My Coldplay.com

Coldplay played a great set for the Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York today. Here are the vids from MSNBC.com. Pictures have been added to the gallery here and fan reviews/videos are below.

CLOCKS

INTERVIEW/VIVA LA VIDA

LOST!

IN MY PLACE

42 [ENCORE]

SETLIST
Clocks
Lost!
Viva la Vida
In My Place
42

The played Yellow during rehearsals.

Chris ran down the isle and was literally right in front of me, i was on my dads shoulders, and chris definitely made eye contact with me! i had a blast. The guys sounded amazing!

[Scientific Sparker]

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Anyway. . . .just wanted to point out
Highlights of COLDPLAY on the Today Show =
- When the announcer lady called referred to Jonny as Guy. (Poor Jon, he didn’t know what to do )
- When the announcer ladies (with embarrassed faces) held up 2 freakin’ bras that the crowd had thrown at the stage!!!
- And then in the middle of Lost! Chris got thrown a pair of black panties and exclaimed “Wow people are getting undressed here man!” Gross!!
- When Al Roker said “Coldplay rules!!!”
- When Al Roker was talking to some fans standing behind the stage and he told them “Oh you get a great view of the drummer’s toosh!”
- ALL of those signs people made!!!! Sweeeet
- That Chris still has HOLES under his jacket arms!
- That the boys (especially Chris) were sweating like there’s no tomorrow.
- Jonny’s painted guitars, Guy’s painted bass, Will’s kooky cool drumset, and Chris’ bouncy hair!
- Chris’ flub-up at the beginning of Viva La Vida
- Jonny’s hat and original Fender Telecaster Thinline sunburst colour guitar (instead of that Gibson…haha)
- Someone’s sign that read ” I Heart JB + Coldplaying” !!!!
- The fact that the boys played 42! Woo!
- Chris’ animal/war cries during 42
- The Inverted Black and White Keys on Chris’ Piano! Super Cool!

[ColdplayBirdsFly]

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Recently got back from it. it was amazing!!! thanks so much ian for the opportunity.
here’s the breakdown of the entire setlist
mike check 1
clocks (1.5 times)
viva la vida
lost (2 times)
yellow (acoustic mandolin version)

Mike check 2
in my place
clocks (.5 times)

tv performance
clocks
viva la vida
lost!
in my place
42

amazing and after the thing when the crew people were cleaning up they gave me a pick!!!! squee!!!!!

amazing amazing amazing

[winigwl]

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I almost got a legit setlist off the stage, too. But I got a good look at a few and that said that they actually should have played another song (well really, two) on air. It said the setlist would end with Politik/Trouble.

Wish we got to hear that! Not complaining though!

[polkahard]

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The show was amazing but I think most of us got confused as they would then stop & we couldn’t really what was live & we couldn’t hear what they were saying at all. I’ve been officially been up for more than 35 hrs! There was so much going on! A girl even fainted…..3xs! I started eating chocolate like crazy & drinking water so I wouldn’t pass out too. Jonny was so cute and Guy wow! Another guy that was hot was the guy who gave me my passes AND I had just missed COLDPLAY a couple of seconds before going in to the building! Damn it!

