20 September 2005: Target Center, Minneapolis, MN , USA

From WikiColdplay

Setlist

1. Square One
2. Politik
3. Yellow
4. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
5. Speed Of Sound
6. Low
7. Trouble
8. Everything’s Not Lost
9. White Shadows
10. The Scientist
11. Til Kingdom Come
12. Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash Cover)
13. Green Eyes
14. Clocks
15. Talk
    Encore
16. Swallowed In The Sea
17. In My Place
18. Fix You

Reviews

In concert, Brit pop kings Coldplay will melt your heart.

Frontman Chris Martin seduced 13,000 fans Tuesday at Target Center with his fragile voice, vulnerable lyrics and unexpected flying leaps and general hyperness that belie the sensitive-guy, majestic melancholy of Coldplay's hit recordings.

But after 45 minutes of passive verses and aggressive choruses, all set to a stiflingly similar medium tempos, Coldplay left this listener comfortably numb. This show wasn't as fun and as human as the quartet's 2003 Target Center performance.

Then suddenly Martin himself melted, slowing down to play "Trouble" ("we haven't played that in three years"), the first song of the night to prominently feature his piano instead of Jonny Buckland's dreamy, ringing U2-like guitar. Afterward, Martin, 28, rock's most physical pianist, confessed to Coldplay having had something of a meltdown.

"The truth is we've been on tour for a long time and a couple of us had a falling out," he said without provocation or elaboration. "We thought we'd be in divorce court. But four have become one." Then he tore into "Everything's Not Lost," a straight ahead, almost gospelly blues-rocker that had none of the usual Coldplay lush orchestration or the complex artful lighting. In other words, Martin and the boys seemed vulnerable and resilient during this quieter moment, reversing the usual rock-concert rule of relying on an exhilarating rocker for something transcendent and cathartic.

Then for the next hour, Coldplay made me melt along with the other 13,000 concertgoers.

The quartet charged ahead with the chiming, up-tempo "White Shadows" and got intimate with the ballad "The Scientist," the warmest and most organic hit of the night. An acoustic set detoured into Johnny Cash territory with "Til Kingdom Come," which Martin wrote for Cash, but who died before he could record it. A curious cover of Cash's own "Ring of Fire" brought a stage rush by one guy and a scuffle with security guards out of the spotlight.

For the rest of the way, Coldplay varied the textures and tempos, alternating selections from 2002's Grammy-winning "A Rush of Blood to the Head" and this year's best-selling "X&Y." Coldplay made everything seem warm and wonderful.

Opening was Rilo Kiley, the terrific Los Angeles indie pop band whose frontwoman Jenny Lewis knows how to dissect romantic conundrums.

Source: startribune.com