Coldplay

Those who know me know how I feel about Coldplay, and it is a fair assumption to make that the only way I would ever go to a Coldplay concert is if I were paid. Well, that's exactly what happened!

ERM, the second company I work for that does concerts in the area called me up yesterday to ask if I could work the Coldplay concert today, it's money so I said yes!

The band did have the most elaborate lighting set-up I have ever seen, including huge spots that scissored down behind the band, creating silluettes.

I have come to the conclusion that Coldplay have 2 major problems:
1) Whoever decides which songs become singles should be fired because the non-single tracks they played were actually pretty good, where as their singles are all whiney and god-awful!
2) their live show is interesting, but their video department is entirely too over produced! Video walls at concerts are there for the people in the back to be able to get a closer look at the band, not for on-the-fly music video shooting!

All in all it was an ok day, but had I not gotten paid for it I would never have gone, and I definately wouldn't have paid to go see them.

On a very positive note though, at 2:30 in the morning, on my way back home from the gig, I called into the End and won 2 tickets to see Franz Ferdinand in Oktober!