28 February 2009: Burswood Dome, Perth, Australia
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Setlist
- Life In Technicolor
- Violet Hill
- Clocks
- In My Place
- Yellow
- Cemeteries Of London
- Chinese Sleep Chant
- 42
- Fix You
- Strawberry Swing
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (partial techno remix)
- Talk (partial techno remix)
- The Hardest Part (Chris solo piano)
- Postcards From Far Away (Chris solo piano)
- Viva La Vida
- Lost!
- Speed Of Sound (acoustic)
- Green Eyes (acoustic)
- Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic, sung by Will)
- Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
- Politik
- Lovers In Japan
- Death And All His Friends
Encore - The Scientist
- Life In Technicolor ii
- The Escapist (outro)
Photos
Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for Perth. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1655
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=52426
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52426
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! That must have been the best frigging night of my life!
Pardon me if I'm not very coherent, I'm still on cloud nine
Chris and I got there about 11am, there were 2 other people queueing up to enter at a different entrance. We met Imelda (setiapkecil) and her friend who came to queue up with us.
Was a long wait under the Perth sun, I got several shades darker within the afternoon hahaha I have a tan line at my sleeve (I wore my white DAAHF tee ).
Gates opened about 6.15pm. I wasn't the first one INTO the Dome, but somehow I managed to run/walk past everyone else in front of me to be the first at the barrier. So front row centre it was
2 opening acts, I wasn't too blown away by Decoder Ring, I've heard better post rock music. Mercury Rev, well, it took time for me to get used to them, but they were alright in the end.
Straight to Coldplay now, the boys started out with LiT, Violet Hill, Clocks and IMP, same as the previous concerts. Not much variation in the setlist. I'll get Chris to post the setlist, I left mine in my room hahaha.
I was holding up a sign that said 'Jonny is my Guitar Hero' to the dismay of Chris beside me . The guy working the video camera told me to hold it up and he took a shot of it Chris saw it during the ending of Violet Hill and he winked at me and gestured to Jonny. I tried hard to get Jonny's attention, the people beside me helped as well, but it was only after DAAHF when they were leaving the stage before the encore that he say it. He smiled so sweetly at me
Of all the songs, LiJ was definitely my favourite live. I managed to stuff my bag full of butterflies at the end of the gig The Scientist too, and LiT II.
Chris got Chris' guitar pick.
At the end of the gig, we tried getting Hoppy's attention but he had earplugs on so he couldn't hear us. The security shooed us away from the barrier, but I ran to the sound booth and asked them for a setlist. This was when the soundman told me he saw my banner just now from the stage and it was the best banner he's seen so far this tour. Managed to get a setlist for myself and Chris
- takes a breath*
How AWESOME is that
[but a dream]
The gig tonight was brilliant! Loved all of it. First time I've seen Coldplay live, and am so glad I went. We had tickets in the front mosh.
Especially loved Politik, plus, Viva La Vida, The Scientist, Lost.. oh the whole set list was fantastic. And the balloons and millions of butterflies just added to the whole show.
[cocoperth]
Coldplay last night. oh. my. god. Honestly, truly the best concert I've ever been to. I'm still buzzing from it. It was absolutely magical from start to finish. During 'Yellow' they had these gigantic yellow balloons filled with yellow confetti, that shot into the crowd and everyone was leaping up to hit them, I kept trying when one came near, and then finally I hit one, and it flew into the air. After a couple of minutes they started to burst sending confetti raining down on everyone
During 'Lovers in Japan' they had confetti butterflies streaming from the roof, thousands and thousands of them, so of course I grabbed as many as I could.
Chris Martin is such an amazing frontman. He's so charismatic and you just can't take your eyes off him, and he really leaps around the place, skipping and spinning and at one point doing a backward roll. He was incredible.
There was also one of those amazing moments, that make the hair stand on end, where Coldplay took a bow and left the stage and instead of just shouting etc for an encore, people started singing part the oh,oh,oh, ooohhh part of Viva La Vida. It's hard to explain unless you know the song, and then they came back out and performed the Scientist and one other song that I can't remember!
Ok, Ok, I'll stop. I still haven't come down from the show I think. This picture kind of sums up how I felt about the whole thing anyway.
http://red-beret.blogspot.com/2009/03/coldplay.html
Best. concert. everrrrrr! Honest to blog. :-)
Media Reviews
Coldplay shows U2 how it's done
ON the same day that the biggest band in the world, U2, released its new album, Coldplay were in Perth showing why its the No.1 contender for the heavyweight crown.
