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No Charlie Brown, please?

It was, I'm glad the barrier was there to hold me ;) Now I'm dying to find a video of it.

ok, so I rotated the pictures on photobucket, I don't know why are they showing this way :-(

Hallo ladies, just came back from Prague yesterday, and I have to share something with you: plus:

I'll try to put my story together before it gets too blurred. Warning: It's more like a crazy fangirl story, so don't expect a serious musical review! pre-show support acts the show Ok, this was just too long, I apologize. I could have just written "WOW!" instead! ;) It was so amazing to be there, after 9 months of waiting since the date was announced, meet the amazing fans from all over the world and to see the boys play again. It's so addictive, I can't wait to do that again and I wouldn't mind to go queuing again, even tomorrow if I had to. Edit: pictures added to my signature, if you wanna take a look.

Of course, I understand. :-)

Wow, nice! You don't happen to have a video of Charlie Brown?

Which one was yours?

I'll try to translate some more tomorrow. There are new Czech and Slovak reviews appearing all the time.

And now on to some other reviews: http://musicserver.cz/clanek/40409/Coldplay-Marina-And-The-Diamonds-Charli-XCX-Eden-Arena-Praha-16-9-2012/# Czech explosions of joy for Coldplay "Hey, you write for that server, right? Could you get me a cheaper Coldplay ticket? Seems like they are already sold out... That was the most frequent question I was asked from the people around in the last half-year. There was probably no other concert more anticipated than this. So, what was it like? support: Marina And The Diamonds, Charli XCX venue: Eden Aréna, Praha date: September 16, 2012 setlist Marina And The Diamonds: Bubblegum Bitch, The State Of Dreaming, Lies, I Am Not A Robot, Hollywood, Primadonna, Starring Role, Champagne, Radioactive, How To Be A Heartbreaker setlist Coldplay: Back In The Future Theme, Mylo Xyloto, Hurts Like Heaven, In My Place, Major Minus, Lovers In Japan, The Scientist, Yellow, Violett Hill, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, Princess Of China, Up In Flames, Warning Sign, A Hopefull Transmission, Don't Let It Break Your Heart, Viva La Vida, Charlie Brown, Paradise, Us Against The World, Speed Of Sound, Clocks, Fix You, M.M.I.X., Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall Coldplay, Synot Tip Arena, Praha, 16.9.2012 The current position of the British band Coldplay is not too enviable. The band has already enjoyed as much fame as possible, and thus many musical publicists and wanna-be experts are happy to knock them down. Yes, the fact that a band is popular among general public is not a guarantee it plays music of high quality, but on the other hand, is also not a guarantee of the opposite. Others are complaining that the quartet has sold out, recording usual pop tunes, attracting teenage fangirls puckering their lips in front of mobile phones to the concerts instead of proper music enthusiast and who knows what else. Even a connection with Nečas and Kalousk could be found (reference Czech politicians, not too popular, apparently). Many of them will certainly express themselves in comments, to say what they think is so bad about Coldplay and how much they hate them. But, this is only their problem. Today, Coldplay are a stadium act with all what it takes. And as the classic says, we can discuss about it, we can argue about it, we can even disagree with it, but that is about all what can be done against it. However, until the main stars arrived on the Sunday evening, the audience in Eden had to endure Charli XCX and Marina And The Diamonds. The first of the named led by the charismatic Charlotte Aitchison bet on electropop, wilderness and lascivious gestures. The sigles like "Stay Away", "Nuclear Seasons" or "You're The One" from the current EP were introduced but even if there was clearly an effort, through half-full galleries and minimum interest, the audience has clearly shown this was not the act they had bought tickets for. In spite of the excellent concert, a similarly cold reception was given also to Marina And The Diamonds, and if you have seen this young Welsh girl at the Grape festival in Piešťany last year, you might have felt a bit sorry for her. Then, she showed off like an incredibly nice, modest, funny and humble girl who respects her fans and attention she got. And if you were looking closely, she hasn't lost any of those features since then and tried to win the audience over with her excitable synthpop. A all she needed to do were a few innocent sexy looks. Apart from them, she added a new ace to her novel voice colour and the hit "Hollywood" since last year, in form of the hit "Primadonna" from the second studio album. "You know this one, don't you?" asked a probably 17-year old girl her boyfriend with a hopeful voice. He did not. And wasn't the only one. Czech audience often needs to shove songs under their nose, not searching for anything and not wanting anything new or unknown. And that is a shame especially in case of such performers as Marina Lambrini Diamandis, which is the singer's real name. Five minutes after half past nine, the quartet of Guy Berryman, Johnny Buckland, Will Champion and also Chris Martin in colour-splasged