27 February 2009: Burswood Dome, Perth, Australia

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Videos

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Discussion

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Fan Reviews

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Good Points

Excellent Crowd Wooooahs during viva, after viva, before the encore, leaving the gig. Was magical. The acoustic set in the crowd. The screens at the side were fucking fantasticly clear.

Bad Points

Chris didn't interact with the crowd as much as he could have. But this is only a very very minor point.

[Jizo]

Agree with most of what you say. But I thought the crowd was a bit average tonight, crowd was better at Twisted Logic Tour. The crowd were getting into the singing, but werent dancing as much, apart from the guy next to me who was headbanging half the night like he was at Metallica! I also thought Twisted Logic show was alot slicker than tonight. Was still a great show though. Heaps more balloons during Yellow than before, always love that moment.

I was in front of the right hand catwalk tonight, but didnt bother to take my camera. I like to take vid too, but from alot of previous gigs Ive discovered I hate standing down the front of concerts holding my arm up half the night.

Tomorrow nights gig I am gold seated, so will enjoy a different aspect of the show, and will take my camera and take some vid of the show. And hopefully its not as hot in there, but doubt that if its gonna be 35 tomorrow.

[Wally]

So as mentioned below I wasn't really "feeling" Coldplay prior to the gig. I kind of felt I was arriving at the party about 3 years too late. I was also dreading another show in the god awful Dome, it so sucks in there acoustically and the seating layout is possibly the worst in the world.

We got there pretty early because the parking is another major hassle at this place (surprisingly they proved me wrong this time round) and so we caught the support act, Mercury Rev. Well it's always a tough ask to support another band isn't it? You get a shit lighting setup, half the sound output of the headliner and a crowd who'd rather you got the hell off the stage ASAP. But every now and then a support act kicks the butt of the main dudes. Not so much on this occasion.

Firstly who the feck are Mercury Rev, what kind of name is that and when will you decide on your own music style. I think we determined they were a bit Muse meets Coldplay meets My Chemical Romance meets Freddy Mercury...........ahhhh so that's what the name is all about.

Anyhoo on with the show. Coldplay come out....now is a good time to watch my crappy vid of the opening songs....

They just exploded onto the stage and suddenly I started to feel it, finally, thank christ. This whole French Revolution feel was pretty cool and I kind of started to "get" their latest album a bit more after hearing it in this context. It's still their worst though IMO.

These guys really take a leaf out of the U2 how to play an arena gig handbook and I'm okay with that. It was a great show, sure they played for an hour less than a certain 74 year old legend did only a few weeks ago but in their defence they were slightly more active.

Possible highlight of the show would have to be the two bogan chicks about 4 seats down from us who decided to scratch each others eyeballs out only a few songs into the show. Something about one of them having such a huge fat ugly head that the other one couldn't see. Bonus entertainment for your dollar right there.

I gotta say though that I wished we'd bought mosh pit tickets, we so wanted to get up and dance, the fear deep in our stomachs that bogan chicks would leap at us like a pack of rabid vampire vixens ripping out our jugulars if we dared stand up kept us firmly in our seats. Next time it's the mosh or nothing.

Highlight would have to be when the band left the stage and left the arena via the crowd only to reappear way up on the second tier of seats to a small stage with mics and commence an acoustic "busking" session, some peeps got an awesome up close coldplay experience even if it was stinky and sweaty. Pretty sure they didn't mind.

So basically song after song that you almost new the words to and if you didn't it didn't matter because you simply mouthed along and everyone believed you did. I had an awesome time, probably top 20 all time gigs and only just out of the top ten. Oh and the confetti pouring out of the roof made for a very cool visual highlight.

Edit: The sound was actually pretty good last night, the first track had me thinking it was going to be nothing but reverb all night but I never really noticed it after that.

http://yelpar.blogspot.com/2009/02/c...erth-2009.html

Perth was the first station where Coldplay performed their 2009 Australian tour. I had the chance to attend the first night in Burswood Dome on 2009-02-27 (Fri) and it was simply one of the best performance I’ve ever seen.

Here’s are just some personal experience from this concert.

1) I arrived early around 7pm and Coldplay was sort of warming up and performed Life in Technicolor. Then there was a band who performed and the lead singer voice wasn’t that great at all, and I went to hibernation mode (yeah, I slept) soon after listening to their first song! It wasn’t until 9pm-ish where we started seeing the real thing - Coldplay - playing.

2) Should have chosen to stand and bought the gold ticket. Instead, I bought seats and the bronze ticket. If I were to see a band performance/concert again, I’m gonna stand and JUMP!

3) The best song performed was definately Viva La Vida as the WHOLE crowd were standing and dancing with the rythm. No wonder it’s the song of the year. But I still wonder why its MTV looks like it was filmed in 1970s.

