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Hello Folks: The name is Carley and, well, I'm posting this in the new members section which means that, obviously, I'M ANOTHER NEWBIE! :-D I live just outside of Los Angeles, and wished I would have joined this message board ages ago. Reading through all the posts, I've come to the conclusion that: you guys are entirely too cool! I've been a Coldplay fan since 2000: I was visiting my best friend in England *****during the week that Yellow first came out***** and was immediately in love. Bough the CD there, took it back home to the states and promptly wore it out . . . although now, Rush of Blood is now my favorite album. Aside from Coldplay, I'm a college student and work part time (well, they PAY me part time wages but tend to work me Full Time hours . . . go figure . . .) and spend money on travel. (<-- my hobby, albeit an expensive one.) Nice to meet you all! ~Carley~

Hello All: I am new to the Coldplaying forums (this is my first post. . . duh) and I wanted to tell everyone the *amazing* time I had Saturday night at the Coldplay concert here in Los Angeles. (actually, it was Hollywood, but whatever . . .) This is my SECOND time seeing the band. The first time was in January when they gave a free concert on Hollywood Blvd-- they only played five songs or so because it was for a tv show, but I remember being blown away. Well, mulitply that time A THOUSAND and that is what their Saturday show was like: THEY TORE IT UP! They played all the songs of Rush of Blood that I loved (Except Warning Sign!! Grrr. . .) of course they played the Parachutes favorites, (Martin had us sing most of Yellow and Trouble) and they performed a new one called 'Moses' that Chris Martin apologized for ahead of time: he said something along the lines of 'Sorry to do this to you all, but we have to play a new song from time to time, hope you don't mind.' Of course, Martin is already at the top of my list, but when he actually broke out into Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"? Oh Lord: Even the guys were swooning! Then again, it *was* Hollywood . . . ANYWAY The band was phenomenal. Chris was bouncing about the stage in his usual hyperactive manner: doing somersaults, jumping, clapping, skipping-- and he even made some *fantastic* jokes about R Kelly and Justin Timberlake! By the time they played the last song, Amsterdam, no one wanted to leave. We just stood there for-- Oh God, it must have been ten minutes, clapping and chanting and clapping and wishing that we could do it all over again. It was . . . magical, really.