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Happy you like it. It was just for fun & it took me about 15 mins, the text is maybe a couple of pts too small & offset by a few pixels. On reflection, and putting it side-by-side with the other 6 albums, one thing is consistent, a central focal point. This one doesn't really have that, so it would never be a Coldplay cover lol. I used the Viva font & yes, boobs, 'cause, why not?

This sounded interesting so I tried it out on guitar; rhythm of Viva, Warning Sign chords (used in the verses). Please excuse my average guitar playing, I only do it for fun :) Link

Most Coldplay singles are to be fair...

A "longer" version: [video=youtube;PVHV2yokXGA]

Hi Guys, I've two tickets to the gig on the 2nd but no one to go with at the moment. If anyone has two tickets to this gig (July 1st) and wants to go to the 2nd gig as well at no extra ticket cost drop me a PM, email - ianswinton @ me.com, or twitter - @ianhasgreeneyes... If nobody can do this by next Tuesday (25th) I will listen to offers for my spare on the 2nd :) - PS, I don't bite!

What an awesome gig! I got there at 1pm and ended up on the 2nd row... I'd have probably ended up a bit closer if I hadn't have taken a bag with me that had to be searched. The fans outside were all very friendly, very chatty and very excited to see the guys.. I love how the event brought people from all around the world to one place to listen to their favourite band. Rizzle Kicks were there to provide a bump to get things going, they were not bad nor amazingly good, just enjoyable for me. Dynamo confused me, he was great, Chris and Will watched from the sides! Chris clocked on that people were looking at him rather than the show and tried to deflect attention by pointing at Dynamo. David Brent was pleasant, I've never really been a "fan" of his stuff before but his lyrics were cheesy-cheerful. Lily Allen was warmly welcomed, to say she hadn't performed in a while she did look shy but did a great job. Her & Chris singing The Fear was lovely & when she brought out Robbie Williams there was a massive screech from the fans! It really was an OMG moment. Robbie, as always provided good entertainment. Then when it came round to the guys performing, I was expecting a similar setlist to Monday night's pub gig but I was proved wrong as they went from Clocks straight into Charlie Brown. The place was really rocking! Atlas' full live debut was ok in my opinion, although I love the track, and what Jonny was doing (creating a haunted atmosphere) his guitar was too loud for me and it seemed to drown out the big moments of the track, I couldn't hear any bass. Paradise was great as always. I laughed as people shouted "OK LETS GO" before the big drop... Chris mixed the lyrics up in the verses but nobody was too bothered. At the start of ETIAW Chris messed up the lyrics and ended up singing "mayayayaa" with his eyeballs popping out of his head for a split second. Even later in the track he seemed to forget the lyrics and Will backed him up. Nonetheless, energy was high and was as enjoyable as ever. Even though the set was shorter than normal, you didn't feel disappointed or ripped off by the cost of the tickets, travel and whatever else. It was great to be there for their only commercial gig of the year. I have some pics on Facebook, I've made it public so you all can view :) - https://www.facebook.com/ianswinton/media_set?set=a.10151952457684864.1073741826.721369863&type=1 But incase you don't want to look at all of them, here's just a few of the best ones (they are really big imgs):

An hour is ok, you'd think... When you run through the songs they HAVE to (or always) play (no particular order): 5 mins - Yellow 4 mins - In My Place 5 mins - Clocks 5 mins - Viva 5 mins - Fix You 5 mins - Paradise 4 mins - Charlie Brown 4 mins - Christmas lights - confirmed by Jonny 4 mins - Atlas That makes 41 mins, and then the maybe's 5 mins - Scientist 5 mins - ETIAW 4 mins - PoC - yes PoC... 4 mins - UATW 59 mins & 1 min of Chris chatting, that's your hour! I'd be quite happy with that :)

I got 2 standing stalls tickets, just nobody to go with (for now) ha! Can't wait!