4) I love Fix you and Violet Hills, not to mention Coldplay classics such as Clocks and The Scientist, where Chris Martin shows just how good he can lay his long and skinny fingers on the piano.

5) Yellow was the first single which made Coldplay famous back in my high school years. Reminds me of the good times

6) Getting in and out of Burswood wasn’t too bad with a bit of traffic jam as expected.

Again, great concert, great drums+guitars+piano+vocal, great execution, great sounds system, great atmosphere and I’m happy for the AUSD$220 I paid for the experience.

http://www.davidtan.org/coldplays-perth-2009-burswood-concert/

Friday night we went to the Coldplay concert in Perth. There is a geat big luxory resort there that has a golf course, tennis facility, massage, casino, hotel etc. They also have a dome there- the Burswood Dome. It kinda looks like the old RCA dome in Indianapolis, but smaller and not as nice.

We had looked for tickets online, but were a little unsure when we saw that they were $150 for the tickets that we wanted in the standing section right in front of the stage (the best and most expensive tickets). A guy in our group took a shot and looked on Ebay for some tickets and it worked out - we got 10 tickets for $75 AUD each (works out to about $50 USD). We left early and took the train to Perth where it was a change but then three quick stops away put us right at the dome. We were there very early, so we decided to head to the hotel for some food. After we ate, we decided to kill some time at the casino before we headed over because none of us were interested in the first band to play (some Australian punk band). Matt actually ended up for the evening, Kevin was up on blackjack but down some on roulette and slots to be slightly down, Raul was down more, another guy down a lot, and I ended up even (except for the 2.50 chip that I decided to keep as a souvenier). Not that bad of a performance overall.

Wine in the casino was 3 dollars a glass (it was terrible but strong) due to the casino wanting people to get drunk, so we sat down to relax and have a glass before heading over.

We got there in time for the second band, Mercury Rev, to play. None of us thought that they were that good, but they were not terrible and allowed us to settle into where we would be standing. We had a tremendous spot. We were dead center of the stage, about 10 people thick back- close enough to see the sweat on the faces of the performers, but not too close for it to be overpoweringly loud by the speakers.

Coldplay was awesome! They played every single hit they have ever had, everything off of their new album. They did some different stuff accustically, and also "technoed" a few of their normal songs. The special effects were also tremendous and always changing. They always fit the theme of the song that was being played.

Chris Martin actively engaged the crowd and really got into it at a few points. He always kept the crowd in it, and it was never like they were just playing at the crowd, but rather for the crowd. They even did a segment from up in the stands of the upper deck.

What I liked the most about the concert is that the music sounds like Coldplay. Sometimes when you see bands live they don't sound like they do on their albums, but this is not the case. I think my favorite song they played was Yellow, also my favorite song they have, as enourmous yellow ballons filled with confetti were dropped into the crowd, and bounced all over before they were popped sending the confetti everywhere.

The video screens, lights, and special effects were the best I have ever seen, and the music was great. The crowd was involved and loud the whole time and I really cannot say enough about the show- I loved it. Coldplay played for over two hours straight, and really it was absolutely worth every penny.

After the show we enjoyed free drinks back in the casino before taking the train back to Perth to meet up in a bar with people who had not gone to the show. We then took the train back home and called it a night. What a night.

http://abroad-fremantle.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay-viva-la-vida.html

Going to a Coldplay concert brings high expectations. You expect to hear Yellow and have a huge singalong, to see Chris Martin and the band in military jackets and generally have a rocking good time. You don't expect to see giant yellow balloons being tossed around the Dome, the band running off the stage 3/4 of the way through the gig to sing in amongst the audience and wishing you'd caught one of the thousands of paper butterflies released into the crowd during Lovers in Japan.

The first Aussie concert of the Viva La Viva world tour ranks as one of my top five absolutely amazing concerts. The sheer scale of the show - from the lights and lasers, the hanging globes and projected screens and then there's the music. Mostly songs from the current CD with a good dose of Coldplay classics with a few medleys of songs thrown in.

Chris Martin has a great voice and ability to make the audience hang off each word. He brought the Dome down with his emotional encore of The Scientist and seemed almost self-conscious before he sang The Hardest Part solo.

Fix You - a song that failed to inspire me on iTunes was heartwarming live. My favourite song - Lovers in Japan - was beautiful (even if the butterflies hadn't been there).

The best part though - the Viva La Viva chorus that had the audience chanting all the way back to the carpark and stuck in my head all weekend.