Okay guys…… my day is finally over and yes I am finally home. Thank God! My experience was a little crazy. I woke up early morning on Thursday and had to go to work. I left on Thursday night which btw my flight was delayed and ended up getting to NYC early morning of Friday instead. First of all, I had never been to NYC in my whole entire life.. and let me tell you, New York is……… very New York. First thing I saw was cracking me up hysterically that I wanted to take a picture but it was too close that I thought that I might get in trouble. There was this guy like bending down and pulling something from the floor (It just looked really funny) he was taking and struggling taking out the trash. Anyway, I wanted to get an idea and locate myself on to where I was. I ended up in Times Square before I realized that I was being followed by some creepy guys. There were people around but not that many and most of the places were already close. I got scared.. I was like “I am gonna get raped and mugged here and I’m not even gonna get to see Coldplay…this can’t be happening. I gotta find a friendly place”. The only place open at Times Square was some pizza place..there were people there so I went in there right away and had some slices of pizza (which is where I typed my message from). Rockefeller wasn’t that far from Times Square so I ended up getting there around 3 something am. There was already a long line there. The guys in front of me also had their luggage with them (they had big & heavy luggage). They were really excited to be there as I was.. so I couldn’t really sleep plus people kept on honking on purpose and everything. There was a girl making a huge poster. Her poster was so pretty btw. I didn’t really had anything but a red marker which I was going to use for Coldplay to sign my album cover (I lost the marker at the Apple store hours later) and napkins… from the airplane. I was going to make my sign on a napkin (how ghetto) but I ended up using one of the emails prints. My sign read “I JB + Coldplaying” I don’t know if anyone got to see it and on top of another poster that said “Viva La Coldplay” from Sirus radio.. The line started moving by 5am or so. I was so tired by then..when I was waiting in line I was feeling so weak & sleepy that I couldn’t really stand at all plus I needed to go to the restroom really bad. I was almost wetting myself there waiting. I got messed up with the general section. The guy there was like “Yeah, just go in there. It’s fine” but it wasn’t the VIP section so I asked around and was going crazy because I knew I wasn’t on the right spot. I wanted to be with the rest of the Coldplaying members and wanted to be in the VIP section & be up close to Coldplay!! Some guy told me to go to the other side and ask there…then I saw a guy with a white shirt and we were in the right spot but I don’t know. I wasn’t even paying attention to him as I was already freaking out about not being in the right place at all & time was passing by. This is what he did, he scratched us off the list then he gave us the VIP passes then he took the VIP passes from us. He asked us if we needed to go to the restroom (I thought he was going to tell me where the restrooms were INSIDE the NBC Studios). He then says “Okay, you need to go to the restroom because once you are in you can’t get out. Deli is probably your best bet.” Okay, by that time… I needed to go the restroom REALLY BAD. I was hungry again and I was sweating like a pig and all stinky as I still hadn’t gone to the hotel ’cause there was no time. I was freaking out because he scratched us off from the list and took the vip passes. I went to the Deli & the damn guy there tells me “We don’t have restrooms here” I wasn’t going to argue with people there.. so I’m running around like a mad woman trying to find a restroom. A lot of the places near there were still close.. so I took a left and saw a Mcdonalds! There was ONE RESTROOM THERE and guess what? It was BLOODY OCCUPIED!!! I was pounding at the door and yelling “I need to use the restroom, please!” when inside my mind I was really saying “B***! Get out already! I *** need to pee!” I then realized that I probably shouldn’t have been pounding at the door as to whoever was inside were only taking slightly just slightly longer then expected. Then a little boy lets me know that there was also restrooms upstairs.. so I rushed upstairs.. the toilet was disgusting (someone had left a uhhh view let’s say) but hey.. I had to use it so I flushed it and used it.. washed my hands. I almost killed myself from running down the stairs. I was about maybe half of block from the NBC studios. I was like ” I DON’T CARE IF IT’S GREEN, PEDESTRIANS FIRST, B****!!!!! WAIT YOUR F*** TURN” By this time, when I was running back to the nbc studios an amount of time had already passed and I was freaking out because not only did I take long, the guy had scratched us off the list.. I didn’t know if he was still going to be outside waiting for me you know? Did I mention that I was sweaty and smelly and just looked horrible in general? So I’m trying to find the guy outside the nbc studio and there were a bunch of people outside. I didn’t even hear what they were saying ’cause I’m trying to find the guy right. He comes out from the nbc entrance and sees me (ours eyes just meet. I thought he had already forgotten me ’cause a lot of time had passed by and there were just so many people to just remember one person you know) and says “Oh! Hey!” and was really looking at me. He was REALLY LOOKING AT ME. He then says “You just missed them” I don’t know but at the time, it just didn’t registered through my mind. I should have ran into the doors and catch them you know but I don’t know what happened. I got lost in his eyes.. that guy WAS SOOOOOOO HOT! MAN! HE WAS HANDSOME! So cute! Anyway, he calls another girl and asks her to escort me and she’s like “Sure, right this way balblabla” He gave me my VIP pass. I don’t think I even said Thank You. She was asking me if I had seen the band and also said that they had just walked in a couple of seconds ago. I did not know what way they went.

