29 August 2009: Reitstadion Riem, Munich, Germany
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Setlist
- Life In Technicolor
- Violet Hill
- Clocks
- In My Place
- Yellow
- Glass Of Water
- Cemeteries Of London
- 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!
- Green Eyes (Acoustic)
- Death Will Never Conquer (Acoustic - sung by Will)
- Billie Jean (Michael Jackson cover - Acoustic)
- 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 Munich. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1717
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=52645
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52645
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
Okay, I'm back once more. Again, not a detailed review as I'm tired as hell and I must get up pretty early tomorrow again... But just one sentence: The show was outstanding, even better than the one in Düsseldorf. But that's also probably why I got a much better spot at the front this time and could enjoy the whole gig. Well, the queuing up and especially the "run" to the front were horrible as always - there were barricades and wavebreakers everywhere (it seemed) and it was like a maze, we had to run for ages! That's never happened to me so far! But we ended up at the front right in front of Guy and I was so happy because I could see all of them, even Will! Although Chris talked even less than in Düsseldorf, the boys all in all seemed to be in a pretty good mood! We looked out for Phil, but there was no sign of him... Which was a pity because otherwise we'd have sung Happy Birthday to him. We managed to say hi to Miller, though. Sadly, Chris forgot(?) about the "Lola-Welle" (), which I actually missed. And they played Green Eyes instead of TKC this time! The most hilarious part of the evening was certainly the moment when Chris forgot the lyrics to The Hardest Part... He just suddenly stopped like out of the blue and just said: "F...!" Then he had to start twice until it worked again. I really felt sorry for him because it actually looked like he was a little bit embarassed... Well yeah, can't think of anything more as I'm really (and I mean REALLY) exhausted right now... Will try to upload my photos (also the ones of Düsseldorf) and maybe write a more detailed review next week. Good night everyone
[Ilione]
Just got up (was a long ride back from München). It was so cute how Chris finally made Will sing. And he forgot a part of The Hardest Part which was quite funny.
I come back later for a proper review, but just to let you know:
1) Jonny has one of the cutest smiles on earth and he smiled at me TWO times.
2) I got WILL'S VIVA LA VIDA DRUM STICK!!
Biggest Thanks to Nicole for getting it for me!
[TickingClock]
Finally I'm back from Munich TickingClock, Ilione, Angel_brb and I boarded the front row - again It was a long way trough this f*cking stadium but I gave my best and so we had a good place. The show was amazing again but I think the gig in Dusseldorf was bit better. Chris forgot the lyrics of The hardest Part, haha... We have repeatedly called Guy, but unfortunately no response I made a thank-you banner for Chris and he saw it, grinned and gave me a thumb up After the show I was able to win a drumstick for TickingClock and a setlist for Ilione - Coldplay karma again
This week was the craziest week in my life - 3 Coldplay concerts in 5 days, hundrets of miles on the rail and road, sleeping too little, aching legs but......................... I've met a lot of very nice Coldplayers, I saw 3 fantastic shows, I've got the best thing ever - all I can say now - this was the time of my life!!!
[aniskywalker]
Hello everyone!!!
I'm back home from Munich, a bit exhausted but SOOO hyper about the MOST AMAZING CONCERT OF MY LIFE. Or perhaps the best NIGHT of my life, I can't decide..! I flew to Munich from Athens and at 11 o clock I was in Munich. Had to rent the car first and decided to park closer to the stadium since the parking area was a long way and I couldn't waste my precious time! Thankfully at 12:15 we arrived at the area before the bars that lead to the ticket control. I figure there were approx 15 people there already but I really liked the mood cause almost everyone seemed to be in a 100% viva mood, humming/singing along at the soundchecks -that started later on. We heard Chris' voice about 3-4 times and I was pretty sure it was him since I had never heard that exact same delivery, however I couldn't be so sure cause it was my first coldplay concert.
