18 February 2009: War Child Gig, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
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Setlist
- Life In Technicolor
- Violet Hill
- Clocks
- In My Place
- 42
- Yellow
- Lost!
- Fix You
Encore - Viva La Vida
- Back for Good (featuring Gary Barlow)
- All These Things That I've Done (with The Killers, featuring Gary Barlow and Bono)
Photos
Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for the War Child gig. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1735
Videos
Videos from this show can be found in the first post of the Coldplaying forum live thread for this show at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54176
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54176
Fan Reviews
The reviews are so long, we've moved them. See:
- 18 February 2009: War Child Gig, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London (Fan Reviews) and
- 18 February 2009: War Child Gig, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London (More Fan Reviews)
Media Reviews
Revenge is dish best served Coldplay...
War Child: The Killers, Coldplay
4/5 stars John Aizlewood's rating
As days go, yesterday wasn’t an especially good one for Coldplay. Still bedraggled after flying in from Japan, Britain’s most popular band and the British music industry’s most popular export spent the evening being humiliated at the Brits, an unfathomable snub which almost single-handedly illustrates why the music business is in steep decline.
Wounded, Coldplay hot-footed it to the newly christened O2 Shepherds Bush Empire and at 40 minutes into today, they took the stage and things finally began to look better.
The event was a benefit to celebrate the War Child charity’s 15th birthday and nominally a co-headline with The Killers, who hurtled through their hits, asked us whether we were “human or dancer” (er, a bit of both, I suppose, all things considered) on Human and proved once more that however peculiar their little singer Brandon Flowers is, they remain a formidable live proposition. Yet, Brits idiocy notwithstanding, Coldplay remain the people’s choice and even the late start failed to stop more than 200,000 people applying for the opportunity to purchase the 2,000 £50 tickets. Indeed, such was the demand that while U2’s The Edge managed to wangle himself entry, he couldn’t get a seat.
Coldplay specialise in making giant venues seem small. In a more intimate setting, buoyed rather than burdened by expectation, they were magnificent, whether it was Chris Martin singing much of In My Place sitting on the corner of the stage like a broken schoolboy; the thumping Viva La Vida (were there a Best Use Of Timpani Brit last night, they’d have been celebrating today) which Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant gleefully conducted from the audience; Yellow, stopped by Martin to announce the presence of X-Factor judge Louis Walsh or 42, as it exploded from a piano ballad into near rock opera. Like no other band, they can simultaneously comfort and thrill.
“This,” promised Martin, not one to knowingly undersell himself or his band, “is going to be the best encore you’ve ever seen.” It wasn’t, but it was special. Gary Barlow, looking every inch the Cheshire cat as he basked in credibility, emerged to sing Take That’s Back For Good with Martin on wailing backing vocals and, finally, to send us off into the early morning with a spring in our step, Barlow, Bono and The Killers joined the headliners on a ramshackle but heartfelt assault on Flowers’s All These Things That I’ve Done.
Who needs a Brit anyway?
The perfect boy band? Bono, The Killers, Coldplay and Gary Barlow at War Child
With Coldplay and The Killers nominated in a total of five categories at this year’s Brits, it seemed inconceivable that, between them, the two bands wouldn’t emerge from Earls Court with one or two trophies.
And with that in mind, what better way to celebrate than to join forces in aid of War Child and triumphantly bash out a few tunes? In the end, both bands emerged empty-handed.
If you had to guess which of the two groups might be most affronted by the perceived ignominy, chances are you would plump for The Killers’ ambitious Flowers over Coldplay’s congenitally self-deprecating Chris Martin. Oh, we of little faith.
As it turned out, it was the slender black-clad Flowers who raced out onto a stage far smaller than his Las Vegas quartet have had to play in recent memory, buzzing with a life-force that could light the streets of a small market town.
The reason for his good cheer was literally staring him in the face. In the centre of the balcony Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant gazed on proudly as The Killers delivered riotously joyful versions of hits such as Somebody Told Me and Mr Brightside.
An hour previously, at the BRITS, Flowers had presented his teenage idols The Pet Shop Boys with their outstanding achievement award and duetted with them on It’s A Sin.