So she took me outside and escorted me to the ‘VIP Section’ It was already full!!! I could barely see the stage as I am short as hell! Will came out first, then Jonny and then Guy and to those who want to know. Yes, Guy is really really handsome up close. Did you see him smile? Wow it’s all I gotta say. He was to the right though so I couldn’t really see him throughout the show. I could barely see Will and Jonny. The people behind me were bitching too. They were like “We can’t see because of your poster and blabalbla” I felt bad at first but I couldn’t see either. I was like “Well you know what? Too bad, ’cause I can’t see either and if I can’t see them then I am at least going to enjoy the music and raise that poster up” I took the big poster down and just kept the sheet I had made at 3 something am and hope he sees it. I don’t know if he ever saw it though I took a lot of pictures and was watching the show through my camera’s lenses as I could raise it and see through it. I figured I couldn’t see ’cause I was just wayyy wayy in the back and that the people behind me couldn’t see ’cause we were just too far in the back. It wasn’t until Chris came out and went to the front of the stage that I realized. Wait.. he’s kinda close and got all excited about it. The show was confusing at times ’cause we couldn’t hear anything and they wouldn’t tell us whenever it was live. Chris only told us it was live one time. They rehearsed Clocks like 4 times. There was a girl in front of me to the left. She collapsed! The guy she was with walked her out and she fainted. The people there took her inside the nbc studios and she came out in a bed where the ambulance took her. I felt bad for her (the band came out right after they had taken her) but I started worrying about myself as well ’cause I was feeling dizzy too and weak. I hadn’t had any sleep for such long period of time. I’ve been sick with a throat infection so that wasn’t helping at all and I couldn’t scream too much ’cause my throat was just hurting really bad. I drank a bottle of water and a bar of chocolate so that helped a lot. I was like “I did not come here to faint in the middle of the show!!! No, No, No, No!” The crowd was singing along to In My Place, Viva La Vida, Lost! was amazing! 42? OH MY GOD! I’m still pumped up about it. This was my second time seeing Coldplay Live and this was the closest I had ever been. I can’t wait to see them live again. There were two teenage girls. They were the ones that threw the bra and panties. I saw something fly across and Chris catching it and then dropping it instantly with such disgust. It was hilarious! Chris reaction was priceless! I couldn’t stop laughing. After the show was over.. we were quickly rushed to get out. I waited outside the nbc studio to wait for the band. One of the TMZ guys was there with a camera. I was like “Oh hell no, he’s going to ruin my autograph experience” so I chi-chatted with him and we talk about how it was wrong of his friend to provoke Chris and how Chris was wrong to push his friend to on-coming traffic. Remember that clip where Chris takes the camera from a guy when Gwyn and him were coming out from the hospital earlier this year? His friend got 35G from that incident… that’s a lot of money. He was surprisingly very nice and we spent a few hours on a Coldplay hunt. What? You can’t judge.. I was trying to meet Jonny! You would have done the same thing! I got all excited ’cause their vehicle showed up and the police stopped traffic but there were just too many people outside waiting and not enough security. So the vehicle ended up leaving and they left underground. There was another lady there that just really made my day. She said “This is really your first time to New York? and you just came for Coldplay? You are a real fan. I hope you get an autograph.” She joined us on the Coldplay hunt. It was fun but we never found them. We were walking by foot. You guys want the 3rd part? I should get some rest now.

[LiquidSky]

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OK I’ll start at the beginning.
I was at work Thursday night and was reading through this thread looking for someone that wanted to go but didn’t win. I had asked Mary, but she could go, so I wanted to make sure the pass got used. Lori (KissesBirds) had posted she wanted to go, so I sent her a PM and told her to call me if she still wanted to go. She called me just as I was leaving work for the airport and said hells yes! and she would sort out a flight and get back to me. I got to NYC around 3:30 and during my cab ride into town, I get a text saying she will be there that night and that Mel is also coming. By the time I got to the hotel, I had been awake for around 37 hours, but had to go check out the area before I could even think about sleeping. My hotel is a block from the Plaza, so I walk over and right in front of the GE building they are building the huge wooden thing that is like 20 feet tall. I start to panic thinking this is the stage, but that god it’s not. I start asking around about where we have to sign in and how early can we do that, but no one there can answer shit. I walk around until I find the address listed on the email so I know exactly where we need to be in the morning and then go back to my hotel to get some rest because I’m about to fall over. Mel calls me and says she managed to find a way to go and after giving away her winning passes (LIKE A DUMB ASS!) has begged and pleaded all day and some nice person has taken sympathy upon her and she will be their +1. Her flight gets in around 11:30 and she’ll call me when she gets into town. I try and sleep, then the rerun of the Daily Show comes on and I’m too excited. Finally get some sleep.

