Ok I <3 coldplay.  Any friend of mine can tell you that There are no other artists on this planet I <3 more then Chris, Will, Guy and Johnny…and they’re the only band whose music I purchase legally (well there is one other artist..but won’t mention him in this post. Ask me if you care to know :))! So you can imagine how super excited I was when I found out that Coldplay has a EP dropping on November 24th! Two coldplay albums in one year!!! Wooohooo!

Icing on the cake? This album will have a version of life in technicolor with lyrics! LIT was one of my fav songs on the last album Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends (VLVODAAHF) ..and I remember Chris mentioning in an interview early this year that the lyrical version was going to come out on their next album and since then I’ve been waiting to hear it!

Tracklisting:

1. Life In Technicolor ii
2. Postcards From Far Away
3. Glass Of Water
4. Rainy Day
5. Prospekt’s March/ Poppyfields
6. Lost+ (with Jay-Z)
7. Lovers In Japan (Osaka Sun mix)
8. Now My Feet Won’t Touch The Ground

No major surprises in the track listing. Postcards from far away, glass of water, rainy day, prospekt’s march/poppyfields were all written prior to the release of VLVODAAHF and didn’t make it onto that album because according to the boys those songs didn’t fit the mood of that album (not an exact quote). Coldplay also recorded a song with kylie Minogue that didn’t make it onto the last album…was hoping it would be on this one, but doesn’t look like it made it Hope that gets released sometime in the near future.

So two coldplay albums in one year…plus I got to see em live for the 3rd time earlier this year. Can it get any better?  Well I’m hoping they come back to cali next year on the second leg of the tour! I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed. I know they recently announced some new japanese tour dates (Lucky you Sharky, I hope you get to go see em!) and will prolly be adding more dates over the upcoming months.

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San Jose, California was the 3rd stop of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida tour and there was nothing in the world I was going to miss it for =0) Was hoping to catch them in both San Jose and Oakland, but the latter show got canceled. Fuzzy and I forked out some serious dough for row 8 seats (spent less on row 2 seats to their show in 06, but auction prices are rocketing with their popularity), and it worth every penny…all 34000 pennies!

The stage setup was a lot different then the 05 and 06 tours. Two walkways extended on both sides of the arena. Looking up the “magic balls” that Chris talked about prior to the start of the tour could be seen…each one was rumored to cost $0.9 Million dollars! They’re basically screens that images/live footage is displayed on during certain segments of the concert. You’ll be able to catch a glimpse of em in the videos/pics below.

Setlist was similar to the setlist for the LA shows, but we got the added bonus of POLITK, one of my fav live songs…the live version of the song is what I used to listen to before, and hummed during, most of my college exams haha..yup im a weirdo. Besides politk, the san jose crowd was also rewarded with a full band performance of Yellow (versus the acoustic version they played in LA). Chris Martin called the LA show “Venti” (starbucks reference)..well if the LA show was Venti then the san jose show was super duper venti!

Two of the songs (In the san jose case the two songs were “The hardest part” and “death will never conquer”) were played in the seats between the upper and lower levels. That was a nice surprise for most people, but the hardcore fans knew from advance that they’ll be doing that. Death will never conquer was sung by Will, the drummer. Since the boys were pretty far away from the stage while they sung those two songs I had to watch it on the “magic balls”. Everything else happened pretty close to our seats so I wasn’t bummed about that.

The crowd was a good mix of older and younger crowd…while I was in line to buy merchandise I was talking to some “fans” and was surprised to hear that some people had not fully hard the album yet….so it was no surprise that barely anyone was singing along to 42…one of the songs from the new album that I think is pretty easy to sing along to - “Those who are dead are not dead they’re just living in my head”. Crowd fav seemed to be yellow…chris martin even turned his mic towards the audience for at least 1/3 of that song and joked to Will (who was playing the drums towards the back of the stage) that we were singing for him.

Some of the songs were sung on the walkways on the side of the main stage…so even if you weren’t sitting in the first few rows, you could still get a good view of the guys.

Anyone enough of my rambling..all you need to know is that the show was AWESOME! My fav songs of the evening were Lovers In Japan, Politk, Strawberry Swing, chinese sleep chant and scientist. During lovers in japan (you can see this in the video and pics) some “cannons” shot florescent colored confetti all over the crowd..at closer look they turned out to be butterfly shaped! Floor and seats (because no one was sitting) were covered with florescent butterflies by the end of the song lol.

