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Looking at the picture of Chris with Avicii, you can clearly see him play 688660. A chord shape Chris uses a lot. So have to look at my tab again, that's not in there :P

Will try this when I get home! Thanks. I don't know which video I watched but to me it looked like he was fretting the B string too. But I think you're right at the BBC Radio 1 session it looks like he doesn't. Should be easier too.

True you have to do it with Magic too. No way to play these chords without it.

It's in the Kapone's tabs thread

For A Sky Full Of Stars, I figured out these few chords. I wish Chris played it live. Capo 2 -0--0---0---0 -0--0---0---0 11--7--11--10 13--9--11--11 13--9---9---8 11--8---0---0 And from 3:21 0--0--0 2--4--5 2--4--6 2--4--6 0--2--4 0--x--x

I love playing exactly what Chris Martin plays, especially when I play acoustic guitar. Cause every other way you play it just doesn't have the Coldplay sound. Couldn't find the chords for Magic so I tried to do a tab. Please help me out and make it better! To me it sounds exactly the same, but I would love to have a professional opinion. I'm just an amateur. Listen to my recording for the rythm. For example the first 3 chords are played very fast after each other. 0--0--0--0---0---0--0--0 7--5--3--3---10--0--5--0 6--4--2--2---9---8--4--1 7--6--4--0---11--9--6--2 5--4--2--2---9---7--4--x 5--4--2--2---9---7--4--x 2x End bit: -0---0---0 -0--10---0 11---9--13 12--11--14 12---9--14 10---9--12

Can someone tell me how much the tickets were for the New York show? Trying to get an indication how much the tickets for the London show are going to be.