Mel calls me and says they are both down at 30 Rock and I go down there to meet them. Coldplay’s truck with all their equipment had just pulled up. There are already people in the general admission line and we walk around. Mel had been grilling security peeps to get info about the VIP area, number of people it held, etc. Some security guy tells her that the VIP area will hold around 400 people and that they will put all the pass holders in first, then any GA people it takes to fill it. 400! must be down there early!. We go chill at my room for a while, then Mel starts getting twitchie so we head back.

We see a few other people hanging around by where we have to line up and so we join them. It was jbarry5503 and her guest. That was around 3:30am. The security guy comes out and tells us we are there WAY too early and that we should find some food and a bathroom because once you are in the pit, if you leave you can’t go back. There is a 24 hour Deli across the street, so food is there, but Micky D’s a block away is the closest toilet. People start to trickle in. Mel is a nervous wreck. Someone strums a guitar cord, she runs down to the corner where the stage is being set up to see what’s happening. 5 minutes later, a drum beat….there goes Mel. It’s 4 am Mel…Will is not down there setting up his own drums! Security man comes back out and gives us the whole make sure you go potty before we go in speech again and then tell us important info. This is the door where guests and TV people enter! He asks us to please stay back and don’t rush at anyone and if they come over to see us, then that’s OK. OMG! The band will be going in right there! Now we all excited and we get shit out to get stuff signed. Mel and Lori practice their “thrust CD cover at band with one hand, while taking picture with other hand’ moves.
Where we line up is an entry way about 15 feet wide. We are on one side and I notice on the other side is a “couple” consisting of a man and a tranny. The tranny is talking about how it wants to meet the band. I think about Chris getting flashed by the trannies while making Fix You and we all laugh about Chris being a tranny magnet. Then some paps show up. Great, Chris will shoot right past us to get away from these jerks. Everyone tries to think of something semi intelligent to say in case they do show up but Lori decides she will just scream. NO Jonny is afraid of screaming…Jonny no like screamie! Security man comes back and puts a barricade up to keep tranny and paps back but we are not blocked. Every car that arrives, we all jump up. Mel is freaking because too many people have “fluffy hair” thru the tinting windows and she thinks it Chris every time.

Matt, Jonny’s guitar tech, walks past us to go over to the deli. When he comes out I go and ask him if the band will have a sound check. He says yes around 6:30 and we will be able to hear it from where we are. But at 6, the NBC people come out and start taking people into the VIP area, so we miss any arrivals, but we will get to see the sound check and not just hear.

Although we were first in line, there are people in the pit when we get there. We are basically on the second row, but in front of me are 3 little girls aged 6, 8 and 12. Yah people that I can see over. Will is first to get there. Then Jonny and Guy come out together. Chris is last. There is lots of technical discussion, instrument placement upon the stage discussions and what not. Chris is very funny and loose. Jonny doesn’t look so happy to be up at this hour of the day. Guy is taking pictures of us, taking pictures of him. Then Mel spots him first. PHIL! OMG he is hot! They run thur songs, then discuss stuff, then move stuff around….but it’s the best part of the whole day. I don’t know about any one else, but the sound check was wayyyyyyyy better than the real show.

Just before the real show starts, security peeps come out and start talking about moving the barricades. We aren’t sure if they are moving us back , or closer ? This is not done but the reason why is because they bring in a whole group of people to stand in front of the VIP area inside where the stage is. IN FRONT OF US! They are “family” of the producers. They have several kids, including the one that Chris brings up on stage) and adults. The adults come stage at the center, blocking the 3 little girls in front of me and the kids are next to them on each side. Some lady asks the women if they will move and allow the kids to stand in the center so the little girls can see and the bitch tells her NO!. What a cunt. The little girls are crying because now they can’t see. Rich douche bags suck!

When you are there you can’t hear what is going on in the broadcast. When they came on stage to interview the band they placed a monitor near us so I could see to move my sign to make sure it got seen. After the show, Chelsea come over and met us and we were going to take a group pic, but the NBC dude ran us off.

