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I did! I voted inside the arena on the way out! :D

They were comic relief t-shirts as they asked for the crowd to go nuts while someone took a publicty photo with them in them. There were 2 x Beatles (Chris & Will) and 2 x Morecombe & Wise (Guy & Jonny Boy) So it was beatles t-shirts! Sorta!

And sadly its come round too fast. The end is here. What an incredible gig. Amazing atmosphere, great venue, and the best band in the world. Every single song was brilliant and the new songs stand up easily as good as the old ones. Thanks Chris, will, guy and johnny boy! You are quite simply the best! See you next year at wembley. :)

They're back and its The scientist :)

Wow Lij amazing! And i got a butterfly! Woo. Now its DAAHF. Don't leave yet people!

Lol they played jingle bells and wearing christmas hats! :)

C stage now! I wonder who it could be! Why it's simon pegg! And he's 9 years old!

Viva la vida was every bit as good as i knew it would be when i first heard it back in the summer. Just meant to be sung with 20, 000 people! Amazing! Oh and lost was good too! He he

Lol @ strictly come dancing comment! Its the hardest part now folks! Stripped back chris on the piano and harmonys by will amazing!

God put a smile with talk! Love it! My fiancee just said this should be called the halloween mix! :)

Strawberry swing! Fantastic - now we're on to b stage! What a great gig! Love it

Chinese sleep chant into Cemetaries of london! Woo hoo Edit: Sorry folks! Should have been 42 not CoL - my bad! I was hoping for it too much and got carried away posting in a frenzy after the first couple of seconds! please don't hate me! :(

Eek there's literally minutes left. We're in our seats, the warm ups are all done. Here we go! Jay z is playing- surely the boys will be next!

On the train now. Should be at the O2 for 6pm! So ridiculously exciting! Woo hoo! :)

not long now folks! leaving work at 4pm and should be at Starbucks for 6pm all being well! I'm pretty sure i'm not going to be anywhere near to get the butterflies, so if anyone can save me a few i'd be grateful, i've still got the gold confetti in my wallet from the yellow balloons in barcelona. Can't wait! Squuueeeeeeeeeee!

Here are my top 20 for 2008 - first 10 in order... 1 = Coldplay - Viva La Vida (or DAAHF)/with PM - (is that cheating?!) - honestly my favourite album of the year irrespective of this being on a coldplay fansite. 2 = Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 3 = Keane - Perfect Symmetry 4 = Kings of Leon - Only By The Night 5 = Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 6 = Bloc Party - Intamacy 7 = Ben Folds - Way to Normal 8 = Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 9 = MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 10 = Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Others in no particular order... Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Glasvegas - Glasvegas Oasis - Dig Out Your Own Soul Black Kids - Partie Traumatic Guillemots - Red TV on The Radio - Dear Science Black Keys - Attack and Release Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Enderlast Duffy - Rockferry

not sure if it's relevant to go in here but question for anyone that went to the gig last night and either bought merch or considered it... what was the merchandise like? Would appreciate a rough price for tees etc. I've seen the pic taken at one of the of the US shows, so am interested to see if its all the same or if there is any new additions. Cheers

cheers MC i'll do just that! 1 day to go! woo hoo!

wow the pics and posts have been fab - thanks everyone! I so can't wait for tomorrow now! Quick question for anyone that went about cameras. I want to take my cannon 400d but obviously don't want it to get taken away from me, anyone with a similar type of DSLR manage to get away with taking it into the venue? Cheers!

18 days to go! Woop Woop! Block110, Row Y, Seat 286! Just checked my order online to see the status of the tickets and noticed it had my seating info! (really excited as i've just got tickets for Wembley next year as well!)

I really love that idea! So excited - i got mine too add me to the list! Tickets for 2009 already and even better an actual gig in less than 3 weeks! 18 days to go till the 02! woo hoo! I better get a wriggle on if i'm gonna have me a VLV jacket!

hello, been listening to PM for the last couple of hours on that los40.com site and will def. be buying it next week for sure, but would love for a link pls :) please. thanks

