Its very long sorry :P short story: after many troubles, I had the BEST time of my life so far :D
So it all started with me packing last minute, at 5pm on Thursday. The day was filled with stress. I had to hurry to packm but then apparantly my mom and dad forgot I was flying out that night. So I was REALLY stressed wondering how I would get to airport! When we got there we see the flight got delayed. It would leave at 1:15am! I was so mad, but then in the distance I heard ETIAW get played on s radio. And I thought, wow that's a good sign probably :D
and then they tell us that we must board the plane, put our carryones away and be seated ready for lift off by 2:00am or the flight would become illegal to fly out. Next flight would be at 9:00am!:shocked2: I was about to cry cuz it was already 1:30! I wanted to yell at everyone to hurry their asses because i was not missing this flight! :angry: no one wanted that to happen so we somehow managed to make it with only a few minutes to spare!
I was so happy to arrive at chicago!!! :D I was just thinking ok. Im here now on to lolla. We went to my cousins's house, got ready and. Got some mcdonalds to eat, then left for lolla, finally! :D I get to the line and this is when my heart began to beat so fast! I was so happy I was there and I couldn't believe it! So young the giant was playing. I really liked their music :D then I heard Los Bunkers, liked them too. I tried to go find the coldplayers in front of the stage, but I couldn't get through. and my stupid cell phone wasn't working so I couldn't use the group me app well :\. This made me sad, I sooo wanted to meet you guys! :(
then I made the biggest mistake ever!!
I didn't speak up when asked what to do next. If to go see foster the people and come back or stick around there for grace potter. We ended up going to foster the people, hated it! It was so far away from where I really wanted to be, and the sound wasn't loud enough on the side I was , then add to that sweaty people, and people smoking weed, :( so we left. My cousins got something to eat, then we bought shirts, and left back to bud light. Saw the kills, and I couldn't enjoy it because I was so stressed and depressed. There was so many people and I was at the very back :( but i thought, if theres anything just in this world, a huge coldplay fan like me will get to be happy today. So i held on tight to my coldplay bracelets and necklace and just wished for coldplay karma to help me.
I was waiting for the crowd to leave, and we managed to move up pretty close. We were on the right side of the stage. When bright eyes came up, everyone was crowding and people shoved trying to get through. They were trying to get closer for coldplay. I was mad! I was trying to block them but with no luck, I dnt knoow why they thought they had a right to get closer :angry: couldn't wait for bright eyes to be over to move up. But when it was over no one left! I was hreatbroken. There were super tall people blocking me! My view was so obstructed I could only peoples backs!
My cousins decided to leave because it was getting serious. People crowding, no room whatsoever. We were all sweaty and hot. I couldn't even breathe well. I was dehydrated cuz I didn't want to have to go to the bathroom. But I felt I was going to faint and vomit. Apparantly some people did. Three people got carried out for fainting and vomiting. 40 minutes to go and I didn't know if I could make it. My sis asked if we should leave. But we agreed that we needed to stay.... its coldplay! But it was hard. Somehow, we wiggled our way closer. I ended up being one person away from the barrier. So I had a good view....sorta. a tall guy in front of me, but I could see the stage through a gap :) direct view at jonny, eventhough we were closer to guy's side.
When the show started, it seemed all those issues of dehydration, tiredness and annoying people, were forgotten. We were all excited for the show! We screamed and jumped for the music. I was the only one around in my area to know all the words to the new songs :D my sis knew a few. The entire show was sooo AMAZING! I was so tired beyond belief, but I couldn't help jumping to charlie brown :D
I sang my heart out to every single song! :heart: I had never experienced such an emotion of joy with my favorite band. You could feel the songs and everyone was singing too. We were all into it. How a concert should be! There were only two losers who were there only cuz of their girfriends. But were right in front of the barrier. Annoyed me so much.
Anyways I can't belive I got to be a part of something as great as this! I saw the fireworks and the buildings. I was in awe that I was in chicago watching coldplay :D. When shiver played I was complete :P my dream had come true. I had heard shiver live finally!! I had fun when we were asking for the encore. Yelling coldplay coldplay at the top of lungs, in chicago....when do I ever get to do that! It was quite liberating. As a fan, I feel like doing that all the time, so it felt good to be able to do it :lol:
So when clocks started I felt so.....ah I dnt have right wor for the feeling. But when I saw live 2003 I wished to be a part of a crowd like I saw during clocks live2003. I got my wish. Everyone was so into it and singing. The lasers were awesome! My sister cried :P and then I kinda forgot about ETIAW :P so when they began to play it I was taken by surprise. It was so much fun to sing along to it and dance. I loved it so much :D all the fireworks were amazing! eventhough some of the firework debris was getting in my mouth and eyes :\ but I didn't care. After the show we didn't move at first everyone was just saying WOW, and that the show was amazing, they said, that's why I love coldplay. And we just looked at each other in amazement. We didn't have to say anything. We bonded through an amazing experience together. And we knew we were very lucky to have been a part of it :D
As people left they were still doing the viva chant. Even when we were already in the streets of chicago people chanted. It was AWESOME. I will probably not have that experience again. I hope I do, and I hope I can see better next time. But this lollapalooza was just something special.
Coldplay karma really pulled for me in the end! :D and all the bad stuff that happened was got forgotten and I got rewarded for it :)
Sorry my "review" is not exactly clear. I didn't write things in order of setlist or whatever. Its more of my flow of thoughts on how things happened :)