Coldplay played the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland last night, before travelling to Italy. Photos are in the gallery here, including some fabulous pictures by www.darklight.ch. Reviews and video below…

SETLIST [thanks spaghetti incident]
Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Speed Of Sound
Cemeteries Of London
Chinese Sleep Chant
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Talk
The Hardest Part
Postcards From Far Away
Viva La Vida
Lost!
The Scientist
Death Will Never Conquer
Viva La Vida

Encore One:

Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends

Encore Two:

Yellow
The Escapist

Sunny Zurich.

Half an hour until the Oxfam volunteers arrive for campaigning at tonight’s Coldplay show. I’m sitting outside catching (possibly) some of the last rays of summer, in sunny Zurich. It’s important to catch your vitamin D from the sunshine you know.. especially when you work in the dim light of these indoor arenas all day. I have to admit (as I squint at the glare of the screen), the weather is making me wish we had an outdoor stadium show today!
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Coldplay’s single concert at the Stadthalle in Austria took place tonight. A strong show, no surprises, no mistakes [thanks *Sarah* & Miha.] Here’s a quick video report [thanks Larry] Pictures are here. Videos below…

Setlist:

Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Speed Of Sound
Cemeteries Of London
Chinese Sleep Chant
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)
Talk (partial - techno version)
The Hardest Part (piano - Chris)
Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
Viva La Vida
Lost!
The Scientist (acoustic)
Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing)
Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
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Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends
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Yellow
The Escapist

Coldplay in Vienna

So, this was a week to remember. For several reasons. But the most importaint one was two great concerts in two days. Following Madonna, i came back to Vienna to shoot Coldplay in Stadthalle. I have never been in this hall before, and it is just amazing. Huge, packed with 15.000 people. Coldplay rocked like i never imagined. Their music seems more intimate on CDs but when they play, it comes alive big time and they really go super loud.
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Big thanks to angie for these vids of Coldplay live in Montreal back in 2002 with MuchMusic.

Politik/God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

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Pictures from tonight’s Oslo gig are in the gallery here. Reviews and video here and here [more to follow...]

I’ve ripped the audio for ‘High and Low’, which Chris performed with Mags Furuholmen from A-ha, which you can download here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/j4ythu

Long live the live

And suddenly the world’s biggest band stood five feet from our seats, on the gallery in Oslo Spektrum, and sang one of his most famous songs.

Until then had little unexpected happened to Coldplay in Oslo Spektrum. Before the end of the regular set, as they did “turn up the middle out from the crowd as street singers’ trick. And thus, suddenly stood right next to us and the song “The Scientist”. A gesture like that which is a mixture of the spontaneous and calculated, but when it works - as here - perhaps it is that separates the great bands from the mediocre.

For it is easy to make fun of Coldplay and their rock consensus - HIPT it is not, and even when they have Brian Eno as a producer can they sound like Genesis, for spring-Coldplay single “Violet Hill”, which allsang fired missile Early in the evening. Before they went through the catologue of songs that make up the permanent set during the 2008-tour. And predictability in the main party gave one more time to study, in the little boring parties, what does that Coldplay has brought them here: For a sold out Oslo Spektrum a Dance, with the year’s best-selling album in the suitcase; to the position as the world’s largest new band, with an audience that none of their hands, without the need to do much other than to stand on stage in ugly clothes and play the songs straight up and down. The secret is just so simple that there is hardly any secret: They have so many good songs that they can not take wrong, and they will not either. Bortsett fra en ting: Except one thing:

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Coldplay played a magnificent second night at The Globe in Stockholm. Pictures are in the gallery here. Reviews/Videos below…

Setlist: [thanks bergstrommarn]

Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Speed Of Sound
Cemeteries Of London
Chinese Sleep Chant
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)
Talk (partial - techno version)
Amsterdam (partial)
The Hardest Part (piano - Chris)
Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
Viva La Vida
Lost!
The Scientist (acoustic)
Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing)
Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
——
Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends
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Yellow
The Escapist (outro)

Here’s a Blog report from http://blogg.expressen.se/anders/. Pictures are in the gallery here. Videos to follow…

Sole and förväntansfullt before Coldplay GLOBEN. Time for Coldplay day 2, and in that I never upplevkt Coldplay two nights in a row, it should be interesting to see how much they dare and want to change. They replace the one song. They add an extra encore. Much more than that usually they do not deviate from the formula. It is, moreover, smockfullt here. I tried to find parking in a whole half hour, but p-houses are unusually full. Coldplay public has taken the car. Which, in fact, says a lot about the fans when it will follow. It is a day tomorrow, but do we.