trousers came on stage and proved to know very well that the first ten minutes are the most important ones (as well as the finale). If they don't win the people over at the beginning, it's too late. They prepared themselves thoroughly. As soon as Jay-Z's "99 Problems", "Back to the Future Theme" and the "Mylo Xyloto" intro finished, the two-hour show was opened with the current single, "Hurts Like Heaven". With all the parade and the frontman's addition: "I promise you to give it all we can and play our best concert ever." Classic cliche, you might say. But he was actually right. Colourful fireworks were flying high above the Eden Arena, lasers were dividing the audience to several parts and on five hige projections, viewers could enjoy detail shots of their favorites. But that wasn't all. Already with the following "In My Place", there were hundreds of thousands of colourful confetti shot from all sides of the crowd and covered not only the fascinated faces of the audience but also the stage reaching to the middle of the arena. Then, during "Major Minus", large beach balls were released to the crowd, inprinted in graffiti colours of the current album, of course. All of that was accompanied by colourful blinking wristband handed out at the entrance. It was the wristband what had probably the largest share in the strong start as well as unforgetability of the whole show. If the lit up wristband pulsing to the rythm will be the new standard for gigs following the lighters and mobile phones, I won't be complaining at all. It looked absolutely fantastically and many man had a hard time to cover the tears of emotion. However, the packed Eden arena not only got an extremely strong beginning. The band knew very well when to reduce the effects or when to lit up everything they could. Older tunes as "Yellow", "The Scientist" or "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" sounded in a more stripped-down arrangements helping their strenght to beautifully bloom. Fortunately, they are not getting worn out as the time goes and when Martin had to swallow the first line of Yellow due to emotions from the ovations, he confirmed that not only the people under the stage are enjoying it but also the ones on stage. During the whole show, the charismatic singer was running, dancing and jumping with a guitar on his back along the whole stage as if he was out of his senses and did not provide the 60-thousand eager eyes with a rest for a minute. And even if anyone else would fall to the ground after such workout, with all that madness, he was perfect also in terms of intonation. Hats off! On the small stage in the centre of the auditorium, Coldplay played with Rihanna on projection behind them and piano in front of them the trio of songs "Princess Of China", "Up In Flames" and intimate "Warning Sign". Thereby, they were slowly but steadily preparing the ground for the anthemic finale. That belonged to the euphoric trio: starium sing-alond "Viva La Vida", the "o-o-oo-o-oo-o" of which was heard far behind the walls of the starium, maybe a bit underrated but fantastic single, "Charlie Brown" and much anticipated megahit "Paradise". And it was para - para -parade (more in the meaning of awsomeness in Czech). Coldplay lived up to their reputation of good, smily and nice boys for the whole duration of the gig, but mostly at the time when they managed to mess up "Speed of Sound" during the encore on the small stage opposite the main one because of laughter, and had to play it again, apologising with a smile, "Sorry, we're having too much fun here". That way, the magnificent show obtained a pleasant human dimension. Neither the conclusion was ripped off. "I hope they will play 'Fix You'," confessed several bystandars independently while waiting for the band to return to the stage. They did. And how! Even before that, "Clocks" sounded with a snipped of "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, and then the first tones of the well-known melody sounded from behind the painted piano. The static view of Chris wriggling behind the piano provided the tune with intimity which has quickly dissapeared as the song started to escalate. By that time, the singer was swinging his jacket and when he started to run towards the audience, he jumped and at the moment - you know which one - a massive golden pyrotechnica exloded behind his back and flew high to the sky, the peak of the evening was made. And before the listeners could recover, "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" was sounding which has finished the show of the 6-Grammy Award winners as a single, colourful and neverending firework. 30-thousand people were returning home with wide smiles upon their faces and many of them didn't stop to sing even on a train. Coldplay did not dissapoint with their pop feast for the eyes and ears. Right the opposite, they electrified many people and showed how a starium concert in 2012 shall look like. The Brits presented what they now best, went for it fully and if there is still someone who didn't like it, it's not the band's problem but problem of his/her personal taste. Thus, the overal rating of such a sophisticated and detailed show which is perfectly interconnected with the musical part cannot be other than maximum. Definite candidate for the concert of the year. 100 %.

