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Did a graphite drawing of Guy which I finished this week. I hadn't done any art for over a year and since I finally had some good photos of my own of Coldplay I decided to draw one. I've always struggled with human faces but I've been steadily improving on my last few efforts and I'm really proud of this one. Hopefully I'll do a drawing of each of the other three as well but not sure when, I've got a lot on my plate right now!

So much, I've been going nuts about this all day. :joy::heart: ... Members of the two bands that shaped my love for music, plus fabulous cars ... you can't much better than that!

That's so cool, thanks for sharing! I think I actually saw you when I was walking around the stadium when I first got there, I just remember recognizing a guy in a Chris outfit in the video and being like, wow, great for him! I only walked around a bit and then left for a while because I felt really sick (I was fine later). I think I would have crumbled when they asked to make up puns, that's so much pressure on the spot, I feel like I'd end up looking like I'd never listened to a Coldplay song because I'd be so ... :eek:. But how cool you got to walk on the stage and everything, what a memory.

Exactly, I keep seeing things on others' lists and wanting them on mine. Now that I've got thinking about some of the early B sides/EP tracks I'm imaging how emotional it would be seeing those live ... Only Superstition, Careful Where You Stand, Easy To Please, For You. I mean I'd have trouble just picking 10 B sides from the first three eras, let alone out of all the songs they've ever done. I mean Murder, Crest Of Waves, How You See The World 2, or Things That I Don't Understand, there are so many brilliant ones. Honestly what I'd love would be if they just did a show of songs from 2005 and before, and did some deep cuts, B sides and even dropped singles from those times. Or full-album + B sides shows for Parachutes and AROBTTH. I know they wouldn't do X&Y, hence I thought maybe a mix-up of the first three eras. But I guess I don't really need to be realistic here haha, none of it is.

I don't think it has to have always been a rarity to include it! I mean they played The Hardest Part at every show the later leg of their VLV tour but I put it on my list because I didn't see it at the show I went to early in the tour. And obviously they played it a ton on TL tour ... but I didn't go. I mean it's a rarity now and I think you could say the same for HLH.

That's great you got to go to the Muse gig! I love that they played Sing For Absolution especially, that was one I'd really like to hear. I fantasize about Coldplay doing this sort of thing, so I can make up for all the stuff I missed in my reclusive, inhibited years, but I don't realistically see it happening. At least not soon. That doesn't stop me from already having a handwritten list lying around that I spent quite a long time thinking out. :joy: This is really hard for me because there are just endless favorites I never got to hear (seriously I did a list thing once and I think of my top 20 CP songs I've heard like 5) so I'm gonna narrow it down to 12 and I really want to add more. This is without even adding the new EP songs to the thought process, because that adds a wrench. I'd also nearly kill to see Politik again, but I included only songs I haven't heard. And honestly you could change some of these out for some other dropped/forgotten songs of the first three album eras and I'd be thrilled. Those albums and their B sides were definitely heaven for me and I've seen very little of it live, and would love any of it! A Rush Of Blood To The Head A Message The Hardest Part Life Is For Living (with outro of course) Gravity Shiver Lost? O What If Moving To Mars We Never Change Swallowed In The Sea

Your mini instruments are incredible. What materials do you use? I love this sort of thing, such great attention to detail. I probably couldn't do it because my hands shake but I like admiring it.

I really feel a lot of what you say here. The bit about how many truly special songs there are from this era, for one. I have a distinctive favorite in The Scientist, but In My Place is an all-timer for me, so are AROBTTH, Politik, Clocks and Gravity (which is maybe weird to include but it is from this era). But you can take those away and Warning Sign, Amsterdam, Green Eyes or Crest of Waves or I Ran Away are all songs that stand up as favorites. And that's just tossing out names and probably missing some. If you spread all those songs out over the course of a band's existence I'd think, wow, what a great band ... that they all came out of the same era is incredible. I think the era just has a combination of angst and energy and determination and frustration that absolutely hit the nail on the head for me. Of course some of that carried on into other eras or was there before, but I think AROBTTH was just the perfect balance of everything. For me at least. And I agree absolutely about that era of music in general. I already talk about the 2000s like older people wax poetic about the 60s and 70s. It seems silly because it's barely been any time, but there was a certain sound that bands had that was just so FOR ME. Coldplay, Keane, James Blunt, Muse (though I got into them later), they put out music that just resonated with me so perfectly I didn't even realize how special it was to have that connection. Don't get me wrong, I love some things that are still coming out, including what Coldplay does, but en masse, it isn't the same. And I think back then you had a lot on the radio that sort of had that vibe. I feel like a lot of music now is either more pop/hip-hop or very "indie"/outside-the-box and not as much that's a sort of crossover. A lot of people bashed it as bland or formulaic, but that sort of alt rock, piano-driven, melancholic but with great hooks, that just moved me as much as music can move anyone. And the oughties were such a great time for that. I don't know why because it's not like my life was particularly great then, but that whole decade just seems special, even outside music. The TV, the technology, just everything.

