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"Insane is not politically correct. It is a derogatory term and as I'm sitting in a side tier - not high up might I add, but at the front, I take offence to this term as a personal insult." Thats a little pedantic isn't it? People say stuff is 'insane' all the time. Doesn't mean you actually mean it in its real context. Oh well. I'm new here so I don't want to upset anyone. Tbh this whole debate would be made irrelevant if we had been given the choice. Cos then the people who like sitting could get sitting, and the people who like standing could get standing. I think there has to be some reason why the UK shows are no standing, like some amazing new stage show or something. I can't think of anything else, unless anyone else can?

Well...... Hello, I'm a shiny new member. I thought I would weigh in over this whole no standing business, as it was what made me find these forums in the first place. I have to say, I think we are all perfectly justified in complaining about the 'no standing' issue. Firstly, there is the fact that almost no bands ever have 'no standing'. Why have Coldplay done it? And for anyone who says "If you are complaining, why are you going??" I would say that I went on, expecting to get standing, and found that there were no seatinng. As I wanted to see Coldplay more than I didn't want to see Coldplay, I grudgingly went for the cheaper seats, sadly. I really don't think you get the best gig experience with seating, with standing you feel much closer to the band, and you can jump around etc. Fine, with seating you can still stand up, but it just isn' the same. You don't have that feeling of being part of a mass of people all doing the same thing i.e. jumping/singing as one. Tbh if I had known it was only seating I would have considered not bothering.... Still, should be a good show anyway