As a marker of ambitions realised, this must have been as real – not to mention more enjoyable – than any award. And it showed. Towering over a drum kit that barely contained the energy he unleashed on it, drummer Ronnie Vanucci was a picture of merry catharsis as, just for once, a perpetually grinning Flowers swapped imperiousness for puppyish wide-eyed glee.
He paid fulsome tribute to Coldplay by declaring that, years ago, “the first time we heard this band… we felt we were in with a chance [too].”
When Coldplay finally materialized in the early hours of the morning, any similar attempts to take positives out of their Brits snub were conspicuous by their absence. “We just came back from Japan, we lost at the Brits, it’s been a s**t day,” said Martin.
And yet, as he bounded about the stage like a wired, punch-drunk Tigger repeatedly attempting to get back up after another rain of blows, you wondered if there was a link between the ramshackle brilliance of Coldplay’s set and the body language of a band, dressed in their customary battle gear, with a newly-sharpened point to prove.
They could have hardly done so in more empathetic surroundings. “Shall we play this one? It’s a little commercial,” said Martin as he donned acoustic guitar for Yellow.
He turned the microphone to face the audience, but even he seemed startled by the word-perfect clarity with which his words were sung back to him – so much so that he barely attempted to chip in.
If Neil Tennant had planned to unwind in relative anonymity after his big moment, any remaining chances of that happening were cast aside after Martin, like Flowers before him, spotted him on the balcony.
With a mixture of blithe playfulness and genuine excitement, Martin pointed at him in the middle of a spittle-flecked delivery of Viva La Vida and exclaimed, “Ladies and gentlemen! The Pet Shop Boys!”
Far from recoil, Tennant’s reaction was extraordinary and inspired. With the “woah-oahs” of the song resounding around the venue, Tennant raised his arms and imperiously started conducting the thousand-odd people staring back up at him.
That this impromptu spectacle was about to be eclipsed by something proper and planned was confirmed as a crowd of people, some with walkie-talkies, busily fussed at the side of the stage – and Martin declared, “Okay, you’re gonna like this a lot.”
As Jonny Buckland strummed the opening chords of Take That’s Back For Good – a song which Martin has been wont to interpolate at recent performances of Coldplay’s own The Scientist – Gary Barlow gingerly walked on stage and radiated precisely the unalloyed humility that has made Take That’s resurgence such a pleasure to behold.
Far from emanating the starry entitlement of a Brandon Flowers, Barlow seemed reticent to turn around and soak up the fact that, for four minutes, Coldplay were his backing band – complete with Martin living out a teenage dream and chipping in with “I want you back” backing vocals.
In terms of what followed however, this spectacle was but a mere hors d’oeuvres. One by one, The Killers returned to the stage and donned musical instruments. Not so much starting as slowly coalescing around a thrilling upswell of drums and feedback, the American quartet’s 2004 hit All These Things That I’ve Done took glorious shape.
As noise turned into rousing clarion call, “You know you gotta help me out,” it was at this point that a black-clad Bono chose to make his entrance, beckoning the crowd to him as Martin and Flowers stood alongside him.
What ensued seconds later was, in its way, possibly the most moving part of the evening. Realising that Barlow was nowhere to be seen, Martin – determined the Take That frontman should also be in on this – almost pushed the U2 singer over in his sudden compulsion to ran off in search of him.
Seconds later, all four singers stood in a perfect boy-band line just long enough for disbelieving onlookers to memorise what may go down as the most brilliantly surreal finale seen at this or any rock venue in several years. “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier”, they all bellowed.
This wasn’t the post-Brits lap of honour that Coldplay had hoped. It was much, much better than that – and a salient reminder of what, for bands like Coldplay and The Killers, the real prizes are. With friends like this who needs awards?
Coldplay and Bono team up with Take That for charity gig
LONDON (Reuters) - It's not often that Coldplay, one of the world's biggest bands, agrees to play backing vocals to a one-time boy band heartthrob like Gary Barlow of Take That.
But that is exactly what happened in the early hours of Thursday when the rockers performed on stage with Barlow, and later with U2's lead singer Bono and U.S. band The Killers at a charity show following the BRIT pop awards.
The event was in support of the War Child charity, which aims to protect children living in the world's most dangerous war zones. It has just released a compilation album "Heroes."