I'm really never able to express what this album means to me. I wish I could. It came at a time I really needed something to hold on to, it was just what I needed and it has never stopped being that. It was the first album I fell in love with as a unit and sealed my love for the band. It really made music something I needed to thrive rather than just something fun in the background. Everything has changed since then ... me, the band, everything. I don't even recognize the person I was back then in most ways. But the feeling I get listening to AROBTTH never changes, it's just the same power and emotion and incredible catharsis. I'm so thankful I had it then and thankful I have it now.

I just happened to have one disassembled sitting next to me. I was taking them apart last night instead of doing anything I need to do. :joy:

Yes the ones with the cutout pattern have AAAA. Plain white ones use one CR2032 and two CR2025 lithium batteries. Not sure if both designs work on the same controllers.

Damn, that's a bit cold. Glad you had a good time anyway. Great crowd tonight, I had a lot of fun. Got a pretty good video of Chris's Toronto song, which I thought was cute: ... also thrilled to hear Trouble!

A heads up if anyone hasn't got a ticket yet ... A few good floor seats available for $99-$115 on TM now. Not resale but normal sale, guess it didn't sell well. Wish I'd waited until last minute, bc my $225 is an obstructed view and I can't exchange it because of the price drop on all the other tickets.

That's it! They'll face kind of to the left of that photo but towards you a little. Edit: also, I'm here too, b5, I'm really excited, beautiful night!

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/coldplays-guy-berryman-secret-car-collector Best. Article. Ever. This is the content I want. :joy: Big gallery too. I am so excited he has a Citroen SM, which is one of my top dream cars. I love them. And it's the perfect color too.

I think whether you went to one or a ton, just seeing them at all is a memory that will be special forever. Sometimes even more when it was your only one ... I only saw them once in the first 11 years I liked them and I think that's why that one is always my favorite, because it was just such a huge deal to be able to go to a concert at that time. Not to say I'm not thrilled I got to see them more later, just that no one's moment is any less valid because it was their only one. :)

Ah, so lucky, I did my request for that at my shows. They soundchecked it at one but didn't play it for us, alas (and I wasn't even there in time for the soundcheck, doh). I was glad they played in Mexico though, I could enjoy it vicariously and glad for you guys who got to hear it! I love reading all these posts. I was trying to talk myself out of going to the show at MetLife for financial reasons but this is going to break me haha.

My first show in 2008. I was in nosebleeds but didn't care. Loved every song and was just bouncing off the walls with joy. I didn't even know what a big deal it would be to see them live, for a lot of years it wasn't something I even considered, but man once I was there it was out of control. I just couldn't believe they were real people and they were in the same building making music in front of me. Didn't care at all what was on the setlist but was excited my favorite The Scientist was played. My picture from that night from my V-Cast slide phone, haha. I have terrible videos but can't get them off the phone. Also in 2012 when I saw them in the same arena and they played Trouble. Didn't manage to see them again after that first one sadly. Almost didn't go in 2012 because of money and I wasn't so into MX. I decided I couldn't miss it and got a seat behind the stage. I was just so happy once they came on stage, it felt like home. And then they played Trouble in place of Up In Flames and to this day that is one of my favorite ever concert moments. It is my second favorite song and one of my oldest favorites and I never thought I'd hear it as it had dropped of the sets by then. Makes me want to cry just to think of it. I have managed to see them a handful of times this current tour and all have been special, not sure I could pick a moment. The US tour opener last year was especially emotional because I hadn't seen them in four years and I was just so much more emotional than I thought I'd be. Also seeing Chris play a charity show in NYC in December is one of my favorite memories of my life and a story all in itself but I'll keep this to just whole-band memories.

