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Haha, I had to stop lurking to say... :o Jonny has gone bird crazy :wacky: I love it :D!! That man gets more amazing each day :D :D!!

Thanks for the MP3 :D!!

Angie, thanks for taking those Snow Patrol vids, shame the crowd wasn't in to it more really!! :sad:

Glad all you guys had fun!! Looks like a great Coldplayer lucky concert!! :D Great video :laugh4: :D :dance: :D!!

Isle of Wight. White Lies are from London and playing Wembley, so makes sense I think that they'll have a northern band. There are a plethora of northern acts available on the day. Elbow, Kid British, Take That (:lol: *dreams*), who knows!

Providing they can get to Bestival the next day I'd hazard a guess it might be Elbow :thinking:.

Yay, thanks for contacting the publishers :D!! Can't wait for this to drop :D!

Hmm he does seem to talk to a lot of Glasto related people on twitter, etc :thinking:. Would be awesome if its true.

Aww, svenky, that photo is so nice :D :nice:.

:stunned: A year already! Yay, thanks for everything Viva :D :D!!

Too slow :P.

Too slow :P.

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=418 Roadie #42 - Blog #85 June 7, 2009 10:42 am #42 and the gangs in the vans... Sometimes, completely out the blue, you get a blindingly bright view of your life from another perspective. We're approaching the Indianapolis show when, beside us on the freeway, we see a converted old school bus, with guitar cases, amps, drum carpet and so on piled up in the window. It's a band on their way to a gig. We too, are in a van, we are also on our way to a gig. The similarities don't end there though. In our van is Franksy, Dan Green, show designer Paul Normandale and I. Every one of us started our touring careers crammed into a bashed up van full of gear with the band, driving to some smelly, sticky dive in the middle of nowhere wondering whether anyone would show up. I remember coming home from a gig in Plymouth, aged 17, with a band very dear to my heart, (who sadly got passed over by the industry at the time). The van was so heavily packed and so wheezingly broken, that anything more than a slight incline meant everyone but the driver had to get out and walk. On particularly steep hills, we would have to push. Quite frankly, that all added to the fun. Being "part of it", being that close to the music, "living it" - it was all I could have wished for at the time. The band in the van next to ours (I am so utterly gutted that I didn't write down their MySpace page from the back of the van, otherwise I'd have linked 'em up here) wave back as we all smile out of the window giving them the thumbs up. Somehow, the inhabitants of the "our-previous-selves" van realise just who our convoy of vehicles may contain. Presumably, they can't find a piece of paper, because instead they scrawl in black marker pen on a white drum head. They hold up the make-shift sign that says "Coldplay?" and we point to the vans ahead and nod, smiling. They're laughing and high-fiving each other - enjoying the story they've just bagged that nobody will believe. I wonder what they imagine life is like for us. I try to remember what I would have imagined when I was pushing that brown Ford Transit up a hill coming out of Plymouth. In many ways it's what I expected, but in many ways, little has changed since the van. Massive amounts of world travel, aeroplanes, huge venues, loads of trucks and the many other tokens of "Big Touring" are all present and correct. The things that stay the same though, are the fact that you're in a gang. You're out there taking on the world yet at the same time, the most crucial thing is making the perfect joke at the expense of your mate. That side of things begins in the van days and never goes away. I'm stood in the corridor where the band grab a drink and a towel before the encores and I realise that despite all else that surrounds the hugeness of the Coldplay circus, they're still the same four mates who started it all those years ago. As the Viva remix pounds through the walls, they dry the sweat and talk of who came into which chorus too early or who hit the wrong note when. Admittedly, when the show is over they leave by police escort in a screeching cavalcade of flashing lights, rather than pushing a transit van. Inside the van though, not that much has changed. R#42 ---- Quite possibly the best Roadie #42 blog I have ever read :D :D!!