Friday was the first show of the band’s Australian tour, which comes to Melbourne this week, and the British quartet thrilled the packed house with a no-nonsense, high-energy rock show that featured hits from their four mega-selling albums, drawing heavily from the Grammy-winning Viva La Vida, the world’s best-selling album last year.
Playing on a relatively simple stage, Coldplay proved that you don’t need pyrotechnics, fancy props or dancing girls when you have a catalog of superb songs to choose from including Clocks, sing-along favourite Fix You, Lost, The Scientist, Violet Hill and the evening’s highlight Viva La Vida. Breakthrough single Yellow was accompanied by a sea of yellow balloons bouncing around the euphoric crowd, each one spraying forth confetti when finally popped. Flitting between guitar and piano and generally capering around the stage like a madman, the passionate Chris Martin cements his reputation as one of the best front men going around - and one of the most humble.
At one point early in the show he thanks the audience for “remembering who we are”, resulting in deafening scream that made it clear that nobody had forgotten. Martin and his band mates turn the arena show intimate by venturing out onto gangways into the crowd for a mesmerising electronica-tinged version of God Put a Smile On Your Face, and later literally take it to the people. Disappearing off the stage, the four then sprint to back of the arena, popping up in the crowd. Suddenly the nose-bleeds are the best seats in the house for a stripped-back, acoustic version of Speed of Sound, with Martin apologising to the lucky few nearby “for making you stand so close to four sweaty men”.
Before the show, Martin told the Sunday Herald Sun that they were proud to be headlining the Sydney Sound Relief concert on March 14. The band had seen the terrible bushfires unfold from Japan and immediately said yes when approached by promoter Michael Chugg to perform. “I’m really pleased to be doing that concert,” Martin said.
“Something like this you would never say no because it would be terrible. “That’s been worldwide news, so it seemed liked we would be real a---holes if we just sat in our hotel rooms saying ‘we’re not playing that’,” said Martin.
“When you come to Australia, you realise that Australians think of themselves as being far away from everywhere but the rest of the world is watching - everyone likes you and everyone is watching you.”
Martin also revealed the band has been working with two of Australia’s favourite singers: Kylie Minogue and Natlie Imbruglia. “They are both amazing,” Martin said of the former Neighbours starlets.
Minogue recorded the song Lhuna with the band last year that nearly made it on to Viva La Vida, which the band gave to Bono’s charity organisation (RED)WIRE, which aims to eliminate AIDS in Africa. Imbruglia has been working with the band in London and has been recently seen out and about at shows with Martin. “Our best ever song and we just gave to her,” Martin said.
“We obviously can’t release anything for a while because people are a bit sick of us so we asked her if she wanted to do it.”
James Wigney
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25122471-2902,00.html
Twitter Updates
Twitter updates taken from the search function:
- jeromerichard: Coldplay - anticipation building, support acts um, ok...
- ctrl_freak: Waiting for Coldplay to take the stage http://bit.ly/hszTC (expand) http://twitpic.com/1qy55
- ivyclark: Omg!! @coldplay, need better support bands.
- maleenendra: I'm sitting at the Burwood Dome awaiting Coldplay to appear on stage. It's mere minutes away!!!!
- ctdesign87: @coldplay the hardest part, yes?
- ctdesign87: @coldplay, chris' trousers are broken
- ctdesign87: @coldplay coldplay are litrlly 10 away
- nikyusof: At burswood,captivating coldplay.many people at this sold out event.
- ctdesign87: @coldplay lovers in japan multimedia awesome!
- ctdesign87: @coldplay incredible show!
- barelyshocking: @Coldplay Just got on the train home from a TREMENDOUSLY SUPERB, heart thumping show. Bravo!!
- TheSmythe: Coldplay live in concert... brilliant
- callumj: Coldplay was absolutely brilliant, hopefully I can get the DVD soon or even better I hope they tour again soon.
- ivyclark: Coldplay was absolutely fabulous!!!
- jamesrobertson8: so Coldplay are amazing....fantastic musicians, a beautifully conceptualized show, pure artistry and spectacle all in one