Pics and videos follow are below. Video quality is decent, but by default youtube will display a lower resolution (standard) copy of the video so be sure to click “Watch in high quality” (located on the lower right of the video window) to see it at a higher resolution. Will take a lil longer to load, but its worth it

Set list was:

1. Life in Technicolor Video
2. Violet Hill Video
3. Clocks Video
4. In my Place Video 1 (Chris & Jon close to where I was sitting)
Video 2
5. Viva la Vida
6. 42 Video 1
Video 2
7. Yes
8. The Scientist Video
9. Chinese Sleep Chant Video (played on the left walkway)
10. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (new version) Video (played on the left walkway)
11. Square One Video
12. Speed of Sound Video
13. Strawberry Swing Video
14. Yellow [full band] Video
15. Politik Video
16. Lost Video
17. The Hardest Part (acoustic) Video
18. Death Will Never Conquer (sung by will - this is on the hardest part video)
19. Fix You Video 1
Video 2
20. Lovers in Japan Video
21. Death and all his Friends Video 1
Video 2 (Coldplay leaving the stage)

That’s it for the videos. Now for the photos!
Pics from the San Jose 2008 Coldplay concert

Hope they come back to northern california after the european/australian leg of the tour as they did during the 05/06 Twisted logic tour. While I’m at it I might as well link the pics I took during the 05 and 06 shows

Pics from the San Jose 2006 Coldplay concert
Pics from the Mountain View 2005 Coldplay concert

Ok I’m done! Hope you enjoy the pics and videos! Comment here rather then on youtube

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Edit: Haha reading this post on the monday after the concert and its hilarious! Out of the 4 of us waiting for coldplay to arrive I was the oldest by 4 years haha. The others ended up going to the hotel that CP was supposed to be staying at that night to try and meet em, but the last update I got from them (around 2am-ish) was that it looked like CP flew straight out to Vegas after the show and didn’t stay at the hotel that night. Sucks that we weren’t able to get a pic taken with the guys, but hey at least a got a wave from CM out of it!
I still need to upload the pics and vids to the blog..will do that tonight…taking a while to upload the vids because there’s just too many of em.

07/18/08 3:30ish pm:
Woooohoooooooo!!!!! Oh my fucking god chris martin waved at me!!! Feel like a giddy school girl right now!! He saw me!!!! He saw me!!!! He waved back!!!!! Chris martin waved!!!!
Don’t care if u call me crazy..chris martin waved at me!!!
Sent from my iPhone

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It’s 2:07pm and been waiting outside the hp pavilion, to try and catch Coldplay going in for a soundcheck, since 11:50 a.m. Show starts at 7:30pm.
There’s two other fans here beside me. They drove 2 hours from Sacramento to be here.
Even though the chance of them coming out to talk to us is pretty slim I have to give it a shot!!

Sent from my iPhone

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I haven’t had a chance to watch the Today Show yet (tivoed it this morning), but it looks like the coldplaying.com members who won VIP passes to the show had amazing seatings! Still waiting to see the pics taken by C, but I found some pics taken by another member and WOW….so close up!

Theres videos of the show on the msnbc site for everyone outside the US who wasn’t able to watch it on tv or anyone who couldn’t tivo it. Heres a link to it -> CLICK HERE

Some highlights of the show according to a member of the cping forums -

• When the announcer lady called referred to Jonny as Guy. (Poor Jon, he didn’t know what to do )

• When the announcer ladies (with embarrassed faces) held up 2 freakin’ bras that the crowd had thrown at the stage!!!

• And then in the middle of Lost! Chris got thrown a pair of black panties and exclaimed “Wow people are getting undressed here man!” Gross!!

• When Al Roker said “Coldplay rules!!!”

• When Al Roker was talking to some fans standing behind the stage and he told them “Oh you get a great view of the drummer’s toosh!”

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Coldplay will be on the Today Show tomorrow morning! A friend, C , won VIP tickets to watch them perform some songs from up close! How awesome is that? Can’t wait to hear all the details and see the pics =0) (C if you’re reading this I hope you remember to take your camera!)