Concert starts GLOBEN. Christer Sjögren in Tyrol, Di Living in Calcutta and Coldplay in Tyrol - it is now the concert has started. Coldplay launches as yesterday - with “Life in technicolor” and “Violet hill.” Troubled strong singing from the audience already in “Violet hill.” Chris Martin takes on outrot and say, ‘Gokväll, thank you “in English. This start bodes well.

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a.k.a. Everybody Nettie loves Chris…

I hauled ass over to Berlin early Sunday morning. The train ride on the ICE train only took 2 hours, but the ride seemed slow. We were in a little private compartment away from the noise, which was nice. I just put my ipod on and had 40 winks.

I was staying at a hostel [my first and last time. Never again...], which was bang smack near that train station, so I was able to dump my suitcase and get over to the O2 World arena, where I was met by the lovely Mel. We had a ball just messing about near the Beriln Wall [now called The East Side Gallery], which was a stones throw away from the Arena. There’s lovely artwork on it, plus slogans from that evil time that I imagine most people would rather forget. You can actually buy pieces of the wall to take home….

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Pictures will be in the gallery here. Reviews/Video to follow… 

Setlist:

Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Speed Of Sound
Cemeteries Of London
Chinese Sleep Chant
42
Reign Of Love
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
——– STAGE B (a podium in the crowd, ground was flashing)
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (dance remix) / Talk (piano)
The Hardest Part (piano)
Postcards From Far Away (instrumental)
——— STAGE A
Viva La Vida
Lost
——— STAGE C (side entrance in the west I think)
The Scientist (Acoustic)
Death Will Never Conquer
Viva la Vida remix (while they were running back)
——— STAGE A
Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends
——– ENCORE
Yellow
The Escapist

…the arena darkened! We listened to a Waltz (I think?) and I was like:”Oooh yeah, now it begins!” and THEN I saw Roadie #42 walking over the stage! He played a little bit on Chris’ keyboard and laughed, then he went over AT OUR PLACE to the corner of the stage and placed there a little camera or something like that! I think, well I HOPE, that he will post a little video of the beginning of the show, maybe Julia and me will be on the vid then, yay 
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Coldplay’s ‘Reign of Love’ made its debut in Paris last night, in the first of two consecutive shows at The Bercy. Pictures are in the gallery here [including some exquisite pictures by Anjali. Reviews/videos are below.

Setlist:

Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Speed Of Sound
Cemeteries Of London
Chinese Sleep Chant
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
God Put A Smile upon Your Face
Talk
b-stage:
The Hardest Part
Viva la Vida
Lost!
The Scientist
Death Will Never Conquer
Viva (remix)
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Politik
Reign Of Love
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends
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Yellow
The Escapist

The show began a little late, but it was totally worth it! My only disappointement (as Charley said) was that there was only one encore with Yellow. The crowd was so wild I thought they were going to come on stage a second time, but it was already over [thanks arwen88]

at 9:50 pm Coldplay came on stage , Live they ‘re much more exciting than on cd , they may only have 4 records but they have lots of hit songs. The singer is still funny to watch and the musicians could be easily replaced no one will noticed it. The stage is very simple with the cd cover as backdrop and then a big screen in the back . They’ve played a couple of songs on a small stage.

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Watch the Brit band promote their hot new album through their show

Brit band Coldplay kicks off its European tour to promote its hot new album Viva La Vida.

As many as 13,000 fans were present to kick off the European leg of British band Coldplay’s 2008 Viva La Vida tour in Germany on Tuesday.

The band belted their hit tracks including Clocks’ and Violet Hill’ while a colourful light show added to the experience. Watch the band woo the audience with their music.
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Some pics we didn’t squeeze in yesterday

Good afternoon. Here are some pictures which we didn’t have time/space/fast enough connection for from yesterday’s live blog.

Figuring out how to play the new version of Talk in the soundcheck

Chris, pondering

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