sinead

ugh double post sorry, just so jumpy!! 8)

what about that high note?!!! :shock: even I couldn't reach that!!

what about that high note?!!! :shock: even I couldn't reach that!!

ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh "honey, honey......" never fails to make me weak at the knees!!!!!!!!! :-D

dont know if thgis has been said already, but NOW (7.00pm BST) Highlights from the bands earls court gig last thursday can be heard on http://www.xfm.co.uk Just click the "listen live" button at the top of the page......... GO GO GO!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: Sinead xxxxxxx

Coldplay reach the combined age of 100 on guy's birthday!! Well, that's what Will said a few months back when asked to give a random coldplay fact. :lol: ....someone add them up and check!! Never was any good at maths...!! :roll: sinead xxxxxxxx

:shock: Gasp! umm, yes of course, it was US who came in here and started berating Radiohead fans for not liking Coldplay. It was US who went to radiohead's message board and told them all how the band hasn't progressed since their debut, and that they have no right to like the radiohead because in our opinion Coldplay is far superior. So sorry, our bad. :roll:

this was taken from NME magazine, Xmas 2002, and there is no link, but one of these days i will get my arse in gear, type it up and post it here! sinead xxxxx

the best jonny pic has to be my avatar.....so cute...like an ickle eskimo! :-D

hey margaret! yes it was amazing, but it's really weird, i barely heard a thing! i mean, i heard it and the sound filled my head and all, but there was so much to see...does that make sense??!! i TOTALLY have a new found respect for Will - he is so cool and really rocks his silvery sparkly drum kit!! :-D and i agree, Guy is definetley sexier than Chris, but he was very quiet, and kept hiding inside the neck of his jumper. :roll: bless. but jonny, with that toothy grin and crinkly eyes still gets me...gutted not to get a picture of him. mark and lard are funnier off air than on - they should really be a stand up duo...just funny to look at!!

that's me playing the game!! erk!! Chris has a fork in his pocket!! yaya!! Sinead xxxxx

busy bee - thank you!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :lol: :shock: :lol: I emailed the BBC to see if they could send me an audio version of the show so that i could keep it as a reminder of that crazy day, but they said they couldn't for 'copyright purposes!' I got my dad to record it on tape, but it's not quite the same is it?!! now i can listen to myself being an idiot on national radio, many times over!!!!! Sinead xxxxx

more pictures more photos........

Finally got my pictures back today after meeting the band on tuesday at Maida Vale in London. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, so i was expecting just to have to remember everything in my head! After the show we were taken out of the studios, back into the sunny afternoon air (Sunny? in England? In March?!! Crikey!!) My sister and I sit on the steps of the studio and ring my mum and dad. My mum answers and begins to bable down the phone at me: "Sinead I can't believe you were on the radio! Well done, was it good....blah blah blah!" I'm chatting away to her when ma soeur grabs me by the arm: "The band have just come out!" I promptly hang up on my mum and turn around - argh! Chris Will Jonny and Guy! Everyone outside immediately begins: "Chris, Chris, over here!" to which he replies, "It's OK, im not goin anywhere, i'm just gonna stand here and you can do what you want with me." Everyone laughs and he smacks himself on the forehead. "Damn, that came out sooo wrong!" I finally dig my album cover and pen out of my bag and am about to ask Chris to sign it, when suddenly his phone goes off. He promptly apologises and answers it. It must be an anwer phone meddage because he just listens, and then suddenly he curls up ion a ball at my feet, intently listening to his phone!! It was so surreal. I just kept looking at him hunched up on the floor, and then back at my sister, who was laughing so hard at the look of surprise on my face! :shock: I mean, if i had just reached out, i could have so pushed him over......! (No...must....not .......injure....Chris!) He sits at my feet for a few more minutes then suddenly pops back up again, and says, to no-one in particular "OK, all loved up and ready to go!" Ahhhhhhh, that message MUST have been from Gwyneth!! Plus he was blushing!!!! :smileyround: He signs my album cover and goes "You were the one who won that competition were't you?" I manage to squeak out a yes and he laughs. "Bonkers!" Aww bless. He then signs my sister's pad, and reads her name tag to make sure he spelt it correctly, with all the right accents - he had spelt it right, which is pretty good going considering her name is Roisin with accents over the o and second i!! We then get a piccie taken (see below) and he moves on to the next person! Unfortunately, while this was happening, Guy and Jonny left to go to the next radio station (busy day, obviously) so i missed them completely :shrug: but then i spot Will leaning against a wall so i grab him to sign my album. He was so nice, and tells me congrats for winning the comp, and i say that i'm still not quite sure how i won it!! Then suddenly he's called away, and him and Chris get into the waiting car and zoom off! Over far too soon, but now with my pictures back i can have some kind of closure, and perhaps snap out of the reverie i have been living in the past few days!! However, these photos have def given me a complex about my height! I am such a short arse!!! Sinead xxxxxxx

miffed means gutted, put out, upset!! and yes, she didn't know Guy's name either!! stupid!! :roll: i get giggly every time i see a fork now, it's really stupid!! :D Sinead xxxx

