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Some more good pics here: http://www.soundspike.com/photos/1744/1/coldplay-in-seattle/#nav

Argh, did I really pay $20 more than I should have for a tee last night? :angry:

I wanted to do a review while the whole show was still fresh in my memory that should make up for the lack of pics/videos! It will be a long one, so apologies. BTW, if anyone there saw a girl with large elephant ears, that was me. I got there an hour before gates opened, which turned out to be useless because the area staff kept us waiting outside in the rain till 6pm (Seattle, shoulda known). I got to meet some other fans and get to the merch lines first, so I guess that was good. Also got to see the Roadies and Dan Green at work! I was hoping to see Phil but no dice :( As someone else noted, the audience mix was really weird. No offence, but there were way too many older (50+) folks at the show who were all seated - and remained seated - in the front rows and clearly knew nothing about Coldplay. They weren't even chaperoning! There were no die-hard fans around me so I felt pretty silly when I got up and got really excited when 99 problems came on :D The feeling when the xylobands light up the first time is just incredible. No matter how many videos of it you watch (and I have watched MANY over the last few weeks) there's nothing quite like the rush of watching everyone's collective gasp when they see the bands flashing! My bracelet for some reason stayed on till Charlie Brown played which led to everyone around me asking how I was doing that...I attributed it to my super-fandom-ness :D I stayed away from watching any of the videos from the tour so far, so I could really experience the whole thing. I was a bit of a spoiler for my friends who didn't know the setlist and I felt like I knew too much. Anyway. I have a renewed love for HLH, it was such a perfect opener for MX. IMP felt really right, though I was never a huge fan of the song before. When Jonny came on the X Stage with Chris it was just… Gahhh! And Jonny ended it, of course. The next standout for me was Yellow - I did not expect the piano intro which just added a whole new dimension to the song. Violet Hill and GPASUYF were so loud and Jonny was on fire. Absolutely fabulous playing. Didn't care too much for POC, Will did sound good though. Before Warning Sign came the little speech about Guy - and the spotlight on Guy nodding along as the crowd cheered his good looks :D DLIBYH, oh DLIBYH - may have been my favorite of the night. I'm going to get nit-picky for a moment and say Charlie Brown sounded… odd to me...Will wasn't drumming at the start and the pace slackened a bit, but picked up quickly later. Did everyone see the flying/somersaulting Running Man during CB? The C-stage - was not a surprise to me, but was for a lot of others! I was sad that I was in section 103, directly opposite 111...if only, sigh. Chris' piano during Clocks seemed a bit off from where I was standing, but when I look at the youtube videos it sounds perfect from other spots. Fix You gave me the warm and fuzzies like always, but it sounded so perfect last night with the crowd singing very well at the end. ETIAW - I thought last night's performance of it was one of the best I've seen. Chris' singing really stood out for me last night, in addition to everything else he does <3 There were a lot of Yoga and dance moves on display last night and also some marching to Violet Hill. He worked in enough Seattle references (Seahawks, Nirvana, Mariners) to keep everyone engaged, and really got the crowd singing and jumping. As he does, I know, I know. I'll save the rest for the Chrissy thread :) I really want to go to another show now! Their strategy to keep me wanting more with the 90 minute show is really working. My camera was crap, as expected, so I'll just post the two- one pic of my solitary flashing xyloband and one of the stage:

EVEN more here, Tash!

Quotable quotes from Chris: "bet you're all thinking, why does this band Coldplay have such sad songs when they have the most handsome bass player in the world? Just look at him. He's definitely the most handsome bass player of all the bands" "thanks for coming out tonight, must be so hard with traffic and work and school" of course, he also said Us Against The World was about our baseball team who are not doing so well right now :)

What an amazing night! Surprised there were no additions so the setlist but it was all so perfect. The guys were all so happy and there were SO many Buckin moments! I realized that my camera was simply not going to take the pictures I wanted but I have a few which I'll post tomorrow. I was pretty far away.

I'm inside! We were waiting out in the pouring rain :( I'm pretty sure I'm the only goofy looking person in an elephant hat :)

Waiting outside the arena with a handful of folks! Can't hear a thing :( saw a couple of Oxfam volunteers in costume though!

They've clearly not seen the Vanity Fair oscars party pics we have :rolleyes:

hehe I *Might* just be crazy-excited. :)

KeyArena Seattle ‏ @KeyArenaSeattle Coldplay crew setting up the stage for tonight's show! http://pic.twitter.com/icCICeqZ Link

I will be there! will try my very best to make it in time for soundcheck as well. I can't wait for new songs to make it to the setlist

Happened to a couple others too! Goon Leader ‏ @NateKarn Got my tickets for coldplay got upgraded from upper level to front row #winning Kealani ‏ @fearless24_7 Holy shit. Holy holy holy. A girl gave us front row tickets. Holy crap I'm crying. #Coldplay Katherine Benedict ‏ @katherinejben Music producer of Coldplay, Nicole, just asked to trade our tickets in the 300s for tickets in the front row! #FUCKYES

I love reading everyone's first reactions to the xylobands on twitter! "what's #coldplayfilm" etc.

OMG! I have to be there in time for soundcheck tomorrow! :wideeyed:

Have i been away for too long? guilty. Here are some great pics I found from the Vancouver gig (if they have not been posted already): Just 2 days to go to the concert in Seattle! I happened to buy an elephant hat over the weekend. Not afraid of looking silly :) :elephant: - Dee

I happened to pick up an elephant hat in Portland over the weekend! :elephant:

Awesome to meet some of @Coldplay at their kick around @BCplace yesterday. Looking forward to their show tonight! http://yfrog.com/oc755yzj link

the video looks so slick. the coldplayfilm is going to be awesome! why wasn't Chris playing football too, i wonder.

I checked yesterday's setlist... http://lockerz.com/s/202180708 Nothing that looks like "-- Balloons"... so this is new? Ok, enough speculating, let's just wait and see :D

UV Balloons. I think :o

there's a lot of tweets with #coldplay #yyc tags...looks promising

And the wristbands have the hastag omg omg :dance:

You guize! 15 days to go! :dance:

Hi ladies! Sometimes it's really hard to keep up with this thread, but going through all the posts is like a satisfying round of Bikram Yoga ...must keep hydrated! :) It seems like I'll be at the earliest concert amongst us? 25th April is getting deliciously close! Sadly I didn't get pit seats (and won't be able to collect DNA samples), but not bad seats. I am debating taking my SLR with a zoom lens...but it might interfere with my jumping around and dance moves. We will see!