LFDianne

We will be getting there earlyearly. I looked at the lineup, and I actually like some of the earlier bands. We saw Old Crow Medicine Show with Mumford and Sons as part of the Railroad Revival Tour earlier this year, and really liked them. I like Ray Lamontagne, too, but haven't seen him perform before. We are in it for the long haul. LOL

Erick, is this yours?

We land in Austin at 4:30 on Thursday. Then we leave Sunday - I'm going home and my husband has a meeting in South Carolina on Monday. We only have festival tickets for Friday.

Since we are getting close to the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, I wonder if there will be a lot of "where were you/what were you doing" stories coming out while people remember that horrific day :(

For the record, this is NOT my tattoo. But check this one out. OMG...I love the band, but good grief, this is going a little too far, imo. :laugh3: http://t.co/wF9M8uf

Us too :) we met several awesome Coldplayers at the LA show two weeks ago, we would be up for meeting more! Especially if we are all at the taping ;) --- - Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My husband and I arrive in Austin from CA Thursday afternoon...guess we will be crossing our fingers :)

I saw this and I'm not sure I believe him. My ticket from 2 years ago was $97.50, before ticketmaster fees, and it was just a regular floor ticket, not VIP or anything. I'd be really surprised if comparable tickets are below $100. :(. Thank goodness we don't have to pay for a babysitter anymore when we go to concerts- it's so expensive,

Not pointing out a mistake, just happened to quote you in my reply :) US tickets, especially in Los Angeles, are always high :( It's pretty typical to pay between $75-125 for good tickets now, and that's going through ticketmaster or the venue, not a broker...

At the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, July 18, 2009, my ticket was $97.50 plus $15.95 in dumb ticketmaster fees. They were 19th row on the floor, behind the GA pit. The tickets I got for the UCLA Grammy Foundation Benefit on Aug 3, this year, were $150 plus $14 for ticketmaster fees.

That's me! :P

I LOVE the photo. I especially like how Jonny, not Chris, is in front for a change.

They just randomly announce when it's time to call, usually about 20 minutes after the hour at random hours - not every hour, which is annoying. My FM 104.3 and KIIS-FM are announcing call in times, too.

1 (877) 565- 9467 is correct (WINS). It's a nationwide number, so our odds aren't good, but I still try!

No rain in California! You should come visit sometime :P And my song of the day is...Charlie Brown. Can't stop listening...

Yeah, this was reported last week. But he's way too good for her, and if he was really interested in her, she wouldn't have been denied backstage at UCLA. And then it says she's "following him around all weekend," yeah, like a sad puppy. LOL I think this is another one of her sad, pathetic attempts to be something she's not...

Wow, Imelda, no wonder you were so excited when you found us after the show. :) What a great picture of adorable you and Phil.

I got mine from the last VLV show I went to. I asked the sound guys and they just handed it to me. I also have the band's daily schedule that was on the wall of their dressing room :). My daughter's ex-boyfriend worked at the venue and was responsible for cleaning their dressing room after. So he took it for me :)

From the Los Angeles Times. Pictures in link: For such a middle-of-the-road rock band, Coldplay sure is polarizing. To some, they're the catchiest, warmest, most comforting band on the planet, whose endlessly singable choruses, magnetic personalities and easy structures are a testament to the beauty of Shaker simplicity. To others, each lonely Chris Martin wail is an argument for punk rock in its most brutal form as a way to wash away the gooeyness. And for this latter group, there's no more fitting venue in the city for the band than the Los Angeles Tennis Center. A performance to benefit the Grammy Foundation and sponsored by two phone companies (the coverage at the tennis club was great!), Coldplay gigged in Westwood on Wednesday in advance of its Lollapalooza performance Friday in Chicago, and offered a set of its sing-along classics and new music from its forthcoming, as-yet-untitled fifth studio album -- as well as a cover of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab." What was the crowd like? Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel captured it perfectly when he jumped onstage to introduce the band for a forthcoming episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (Coldplay was definitely multitasking the launch of the new album on Wednesday night): "There are a lot of white people here. It makes me nervous," he said, to huge laughter and applause from the Grammy supporters and lucky Coldplay fans who filled the outdoor stadium. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/08/coldplay-gigs-the-la-tennis-club-covers-amy-winehouse.html#more

Me, too, Denise. Me, too.