Wondering what the setlist will be. I’m guessing that they will definitely play Violet Hill and Viva la vida. Lovers in Japan maybe…Chris seems to like that track..and thats no surprise..its one of my favs. Hope they do strawberry swings..would love to catch that on my tivo.

Speaking about setlists..the following pic was taken (in the former bakery that they used to record, rehearse and chill) about a month or so before the album was released..

So far they have sung all those songs live this month (during the 3 free shows, the secret gig in holland and on tv) except Yes, Sparks, Shiver, Don’t Panic. Could this be the setlist for the full blown tour once it starts in the middle of next month? Guess only time will tell.

Let’s see what else is on my mind…Wanted (with Angelia Jolie!! Wooohoo) is coming out tomorrow..hope I get to see it this weekend. Also waiting for Wall-e…trailers look cool…the geek in me can’t wait to see the robot romance between Wall-e and Eve =0)

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Took an extended break from this blog…but now I’m back =0)..and what better way to start things up then an announcement that Coldplay will be back in the Bay Area on the 18th of July…and I’ll be there in the 8th row screaming my lungs out rocking to the greatest band on the planet =0)

A lil disappointed that I wasn’t able to get decent seats during the pre-sale or the general sale..and had to resort to EVIL EVIL ticketmaster’s auction to get decent seats. Don’t ask me how much these decent seats cost =0(…but I know it will be worth every minute of the concert!

Good week for coldplay fans..Viva la vida or Death and all his friends (VLVODAAHF) is on top of the album charts in both the US and the UK…selling over 730,000 units in the US…and the single Viva la vida is also number one in both the US and the UK. In 2005 those wacky brits denied coldplay a #1 hit by making that crazy frog song number one (and they say that american’s have bad taste in music? HAH!) but they hit #1 this time around. What’s pretty cool is that the single has only been available as a download this time around (its not even a official single yet…violet hill was the first single from this album)..it was supposed to be a teaser for the album…and being so was not eligible for the charts..but once the album came out, so many ppl bought that track individually that it sent it soaring to #1.

Besides listening to VLVODAAHF I also checked out the new Janet Jackson album…23 tracks and only 2 good ones! The new Alanis Morissette album is pretty good…and its hard to say that openly as a guy as you supposedly have to be a disgruntled female teen to appreciate her music (hey she DID lighten up with her last album…think its coz she got married or something).

3G iPhone comes out on july 11th…a google news search will bring up tens of a) articles on why the iPhone sucks or b) how much of a profit apple will make off the device.

Addressing (b) first -> The $170 Bill of materials floating around does not include the R&D cost and since the iphone is one if not the most innovative phone out there on the market expect this R&D cost to be a huge! Secondly no one sells products for the hell of it..or to make the world a better place…its to make $$$ and I hope Apple makes a lot of money off the iPhone so that they say around for decades and continue to innovate.
Addressing (a) -> Get over it. Your blackberry is yesterday’s news. Is the iPhone perfect? No, but its a hell lot better then any blackberry or palm smartphone for non business use. Alot of holes in the iPhone will be filled up now that third-party developers can make apps for it. One of best feature of the iPhone is that ANYONE can pick it up and become a power user in a day if not in minutes. Try that with your blackberry.

Catch me in line to get a 3G iphone on the 11th of next month!

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“Officer, Angels and Airwaves made me speed! I couldn’t control myself as soon as I put one of their songs on”

Hmm think that excuse will work with a cop? IT SHOULD because thats the truth lol. Everytime I put a good song on, I feel inclined to step on the gas and weave in and out of lanes to beat traffic.

Heres some songs I speed to:

Angels and Airwaves “Start the machine”
Coldplay “Politik (live version)”
Coldplay ”
Angels and Airwaves “Valkyrie Missile”
Fort Minor “Right Now”
For Minor ” Slip out the back”
Diddy “Thought you said”
Fort Minor “Remember the name”
Angels and Airwaves “A little’s Enough”
Kanye West “Stronger”
Timbaland “Apologize”

I could easily list the entire Angels and Airwaves album under that heading because they all have the same effect lol.
“now th- that don’t kill me
can only make me stronger”

See…Kanye himself is promoting speeding!

“Yes Officer, I promise to listen to crappy music to curb my speeding. New 50 cent album? Yeah that should do the trick!”

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