My top five concerts are, thus far: Michael Buble, 11 June 2008 Justin Timberlake, 9 November 2007 West Coast Blues and Roots Festival, April 2007 John Mayer, 22 April 2004

http://hightealadies.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay-viva-la-viva-perth-concert.html

On the 27th of February, 2009, Coldplay played their first show in the Australasian part of their Worldwide Viva la Vida tour! The tour was announced on the 28th of November, 2008 and tickets went on sale in early december, the first days tickets sold so fast and had such high demand that Coldplay opened a second day on the 28th of February, 2009. Coldplay are being supported by Sydney band Decoder Rise and American band Mercury Rev. The Perth event was being held at the Burswood Dome, Burswood Entertainment Complex, for the first night approximately 16,000 tickets were sold. Tickets went on sale for the general public on the 4th of December, 2008. Coldplays support bands performed well in the Perth show and recieved large rounds of applause from the audience when they finished each song, and dare i say an even larger applause when they left the stage.”

After seeing the advertisement on television at the beginning of December last year i was over the moon to hear that they were coming to Perth, i have been an avid fan of Coldplay for quite some time, and missed their concert back in 2006 when they performed the songs from their X&Y album, this time around they were partaking in a Viva la Vida World Tour. Anyway as soon as i found out i let a mate of mine, Michael, know about it and asked if he would like to come with me if i could purchase the tickets, he said yes and thankfully i succesfully got the $140 Gold General Admission 1 tickets, basically meaning we were at the very front, right infront of the stage.

We left for Burswood at around 4.45 so we could catch a train to get to Burswood at 5.45, we got there exactly at 5.45 so it was well timed on our behalf, upon Arrival we had to head for Gate B so we had to walk all the way around the dome from the train station, when we got to the gates we had to line up, and as it turned out the line wasn’t to bad at this point, the gates were supposed to open at 6.15 but didn’t open till nearer 6.30, when we got in, Michael and myself walked straight into our area of the stadium, picked where to stand and just stayed there until everything started, we were approximately 15-20 metres from the stage and around 5 metres from the right cat walk.

The music all started at around 7.10pm with Decoder Rise from Sydney coming on first for around 20 minutes, they were an alright band but there music was all basically the same which was a shame because they were realively good, but they didnt sing so that is saying something. Mercury Rev, the next support band to come on came on around 7.45pm after a 15 minute stage change for the bands, they were a good band and the drummer played his role very well, also the bass guitarist was quite interesting with a pretty cool afro working for him. After around 20 minutes of Mercury Rev, they went off stage to a cheer, half because they were good and half because it was nearly time for Coldplay i expect, after another 25 or so minutes the moment of the night occured…

Coldplay came onto the stage to a roar that i would consider comparable to that of a football player in England scoring a goal for his team at his home ground, it was absolutely huge, the celebrations of Coldplay walking onto the stage i would say lasted atleast a solid two minutes of people yelling, screaming, wolf whistling, clapping and going absolutely nuts. The set list layout for the concert was very good, and every sing recieved a huge around of applause as well as thousands of fans singing a long to them. Chris Martin, the leader of the band, is a man i would consider fit enough to be an athlete, he never ever stopped moving around, even when he had to jump back to his piano or keyboard to play the rest of the song, he was continually running around and enjoying the atmosphere.

By the time the third song had come on i had pretty much lost my voice, it was absolutely insane, after an encore of people yelling the viva chant, they came back out again to perform 2 or 3 songs, before they made a massive thank you to the crowd and eventually went off stage to cool down, rest and prepare for the performance the next day. In my mind, the boys deserve many awards, there ability to work the crowd and support the people who support them is absolutely amazing, in my opinion no one in the dome would of felt left out after the performance that Chris Martin, and the rest of the band put on.

http://itzeddie.com/wordpress/?p=302

Media Reviews

Superstars Coldplay rock the Dome

Coldplay kicked off their Viva tour of Australia before 17,000 fans at Perth's Burswood Dome on Friday night.At the first of two concerts in the west before moving on to Melbourne, the British band still had plenty of their old favourites to complement hits off their Viva La Vida album.

Led by vocalist Chris Martin, the four-piece, alternative rock band waved sparklers as they moved onto the stage before a huge backdrop of the Liberty cover from their Viva La Vida release.

They opened with a brief rendition of Life in Technicolor before moving onto another of the Viva songs, Violet Hill, and then delighting the crowd with one of their old favourites, Clocks, from their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head. They then turned to the biggest selling album in the world last year, launching Cemeteries of London, 42, and Strawberry Swing.

Among the older numbers from the band were In My Place, Fix You, Yellow, The Scientist and Speed of Sound. In a 20-song playlist, the band kept Life in Technicolor for the final number of the night and included all the songs off the new album.

http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.a...oryName=554720

Coldplay lives up to expectations at Perth show

"Thanks for taking the shuttle bus to be here," Chris Martin told an enraptured crowd as Coldplay kicked off their Australian tour in Perth.