Did you guys see this from the Lolla thread??? I'm so proud of our Will :) Finally getting some recognition he so deserves. :drummer: Lollapalooza 2011, Friday: Coldplay I forget that Coldplay is a band. Not that it exists, but that it is a collective of four flesh-and-blood musicians banging on instruments. Instruments that can be loud. Because it's easy to think of Coldplay as Chris Martin and some other dudes. He dates the famous actress, and the quartet's hits tend to be the ballads with Martin hunched over a piano. The production of Coldplay's four albums is clean, wine-party friendly and bloodless. Before the Brits took the stage, three large, square LED screens displayed a circle intersected with an X. For all the shots taken at the band for being treacly pap for white people, the icons might as well have been targets. But then the Brits took the stage. Multicolored lasers shot over the crowd. Fireworks erupted in sparkling white columns, as high as the skyscrapers towering behind the park. Those LED screens shimmered with more color, then displayed a silhoutte of a running man made of rainbows. At the climax of this opening tune, the rainbow man flies like superman. It was a new tune, "Hurts Like Heaven." Despite that, wIth all the razzle dazzle pyrotechnics and the shocking, inescapably awesome volume of the band, the audience leapt and cheered. Two of the first four songs were new, from an upcoming record. Other to-be-released cuts, lit like Christmas trees and pulsing with more keyboards and dancefloor savvy, came throughout the set. And I've never seen a band's unheard material go over so well. Martin helped a bit, cheerleading the crowd along, prompting them to jump. And they all jumped. But this likely wouldn't happen if not for Will Champion. The drummer is vital to the band. And I don't know that I've ever paid attention to his work on the albums. Or if I'm even supposed to. Yet he beats the shit out of his kit onstage. He's a muscular, bearded, Bonham lover. No, seriously. I'm talking about the guy from Coldplay. He drummed harder than anyone I saw all day, and that includes an art metal band. He also sings. Dueting with Martin on "Us Against the World," another newbie introduced facetiously as being about a love affair between Bill O'Reilly and Sarah Palin. Maybe it was his bald head, maybe it was the hammy superimposed faces on the big video screens, but seeing Champion belt choruses into a microphone, I couldn't help but think that if Martin ever dumped the other three to go solo, a la Peter Gabriel, they've got a Phil Collins in back ready to step up. I forgot how melodically sophisticated the early work is. "Shiver," which Martin pointed out as being the fisrt song Coldplay ever played in America, zigs and zags and swings and soars. "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face," started with a stripped rearrangement, actually whipped up a beautiful squall over some gorilla percussion. Coldplay can be a great rock band. Jonny Buckland's guitar sounds like a snarling electric guitar, not a toy Japanese keyboard, as it does coming through the filter of Brian Eno. But then all those piano ballads sound like church hymns. Or, I should say, like the same church hymn over and over. Chalk that up to Martin's self-help lyrics. Listing to a big batch of his writing, its struck me as Christian rock with a big dollop of doubt. The sky, choirs, cathedrals. Two songs go on about not being lost. I just wish the band weren't so repetitive. And obvious. When they play "Yellow" all the lights turn yellow. As dramatically rocking as the material can be, Martin's dweeby, common-denomenator earnestness makes it all feel too scripted. Their instruments look like movie props, covered in faux finishing and neon graffiti. The acoustic guitar looks like a blackboard, and like a hired artist spent three days decorating it. There were silly rumors circulating earlier backstage that Jay Z would appear. Only his "99 Problems" made an appearance, introducing the band before a bit of John Williams pomp. Instead of surprise guests, Coldplay offered a version of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab." Sorry, everyone else, you were beaten to the punch, rather wonderfully. Next to Foster the People's Neil Young cover, an unlikely highlight of the day. An honest to god lighter was held aloft at one point. Typically nowadays you just see the azure glow of iPhone screens at the end of all those pale arms. It was a hearwarming reminder of rock's classic era. And it made me overlook the band's bright new Ghostbusters uniforms and postmillennial pastiches. For a moment I was swept up in the hallelujahs. For a moment I considered Coldplay a classic. http://timeoutchicago.com/music-nigh...riday-coldplay

I"m glad you came up to us, too, Imelda! Next time they come to LA, we will be there!

I think they're taking the month of August off for their holiday. They need a break after the last 2 weeks!

:bomb::cry::bomb::cry::bomb: I'm glad you go to see an amazing show, Kelly. Let's hope Austin is that one for me.

I missed all of Lolla. Had to do a fancy dinner which was really good and now we are at Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach- a very cool living tableau. You can google it. The shows about to start but had to check in on the board :)