Saturday, May 16, 2009

Coldplay!

pleasantly surprised by my lawn experience w/ coldplay, great show. The camera work was really impressive, unique angles, lenses and filtering created really stylized live camera work. The set was fairly simple, but they had some nice changes and some balloon drops, giant yellow balloons for Yellow, that sort of thing.  Chris Martin did a two or three song set half way up the pavilion seating, a few of the songs they changed up the tempo and style, i like that. You can always listen to the album at home. Great mix of old and new stuff. They talked a lot and personalized it to South Florida, which I always like and with the free cd's and downloads they were very appreciative towards the crowd. Obviously they couldn't be as personal as Amos Lee hanging out in the parking lot last week and staying for a two hour plus set, but they talked about how they couldn't do it without their fans and especially all the ones crowded in the grass at the back of the arena. Martin said that many people forget the lawn and they didn't and so they left the stage and walked through the pavilion to the lawn area and did four songs with two guitars, harmonicas and singing. As soon as they started heading to the back, I bolted and jumped chairs and stepped on quilts and got up like 20 feet from the band for the songs they played back there. I was incredibly impressed and couldn't believe that they would do that. The show was phenomenal, usually I hate when people sing along at concerts and the artists stop singing for the crowd to sing, but it worked at times. They gave out the free cd's at the end of it, and so we went to the gate to leave and get our cd and they informed us that they were giving them out at the other gate, all the way on the other side and so 5K people or whatever make a u-turn to head to the other gate, a bit unorganized, but people were singing Coldplay and ooohing and aaahing to Viva La Vida. I grabbed five of the free cd's. Awesome night! Food and sleep now!