1 February 2006: HP Pavillion, San Jose, CA
From WikiColdplay
Setlist
- Square One
- Politik
- Yellow
- Speed Of Sound
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
- X&Y
- How You See The World
- Don't Panic
- White Shadows
- The Scientist
- Til Kingdom Come
- Ring Of Fire
- Trouble
- Clocks
- Talk
Encore - Swallowed In The Sea
- In My Place
- Fix You
Reviews
Although the setlist changed little on this second North American leg of the British band Coldplay’s “Twisted Logic” tour, there was something postively giddy about frontman Chris Martin during the quartet’s well-received 90-minute soldout set.
Martin, perhaps becoming better known than his movie star wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, joked about his new long hair and beard, telling them that his manager said he looked like one of the Bee Gees.
This prompted a couple of improvisations from the brother’s Gibb’s “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack thrown into a couple of the night’s 17 songs, which drew heavily from the latest disc, “X&Y,” but included most of the greatest hits of the previous two discs, “Parachutes” and “A Rush of Blood to the Head.”
Martin also joked about having to make his first visit to San Jose special, “like the first time having sex. Only the first time I had sex, it didn’t last 45 minutes with an encore.”
Well, neither did this show, unfortunately, which, flashed by at the speed of sound, helped by a simple, but thoroughly entertaining light and video show.
During “Talk,” a video of a bear walked around the screen behind the band, at the sameBee_gees time the bear’s shadow appeared over the left and right sides of the hockey arena, above the crowd. Giant yellow balloons danced overhead during “Yellow,” spilling strands of gold glitter when they popped.
(Photo: Yes, he does look like the Bee Gee on the right.)
Flying saucers appeared to leap from the screen onto the ceiling during “Speed of Sound,” and on every song the lights caught a mood and gave the songs an added dimension.
These were well-thought-out artistic touches that helped a band whose biggest strength is dreamlike song arrangements. Although Martin has hugely improved his stage presence on this tour, doesn’t yet have, and may never attain, the locked-in-your-sights, Mount-Everest-of-ego persona of a Bono or Mick Jagger.
He joked about that too, telling the people in the back they had the best seats because they couldn’t see the band that well, in its “ill-fitting clothes.” (His black shirt ripped under his arm, during one of his preying mantis-like dance moves. And it suddenly hits me who this band reminds me of: Midnight Oil. Long elegaic, anthemic songs, and an ever-awkward front man.)
But Coldplay’s songs have remained rich and catchy, even as the arrangements have grown more complex. While there wasn’t a weak moment in the whole set, there were still plenty of great tunes left out. (They didn’t play my two favorites from “X & Y,” “What If?” and “Twisted Logic.” Does this mean I’ll have to see them for a fourth time in 12 months, or just wait for the DVD?)
It’s a rare band I could stand to see four times in a year, especially with an almost identical setlist. But after some nine months on the road, and a tour that will last through most of this year, Coldplay is still heating up.
Source: http://blogs.mercurynews.com
