My Coldplay.com - A Coldplay Blog

I had yesterday pegged as just another TV show all the way up to about 6am. Just as the sun came up, it began to dawn on me just how amazing this was going to be. I can’t remember anything like it in my whole time working for the band. The first Jimmy Kimmel show in 2002 was pretty amazing, but even that was just closing down Hollywood Boulevard. Here, there was major disruption to traffic on two different NYC streets, in front of and behind the stage. There were also folks hanging out of the skyscrapers that loomed above us, trying to get a look in.

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R#42’s thoughts on the MSG show

Well there we go. It’s done.

Madison Square Garden is, in many ways, just an arena. The way it’s talked about in touring circles though, you’d believe it was only one small step down from doing a show on another planet. The weight of expectation and history is simply huge. Even amongst us, this concert has been talked about in hushed, concerned tones since rumours of this free show were first heard.
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“Sleep satisfies” a friend of mine once said. He’s not kidding! I arrived in NYC a couple of days ago and spent the entire day yesterday in bed. Refreshed and recharged, I roll into Madison Square Garden at 10am to find that things are looking in great shape. No surprise really, as there’s been some very hard-working folks in here since midnight! Many of them are the new American sound, light and video crews who have never even seen this show, let alone put it together. Combine this with the pressure that a NYC show brings and you have to hand it to these guys - they’ve already done a great job. [Read more]

I expect I’m either on a Plane to NYC, or in the back of a truck at MSG as you read this. Couple more from Paris for you. First, the Q&A session…

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From early club gigs to massive stadium performances, a brief visual history of Coldplay in concert

Chris Martin of Coldplay performing in Manchester, England in February of 2000.

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June 18, 2008 12:15 pm
Roadie #42 crashes the Barcelona press conference

17.6.08 - Barcelona

The crew is running entirely on espresso today. I sneak along to the press conference in a nearby swanky hotel. When we get to the rather impressive and imposing foyer, there is a gent in a suit at a grand piano playing a lounge jazz version of Trouble.  Given my level of sleep deprivation, it seems wonderfully twisted.  Lord only knows how the band manage to be so affable and approachable throughout.  The wit and good humour flows and soon the press conference is done.  Just a gig to do and a flight back to London.  See you at the BBC!

Roadie #42

Thanks Coldplay.com!

Roadie #42 - Blog #1
June 17, 2008 9:25 am
Hello there, I am Roadie #42. My good friend Prospekt has asked me to keep you all posted on the goings on from inside the tour. I sit somewhere stage left through every performance. Wherever the band are in the world, I’ll be there and I’ll be reporting back to you.

So here we are in Brixton Academy. The crowd’s gone home, the floor’s a mess and the truck’s nearly packed. It must be the first night of the Viva La Vida tour.
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Thursday 12th June, London

I feel very relieved that the album is finally released out into the big wide world today. it’s out of our hands now. It doesn’t belong to us anymore.

I hope that you like it. I hope that there’s song on there that will make a shit day slightly less shit, or a good day even better!

Thank you for your patience and support.

Prospekt/Coldplay.com

Hi

We are at the MTV Movie Awards - there’s a big fire next door at Universal Studios.

We are performing ‘Viva La Vida’. We are testing our confetti butterflies for the first time.

Guy Berryman/Coldplay.com

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It’s ten years today since a cardboard box filled with 500 copies of the Safety EP arrived on my doorstep from the manufacturer. I sold the first copy to my room mate at university for £3. It took over a year to sell [or give away] the remaining 499. One of those copies found ti’s way to Ms Debs Wild, then of Universal Records.

And that’s how all this got started.

Prospekt!

WOW! CONGRATULATIONS! AND THANKS TO DEBS WILD FOR BEING SO SAVVY IN DISCOVERING COLDPLAY!

I’d still like to get my hands on a copy, but at the moment, I don’t have £500-£1000 spare…