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reviews:
Emily:
I was at the Pittsburgh show, which happened to fall on
Chris's birthday. It was the most amazing show I've ever been to. Actually,
the boys could have played in the freezing weather outside and it still
would have been just as great. I'll admit, some of the fans were clueless....just
standing there, not moving, smiling, or anything. Some of us were singing
to Chris before the whole crowd joined with the band, but for the most
part it was just a bad venue for the show and not enough fans that were
too enthusiastic. I only hope this doesn't prevent the band from coming
back again soon. I can't even describe the high I felt during the entire
show...even when I broke my belt and got my hair stroked by some stranger
behind me. This show was just...I can't even put it into words. It's been
a week and I still can't tell you just how amazing it was.
Lucky_Man:
This was a last minute addition to the trip. Without tickets
our only hope of getting in was to buy from scalpers or hope that the
box office would put on sale additional tickets the day of the show. We
pulled up to the venue around noon and we're told to check back around
2pm. So naturally starting at 1pm we kept checking every 20 minutes or
so to make sure we didn't miss out.
2pm came and went and the sometime around 3 or so, a tour bus pulled up
right in front of the venue where we were waiting and out of the bus hopped
3 members of the Music. Adam (the guitarist) , Rob (the lead singer) and
Phil (the drummer) asked a few of the fans waiting in line to play soccer/football
with them. So while I waited in line for tix, my brother got to play soccer
with the boys from the Music for about a half hour on the sidewalk. Finally,
around 4:30pm or so tickets were finally put on sale and we quickly grabbed
two and happily made our way to our hotel to check in.
the show - We had very crappy seats. We were sitting in
a section on the floor off to the side with a huge gap between it and
the next section for people to walk through to get to there seats which
basically meant that for the Music we had to stand up to see anything
at all over people heading to there seats. I had no problem standing up
but we were so far off to the side that the speakers blocked our view...we
could only see the lead singer and the guitarist. So for Coldplay my bro
and I decided that those seats wouldn't cut it. We ended up grabbing a
pair of empty seats on the bleachers, the bleachers started about 20 or
25 rows back from the stage. So we were a bit farther back but from there
we had a great view of the entire stage for Coldplay. Luckily no one came
and kicked us out of those seats. If they had we would have been forced
back to our crappy "limited view seating". Things that stick out in my
mind about the Pittsburgh show: bad venue, with too many seats postioned
at an awkard angle to the stage.
Chris seemed to be in a good mood, it was his birthday
after all. It would have been nice had the crowd started singing happy
birthday without having Will come out before the encore to start it up.
They must have flashed "Happy Birthday Chris" on the screens about 30
times before Will ran out on stage and led the crowd into singing Happy
Birthday. Besides Poor Me being killer live and the other new song "Solid
Ground" being played nothing really stands out about this show. Chris
did do a major wipeout during the ending of God Put A Smile.... causing
his guitar to go flying and him having to sing the last part without guitar
but other than that it was a solid show and the guys played really well.
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Several recordings exist:
http://coldplay.artscience.net/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35157&highlight=Pittsburgh
http://www.blistering.com/pictures/plst.php3?piccat=628
:
http://www.geocities.com/u2rockstation/coldplaypittsburgh3203