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Really? That is totally cool. I love that clocks riff...I heard an accoustic version of them playing it...from thenI tried to learn it by ear and every so often I try to play it on the guitar...its fast though! I love it. He was playing green eyes too...cool! Electric or accoustic? I thought Chris played that part.

Good luck, all of you! Fun, fun!

Well, you guys said you thought Jonny should have been playing Green Eyes on Tuesday night... so he decided to join in

:laugh3: I really wanted to win those soundcheck passes. Oh well, you can't win them all. Sounded really cool.

Really great pics! It was great to see all the shots and kind of relive the moment again. I love the butterflies...nice shot of Chris and the butterflies. You got a lot of really nice ones of the band. Their is one of Will that is especially nice. What kind of camera did you have. It looked like you were able to get in close. My little one got busted recently and am looking to replace it and get one for concerts and such. I loved that Chris's guitar said Danza! I noticed that during the concert!

They are! :) But, I guess not everyone can be like them!

I think they would play Alpine Valley again. I just think just picked a handful of cities in the US to start with. Yah, I liked Alpine Valley last year...but I had pit tickets...which really were awesome...we got lucky cause the pit was so small...but the speakers were almost in back of us, so you had to sacrifice sound for being really upclose. I am sure the people in back of us in the seats had good sound quality.

It is annoying when people aren't watching the show or talking. That happened on their last X&Y tour in Chicago. I was seated next to some of them. Luckily not this time. I am so glad that the people around me were fans & they were into the songs even in the 300 section. Yah, I wish they could play smaller venues, but I think it is United Center from now on. I thought from where i was sitting it sounded good though. The show started of kind of rough- sound system wise, but got better pretty quickly, or I didn't notice it anymore. I didn't go either. I really wanted to after the really good show on Tuesday. I was just wondering how it was compared to Tuesday. I really thought Tuesday was great though!

I've never seen Coldplay after a show. I have tried many times...but the closest was probably when they played here at the UIC pavilion which was smaller than the United Center. But, we left before some of them finally came out. But, now that they are playing big arenas, it is really hard to stand outside by their buses and stuff. For most of the shows, they speed off like the people above say. I guess before the show you may have more luck. The only other way would be if you randomly saw them on the street, because you were in the area. I would like to meet the rest of the Coldplay members and Chris again, but it just seems since they have gotten so big that they don't do anything special, like some other bands do to meet fans that wait after the show. That is my experience though.

I'd be shocked :o...I'm sorry...maybe a bit disalusioned too... I'm not used to that kind of joke... he was definately excited...did you go to both concerts?

I wasn't sure if I heard what I thought on Tuesday...but I guess you heard it too. I was like, what? When I heard it, I thought I might have heard it wrong. Chris telling someone to fuck off? I guess I wasn't dreaming...I was kind of confused at why he would say something like that. He was swearing a bit that night.

Oh, how I wish I worked downtown! But, I have to be 30 minutes away! If I worked downtown I could eat out and walk down Michigan for lunch. Oh well! I wonder if he was looking for Virgin records that is no longer there. Sad for that! Actually I was wondering if he'd be looking for some old record shops.

They were not very strict with checking my purse. I put a small camera in there. I think they were checking for major things. All I did was open it, he glanced in and that was it. I was wondering about that too. How to bring in an SLR. But, I was way in back this time and wouldn't have gotten any good upclose pictures of the band with the lens that I have. But, maybe if you have a bigger bag, you could pull it off. I would be too worried if they found it. I supose they wouldn't take it away. But, those cameras are much more expensive so I don't know if I would take the chance, unless I found out someone else was able to already. I don't know if they see you in the audience with a camera like that if they would care or not. I supose you could always try. :)

Maybe I will have to write another one. :)

Would have loved to hear trouble or some other songs from this album, but like Mimi said, this tour is to support the new album so you expect a lot of songs from it. But, a couple songs from the parachute album wouldn't hurt.

Butt squeeze? I did not see that! :) Hahaha! They will be here in Chicago for a while! Cool! I wonder where Chris will get his hair cut? Chris go to Big Hair on Roscoe for a cheap cut or Twisted Scissors on Armitage! He mentioned he needed to cut his fringe.

The butterflies were a pretty site...yah they looked cool with the backlights too! I grabbed some off the floor after the concert in the hallways since I was in the upper level seats and they didn't fall on me.

I agree...maybe they will play it in London the next time they are there :) I love this song too...

