Ugh ... my head hurts. Anyway here's a little review and "some" pics I took. ;)
Well, my mother and I were at the stadium at 11.45. She already started to be kinda pissed, because there was literally no one at the gate. So we decided to take a little walk around the stadium. At the east entrance there were some security guys who gave us a map of all the entrances and then we figured out, that we had to go to the north entrance ... yay ... maybe we weren't to early after all. :D We passed the Swimming pool and I saw a sign that said "Coldplay - Showers ->" ... :stunned: ... so I thought if I wait here long enough I might actually see the band members?! *coldplayintowels*
Well, I didn't wait, we went to the North entrance and discovered that there were already some people waiting, so we just sat down and waited and waited and waited ... still 4 and half hours until they were going to let us in. Some people from Finland had obviously spent the night in front of the gate ... cosy.
We started to watch a movie on my iPod and then heard them rehearsing "LiT" and "Violet Hill" about 4 times. :laugh3: I guess somebody wasn't quite content yet ...
Then they were rehearsing "White Shadows" and "Chinese Sleep Chant" ... OMG ... I so hoped they were going to play "White Shadows"!!!
All of a sudden (at 3.30pm, still 1 hour until entry) the people stood up ... :inquisitive: ... didn't quite understand that, so I simply sat down again.
Then shortly after 4.30pm they finally let us in! I said to my mother: "Run! Run! Run!" ... Welll, she was a lot faster than me, but the security guys stopped all the running people in the stadium anyway. So I walked as a fast as I could towards the stage and suddenly fell down and hurt my ankle ... ouch ... I got up again and hobbled towards the stage and sat down like 1,5m in front of the barrier ... that was close enough for now. :D The stage was huge ... especially when you were sitting on the ground.
2 hours ... 2 more hours to wait. My mother took a pic of a guy who spent the time as efficient as possible.
I was wishing I could sleep ... no room though.
Some people just made me angry ... how stupid must one be to smoke in the middle of such a huge crowd! :( I hate cigarette smoke! There was this one woman who lit a cigarette right in front of me, although I just said that I hate that! Stupid cow ...
Still one hour until the Kilians were going to enter the stage ... a lot of people still weren't in the stadium ... it looked kinda empty,
(Viva Balloons!)
At 6.50pm the Kilians started their show ... so did the rain ... the woman who lit up her cigarette left the show when the rain started, she just didn't want to do that to herself ... again: STUPID COW! You paid for it! You don't know what you've missed!
The Kilians did a nice job and were really impressed by the stadium and thanked Coldplay many times for this chance ... well and the singer also said about a hundred times "We are the Kilians from Dinslaken!" Well, I GOT IT! :confused:
Little pause and then the White Lies entered the stage ...
... the rain got less and less ... but I was completely wet. ;) Why didn't I buy a cape???
The White Lies did an awesome job, too. Although their singer wasn't really chatty, maybe he was just a little shy?!
Well, now it was 8.20pm ... the stadium filled up pretty quickly.
The roadies started to prepare the stage ... it felt like it took ages. But look who kneeled down right in front of us:
Mr. Roadie #42. :D
The curtain finally fall. I got so excited. I noticed that the wind was blowing against the curtain and the roadies desperately tried to get it away from the stage ... Some twin-chics pushed their way through the crowd ... they got on my nerves the whole evening. How fake can one be? They were all dressed up and wore high heels to a rainy concert, perfect. :dozey: It was as if they wanted to say "Hi Chris, here we are, take us now" ... :inquisitive:
I was simply glad that I came this early, when the band entered the stage and started "LiT" that close to me!
The curtain fell down and buried the mics and the band. Chris seemed a little pissed, but I think Jonny smiled a little.
Well, they managed to free the stage from the curtain and the band rocked the stadium with "Violet Hill".
I screamed as loud as I could when the first notes of "Clocks" started ... how I love that song. :smug:
Chris said something like "Wow, the people in Hanover sing like angels!" Yeah sure ... you little charmer ...
"In my place" was absolutely awesome and I saw a little bit of that Chris&Jonny love. :kiss:
Chris jumping towards the audience is massive!
Right after "In my place" "Yellow" started and the yellow balloons fell on the audience.
Waahhh ... seeing the pictures makes me want to go back to that moment ...
"Glass of Water" was awesome as usual ... I sang along the whole song, although I noticed that a lot of the people around me didn't.
"Cemetries of London" and "42" followed ...
(That pic could be pure awesomeness, if it wasn't that blurry! :( )
The minute Chris finished "42" he just ran and left the stage. That confused me a little. I began to worry that he was feeling sick maybe ... but I saw Guy looking for Chris and smiling a little. He walked towards Jonny and both had a kind of "knowing" look on their face. :laugh3: I'd still like to know, what was going on.
Anyway Chris returned as if nothing had happened and "Fix you" began ... awesome as always with 40.000 people screaming along. My mother asked if the people at the Hamburg show last year knew the text that good as well. :confused: Of course! Every single Coldplay fan knows that song by heart!
The band went to the B-Stage to play the "GPASUF/Talk-Medley". It was kinda hard to see them from where I stood.
That's why I didn't see Chris playing "The hardest part" and "Postcards from far away". :cry:
When "Viva la Vida" began the crowd started to scream as loud as they could! I was singing along the whole song, so did the the people around me. I took some pics of Will on his drums, but all of them are blurry. :cry: :cry: "Lost!" followed ...
After "Lost!" the band went to the C-Stage. Jonny in front simply went down the runway beside me and Chris was kinda irritated because he seemed to think they'd have to leave the stage at the side, so he first called "J!" and when Jonny didn't hear him he threw his towel at him. :laugh3: But then he noticed, that Jonny was indeed on the right way and simply followed him. :laugh3: (Chris throwing a towel at Jonny's back. :laugh3: )
I couldn't see a single thing happening on the C-stage, they were simply too far away. But I was so lucky, that they played "Green eyes", one of my favourite songs. :) After that they played a little song, in which Chris seemed to improvise and he introduced Will and he started to sing "Death will never conquer". I saw him on the video wall ... so cute. :smug:
"Billie Jean" and the mobile phone wave followed. I remember Chirs saying "Now keep up your cell phones" and at first nobody reacted. My mother didn't understand until I told her what to do and finally everybody did the same.
Back on the main stage they played "Politik". I didn't take a single pic, I simply love that song too much. :P
"Lovers in Japan" was awesome, I noticed Chris had some difficulties with the high notes before, but this time it was perfect. But maybe I simply didn't hear enough of him singing. :laugh3:
(Don't ask me why this pic turned out that pink.)
Once the butterflies started to fly, I was completely distracted from the band and just tried to catch as many as possible.
After "Death and all his friends" they left the stage and returned in their colourful uniforms. :D
"The Scientist" almost mad me cry, as usual. I was very happy, that they played the full song and not some acoustic version at the end of the stadium like they did in Hamburg last year. Chris also apologized for the technical difficulties ... again. :inquisitive:
"LiT II" was the last song, of course I sang along as loud as I could, although the people beside me weren't as text-savvy as me. :laugh3:
After that the band left the stage pretty quickly and I started to feel kinda depressed, I could have stood there for another hour. :cry:
But all in all it was absolutely awesome.
My ankle still hurts a little and my knees look rather damaged ... but it was totally worth it. Now I'm going to pack my bags, the train to Munich leaves early in the morning. Can't wait for Saturday to come. :D