LittleMissMessy

As far as I know, Hester wanted to make one :D Any suggestions? ;) Apart from the fact that it's his B-Day the day after ... :D I could make one, as I am now 'banner trained' given that we had so much 'success' in Munich ;) :p

I am pretty sure they will be recording Wembley as well ... :D And maybe ... just in case a live DVD is ever on the agenda ... they will probably mix stuff from different cities. Remember the Vancouver filming. This whole tour is way too massive to just record/release footage of only one city so they probably put stuff from different locations on it ... if we ever get a live DVD at all ;)

I am going on my own as well :\ Haven't made up my mind when to queue yet. Need to collect my ticket from the box office though ... Who elso will be there queueing? Anyone would be willing to hold a space for me in case I need to go away to collect my ticket? Haven't figured out when the box office opens .... :(

60,000 people on each day or are they counted together, so 30,000 people each!? :confused: Either way, it will be massive :D Can't wait but am also a bit scared that things don't run smoothly ... I am always soooo worried before concerts ... :(

I will be there as well :) Can't wait to meet Hester for the very first time .... SQUUEEEEEE! :D

Thalia is the Queen of arts on here!! I am always amazed what ideas she comes up with. :stunned: I just love the sig myself ... so very classic!! :thumbsup:

I guess we were standing right in front of one of those in Munich ... ;)

No problem :) I am a 'visual' person myself, I'd like to have pics to look at which remind me of the show or which I can say about that I took them. Gives a total different meaning to it when you look at your very own pictures instead of someone else's concert pics. And if I concentrate on taking photos in Nijmegen, I will still have 4 more shows where I can enjoy the music and the show as a whole ... :)

If anyone was able to pull any strings for me that I end up first row, I would promise to forget about the show but only concentrate on taking pics ;) I have some more shows to enjoy as a whole so I could 'waste' another one taking pics ;)

You're welcome :) I am sorry that I am one week late, but I simply didn't have time to get it all done earlier :(

Promised!!! :) If we get to first row in Nijmegen, I'll do my best to concentrate on Chris/Jonny :D

Just give them time :sneaky: On the other hand I don't think that they would actually listen to some fans' requests and change their setlist :laugh3: And as for Twitter ... I highly doubt that we ever hear from Guy again which is sad, but it was nice while it lasted :)

Thanks Dianne :) We did our best to get their attention :laugh3:

Thanks :D :sneaky: We just couldn't let him off with all this soft-soap people are giving him ;) Someone had to bring him back to reality and point out the important things in life :sneaky: :laugh3: Although I honestly doubt that it would make any difference but it was good for a laugh ;) Esp. because Miller took a pic of that banner as well :D Wondering whether it was 'discussed' afterwards in any way :laugh3: :thinking:

Did I forget something?!?!? :confused: I always tend to forget stuff or little (but important) details :(

