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I honestly think the only reason I've ever wanted to be taller is so I could see more at concerts. But yes, I am vertically challenged, haha. I like the rope idea! Apartment Story and All The Wine I think are my top two :cheesy: (OK, I should stop talking about The National in The Strokes' thread :P)

We'll definitely be fine, it's not like we're two completely naive concert-virgins, haha. You're also taller than I am, so you have a better chance of not being eaten by the crowd! 9 days til I see them at Coachella :bomb: :bigcry:. (BTW, Jo, your sig lyrics..."Apartment Story" is my favorite The National song :wacky:).

Ooh! I thought this might happen :wacky: I bet they're honored to be asked, and I think it would be awesome, because I'm an Olympics nerd, and to add Coldplay into that would be awesome for me. I wonder if they'd accept it? I feel like they'd be fools not to, and get bad press for it, but imagine the pressure...I see Chris absolutely freaking already, haha.

We plan to wait all day, I'm pretty sure we're going to get barrier. And safe-er, yes, but things can still get pretty hot and heavy at the barrier, haha. I worry about like, getting smashed against the railing and cracking a hip or something, haha. Nah, we'll be fine. But I am pretty convinced that the Oxegen crowd is going to be much more wild than the Coachella crowd (which is going to be much more wild than the Sweetlife crowd--it's a festival run by salad-making hippies for God's sake).

:clap: I love when people are not suckers for music journalism, it warms my heart :wacky:. Not that I expected any less from you, Katie, but most of the people that I see writing on this subject just frustrate me. The only thing I would add is that I think age and time together is a factor. When they were "closer than brothers," they were very young and pretty wild, it has to be said. They said they basically lived in each others' pockets for years straight, living together in various combinations while working together and touring together. That shit takes a significant toll on a relationship, band or otherwise. I think part of their maturing process has been to step back from all that and realise they needed to spend a bit of time apart to make sure they didn't implode. Yes, they had "problems," but bands are like families: they all have problems at some point, really. It's just a matter of whether or not it gets reported by people on the outside. They're simply different people now than they were in 2001, and their relationships with each other needed to change to match that. It's just the media is making it seem like it's for the worse, when really it's probably for the better and just more mature and therefore boring and therefore useless to write about.

AGH KATIE, THAT IS SO GR8 :bigcry: Ugh, I'm so happy for every second of that story. I'm also glad you didn't get eaten alive--from all the footage, the crowd looked tame and respectable compared to what we've been seeing/hearing. I don't think we'll be able to say the same about Coachella and Oxegen, God help me, but AHH YOU WERE RIGHT THERE :D :D :D Ugh, that seriously made me 400x more excited. I keep on saying that, but it's like my excitement escalates 5 degrees every day or so.

THEY MENTIONED THE POSTCARDS PROJECT (BRIEFLY) :bigcry: I feel all wiggly :wacky:. Where is Lore, I need a fangirl squee.

WHOA WHOA, I MISSED KATIE'S TUMBLR POST? Goddamn my time zone :uhoh: I'll go and find it in a bit! PS: @Jo--96 DAYS :dance:

OH, that was you...yeah, I was trying to figure out who that was, haha. I get Coldplayer friend requests all the time and never know who they are so I kind of tend to reject them :blank:. Sorry about that.

UGH, KATIE, I AM WAITING FOR YOUR STORY LIKE CRAZY :dance: And yeah, I think we can safely say they're fakes--the dude uploaded them in 2006, so if they were real, they would have been passed along person-to-person like everything else is, and we would have at least heard of them. I bet whoever made that CD chucked on a few fake things to make them look legitimate in light of the other real things on there. Just based on the Vegas/SXSW/TV/MSG footage, I think I can say that I like Angles a lot better live as well. As much as I do like it, it nowhere near touches the other Strokes albums for me, but when I've heard and seen them perform Angles songs in the past few weeks, I've been unable to contain my excitement just as much as with the other songs on the setlist. Which is good, because I'M SEEING THEM IN 13 DAYS :wacky:.

