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Absolutely brilliant! I love Lego Spencer & Barbara, so many great details there :laugh2:

I'm glad it got there. Great Swedish things, the dry sponge cloth and the Nobel prize :P Merry Christmas :santa2:

Easily - RHCP

Quadrophenia - The Who

Louis Armstrong - Zat You, Santa Claus :santa3:

Cold wind, so much snow and more coming tonight. -0,5 C

Merry Christmas everyone! :santa2:

One of my favourite Christmas songs :) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQU2ykEQqo]Louis Armstrong - Zat You, Santa Claus.wmv - YouTube[/ame]

Mando! You heard their new album? They went in a quite different direction with their first album in Swedish. I love this acoustic version, song starts at 3:00 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_UeyFqarnw]Mando Diao - Intervju + Snigelns Visa (Gomorron Sverige 2012) - YouTube[/ame]

Blocked in Sweden due to copyright infringement. Perhaps this works, don't wanna miss the awesomness: [ame= ] [/ame] And Boten Anna for you :dance:

^ oh god! yeah that's the effect I have on underwear :laugh2: you see flags? i can't with this new christmas theme :confused:

^ DotA!! :awesome: :laugh3: I think Lykke Li is quite well known. And First Aid Kid, Loney Dear and Peter Björn and John? Swedish House Mafia are still on tour by the way, didn't split up yet :P

Mando Diao

Candy - Robbie Williams

Eva

My dvd arrived today, no litho yet though. Haven't had a chance to watch it, but I will, I will...

What's that in the mail...? It's from my Secret Santa!! Look what I got from the lovely joana_abreu! Very nice bracelet and ear rings and the sweetest card. The ocean... I miss it and the sun so much on this cold rainy day, just what I needed. Thank you so much Joana (and yes, I too hope I Will receive that as my Christmas gift :wink3: :lol:) Oh, and look at the back of the envelope! Christmas lights lyrics :) And thank you Santa's helpers for organizing this!

I'm in, PM sent! :nice:

^ Oooh what threads might that be? Places I don't go apparently :lol: Thanks Tracie, wasn't sure!

Brief summary from: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/klick/article15336060.ab While Lady Gaga's been in Stockholm partying, Coldplay made a flying visit. They drove up from Copenhagen on Thursday and went straight to the airport after the show. The private plane took off at midnight, doesn't say where they went. Paris? Are pictures like these ok to post here?

Aww you should have been there! Maybe next tour, the Chili Peppers finally played in Finland, hopefully Coldplay will too.

From http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konsertrecensioner/coldplay-pa-stadion-stockholm COLDPLAY AT STADION, STOCKHOLM Thirty three thousand luminous wristbands flashing like neon coloured sprinkles over Stadion when Coldplay shoots off fireworks during "Hurts like heaven". An absolutely magnificent way to kick off a concert, impossible to protect yourself from. The fact that Coldplay works so amazingly well as an arena rock band isn't a given. They are strangely anonymous to be one of the world's biggest bands: four guys in jeans and random t-shirts with mediocre hairstyles. Not even Chris Martin is really very charismatic, even if he tries hard with his straddle-legged jumping across the stage. His singing is good but not exciting; his voice is strong, firm, pure, neat and a bit.. wholesome. Especially when it echoes compact and evenly thick over the arena. But this is also the key to Coldplay's success. Had they made worse songs, they'd be a third rank Snow Patrol, but with brilliantly talented weeping emo radiohits like "The Scientist", "Paradise" and "Clocks" the boy next door-look works perfectly and makes Coldplay sympathetic and easy to identify with. The roar from 33 000 when "Viva la vida" starts is magic. Chris Martin is running across the stage with his arms stretched out like a small arena rock airplane, pretends to stab himself with an imaginary dagger and finally collapses on the floor, twisting as in a satisfying perverted autoerotic sexual act while the crowd continues to sing the "ooh-ooh-ooh-"loop to him again and again. It's indescribably magnificent and delicously bombastic. Maybe you could grieve over the loss of the subtlety in the songs. The "Viva la vida" singalong could just as well be "Seven nation army", and the concert a football derby. And the extravagant scenography and show, so colourful it sometimes looks like a giant kids party (especially when the crowd is given balloons to play with) balance it, and it's understandable that Coldplay during most of the concert ??? like rock music's tank. The big gestures are necessary. And it is when the band tries to bate the intensity with a slower part, closely together at the end of the runway like a relaxed jamming-in-rehearsal-band, it gets most boring.