Here is the link to my pics and my partial video of Lost. I still have to up load my longer videos because they are over 100MB and won’t fit on that site.

http://s176.photobucket.com/
In My Place semi sound check version
In My Place show version

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It all started at 3pm on Wednesday when to my total shock I received an email from Ian saying I had been picked as a VIP pass winner. I had already looked at some flights but thought there was no way I could go. I have a 2 and a half year old that can’t quite fend for herself yet! So, in despair, I PMed Ian saying to give them to another deserving fan so that someone else could go. Wednesday night when my hubby got home I told him what had happened and he says - oh you should go! I’ll stay home and watch the kid! I was like WTF? I already gave up my passes!! So Wednesday night and Thursday morning I agonized about what to do and finally started sending out PM’s to people on the winner’s list. I sent one to Noelia (CookyMnstr) and she had already PMed someone else offering her +1 pass. But then - the Coldplay gods smiled down and I received another PM from her saying that the person she was going to take was in fact a VIP pass winner themselves and did I want to be her +1!!!!! I couldn’t fucking believe it!

I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off for a few minutes before realizing I didn’t have a plane ticket yet! DOH! My flight reservation email came through at 5:04 pm on Thursday!!! I packed a backpack kissed my kid and hubby goodbye and jetted off to the airport.

At midnight my car service dropped me off on 48th Avenue and Rockefeller Plaza. People were already in the general admission line and the Today Show crew were busy building the stage. I talked to a security guard for a few minutes to try and get more information and then called Angie to tell her I was there.

As I was standing and waiting, Coldplay’s giant semi pulls up to the curb. Angie came down and by then Lori had shown up too. So we hung out for a while before going up to Angie’s room to chill a bit.

At about 3:30am we headed down to see what was happening with the stage and to try and get a bite to eat. When we got down close we could see that Coldplay’s roadies were there already and that the area was getting busier. We decided to go ahead and form the VIP line while no one was there. So we sat there until 6am when the Today Show interns came out and gave us our VIP passes. We were lead into the pen area and were all SHOCKED AS HELL when we got lead into the very front pen and that we were standing mere feet from the stage.

I went digging in my backpack for something and of course this is the moment Will comes up on stage! He talked a minute to some roadies and then went straight for his drum kit. He was smiling as we called out his name!

Guy and Jonny came in next - both pretty much going for their instruments with the help of their techs. Chris was last to show up - and he stopped briefly to talk with Miller before coming up on stage. Chris was in a great mood and besides saying hello he was apologizing in advance for how bad the soundcheck was going to sound! We thought it was great and they were all really into it. They set up for acoustic Yellow and ran it through once. Chris told the sound guys he thought it sounded terrible which is probably why they didn’t do it during the show.

As Angie said we counted to three and screamed for Jonny and he got this really funny WTF look on his face and started looking around and then finally saw us all smiling and waving and then a big smile broke out on his face. DIVINE!

About 7am soundcheck was done and then we waited and waited and waited.

The songs during the show were awesome and Chris had so much energy and the louder we screamed the more he jumped around.

The people who ended up in the very front were not real fans which was disappointing but oh well. We were still closer than most people will ever get.

Additional thoughts:
The boys are definitely more handsome in person and even though we didn’t get a chance to speak to them you could tell from just how they were acting that they were all down to earth guys. We didn’t see any diva type behavior. You could also tell - that like us - they had no idea what was going on. They pretty much did what the Today Show people told them to do - otherwise they were just standing there waiting for instruction.

It was the most incredible experience. I will never forget my 28 hour trip to New York. And the best part of it was meeting all the great Coldplayers and getting to experience this awesome band with other people who truly love them.

[thanks Mel]

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Here’s vids - Thanks to bethanyloew for this….

Viva La Vida

Thanks kgarbs to for this clip of Viva La Vida

Thanks 91clare59 to for this clip of someone throwing panties into Chris’ hands. He drops’ em quick as a shot! LOL!

Ernestime comes through again with some great vids.

Coldplay soundchecking ‘Yellow’

42 [Part 1]

42 [PART 2]

CLOCKS [SOUNDCHECK]

CLOCKS [LIVE]

VIVA LA VIDA [SOUNDCHECK]

VIVA LA VIDA [LIVE]

LOST! [SOUNDCHECK]

LOST! [LIVE]

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YELLOW [thanks lgamble05]

YELLOW [thanks polkahard]

IN MY PLACE [thanks muahacoughhaha]

CLOCKS [thanks Bertthemovieguy]

VLV [thanks frreshprincessz]