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NME review:
COLDPLAY FANS STAND BY THEIR BAND
COLDPLAY singer CHRIS MARTIN asked the crowd at LONDON's ROYAL ALBERT
HALL to "sing against the war" at last night's (March 24) TEENAGE CANCER
TRUST concert.
The band received a rousing response to their 15-song set when the whole
audience rose to its feet to sing during ''Everything's Not Lost' 'Yellow'
and 'In My Place'. Martin even played a verse of, in his opinion, "the
best song around", Oasis' 'Songbird', at the end of 'Everything's Not
Lost', and sang the chorus of Tatu's chart-topper 'All The Things She
Said' during 'In My Place'. During 'Everything's Not Lost', Martin galvanised
the audience to its feet by asking them to let go of their inhibitions
and sing along. Martin said: "Most of us here are English and everyone
has got a fear of singing in public, tonight abandon your Englishness
and you can feel the sound of the song. Sing against the war, pop music
and Simon Cowell and all that shit."
Earlier in the set, Martin made another subtle criticism of the war in
Iraq, changing the lyrics to 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head', singing, "Buy
a gun and start a meaningless war".
lucie311:(sorry wrote all in caps)
I WENT TOO THIS SHOW LAST NITE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUCKIN
GOOD NITE ! AND THE ENCORE WAS BRILL AND LOOKED LIKE POOR CHRIS INJURED
HES HAND OR SOMETHIN ANYWAYS IT WAS IN A BANDAGE!! SUPPORTIN ACT WAS GOOD
(HAWKLEY EX GUITARIST FROM PULP)!TOO! THOU DIDNT KNOW THERE SONGS BUT
HEY MR MARTIN LIKES THEM SO THEY GOT TOO BE THE NEXT BIG THING! ONLY DISSAPOINTMENT
OFF THE NITE WAS NOT MEETIN HIM THOU MEETIN JOHNNY WAS REALLY GOOD I NEVER
REALISED HOW NICE HE IS TIL THEN AND WILL AND GUY 2 ALTHOUGH I WAITED
2 HRS 2 MEET THEM IN THE FREEZING COLD THE LYIN SECURITY GUARDS TOLD US
THEY LEFT STILL DONT KNOW IF CHRIS REALLY HAD GONE OR NOT BUT ANYHOO 3
OUT OFF 4 AINT TOO BAD IS IT! ALSO JUDE LAW, GWEN STEFANI, ZOE BALL AND
DJ DAN AND OFF COURSE MS PALTROW WERE ALSO THERE ! BUT ALL I CAN SAY IS
IT WAS A VERY INTIMATE SHOW LAST NITE! ALL 4 A GOOD CAUSE AND IT TOTALLY
BLEW ME AWAY SO THATS ME OFF TOO BUY V2003, READIN,AND MORE TICKETS 4
SHOWS COS I COULD SEE THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN! MIND I SWEAR THE PLAYED
IN MY PLACE TWICE LAST NITE BUT HEY I NOT COMPLAININ BUT NAH IT ALL IN
ALL IT WAS GOOD AND YELLOW WAS BRILL AND CLOCKS WAS AMAZING PERFORMANCE!
SO EVEN THOU IT STARTED LATE AND I HAD 2 WAIT AGES 2 MEET THEM IT WAS
ALL WORTH IT ! AND I CANT WAIT TOO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN! BUT CANT HELP
THINKIN CHRIS WOULD CAME OUT IF SHE WAS NOT THERE ASHAME REALLY
venix:
I went to the show last night at the RAH and I enjoyed it sooo much! It
was my first proper concert I've ever been to so as you can imagine I
was happy it was to be such a good band! Firstly, I was disgusted at the
amount of touting going on. I got there an hour before the doors opened
and was instantly approached by someone offering me tickets! The supporting
act was Richard Hayden or something like that. He wasn't bad but stayed
on for quite a while and it got a wee bit boring. When the lights went
down and I could see the band coming on I must admit my adrenalin and
excitement peaked I don't like Politik very much on the whole but as a
gig opener it was amazing! They played many of the best songs and some
b-sides/new tracks etc. I hadn't heard before. I was very disappointed
that they didn't play Shiver or Amsterdam. Oh and also, there wasn't too
much war talk from Chris apart from a tweaked line in A Rush of Blood
to the Head. He said 'I'm gonna buy a gun to start a needless war' .
Just to add to all that's been said: I was there too and it was my first
EVER gig! I was very impressed with the concert, the boys rocked it good
and proper! There were some really funny people in the row in front of
me drinking lots and lots of champagne ending the night a wee bit tipsy!
One of them was really drunk but looked like 13 or something!! I was very
disappointed they didn't play Shiver but I got over it cos of all the
amazing songs they DID play!
lucykez:
the jumping over the piano thing was definately super human. chris dedicated
one song to this person called kate and then when me and my friend went
outside we saw her with her t-shirt signed and evertything! The concert
was sooo brilliant but one thing that i was increadibly annoyed about
was that loads of people were taking pictures and some people were recording
it on camera and i was strictly told that no-one was allowed to and if
they were caught the stuff would be confiscated?
Nick4Chris
One word....no two actually... FUCKING AMAZING!!
I am knackered so won't go into detail too much tonight but wow!!!! Got
there early coz had to pick up my tickets but none of the doors were open
so I hung around (with about 6 others) by the "artists entrance" Hi Aaron
Anyway, we were just chatting and Guy appeared... looking extemely sexy
as usual I might add..... I am such a twat that I forgot to take a camera
and anything to sign but I did have a pen and my mummy (bless) had a piece
of paper, so got his autograph before he jumped in a cab and went god
knows where.... Not long after that Will came out of one door inside and
preceded to attempt to make a phone call.... one of the girls standing
with me said "Will can you just come out for a second" and he said "sure
but it will have to be quick" so got his autograph. awwwww he's such a
lovely bloke but you already know that Anyway after hanging around a bit
longer hoping and praying that Jonny and Chris would come out we gave
up and went to get the tickets and go to our seats. Richard Hawley and
his band were the support and they were ok, a bit monotonous (sp?) but
he was very funny, he made me laugh quite a few times.... then again he's
not there to be a comedian At long last (cutting a long story short -
too late) Coldplay came on stage to massive cheers etc etc...
There were loads of funny chatty parts but I have forgotten them at the
mo, hopefully they will come back to me. One thing I do remember is before
ENL Chris said "this is for nicky" and eventhough I'm 99% certain it wasn't
me I still have a glimmer of hope that it was
Oh yeah, just one VERY amusing point I must tell you.... there was a certain
"young lady" sitting in the row in front of me just to the right....a
certain Miss Gwyneth Paltrow and all I can say is that she is very beautiful
but looks about 12 We were walking out behind her and she turned round
and looked right at me which was strange but you know...... I must admit
I thought if I ever saw her I'd have to trip her up or something but I
didn't hehehe,
I loved it when he sang a bit of Tatus 'all the things she says' (or
whatever it's called) in the middle of In my Place... hahahaha.. he was
on top funny form...and before Yellow I think, he asked everyone to sing
along to their "only hit" and think about all the shit like Pop Idol and
Simon Cowell or anything else we don't like...classic
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http://www.coldplaying.com/concertreviews/royalalberthall.htm
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