I don't remember the exact time but at some point before 1:30 they let us in closer and we were positioned 2nd after the ticket control bars. Time passed rather quickly and we bought some merchandise from the stands. At 4:00 entries were opened and the race began! The area was huuge-much larger than i expected it, quite maze-like, but my sister was pretty quick (much quicker than me thankfully ) so we got 1st row places at johnnys side! I'm not sure but around 6 or perhaps 5:45 the killians were on, they were good I think I liked a couple of songs but they were a bit repetitive imo... Their frontman talked quite a lot but it was in german so i have no idea what he said. Then it was time for howling bells who were ok, not my cup of tea though. Of course, I was clapping and all cause they are support acts so its nice for the crowd to be enthusiastic
Anyway, almost immediately after howling bells ended, the crew started preparing the stage for coldplay even though it was close to 8 or sth which meant they had 1 more hour. In the end Magnificent went on earlier *got SO excited then cause i knew it was time!* and after the beautiful blue danube and the thing where the crowd waved their hands Life in Technicolor was on!!!!!!!!!!! I really thought i was in heaven then, first coldplay concert ever and with the boys SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!! I think i totally hyperventilated, for the first three or so songs i just sang my guts out without really thinking
I won't get into details as far as the setlist and the songs are concerned since they obviously were AMAZING and all of the boys were like COMPLETELY HEAVENLY! Only changes is that indeed Green Eyes is back on the setlist but i cant remember postcards from far away, are u sure they did it? When Chris made a mistake at THP it was soooooo cute and he swore a couple of times
The highlights for me were when CHRIS POINTED AT US during VLV when he read our sign "you STILL rule the world" and in the end when the boys ran along the whole stage he smiled again at our "happy birthday phil!" sign and johnny smiled 3 times (on the whole cause he had seen us before the rest) and the Will actually laughed and did a little bow and looked at guy and he read it and smiled at us too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All in all WHAT A NIGHT! i had an ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL time and i CANNOT WAIT FOR WEMBLEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[silver.lining42]
At last I´m back from Munich today....What a great show!!! I was in Hannover too, but on Saturday it was my best show ever!!! I was waiting there only one hour and then they opened...some security women didn´t want to let in our line, so we had to wait, but other people could go on...too bad..but finally I was in pretty much in the front, I was so lucky! The people there were amazing, we tried a mexican wave before... when Chris forgot lyrics in The Hardest Part, he was so lovely! he was in pretty good mood..... Will during Billie Jean didn´t want to sing, but Chris hustled into this...it was funny.... I´m so lucky that I was there! Thanks Coldplay for my best night ever!
[mehelik]
I'm new to the board, so I don't know if it's stupid to say something like that. But the show in Munich was the first concert I ever attended and it still makes me happy. Everytime I think about it, a big smile appears on my face. It was without a doubt one of the greatest experiences in my life.
[Violet Hills]
Hi I haven´t been to coldplaying.com for months now, but I´ve been to the concert on saturday and reading all the reviews now Thanks for the videos, I´ve only taken pictures, but I was too far away from the stage to get some good ones :/ I didn´t meet any coldplayers though I was wearing my coldplaying-t-shirt :/ but I got hunderts of butterflies great show
[*Becky*]
I returned from Munich just yesterday. The concert was awesome. We made it to the stage and I stood in front of Jonny again. I hope he doesn't think I'm a stalker.
My friend and I were just watching a movie on my iPod when the Kilians entered the stage at around 6pm ... that was strange, but the less time we had to wait the better.
I think Chris was in a far better mood this time. "Wie geht's? Wie geht's? Wie geht's?"
Plus during the Billie Jean Cover Chris asked the crowd to keep up the "handys" ("Handys, handys, handys, yes handys please") ... in Hannover the people didn't quite understand him at first, when he said cell phones.
I had weird moment when I thought Chris was directly looking at me because I hit him with my flashlight unintentionally (sucky camera always turns the flashlight on again). He looked rather pissed and pointed at my direction. But I'm still not sure if he really pointed at me or the girls with the banner that said "You still rule the world" in front of me.
It took ages to leave the concert. The police seemed to be overwhelmed by the crowd that left the stadium.
Well, not a real review, but it was almost a week ago and I'm already kinda sad, that my Coldplay summer is over. But I've got tons of pics to look at.
[Ekmi]
hi everybody
I just came back from holiday so I couldn't write anything earlier....
Wow Wow Wow the concert was amazing!!!I don't know the right word to tell you how absolutely great fantastic awesome...it was!!!!It was my first concert and have seen a lot of videos from other concert but to hear them live just 3 meters in front of you is a totally other thing!!
We arrives early and had just about 2 hours to get there.we were so lucky to get right front of stage what was super!!
one of the best moments was in my opinion the atmosphere during the waltz when everybody was nervous and tensely cause you knew they would come on stage every minute.and then they came.Jonny was the first person we saw and he was so near!!
chris was in a very funny mood this night, so he was joking when he sang the last words of fix you (fiiiiiiii ------ xxxxxxx ) or forced will to sing a part of Billie Jean. Violet Hill was one of the songs I like very much but with the beat and the guitars the live version is sooo much better than the one on the record.
after every song I thought "wow that was the best one tonight"...but I kept thinking this after every following song
best atmosphere: Politik (lights,incredible passionate singing of Chris, and the very loud piano!!!Wow) , of course lovers in Japan with the millions of butterflies, and in my place where the stage was in a very bright light and you could see how the band members smiled at each other and everyone yould see how much fun is it for them, also after so many concert they have played over the last year, to play live for 30 000 people.
it was the best concert I have seen so far and I can't wait to buy again tickets!!!! hopefully the new record will be released not so far in the future...