Decked out in French revolutionary garb in keeping with the theme of 2008's Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, the band were nothing short of brilliant.

While on the other side of the world Bono was busy verbally bashing his biggest rival, Martin and co were doing what they do best. With an abundance of energy and enthusiasm they charmed the 17,000 fans who were singing and clapping along.

You could almost forget your were in the soulless vacuum that is the Burswood Dome, such was the party atmosphere inside the bubble. And to their credit the band managed to somehow conquer the venue's shocking acoustics to pull off a show that sounded as good as it looked.

The weight of expectation might be getting heavier now that Coldplay are officially the biggest selling band of the century, but you wouldn't know it. If anything the band seemed even more excited and animated than they were when they last visited Perth in July 2006. It seems success agrees with them.

Kicking off with Life in Technicolour, the band emerged from behind a screen as the song segued into Violet Hill. From then on it was a relentless stream of great songs. You couldn't really wish for more from a stadium rock show. The delivery was imaginative, with the band regularly changing configurations and even setting up camp amongst the crowd for a spell. The scope was ambitious and the energy admirable.

And Coldplay delivered exactly what the crowd wanted - a perfect balance of anthems and ballads.

Clocks, In My Place and Yellow all featured early. There were loud cheers for Fix You and even more when Jonny Buckland launched into the brilliant guitar riff that heralds the crescendo ending. Viva La Vida, Lovers in Japan and Politik were all superb. Although it is hard to identify standouts in a set that was so well thought and executed.

No wonder Bono has resorted to a war of words and cheap shots at the "cretin". He knows the revolution has been won.

Viva La Coldplay.

http://www.news.com.au

Coldplay run hot on their Australian tour

SOMEONE should tell Bono that there is no battle for the title of best band in the world: the fight has already been won.

Dressed, rather aptly, as war-ravaged French revolutionaries, Coldplay proved on Friday night that they are indeed the worthy victors.

Not only have the English quartet outsold every other band this century, they have also developed into one of the most, if not the most, exciting live bands in the world.

Kicking off their Australian tour in Perth on Friday night, the band was nothing short of sensational.

Even the hostile environs of the Burswood Dome did nothing to dampen the mood of the band nor the crowd.

Indeed, the band managed to overcome the venue's appalling acoustics, sounding better than almost anything else has in the infamous bubble.

You couldn't wish for more from a stadium rock show.

The delivery was imaginative, with the band regularly changing configurations and even setting up camp amongst the crowd for a spell.

The scope was ambitious, but the band pulled it off with their unrelenting energy.

And they delivered exactly what the crowd wanted - an excellent mix of high energy hits and stirring ballads.

Clocks, Fix You, Viva La Vida, Politik, Lovers in Japan were among many highlights. If there was ever any doubt that Chris Martin could match the legends of the game, they were quashed in moments.

With energy to burn, he held the crowd in the palm of his hand - whether he was racing around the stage, thumping away at his piano or even cavorting with a Japanese parasol. "I never thought we would make it to Liverpool, I never thought we would make it to Paris, never mind Perth - so, thanks for taking the shuttle-bus to get here tonight, he told the 17,000-strong crowd.

More than 32,000 fans turned out for Coldplay's two shows in Perth.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...009160,00.html

Twitter Updates

These Twitter updates have been taken from the search feature on Twitter:

RootinBrand: Chris Martin - best front man I've seen in awhile! Coldplay were bleeding brilliant tonight.

sharkola: coldplay was amazing. SOB I WILL FIX YOU SOB.

nicolecorreia47: @coldplay OMG, you guys were FREAKING AMAZING tonight. Love, love LOVE YOU!!! Thanks for running into the crowd & singing near us too

an9ie: Coldplay concert = mmmMMMMmmm. Now, if only Depeche Mode would come to Perth on their current tour, I would die a happy woman.

Jenny_p: As much as everyone loves to bag coldplay, they sure know how to put on a damn good show

davidtanth: Back from coldplay's perth tour. It was SO good!

jsmith189: @coldplay amazing show guys. hope you had a great time, and hope you have a great time tomorrow too

adrianlambert: Just been to see coldplay at the burswood dome. Not too shabby. They played a few duffers but the video show was worth it alone.

glenlewis: Coldplay rock. So authentic, engaging and just fun. Best concert this century!!

developit: on train home from @coldplay concert FANTASTIC !!! #coldplay i have tshirts & jacket (i know i'm a sucker)

antzpantz: Omg. So nervous. In the pit waiting for Coldplay. #m

Nesca: thought Coldplay were so awesome last night. They massively rocked Perth, wish I was going again tonight!

Jodd: Coldplay concert last night. Beat concert ever.

ItzEddie: Loved the coldplay concert last night was god damn awesome!

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