^ I'll try to translate quickly. My English tho... feel free to laugh and will you help me make it understandable? :D COLDPLAY IS A PURE PRIMORDIAL FORCE The quartet makes every song an encore. Never thought I'd use these two words in the same sentence. But Coldplay is pure primordial force. You can't defend yourself from this arena bang. The start is nothing but phenomenal. Like a runaway circus Coldplay turn up all controls they can find behind the huge Stadion stage. Everything's happening. Fireworks salsa dancing across the ceiling, the crowd neon glittering from the Coldplay controlled wristbands they got at the entrance and the band members peeping up among all the confetti that filled the arena aldready in the second song. It's a bang. Even by stadium measures. Now and then Coldplay's show is a monumental display of the band's live performances over the past five years. The explosions and the millimeter fitted choreography that only bands with many years experience of huge stages, a stable peak shape and a bit too much money can achieve. "Choice of songs hampers" Still the Brits don't make it all the way. When the band want to slow down halfway through at the end of the runway they don't lose energy only. The songs don't hit and Coldplay have to spend the same amount of time to get back on top that it took to play them. Dynamic is needed, of course. But the choice of songs hampers a really great atmosphere. Cause when it's back, as in the finale with "Every teardrop is a waterfall", Coldplay is an irresistable visual arena force few, U2 only, can reach today. "Oversteered g-force" In Copenhagen on Tuesday, the band almost hit the 5+ barrier (this newspaper's grading system). And when 33 000 Swedes in 15 minutes have created the same atmosphere as over 50 000 Danes did then, I truly believe the band will score. Coldplay have polished all their arena manners and it's not just about fireworks, confetti, balloons and other proven megalomania. The London quartet makes every song an encore. The huge round screens filling almost the whole back of the stage makes the band's presence burning and some songs sounds like an oversteered g-force about to push them through the ground. 5+ "HLH" Pitch dark at Stadion, only mobile phones glowing. Then it breaks loose. Coldplay light up the thousands of wristbands people got at the entrance - and turns the arena into a neon glittering inferno. While the fireworks explode over Stadion. This is truly one of the most powerful opening numbers I've seen a band at this level do. 4+ "IMP" Second song. Second time with goosebumps, already. Coldplay swirling around in an annual consumption of confetti. Chris Martin seem to be really on tonight. Just like the crowd. 4+ "MM" Martin sucking up to the crowd a bit, says we chose Coldplay over Gaga. Blood coloured stage that would make even Kent (Swedish band) proud. Amazing heat, volume and joy at Stadion. 4+ "LIJ" Balloon party Coldplay style. Beach balls, confetti and a bass drum rough as a musk ox bubbling around at Stadion. I give up for now, the site keeps throwing me out every time I try to edit. I need to leave anyway, someone please continue :smiley: Or I'll do it later. Thanks for all the pictures! Was a great night, am still kinda shocked :D

Looong intro (99 Problems and Back to the future). MX starts at 03:05. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Lq2GYzH4k]Coldplay - Intro & Mylo Xyloto & Hurts Like Heaven, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNQ-7MoZm8]Coldplay - Major Minus, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sj76iWHjEk]Coldplay - The Scientist, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9qp1F7m_wI]Coldplay - Yellow, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PMrGpRxHk]Coldplay - Princess Of China, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4KHkXDjCkU]Coldplay - Up In Flames, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] DLIBYH, VLV, CB [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRX6GaEfPM]Coldplay - Don't Let It Break Your Heart & Viva La Vida & Charlie Brown, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] Happy birthday Phil! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfkXrM2uQVg]Coldplay - Clocks, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrqC9mkBgjs]Coldplay - Fix You, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame] Chris the Viking [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mB-EKkgZo]Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, Stockholm 30.8 2012 - YouTube[/ame]

^ Ah OK, thanks for explaining that! Haven't read through all the pages yet.