[Jazzmeen]
Before I start to write, I have to apologise to anyone who's not really a fan of Guy as I have mostly only pics of him due to our spot in front of the stage ... plus the fact that I wanted to concentrate on him mainly as I hardly have pics of him (when being in London in February at the Warchild Concert, I mainly took pics of Chris, so I wanted to make up for that now )
Also sorry for this long review, in case you make it through you deserve a gong
We arrived at the venue (Reitstadion Riem) at around 11.45 am on Saturday, August 29th 2009.
The venue is the old Olympic Stadium for Show Jumping and is located in the middle of nowhere in Munich. We parked our car at a tiny parking lot some 1 km away from the location and made our way to the entrance. By the time we got there, only 5 more people were waiting there. 4 people who came all the way from Malta (don’t know whether they are on this forum as well) and another boy with crutches (poor him, we thought– as queueing up so early and ending up at the front when you can’t run don’t really match), more about him later.
Anyway, at some point (I guess it must have been around 2 pm) they let us further in in front of the turnstalls to queue and the 3 of us took turnstalls next to each other to make sure that at least one of us will get in first.
I was at some sort of ‘dead point’ at 3 pm as waiting started getting boring and me getting tired as well. Luckily the ‘conditions’ for queueing were excellent. At first it was a bit cloudy with more and more sunny spells and temperatues around 20°C (~ 68°F) which is not too hot and not too cold. The day before we had massive rain but on this Saturday, it stayed dry all day long – at least in Munich! At 4 pm they opened up the turnstalls and bodychecked people and searched their bags and stuff. Then there was another line of security people who were tearing off tickets and after that there was still a huge gap to run to get to the stage.
The entrance was right next to the left side of the stage so while waiting we could actually look onto stage, so that ‘soundcheck’ people were referring to definitely didn’t come from CP themselves but was live recordings being played, as they started and finished abruptly.
So we thought we ‘only’ had to run down the little way and would arrive to the left side of the stage already but little did we know. To get inside the ‘inncer circle’, we had to run a WHOLE ROUND around the middle barrier to enter the inner circle on the opposite side (Guys side), then run around one of the catwalks to get to the front of the stage. My lungs stopped working already a few hundred meters after I started running but luckily my two friends continued. Afterwards we were coughing for around 2 hours straight! And everyone around us did so too. And this is no joke!!!
The security people (well most of them) didn’t even tell people off running but some of them started cracking jokes on our expense. So when the guy with the crutches got in I heard someone yell in the distance ‘Run, Forrest, run’ which wasn’t nice but I guess I saw/heard him laughing when looking back and even more surprising, he ended up getting a pretty good spot I think, being 5th row centre or so.
We got literally the last first row spots, located on the right side of the stage (where we wanted to be *evil grin*) and at first I thought that these spots were a bit shitty as it was at the bend to the right catwalk already but later, they turned out to be just excellent.
Anyway, now the 3rd part of waiting started but time passed by pretty quickly. Another good thing was, that the stage was some kind of sunshield for us as the sun was behind it, so we didn’t need sunglasses nor did we get baked by it.
The security guy in front of us was really nice as well and we’ve made a little smalltalk. He told us that the Kilians (first support band, they are from Germany but singing in English – check them out!) would be on at around 5.45 pm which we thought was probably only a misunderstanding, as they entered the stage at 6.40 pm in Hannover. But in the end he was right and they came on. Like some other people already mentioned, they were pretty good and honestly speaking, I liked them MUCH better than the White Lies & Howling Bells. They were kind of innocently charming, their music more catchy and the singer’s talking (even if it was in german – but hey the show WAS in Germany!) was nice and you could figure out easily, that they all felt chuffed to be given the chance to open up for Coldplay.
Small gap for getting off the Kilians stuff and getting things set up for the Howling Bells which started their set at around 6.40 pm. Like some other people mentioned before, they were not my cup of tea as well. Kilians created a far better atmosphere even though they are not that popular in Germany themselves until now …
Anyway, at around 7.20 pm roadies were starting to set up things for our boys and we saw Hoppy and a few others but shout outs were useless and we didn’t really expect anyone to give us a feedback anyway *lol*
We got out our first banner out as we thought that maybe Phil was there as well (despite his B-Day) and the banner just read ‘Happy Birthday Phil’ and security guys as well as people behind us were a little irritated as they probably started to wonder, who Phil was … *lol* But there was no sight of Phil in front of the stage.
The huge curtain was removed before the preshow music started. They probably didn’t want to risk the boys being buried under it again after the Hannover incident. I guess it wasn’t a technical problem in Hannover but all due to the wind, which pushed the curtain into the stage setting.
When the first sounds of Blue Danube started, we got another banner out and we wanted to be ‘charming’ first before we showed our ‘criticism banner’ *lol* When Violet Hill was played, Chris & Guy started ‘scanning’ the audience/first row and Chris caught sight of our banner and you could see that he was narrowing his eyes trying to read what was written on it and once he figured it out, he was looking over to Guy, giving him a nod to look into our direction which he did and you could see he was reading it as well and shortly afterwards had a huge smile on his face …
Our banner read:
Please please play the best bassline … White Shadows!
