24 September 2008: Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
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Setlist
- Life In Technicolor
- Violet Hill
- Clocks
- In My Place
- Speed Of Sound
- Cemeteries Of London
- Chinese Sleep Chant
- 42
- Fix You
- Strawberry Swing
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)
- Talk (partial - techno version)
- The Hardest Part (piano - Chris)
- Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
- Viva La Vida
- Lost!
- The Scientist (acoustic)
- Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing)
- Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
First Encore - Politik
- Lovers In Japan
- Death And All His Friends
Second Encore - Yellow
- The Escapist (outro)
Photos
Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for Vienna. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1533
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=45588
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45588
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
This was, I have to say, the best concert I've ever gone to. For starters, Albert Hammond Jr was terrific as the supporting act, he had some very good rock songs, couldn't really hear what he was singing about but obviously it didn't matter! After then half an hour after AHJ, we heard a familiar melody!
"An der schönen blauen Donau" by Johann Strauss II, the crowd obviously went crazy! And right at the end of that song, Coldplay came to the stage. It was just totally amazing! They played really fast through LIT, Violet Hill (with a bit of alternative ending, Chris just wouldn't stop singing "if you love me, won't you let me know" - it's probably because we didn't want him to stop! As they went into 'Clocks' we saw some of the most fantastic lightshow ever, with a giant magic sphere just adding up to what was already a great performance. And then Chris came in front and said "Guten Abend, meine Freunde". The crowd went wooooow! He continued: "Wir sind sehr, how could I put this, I'm sorry, my german's shit, wir sind sehr glucklich in Wien zu sein" /(very honoured to be here)
Typical Chris, as the crowd went crazy! As they went through In My Place, Speed Of Sound, Cemeteries Of London, Chinese Sleep Chant, 42, Fix You (again at the end, Chris just wouldn't stop singing 'and I will try to fix you', he repeated that many times) and Strawberry Swing there were some brilliant effects!
As they went to the B-stage, which was really not far away from A-stage to be honest, we left the grandstand, and then sneaked through another entrance, so we were like a few meters away from Chris' piano! Phenomenal to say at least, we were jumping like maniacs by the time Viva La Vida had started. After its end, we were just doing 'whoooaaahh, whoooaah' for more than 2 mins, I'm sure of it!
Lost! was so heavy that the floor started to vibrate, and I at that point even wasn't close to the A-stage! Really amazing! The Scientist was an acoustic version, they dissapeared from the A-stage and ended in the back with the crowd on the grandstand. They sang that and "Death will never conquer" by the best 'sportsman' Will Champion and returned for Politik and Lovers in Japan - again huge confetti, I got some of those, really amazing. Death and all his friends was a marvellous version, a bit heavier than usual, and it looked as if the crowd knew each and every word of it! They said bye at the end of it, and returned for Yellow, which was heavy, rock, fantastic whatever you want to call it.
I just wanted to let you know my feelings about it and think that's about the best thing you can see today. There's no way to better Coldplay's concert. Truly great.
[Miha]
THAT WAS FANTASTIC!!!! AMAZING, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL,THE BEST!!!! THE BEST NIGHT IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! AND THE BEST EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE, YET!!!! They were FANTASTIC, but Albert not...hmm...he´s had only one good song in my opinion... But it doesn´t matter. I was singing all the time, every song and I was the only one in my sphere!!! The other ones was singing only the biggest hits. I WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER CONCERT!!!!
[Nutty Loves Coldplay]
Coldplay in Vienna
So, this was a week to remember. For several reasons. But the most importaint one was two great concerts in two days. Following Madonna, i came back to Vienna to shoot Coldplay in Stadthalle. I have never been in this hall before, and it is just amazing. Huge, packed with 15.000 people. Coldplay rocked like i never imagined. Their music seems more intimate on CDs but when they play, it comes alive big time and they really go super loud.
For us, it was the normal procedure, 3 songs, again some limitations. We were only allowed to stay next to left hand stage extension. This meant no moving as there was no place to go anywhere. Time flies, especially when singer like Chris Martin jumps like crazy, runs and turns all over the place. At the very end of the third song, he and Jonny Buckland, the quitar player came right at the end of the extension. Briefly, but i couldn't go at the end of the extension to get the ideal position. Sometimes this happens and it is not a good feeling, but it also means you have to take what you have and make the most out of the position you have. I quickly decided to go down a bit and catch a silhouette of Chris Martin as he felt on his knees. Bang, and it was over and we were out. I managed to get back to enjoy the show and kept my mouth open most of the time. So cool Coldplay!
http://fotorocker.blogspot.com/2008/...in-vienna.html
I was lucky enough to get tickets for a probably hottest rock band at the moment Coldplay. Concert was in Vienna Austria. Vienna is 5-6h Coach ride from where I live. I also waited 1h in line infront of the hall to get in and assume position in front rows and at the end it was all worth it. Starting band was Albert Hammond Jr which I never heard before but they were excellent had few great rock songs to get us ready for the big thing. Like any proper rock band Coldplay left us waiting for quite some time even after roadies set everything up.
Concert was about 2h long and they played songs from their latest album Viva La Vida as well as some older songs.
It was an awesome experience and one of best concert I was at. Check videos and pictures for a sense of what it was like.
