07 September 2008: Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, Spain
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Setlist
- Life In Technicolor
- Violet Hill
- Clocks
- In My Place
- Speed Of Sound
- Cemeteries Of London
- Chinese Sleep Chant
- 42
- Fix You
- Strawberry Swing
- Talk (partial - techno version)
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (partial - techno version)
- The Hardest Part (piano - Chris)
- Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
- Viva La Vida
- Lost!
- The Scientist (acoustic)
- Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing)
- Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
First Encore - Politik including Gnossienne n° 1 (Erik Satie Cover - Piano)
- Lovers In Japan
- Death And All His Friends
Second Encore - Yellow
- The Escapist
Photos
Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for Madrid. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1524
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
Concierto Coldplay en Madrid, apoteósico
El pasado domingo, 7 de septiembre, tuvo lugar en el Palacio de los Deportes de Madrid el segundo concierto de la banda Coldplay en España, después de Barcelona que fue el día antes. Llevaba mucho tiempo esperando este concierto, pero por fin llegó el día en el que poder ver a Coldplay en directo.
Llegamos al pabellón, una cola de espanto, eso sí, en cuanto abrieron las puertas se avanzaba muy rápido ya que había muchas puertas para entrar. Dentro del recinto había multitud de puestos de comida: pizzas, perritos, hamburguesas, etc., y mi estómago rugía, por lo que tuvimos que parar para coger fuerzas, un perrito para el pecho, botellita de agua y para delante. Cuando nos conseguimos ubicar no estabamos lejos y centraditos, asique genial.
Al poco de entrar, Albert Hammond Jr, guitarrista principal de la banda newyorkina de pop-rock independiente, The Strokes, amenizó la espera como telonero. Poco después de finalizar y cuando quedaban 20 minutos para el comienzo del concierto, una muchacha nos entretuvo con algún que otro desmayo, abanico por aquí y por allá, se levantaba y a los 2 minutos… venga otro desmayo, hasta que la sacó de allií su novio.
Una melodía hizo prestar atención al público, era El Danubio Azul de Johann Strauss (hijo), después el instrumental ‘Live in Technicolor’ levantó el telón, con el mítico cuadro de Frida Khalo al fondo, obra que titula el primer single de la banda, ‘Viva la Vida’. Posteriormente ‘Violet Hill’ dio paso a ‘Clocks’. Los pelos saliéndose de su órbita, a más de uno la lagrimilla se le estaba a punto de desbordar. Cada canción era un clamor. Los grandes clásicos se mezclaban con los nuevos temas, muchos de los cuales se convertirán también en grandes clásicos como ‘Lovers in Japan’, con el pabellón inundado de mariposas de papel de colores, o ‘Lost’. Estuvieron representados casi todos los clásicos, ‘Yellow’, ‘Politik’, ‘In my place’, ‘Fix you’, ‘The Hardest Part’, ‘Talk’, etc. Uno de los momentos más grandes de la noche fue cuando se apagaron absolutamente todas las luces y de repente aparecieron los cuatro integrantes de la banda entre el público con sus instrumentos y tocaron la mítica ‘The Scientist’. Todo ello amenizado con pequeños comentarios graciosos de Chris Martin en español.
En definitiva, ahora sí que podría decir que un fin de semana en Madrid 100€, entrada en la reventa 80€, ver a Coldplay en directo no tiene precio. Fue tal la emoción que sentí, que pocas veces he experimentado esa sensación, puede parecer exajerado, pero no se sabe si no se vive, así que… Viva la Vida!
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Coldplay in Madrid, tremendous.
That last Sunday 7 September, he took place in Madrid's Sport Palace the second concert of the Coldplay band in Spain, after Barcelona who was the day before. I took long time waiting for this concert, but per end he arrived the day in which to be able to see to Coldplay in straight.
We arrive to the pavilion, a fright glue, that yes, in all the doors opened advanced one very fast because there were a lot of doors to enter. There was food place crowd in the enclosure: Pizzas; doggies; hamburgers; and so on, and my stomach roared, by what we had to stop to catch forces, a doggie stops water chest, botellita and stops in front. When us we manage to place not estabamos far and centraditos, inspired asique.
The not much of entering, Albert Hammond Jr, main guitarist from the independent pop rock, newyorkina, The Strokes, band wait made enjoyable as telonero. After finishing and when 20 minutes remained he stops the beginning of the concert, a girl us entertained with some that other one faint, fan round here and to that place, raised and at the 2 minutes... I come other I falter, until her got of allií his boyfriend out little.
