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Hey! I also speak Spanish... and I didn't listen it was the soundman... As I told you before, maybe I missed something... The thing is, it was a last minute decision and they had the rights because they had been saying it several times.

Maybe you're right... Anyway, it's Spain... these things sometimes happen here... Spain is different... :confused:

I was listening Radio 3 and I didn't listen that it was Coldplay's technician, they just said that in the last minutes they have been told that neither Radio 3 nor Eitb.com would be able to broadcast the show... They didn't know for sure what was happening but it was clear that they had the rights... so they were upset... This is really weird... They have been announcing repeatedly on the radio and the website...

So what? When there are lots of people moving around, by car, etc... there are traffic accidents. And this happens everywhere in the world. Once again, this has nothing to do with the excitement of the people. And the figures that you pointed out are fake.

Te contesto en castellano porque así lo haré más rápido que si lo hago en inglés. Luego si me apetece lo traduzco. Pones una noticia sobre Sant Jordi (noche con multitud de fiestas populares y por tanto movimiento de tráfico) en la que además se dice que hubo solo una persona muerta y una reducción del 40% en accidentes de tráfico respecto al año pasado. Anteriormente habías dicho que murieron 7 personas la noche de la Champions League... Igual esa noche murieron 7 personas en Barcelona por causas naturales, incluso más... Por la celebración NO. Y luego que durante el mes 30 personas murieron por celebraciones. A ver si me sacas otro link que te "demuestre" eso. Me apuesto lo que sea a que no lo encuentras. Relacionar que en Barcelona/Cataluña si la gente está emocionada o celebra algo hay muertes es delirante.

Really, I don't understand you most of the times... :stunned: What you are saying is absolutely FALSE.

Oh, please... politics here NOOOOO!!!

You're right. They played this song.

I a més jo era a la pista, així que nosaltres quan haviem de fer la onada??? :laugh3:

That "La Vanguardia" last review that someone has posted is made by a reader, not a journalist, and it's only on the online version of the newspaper, not the paper version. So it's the same as if I did a review and sent it to the newspaper. I wouldn't give it more importance because it's the same we are doing here in the forum.

I agree with you in some things, but not on the whole. About the crowd, it's true that there were people talking and not very involved with the show. But this is the kind of things that happen when you become a band of huge success: there are the fans that know every song and sing them, but also the kind of people that know them for one or two songs (Viva la vida, Yellow) and the rest of the concert remain passive or worse, chatting. Here in Barcelona this has become more obvious with the FC Barcelona thing: at the stadium they played Viva la Vida before every match. It has become a anthem for the succesful season of the team, and recognised everywhere. Result: a lot of people at the concert wearing the Barça t-shirt and they maybe only knew this song. Even at the TV3 news this afternoon, the jornalist that made the report of the show said that some people were disappointed because there was no mention to FC Barcelona and the band didn't wear the Barça T-shirts. VENGA YA!!! COME ON! I must admit that I thought they'd do some mention to it, but I was happy that they didn't. In this country it seems that football has to be the center of everything. The mobile wave in the end worked very well, I think. At the beginning it was a problem because Chris said "starting from the left"... but the left of what? He must have said "starting from the left of the stage". But after 2-3 attemps it was pretty good. About the reviews. I've read some newspapers and all of them are very positive, only with the drawback of the sound at the beginning.

Yesterday the played at the Olympic stadium, and U2 played at the Camp Nou (FC Barcelona stadium). The second one is bigger than the Olympic, 100000 people versus 65000 more or less. The Olympic is used frequently for big gigs: Madonna last July, AC/DC last June, etc... Camp Nou was the venue last June for the 2 first shows of U2 tour, and Bruce Springsteen played also twice on summer 2008.

That weird song after Green Eyes seems to be "Ode to Montreal". Chris also played Erik Satie's Gnossienne n° 1, on the main stage, at the end of Politik.

Yes. Near us there was a big crane with a camera moving above us and filming the stage and the crowd.

For me the sound was correct almost all the time, but it's true that in other parts of the stadium it wasn't, I heard people saying that when we were leaving it. The setlist would be a loong discussion. 24 songs may sound fine but you shouldn't count as "normal" songs: God put a smile, Talk, that weird one, The escapist... And another ones are pretty short: Postcards, Death will never conquer ... I think they already have enough material for a concert of 2:15 - 2:30. But don't misunderstand me! I'm pretty happy with the show tonight!