So don’t say we haven’t tried making them aware to change the setlist
Clocks and In My Place were absolutely amazing, esp. when the crowd sang along to IMY. Then Yellow was played and we even forgot to get our glowsticks out as I was way too busy taking pics Funny thing was that the balloons were kind of driven back to the stage because of the wind. I only expected to be ‘hit’ by one while taking pictures but I wasn’t that lucky. When I realized that the played ‘GOW’ again instead of ‘SOS’, I was a bit disappointed as I think that the visuals on the big screens would fit much better to ‘SOS’. Ah well, you can’t have everything.
Shortly before the guys were about to enter the B-Stage we got another banner out, which wasn’t that charming. Well, it wasn’t charming for Guy but it was for R#42 ‘cause we decided to do a bit of mocking with Guy for his Twitter absence. This banner read:
Guy tweeting: Unreliable *wink* R#42’s blogs: PRICELESS!
So when the guys were doing the last bits of SS, Guy already noticed the banner and he was raising his eyebrow and wrinkling his forehead but in a kind of irritated/fun way. He didn’t really look honestly pissed but more amused. So when the lights turned down he looked at the banner again and had a huge grin on his face. This guy KNOWS EXACTLY what’s going on. With all the tweets towards him to come back aso. He is such a show off *lol* Most of the times he smiled BIG TIME when the lights were off. He’s way too cool to do it in public. Well, he does, but on very rare occasions.
Well, the biggest surprise though was Chris. This banner was entirely mocking with Guy and giving credits to Miller but when Chris was walking down to the B-stage he kind of walked slowly, looked down to the banner, read it, had a huge smile on his face and gave us thumbs up and then he threw a guitar pick towards us which Iwona now has
We looked at each other being completely overwhelmed as we never expected Chris to take notice of that banner and especially NOT getting any feedback because of it, mainly because it was aimed towards Guy & Miller only. But I reckon we got the thumbs up for the fact that R#42’s blogs are so brilliant and less because Guy stopped tweeting (which he probably doesn’t even know about).
B-Stage was fun even though we didn’t see much, only the backside of the boys which can be charming in a way as well.
When Chris fucked up the lyrics to ‘THP’ everyone started cheering as this shows that ‘the fuck up fairy’ is always present The most funny thing was that he fucked it up twice … and in the end simply changed one line to get into it again. These kind of ditches make concerts even more special IMO.
Then VLV was on and the choir was amazing though I’ve heard it better to be honest.
Funny was also, when the ran down the left ramp/catwalk to get to the C-stage they played ‘Singing In The Rain’ (don’t know whether it was the Gene Kelly original or not) even though it wasn’t raining at all. Maybe they decided to play it so that people knew something was going on … ‘cause I got the feeling that many people didn’t really realize that the boys were sprinting to the other end of the arena in Hannover to enter the C-stage and the audience only realized it when the actually entered the small stage. So maybe they’ve added this little musical intro!?
We didn’t see anything of the C-stage action unless looking at the magic balls above the main stage. It was funny when Chris kind of forced Will into singing ‘Billie Jean’ as well *lol* and he did an excellent job!
So while the boys were performing at the C-stage, roadies were getting the butterfly cannons ready and we were really excited as we would be showered by butterflies at this show
So when ‘LIJ’ was on we were indeed showered by butterflies and it was such a crazy and wonderful feeling standing here. One thing I noticed is that they didn’t have the metallic/plastic butterflies anymore. Maybe they have avoided them because they are not biodegradable as it was an outdoor show?! So don’t say that Coldplay aren’t concerned about the environment.
We also spotted Miller shortly before the concert ended and we called out to him (still having our Twitter/blog banner ready) showing him the banner and he took a picture of it and had a huge grin on his face as well and he looked really chuffed. *lol*
Okay, sorry for boring you with this long review even though it was more a story about our personal experience than a proper concert review …
[LittleMissMessy]
When Coldplay tickets went on sale here in Munich they sold out really fast. I got an email from someone that is in a new friends group that I belong to saying that she had an extra pair of tickets because the friends that they bought them for weren't able to come to Munich-so, their concert miss was our gain! I snatched them up and then one of Robert's associates found that they needed to be out of town and couldn't use their tickets-so we grabbed those for our friends C&P. The concert was last night and it was a fantastic! We had "Steht" tickets, which means that you are on the ground level standing...along with about 10,000 of your closest friends. We arrived and started to scope out a spot..hemming and hawing about whether or not to go over to the other side of the stage, when all of a sudden the security guard in front of us opens up a gate and we get to go into a closer ring-excellent! The picture above is taken while they are playing "Yellow"...and they brought out these huge yellow beach balls for the audience to swat about. Fantastische. It was our first concert here and actually the first concert for Robert and I to go to together. We all had a terrific time. We came home humming songs and with multi-colored thin paper butterflies that they shot into the air covering the crowd during "Lovers in Japan". It was so cool!
http://apretzeladay.blogspot.com/200...h-8292009.html
That was my last trick this summer and last trick for the time being this year. Im olympischen Reitstadion München/Riem gaben Coldplay sich die Ehre. Olympic equestrian stadium in Munich / Riem, Coldplay gave themselves the honor.
