Oxfam America Tour Blog: 15 July 2008
From WikiColdplay
Testing.. 1, TWO.
I’m a long way from that Oxfam desk now. Not quite a million miles, but you get the idea. I’m sitting in the Crew Room backstage at the Los Angeles Forum, which for the next two nights, is the home of Coldplay. The shows are sold out, which may well be a sign of things to come!
On my left, is a hand painted drum. There are faces, lips, arms, swirls and stripes.. The rollers, brushes, paint tins and mixing plates are still strewn across the table. I can hear that Coldplay have just arrived for their final run-through rehearsal, before this tour kicks off. It feels as though everyone involved is using every last minute, to make this show as good as it can possibly be.
Oxfam has been given a chance to project www.oxfam.org/coldplay onto one of the huge rotating balls which make up part of the stage show. That will be a sight for these jet-lagged sore eyes!
I’ll be off to meet Oxfam America’s volunteers in a few hours, so I‘d better crack on with getting the stall set up. It’s almost show time.
and.. Action!
What a show. Lights, cameras, and action. The band and the crew did a fantastic job tonight. As if the crowd weren’t excited enough by doing the ‘wave’ before the show. They then had the pleasure of watching Coldplay at their best. What a great way to start the week..
The light show was awesome tonight. The Forum lending itself perfectly to all sorts of illuminated activity. I thought they’d be ironing out problems for the first couple of weeks. It looks like they’ve nailed it already. On the way out, people were still singing the chanting chorus to ‘Viva La Vida’. It didn’t take them long to learn those words.. (w-o-a-h, w-o-a-h!).
We had a really positive bunch of Oxfam volunteers too, who signed up 705 people for further action. The end of the night made my day, with www.oxfam.org/coldplay being projected on a huge rotating sphere in the middle of the arena. Once the confetti butterflies had fluttered down and the stage swept clean for tomorrow, it was off back to the hotel. I’m too tired to keep typing, but I just wanted to let you know how awesome it was!
