Majson

Coldplay come on at 9, and leave just before 10.30 (this includes encore) So if you can get out quickly enough you can see the whole gig

never been t a gig in manchester, wont be there..bit if that bcfc is for bimringham city, manchester isn't a good place fo rus you know...4-1

Saw them live in ipswich this year, the day after the london bombings...they opened with everybody hurts. So moving. Also got so central rain :) A very very good band live, really puts on a great show and gives you value for your money, got over 2 hours of REM, and two opening acts. One of my fave cocnerts i've ever been too, certainly my fave stadium gig

it was another generic performance actually. As i've said in another thread, didnt hate it but didnt love it. Also don't hate coldplay as they are one of my fave bands but i'm finding the 2 concert experiences i have of them to be rather underwhelming when i hold them next to other bands i have seen. You can't really say he's trying to piss on your parade, if it's his opinion it's his opinion. You are clearly going to love anything coldplay do (how this is turning into a radiohead forum teehee) but others can find indiference with familiarity.

well was originally right at the very front of the gig, until illness really kicked me up the arse like it had been threatening to do for the past two days and i had to seek medical assistance for the 1st 20 minutes of coldplay, and thus lost my awesome view. Though the view i got when i rejoined was still good. Ashcroft impressed, have never much liked him (and still rather find bittersweet dull...but did get drugs dont work). How-ever, onto the main event.......what a crap setlist. I'm sorry to say it as i've now seen them twice and virtuallt identical setlists. How dissapointing. They are consistant in their sound true, apart from chris's messups it soudned good enough but i was underwhelmed by the setlist and indeed the length of their slot (not the the 1st time). They went off at 10.10.....they came on at 9.....70 minutes, before a 3 song encore. That was extremelly dissapointing. The setlist may have had 3 suprises the night before, but ring of fire was the only suprise this night (and that was due to a chris mistake). *shakes head* Maybe i'm destined to never enjoy a coldplay concert, well it' snot that i didnt enkoy it, i just didnt find it doing too much for me. I've seen REM (amongst others this year) and they blew me away. Coldplay have merely entertained me, which is a shame seeing as they are one of my fave bands.... On other news, spoke to a few people (but who was the silly canadian guy drinking beer....why queue early on if you're going to drink beer..tiolet breaks aplenty) and the balls thing was started by a friend and i. Wrote some lyrics on there, noticed on the 2nd one other people added to it, but never got to see what was added to it, security seemed to take them away, grrr

i like it, and i'm always right

pfft. he over-rates himself does that guy. hell he's given me loads of info,. He lies you see.......that or he loves me. berry ya ditzy thing you x i have about 6 people off here on my msn, only know who one of them is mind lol

^8 i like, but dunno who it is lol

one off...wow.....that aside from the manchester and birmingham ones too? :-p silly you jumping in...if you'd read the website you'd have noticed it said "tour dates"not "tour date". N.I.A in brum, capacity, 13,000! How cool will that be.... though i'm too skint to buy tickets just yet, damn it. I agree though, saw him at warwick earlier this year and it was amazing (plus i got warwick this bitch, yay)

:wink3: well my dear, the pleasure i'm sure is all yours

shaken...not stirred

well i like it to, i keep taking your cherry

i hear you roar everytime i make sweet passiontate love to you....or when i'm making a cake

i think i have but 3 coldplaying members on msn.....i dont talk much on it to be fair

berry you hunk of a man stud thing you

F and U @ reilly

i'm here reilly...what do you need of me?

decorum and sanity is something we lost at the last exit

dirty cow

you know what makes me laugh? when some straight people at uni tried to tell me they were homophobic Them: Gays should all be shot, it's wrong me: You watch porn? Them: Yeah, course i fucking do Me: Does it have woman on woman like most male fantasy land has? Them: Yeah, don't be stupid. course it does me: You know that means you can't be homophobic then because that's still gay them: No, just men lesbians are different me: uh huh, so basically you're afraid of males liking men. Maybe you should think why that might be, tempted perhaps? stupid fools.

no worries Aaron, no harm done :) there is a fundemental problem with the internet, and it's that you never can quite tell how people mean the things they say. Still, at the same time it was nice to see a debate that didnt centre around something juvanile. So yay to that. MC, i think some of the people big borther choose to represent society are indeed awful, but from a psychological point of view (and since it's part of my degree i tend to look at it soley from this angle) it's really quite fascinating to watch. right, live8 beckons, see you all tomorrow probably ha! Aaron, again, no worries. no harm done at all and it was nice to have an educated debate. And yes, i do accept your point about the gay community being just as varied as the hetrosexual community, but sadly i believe it'll take many years yet before it gets reckognised as this in the media/hetrosexual community.