It would be great if you could! I asked about this in the instrumentals thread in MM, but I didn't know if it would be possible. I actually like Lukas a lot more than Famous Old Painters, and would give anything to have a full-Chris-vocals version!

OK, I uploaded it to this thread in MM: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21300&highlight=The+Strokes&page=3 :dance:. 29 songs, and it's most of the unreleased rare stuff that isn't a live bootleg (though there are a few very very early things that are live simply because we only have live versions of them).

I can if you give me some time :) I can put together a whole folder of random rare shit if you want, more than just what's on that list (besides #s8-13 which are fakes).

Hahaha, interesting nuggets...there are so many. I'm just as obsessed with them as I am about Coldplay, so I'm a bit of a nerd about them. I don't even know where to begin, though, haha. I think it would be easier to answer questions rather than just spew random information :P

Anna, you are SO TALENTED :kiss: I was kind of skeptical about "Famous Old Painters" originally, but somehow the "Lukas" instrumental being posted by the same person on YouTube has made be believe it's real a bit more. I'm still not totally convinced, but "Lukas" is definitely real given the tinges of Chris in there, so I'm more inclined to believe "Famous Old Painters" is as well. BUT HOLY CRAP, I LOVE LUKAS SO MUCH. I don't even want to bother listening to the Natalie version because I love this one so much. It sounds so AROBTTH to me, which is the best thing I could ask for in the Coldplay world, personally.

*Major bump* But I came across this today: Coldplay Bassist Makes $1.5 Million Profit on East Village Condo Thursday, March 31, 2011, by Sara Polsky Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman paid $2.65 million for a condo at 79 East 2nd Street in 2009. Maybe it was an attempt to take advantage of a market bottom, because he relisted the place in December hoping for a nearly $2 million profit. He didn't quite make it, but the place did sell fairly quickly, according to a deed that hit public record today. The buyer is fashion designer Kaelen Farncombe, who paid $4.15 million for the 3,000-square-foot, 3BR, 2.5BA place. Even if Berryman didn't hang onto the place for long, at least it was long enough for us to get a glimpse of his taste in interior design. Take a look above. So apparently he decorated it and it wasn't professionally staged? Damn, I like his style, then.

Um, holy shit :freak: I actually have I think everything on that list except tracks 8-13...if that guy uploaded them once, though, and people got them, how come no one else has them? I've never even HEARD of those songs before, and I like to think that I know a fair amount about The Strokes world. I doubt if they were real songs. I just feel like if someone uploaded them in 2006, they'd have spread to everyone by now, especially since I have everything else on that list (besides "Eller"). I think they're all fakes, mixed in with enough legitimate things to make them look real.

It's...wow, extremely pretty, but to me it has fake written all over it. There's nothing in there that seems uniquely them at all to me, nothing that couldn't be produced by talented copycats. Also, as said above, it doesn't fit the description we have of it. Without a voice, or something that just SCREAMS Jonny/Guy/Will, I don't buy this for a second.

I'm going to be obnoxious and express my utter glee that today's video on the Hypnofeed via Phil himself is The Strokes' "Under Cover of Darkness" :wacky: :dance: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l09H-3zzgA&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness[/ame] I'm just as obsessed with The Strokes as I am with Coldplay, and this is an absolutely brilliant video, so this was lovely to see, thanks to Anna pointing it out to me! :D

