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Ok so at the moment, the official CD releases known so far are: EU, US and Canadian Promo's are: 2 UK versions and US version, right ?

I find The BLue Room one of the most curious releases. Not because it's super rare or anything, it's just that the prices that it gets sold for can go from like €5 to €36 in one week. It's really strange. One day a Blue Room EP gets 26 bids, and the other, there not a single bid and it gets relisted. It almost never gets sold for more than €40 though, and yet some days people seem to believe this is super duper rare. Strange if you ask me. The difficulty about The Blue Room really, is to find one in good condition. I've seen copies that were hardly recognisable, and most of the have a lot of damage. Same thing counts even more for the blue promo digipack.

Some are (think about the Christmas lights promo's for instance). I have to say, ever since AROBTTH, Lit ii has been the hardest vinyl to find (for me personally). This doesn't make it rare or anything, but it just means that you'll have to be a pit more patient. Oh and in case your interested, the average buying price of the vinyl is € 7, 22. edit: here's one; It's a bit overpriced but if you can't wait any longer, grab it. http://cgi.ebay.de/Coldplay-7-Single-Life-Technicolor-ii-Brian-Eno-/260824821649?pt=B%C3%BCcher_Unterhaltung_Music_CDs&hash=item3cba5eef91#ht_1723wt_905

It fits her more than it does Coldplay really.

I'm going to ask some US sellers if their ETIAW is the Capitol one, because I'd love to have it as well. It'll never be only Parlophone though. There will always be the Capitol ones and if EMI is in financial troubles, we can expect re-releases and limited edition all the way. Damn you EMI, you're the reason I had to buy 6 new boxes today to store my CD's in

I've got quite the CD collection and I keep them in these : Loads of cardsleeve go in these and you can stack the boxes. They will be kept in perfect condition this way

You bought the Lovers In Japan Dutch acetate? Could you please make scans of it ? I'm the owner of Coldplaydiscographyguide.com and I'd like to have a scan of this rather rare item. This way I can make my website a bit more complete ;)

Oh wow! I thought there would be a US Capitol as well, but ebayers often don't show the backside of the single so I don't always dare to take a guess. The Canadian one has made in canada on the back as usual. But also need to verify this. If there would be a capitol LP, that would be awesome !

To those of you that can't order or are too cheap to do so: soon my website will give away the Vinyl and CD in 1 package for free. To those who are interested, follow me on twitter (link in my sig). It's not a scam, I promise :P

The CD Single definately does. I don't know about the 7". Is there also a Capitol 7" or regular CD single?

OT I replied, sorry if it looked like I was ignoring you, I explained a bit in the PM

Could you scan the backside and cd for that for me? It'll be very helpful and I'd be forever grateful

opener: Don't panic. Always gets to me. And when I put Parachutes on, it just sets the right mood. And the 2 acoustic guitars coming together is better than any intro. closer: Death and all his friends for sure. Slowly fades away after the chant explosion.

The dutch one was sold for 22euros a couple of weeks ago. My heart still aches

Yeah so did I, but I kinda like the feel of a cardsleeve. + a cardsleeve stays relatively unharmed through the years, jewel cases scratch and break. If you really really want a jewel case, you can buy the US promo

Could you post a list fo the things you'll be putting online?