I filmed myself before & after listening to Atlas for the first time. Here's my instant review/reaction: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTdgsKh3_0U]Review: Atlas - Coldplay - YouTube[/ame] After a few more listens, it's definitely grown on me a lot. Love it. Classic Coldplay. 9/10 @IanHasGreenEyes.

The main chords used are C, G & F throughout. Apart from the last 2 "It's us against the world" where the Chords follow F, Am & G. I play the C chord as: Left hand: C Right Hand: G, C, E G as: Left hand: G Right Hand: G, B, D F as: Left hand: F Right hand: F, A, C Am as: Left: A Right: A, C, E You can also shuffle the top note down on each chord during each bar at the right time so on the C chord the E would come down to a D, and so forth on the rest of the chords. But I wouldn't worry about that (above), firstly get used to the chords, tempo & transitions, then you can add the riffs/melody :)

2012 All the Highs: - Seeing Coldplay at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry - Seeing Coldplay at the Emirates Stadium, London (4th June) - MEETING CHRIS MARTIN - Family Holiday in Fuerteventrua - September Trip to Madrid to Watch Real Madrid vs Barcelona - Paradise being announced as the UK's official #1 on my 20th Birthday - Coldplay Tweeting to me - Starting my 3rd year and final year at University with great grades - Seeing Muse in Manchester Arena - All the crazy nights out with my friends - Having the best of friends around through hard times All the Lows: - Losing our beloved dog Fred - Attempting to fall out of love with the ex - Achieving only average grades in my 2nd Year - The 'Cursed missoportuniates' to start something new - Losing my iPhone 4S - Spending 400euros on some Beats by Dre headphones, yeah they're good but JESUS

Ok guys. This is 'The Video' of my immediate reaction after I just met Chris. Rather embarrassing on my behalf maybe, but I'm not bothered! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoyBk0DV3RI]YouTube: My Reaction[/ame]

I can't get over how excited he was, really. It's an amazing thing. The guys are so humble and modest that I've only ever seen him talk the band up once on the South Bank show where he was forced into saying "Yellow was successful, cause its fucking awesome". It's a side of his character I've never seen before. Which means guys.. whatever they are working on, must be fucking good!

Also guys, It's very early days.. You don't know if they decide to make a collaboration half way through or so.. Personally, I loved the Rihanna collaboration & I loved Homecoming with Kanye , I would listen to more collabs.

From the way he was reacting I'd say more Queen than U2. Seriously he was ecstatic!

Seriously guys, he was a pleasure to meet & talk to.. His expression and enthusiasm when telling us about this new album was amazing to see.. It seemed like they've already got something big written up. He was so Excited about it! & about the eye, we'l never know, I wasn't sure about his answer on that one. I noticed he was having something done with his teeth too.. I've never seen what he had on/in his teeth before & I'm no dentist ha! was like small black fills where the gums would be.. I don't know. I'm going to sleep now, or at least attempt to. I will reply early morning GMT! If you've any questions :) let me know