Im Vorfeld haderte ich etwas mit dem Schicksal. In advance, I wrestled a bit with destiny. Am Freitag war es warm und schön, für Sonntag war schönes Wetter angekündigt... On Friday it was warm and beautiful, beautiful weather on Sunday was announced ... aber ausgerechnet am Tag des Open-Air Konzertes sollte es regnen. But precisely on the day of the open-air concert, it rains. Und es regnete auch... And it rained ... aber Gott sei Dank nur südlich von München. But thank God, just south of Munich. Wir hatten schönes Wetter, mit einer Jacke war die Temperatur ok und es war über dem Stadtion sogar ein stimmungsvoller und fast wolkenloser Abendhimmel. We had beautiful weather, a jacket, the temperature was ok, and it was above the impressive stadium and even an evocative, almost cloudless evening sky.
Das Konzert wurde bei der Heimfahrt im Radio als sensationell bezeichnet. The concert was called on the way home the radio was sensational. Und DEM kann ich nur zustimmen. DEM and I can only agree. Der Sound war schlichtweg fantastisch, er hatte fast schon CD-Qualität. The sound was simply fantastic, he had almost CD quality. Ich kann mich an kein Open-Air erinnern, wo der Klang so gut war. I do not recall any open air, where was the sound so good. Links und rechts von der Bühne waren riesige Bildschirme und direkt auf der Bühne hinter ihnen hatten sie noch so eine gigantische Leinwand. Left and right of the stage were huge screens and directly on the stage behind them, they still had such a huge canvas. Teilweise liefen auf dieser Videos, teilweise das Live-Bild und teilweise Animationen. Partially ran on these videos, some of the live image and some animations. Während dem Song "42" sah man eine richtiggehenden Flug durchs Weltall, zwischen den Sternen durch, knapp an Planeten vorbei.... During the song "42" was seen an fledged flight through space, through the stars, planets just to pass .... tolle und passende Animation. great and the matching animation.
Die Jungs hängten sich voll rein und boten dem Publikum neben ihrer hochwertigen Musik auch eine tolle Show. The guys hung in and gave himself fully to the public in addition to their high quality music and a great show. Hier ein paar Höhepunkte: Here are a few highlights:
Bei "Yellow" wurden einige gelben Bälle ins Publikum geworfen. With "Yellow" were some of the yellow balls thrown into the audience
In "The Hardest Part" singer Chris Martin had a Black-Out. Man beachte ab Minute 1:50 die nächsten 30 Sekunden. It should be noted at minute 1:50 the next 30 seconds. Er zieht sich sehr gut aus der Affäre und beweist Humor indem er den Text spontan abändert: "and I try to sing but I couldn't remember anything" He moves very well from the affair and proves humor as he spontaneously modifies the text: "And I try to sing but I could not remember anything
Halfway through the show, they left the stage, ran between the viewer through the entire stadium stood on a small stage in front of the seats, and only played with 3 guitars unplugged songs ... darunter als Tribute an Michael Jackson "Billie Jean" including a tribute to Michael Jackson "Billie Jean"
The show highlight was definitely "Lovers in Japan". Während diesem Song wurden Abertausende von Papierschmetterlinge in die Luft geblasen. While this song thousands of paper butterflies were blown into the air. Das war cool... That was cool ... es war als würde man in einem Schneetreiben stehen. it was as if you were standing in a snowstorm
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Media Reviews
Coldplay Ends Mini Summer Tour in Munich (29.08.09)
Munich - Saturday night the British band Coldplay ended their mini summer tour through Germany in Munich with an evening full of anthems and perfect pop music. They have only played a total of three concerts in Germany - the tickets were in great demand. Just as during their tour in the autumn of 2008 they mostly played the songs off their album “Viva la Vida“. But the fans in "Olympia-Reitanlage Riem" in Munich knew the older big Coldplay hits as well and sang along with great joy. It is true that the setlist has not changed since the concerts during the autumn tour, but the open-air-stage created a quite special atmosphäre.
The quartet from London had their big break-through in year 2000 with songs such as “Yellow“. Anthems such as “the Hardest Part“ and “Fix You“ followed. They had an image of being soft rockers with propensity for melancholy, but that changed in 2008 with their long awaited album “Viva la Vida“ which has a more lively sound - a deliberate choice. Frontman Chris Martin continued nevertheless to be a heartthrob. And there was no doubt about that when you saw and heard the screaming female fans in Munich. dpa
Comments from fans 18 minutes ago - my opinion (anonymous): Who was not there has clearly missed something .. super show, super atmosphere, cool songs, mega cool gift in the form of a CD at the exit.
