My Coldplay.com - A Coldplay Blog

Oh wow! This vid is amazing. Thanks to the wonderfully talented leodk16 for the upload…

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Coldplay played the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia for the second time during the Viva La Vida tour last night. No changes to the normal setlist. Pictures from the concert are here. Reviews and 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 (techno version)
Talk (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 (outro)

Coldplay Concert in Philadelphia 11/1/08
Just because we are smart and have common sense and sensibility doesn’t mean we are Democrats–although we are…-Chris Martin of Coldplay last night during the concert in Philadelphia.
Chris exclaimed, “Obama!” at the close of his performance on SNL last week, so his political statement was not a surprise.

Lessons from Coldplay - The Sunday Salon

Last night I went to my first big arena show - Coldplay at the Wachovia Center in Philly. I had a blast, even with a pretty stuffy head cold and nosebleed seats. The music was great; the effects were awesome; and I was with good friends. Wonderful night. (Don’t worry - I will connect this to reading in just a bit.)
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#42 and the Grateful Undead

Soundcheck in Washington gets cancelled in the name of a little more time in NYC in the morning. Whilst this is a right result for all, it does mean that we land at Dulles just after 5pm. Of course, as we get on the road, it becomes clear that we’re in for a slow trip. One of the reasons to run away and join a tour is to escape the 9 to 5 and here we are sat in rush hour traffic. I’ll wager though, that we’re the only ones here on our way IN to work…

I’m fairly sure that Coldplay have never done a show on Halloween in the US before. Certainly not whilst I’ve been with them. We’ve also got a higher percentage of Americans in the crew this time out, so we’re celebrating in full this year. As you can see below, tonight saw a very rare stage invasion. Somehow, it would appear that keyboard tech Neil Lambert got possessed partway through the day. Despite several drumsticks through the heart, he still managed to make his way onstage to try to take out Mr. Martin. Somewhere in the blackout, Chris prevailed and we’ve put Neill away in one of the spare piano cases for now. I’m not sure what the international laws are about transportation of the undead across borders, but we’ll let the freight company deal with that…

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Thanks to Maria for making me think of this excellent song by Coldplay, which featured as a b-side to Clocks back in 2002/2003 . This definitely comes under the ’sexy Coldplay song’ category. Rawr!

ANIMALS

Animals we are,
Disposable, collapsible and raw
In you go,
Into some crowded room
And Animals climb
And I’m climbing over you
Until you say
“Off you go, off you go”
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Coldplay conquers Izod

Pictures in the gallery here. Vids to follow…

Before playing harmonica on “Death Will Never Conquer,” Sunday night at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin apologized. “You paid good money to hear someone play an instrument very badly,” he said. Then he proceeded to play it perfectly well.

It was still a sharp move to apologize. Coldplay is one of the popular rock bands in the world, and Martin’s lyrics sometimes seem self-absorbed, so anything he can do to make himself and the band appear down-to-earth works in his favor.

Martin literally dropped to his knees when thanking the crowd for coming, toward the end of the evening. And “Death Will Never Conquer” was part of a segment (also including “The Scientist”) where the band ventured into section 104 of the arena — located a long way from the stage — and played there. They stood shoulder-to-shoulder, as they did in another part of the show that took place on a small stage at the end of a ramp that extended onto the arena floor.

Throughout the show, the British quartet, which was also scheduled to perform at the arena last night, mixed loud, aggressive rock with ethereal ballads. It’s no wonder the band describes its music, on its official MySpace page, as “very heavy soft rock.”

Two of the most explosive numbers came from the band’s June album, “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.” On the soaring “Viva la Vida,” Will Champion stepped out from behind his drum kit to pound on a huge bass drum, and the crowd sang along enthusiastically. For “Lovers in Japan,” which has an upbeat, celebratory vibe, thousands of glow-in-the-dark, butterfly-shaped pieces of confetti dropped from the rafters.

Among the other new songs, “Strawberry Swing” had a lighter, almost lilting feel, while “42″ and “Cemeteries of London” were darker in tone. Both these songs also had some perfect-for-Halloween-season lyrics.

“Those who are dead are not dead/They’re just living in my head,” sang Martin in the former, while the latter was full of lines like: “We rode down to the river/Where Victorian ghosts pray/For their curses to be broken.”

This show rarely stayed gloomy for long. Martin is too much of a crowd-pleaser for that: he bounced around the stage all evening, pumping up the capacity crowd. And while his bandmates (guitarist Jonny Buckland and bassist Guy Berryman, in addition to Champion) seemed happy to let him be the focus of attention, they did generate a big, propulsive wall of sound on songs like “Life in Technicolor,” “Chinese Sleep Chant” and “Politik.” Lasers and videos (sometimes projected onto six huge balls hovering over the stage and the crowd) made the show into a spectacle.

These guys aren’t the most original musicians in the world. Martin sometimes seems like a more pop-friendly version of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Buckland borrows too many of his guitar riffs from U2’s The Edge, and Berryman and Champion do their respective jobs with little flash. Yet over the course of their four albums they have generated lots of memorable songs.

Derivative or not, they have managed to put together a nearly two-hour show that is devoid of dull spots. Except, maybe, for the lull that came when they were returning from section 104.

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Thanks to elizabethtoni for this video of celebrities, arriving at the 2008 Q Music Awards [including Coldplay]. You can see me floating around there somewhere…LOL!

And here’s are videos of Coldplay’s acceptance speeches.
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Thanks to joooooooooooooooooes Radiomad for the upload…..

VIVA LA VIDA

LOST!

Ooh! Check out this gawjus vid of Chris singing ‘The Hardest Part’ in Antwerp, Belgium. Thanks to elo1410 for the upload……..

Thanks musicweek. Chris got jokes, as usual…

Also, here’s Tom Jones bigging up Coldplay on the red carpet…
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Watch a clip of Coldplay’s new song

Good evening. We have just uploaded a video clip of Coldplay performing a new song, Glass Of Water, at last night’s show in Antwerp. Click here to watch it.

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