http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=418 Roadie #42 - Blog #85 June 7, 2009 10:42 am #42 and the gangs in the vans... Sometimes, completely out the blue, you get a blindingly bright view of your life from another perspective. We're approaching the Indianapolis show when, beside us on the freeway, we see a converted old school bus, with guitar cases, amps, drum carpet and so on piled up in the window. It's a band on their way to a gig. We too, are in a van, we are also on our way to a gig. The similarities don't end there though. In our van is Franksy, Dan Green, show designer Paul Normandale and I. Every one of us started our touring careers crammed into a bashed up van full of gear with the band, driving to some smelly, sticky dive in the middle of nowhere wondering whether anyone would show up. I remember coming home from a gig in Plymouth, aged 17, with a band very dear to my heart, (who sadly got passed over by the industry at the time). The van was so heavily packed and so wheezingly broken, that anything more than a slight incline meant everyone but the driver had to get out and walk. On particularly steep hills, we would have to push. Quite frankly, that all added to the fun. Being "part of it", being that close to the music, "living it" - it was all I could have wished for at the time. The band in the van next to ours (I am so utterly gutted that I didn't write down their MySpace page from the back of the van, otherwise I'd have linked 'em up here) wave back as we all smile out of the window giving them the thumbs up. Somehow, the inhabitants of the "our-previous-selves" van realise just who our convoy of vehicles may contain. Presumably, they can't find a piece of paper, because instead they scrawl in black marker pen on a white drum head. They hold up the make-shift sign that says "Coldplay?" and we point to the vans ahead and nod, smiling. They're laughing and high-fiving each other - enjoying the story they've just bagged that nobody will believe. I wonder what they imagine life is like for us. I try to remember what I would have imagined when I was pushing that brown Ford Transit up a hill coming out of Plymouth. In many ways it's what I expected, but in many ways, little has changed since the van. Massive amounts of world travel, aeroplanes, huge venues, loads of trucks and the many other tokens of "Big Touring" are all present and correct. The things that stay the same though, are the fact that you're in a gang. You're out there taking on the world yet at the same time, the most crucial thing is making the perfect joke at the expense of your mate. That side of things begins in the van days and never goes away. I'm stood in the corridor where the band grab a drink and a towel before the encores and I realise that despite all else that surrounds the hugeness of the Coldplay circus, they're still the same four mates who started it all those years ago. As the Viva remix pounds through the walls, they dry the sweat and talk of who came into which chorus too early or who hit the wrong note when. Admittedly, when the show is over they leave by police escort in a screeching cavalcade of flashing lights, rather than pushing a transit van. Inside the van though, not that much has changed. R#42 ---- Quite possibly the best Roadie #42 blog I have ever read :D :D!!

All 100% Jonny, that is DEFINITELY not a bad thing ;) :D :D!!

Haha, you are always there to inform me Lori :D :hug:!! I am loving your videos still :dead: Jonny playing guitar is just :bomb:. Well Kelly when you next see this, a deserved kudos to you!! :D Love 'em!

Sorry I don't know who you are kspillers2 :thinking: :bomb:, but, gotta say, you have some amazing photos :stunned: :wacky:. They are so so beautiful!!

Yes I do understand, but I doubt Coldplay are ones to do that. They have a lot, A LOT of people around them who are talented musicians and producers, they do have a reputation to uphold after all :D! They are talking about releasing it in a new way, and we know they dabble in the painting, could be a point where they infuse all their creativity in one bundle of frickin' epicness :lol:.

:o Well this is news to me!! :confused: :bomb: Nicely summed up :D Exactly on the point. As a guy, you know, I can see that the boys are good looking :laugh4:, but like, its a bit crazy to focus on that as their main point rather than the music and who they are as people. To be honest when there is no news I'd rather see a thread about "Chris and his funny quotes" or something get lots of attention rather than just monotonous pic posting.

Sounds like great news, maybe a cool double album in the future :wacko:. Their new wild side and a stripped down one to boot!! I think the Prospekt idea could really work, Prospekt's March may just be the intro to a whole new Coldplay :o.

Liz, Lori, Angie, and everyone else, great stories and pictures :dance: :dance:. Unbelievable :dead: :drunk:. Seems like it was a really good, Coldplayer infused concert :D :D!

Looori :hug: :kiss:. Yay!! I'm so glad you had an awesome time, just reading about it in the other thread now :dance:. Those videos are :dead:, I love the In My Place one :drunk:. And those pictures are just :wacko: :escaping:. Can't wait for a few days til your next concert :dance: :dance:.

*super-pervy-Coldplaying-fan-girl* We are gonna need evidence of that! :wink3: /:P Haha :P :laugh4:

There is something Ian is not telling you :shame:.