Media Reviews (Translated)
After the giant spectacle dance with Madonna before 50,000 fans on the Danube island, it is Wednesday evening on a smaller scale, at the Wiener Stadthalle sold out, at least before 14,000 enthusiastic fans at the Coldplay concert musically neat thing to go.
The British superstars Coldplay have just under two hours and 23 songs long the pure joy of life extensively celebrated. Ö3 music editor Norbert Mr Ivanek was in the middle of the deafening cheering, more than enthusiastic Coldplay fans. Slideshow: Photos of fans
14,000 fans were in agreement
The 14,000 fans at the Wiener Stadthalle were in agreement that the show has really gerockt. No wonder it has Coldplay singer Chris Martin all the registers of an experienced live entertainer withdrawn. Time he was flattering beguiling Teddy on piano or acoustic guitar, also pointed to the “Rampensau” an excellent live show, which knows how to properly einheizt his fans.
Feeling gooseflesh
Goosebumps have the fans not only in the Danube waltz get the Coldplay show at 20:30 clock has opened, but also on the announcements by Chris Martin. “You are a fantastic audience and know specifically as Austrians, good music to appreciate. We are not the coolest band in the world, but probably the biggest. It is an honor that we must be there,” says the frontman. He also did not take the Austrian fans in German welcome. A fan has the moment of detention.
Mix of old and new
The band offered lots of new songs from their latest album “Viva La Vida”, but also classics like “Clocks”, “In My Place” and “Yellow” as the crowning conclusion. Other highlights: Chris Martin While the feel-good song “The Hardest Part” in a staggeringly beautiful ballad transform ventured briefly pointed drummer Will Champion on a solo he performed the song “Death Will Never Conquer.” Both of these as well as for “The Scientist” changed its position four from the stage to a small square in the middle of the audience. Coldplay close - in the truest sense of the word!
The Ö3-Star News
The sound of the dichotomy
The band Coldplay offered in the Wiener Stadthalle a professional show with hits and sophisticated material
… transferees and their audiences in the excitement.
Vienna - Two souls live, oh! In my chest! At least. How bypass with a career from a college chapel - as it is called - Street Credibility in a few years one of the greatest rock bands of the planet does? Chris Martin of Coldplay singer, white around the eyes, with the mainstreamkompatiblen success go hand in hand.
Sun demonstrated the quartet under a mostly great feeling keyboard edited the concert, as entertaining such a conflict might look like. “We’re not the cool band in the world, but probably the biggest,” Chris Martin will say so and Hinundhergerissensein between Gassenhauern and the desire to produce interesting music, on the point. After Life in Technicolor, as a kind of intro acts, you start with Hitgefunkel into the night: After Violet Hill, the first single CD Viva La Vida, is the latest from Clocks and In My Place the biggest excitement in the audience moved.
The focus of the evening is, not surprisingly, on Viva La Vida. Again and again has the Coldplay album after years of Streamlined blow interpreted as a liberation. As Martin was on record, it was after the monster success of the third album X & Y, with over eight million units sold, but damning criticisms, the realization has grown that not everything is great, as well be.
In Brian Eno as a producer you have to look from the outside looking. And so the up-her appealing album, even if the breaking classic song structures and electronic touch relining of the pieces alone is not wisdom, have recently concluded.
Live, however, the conventional knitted Überschwangsballaden the larger Schunkel factor. Quite the professionals who they are, offer a neatly balanced Coldplay show, with the Superstardom grip gleichschaltet and Staging team of small refinements lives: This is in the middle part on a stage with fußabtretergroßen mini disco floor lighting in half as a concert audience in the concert presented. Or you can visit with an acoustic set the rear ranks equally highly personal. Even though Coldplay is certainly not a world revolution must be proclaimed, they know how a rock show with discreet grandeur might look like. Nobody should take it amiss them.
I’m a little blurry-eyed, sitting here inside the depths of the Stadhalle, Wien (Vienna). Maybe due to the combination of dim underground walls, and the bright glow of a laptop screen. Outside, the lunch time catering is in full flow. Everyone refuelling after load-in, getting ready for the bands’ imminent arrival. We made it to Austria in great time. Apparently arriving at 5am.. I didn’t surface on arrtival..
I awoke to the sound of heavy rain drops on the roof of the bus. I sleep in a top bunk, so it felt particularly cosy, being so close to the outside, but wrapped in a duvet. Steffan, our bus driver, decided to wash the bus this morning. Apparently he was being blamed for the rain. “Whenever you wash your bus.. it rains. I think we should try washing the buses in the desert, and see if it gets a bit more temperate!”
We are on the last show of a set of 3, in 3 different countries. It makes the tour feel even more like it’s flashing by before my eyes. So much to see, and literally, so little time. I am looking forward to the pause in Munich for over 24 hours!
Oxfam is working with some volunteers from the ‘Clean Clothes Campaign’ today. I think we will try to go for the sign-up record. I feel like it’s going to be a good day.. despite the rain.
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/
Wet Wien.
This was, I have to say, the best concert I’ve ever gone to. For starters, Albert Hammond Jr was terrific as the supporting act, he had some very good rock songs, couldn’t really hear what he was singing about but obviously it didn’t matter! After then half an hour after AHJ, we heard a familiar melody! “An der schönen blauen Donau” by Johann Strauss II, the crowd obviously went crazy! And right at the end of that song, Coldplay came to the stage.
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/