It wasn't me that didn't know Johnny's name!! Come on, i worship him daily!! It was the woman i was up against!! Johnny looked a bit miffed when she just called him 'the guitarist!' bless!! im getting my photos back tomorrow, so i'll post them here soon! Sinead xxxxx

:-D Hello everyone!! Regular readers of my column (hee hee) will recall how last week I won a competition to see Coldplay perform an intimate set for 30 people at Maida Vale in London for Radio 1! :shock: This is what happened: We arrive at 12.00pm and are told that the 6 competition winners will be taking part in ANOTHER competition live on air for the chance to win a signed lithograph! Eek -not again, I was nervous enough the first time when it was just on Mark and Lard’s show!!! Now I have to do a competition with the band in the room?!!! We are left to stew in the BBC canteen for a while until ten to 1 when we're taken into the studio. Things are running late so as we walk through the labyrinth of corridors filled with guitar cases labelled ‘yellow’ and ‘scientist’ and into the studio, the band are still rehearsing! Guy, Johnny, Chris and Will – right in front of me!!! We are led up onto the balcony above, where my sister and I take our positions directly above Chris’ piano. My sister will later remark how we could have quite easily spat on Chris’ head if we wanted too. It was tempting but I did manage to restrain myself! Chris stands in the middle of the floor below and looks up at the balcony. “Hello!” he says. I think we just goggled back at him! He was wearing a completely red make trade fair t-shirt with “The Scientist” jacket, and black trousers. Johnny was wearing navy with that red quicksilver baseball cap. Will was wearing his navy polo shirt and jeans, and Guy was wearing a red t-shirt that said something along the lines of “Big Ken’s Strength Training.” All looked completely knackered but very smiley! They started with ‘Politik’, and I can just remember watching Will in amazement; seeing him that close up is amazing and I have a new found respect for him because he was just…well, cool!! And Johnny proved to be a bit of a mover during this track too! Very funny. After a chat with the band which involved Chris singing a line from Tatu’s “All the things she said” (good lord!) they then played Clocks, and because we were standing right above Chris, my sister and I have decided he has fingers like E.T. when he plays the piano. Long and spindly! Then came the moment I had been dreading: the competition. They called the six competition winners down in order to determine which two of us would go through to compete for a limited edition signed lithograph. (altogether now: “oooooooooh”) On the way down the stairs I had to squeeze past Chris who was talking to Jo Whiley animatedly, so as you can imagine my heart rate was sky high before the competition even started! The first question was: What is track six on AROBTTH? All of us stood there dumbstruck until I finally managed to squeak out ‘Daylight.’!! And I VERY CLEARLY remember Johnny smiling at me at this point (breathe girl, breathe!) This meant I was through to the next round – and I immediately went to the girl next to me “does this mean I have to make an idiot out of myself on national radio AGAIN?” She said yes I did. Damn. Anyway, I get taken back up to the balcony (squeezing past Jo Whiley, Sara Cox and Wes, all really cool Radio One DJ’s btw), have a suppressed screaming fit and manage to calm down in time to see the band perform In My Place! Halfway through, I’m watching Johnny and he suddenly lifts his hand from the guitar, raises two fingers and swears at Chris! Chris begins to giggle, recovers his composure and covers his face with his free hand as if to say “I must not look at Johnny, otherwise I will turn to stone.” He then goes over during the instrumental and begins doing Liam Gallagher “come-and-have-a-go-if-you-think-you’re-hard-enough” type dancing in front of Johnny, and Johnny just laughs! Ahh, the tradition of In My Place messing about continues unabated! In between live songs, other artists are played, and while we’re off air Will dances around to Justin Timberlake, and Chris plays along on the piano to The White Stripes. Very cool! They then played the Scientist, which was beautiful and had everyone just singing along. During Johnny’s guitar change, the tech guy managed to pull of Johnny's hat and headphones while taking the guitar off over his head. He almost strangled the poor guy!! OK, then GULP. Competition time. I’m led down to the floor with the other woman whom I’m up against, and I stand directly in front of the band. The strangest, yet coolest moment of the day. Mark and Lard inform us that they are going to read out a series of questions that relate to a band member. We had to study their faces in order to guess which one of them the statement was about and then shout out our names when we knew the answer. So the first question: “Which member of Coldplay went to the chiropractor this morning?!” Oh dear Lord of Heaven above! Complete and utter madness ensues as each member of the band proceeds to try and stare me out without laughing and giving themselves away. So we get to the fifth question and it’s two all. I have held my composure quite well up until this point considering Will keeps laughing at me, and Johnny has just gone cross eyed in an attempt to freak me out! Final question: “Which member of Coldplay has a fork in his pocket at this moment?” I quickly realise that Chris’ pockets are the only one I can’t see, plus he is pretending to drink his coke far too casually for my liking. So I bite the bullet: “Chris” I say, before the other woman has a chance. Everyone turns to look at Chris as he smiles, raises his eyebrows, lifts backs his jacket and reveals……a fork sticking out of his trouser pocket!! YAY!!! Mark and Lard announce I am the winner and everyone claps! As we go off air, Chris leans across, holds out his hand to me and says “Well done, Sinéad.” :shock: I shake his hand, laugh and say thanks…….then run screaming silently back up the balcony to my equally giddy sister! Woohoo, I win!!! And I have just stood in front of all four members of Coldplay and played the craziest competition in the world! Touched by the hand of Chris Martin no less!! But for me the best moment comes at the end of the show when Chris sits down at the piano and plays a solo, slowed down version of “Yellow.” The whole audience just stood in amazement, it was so beautiful. I think it’s a sign of talent when you can take a song that is already amazing and just by changing the style and tempo, take it to a higher level. Absolutely mind-boggling. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to take photos inside, but I got one with Chris outside, but I’ll tell more, and post the photos when they are developed, because I have rambled for far too long!! If you want to SEE the crazy Coldplay competition in full they have it at the following link, just click on “Watch the one and only Coldplay game.” You can also hear bits of the interview, but unfortuantely not the live tracks, but i taped it off the radio (as you od) so i'll try get it uploaded soon. Please reply and tell me I didn’t make a complete fool of myself!! Over and out Sinéad xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/markandlard/coldplay_feature.shtml