oops! Well i'm just 31! so hopefully that wasn't too offensive! lol

Ok so i'm pleased you mostly liked it crazyduckette. If you get outside and it's sunny i think it works quite well! Anyway that's what i was going for! Here's the tracklisting and a quick explanation of why i chose the song. 1. ELO - Mr Blue Sky A real classic, one of my all time favourite songs, just so up and summer-y. 2. Guillemots - Made Up Love Song #43 A personal favourite of mine and my now fiancees - we kinda fell in love around the time of this song so it's got lots of nice memories. 3. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic Great new band, love this album - bags of energy, great tunes - buy the album (called the same btw!) 4. Mystery Jets (ft Laura Marling) - Young Love Heard this on the radio loads a few months back, again a really summery sounding song. 5. Vega 4 - Life Is Beautiful Sorry about this! I'm a sucker for a sort of ballad-esque anthem - reminded me a lot of snow patrol when i first heard it, and i really like Snow Patrol! 6. Sunshine Underground - Commercial Breakdown Something from a few years back, bought the album off the back of hearing this song when it was played by Zane Lowe and it was a pretty good purchase! Good bass and drums - very catchy! 7. Tokyo Police Club - Tessellate You're right about the Placebo or Brian Molko -esque sound. Heard it on Colin Murray's show couple of months back and i really liked it a lot. 8. The Weepies - All This Beauty Not sure why i picked this, cute summer soung i guess. I have a big secret - i'm a closet O.C fan and this song reminded me of the show.. plus it fitted with my summer mixtape theme. 9. Death Cab For Cutie - Your Heart Is An Empty Room Another band that reminded me of the O.C plus its a nice song - well i like it! ha ha 10. Missy Higgins - The River Love this song, i really love the fact that Missy was told to drop her ozzie accent by the record label - and instead of that she made it even more pronounced on the songs. Also love any piano sounding song really. 11. Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs And if you mention piano, you have to mention Ben Folds in the same sentence. Even though this is a Ben Folds with a twist, not much (if any) piano and it's a guitar driven rock out! Love it! Brilliant lyrics as well, as crazyduckette pointed out! Oh and i can't wait for the new album either! 12. Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked I know its a bit cheesy and played way too much at the moment, but its a cute 3 minute song, that when i hear it will always remind me of summer 08! 13. Noah & The Whale - 5 Years Time You can hear the sunshine in this song, which is ironic considering they're from London! Could be the UK version of Vampire Weekend! ooh now why didn't i put that in.. maybe next time!! lol 14. Michael Cera & Ellen Page - Anyone Else But You I thought that when you used to do mixtapes for someone they were notoriously for people you faniced. This song is from Juno - incredible film if you haven't seen it. And is from the very last scene right before the credits roll, and is actually sung by the actors, which is why it has a rawness about it. The End! I'll remember to get a bit more guitar rockier songs in the next one, and also some surprises! as well! Anyone who wants to download it here's the link..... http://www.sendspace.com/file/uorr0u Sorry it was delayed - as i explained to Stephanbass i have been in for a op recently and haven't been able to do much. Still got it submitted by the skin of my teeth (just!) Cheers! ;)

Ok so here we go, I’m about to press play… and GO! 1. Bongos…, piano chords, please let me try to introduce myself… it’s undoubtedly The Rolling Stones and Pleased to Meet You. Ha ha I love it. Great way to start a mix tape I think, plus it’s also a great song from a great band. Top marks! 2. Ooh it’s a ghostly reverbed version of our beloved Coldplay and Don’t Panic. Not heard this version before, but I like it. Kinda feels like it’s the same song in the background either being played backwards or faded in and out. Nice! 3. Guitar merges nicely with the last track; I always thought this song was very similar! Anyway it’s Snow Patrol and Shut Your Eyes from their last album. Very nice indeed. So with the clever intro song aside, are we now looking at a guitar driven themed mix tape?? 4. Well so far it looks like we are, the unmistakable sound of the first few notes of R.E.M.s Everybody Hurts. Not a favourite of my fiancée’s but it’s lyrically beautiful I think. We can’t always be happy it’s ok to fall now and again. Stipes voice is crystal clear as well. 5. Ok now the tempo is back a bit more and the guitar sound of the mighty Foo Fighters! Love this song turn it up!! There goes my hero watch him as he goes, there goes my hero, he’s ordinary… Great song, great band – saw them live ( I think) last year, and this is always a great live favourite. 6. Ha ha and if the foos are that good live let’s have another one from them on the mix tape eh! Best of You – live! (Could be from the recent Wembley Gig perhaps?!) Still great song. 7. Again the beginning starts and sounds familiar and very similar to a foo fighters song.. But then the voice starts singing and I have no idea what it is. Sorry! Still it’s an Ok song I spose. 8. Rockier guitar sound and its Blink 182 and the classic All the small things. I always think of the videos for this lot. She left me roses by the stairs, surprises let me know she cares! Ha ha love that line! 9. Ooh! Piano and its only bloomin Cat Stephens singing Morning Has Broken! Lol Well I did not expect that after Blink! Still I actually like it, probably cos of all the twiddly piano bits in it to be fair. 10. Another Coldplay song (let’s face it as coldplay fans we couldn’t really complain about that could we! It’s 1.36 though, so any casual CP fan may not have heard this before. Strange that it’s showing as lasting 2m 07 secs tho eh! Lol 11. Hmm now another turn in direction – the muffled sound of the start of Daft Punks Around the World.. I like variety, and i'm intrigued what’s next! 12. And what we get is Lenny Kravitz and it ain’t over till it’s over! Interesting indeed! This mixtaper has got a nice wide range of music and it seems isn’t afraid to delve a bit for a good song! 13. Lmao! I love it now we’re going back to the eighdeeeees! I wanted to stick an 80’s song on my mix tape – anyway this is the sounds of Level 42! And Something about you I believe! Lol brilliant! As a child of the 80s this is no bad thing for me! 14. Hmm now it’s a guitar pop song that starts a bit like Van Morrison but I’m not sure at all what this is! Sounds a bit cheesy, radio friendly, ok I guess, but fairly forgettable. 15. Now I loved this version when they released it a couple of years ago – this is U2 and Mary J Blige. Fiancée hates it (and isn’t a U2 fan either funnily enough!) but I really like it – anyway it’s called One. 16. Another classic from the late 80s early 90s – simply red and stars! I remember dancing to this at a junior school disco! Bless! One song left what’s it going to be…. 17. White Stripes and 7 Nation Army – a recent indie rock classic to finish of a very mixed mix tape! Overall I really enjoyed that. Even though I knew a lot of the tracks it was varied and had a mix of many genres of music. I would say that the compiler has a similar age to mine (30ish) and is more than likely from the UK. Or i could be completely wrong! Thanks very much!