At the beginning of this year every Coldplay fan was in some state of hibernation when suddenly the band announced they will play the iTunes Festival in Austin. The same festival I saw them for the first time in an intimate setting three years ago at the Roundhouse in London. I was really excited as they played 4 new songs from their upcoming album Ghost Stories. Two weeks after that show they played the entire album live in a secret place in Los Angeles for a TV broadcast set to be aired just before the new album. Nobody was allowed to film or record in there. You can see the trailer for that broadcast on the Coldplay website. You could tell something was up and everyone was asking themselves: “When do they come back to Europe?”. So on a beautiful Thursday in April I was walking outside with my brother when my friend Frans was calling me. I instantly got the feeling that maybe there was big news and I wasn't disappointed. Coldplay are doing a promotional tour for their new album. Six shows around the world. The first of those six in Cologne, Germany. Overload, overload. How the hell are we going to get tickets? As the capacity of this show is only 2,000 people the demand will be so high. An hour before the ticket sale we were already molesting our F5 buttons. What if? What if we get tickets. Well, we did get tickets. I couldn't be happier. We are so lucky. So many fans couldn't get tickets. Did we really deserve this? I didn't had much time to think cause 30 minutes after that I was already in line at our local record store for the Record Store Day release of the new single Midnight. I got 4 of them for me and my friends so my day could not get any better. The concert was so close too, only a week after the announcement. So there it was, Thursday evening, the night before the concert. I was already in Breda at my friend’s house as it is a bit closer then my home. We stood up at 6 am and off we went to Cologne. We never really realized how close Cologne was by train. We’ll definitely come back when they will properly tour the album. So we checked in our hotel at around 11:30 and walked to the venue. The location is so weird. We were walking through this really old and industrial neighbourhood which reminded me a bit of the Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall video. And there it was, the E-Werk. Luckily there where only a few fans waiting in front of the stairs leading to the front doors. A Dutch fan immediately recognized us as fans from The Netherlands because of our plastic bag. Her name was Ellen, I recognized you from the photo in this thread. Was very nice to meet you! The waiting in line was for the most part pretty boring as usual. And as if it was tradition of course the sun would come out and get really hot. I think I got a sunburn at 4 of the 6 concerts I attended. But luckily it wasn't that bad. I also met Fabian who I will hopefully meet again this summer as we found out we both are going to the Arcade Fire concert in Berlin! Nice to meet you too. The doors went open at 7:30. An hour before that it was getting really busy at the place. There was some trouble with the queuing and which door was for which kind of tickets but we managed to be in the front. The doors went open and of course the first thing we did was run! We were hoping to get a nice place left to the stage as we saw on the iTunes Festival broadcast that Chris’ piano would be there. And we got what we wanted! Only 1,5 hours left. While we were waiting for the concert to start we also met two girls from the Netherlands who were behind us, didn't ask for names but maybe you will see this post? The stage was beautiful. Chris’ new piano, the synthesizers, the stars hanging from the ceiling, the trees with stars in them. The atmosphere of it was kind of Magic, see what I did there. The venue was also something I haven’t seen before. It was an old factory or something, quite similar to the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam only square. And then suddenly the show started. No 99 problems, no Back to the Future theme, no Life in Technicolor or Mylo Xyloto as an intro. Just the guys walking on stage. And it was fantastic. Seeing them again up close, it’s so intimate. They started off with new song Always In My Head. Great song to start the concert with, I love the last lyric: “This, I guess, is to tell you you’re chosen out from the rest”. Chris wasn't paying a lot of attention to the front row but a lot of fans were already singing the lyrics. Then boom, Charlie Brown. Doesn't matter they don’t have Xylobands anymore to light up the room. The song is just as energetic and powerful as during the Mylo Xyloto tour and we were jumping and singing as hard as we can. There was something wrong with the piano so we couldn't hear the end part as Chris was making gestures something wasn't on. But shortly after they started Paradise. Not really my favorite but the crowd was loving it. The new hit single, Magic! I love the bass groove and Jonny’s guitar playing. Beautiful song and the extended outro was amazing too with Chris playing the “Ooh” part melody on acoustic. After that Chris went back to his piano for Clocks and as always they aced it. We were singing as loud as we could and they were loving it. Third new song, Midnight. It’s so much different from what they have done before. You like it or you don’t and I happen to be in the first category. Chris was sitting down on the stage and his singing was just perfect. As the song progressed both Chris and Guy where playing the laser harp. Which is a cool addition. You can see and hear Guy really plays the bass part with it but what Chris was doing was just show which was OK for me as he was singing on top of it. Straight after another new song called Another’s Arms. Great song and lovely guitar solo from Jonny. Was really cool to see his guitar playing up close. I love this song too, the lyrics not that much, but It has a really nice vibe to it. Viva La Vida, of course, they have to play it. As we we’re screaming the lyrics Chris looked me and Frans right in the eyes and pointed to us which was really awesome. Haven’t listen to this song in a while but at a concert It’s always a guarantee for joy! It’s not like at stadium gigs but the crowd was singing at the top of their lungs. Then Fix You which was beautiful as always with the incredible ending. Goosebumps every time. After Fix You, new song Oceans. Which is the quiet acoustic song of the album. It reminds me of Spies, Us Against The World and a little bit of Atlas. Will playing a kind of radar sound, as if you are at sea, and Chris singing beautiful falsetto and singing “I’m ready for the pain. So meet under blue sky, meet me again, in the rain”. Jonny playing a haunting slide guitar part. It’s a lovely song, love it very much. Just like during the Mylo Xyloto tour the show ended with Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall. Lasers, Confetti, and shouting the lyrics! Still a great track, and Chris’ voice is much better when he is not walking around and dancing like crazy. Really great ending. But of course It’s not over. The boys came back, and Chris explains the radio broadcast of the show is now over. And the upcoming songs are just for us. He asks us not to record anything from this part and put it on YouTube. If we don’t we will get an exclusive. Everyone was clapping, and putting their thumbs up! I already knew which song they were going to play but more on that later. First they played God Put A Smile Upon Your Face. For me the first time they played it almost like the album version. Only that Chris was playing his part on a telecaster instead of acoustic. Then The Scientist, classic as always. And at last… The surprise. Chris asked us again: “Please don’t record this”. And then they played their new track: A Sky Full Of Stars. Which, according to people who heard it at one of the special shows in Los Angeles, will be their new hit single. We heard already some tiny bits as they were soundchecking it before the show. It was so special to hear the song for the first time in a place like this. But besides that I wasn't that impressed. I had that with more songs so maybe it will grow on me but it’s not an instant favorite. The song is like a more dance-y version of Every Teardrop Of Waterfall with Jonny playing the melody on guitar. Chris has some beautiful vocal melodies, his singing was absolutely perfect, but instrumental wise nothing stood out for me. Can’t wait to hear the studio version though. Show is over. Back to reality. But of course the adventure wasn’t over! I wasn’t expecting it but Matt McGinn, Jonny’s guitar tech, gave Jonny’s setlist to a security guard and pointed to I think one of the fans next to me but the security guard gave it to me! What a perfect gift! I’m going to frame it next week. As a lot of people where asking to take a picture of it we were walking outside maybe trying to meet them. But we had no luck. We thought we saw the vans they would jump into but we later found out that the vans were not for them. Back to the hotel. And the next day back to the Netherlands. What a perfect gig it was. They were soundchecking A Rush Of Blood To The Head and on the setlist was Atlas instead of God Put A Smile Upon Your Face. But we aren’t allowed to complain I think. We are so lucky to see them from so close. So many fans never get the chance to see them at all. The next day a few fans also met Chris, Jonny and Will at their hotel. We are really jealous but maybe someday we will get the chance too. I would love to tell them how much their music means to me and that I wish the best for them. In two months they’re playing the Royal Albert Hall in London so maybe see some of you there again? Although I don’t think I have any luck left to get tickets.