As was said above, I think that's just how they are a lot of times, especially in the later years. Julian was actually more animated there than he has been in a long time, if you ask me. I think nerves play a big factor, especially for Julian. Nick looked particularly weird to me in that performance, like in some sort of weird trance, but hey, people have bad days. Maybe his creepy beardy thing is affecting his mood. There aren't really any good things to read on them that are "about" them. There was one unofficial biography written on them, coincidentally written by the same guy who wrote an unofficial Coldplay biography, but it's out of print, and unofficial biographies are always iffy anyway. I'd say start of with the Wikipedias for the band and the members if you just want to know about them, but fangirls edit them a lot and write ridiculous things. And even though I have a love/hate relationship with the music press, articles and interviews are pretty much the best way to learn about them, I hate to say. If you go here, there's a great collection of some of the old ones. It's certainly not all of them, but it's most of the big ones that have been written about them. This one is my favorite. This one is also one of my favorites, even though I think it's very exaggerated...I mostly like it because it's funny. There are great video interviews on YouTube if you poke around. However, if you've never seen it, you really, really need to see [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gHx7UPasg]In Transit.[/ame] That's just a link to the first part of four, but the other parts should be on the side. It's a 40-minute tour diary thing they made themselves in June 2001 during their first UK/European tour, and it's infamous and highly quoted in the Strokes fandom. Now that that they're older and more sober and all sorts of things, they're not exactly that goofy and insane anymore, but it's a cool way to see where they come from etc.

It looks to me more like he got kicked in the pants :lol:

My only other concern about potential "spectacle" shows are ticket pricing...Coldplay gigs aren't cheap to begin with simply because of their name. A show with more gimmicks than usual would almost definitely amp up ticket prices all over the globe. Touring is really the only way anyone makes a profit on music anymore anyway, so the merchants and labels will use any excuse, like lots of production, to charge more.

As you say, they're most certainly allowed to do whatever they want. I guess my worry is that I'm not a big fan of "spectacle" shows, no matter how much I like the artist, like U2. Coldplay are big enough to get away with doing one, but they're also quality enough not to have to employ such things, either. Like Mich said above, the Crisis shows were absolutely stunning, I think in large part due to the fact that it was them and a stage, nothing more. It was looser to me, more intimate and friendly (OK, yes, it was a tiny venue, but I think that can be achieved in larger places as well), and I think they sounded better than I've ever seen them. Whether you can chalk that up to all of the things that surround them on their usual tours in the past few years or not, no one can say, but I think simplicity is underrated sometimes, especially by people that are on the up and up in terms of popularity. I think a lot of people that get more and more famous feel like they have to pull out all the stops to impress, when really I think minimalism can have the same, if not more impact. That's just my style, though. All of that said, who knows what any of this is ultimately going to look like at all. If it's just a regular show with one or two firework fountains, I'm not going to bang on about gimmicks. But the circular stage a la U2/Muse is what's got me a bit worried, for lack of a better word.

Wow, that sounds way more encouraging than I thought the next blog would be! Is it just me, or does that sound like MAYBE things are rolling along smoother and coming down the chute faster than we think? I'm a staunch precautionist when it comes to this stuff, and I'm still pretty utterly convinced that we're not going to see anything til autumn, but...if they're already in intense live planning stages..."for festivals and beyond"...that makes me wonder. Especially since festivals don't really have that much leeway for stage sets, usually. That circular thing probably won't be possible for this summer, but maybe fall/winter? I do agree here, though. I did cringe at the idea of them pulling out all the stops for dramatics. VIVA was enough gimmicks for me for a live show, and that was pretty minimalist compared to what some artists do these days (like U2, as much as I love them). Ideally I just kind of want them playing their music in street clothes with a few lights (and the old laser for "Clocks" and the butterflies for LIJ :wacky:) and a few different backdrops, nothing more. This sounds like it has the potential to get Lady Gaga-esque :\

I'm exaggerating a bit--I will be sneaking in things like granola bars, and before going to the stage once the gates open, I will make sure my friend and I stock up on multiple bottles of water to keep in our bags to keep us going all day. I'm more worried about bathrooms, haha. And like, being uncomfortable, since I'm really not a hot-weather person, but I can put up with that. But thank you for your concern :). I know I'm going to be both smart and determined. I'm more worried about the intensity of the crowd swallowing me because I'm a little person. As bad as the reports have been, though, I know I'm not going to give up easy, though. I will cut a bitch if need be :P It's interesting to note how nuts the crowds have been, though. It's like Beatlemania or something. When I saw them earlier than this era, the crowds were very normal. Now it's legitimately dangerous. I think their hiatus and return has made them a bit more...mythic or something to people, and they're ready to claw out eyes to see them.