Coldplay put behind it the disappointment of the BRITs, where it was nominated for four awards but won nothing, to play to 2,000 people at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire. "The band to see at the moment is Take That," said Coldplay's Chris Martin. Take That were one of Britain's most successful groups in the 1990s and have topped the charts again since reforming.
"We've just come back from Japan and lost all the BRITs. It's been a s--- day, quite frankly," he joked at the end of a set where the band played a string of hits including "Yellow."
Barlow entered stage left and performed Take That classic "Back For Good," with Coldplay providing the music and Martin the backing vocals, much to the crowd's delight.
The finale of the concert was a rendition of The Killers' "All These Things That I've Done" sung by the band itself, Coldplay, Barlow and Bono, lead singer of Irish rockers U2.
The concert, which started late on Wednesday, was the highlight of the night for many fans and journalists who had been at the BRIT awards earlier. Welsh singer Duffy won three awards including the coveted best British album accolade.
War Child has billed Heroes, its fifth record, as "the ultimate covers album."
Fifteen young acts were selected by established names in rock and roll to perform one of their own songs.
They include Duffy performing former Beatle Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die," TV On The Radio covering David Bowie's "Heroes," Estelle singing Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and Elbow with U2's "Running to Stand Still."
"War Child's work is vital and being able to have a moment with Brandon (Flowers of The Killers) and Chris (Martin) tonight is a salute to an awesome night for them," Bono said.
"U2 love Elbow's new version of 'Running To Stand Still'," he added in a statement.
Record major EMI made a "substantial," undisclosed payment to War Child and has released the album on its Parlophone label. Parlophone donates UK profits to the international charity.
War Child's first album was "Help!" in 1995. The charity said the concept of rock legends selecting tracks for younger artists to perform reflected its own work in investing in the next generation.
By Mike Collett-White
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/entert...51I2TB20090219
Stars team up for after-Brits gig
It could well go down as one of the "I wish I'd been there" shows of 2009. War Child presents: The Killers and Coldplay.
Two big rock bands rushing straight over from the Brits, to take it in turns on one stage. Neither of them disappointed.
The Killers opened the show to rapturous cheers and applause, with frontman Brandon Flowers shouting: "We're honoured to be here."
The stage was decorated with palm trees, with lights encircling their trunks.
There were trellises covered in even more lights and a huge K in the middle, which flashed depending on the song.
Mr Brightside and Human got fans going the most. They ended with When You Were Young.
Al Murray came on for a bit of extra entertainment while the set-up was changed.
He didn't fail to let them know who he'd love to see on stage - Queen.
He got the crowd singing along to a couple of their songs, including Bohemian Rhapsody.
The classical track Blue Danube played while the lights went down, and then Coldplay came on to huge screams and cheering.
At one point, Chris Martin shouted: "(There are) people that we respect and adore in here. People like Louis Walsh.
"He's our favourite X Factor judge. So let's make this our X Factor audition. And we'll give it 115%."
And that's where he got the whole crowd to do the first verse of Yellow.
Chris also congratulated the Pet Shop Boys, who were in the audience watching.
And they weren't the only celebs who wanted to make sure they caught the gig.
Richard Ashcroft, Sienna Miller, Anna Friel, Natalie Imbruglia, Courtney Love and Gemma Arterton were just a few of the famous faces on show.
Special guests
Rumours were rife before the gig that there would be surprise guests because Coldplay had been playing Take That on tour and Chris has been 'twittering' about them.
Chris turned to the crowd and said: "The band to see at the moment is Take That. We've just had a really bad day. Didn't win anything at the Brits and we've just come back from Japan.
"Shall we welcome the greatest comeback kid of all time? It's Mr Gary Barlow." And on walked a timid-looking Gary Barlow, who then launched into Back For Good.
The crowd roared and screamed with excitement every word at the top of their voices.
Then Coldplay and Gary put down their mics and were done. Or were they?
The rest of Coldplay came back on stage and Chris introduced The Killers.
Frontman Brandon Flowers had changed out of his stage outfit and was dressed in some skinny jeans, a black T-shirt and a purple hoodie.
And then Chris introduced Bono, who walked on stage dressed in black, and took a bow.
Organiser Ben Knowles revealed that backstage, Chris, Bono, Gary and Brandon sat huddled in a corner discussing which song they should end with, minutes before doing it on stage.
