it was to revitalise Coldplay, make them hungry again. Expect incredible things from the tour!!

I don't think that's quite right. I thought there was one more song up there on the balcony, and the setlist I saw confirmed it. Oh well, don't mind me, I haven't slept properly for days and am quite prepared to admit I am wrong....would love to know the truth though!

So glad you got home ok Kara :) What a night we had eh?!! I only met Sandi and her good fellow briefly, alas, but I have to agree - she seemed lovely! Kash was great company even though we confused each other quite a lot in our excitement, hehe, and I was so glad I gave my ticket to him. A true fan, and some of the things we talked about (his experiences in Nairobi, Kenya, where my Mum was born and raised especially) only reinforced my belief that everything about today was meant to be, and worked out just as they should have. Getting tickets this morning was just the start of it, and I'll look back on this day for the rest of my life. Extraordinary. I truly have come to the conclusion it was all written in the stars for tonight, and can't wait to see you all again very very soon at the BBC. If all the members here are as fine as the good folk I met tonight then...my word..I have so many good people to hope to meet one day :) Oyasumi nasai (that's 'goodnight' in Japanese!)

Sorry mate I may have made a mistake. I think from memory the setlist I saw had one song called 'If Death Will Ever..' and another one (either before it or after) as 'The Goldrush'. I wasn't lucky enough to snag that setlist meself, it was another dear member from here, and of course they may have mixed things up a little...(the band not the Coldplaying member hehe!)

So did the setlist the band had ;)

Forgot to mention, but an extremely honourable mention has to go to CSC - it really mixed things up (which is what the whole setlist was about to be honest :)) and the solo was of course, mesmerising. A few more pre-recorded bits in this (but nowhere as bad as LiT or VLV) but it didn't matter one jot. Phenomenal :)

Stephie you have one of the nights of your life to look forward to, I'm listening to the radio now and it just doesn't do it justice (but thanks so much to the people who posted it here, it means the world to hear it again and leap around my bedroom to the Osaka sun yet again)!!