I MET CHRIS MARTIN IN LONDON So, it’s a long story, and it’s going to stay that way! When the band announced that their artwork would be published in Proud gallery, London, I was immediately attracted to the idea of seeing, what I consider to be, a beautiful piece of art. I loved the combination of colours & expression shown throughout its always fascinated me to think that they actually made this artwork (with help from Paris of course). So I immediately scheduled time to make sure I can go visit the venue & see the wonderful, colourful artwork. Me & my friend Jamie – a part time fan - decided we would bunk the day off to go to London to see the exhibit So I booked with a “Cheap intercity Bus” organisation that had just the perfect route from Preston to London. I have seen Coldplay on 8 different occasions. Each being different & special in its own. So on route, our first stop was at Bolton, outside the Reebok Stadium where I first watched the band live. This was the first gig I ever went to & by far a memorable one, with the recording of the Fix You music video being shot. An eternal treasure and memory from this one night. Our next stop took us to Manchester, where, funnily enough I have seen the band on 3 occasions from the past 3 tours. We drove past the arena and many memories were running through the mind. After leaving Manchester, we headed south. The route took us past Coventry, where from the motorway we could see the Ricoh Arena. Further down the road, the legendary arc & tiers of Wembley Stadium became visible before heading into north & central London & passing the Emirates stadium along the way. All of these venues in which I saw the band play live at*. Surely, it was a sign. That, or maybe the fact they tweeted to me the day before? Coldplay Tweet to me *Missing one is the London BBC Studio’s After reaching Victoria station & being within the vicinity of Buckingham Palace me & Jamie did some casual sight seeing before heading towards the exhibition in Chalk Farm. When we got there, it was an amazing visual to see. The wall in its full colourful glory. I did notice strange things about the wall that I hadn’t previously noticed on the digital image, obviously some good photoshop-ing skills had been applied to the final product. Nonetheless, we stayed for about 15-20 minutes took pictures beside the wall, inspected each and every photo & print before heading out to post some fan mail to the bakery. A Hopeful Transmission to say the least. A Picture of Me & The wall. The Hopeful Transmission After walking, for the majority, up hill, we arrived to notice lights were on at the Beehive with cars filling the small space available. There was definitely something going on. Having seeing Rik’s tweets from the previous day. I had a feeling we were in for a treat. Further down the road, there was another car blocking the front door/side door of the bakery. I walked down the alleyway, removed my letter from my jacket, gave it a lucky kiss, and posted it through the letter box. I turned around to Jamie who said “What now?”. I replied, I’ve a feeling something’s happening here, all these cars and lights; we’ll sit on that bench until 2pm (40mins away). So on the bench we sat, to find a man, tall, bald, dressed in jeans, dark shirt, leather boots and funky glasses exit the bakery, cross the road, stare at us both whilst crossing and enter the Beehive. No it wasn't Miller. He definitely raised suspicions and within 3mins he was back, crossing the road to return to the bakery. My initial thought was.. Has my hopeful transmission worked? Could I potentially be meeting one or more of my idols? Minutes past and the activity seemed minimal, my friend Jamie was getting agitated and wanted to leave, he started to pace up and down the road. Whilst he was doing that a security man entered the alley, which caught Jamie’s attention. He looked at me & said, he has a key. He stood their waiting at the door although he had a key. Jamie returned to tell me that he was just standing there and does have a key to get in. When seconds later, I hear a door shut. The traffic lights are on red & no cars were coming. Chris Martin had just left the beehive and was about to cross the road. “It’s Chris! I think” I said to Jamie with excitement. I watched him walk out, lift his hood up, head down and attempt to button up his jacket where he revealed the now infamous ‘Flower T-Shirt”. Still sat on the bench: Me:Oh my god It’s Chris Jamie:Are you actually going to say he…. I had already left the bench, the traffic lights had turned green, Chris had crossed the road and I was dodging traffic to try meet and greet him. There were people stood outside the dog parlour, so I didn’t want to shout. He kept his head down and walking in his rather iconic & peculiar way. I approached him about 10 yards short of the group of people stood outside. I thought I was going to choke & not get my words out. However I quietly said, chris, hey Chris & offered my hand out to shake. In which Chris replied “Hi!” & shook my hand! There was a couple of seconds of me being starstruck before I managed to get out the words: Me: Hi Chris, It’s a pleasure to meet you, my name is Ian & I’m a massive, massive fan of you guys!” Chris: Ahh cool man! Here, just come round the corner, we’ll have a chat & all that. So as we walked around the corner, Chris said, “Don’t want to be left out standing in the street, but here is ok” & The conversation then followed: Chris: So where have you guys come from? Oh man it’s a cold day today isn’t it? Me: Yeah, “so cold, so cold” haha. I’m sorry was that a bit weird? Im sorry.. I’m from Preston. Chris: *points towards me, smiles* oh yeah! (as if he had recognised that from my tweet the previous day, in which Anchor-man replied to) & no it wasn’t weird, well.. maybe a bit haha! What you doing in London? Me: To see the exhibition! We’ve just been there, it was beautiful! Amazing work you guys did! Chris: Ah thanks man, that’s so sweet, it means a lot to me & us as a band Me: *Chuckles* But you’re giving it away? Chris: I know *laughs*, but we need and have new things in here now & some crazy fan like yourself is going to want it more than we do! Jamie: He’d buy it if he could! Me: Probably! Jamie: Ian’s been to 8 of your shows! Chris: Really? 