Bono was asking the rest of the guys whether he could quickly rewrite some of the lyrics, but as he was thinking, Chris and the rest of Coldplay were back on stage.
As far as they were concerned their decision was made.
It was The Killers track All These Things That I've Done.
Bono sang parts of the verses and the lines "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier."
Chris had to run off stage and drag Gary back on to be part of the proceedings.
The gig is likely to live long in the memories of those lucky enough to have been there.
Not only were there star-studded performances from the bands, but also great guests to collaborate on each song.
That's what the War Child Heroes album is all about. Bands having a mash up of others work.
War Child's Heroes album is on sale now.
Chi Chi Izundu Newsbeat reporter at Shepherds Bush Empire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7898000/7898903.stm
Killers, Coldplay, U2, Take That team-up for post BRITs gig
Coldplay and The Killers - joined by special guests from U2 and Take That - played a rare joint gig in London tonight (February 18).
With all the acts rushing across from the nearby BRIT Awards ceremony to play the intimate charity show in aid of War Child - and also marking the launch of newly rechristened O2 Shepherds Bush Empire - the gig kicked off well after 11pm (GMT), with The Killers taking to the stage first.
Howeverm while both groups played curtailed sets in order to beat the curfew, they compensated by recruiting their specials guests for a joint encore together at the end of the show.
Firstly Coldplay played 'Back For Good' with Take That's Gary Barlow, with Chris Martin declaring the collaboration would cheer him up after not winning at the BRITs earlier.
"I think everyone agrees that the band to see at the moment is Take That," he declared. "We've just got back from Japan, lost all the BRITs, it's been a shit day frankly, but it's going to get better, please welcome Mr Gary Barlow!"
Then, having only rehearsed minutes beforehand backstage, The Killers and Bono joined Coldplay onstage to perform 'All These Things That I've Done' together.
Although the U2 man was a bit shaky on the lyrics to The Killers song, the three frontmen led the crowd through a rousing sing-a-long as they repeated the tracks "I've got soul/ but I'm not a soldier" refrain.
"This is going to be the best encore you'll ever see!" declared Martin as the three acts wrapped up the night.
Earlier Coldplay had performed their own set, kicking off with instrumental 'Life In Technicolor' and 'Violet Hill', changing the lyrics of the latter to reference Shepherd's Bush and The Killers, to the crowd's delight.
'In My Place' then triggered a loud sing-a-long as Martin encouraged the crowd to scream along with him, while later on Martin asked for the lights to be turned on so he could address the throng.
"Should we play this one or is it a bit commercial?" joked the singer before 2000 single 'Yellow'.
With the track receiving another loud sing-a-long, Martin stopped them just before the end to tell them that 'The X Factor' judge Louis Walsh was in the audience.
"You're our favourite judge so I'm sure we'll all do a good version of 'Yellow'," he confidently declared.
The band then wrapped up their set up with 'Fix You' and 'Viva La Vida' in advance of their collaborative climax.
Coldplay played:
- 'Life In Technicolor'
- 'Violet Hill'
- 'Clocks'
- 'In My Place'
- '42'
- 'Yellow'
- 'Lost'
- 'Fix You'
- 'Viva La Vida'
- 'Back For Good' (with Gary Barlow)
- 'All These Things That I've Done' (with The Killers and Bono)
Before them Brandon Flowers and co had kicked the night off performing songs from across their career including the likes of 'Spaceman', 'For Reasons Unknown' and 'Somebody Told Me'.
The Las Vegas band also paid tribute to their co-headliners Coldplay and the evening's charity.
"Thank you for having us, we're so honoured to be part of this, War Child has done so many wonderful things," Flowers told the crowd. "It's great to be partnered with Coldplay. I remember when I first saw the video for 'Yellow' they were a real inspiration it made me think we had a real chance, so we're honoured to be here with them."
The Killers played:
- 'Spaceman'
- 'Somebody Told Me'
- 'This Is Your Life'
- 'Human'
- 'For Reasons Unknown'
- 'Read My Mind'
- 'Mr Brightside'
- 'When You Were Young'
While the stage was completely refitted by a team of busy roadies for Coldplay, comedian Al Murray: Pub Landlord also entertained the crowd with a surprise stand-up routine that included a sing-a-long to Queen's songs.
