19 June 2008: Secret Show, Paris, France
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O-M-G I so have to write here my experience cause I wanna remember what I lived for a long time (the best part being what we won't see on tv)
So I arrived like 1 hour before the gig, few persons were already there, I made a joke about VIP people who could be stars from the French Idol before noticing one was precisely next to me, what a shame lol ! We entered around 17:30 gave our names, phones and everything and they let us go in the venue around 18h. Then a guy started to explain us we were not in a real concert but mainly ON TV so there would be rules. It was great cause the stage wasn't high like in concerts venues, and there was NO barrier so we felt really close to the stage, I mean, yeah more than close : there was just a black line on the floor and they told us the main thing to do was not to cross the line at any moment. They explained we were going to have lotsa things to film before the gig, like applauding, yelling, few times (with different lights and everything). It lasted like 2 hours and was pretty exhausting. They explained we had to stay fresh and that we would film things in no special order, so we would have to applaud Coldplay as if it was the end of the show before it had even started. Anyway it turned out to be a really nice experience :
While they were making us applaud for the 999th time we suddenly noticed the band was going down the stairs and I realised we weren't actually making lotsa noise cause it became true craziness. They arrived and after staring at us Chris asked in the mic what they were supposed to do now He added for us that he was sorry not to start straight away so we would have to be patient. During the following 20 minutes the band was as confused as us with all those TV things, we all had to do pretty stupid things and the band, just like us, started to find it funny. So a girl came on stage cause Chris was asking for help and explained they all had to take their instruments and do as if they were ending a song in order that they could pretend to do an interview in the middle of the concert. Will made a really funny face like what the fuuuuuck and the other guys found the situation very funny. Chris said it wouldn't seem real on TV cause he wasn't wet yet (and indeed he only needs 1 song to be wet XD) It was amazing to live this as a Coldplay fan cause we were seeing them just like normal and surprised people and they were laughing just like us, and with us. Chris was speaking to us as if we knew better than him what was happening, using the occasion to apology for his bad french...etc Anyway so Chris started to play bullshit on the guitar but realised he didn't really know what do to and the TV girl wasn't coming on stage so he stopped, probably feeling ridiculous and asked her when the hell she would join them on stage, then they were asked to try this again. So they played shit for 10 sec and we were all applauding this while laughing and the girl came on stage. She asked them how was this french crowd and Will answered we were perfect or something like this which made everyone laugh. Everything was quite ridiculous, but at the same time quite impressive, I mean I'm never going to see them like this again... amazing ! Then people in the venue asked them questions but those people were actually people chosen by the TV who had been put in the crowd just for this interview and left straight after the cameras stopped filming them. The questions were quite the same as usual : why Viva La Vida, are you still gonna be there in 10 years, did you really see ghosts while working on the album (Chris answered they're living in an old part of London where sometimes you meet ghosts and sometimes you don't XD), why Delacroix...etc The girl was translating what they were saying SOOO BADLY, quite hilarious. Guy seemed like absent(dreaming), I mean he was staring at the crowd a lot (he even stared at me which made me feel uncomfortable though I'm not those kind of guy-addict girls hehe) and when Chris spoke to him he didn't even react. Jonny couldn't say a word, the girl totally ignored him. Chris was sooo funny, making jokes and crazy faces, he asked to receive a question from beautiful girl in the first rows, he was always staring at the person with the mic to let her know if the question was good or not by smiling or trying to look worried... Anyway I totally loved that moment.
So she left the stage and told them they could start but when Chris was about to grab his guitar someone came to tell him 6 he seemed surprised that LiT has been taken off the setlist so we all yelled NOO 7...8...10... 20 ! so Chris smiled and the girl had to come back explaining he really had to sing only 6 songs. So, a little disturbed, he told us (always half in french half in english, sooo bloody cute) that now we could start but he was wondering how he could made as if it had already began. Still a little lost he asked for help to the girl and finally we all started to yell and applaud in order to help. He said Ok DIX... NEUF... HUIT... and we finished 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 in french cause he didn't seem able to do it ahah
And here it was, VH (which Chris missed at the end) ! I decided to act as if I wasn't on TV so I was jumping around and singing out loud. SOOO GOOD. The sound was not really loud, I felt that it wouldn't be that cool at first but it turned out to be an interesting experience : closer to the band, closer to the music... Well I can't precisely remember the setlist but as far as I remember Clocks followed. The staff had to move the piano so Chris spoke to us in french while it was happening, so so cute. Someone yelled I love you, he answered that this person wouldn't love him anymore if she really knew him. Clocks was awesome, we could clearly see how Chris was playing with the TV cameras, quite interesting. Then huuu I guess we had 42 and VLV, he spoke about Will, who's always in the background and would now came closer to the crowd. Everyone went crazy on VLV, even first row young girls who seemed to know that song only. He started to sing a piece of The Scientist, we followed but he stopped saying they hadn't played this for 2 years. So they finished with Fix You (oh my fucking god, awesome it's really different from a stadium concert) he even came down the stage and sang in front of us we could almost touch him but we didn't cause... it was TV... though I was reaching heaven ! Chris thanked lotsa people in french and when he finished, a girl as crazy as I was turned to me an said ok 3 2 1 go and 3 of us yelled Merciii Coldplayyy, Chris tried to turn his head in our direction and thanked us, wuh ! And last but not least Lovers in Japan, which I adored especially at the end : I knew there would be butterflies confettis but I didn't know about the fluorescent ones in the dark... was so intense !
While we were applauding our idols a girl arrived next to me and told us move move I want two groups, they're going to cross the crowd WUHUUUU and indeed, they went down and walked next to us, I felt like it would be ridiculous to try to touch them so I let Jonny pass his way but everyone started to touch Chris and the other guys so I shamefully did the same touching their shoulders, I wasn't really thinking at this time, it was just heaven XD
Took time to get out of the venue, I took few pics of the empty place and Coldplay boxes on which it was still written Brixton and left with few coloured butterflies
I'm sad I already forgot what Chris said to us cause he spoke a lot and it's not going to appear on tv, though it'll stay a very nice memory.
I apology cause that review must be full of English mistakes but I lost a piece of my brain tonight
[Chris2]