the ending does tail off a little. compared to good will's ending (which pays back the build up a little better). Dead poets ending of course is top notch (alsmot up there wth scent of a woman)

ok, i vanish for a short while and a debate, how cool...let's be short and to the point. 1. yes I’m bisexual 2. yes I’ve been on the gay scene more times than I really like 3. you want to say I’m getting it wrong, fine, but in the process you slam me down with petty insults,(eg, calling me ignorant) that does not make you better does it? You're from Florida, now maybe things work a little differently over there than they do here, but I can only speak from the experience i have, and since you know more than reilly (clearly) then you cannot know more than me for we go around in similar circles right? Which means we must be equally knowledgeable and thus that argument cannot apply to either yourself or I. I've been to a few gay clubs in my home town (one of the bigger scenes in the UK as it happens) and what do I see when I go out? Mindless sheep who generally like the same music (kylie, Madonna, Britney, Christina, steps and sclub 7 to name but a few) ontop of that they dress in very similar fashions, it would seem the individuality is something they do not understand. Is this different in the US? They are also, for the most part, camp. Running around in cliques and generally having an attitude problem. It's those type of people I insult if they annoy me, you call it a stereotype, sadly the stereotype (at least in the UK) exists for a very good reason. I have a theory as to why it actually happens to be this way, which goes along the lines of safety. You see, heterosexual lifestyle is easy, you can tell if someone is a man or a women right off, but how can you tell if someone is gay or straight unless there are signs? Thus, out of this came the camp behaviour, it is a way for them to spot people who are like themselves. Another example of how it has to be a learnt behaviour is the fact it’s so similar, and also add to that the simple idea that if it was a natural gay behaviour/genetic trait then all gay men would have (and you are not camp, and no-ones ever called me camp or guessed I was gay/bi until I’ve told them) I know camp gay men and "straight acting" gay men (sadly I’ve only ever had the chance to meet but a handful of straight acting gay men, say 8-12 at the most, compared to over 100 camp men). You might be able to argue that I’ve met straight acting gay men and just not known, it's possible yes but I’m just trying to make a point here about how a stereotype exists for a reason (again, at least in this country). But you cannot say that “a lot of gay men are in the closet and living an artificial life” and believe it to be 100% absolute, it’s speculation. Yes I would say it’s true myself but you cannot work from it, or maybe that’s just the methods of my university talking here. I’m always told that although many things go unreported, you can only ever work from actual numbers, never assume no matter how right it may be. You think I’m ignorant, so be it. I know it to be a different story completely. I had a big problem with Birmingham Gay Pride just there other month aswell, why? Because out of all the people I know, only 8 were going for reasons that weren't "getting laid" "getting wrecked on alcohol" or "getting fucked off my face on drugs", let me ask you honestly, is that what you want to show the heterosexual world? You think that it goes anyway to changing the stereotype on the homosexual man? i don’t. I can understand and support why gay pride was set up all over the world, they were somewhat repressed (but try being black and believing that gays were repressed) Then you mention how “playing it straight“, the game show where a "metro sexual" man won the prize, and the gay man got nothing, shows stereotyping to be wrong. You're forgetting out the hundreds of stereotypes you see that are actual gay men. Graham Norton being one, big brother being another. The gay men it shows are always camp, and seeing as they're reality TV it's sad that they are the only members of gay society that are present are camp but the simple fact is, it also shows that the stereotype (although annoying) is also valid at the same time. If things are so very different in Florida, then I envy you for it must be a very nice place to be. But you are just as guilty of being ignorant as I am. You come right off the handle and say I’m ignorant and you’ll call out my bullshit, and then say that as a bi man I should know better, well shame on you. As you clearly know nothing about the UK scene can you really comment on life I know over here? And in which case, why should I know better if this is the life I know? I believe we live in a democracy, where “wars” are being fought for our “freedoms” and yet I’m supposed to think like you and support willy nilly a stereotype? I think not. I can only speak on what I’ve seen, which is why i said mostly (as I’m sure there has to be parts where what I’ve spoken about is a little different). You don’t like it, that’s fine, it is your prerogative after-all. I feel I’m grown up enough, if light hearted comments cannot be taken that way it’s not really my fault, but alas what can you do?

but you might not be :P

any reason for the face?