I edited nancyk58's translation a bit: Review of Coldplay in Prague on 16 September 2012 Review of Coldplay in Prague on 16 September 2012 http://www.koule.cz/cs/clanky/konfety-lasery-ohnostroj-coldplay-v-praze-zarili-30131.shtml Confetti, lasers, fireworks. Coldplay shone in Prague The sold-out stadium and probably the currently most popular band on the British islands in front of the fans; it could be somewhat anticipated in advance that the Coldplay concert will be "really big". The stage reaching from one side to another, five large circular screens, speakers and lights everywhere, simply huge. As was the concert itself. The warning: "Please put on your bracelet. It is part of the show." did not blink on the screens in vain. Namely, Chris Martin of Coldplay at the very beginning asked , "Is there anybody out there?" the colorful wristbands handed out to all the concert-goers at the entrance started to flash in all colors and the whole stadium looked like a Christmas lights warehouse coming alive. Other warnings could for example read: "Put on your sunglasses - to prevent getting blind from all those colors. In quick succession, the band launched a small firework, lit up the galleries with colorful lasers, fired several rounds of coloured confetti (by the way, in addition to hearts also including the M and X letters, which were the initials of their latest album Mylo Xyloto, aka viva la the sense of detail, and scattered a few dozen large inflatable balloons. With a spectacular light and visual show the band managed quite well to disguise the fact that their last mentioned album is not just as good as the previous ones. Perhaps Paradise sounded slightly less annoying live than on the radio (someone explain to me why Coldplay degrade themselves like this?), but it is a pity that thanks to the ten (!) new songs, there was no time for more "pure Coldplay" from the era of the debut album Parachutes. Unfortunately, the excellent Yellow remained the only one played (off that album). Byť to tak chvílemi vypadalo, bylo by nefér nazývat jejich koncert cirkusem. Coldplay totiž předvedli vydařený výkon i po stránce muzikální. Although sometimes it seemed like that, it would be unfair to call their show circus. Coldplay's performance was well presented also in terms of musical quality Even though Chris Martin was saving his voice in the first part of the show - especially the high notes - (e.g. the aforementioned Yellow was far from perfect); at the remaining concert he seemed totally confident in all positions. Equally confident as the trio behind him and another thirty thousand people in front of them - when The Scientist, Fix You and other songs were played the audience were singing in chorus. After the amazingly escalated God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, Chris, Jon, Guy and Will left the main stage, and for the next three songs they moved to the end of the ramp. Among others, the current single Princess of China was played, where Rihanna also appeared, but this time - in contrast to at the Parisian gig - only in 2D design on the screen behind the band. And in order for Coldplay to be "in touch" and enjoyed also by the fans at the back, the next few songs were played on a miniature stage in the middle of the madding crowd. The madness was actually on spot. Even if Coldplay did not provide the best musical experience of this year, it was undoubtedly the biggest show - no matter how infantile it might appear. It was appreciated also by the fans in the packed tram number 22, who were spontaneously singing – in unison - the Viva La Vida chant on their way home. Coldplay + Marina and the Diamonds Prague, Synot Tip Arena, 16 September 2012

Back home! I'll translate as much as possible in the evening. If someone finds me a close-up video of Charlie Brown from Jonny's side of the stage, I'll send them chocolate! I'll write more later.

this was my 6th time but I'm left totally speechless! I'll write some more when I get home. I can also translate some reviews later. just WOW!

wow, it's us at the beginning of the queue! :-)

so, me and Oliv are officially the most crazy people in Central Europe right now, you don't wanna know how early we arrived... Now at 8 am, finally some other people arrived so there is now 7 of us.

Greetings from Prague! The weather is amazing, we just took a walk around the stadium and saw stage trucks being unloaded! can't wait for tomorrow!

Packing things up, leaving for Prague tomorrow morning! My banner is finished: I've never done anything like that before, so it looks like it looks... I know they won't play Parachutes, but it's such a nice little song, it doesn't hurt to try :)

I'm not quite sure, depends on the weather but sometime in the morning. Do you know which entrance you want to queue at? There are two entrances for "standing front of stage"

The weather looks promising so far: http://www.meteocentrum.cz/predpoved-pocasi/cz/6250/praha

You can call it dedication, or obsession :D

Well, my tactics is not to drink too much so that I don't have to go to the toilet... In Udine, I survived with one Pepsi and a Snickers bar from 3PM until the end. It gave me enough energy. :laugh3:

Someone mentioned the stream on Sunday, but I can't find any information. I'm worrying about his health as well, he sounded like he had cold yesterday. Plus it was raining :cry: I hope he takes good rest today and will be fine.

A co hovoria? Pri vstupe, potom ako skontroluju listky, davaju kazdemu jeden naramok, na obrazovkach su instrukcie, ako si ho treba dat na ruku, a potom pocas niektorych pesniciek blikaju v rytme. Na niektorych koncertoch som citala, ze ich nemali dost, zrejme preto, ze ich mali presne na pocet ludi, a niektore nefungovali, ked ich aktivovali, a mozno si niekto uchmatol viac. Ale mal by dostat kazdy.

Vies co, ja som bola v Londyne na dvoch koncertoch za sebou, v sobotu a pondelok, a vobec mi to nevadilo ... teraz uvidim to iste treti krat. Ale ono ten setlist funguje, ma to taku dynamiku, je to prepracovane a vzdy je atmosfera trosku ina. Jasne, ze nejake prekvapenia by boli mile, ale rozhodne to nie je nuda aj tak. A ked ide niekto na viacero koncertov, je dobre byt vzdy niekde inde. Ja som bola vtedy pred C-stage a teraz budem pri hlavnom podiu, je to iny zazitok.