8? The first one must have been good, cause you came back haha! Me: It was a good one, Reebok Stadium, Bolton! Chris: ah yeah! Look guys, I don’t know about this picture that were gna have by the way, I’ve got a black eye! (looked sore) At least it will be unique though! (the picture). Just don’t put it on Twitter (with a serious face on) haha im just kidding but its just if anyone sees it & wants to make a headline in a newspaper or whatever.. I don’t mind though! Me: How come you’ve gotten a black eye? Chris: I… errmm.. I got something stuck in it! Jamie gets the camera out, & me & chris stand side by side for the pic. I say to Jamie Me: Make sure it’s a good one haha! Chris: Yeah, Take a few! Jamie had troubles with the camera, was on the wrong setting at first so that maybe explains our expression of happiness.. trust me I was dying inside! Photos got taken.. & then I continued: Me: Thanks Chris, It means the world to me, youre like my idol! You & your music has had the biggest influence on my life & as a person. You do have the best job in the world & you deserve it! Chris: wow, *chuckles* no problem, & thanks Ian, it is Ian right? *I nod* yeah Ian! & to be honest, without people like you, I wouldn’t have all this *waving arms in the direction of the bakery & beehive*, so you’re the biggest influence on my life! Haha Me: erm.. *starstruck* I was scared for you guys on the last album, Mylo Xyloto Chris: wow! You can say it *laughs* but really? Scared? Why Scared man? Me: cause in the interviews you said it could be your last!? Chris: no, no, no way! Don’t be scared man. Me: [but’s In ] But im really happy to hear youre making new music! Chris: Well, I’m gna be honest, this next album is going to be FUCKING AWESOME! & This is where its going to get really good for us, this is when were going to start getting really big. Seriously, I can’t wait for you to hear it! (he was so enthusiastic about this, pacing around) Me: oh wow! Sounds amazing haha anymore collabs or? Chris: No, not on this one, but its going to be fucking awesome, really, I already know it! I have this feeling! Me: amazing man, ahh im so excited!!! Sounds amazing already! Chris: It is, I promise you! Me: Is anyone else here today to chat & get a picture with? Chris: Erm no, just me today, the guys who set up; Rik & Dan & engineers are here but you wont want to chat or get a picture with them I imagine haha! No but Jonny & Guy are out of town & Will, I don’t know where Will is! Me: Ahh ok, it’s a shame, but, sorry, I just met you & I’m a bit starstuck! Kind of a highlight of my life to meet you! Its all downhill from here until I get married & have kids haha! Chris: It’s ok man, its nice to see people like you & besides, you’ve got our next album to look forward to! Me: yes! Indeed I have! Chris: Can I just say before you go, it means a lot to me that you’ve come all this way to say such nice things to me, I’m not going to lie or be big-headed here; I’ve probably made your day, but you’ve made mine! I seriously mean that! Imagine how you’d feel if I came to Preston to tell you, you are great at what you do! What would you do? Me: I… have no idea, I don’t know how to answer that, Unreal I think is the word Chris: It is unreal & that’s how I feel when I get to meet the guys who give me everything! Anyway, I’ve to go now, Thanks again though Ian! & I’m sorry what’s your name!? Jamie: Jamie! Chris: yeah ok so, thanks Ian, thanks Jamie! & take care yeah!? Me: ok cya! Chris walks towards the door, I shout: Me: Oh Chris! Chris: yep? Me: Next time you sell out Manchester Arena, look for me! I’ll be front row, singing along to everything no doubt! Chris: haha ok! I’ll look out for you..promised, Alright bye!! And that was, that, I met Chris Martin. He was such a gracious and humble guy to us and I loved how he spent about 5 minutes of his time to speak about things. Some very exciting details too! Here is a link to my Facebook album for the day’s trip. It was the perfect day, everything I wanted to happen on my trip, happened. Was worth everything I’ve ever spent on the band. It was an amazing and most surreal moment, but the image of him crossing the road remains so vivid in my mind. And the conversation, Jamie and me ran through what we talked about over and over taking notes on the iPhone on the walk to parliament hill. Jamie also decided to film my reaction after walking the corner of the bakery there are images of my face & my reaction in that facebook album! I brought my Live 2012 Blu-Ray with me & a green marker for him to sing, but forgot to ask. That was the only downside but, it was an amazing experience & the ‘hopeful transmission’, should he have read it says the things I maybe didn’t already say. My Twitter feed blew up & many asked questions what happened!? I thought the best way to tell everyone is by sharing it through here & also for you guys to view. My Twitter: IanHasGreenEyes So yeah, that’s my; I met Chris Martin story! On the journey home, today. I listened to Strawberry Swing a lot, because it really was “such a perfect day”. Hope you enjoy reading!