Speaking after the show the three frontmen praised the night and War Child - who release new charity album 'Heroes' this week.
"Tonight was such an honour, it was one of the most exciting gigs we've ever played," declared Flowers, while Martin added: "We couldn't have imagined that we'd make this work. The fact that the money raised from tickets have enabled War Child to extend the reach of their work is astonishing."
"War Child's work is vital and being able to have a moment with Brandon and Chris tonight is a salute to an awesome night for them," concluded Bono. "U2 love Elbow's new version of 'Running To Stand Still' for War Child [on the 'Heroes' album]. They deserve all their success."
http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/42890
Review: Coldplay and The Killers
The BRIT awards are known for their collaborations, but the best hook up of the night happened hours after the Earls Court bash had ended.
It was an audacious move to stage a charity benefit on the biggest night of the musical calendar, but ensuring your headliners were two A-list artists made the night world class. Add Gary Barlow and Bono and the evening takes a turn for the surreal.
Coldplay and The Killers played great if standard sets in support of War Child (a charity for children in war torn countries). Chris Martin and Brandon Flowers were equally matched: both fell to their knees twice, Flowers traipsed over the monitors, Martin twirled. But it wasn’t till Coldplay returned for their encore (1.30am) that things got interesting.
“This is going to be the best encore you’ve seen in your life” said Martin before breaking into Viva La Vida, but as that song finished with Neil Tennant conducting the ‘wooh’s’ from the V.I.P dress circle, on came Gary Barlow.
We'd been expecting this, but nothing could prepare for the amazing weirdness of seeing the Take That frontman sing Back For Good with Coldplay as his backing band and Chris Martin (good, but no Mark Owen) providing harmonies. It was well worth staying up to the wee hours for, and that was before Bono entered stage right.
For the last song of the evening The Killers came back and, with help from Coldplay, started bashing out rousing early single All These Things That I’ve Done, with Bono bouncing on to join in. Very strange to see the two bands who've had the most success ripping U2 off, all on the same stage as Bono - oh and Gary popped back, which was nice. If Warchild make this an annual event, it could soon become one of the most anticipated dates of the year, with or without the BRITs. ends
http://thelondonpaper.typepad.com/thelondonblog/2009/02/review-coldplay-and-the-killers.html
The Killers, Coldplay, Bono, Take That @ The O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire 2.18.09
I've tried to stay level-headed about the things that happen while I'm traveling with the Killers. It's a mixture of wanting to hide my age, appear more cool than I am, and not let any of it go to my head.
But, seriously, last night was pretty freakin' rad.
After the Brit Awards, the War Child Benefit was held at Shepherd's Bush Empire in West London. The Killers and Coldplay were scheduled to play mini-sets and it seems they brought the best out of each other. The Killers played like I've never seen them play before, so full of energy, like fighters trying to knock their opponent out in the first round. Watching Coldplay was exciting for me, as it seemed to be playing in the background all through my high school and college years. Chris Martin's spastic energy was in full effect, every gyration impeccably timed, every witticism perfectly executed to encourage maximum rapport with the crowd.
At the end of the night, the two bands merged to play "All These Things That I've Done" with the king himself, Bono, gracing us with his voice as well as Gary Barlow from Take That (Britain's Backstreet Boys). I hurried to take over the keyboard part from Brandon on Chris Martin's piano, seconds after thinking that I was going to be looking like quite the asshole standing around onstage with these megastars. I can't wait to see the YouTube footage, the whole night being such a welcome thrill
Afterwards, all of U2 was hanging around, Ian McCulloch from Echo & the Bunnymen, Natalie Imbruglia, and a very, very tall, very, very beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow. I still don't know what to do in those situations, besides drink, but I toasted to Dublin with Bono and that's one step enough away from typical social awkwardness for one night.
Dublin today, about to go for a walk around town. Guinness Brewery? Jameson Distillery? MAGNER'S DISTILLERY?
posted by Ray on Thursday, February 19, 2009
http://www.sddialedin.com/2009/02/ki...e-that-o2.html
No bull down at the old Bush
Wednesday's War Child gig, celebrating 15 years of the rock-affiliated charity, makes no secret of its allegiances. The audience is packed in long beforehand but proceedings don't start until 11pm, giving joint headliners Coldplay and The Killers plenty of time to digest their ceremony dinner across town before heading for Shepherds Bush.
