03 February 2003: Savvis Center, St Louis, MO, USA
From WikiColdplay
Setlist
- Politik
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
- Spies
- Daylight
- Trouble
- One I Love
- Warning Sign
- Don’t Panic
- Everything’s Not Lost
- Moses
- Yellow
- The Scientist
Encore - Clocks
- In My Place
- Ladder To The Sun
Media Reviews
It's getting cold in here
The crowd was no less involved. Couples softly swayed to the band's first U.S. hit "Yellow," the stage and audience both awash in the glow of yellow lights. Sponsored by MTV2, the stage was inundated by cameras, providing the audience with wonderful, close-up images of the individual members of the band, as broadcast on four screens behind the stage. Mostly focused on Martin, at one point half the screens displayed the singer's face, with the other half focused solely on his hands at the piano. This dismemberment was successful visually, but symbolically the band and the venue together were exactly the opposite: playing together with stunning beauty and power, while taking perfect advantage of the slimmed-down arena. They closed the set with their latest radio release, "The scientist". However, the stage wasn't empty for long. Martin bounded back on stage, and politely asked the audience to help him get in the good graces of his girlfriend's mom, Blythe (Danner) by singing Happy Birthday to her. Of course the audience went along with Martin's plan to please, and once the song was over Martin gushed in his irresistible British accent, "that's one of the coolest things I've ever heard in my life." Probably an exaggeration, but everyone wound up feeling pretty good, as Coldplay continued with two more songs from A Rush of Blood to the Head, "A Whisper" and "In my place." During "In my place" Martin paid tribute to Justin Timberlake singing, "I just wanna love you, baby." They left the stage for the second time, but after much applause and many cheers Coldplay was back on stage. Martin feeling quite comfortable with the audience of about 4,000 admitted, "it's good to know we didn't fuck up in St. Louis." He then apologetically said that this really would have to be the last song, "Ladder to the sun." About half the songs were from Coldplay's newest album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, about a quarter were new songs, and the remaining quarter were from their first album, Parachutes. Though Coldplay was on stage for about 90 minutes, they played their hearts out, rocking the newly designed "concert club" at the Savvis Center.