If I answer this thoroughly it's going to turn into a the greatest tl;dr of all-time haha. I have a lot of them and most of them are mundane, but music makes mundanity tolerable doesn't it? -Parachutes stuff and related B sides remind me of studying in my cramped freshman dorm room with cheap headphones and big old CRT computer monitor on WinAmp. For You especially for some reason. Maybe because I sort of forgot about that song for a few years after that so it's really tied to that time. -AROBTTH I won't go into everything because that's kinda big. It reminds me of a tough time in college when I started having chronic pain that no one could figure out (still haven't!). The Scientist and In My Place in particular, just have very specific memories of moments where those held me in one piece. Also driving around campus and just being alone with that CD and escaping. Also listening to the CD with my dad when he drove me home on breaks before I had the car. -X&Y very much takes me back to the year I lived in State College, Pa., for my first job. Didn't have a single friend there but I was pretty happy and hopeful. Beautiful place in the mountains, just drove around listening to that album all the time. What If and A Message take me back a lot, I guess just because they were my favorites and I felt I related to them a lot at the time. Swallowed In The Sea reminds me of the long runs I used to go on up there. Not sure why, never listened to music while I ran but it was in my head a lot I guess. Album also reminds me of driving over the Tappan Zee bridge heading on an assignment that was massive and I was so terrified to drive anywhere near NYC (or any city). A local station was streaming it as it had just come out, first time I heard it and hearing the band's sound but with new songs was so comforting then. -Violet Hill reminds me of installing this really cool new head unit in my car and being proud I did it myself, and getting my first iPod which went with said head unit. It also reminds me of this one night I was in a really bad place, and turned on VH1 at 3 a.m and the video came on and I just felt like it grabbed me and pulled me back to earth. Lost? reminds me of my last good summer before that rough time started but being, you know, uh, lost. The whole album reminds me of the last time I felt hope for my first career and also the massive excitement of seeing the band in concert for the first time that tour. -Moving To Mars kind of reminds me of moving on from the band a little that year. That sounds weird because it is one of my favorite Coldplay songs, but around 2011 I started getting heavy into Muse and traveling for them, and MX didn't speak to me as much as I'd hoped. But MtM did, as well as UATW, and both songs remind me of how I continued to love CP even when the shine wore off and I drifted, so to say. Hard to explain but still loving them through an era I wasn't really into sort of cemented that they'd always be there for me? I'll stop there. There are a lot more but mostly older. A few newer ones for sure but harder to wax poetic for me about recent things.

The seats are reserved, so that is your seat regardless of when you arrive. People usually don't try to swipe seats, but if they did it is printed on your ticket and security would help remove anyone who sat in it and refused to move (again not likely, people are generally respectful). You got a great seat, right next to the B stage! Have fun!

They do them but it's always the same songs ... I think they just look for a request for UATW or TKC. But, I say go for it anyway! Maybe they'll feel like mixing it up and at worst, hey, you tried. I'll be posting my usual embarrassing video requesting Rush Of Blood To The Head, or maybe I'll try A Message. It's fun to try whether they play it or not.

Oh I would have been thrilled to be there, perfect or not. I like that they'll take chances on stuff and do it even if it's not perfect. Glad you got to hear it. It is a bit weird to save the new songs for the US. Maybe they just aren't happy with them live yet or haven't worked out how to do the setlist, and "saving" them is actually just buying a bit more time.

Yeah, it didn't seem lazy to me but just definitely not ready to come out of the oven, heh. I really hope it means a full-band, more polished version is coming for the US. I love this song to bits and have hoped since it came out that I could hear it live.

Thanks for sharing this, I loved reading it. It brought back memories of the first time I saw them. You will never forget that feeling. I've been to a lot of shows since (mostly of other bands as my tastes spread out) but there is never anything quite like that first one when they were the love of my life and I could not believe they were really playing in front of me. Reading things like this reminds me what matters. Hope you see them many more times, but for now let the memories quell the post-gig blues. :-)

Awesome! We should find each other and say hi for sure! I can't believe this is so soon!