14 minutes ago comment made by Schoeller (anonymous): Magnificent, more than just a concert. First-class!
[Translated by Nancy Boysen]
Review of Coldplay Concert in Munich on 29 August, 2009
(long review, the ONLINE version of TZ (TagesZeitung) a German newspaper covering the Munich region)
Coldplay: Tausende Schmetterlinge für München (tz-online.de) München - Die Rockband Coldplay um Sympathikus Chris Martin verzauberte Samstagabend in der ausverkauften Olympia-Reitanlage in Riem 30 000 Fans. Der erste Moment ist der kostbarste. Man hat das Debüt-Album einer Band entdeckt und lieben gelernt. Man hat den ganzen genervten Freundeskreis mit den Newcomern missioniert. Man hatte absurderweise das Gefühl: Die singen nur für mich. Doch dann besitzt diese Band die Frechheit, weltberühmt zu werden. Ihre Songs laufen auf Radiosendern, die man nicht ausstehen kann, sie treten bei „Wetten, dass . . .?“ auf, und der Sänger heiratet Gwyneth Paltrow. Plötzlich soll sie allen gehören, diese große Liebe – eine ganz schöne Kränkung. Vor dem Konzert am Samstag also die bange Frage: Ist das noch was für mich? Die Antwort gleich vorweg: natürlich! Coldplay sind was für mich, für die Oma, fürs Kind. Coldplay gehören der ganzen Welt. Von der ersten Note – dem Donauwalzer von Johann Strauß – an feiern 30 000 Fans im ausverkauften Reitstadion Riem dieses Quartett, das so allürenlos und normal rüberkommt, dass es eine Art hat. Sänger Chris Martin ist der rare Typ, den die Damen nicht von der Bettkante und die Herren nicht vom Barhocker stoßen würden. Während der ersten Songs – darunter Hochkaräter wie „Clocks“ und „In My Place“ mit ihren treibenden, melancholischen Piano- und Gitarren-Themen – rennt er pausenlos von einem Ende der Bühne zum anderen, was seinen jungenhaften Tenor in keinster Weise beeinträchtigt. „Dankeschön, meine Freunde!“, ruft der 32-Jährige in den Jubel. „Everybody okay da hinten?“ Es ist auch alles so schön hergerichtet auf dem halbrunden Areal. In den Bäumen und auf den Lautsprecher-Masten hängen riesige Lampions unter der Mondsichel. Der Bühnenhintergrund funktioniert mal als mordsmäßige Mattscheibe, mal als blinkender Lampenladen. Dann kommt „Yellow“, und zu Coldplays schönstem Song regnet es gelbe Ballons. Der Charmeur hinter der Graffiti-Klampfe singt, „Schau dir die Sterne an, schau, wie sie für dich leuchten“, und alles singt und zelebriert den Kitsch. Darin ist Martin Meister: Seine romantische Poesie, seine Selbstbespiegelungen, seine Durchhalteparolen kann jeder mühelos auf sich selbst beziehen. Deshalb sind Coldplay legitime Erben von R.E.M und U2. Die Musik kommt ähnlich hymnisch daher, neuerdings auch mit prägnanten Chören, die einfach auf eine Feilichtbühne gehören. Die vier spielen perfekt – aber nicht perfektionistisch. „God Put A Smile Upon Your Face“ geben sie augenzwinkernd im Stile einer New-Wave-Disko-Kapelle. Und als Martin bei „The Hardest Part“ einen Hänger hat und ihm der Text nicht mehr einfällt, singt er einfach darüber: „I tried to sing, but I couldn’t remember the words – and that’s the hardest part.“ So geht das, wenn man keine Allüren hat. Langeweile kommt nie auf, im Gegenteil: Bei „Viva La Vida“ haut Schlagzeuger Will Champion auf die Pauke, und Martin lässt sich ekstatisch auf den Zuschauer-Steg fallen, bei „Lovers In Japan“ schneit es Schmetterlingskonfetti aus der Kanone. Und plötzlich ist die Band weg – nur um am anderen Ende der Menge auf einer Bierdeckel-großen Bühne wieder aufzutauchen, „Green Eyes“ zu zu spielen und das lustige Michael-Jackson-Cover „Billie Jean“ im Schein abertausender Handy-Bildschirme. Am Ende, nach dem Tränendrücker „The Scientist“, schießen sie Raketen in den Nachthimmel. Dort leuchten gelb die Sterne, und man ist sich sicher: Noch kostbarer, als diese Band kennengelernt zu haben, ist, sie live zu erleben. Von Johannes Löhr Translation of review in tz (TaagesZeitung für München) of Coldplay Concert on 29 August 2009 in Munich
5 Mal positiv bewertet = 5*
Review of Coldplay Concert in Munich on 29 August, 2009 (long review, the ONLINE version of TZ (TagesZeitung) a German newspaper covering the München region) Coldplay: Thousands of Butterflies for Munich (link: http://www.tz-online.de/nachrichten/...ni-sommertour-...) Munich – Saturday evening the rockband “Coldplay” around the like-able Chris Martin charmed 30,000 fans in the sold-out “Olympia-Reitanlage” in Riem. The first moment is the most valuable. You have discovered a band’s debut album and learned to love it. You have over and over again told your quite nervous circle of friends about the newcomers. In an absurd way you had the feeling that they were only singing for you. But then this band has the nerve to be world-famous. Their songs are played on radiostations that you hate, they make an appearance at the German television broadcast „Wetten, dass . . .?