21 February 2007: Gran Rex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
From WikiColdplay
Coldplay played their second show in Argentina and included an old favourite from The Rush Of Blood To The Head tour, Daylight.
You can download the concert at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37946&page=12
View pictures from last night from http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23914&page=1281 onwards.
The Coldplayer at coldplay.com has been updated with footage of Coldplay rehearsing Green Eyes & High Speed.. some news from Will (the flag story...), an audio recording of Guy after the first show, and more.
Setlist
- Square One
- Politik
- Yellow
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
- Speed Of Sound
- Sparks
- Daylight
- Don't Panic
- White Shadows
- The Scientist
- Til Kingdom Come
- (Great Balls Of Fire)
- Clocks
- Talk
Encore: - Trouble
- In My Place
- Fix You
Wow - what a night!
Tonight was special. Just before the show started - the second of three in Buenos Aires - I was asked to do two jobs during the concert.
Job number 1 was straightforward. On cue, I had to help throw some giant coloured balloons into the crowd during ‘Yellow’. It may sound easy, and, well, it was. And a whole lot of fun too!
Job number 2 on the other hand was a little more involved. Miller, who’s in charge of making sure Chris’ piano sounds great, is also the tour diarist and general documenter. Tonight he wanted to film a special part of the show where the band ‘relocate’ onto a balcony in the theatre to serenade the audience from there. And out of the blue, they’d decided to play a rendition of Great Balls of Fire! Classic! Only he wanted a close-up view (to be filmed by himself), and a view from the back of the audience…to be filmed by me! What an honour.
So as the last few notes of The Scientist faded away, me and the camcorder sneaked onto stage to film them making their way to the balcony. As they walked off stage left, I went stage right and round the back of the audience. It meant I got a great shot of 2,000 people staring up at the band doing their acoustic set. It was a great moment - although my hand was shaking so much the footage is a bit, let’s say ‘homemade’.
My career as band tour cameraman has begun. Next stop, a Spinal Tap re-make featuring Coldplay. (Directed by Ricky Gervais…I wish!)
Source: Oxfam Tour Blog
The British band made vibrate to the Great Rex and this Thursday offers their last concert. Hits like “Trouble”, “Talk” and “Clocks”, moved to silverplates it. See the video.
The thousand people who overwhelmed the Theater Great Rex in the two first presentations with the band moved and vibrated as long ago it did not happen, with the show that the British of Coldplay offered in the Federal Capital.
Presentaciónes of the band led by Chris Martin ratified the historical bond that the Argentine public maintains with bands del more elegant pop English from the times of the visit of Queen to our days.
That long tradition with the pop Briton is one more a sample of the inclination towards the outsider that caused that Palermo seems Kensington Gardens and Mountain Plaza the Picadilly Street, as well as bands like The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis, Blur, among others, have felt like in Wembley whenever they acted in Argentina.
Coldplay is integrated by the vocalista and pianista Chris Martin - composer of most of the songs -, the guitarist Jon Buckland - creative of the sound characteristic of the band -, the bear Guy Berryman and the drummer Will Champion.
The grouping formed in London is inherits of the sad and melancholic sound of Radiohead and continued the way that the led ones by Thom Yorke left in The Bends, but in addition throughout its three albumes “Parachutes” (2000), “To Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) and” X&Y “(2005), the band showed more influences like the one of U2, and the one of the singing deceased American Jeff Buckley, in special in the timbre of the voice of Martin.
The public who filled the Rex is ABC1, very San Isidro, Olivos and the Martinez, just as the groupies, and between the men were many the clones of Martin, with look languid, of pale skin, confused and with dot of sensible soul.
With the English bands usually he happens that they can give a perfect show, impeccable, that the songs sound like a CD, but that is cold and dreary.
Luckily for all, last night that did not happen and Coldplay was exuberante at the musical moments, expert of the forms to manipulate the moments and for generating changes in the spirit of the spectator.
For that reason he is right to recognize that on a total of 16 or 17 songs, Coldplay received ovaciones in around 10 and the public sang from first to last estrofa in the great majority of the show.
The show tuvos very high moments in “Yellow”, third song of the first concert and great hit of Coldplay in its race, when enormous balls of colors fell on silverplates and the scene while a extasiado Rex sang until the last word of a sad hymn of love.
While two enormous blue and red balls floated around to his, an adolescent cried heartbroken when listening the song, by the memory of a lost love.
With songs like “Speed of sound” and “God put smile upon your phase”, Martin demonstrated to have grown as they showman surpassing the timidity of the tours of “Parachutes” and today the scene with wisdom walks, as it demonstrated it when running by the footbridges that take from the scene to the Pullman of the Rex.
Throughout three discs of Coldplay, Martin has composed sad songs, of autumn, of winter, melancholic.
But also it knows to lavish shining moments like when stopped on the right footbridge that it gives to the Pullman, the four Coldplay - two with acoustic guitars, the drummer with a harmonica and Martin singing gave to that beautiful ballad folkie that is “Green Eyes” dedicated to the eyes of Gwyneth Paltrow, wife of the singer.
Closing was with precious épica of “Fix you”, that begins with a recited type raga of new age and that concluded with the band in crescendo powerful like if it were the cavalry entering the battle to aid his commander, al Sad Captain, that this losing the battle with the abandonment.
The Rex responded singing “Ole, Ole, Ole, Coldplay”, and already we have another band that becomes local, that feels like in house, like could perceive it with the ovaciones received in “Trouble”, “Talk” and “Clocks”, that surely will be repeated in the show of tonight.
Source: http://www.26noticias.com.ar/