My review/experiences Before I start to write, I have to apologise to anyone who's not really a fan of Guy :laugh3: as I have mostly only pics of him due to our spot in front of the stage ... plus the fact that I wanted to concentrate on him mainly as I hardly have pics of him (when being in London in February at the Warchild Concert, I mainly took pics of Chris, so I wanted to make up for that now ;) ) :D :cool: Also sorry for this long review, in case you make it through you deserve a gong ;) We arrived at the venue (Reitstadion Riem) at around 11.45 am on Saturday, August 29th 2009. The venue is the old Olympic Stadium for Show Jumping and is located in the middle of nowhere in Munich. We parked our car at a tiny parking lot some 1 km away from the location and made our way to the entrance. By the time we got there, only 5 more people were waiting there. 4 people who came all the way from Malta (don’t know whether they are on this forum as well) and another boy with crutches (poor him, we thought– as queueing up so early and ending up at the front when you can’t run don’t really match), more about him later. Anyway, at some point (I guess it must have been around 2 pm) they let us further in in front of the turnstalls to queue and the 3 of us took turnstalls next to each other to make sure that at least one of us will get in first. I was at some sort of ‘dead point’ at 3 pm as waiting started getting boring and me getting tired as well. Luckily the ‘conditions’ for queueing were excellent. At first it was a bit cloudy with more and more sunny spells and temperatues around 20°C (~ 68°F) which is not too hot and not too cold. The day before we had massive rain but on this Saturday, it stayed dry all day long – at least in Munich! At 4 pm they opened up the turnstalls and bodychecked people and searched their bags and stuff. Then there was another line of security people who were tearing off tickets and after that there was still a huge gap to run to get to the stage. The entrance was right next to the left side of the stage so while waiting we could actually look onto stage, so that ‘soundcheck’ people were referring to definitely didn’t come from CP themselves but was live recordings being played, as they started and finished abruptly. So we thought we ‘only’ had to run down the little way and would arrive to the left side of the stage already but little did we know. To get inside the ‘inncer circle’, we had to run a WHOLE ROUND around the middle barrier to enter the inner circle on the opposite side (Guys side), then run around one of the catwalks to get to the front of the stage. My lungs stopped working already a few hundred meters after I started running but luckily my two friends continued. Afterwards we were coughing for around 2 hours straight! And everyone around us did so too. And this is no joke!!! :stunned: The security people (well most of them) didn’t even tell people off running but some of them started cracking jokes on our expense. So when the guy with the crutches got in I heard someone yell in the distance ‘Run, Forrest, run’ which wasn’t nice but I guess I saw/heard him laughing when looking back and even more surprising, he ended up getting a pretty good spot I think, being 5th row centre or so. :) We got literally the last first row spots, located on the right side of the stage (where we wanted to be *evil grin*) and at first I thought that these spots were a bit shitty as it was at the bend to the right catwalk already but later, they turned out to be just excellent. :cool: :D Anyway, now the 3rd part of waiting started but time passed by pretty quickly. Another good thing was, that the stage was some kind of sunshield for us as the sun was behind it, so we didn’t need sunglasses nor did we get baked by it. The security guy in front of us was really nice as well and we’ve made a little smalltalk. He told us that the Kilians (first support band, they are from Germany but singing in English – check them out!) would be on at around 5.45 pm which we thought was probably only a misunderstanding, as they entered the stage at 6.40 pm in Hannover. But in the end he was right and they came on. Like some other people already mentioned, they were pretty good and honestly speaking, I liked them MUCH better than the White Lies & Howling Bells. They were kind of innocently charming, their music more catchy and the singer’s talking (even if it was in german – but hey the show WAS in Germany!) was nice and you could figure out easily, that they all felt chuffed to be given the chance to open up for Coldplay. Small gap for getting off the Kilians stuff and getting things set up for the Howling Bells which started their set at around 6.40 pm. Like some other people mentioned before, they were not my cup of tea as well. Kilians created a far better atmosphere even though they are not that popular in Germany themselves until now … Anyway, at around 7.20 pm roadies were starting to set up things for our boys and we saw Hoppy and a few others but shout outs were useless and we didn’t really expect anyone to give us a feedback anyway *lol* We got out our first banner out as we thought that maybe Phil was there as well (despite his B-Day) and the banner just read ‘Happy Birthday Phil’ and security guys as well as people behind us were a little irritated as they probably started to wonder, who Phil was … *lol* But there was no sight of Phil in front of the stage. The huge curtain was removed before the preshow music started. They probably didn’t want to risk the boys being buried under it again after the Hannover incident. I guess it wasn’t a technical problem in Hannover but all due to the wind, which pushed the curtain into the stage setting. When the first sounds of Blue Danube started, we got another banner out and we wanted to be ‘charming’ first before we showed our ‘criticism banner’ *lol* When Violet Hill was played, Chris & Guy started ‘scanning’ the audience/first row and Chris caught sight of our banner and you could see that he was narrowing his eyes trying to read what was written on it and once he figured it out, he was looking over to Guy, giving him a nod to look into our direction which he did and you could see he was reading it as well and shortly afterwards had a huge smile on his face … :) Our banner read: Please please play the best bassline … White Shadows! So don’t say we haven’t tried making them aware to change the setlist ;) Clocks and In My Place were absolutely amazing, esp. when the crowd sang along to IMY. Then Yellow was played and we even forgot to get our glowsticks out as I was way too busy taking pics ;) Funny thing was that the balloons were kind of driven back to the stage because of the wind. I only expected to be ‘hit’ by one while taking pictures but I wasn’t that lucky. When I realized that the played ‘GOW’ again instead of ‘SOS’, I was a bit disappointed as I think that the visuals on the big screens would fit much better to ‘SOS’. Ah well, you can’t have everything. Shortly before the guys were about to enter the B-Stage we got another banner out, which wasn’t that charming. Well, it wasn’t charming for Guy but it was for R#42 ‘cause we decided to do a bit of mocking with Guy for his Twitter absence. This banner read: Guy tweeting: Unreliable *wink* R#42’s blogs: PRICELESS! So when the guys were doing the last bits of SS, Guy already noticed the banner and he was raising his eyebrow and wrinkling his forehead but in a kind of irritated/fun way. He didn’t really look honestly pissed but more amused. So when the lights turned down he looked at the banner again and had a huge grin on his face. This guy KNOWS EXACTLY what’s going on. :laugh3: With all the tweets towards him to come back aso. :sneaky: He is such a show off *lol* Most of the times he smiled BIG TIME when the lights were off. He’s way too cool to do it in public. :D Well, he does, but on very rare occasions. Well, the biggest surprise though was Chris. This banner was entirely mocking with Guy and giving credits to Miller but when Chris was walking down to the B-stage he kind of walked slowly, looked down to the banner, read it, had a huge smile on his face and gave us thumbs up :thumbsup: and then he threw a guitar pick towards us which Iwona now has :cool: We looked at each other being completely overwhelmed as we never expected Chris to take notice of that banner and especially NOT getting any feedback because of it, mainly because it was aimed towards Guy & Miller only. But I reckon we got the thumbs up for the fact that R#42’s blogs are so brilliant and less because Guy stopped tweeting (which he probably doesn’t even know about). B-Stage was fun even though we didn’t see much, only the backside of the boys which can be charming in a way as well. When Chris fucked up the lyrics to ‘THP’ everyone started cheering as this shows that ‘the fuck up fairy’ is always present :laugh3: The most funny thing was that he fucked it up twice … and in the end simply changed one line to get into it again. These kind of ditches make concerts even more special IMO. :wink3: Then VLV was on and the choir was amazing though I’ve heard it better to be honest. Funny was also, when the ran down the left ramp/catwalk to get to the C-stage they played ‘Singing In The Rain’ (don’t know whether it was the Gene Kelly original or not) even though it wasn’t raining at all. Maybe they decided to play it so that people knew something was going on … ‘cause I got the feeling that many people didn’t really realize that the boys were sprinting to the other end of the arena in Hannover to enter the C-stage and the audience only realized it when the actually entered the small stage. So maybe they’ve added this little musical intro!? We didn’t see anything of the C-stage action unless looking at the magic balls above the main stage. It was funny when Chris kind of forced Will into singing ‘Billie Jean’ as well *lol* and he did an excellent job! So while the boys were performing at the C-stage, roadies were getting the butterfly cannons ready and we were really excited as we would be showered by butterflies at this show :) So when ‘LIJ’ was on we were indeed showered by butterflies and it was such a crazy and wonderful feeling standing here. One thing I noticed is that they didn’t have the metallic/plastic butterflies anymore. Maybe they have avoided them because they are not biodegradable as it was an outdoor show?! So don’t say that Coldplay aren’t concerned about the environment. We also spotted Miller shortly before the concert ended and we called out to him (still having our Twitter/blog banner ready) showing him the banner and he took a picture of it and had a huge grin on his face as well and he looked really chuffed. *lol* Okay, sorry for boring you with this long review even though it was more a story about our personal experience than a proper concert review … I have already posted a few pics some pages back so check out those as well :)