A tune had attention paid to the public, The Danube was Blue of Johann Strauss (son), the instrumental 'Live in Technicolour' raised the curtain later, with Frida Khalo mythical picture at the back, work that entitles the first single of the band, 'Lives Life.' 'Violet Hill' took step to 'Clocks' subsequently. The hairs running off of his orbit, to more than one the lagrimilla he was about overflowing. Each song was a clamour. The big classics mixed with the new topics, many I eat 'Japan in,' with the flooded pavilion with butterflies 'Lovers' paper of colors, or 'Lost.' All the classics were represented almost; 'Yellow;' 'Politik;' 'my In' 'Fix you,' 'The Hardest Part,' 'Talk' 'pleases,' and so on. One of the biggest moments of the night went when one switched all the lights absolutely off and they appeared the four component of the band between the public with his instruments and they touched the mythical 'The Scientist' suddenly. Made enjoyable with funny small comments of Chris Martin in Spanish everything.
In short, him who could say who a weekend in Madrid 100? entry, in the resale 80?, seeing to Coldplay in straight does not have price now. The emotion that I felt was such, that I have experienced that feeling, a few times, he can seem exajerado, but one does not know if he does not live one so that Live Life!
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Coldplay in Madrid
Tonight, at the Palacio de Deportes in central Madrid, Chris Martin and the gang came to play. The previous night (Saturday) the band had also played in Barcelona.
Both concerts were in aid of Oxfam and to publicise its campaign “Comercio con Justicia” (Fair Trade). Several lucky volunteers for this organisation got given free tickets.
Before the Madrid leg the band did a TV interview and Chris Martin was cheekily asked which city he preferred. He told the interviewer that this was a forbidden question. “There are two prohibited questions in this interview, yeah? You don’t ask about our relationships and you don’t ask about the Barcelona versus Madrid thing.”
The majority of the concert was taken up with tracks from the Viva la Vida album but of course they bunged in a few of the classics from previous albums as well. It wasn’t the full-on concert and lightshow spectacular but it was as professional as always and everyone had a good sing-a-long and got sent home happy.
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Media Reviews
Coldplay interpreted almost to complete the songs of its last album Martin’s moving solo interpretation of “The hardest part” with his piano
MADRID. - Although more length of the habitual thing, to give capacity to a repertoire to which memorable moments are accumulated to him, the recital that Coldplay offered last night in Madrid did not give rise to surprises, although it was guided by the uncontrollable and magnetic artistic nerve of its leader, Chris Martin.
Two multitudinal groups separate fans of the British quartet, those that value specially the introspection that the sound of its beginnings marked and those that adores the grandiloquence adopted in the last years.
The evening of last night in the Palace of Deportes clearly was dedicated to the seconds, those that have turned to Coldplay the reference group that now is and that last night jammed the track of the Madrilenian enclosure to such an extent which the most left behind they had to be located in the few free seats that were in the launching slips.
By far that to offer and almost nothing to demonstrate, Coldplay interpreted almost to complete its last album - “Alive the life or death and all his friends” -, which as soon as it left space for some of simple more memorable of his race - “Fix you”, “Clocks” including in identical recital to offered the previous day in Barcelona and in that “Yellow” left an isolated memory of “Parachutes”, its debut published in 2000 del that avoided icons like “Trouble”.
In 2005 Coldplay he defended himself place “X & Y”, the questioned work more of its discografía, in a concert in which it knew to contribute true emotion to a measured spectacle of masses.
Last night, and without great technical efforts beyond the lights and habitual projections in its tours, a passional Chris Martin was itself surrounded again by the solution of Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion and it released in direct for his fans Madrilenian classic futures like “Lovers in Alive Japan” and “the life”.
Electrical and visceral on the scene it is when the husband of the star of Hollywood escapes of the topic, when he shows the virtuous musician and he leaves of side the orders of the marketing research that have turned him San Chris Martin of Right Comercio, successive of Earth Bond, to proclaim pattern of the perfect refrain.
Although also masterful connoisseur of the benefits of a good blow of effect, Martin moved in solitaire interpreting “The hardest part” with his piano and, mixing itself next to his three companions between the public to sing in the launching slips “The scientist”.
The answer of the assistants was tired pleitesía to a group that stops many is the nth redentor of the rock, and that of who yes is rescuing is of its record one, EMI, whose balance of benefits depends on its launchings.
With “Alive the life”, del that has sold near five million copies in his first commercial months, the band defies the natural inertia of an industry that almost never perpetuates its heroes and it that escapes the destiny of many of its predecessors, like Oasis or Travis, to those who the British musical empire insisted on treating like new a its “fab four” before deserving it.
Coldplay and its great success in Spain
With “hello” and an excuse by his badly Castilian (later some “incredible” and “God would shout mine”) the leader of Coldplay appeared in Madrid, Chris Martin. It went to the 21,35 hours, five minutes after the anticipated thing, and meant the beginning of an identical scheme to the followed one in Barcelona.
After an absence of three years - the past broken May in a concert deprived in the Movistar Space of Barcelona, the quartet did not defraud the assistants who at night went yesterday to the Palace of Deportes. During something more than two hours, the eight of the ten subjects corearon that compose their last work, Alive Vida and Death or All His Friends (title inspired by a picture homónimo of Frida Kahlo), as well as the main successes of their discografía. A bath of masses that took to Martin to interpret some titles before a driven crazy public.
Of his first album, to which the press praised and criticized to equal parts to drink of the universe of Radiohead, the husband of the Gwyneth actress Paltrow rescued Yellow, great hit of Parachutes (2000). They would follow Clocks and God put a Smile Upon Your Face, of its second work, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002). They also played Fix You and Speed of Sound.
As far as the scenic assembly, throughout the show the laser beamses crossed the scene and the six giant spheres with projected images megre with an enormous reproduction of the Alive cover the life…: the decimonónico picture the freedom guiding the town, of Eugène Delacroix.
It jeopardize with the commitment
Martin, shared in common and it jeopardize until poles, demonstrated in Madrid that he has well learned the lesson of its virtual mentor, Bond, of U2.
Coldplay, that inherits (it merges) the sound of the Irish, now also imitates them in limitless adhesion to a cause. And thus it has let know it to east Martin weekend in the concerts that Coldplay celebrated Saturday in Barcelona and yesterday in Madrid, in which it has been possible to see tens of volunteers of InterMon Oxfam informing to the assistants on the campaign of the ONG, Commerce with Justice.
Customiza Martin his clothes and its guitar
Seems that to the leader of Coldplay he gets passionate to him to customizar itself. This weekend was before his fans with a pintarrajeada guitar of colors and the legend of “you do not cry to me”. In addition, in its jacket she appeared sewn a star, a moon and several retales of fabric of colors, apparently without order nor concert. Its trousers Lucia the silhouette of a yellow bear of peluche.
Coldplay lives the sweetest moment on its race. Its previous work, X&Y (2005), sold more than 12 million discs. And its last disc beats record of sales, even in Internet, where already it is the album more bought early in the history of the store of iTunes, as well as the most asked for in his first week of launching.
Coldplay in Madrid, a cinematic performance
The concert of the band of Chris Martin in the jammed Palace of Deportes of the capital leaves a good flavor of mouth to the assistants
There are moments in the life in which, according to we are living, we realize them of which they are being recorded directly in the part of the memory which we will remember for always, like one of the most euphoric moments within our youth. This Sunday I lived one on those special moments in the concert of Coldplay, in the jammed Palace of Deportes of Madrid. If you were my grandsons, she would tell the concert you just as I am going it to count now, because the memory already is recorded with force within my.
That Chris Martin is a good musician and composer knows whatever disc has listened to one at random of which Coldplay has in the market. That this man radiates a vital optimism in each word or note that touches, will have only been able to see it who have gone to one of their concerts.
And it has been that the leader of the group gives a spectacle of personal talent, as for long time that it did not see. They compare with the best Bond or the singer of Rem, but I believe that, within a time, one will see that Chris much more has his noticeable personality that the descendants U2 or REM (no matter how hard you like, already walk in the hill down). And what envies of talent. And the songs, each one of them like a different number, an independent show within a thought global spectacle as it builds complete, were sounding, each one different and better than the previous one.
Until arriving at Alive the absolute madness of the Life. If somebody must make me a biography cinematographic, please, that this song is the main subject of the film. And that sees me in the concert, singing and shouting next to a good friend, and that this he is momentazo of the film. And that sees planes of the 15,000 people doing the choirs. Others, like Clocks, Yellow, Violet Hill or Lost, also could accompany other good and bad moments by this film. Today I return to believe in the power of music.
Coldplay did not leave cold to anybody
It released in direct classic futures as “Lovers in Alive Japan” and “the life” The concert were guided by the magnetic artistic nerve of Chris Martin
The evening of last night in the Palace of Deportes clearly was dedicated to which has turned to Coldplay the reference group that at the moment is. They jammed the track of the Madrilenian enclosure to such an extent that the most left behind they had to be located in the few free seats that were in the launching slips. The subjects that them made well-known, as `Fix you´ or `The Scientist´ were combined with which they will be it like `Alive the Vida´. A concert that will pass to annals of the memory of his fans.
Although more length of the habitual thing, to give capacity to a repertoire to which memorable moments are accumulated to him, the recital that Coldplay offered last night in Madrid did not give rise to surprises.
Coldplay interpreted almost to complete its last album - “Alive the life or death and all his friends” -, which as soon as it left space for some of simple more memorable of his race - “Fix you”, “Clocks” including in an identical recital to offered the previous day in Barcelona.
Without great technical efforts beyond the lights and habitual projections in his tours, a passional Chris Martin was itself surrounded again by the solution of Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion and released in direct for his fans Madrilenian classic futures like “Lovers in Alive Japan” and “the life”.
Although also masterful connoisseur of the benefits of a good blow of effect, Martin moved in solitaire interpreting “The hardest part” with his piano. Also it was mixed to its three companions between the public to sing in the launching slips “The scientist”.
The answer of the assistants was tired pleitesía to a group that stops many is the nth redentor of the rock. With “Alive the life”, the English quartet has sold near five million copies in his first commercial months.