High Res Scan inside cover Hi Guys! I've a High-Res scan of the inside cover from the blu-ray if anyone wants it? 6303 × 3474 2190 × 1210 865 × 479

Its not my recording & now you mention it, I also saw The Escapist credited at the end. However it does fit well with the rest of the scenes whilst not coming from the MX era.

Ok I may sound crazy, but whilst the members of each band were talking, a track from the album (distorted) could be heard behind the band's speeches. On Chris's 1st Interview.. Don't Let it Break Your Heart. On Johnny's .. Charlie Brown On Guy's.. Up With The Birds On Chris' 2nd Interview.. (I recall not 100% Sure) HLH or ETIAW But noticeably on Will's interview, the track playing in the background was definitely new to my ears. Obviously this track must have come from the recording sessions of MX * & I'm dying to say Car Kids * , but putting 2 & 2 together with Chris' tweet from a recording studio.. Could we be in for a MX EP?

UK CINEMA Viewings: http://www.showcasecinemas.co.uk/events/arts-and-events/coldplay-live-2012

Saw this last Thursday, decided to risk buying it after reading 'decent' reviews from the site (a few petty complaints) Just received the email to say its been dispatched today (tuesday) I held myself back from reading the spoilers going around online to wait for the official thing. Looking forward to the read :)

Chris Martin 'Icon' T-Shirt on Matalan UK Found this T-Shirt online, don't think anyone else has posted it. Not a great picture but not bad for just £10 I guess :) Description "Music lovers and fans of Coldplay will love this Chris Martin Icon Denim 73 Print t shirt in grey. Make a style statement with this great t shirt. Team with jeans for a casual look." http://www.matalan.co.uk/fcp/product/fashion-to-buy-online/T-Shirts/Icon-Print-T-Shirt/55138&resultsPerPage=100&attrList=Dept,brand

Solution! Just learnt this Playing along with my live clip that I took at the emirates.. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP8FhEVJ3RQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player]Warning Sign, Emirates Stadium[/ame] The piano chords are: Verse: G, D, A, E Chorus: D, F#m, A, E(bass note g#). Outro: still unsure on but sounds like: A, A(base note E), G, F#m(bass note D) ______________________ Some chords sound better top heavy with different starting points, this is the way I found best. G - G, B, D D - F#, A, D A - A, C#, E E - G#, B, E F#m - F#, A, C# Hope this helps the piano coldplayers with their coldplaying! :)

DONE! :)