The pay-off is the gig's status as the unofficial Brits aftershow, and a rumour mill buzzing with speculation about who else will appear onstage tonight - a "special guests" slot is scheduled. The chatter on the venue's bush telegraph has Brits presenter Kylie reprising "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" with Coldplay - the British four-piece covered it during their Glastonbury headlining slot in 2005 - and more far-fetched speculation involves a Chris Martin/Iron Maiden hook-up. But besides these fantasy collaboration pub games, much of the evening's fun involves gawping down at the venue's VIP-only first floor to see which stars are in attendance. Before the fun of the guest section can begin - a quick scan downstairs reveals that Richard Ashcroft, Courtney Love and Neil Tennant are all present and possible contenders (though unlikely in Love's case) - there's the small matter of the two scheduled gigs.
A concise hour-long performance suits co-headliners the Killers well, allowing them to deliver a terrific Noughties jukebox of a set without delving into the dustier corners of their so-so second album. "Mr Brightside", "Human" and "When You Were Young" are present and correct, but the conspiracy theorists among us take note that their barnstorming usual closer "All These Things That I've Done" is suspiciously absent.
Almost 10 years in a rock-star bubble have done nothing to diminish Chris Martin's populist touch or his heroic levels of uncool. Skipping across the stage at the start of Coldplay's set, fidgeting and chattering excitedly, he might have been custom-built for a feelgood occasion like this, the idea that nice guys win and Hollywood actresses dig nerdy dancing made flesh. Coldplay focus on their notionally conflicted (though really very accessible) latest album Viva La Vida, and also lay on a generous smattering of past hits while various audience members leave their seats and slip backstage for the encore.
Iron Maiden, heart-breakingly, aren't among them, nor is Kylie, but the appearance of Gary Barlow alongside Coldplay for the first of two collaborations makes better musical sense. Take That's mid-Nineties songs provided an early template for some of the piano-led sob stories on Coldplay's 2000 debut; Coldplay returned the favour by inspiring the stadium sound which has driven Take That's hugely successful comeback.
"Back For Good" is an obvious choice and as wonderful as ever, though neither Martin's nor Barlow's vocals are particularly audible above the communal singalong. But they call in back-up for the final salvo, a rousing version of "All These Things That I've Done" with the Killers lending the song and some extra heft, and a messianic Bono pacing in midway through to consecrate the group jam. "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier," sing representatives of four of the world's biggest acts, as 2,000 cameraphones are held aloft to capture the moment. In the early hours of Thursday morning, Brandon Flowers's famously nonsensical lyric feels like the most affirming sentiment in the world.
This is how every major charity gig since time immemorial has ended of course; everyone onstage, hugs all round and Bono having the last word. But whatever your musical allegiance or feelings about celebrity charity fests, it's impossible not to marvel at the sight of a stadium supergroup gracing a stage more used to hosting indie mid-leaguers. Only a committed cynic would wish they'd stayed at home to watch the Brits.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009...o-u2-take-that
The Twitter Updates
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- We've all got phil's attention up on the balcony! He thx us all for the postcards. Hes a daily coldplaying visitor!!
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- 6 yellow
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- 5 42!
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- Coldplay are on! 1. lit
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- Pub landlord al murray on stage doing stand up! Google him!
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- Killers had a huge amount of gear. R42 now earning his crust
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- Killers finished
11:53 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Killers on, Will close by backstage
11:22 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Steve lamacq just introduced war child. We're more interested in a drunk guy trying to seduce a blonde on the balcony
11:21 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Think he's been chucked out before he falls to his death... Or gets a slap
11:09 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Steve lamacq just introduced war child. We're more interested in a drunk guy trying to seduce a blonde on the balcony
11:05 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Spotted killers setlist - 9 songs
10:31 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Franksy gave the two fingered salute for my photo! Must be all that travelling!
10:18 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- CM has been spotted backstage
10:02 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Jonnys mouth! Ive only had 2pints!!
9:51 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Oops. We have jaffa cakes and are close enough to throw them into his mouth. When he arrives that is
9:49 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Coldplay roadies have arrived!