And they are all yellow .... ;) Probably can get more of them, they are sold in Germany in a DIY market (Bauhaus for those who are familiar with it) and come in various colours :D

Sorry once again :( Work is just killing me at the moment, hence hardly any time to go online :( But today is friday so hopefully I'll find the time to post my (long) review plus some more pics either today or during the weekend. :)

Haha ... not at all. No way you make me believe that you kept watching/spying on me :laugh3: You only had eyes for someone else, don't you!?? :P :wink3:

Damn! :cool: No chance to hide anything, eh?!? ;) :laugh3: But I just had to take advantage of the spot I was standing at ... hence mainly pics of Guy :sneaky: :heart:

Btw. just want to give you some notion, that I am still writing on my review. Sorry, I am slow :laugh3: Had to go back to work today and I was busy. Hopefully I'll finish my review soon, but one thing I know already. I can't keep things short :D A few more of my pics will follow as well, but it's mainly photos of Guy since we were standing on his side of the stage ;)

He doesn't shave anyway but usually trims it but it looked 'longer'/'fuller' so he didn't have a trim in a while ... ;) Not that he ends up looking like 'Ötzi The Icemen' when playing at Wembley :laugh3:

Ich tippe auch, dass Live-Shows vor 2011 völlig unrealistisch sind. Vermute sogar eher noch 2012 ... Weil ... die werden sich jetzt erstmal 'ne schöne fette Pause gönnen (wäre jedenfalls das beste, was sie tun könnten!) und dann steht ja vermutlich nächstes Jahr noch Südamerika an ... Danach ist dann sicherlich erstmal Family-Time angesagt und nebenbei vielleicht Studioarbeit. Neues Album, wenn wir wirklich Glück haben, Ende 2011! Und Tour daher wohl erst um 2012 rum ... Sehen wir's mal so, wenn die nächstes Jahr wieder kommen würden, dann würden sicherlich die 'Die Hards' hingehen, aber der durchschnittliche Konzertbesucher brauch' erstmal ein neues Album bzw. eine neue Show ... ;)

Not Coldplay CSI but just CSI ;) C stands not for Crime but for Coldplay already :laugh3: 'Coldplay Science Investigation' At which university can I study that?!? :D And btw. I'll add one pic which I have posted in the Munich thread already but it fits in here as well :) And I couldn't really figure it out but somehow it looked like as if his beard got a little bit 'fuller' :)

Following as well and might even update from Glasgow if people are interested? Need to buy some sort of SIM as well, so any tips/hints are welcome. Will arrive in Glasgow on Sept. 15th though :)