New Roadie 42 blog ! Roadie #42 - Blog #137 7 July 2011 1:15 pm #42 and the continuing European festival adventure There’s an urban myth that a frog can’t discern tiny changes in temperature - meaning that you can plop it in a pan of cold water and if you turn the heat up slowly enough it won’t realise it’s being boiled alive. Now, this is apparently untrue and obviously I don’t condone any kind of animal cruelty, but as an analogy, it’s quite apt. For most of the touring party, it feels like the final applause of the Glastonbury show marked the point at which the pan came off the hob and we were returned to our natural habitat. It’s not like we didn’t know there was stress in the air, just that most of us hadn’t realised quite how far from comfortable we’d travelled, as everything just kept ratcheting up a tiny bit at a time. I can’t even begin to imagine how it’s been for the band. On top of all that we’ve been dealing with, they’ve been finishing a record, mixing, sorting out track-listing, photos, videos, promo, last minute extra songs - all of this on top, plus the ever present knowledge that they’re big enough now that there’s plenty of cynical snipers who’d love to see them fail just - well, just *because*. Standing around nursing a beer after the Glastonbury show, someone asks me “so, do you get some time off now?”. “Oh yes” I reply. “Nothing now for at least…..” (Swig) “two days”. A month of total collapse would have been nice, but that’s not really how things work. Despite the schedule though, the relief of a major milestone passed is enough to see everyone in very good form as we head off for Gothenburg. The Gothenburg show itself is hugely relaxed. It's a compact festival in a lovely wooded spot. The smaller crowd after Glastonbury makes it feel a little like doing a show in someone’s back garden (although, in some ways, that’s exactly how Glastonbury could be described). The one standout memory of the Gothenberg show for me was the look of joy on Guy’s face throughout. I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen him look so much like he’s enjoying himself so much on stage for a long time. Funny, he never looks stressed…. Then, on to Poland. Somehow, Coldplay have never made a visit here before. Whether it’s that, or just the general up-for-it nature of the crowd I’m not sure, but it was a very raucous show out front. There were some pretty unpleasant looking crowd surges before the show proper started. It’s never nice seeing people looking uncomfortable, or even frightened when you look out from the stage. I’ve definitely never seen as many people passed over the barrier in one Coldplay set as that night. Having said all of that, once the show settled in, they were a gloriously bonkers bunch. Completely unexpected, as well. Generally, you know that when you get to Scotland, Italy or South America, they’re going to blow you away, but I genuinely don’t think anyone had any expectations at all here. Turning up and find such a massively enthusiastic audience is a real bonus. They’re noisy for every song, greeting even the new stuff like old favourites. Chris himself asks partway through the show “Why did we wait so long to come here?”. I have to agree. The Werchter festival is one we’ve done more than once before. Belgium, it must be said, is a pretty tiny country. This makes the size of the festival crowd here all the more striking. The lineup too, is mighty impressive. Not only are Elbow gracefully floating through the air as arrive, but there is also PJ Harvey and Portishead on the main stage today. Now PJ Harvey, I worked for very briefly just before Coldplay, but Portishead I’ve never seen live before at all. I wander up to the side of the stage to watch some of Polly’s set and I’m flanked by half of Elbow and a good showing from Portishead. It’s a total Brit invasion and it seems, a complete mutual fanclub. My only memory of the show itself was feeling rather uncomfortable feeling at hearing onstage soundman Chris Wood explaining that he was having to constantly reset his digital mixing desk. Amongst words you don’t really want to hear in your in-ear monitors just as the intro tape rolls, I’d rate quite highly Chris Wood saying “Get the screwdrivers out Connor”. We make it through with only minimal disruption, but I can’t help thinking how fortunate we are that this wasn’t going on amidst the tightly-wound Glastonbury changeover. I hitch a ride from Werchter to Arras on one of the crew buses. The shows are back to back, so it gives me a chance to be on site early the next day to do a bunch of tidying up in my rig that’s been somewhat overdue since first rehearsals. It starts to dawn on me though, that the crew are still hammering a pretty fierce schedule. Back to back festivals means finishing load out at 2 or 3 in the morning, then getting all the toys back out again a few hours later at 6 or 7am to be set up and fully checked before the festival opens to the punters. This means that most of the crew are pretty much frazzled to a crisp by now. Sleep has to be grabbed more than once a day in short bursts whenever the opportunity arises. I note that following Arras there’s a bus journey of 25 hours to get to Portugal. I predict some pretty broken folks staggering off the crew bus in London at the end of this leg… The Arras gig is set in a square, amongst some gorgeous, slightly worn old French architecture - very French revolution and VIVA… You also know you’re in France when you overhear someone in catering enthuse “check out the fresh fruit bar - it’s behind the baguette stand”. The gig itself comes with its own share of gremlins. In My Place gets derailed when Will throws himself so enthusiastically into it that his in-ear monitors become completely unplugged. The orchestra parts go off in one direction, as he bravely struggles to get things back on track, unknowingly taking a slightly different route… There’s all manner of other little brain-farts and fuck-ups along the way, making it an unexpected struggle to get through the set. As ever, the crowd carry them through and the band’s complete unwillingness to let things go south prevails. I was expecting a somewhat subdued and emotionally dark flight home, but the band are in high spirits, having wrestled the show into submission and come out resolutely on top Maybe we’re not quite off the stove just yet…

Haha ik tweemaal op Stubru. En ik was er maar 1 dag :P Live op de radio enal plots, vreemde dingen daar. Maar de interviewster was ook rost, tzal daar wel mee te maken gehad hebben. :laugh3:

I do believe they'll scrap every song from X&Y except Fix You. And Trouble was never the classic that Clocks was. I don't think they'll ever get away with scrapping The Scientist or Clocks (although I wouldn't mind if they'd scrap Yellow :P )

I think that at some point they really have to. They'll always want to play songs of their last album and play the classics. There are like 10 classics now. Some songs can't even be cut (Yellow, Clocks, The Scientist,...)

that's the problem with festivals. They don't play as long as they want to. I think in the future, stadium show will be 2 hours or more long, so that they can play more hits in combination with new songs.

Valt wel mee ! Mijn biologische klok is echt volledig om zeep :P

Only just woke up a few hours ago. I freaking loved it. I was front row, left side of the stage all the way to the right, so almost the center of the stage. Waited all day and it was totally worth the wait if you ask me. they blew everyone away from beginning to finish. They were having loads of fun and the crowd loved it as well. Festival shows are soooo much different from their regular arena shows. More energetic, less routine. It was a lot of fun.

Ja zou ik ook beter doen. Mijn boterhammekes maken. Tot morgen !

het zal toch vooral zitten en gewoon staan zijn denk ik. Maar echt waar, dat is nu mijn grootste vrees. Dat ik een paar uur voor het begint echt dringend ga moeten en dat ik daar weer niet ga kunnen genieten omdat ik zo dringend moet gaan.