When I first saw them perform Viva La Vida...I thought that they should have a full orchestra or at least a set of strings for their MTV performance at least. It would have been more impressive. But, almost all of the tv performances that I have seen have been with their backing track. I was kind of dissapointed with that at the beginning. But, I am kind of used to it. It sounded great yesterday and I have been to other concerts of theirs too. I wouldn't say that the X&Y tour was any better though. I bought the 300 tickets on purpose though at around 60 per ticket with all of the ticketmaster charges. I thought that was kind of steep already, but wasn't willing to pay over 100 if I wasn't going to see them pretty upclose. So I did what I could. It is expensive...but I don't think any amount of effects would justify pricey tickets. I didn't know that they played Green Eyes already. Well, I am glad that they did it on this tour at least. They didn't play it on the X&Y tour, at least the shows I went to. We were wondering why only one song encore...but what can you do. Like I said, I wouldn't mind if they played longer...but all in all, I still thought it was an awesome show. My question...do the band members play the violin parts on the actual record or did they hire someone else to do that? Who plays?

Thanks Mimi! I am sure your concert will rock in Liverpool! I can't wait to see all the videos and pictures people have taken. Alas I can't see them right now...I will have to wait until I get home.

The show was AWESOME!!! Even with seats at the 300 level I had a great time. I brought my binoculars so I could experience the whole stadium and effects and then look through my binoculars at times to see what the band was doing. I am so glad they mixed it up so much with songs from many of their different albums and some accoustic stuff and some very danceable stuff. Even though I was in the 300s, the people behind me stood up for most of the concert. So, that was cool. At least the people around me were into it. All the Viva la Vida songs that were played sounded great and Chris's voice was spot on yesterday. In comparison to some of the performances on tv...he made all the notes- I was so happy for him! And you could hear that he made them, because the microphone sounded like it was right next to him. You could hear voice very clearly in a lot of the songs. They played In my place....which I love!!! and he and everyone else got into it. Yeaahhhhh....how long can you wait for it....yeah.... The effects were really cool...lasers, the balls, butterflies and them rocking on the catwalks. We had tickets in the 300 level so you could see all the people and the stage was directly across from us. This was great. I felt like I experienced the show as a whole and I was able to see all of the guys. Usually when you are too close to the stage, you end up only getting to see one or two of the band members. This time I was able to see all of them as a whole group, a whole band. I am glad that there were many times where the band got closer to other parts of the audience. It is cool that they are making this effort. And I think they are really doing it for the benefit of all the fans. This time around I was not able to pay for closer tickets, but that they make an effort to sing closer to all the people in the arena makes me happy. Since they can't or don't play in smaller venues anymore, this is a nice touch that they are doing. It also brings more variety to the show itself which is nice. All in all it was a great show. I was happy with everything that they played. I didn't read any other shows setlists or reviews as to be satisfied with what I got. I felt like they played a variety of stuff and was happy when they kept playing more and more songs. I wasn't sure how long they were going to play for. Btw...Chris, if you see this you can play a two-three hour show if you want to. :) He mentioned something about playing 1 1/2hours... I don't ever mind more :) ...althought it did feel substantial. I saw the sign that the coldplayers made....with my binoculars...and I thought to myself...hmmm I wonder it that was made by anyone here. It was! That is pretty cool! You know Chris is Jonny's self esteem booster! Kind of cute. That was so awesome that they taped "Lost!" I love that song. It sounded so great in concert! I was dancing, waving, singing and clapping throughout both times that they played it. For some reasone I was thinking they were going to tape Yellow when they mentioned the taping...but I guess that was just to pump us up. I thought it was cool when Chris said that we all did a great job...more than he expected. Hopefully they will use that video. On one last note... do they usually play Green Eyes or an encore? I would like to thank Coldplay, especially Chris and Will, if they ever read this. It may just be a total coincidence...but they played Green Eyes for an encore and I asked the oracle to play that song instead of Fix You yesterday. I have no idea if they read those things...but if they do... You made my day yesterday. Again it is probably a total coincidence...but Thank You. Chris and Will's vocal harmonies on that song were awesome...really sounded great in one part. That is also cool that Will plays piano. And I love that song, because it is so acoustic and Chris sings it from the heart. It also reminded me of the time that they sang at the UIC pavillion. I hadn't gotten the AROBTH album yet, but heard that song in concert and loved it...it felt personal...Chris was very chatty back then... I yelled Thank You throughout the song...but I don't know if they heard me...I was all the way in the 300s. Chris also mentioned Kanye West in his lyrics and that was weird and probably coincidental again...because I also asked for Chris to sing with Kanye West.... Weird... Anyways, thanks Coldplay for the great concert. Can't wait to see you guys again...hopefully in the near future. Come back to Chicago or its surroundings...it is always welcome to you! Too bad the band has gotten so popular that I haven't gotten to meet all of them yet. Hopefully one day I can. :)

Today's the day!!! Now I just have to get through the workday today! :)

I thought they actually all looked pretty in shape in comparison to other times... That makes sense that they probably put on weight before...because they all look relatively slim

Cool!

Yah I don't know what happened... I do feel like the for the VLV song...I can't tell who is doing what...instrumental wise for live shows or what they contribute to the song...it's nice that they have a backing track, but then you don't know what they are really performing On another note, Chris looked like he had an overdose of sugar before the performance :D haha...he was very peppy yesterday