MARGARET Oh lord!!! Margaret ! Thank you for being so nice! if its any consolation i completely fluked it! i've been listening to the other rounds and the questions are really hard. To pay homage to you, i will do my best to bump off gwyneth (come on, she's so small, it shouldn't be too hard!) i'll take some photos (if they let me) and post them here after. Sinead xxx (PS, did mark and lard scare the bejaysus out of you as musch as they did me?!)

theres a link on the radio 1 page where you can hear me making a fool of myself on the radio this afternoon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/markandlard/coldplay_feature.shtml Go under the picture of chris and there's a link that says "Round 3"....thats me!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!! i may be an idiot but im going to meet coldplay!!!!!!! :D

i know im soooooooo shallow! of course i will take as many photos as possible and post them here!! not actually sure if im allowed to get things signed, but you would think they would let me! before they take out the restraining order of course! :-D God do you think Gwyneth will be there??? don't fancy figting her for Chris' affections! lalalalala If anyone has any tips on how to survive this momentus occasion it would be most appreciated! Sinead xxxxxxxx

Oh dear lord in heaven above and the sweet baby jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: I have just won the competition on Radio1 to go and see Coldplay perform at Maida Vale next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with only 30 other people!!!!!!!! I am going to see Mr Jonny Buckland, Mr Will Champion, Mr Guy Berryman and Mr Chris Martin IN THE FLESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone restrain me before i eat my own head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (oh dear lord what AM i going to wear?!!!!!!!!) Mwahahaha! Just wanted to share it with you lovely people. Sinead xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

the article that goes with it is also cute....chris makes some ambiguous references to his and jonny's personal lives, and the interviewer goes: "Are you two in love?" Chris and Jonny respond by saying "We are" and then kissing each other!! mwhahahaha funny funny funny!!!!! i'll put the cute jonny pic up under his section on the message board later Sinead xxxxx

ta love. i've seen it b4, but i'd lost it down the board an couldn't be bothered to go looking for it!! so lazy, i know. thanks NEway!! :-D But i think this picture is worthy of a new post altogether. We can now discuss the possiblites of Chris and Jon doing catalogue modelling should Coldpay ever split up....... just a thought! Sinead xxxxxx

For all you Jonny and Chris 'relationshippers' out there: this is from NME's Xmas issue and it just makes me smile...move over gwyneth!!! there's also a cute photo of jonny which i'll post later for all members of the Buckland Brigade!! This kinda thing makes the world a better place! Sinead xxxxx

go to http://www.justspies.com and check it out!!! I think every song should have Chris' crazy ramblings at the start, they just make me love it even more!! (and how in love with gwyneth is that boy?!! so sweet!) tell me what you think of it! i think its in the same kinda vein as gravity, but you know it all sounds completely different when recorded!! BEAUTIFUL!!! :rainbowfro: