18 September 2008: Globe Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden

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Stockholm, 18th September 2008

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We only got one extra song while they got three last night. Bummer but it was great otherwise!

Mumsy's nose begs to disagree as the person to her left and the one in front of her both badly needed an introduction to soap, water and deo.

http://einakait.blogspot.com/2008/09/whaa.html

They (or Chris to be exact) played the opening parts of Amsterdam! Jesus, I think I've died and gone to heaven. That could have been one of the best moments of my life.

Amazing gig, slightly better than yesterday due to already mentioned fact. I'm holding my fingers crossed for an even better - if that is even possible - show in Oslo tomorrow.

[Starlight Chaser]

Coldplay live in Globen Arena, Stockholm (Sweden). It was the most intense concert i have ever been too! It was just amazing through out the entire show. I have seen a lot of bands play live so i have concert experience. I think this was better than THE ROLLING STONES! And The Stones had a really impressive gig at Ullevi, Gothenburg.

I have always loved Colplay but i would never in a million years think that they would be so good. Chris Martin is God of the stages.

The crowd was absolutely crrrrrrazy! It was like The Beatles were on, the screaming never stoped! Fortunately, i was in the front row in the middle, so i was standing right in front of the amplifiers and i managed to actually hear Chris Martins voice through the vocal chaos caused by the fans.

During "Fix You" the entire arena was weaping and there was no recovering. They all kept on weaping through out the concert, even while they were playing songs like "Viva La Vida" and "Lovers In Japan". Speaking of "Lovers In Japan", that was a pleasant suprise. In the middle of the song, paper butterflies fall down from the cealing. And it was a lot of those paper butterflies! It was a huge clowd of colours. Then the lights went down and a new clowd of paper butterflies appears but these glow neon green and orange. It really was incredible and it was like colourful and fast version of Autumn.

Coldplay can not be missed live. I will never miss a show that is in nothern europe area! This was too good. Even if you dont like Coldpay that much, SEE THEM! It's worth it.

http://tighteens.net/tight-teens-w/?p=2687

Yeah, it was an awesome concert indeed, better than the one three years ago I think. The only thing that bugs me is that he started Amsterdam and sang the first verse, but stopped because they "hadn't played the song in three years" (köpenhamn 2005?). He also stated that "you should rehearse before comming to stockholm". He looked really embarrased actually! =)

[Bergstommarn]

Sole and förväntansfullt before Coldplay GLOBEN. Time for Coldplay day 2, and in that I never upplevkt Coldplay two nights in a row, it should be interesting to see how much they dare and want to change. They replace the one song. They add an extra encore. Much more than that usually they do not deviate from the formula. It is, moreover, smockfullt here. I tried to find parking in a whole half hour, but p-houses are unusually full. Coldplay public has taken the car. Which, in fact, says a lot about the fans when it will follow. It is a day tomorrow, but do we.

Concert starts GLOBEN. Christer Sjögren in Tyrol, Di Living in Calcutta and Coldplay in Tyrol - it is now the concert has started. Coldplay launches as yesterday - with “Life in technicolor” and “Violet hill.” Troubled strong singing from the audience already in “Violet hill.” Chris Martin takes on outrot and say, ‘Gokväll, thank you “in English. This start bodes well.

Deja vu in the Globe GLOBEN. Here, it is mostly the same. Coldplay is on the “Speed of sound” after the “Clock” and “In my place”. The start exactly that yesterday. But I am not complaining. It is just as good. “Speed of sound” sound is even better.

Chris Martin hoping for great tonight GLOBEN. Coldplaysångaren notes that this is the highest building the band ever played in. Only one thing the tub. Would not surprise me if it is the round as well. Just now he also la tonight’s conditions on the table: We would like to do an even better concert than yesterday. Men. However. Yesterday was the audience for damned good, so you have a stiff job ahead of you. I do not think Mr. Martin needs to be worried. Fans are pepper, bitch.

Coldplay fixes steak GLOBEN. “Fix you” right now. Majestic, maffig - and magnificent.My stops in the song Chris Martin up and burst out:– Coldplay and the quire of Stockholm! It is English for “oj wiggle singing again!”

Synthpop in the arena GLOBEN. Now is the little fun party in concert again. That is when the band steps out on a mini stage and make new wave of “God put a smile upon your face” and “Talk”, with synthdrums and everything. “Everybody cool so far?”, Wonder Chris (he is the blurry, next to the other blurry). And he also speaks English: “Everything good?”.

Communication from the Globe to the Metal-Martin Martin Carlsson was one of the few writers who responded to the sound of Metallica new flat “Death magnetic” in the reviews. One can say that we had a discussion about that, me and Martin. But he had a point or two. The other day, the plate mixkille went out and said that the album was shit (I received e-mails from Martin two seconds later). And now the world press about the sound, including The Guardian. Why did I write this? Coldplay have just played “Lost” and “Viva la vida”, and I have been struck by how sick it sounds good tonight.

Extranummer in the Globe GLOBEN. It is cool when the band runs up on the rear gallery and run an acoustic set. Cool that they dare to run out by the audience. And house remix of “Viva la vida” which is played when they cut away (in the corridors, at the time) before extranumren is cool, too. Even extranumren follow in the footsteps yesterday. “Politik” is the first out.

Confetti - Laser 1-0 GLOBEN. Coldplay has a sick-looking lightshow with laser and stuff with him on this tour. But in the end, it is still an honest usual old confetti that is the coolest effect, during the magnificent “Lovers in Japan”: Soon after this song went Eva and Efva home. Maybe they got enough. Maybe they thought that it will be better still.

http://blogg.expressen.se/anders/

Last thursday I was at Coldplay's concert at the Globe theatre in Stockholm and it was just so wonderful that everytime I think about it, I get speachless and I loose my breath and I just wish so much that the concert never had ended, but it did so i'm happy that I atleast have the amazing memories from it and that I was a part of it. It really changed my way of seeing Coldplay... before I just saw them as very talented guys with great songs, but now they're like a miracle to me... I don't really know how to explain it, but their music means much more to me now than before and I love the songs even more now than before :) so i'm definitely recommending everyone that has a chance to see Coldplay to do so because you'll miss something really spectacular then... but let's talk about the higlights of the concert. The opening act was Albert Hammond Jr. and i think he did it really nicely with smashing his guitar twice and then stepping on it! just awesome! ;) after he played some songs and got off the stage the big moment that everyone had waited for happened... Coldplay came on the stage and started playing Violet Hill! then they played many more amazing songs like Clocks, In My Place, Cemeteries of London... until Fix You came (my favorite song!) and everyone started singing along. The lights got really bright and it was just the audience & chris singing. Really amazing. After that they played some more songs and when Viva La Vida came on everyone stood up and sang along! that was folled by Lost which was also amazing and then the big surprise came. Coldplay got off the stage and went through the audience and started playing "The Scientist" in the middle of everyone! Now that was really really amazing! :) So after a small pause they played many other songs including Politik, Lovers in Japan and "the last song" Death and All His Friends. That's when the confetti came and they thought that they could fool the audience by saying goodbye after that song, but everyone knew that they had to play one extra song! :) so after a minute or more they came out again and played Yellow. All the lights turned yellow offcourse and after that they said goobye for the last time and everyone left the Globe theatre so amazed by the performance. I, myself was happier than ever becuase it was the most magical thing that i had ever experienced and i hope that i'll get the chance to do it many times again :) I might put on a video and some pictures later so check back to see if there has been any changes. See you guys until something else big happens.

http://drownedindreams.blogspot.com

Media Reviews

Strawberry swing.. inside a giant golf ball.

Let me explain that title. I don’t want you to think that the tiredness and cool Scandinavian air has made me start to hallucinate. Coldplay are on stage now, playing ‘Strawberry Swing’, in Globen (The Globe), Stockholm, Sweden, which happens to look like a giant golf ball. See.. I wasn’t making it up.

It’s been a while since I wrote. So let me just say… ‘Wow!’

1426 more Coldplay fans, like you and I, have made Oxfam’s Health and Education For All pledge. That’s just tonight.. and the night is still young! This is the second night in Stockholm’s famous Globe arena (*golf ball). On the first night, Oxfam volunteers helped 905 people make the pledge. That was with only 9 volunteers! Amazing stuff. Incredibly, that gives Oxfam a total of 2401, in two nights in Sweden. 2401 people who care about giving everyone, everywhere, access to good quality health care. To well trained nurses. The chance to go to school and learn, for a more sustainable future. Access to clean water and sanitation. Basic things that people need to survive, to be free from poverty, and to prosper.

I think that’s truly inspiring. Coldplay are out there at the moment, inspiring people with their music (the walls are shaking, it must be ’Politik’). I want to thank them for inviting us to involve their fans in Oxfam’s work around the world.

So.. back to Berlin. I failed to mention that! On Monday, Berlin played host to Coldplay in the brand new O2 World Arena, which overlooks the old Berlin wall. The venue was only 3 concerts old. It was a new place to explore, and felt a bit like a clean airport in comparison to some of the more mature venues we are playing.. (one of our volunteers went to the opening of The Globe in 1989..). Oxfam Deutschland volunteers again did a great job. Catching people sitting down or standing up, waiting for their favourite band, and giving them a chance to take action that night.

After Berlin, we were whisked away to Sweden. Literally whisked away. At first, I stayed up on the bus talking to Steffan, our driver. I then went to take a nap, and intended to wake up when we crossed “the longest bridge in the world”. I then slept through a ferry crossing, that bridge, Denmark and half of Sweden. After the first show was over, the crew took the chance to let off steam half way into this trip around Europe. It was a fun night. It was also a late night. Making a football match between band and crew, at lunch time the following day, a little more difficult for a few tired legs. The score was 11-8. It would be disrespectful to say which way it went..

