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Hopefully this hasn't already been posted? If it has been then feel free to delete it please! A Coldplay roadie's diary of excess You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll yawn. A Coldplay roadie reveals all in a no-holds-barred account of life on tour The Dirt, the story of Mötley Crüe's descent into druggy, boozy mania might be packed with stories of death, orgies with porn stars and car crashes, while Led Zep chronicle Hammer Of The Gods has underage groupie sex, backstage assaults and guitarists dressed as Nazis. But next up in the canon of tell-all rock tour memoirs is guitar tech Matt McGinn's Roadie: My Life On The Road With Coldplay with its tales of cheese butties, meeting Gwyneth, and telling Jay-Z move out of the way. Rescued from the Observer New Review's charity shop pile (shame on you, New Review!), here are some of its other highlights ... On Rock Debauchery "Coldplay crew members, like the band themselves, don't just wheel out the bloody Horlicks and the board games post-show; we all like a good knees-up with a pint and a pie after work, same as anyone else." On Inventive Nicknames "All Jon [buckland]'s guitars have names ending in "y" – Blacky, Sunny, Browny etc". This is followed by a three-page list of different guitar pedals and units. On Meeting The Stars " ... Another time I held the door open for Paul Weller at the BBC when I was doing Jools Holland's Later show with Kenickie." On Live 8 "I'm not getting into the politics ... frankly you'd do better to listen to some other people, like maybe Bob Geldof. Say what you like, this is a man who deserves respect." On Snow Patrol "I didn't even like them that much until they showed up and politely knocked us sideways with their niceness and generally relaxed, professional attitude." On Seeing America "Chicago is an amazing town. It's right on a massive lake for a start." On Disastrous Errors "Not content with handing Jonny a wrongly tuned guitar for his performance of Clocks, I later managed to drop a blob of superglue into one of its vital moving parts. Nice work, roadie!" On Glastonbury 2002 "I do remember some daft things about the aftermath, like my triumphant post-show cheese, pickle and crisp sarnie." On The Roadie's Plight "In his otherwise sharp and funny personal memoir Cider With Roadies, ex NME-hack, writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie arguably does his book's fantastic title a disservice by hardly talking about roadies at all." On Fame "Imagine my excitement – after years of adoring Ash from afar – of being asked to stand in on guitar for their leader at a soundcheck." On Drummers' Names "Will Champion, eh? What a great name." On Dishing The Dirt "Other stars can be a big disappointment, and almost put you off their terrific music just by being ****s ... but we'll name no names here." http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/apr/03/coldplay-my-life-on-the-road

Ohh can't wait to watch it! Although it'll probably have to wait until later this week. Probably Friday. I'm way busy this week in school.

CARO. LINE. Oh hey did I tell you that my aunt and uncle are expecting in June? Her name is Caroline. :smiley: I love bebez.

Monay. What?! Our senior skip days are never approved. Took the Government A.P. test today. Loads of fun. Tonight's my last orchestra concert ever. :stunned: :bigcry:

Hahaha nice first post.

:charming: Am I the only one who is fine with the pants? :thinking: It's not about the color, and I don't even think that blue color is bad. He could wear yellow pants with hot pink polka dots. It's allllll about the fit for me. And those pants. They fit niceeee. :mellow: You'll be my favorite if you ever find it... And then am I the only one who isn't big on that picture?

It's not photoshopped.

Liz! Haha yes, definitely hard to keep up in here. :rolleyes: Lovely. :)

Sign meh.

I like that expression. Chill smile.

Hahahahaha.

:\ Haha well at least you got your license. I haven't done anything about driving since I got my permit back in September. I'm 18. :shame:

Did he get mad or offended? Aw, sorry about that. I kind of get what you mean. My school is in a rich ass community. A hell of a lot of people at my school are very rich. In fact, I'd say confidently that about at least half of my school is considered rich. I'm not in that bit, but my family is definitely upper middle class. My school is constantly doing all these grand construction projects and remodelings and add-ons. Our football stadium has a jumbotron. :blank: Not a huge one mind you, but still. And when most kids here turn 16, they get a new car. New. It's ridiculous. I swear we can't seem to get rid of our money fast enough. :rolleyes:

^Why? DAMMIT guys my dad just friend requested me on facebook. :facepalm: I've always said that if either of my parents made a facebook and friend requested me, I'd deny them, but now I kind of feel bad about doing that. But I don't want to be friends with them. They're totally going to creep on my profile. I don't specifically have anything to hide, but there are small things here and there that I would just prefer for him not to see. And it's just a whole "respect my privacy" issue. I don't know. I haven't responded to it yet, but I'm not sure whether I should accept or decline. Maybe I can give him a limited profile access, but that would make him even more suspicious, like I have bad stuff to hide or something.

Yah, it was pretty cool. The best part is that neither of those pictures are edited at all. It was interesting lighting for sure.

Ok good. She's gonna be in enough trouble already! And I'm so excited, especially since they showed Henry being awake and looking suspicious while also showing that last sex scene. Intense! Hahaha I didn't even think about that! I mean I did notice the accent, but I didn't think about what kind of accent it was supposed to be.

Organ.

I loved the dude who was the player acting as the queen. :lol: Dude was pretty.

I can totally picture that dream too! He fits it well.

I thought it was good. I like David. He's entertaining. I didn't like the girl who played Ophelia as much though as Kate Winslet playing her in Kenneth Branagh's version.

No, we just said no it's Hamlet. Is it really? I've never heard of it until you. But I'm just more surprised that he knew of the David Tennant Hamlet. Oh, and I LOVED his muscle shirt. :lol: And how he went around barefoot half the time.

He's in denial!

Hahahahaha my dad just walked in and goes "Is that Doctor Who?" :bomb: How did he know about Doctor Who but I didn't?

Haha yah I know. :P

AW DAMN. :angry: Ok fine I'll watch Hamlet instead. I can try to erase one of my SVU episodes. :disappointed: