16 September 2002: Pier Six Concert Pavillion, Baltimore, MD, USA
From WikiColdplay
Setlist
- Politik
- Shiver
- Spies
- Daylight
- Trouble
- One I Love
- Don’t Panic
- Everything’s Not Lost
- Green Eyes
- Streets of Baltimore (Cover)
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
- Yellow
- The Scientist
- A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Encore - Clocks
- In My Place
- Life Is For Living
Media Reviews
Brit Pop darling Coldplay played to a packed pavilion last Monday night at Pier Six downtown. Opening for the band was the Belfast-based Ash. Ash kicked things off after a lengthy setup. The band's music bore a slight resemblance to Green Day and other U.S. punk-pop groups, but Ash's sounds were angrier, sort of like if the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl was even more pissed about Kurt Cobain's suicide.
The band played songs from a variety of albums including 1996's "1977" and its latest effort, "Free All Angels."
But the real show began when Coldplay hit the stage. The band opened with "Politik," the first song on the new album, titled "A Rush Of Blood to the Head."
Lead singer Chris Martin was the star of the show. He really knew how to engage the audience. The band played almost all of the songs off the new album and half of the songs off of 2000's "Parachutes."
Highlights of the performance included the acoustic song "Green Eyes," which Martin prefaced by telling the men in the audience to cherish their women because, "We need them."
"Trouble" off of "Parachutes" was also a big crowd pleaser. Martin opened this song by saying it was just six little notes that could have become a terrible "Mariah Carey-esque" ballad. He said he hoped the audience agreed that the song was not a soppy ballad. They did.
Martin also told the crowd he had heard Baltimore was the crack capital of the United States. He said he didn't think that was all there was to Charm City and then the band performed a country style song titled "The Streets of Baltimore."
The show was brief, but the crowd, which sang along song after song, didn't seem to mind.
When the band left the stage, the crowd cheered, whistled and yelled until they reappeared to play the encore, which included "Clocks" and "In My Place."
Amy M Bruce