“, and the singer marries Gwyneth Paltrow. Suddenly they belong to everyone, this true love – it is quite an offence. Before the concert Saturday you have this fearful question: Is the band “Coldplay” still anything for me? No doubt about the answer: Of course! Coldplay is something for me, for grannies (grandmothers) and for children. Coldplay belongs to the entire world. From the very first note – the Danube Waltz by Johann Strauß – 30,000 fans in the sold-out “Reitstadion Riem” celebrate this quartet / these four band members that act in a most irreproachable and normal way. Singer Chris Martin is the rare guy that the ladies would not push down from the edge of the bed and that the gentlemen would not push down from the bar stool. During the first songs – among them songs of high calibre such as „Clocks“ and „In My Place“ with their pulsing, melancholic piano themes and guitar riffs – he runs non-stop from one end of the stage to the other what by no means affects his boyish tenor. „Danke schön, meine Freunde!“ (thank you, my friends), the 32-year-old singer shouts to the enthusiastic audience. „Everybody okay da hinten?“ (Is everybody in the back okay?) Everything is also beautifully adapted to the semi-circular area. In the trees and at the loudspeaker masts, huge fairy lamps are hanging under the half-mond. The stage backdrop functions partly as a huge black screen, partly as flashing lamps. Then „Yellow“ is played, and accompanying Coldplay’s most beautiful song is a flood of yellow balloons. The charmer behind the graffiti-decorated guitar sings, „Schau dir die Sterne an, schau, wie sie für dich leuchten“ (“Look at the stars, look how they shine for you”), and everybody sings and celebrates the kitsch. Martin is master of this: Everybody can easily relate to his romantic poetry, to his self-centredness and to his slogans in relation to endurance. Therefore Coldplay is legitimate successor to R.E.M. and U2. The music is similarly anthemic, recently also with characteristic choruses that simply belong in an open-air theatre. The foursome are playing quite well – but not like perfectionists. They are playing „God Put A Smile Upon Your Face“ with a wink in the style of a new-wave-disco-orchestra. And as Martin, when singing „The Hardest Part“, has to stop because he cannot recall the lyrics, he quite simply sings about it: „I tried to sing, but I couldn’t remember the words – and that’s the hardest part.“ He gets away with it because his behaviour is not outré / outrageous. Boredom never occurs, on the contrary: In connection with „Viva La Vida“ drummer Will Champion is playing the kettledrum vigorously, and Martin lets himself fall ecstatically on one of the ramps near the audience, and when playing „Lovers In Japan“ the confetti gun is emitting confetti in the form of butterflies. And suddenly the band is gone – only to reappear at the other end of the crowd on a very small stage, where they play „Green Eyes“ and the funny Michael Jackson cover „Billie Jean“ in the glow of thousands of mobile phone displays. At the end, after the tear-jerker „The Scientist“, fireworks are displayed in the evening sky. There the stars shine – gelb -, and you are sure of this: Even more valuable than having got to know this band, it is to see and hear them “live”. By Johannes Löhr / translated by Nancy Boysen Translation of review in tz (TagesZeitung für München) of Coldplay concert on 29 August, 2009 in Munich, Germany
Rating: 5*
[translated by nancyk58]
Coldplay: Munich
By Bettina Koch
Huge balloons, butterflies made of paper, and at the end of the concert fireworks as well: In Munich, with an almost magical concert, Coldplay proved that they are quite rightly considered one of the best live bands of today. Tina, employed by LAXMag, allowed herself to be enchanted by Coldplay. As you will know, big events cast their shadows ahead. In this case this means as follows: Already on the motorway, the road to Coldplay Open Air was signposted. When the car had been parked at a price of sieben (!) Euro at the parking area, you had to go by shuttlebus to the venue “Reitarena München Riem”. There already the impressive stage construction gave you the first indication of something magnificent to be expected here today. Here it was not simply a concert taking place, but a band staging an overwhelming all-round event. The Coldplay logo was even printed on the cup. A look at the sky, past the huge balloons placed everywhere at the venue, allowed you to hope that Saint Peter / the clerk of the weather exceptionally would be well disposed towards the music fans this August evening.
