31 October 2008: Verizon Center, Washington DC, USA
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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 (techno remix)
- The Hardest Part
- 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 Washington. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1612
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=49070
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49070
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
TWO WORDS: F**KING. AWESOME. Actually, 4 words: f**king awesome BATS and pumpkins!
Okay, so:
a) My seats were GREAT! I was on the aisle near the front of section 6 on the floor... I wasn't sure if I'd be able to see, but it was fantastic! The Talk/GPASUYF/Hardest Part set was really close to me
b) The Halloween stuff was awesome! The roadies wore skeleton shirts, they tried to pull of some Halloween jokes (but kind of failed ), the magic balls were pumpkins, Chris kept mentioning Halloween... but the best part was definitely the bat/pumpkin confetti. When I first realized that they were dropping bats instead of butterflies, I freaked out!
c) I think they performed really well, better than in August. It seemed short (Yellow was the only encore... what?!), but incredibly high energy. Everyone seemed to enjoy the fact that it was Halloween. There was a lot more talking from Chris than there was in August.
d) I wonder if they told Chris to calm down with the Obama stuff, cause he only mentioned the election once. I think he was wearing his SNL armband though (can anyone confirm?)
I took A LOT of video and pictures, so I'll upload/post as soon as I can. I don't really know how
[notlost92]
OH MY GOD. WHAT A CONCERT.
I can confirm that Chris wore the Obama armband. Seeing as I ended up in the SECOND ROW!!!!!!! Almost dead center, but slightly over toward Guy's ramp. If you saw anyone literally freaking out and shaking from overwhelm before the show...yeah, that was me.
Um um um where to start? Well, unfortunately, my camera decided to have almost no battery so I have almost no pictures Halloween was definitely mentioned and added a great energy - the roadies and the band and everyone seemed to enjoy it.
They switched up the order of the songs a little bit, and it felt to me like they switched up the setlist. However, that might just be me getting caught up in the moment! They definitely moved Chinese Sleep Chant off of B-stage and did it on the larger stage.
LOTS of cute interaction between Jonny and Chris - I hope someone got it in video! If not I'll have to hope my cellphone caught something of it. LOTS of interaction with Chris and the audience too - not so much political stuff, but typical Chris at his most chatty
And, um, at the end I was cheering like the fangirl I am...AND HE LOOKED RIGHT AT ME, POINTED AT ME, AND SAID "EXACTLY". I'm not the only one who saw him do it either - I met other people in my section before the show and they saw it too!
The bat and pumpkin confetti was amazing. They had the usual sort of paper confetti and then they also had metallic pumpkins and bats! I brought some home so I'll try to snap a picture unless someone else has a good photo of them from the venue.
They also turned the magic balls into halloween pumpkins and at one point Jack Skellington's head complete with changing facial expressions. Lots of people dressed up, including quite a few of the roadies. Crowd was GREAT. All the boys were in fine form. Chris took off his jacket fairly early as did Jonny; Guy didn't take anything off but he was only wearing red shirt w/ a vest to begin with so he wouldn't have had much to take off! Will seemed to be really into the drumming thing tonight, particularly during VLV.
I guess the most amazing thing of the entire concert, at least to my eyes, was getting to see them interact. When they'd play near each other they'd talk and chuckle. Their smiles are so priceless! You can really tell they're friends, particularly Chris and Jonny. In addition to the square dancing there were some times when they'd do a sort of "dueling guitars" thing, playing really close to each other.
Sorry this is so long. I'm just so...aah! YAY COLDPLAY!!!!
[fadelight]
Okay, my mom and I totally found the roadies and went from section 420 to row L, right by the side stage! We had a perfect view (no neck craning!) and got to see them right by the side stage! I got this awesome pic of Chris grabbing his behind while sitting down at the piano, and my mom and I swear that Guy posed for us when we called out his name. I hope. The set list could've changed a bit; could've been made more special as it was Halloween, but whatever. It was still magical. 'Fix You' got me so emotional; I cried so hardcore, but 'Yellow,' I think, sounded better as an encore! It was so powerful! 'Postcards' was beautiful as well. I enjoyed that one, and Chris dedicated 'The Hardest Part' to Sarah Palin.
LOL, my mom's listening to 'Fix You' right now.
Amazing and perfect as usual, I bought the 42 shirt (the guy at the booth was like, 'huh?' when I asked for it that way rather than Style 7. And I met Roadie 42, who was setting up a camera right by the side stage and I told him I enjoyed his blog. He seemed a bit distracted, but was a nice guy. I fixed up my jacket a bit (painted a 42 and a VIVA logo) and the hat (a violet and strawberry) and more people noticed it. And now, it's off to the Who, Oasis and if my luck is good, Coldplay in late '09!
[strawberry_swing]
This is the best performance that I've seen thus far. All of them sounded fantastic! The entire show was incredible! Also, Postcards From Far Away was very touching.
I finally had great tickets (the section near Guy). There were a lot of people who wore costumes, and I regret that I didn't partake in that. I did wear a necklace with a yellow glow stick, but that was a bit lame.
I also enjoyed the pumpkin and Jack Skellington balls and bats confetti.
During In My Place, I made eye contact with Guy. I also waved at him when they were taking their bows, which I think he saw. I thought that was pretty cool.
Does anyone know if they plan on coming back to D.C. any time soon? I know that this was the second time they came around for this tour, but I'm hoping it doesn't take another two to three years before they're in town again.
Thank you, Chris, Guy, Jonny, and Will for such a great show!
[frozengame]