9:46 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- I'd love to twit a twitpic, but phone doesn't twit pics! There's no a in twit!
9:46 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- We're in! Coldplayers have the front row, and lots of free drinks tickets
9:44 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- We have a new busker! Shiver, trouble, yellow, fix you, dont panic, viva. Harmonies all perfect! Apart from victims, they no interested
8:17 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Word is elton john and all his friends (see what i did there) have commandered the first two rows upstairs..
8:16 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Coldplayers' are famous! Singing, interviewed etc on camera... No idea what channel they work for! Free hotdogs too mmm. b
8:12 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- We have a new busker! Shiver, trouble, yellow, fix you, dont panic, viva. Harmonies all perfect! Apart from victims, they no interested
7:59 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- We have buskers playing a coldplay set! Coldplayers' backing vocals are great!
7:13 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- O'neils are so lucky to have so many thirsty coldplayers, back at the front of the queue though, victims now the minority :-)
7:05 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- The spotlights are set, the blue carpet has been hoovered 4 times for Elton & co... And its just started raining!
4:55 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- We need a new name. The killers have victims but who are we? Twit back, the group will judge your entries! Coldplayers is too easy!
3:52 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- The good news for us is that o2 empire is flanked by two pubs. Bad news is that killers fangroup in front appears to be growing. B
3:04 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- We're in the queue! Some killers fans have been here since 6am! J
1:59 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Coldplay are now on second after The Killers, sometime after midnight! Coldplaying will bring you all the updates via twitter
12:53 PM Feb 18th from mobile web
- Its the big Coldplay day folks, the brits and the war child gig. Personally speaking there should be a brit for 'best roadies'
9:46 AM Feb 18th from mobile web
Coldplay
- We're in the venue and the Killers have just come on. Pics on their way via twitterpic... A about 13 hours ago from mobile web
- http://twitpic.com/1k6po - Brandon and co have already got the place bouncing... A about 13 hours ago from TwitPic
- http://twitpic.com/1k6q6 - It's a pretty darned impressive bill... A about 13 hours ago from TwitPic
- "it's great to be part of this. War Child do some amazing things and it means a lot to us to be playing with Coldplay" says Brandon. A about 13 hours ago from mobile web
- http://twitpic.com/1k72j - British readers may be interested to know this was where they used to film Crackerjack. These balconies were ... about 13 hours ago from TwitPic
- And the Killers are done. That was really great. Our boys up next... A about 13 hours ago from mobile web
- well here's a surprise, Al Murray Pub Landlord has come on to do a comedy turn before Coldplay. A about 12 hours ago from mobile web
- http://twitpic.com/1k7v9 - Here's Al leading the crowd in We Will Rock You... A about 12 hours ago from TwitPic
- Al's done his turn, the crowd are singing Viva and the band should be on in two ticks... A about 12 hours ago from mobile
- Coldplay are on, the crowd has erupted and twitterpic has stopped working. Doh. A about 12 hours ago from mobile web
- Chris just led the crowd in a rousing rendition of Yellow for X Factor judge Louis Walsh, who's apparently here.... A about 12 hours ago from mobile web
- The community singalong continues with Fix You. Sounds mighty. A about 12 hours ago from mobile web
- http://twitpic.com/1k91m - The tears stream, down your face about 11 hours ago from TwitPic
- Set over. Encore imminent. Looks like it'll be Viva next (the bell's the giveaway) A about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- http://twitpic.com/1k96g - That was when i ruled the world about 11 hours ago from TwitPic
- neil tennant is on the balcony singing along about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- Wow. Chris has just welcomed Take That's Gary Barlow on stage.. A about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- ... And they're doing Back For Good. Cue huge singalong A about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- Top that? How about the Killers and Bono for All These Things That I've Done? Wowser. Anchorman about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- we believe this is what's known as A Moment. about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- gary barlow, bono, brandon and chris all belting out the song together A about 11 hours ago from mobile web
- http://twitpic.com/1k9l7 - I want you back for good A about 11 hours ago from TwitPic
- http://twitpic.com/1k9l2 - The big finale A about 11 hours ago from TwitPic
- And we're done. An amazing finish to an amazing night. Thanks for reading. Anchorman about 11 hours ago from mobile web