A pleasant late-summer sun was shining over Riem, when a band from North Rhine-Westphalia prepared for the presumably biggest concert in their young lives: A little before 18 o’clock the German band “the Kilians” opened the night. If the young boys were nervous, at least they did not show it. Instead they were moving on stage, as if they were to play in front of a five-digit number crowd every day. With their britrock the band from Dinslaken provided an amazing atmosphere in the front rows, and they even managed to make the audience clap along, which is already remarkable for an opening band in Munich.
It was only a pity that, for reasons not known to us, the organizers decided to move forward the beginning of the event by more than one hour. The beginning of the event was stated on the tickets to be at 19 o’clock. Fortunately, due to the nice weather many fans had secured themselves the best seats in the Arena already in the afternoon, because whoever arrived punctually to the concert, missed not only the German band “die Kilians, but also a large part of the performance by the Australian group Howling Bells.
For the quartet around singer Juanita Stein, the English media had come up with the concept of "Indie Noir". In Riem the Howling Bells appeared everything but dark in the sunshine. In high spirits the band introduced songs off their current album. At first the band played the single Cities Burning Down, and they finished with the title track Radio Wars, where, with noticeable enthusiasm, Juanita played her drum. In the meantime with Low Happening off the debut album, the band brought goose-bumps to the listeners, and Juanita won the hearts of the audience when she sat down on the edge of the stage and told a short story about the band. Remains to be hoped that the extraordinary band with the support of Coldplay finally gets the attention they have deserved for a long time.
Coldplay, of course, no longer need to complain of lack of attention, the band having among other things recorded 2008’s most sold album. At 20 o’clock Chris, Johnny, Will and Guy entered the stage which reminded me of an oversized living room. A special gimmick was a television set on the stage, the whole time displaying live pictures of the show. Most surprisingly, Coldplay were playing two of their greatest hits, Violet Hill and Clocks, at the beginning of the show. Anyone who thought that the best part of the concert was already over, was mistaken, because the band almost surpassed themselves every 5 minutes. With oversized video screens at the back and on the sides of the stage and laser beams, a multicoloured light spectacle was produced, the huge spherical globes located over the stage changed into celestial bodies and then into globes. You did not know where to look first. When playing Yellow, yellow balloons were flying round among the audience. When playing Lovers In Japan, there was a flood of colourful paper butterflies making the audience move in funny ways waving their arms and jumping, while Chris Martin was dancing across the catwalk with a Japanese-style light umbrella.
The stage construction was designed in a very audience-friendly way: Several catwalks extended from both sides into the audience, the screens showed almost every single movement of the band, and it also showed pictures of the enthusiastic audience. "Lights out und Handys bitte, Handys bitte!" (meaning: Lights out and mobile phones, please, mobile phones, please), Chris Martin, shouted, as he and his band had arrived at a small stage amongst the audience. The light went out, and the venue “Reitarena Riem” changed into a gleaming ocean of mobile phone lights, as Coldplay obliged with a surprisingly not embarrassing acoustic version of Billie Jean. In spite of all the stage pomp, the band appeared to be down-to-earth and close to the audience (interconnection). You could clearly feel that these gentlemen were having much fun playing on the gigantic stage. Chris Martin scored particularly many points in relation to sympathy as, for a short time, he forgot the lyrics of The Hardest Part and, with a laugh, spontaneously rewrote the verse forgotten: "I wanted to sing a song, but didn't know how to go on". After all, superstars too are human beings. The band were fully convincing in terms of their musical performance and in terms of showing us that they are human beings. High-spirited and fully trained musicians were standing on the stage here, and they had not forgotten that they owe their fame to their fans. Coldplay thanked the audience with an impressive concert the purpose of which was not to show off the band, but to make the fans happy. And the band succeeded extremely well in doing that this evening in Munich! After almost two hours’ show that felt like only 30 minutes, the trip into Coldplay wonderland ended in a manner consistent with Coldplay’s station - with fireworks. After the concert the entire area resounded with Viva La Vida chorusses sung by thousands of fans. At the exit the fans received a free live CD as a souvenir. Thank you, Coldplay!
[translated by Nancy Boysen]
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Twitter Updates
- littlemissmessy Okay! We're (that's Iwona, Petra and myself) are at the venue. Only 5 more people here. Now the waiting begins.
- littlemissmessy We are now standing first in line at 3 turnstalls next to each other. Still approx. 2 1/2 hours until gates open.
- littlemissmessy We're inside the stadium. First row Guy side! Squeee! Running inside was a nightmare as we had to run a whole round around the stadium.
- littlemissmessy The kilians are currently on. They started around an hour earlier than in Hannover. Hopefully will be on earlier as well.
- littlemissmessy Howling bells are now on. Not really my cup of tea. Kilians were by far better. Looks like CP will be on around 8 pm already.
- littlemissmessy They just removed the curtain, probably due to the technical troubles they've had with it in Hannover.
- littlemissmessy Magnificent!
- littlemissmessy If we ever get another tweet from guy its down to us. And miller took a pic of one of our banners. Success!