You can. Just make sure you use your own name for the tickets and your parents name when you fill in the information about the creditcard you are using. The tickets are personalised with the name you used to buy the tickets, not the owner of the creditcard.

Yes you'd need a creditcard, and I'm guessing for London/Paris too. You can get a discount for getting a creditcard in the Netherlands if you are a student (and 18+)

5 times during the Mylo Xyloto tour :D But I know there was this guy who went to A LOT of stadium shows in 2012 during this tour. He was in all of the panorama shots of the crowd.

Yes, count me in!

Ik kan het ook niet geloven! Zou leuk zijn om Nederlanders daar tegen te komen! Wij gaan met de trein naar keulen vrijdagochtend vanuit Breda.

2 tickets voor Keulen, en de 7" Midnight single gehaald net. Mijn dag kan niet meer stuk!

Ik ga ook (:

Woohooo I got two tickets :D

Hello people of Coldplaying. Two years ago I went to the Malieveld Coldplay Concert in The Hague (The Netherlands), and after the concert they asked for people to recycle their Xylobands for future shows. There where boxes full of them, and although not allowed, me and a friend of mine grabbed a handful. He already sent his away to a few of you I heard, but I still haven't. I now have all the colors on my little Coldplay shelf, and I have six Xylobands left which I'd like to sent to Coldplayers around the world. In the idea of "Recycling Xylobands for future shows", I would only like to sent Xylobands to people who live in countries where Coldplay didn't tour during the Mylo Xyloto tour. Also I don't have a lot of money, so I do want you to pay for shipping. In return for the Xyloband, I'd like to receive a letter from you (I'm also active on Postcrossing), so sent me a letter with maybe a story you like to tell, or tell me about your love for Coldplay. So if you are interested, sent me a PM, tell me where you from, and I will give you my address so you can send me a letter. I'll send you a PM with the shipping costs and you pay me with PayPal (You must have a PayPal account). Or does anybody know a better way to pay someone in a different country? Stefan.

Misschien leuk om een Nederlandse chatroom te hebben? (: http://www.chatzy.com/15040252081699

Wie gaat er vannacht iTunes Festival kijken? (:

Nice!

Haha vet toevallig.

Worst case scenario (and I don't expect anymore actually...), it's like an acoustic version of a song, a remix, and a live version.