This venue really is unique. I got vertigo when I went up to the top. It’s been two great shows here. But after this encore, a few hundred more Oxfam actions, and a quick load out from The Globe, we will hit the road again, for Norway.. Oslo awaits.

http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=58

Magnifikt Coldplay!

En kvæll 2003 på Roskildefestivalen upplevde jag något magiskt. Coldplay stod på Orangea scenen och levererade en fantastisk konsert. Æn idag ger det, vid bara minnet, mig gåshud. Igår var det dags igen. Jag skulle æn en gång få uppleva det storslagna med bandet Coldplay.

Konserten blev snabbt utsåld och en extrakonsert sattes in. Den førsta konserten var i onsdags och det tænkte jag, detta kan vara dåligt. Køra i samma lokal, i samma land, två dagar i rad. Kommer dom kanske vara lite trøtta? Spara på krutet? Det visade sig att det blev NEJ på båda av mina farhågor!

Coldplay med Chris Martin i spetsen gav oss storslagen rock med alla attribut som tillhør ett band i deras storlek. Bara det faktum att Globen var slutsåld sæger en del om hur stora coldplay ær. Det var mærktes att det nyligen varit skivslæpp før många av låtarna i repetoaren var från Viva la vida. Men æven en del gamla godingar smøg sig in från tidigare skivor.

Men det ær først nær låten Fix you drar igång som publiken verkligen verkar førstå vad det handlar om. 14000 personer står upp, sjunger, skriker och bara totalt hænførs av en av de bæsta Coldplay låtarna. Nær gitarrerna går igång står jag rakt upp och ner, ryser till och sedan børjar tårarna rulla. Det ær magiskt, vackert och storslaget.

Sen gør coldplay något ovæntat. Dom førflyttar sig ut på en av ramperna och sætter igång med ett ganska mærkligt spel. Med elektroniska trummor och ett blinkande golv bakar dom ihop låtarna God put a smile uppon your face och talk. Ovæntat från Coldplay men samtidigt blir jag imponerad eftersom jag gillar att dom inte gør som jag kanske hade førvæntat mig.

Men det mest magiska av allt var nær "viva la vida" børjar spelas. En hel glob står och ylar som om det vore fotbollsmatch man var på. Det ær dessutom den slingan som efter det skulle ylas många gånger efter den låten.

Rent scenmæssigt har Coldplay slagit på alla publikfrierier som man bara kan tænka sig. Det sænks ner stora bollar från taket som sedan belyses. Det kørs en lasershow på motsatt sida av scenen. Chris pratar svenska, beundrar publikens sånginsatser, frågar många gånger om hur vi mår. Dom går ut och stæller sig i publiken och kør två låtar aukustiskt, The scientist och Death will never conquer. Den senare får trummisen æran att sjunga medans Chris Martin spelar munspel. Detta ær ju hæftigt men det bæsta kommer bland det sista. Ett fantastiskt vackert konfettiregn. Under låten Lovers in Japan sprutas det ut en mængd konfettifjærilar som sedan i ultraviolett ljus lyser otroligt vackert. Jag vill sæga att jag i stort sett hade kunnat betala bara før att se det konfettiregnet igen. Men bara næstan!

Nær coldplay spelar sista numret Yellow står jag med ett leende på læpparna och længtar redan efter næsta konsert! Så många kænslor som gick igenom min kropp den kvællen ær det bara positivt!

http://festivalinfo.se/?sida=blogga&bid=1407

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Magnificent Coldplay!

A kvæll 2003 at the Roskilde Festival I experienced something magical. Coldplay was on the Orange stage and delivered a fantastic concert. AEN today gives it, at only memory, me goose bumps. Yesterday, it was time again. I would AEN once to experience the great with the band Coldplay.

The concert was quickly sold out and an extra concert was deployed. The first concert was on Wednesday and the tænkte me, this can be bad. Running in the same room, in the same country, two days in a row. Will they might be a little tired? Save the effort? It turned out that there was NO on both of my concerns!

Coldplay with Chris Martin the lead gave us a big rock with all the attributes that belong to a band of their size. Just the fact that the Globe was sold out sæger part on how much cold play Aer. It was mærke to the recently been skivslæpp for many of the songs in repetoaren was from Viva la far. But æven some Golden oldies smog themselves from the previous discs.

But the Aer først nær song Fix you come up as the audience really seems to understand what it is about. 14,000 people standing up, singing, screaming and just total hænførs of one of the bæsta Coldplay songs. Nær guitars are running, I am straight up and down, to shudder and then the tears start to roll. The Aer magical, beautiful and great.

Then improves their cold play any ovæntat. They move out on one of the ramps and sætter started with a rather mærke games. With electronic drums and a flashing floor bake them together songs God put a smile uppon your face and talk. Ovæntat from Coldplay, but I will be impressed because I like the fact that they do not do that maybe I had førvæntat me.

But the most magical of all was nær "viva la far" play. " An entire globe stands and ylar as if it were football match it was on. The Aer addition, the wire after which it would ylas many times after that song.

Rent scenmæssigt have Coldplay turned on all the audience frierier as one could tænka itself. It sænks down-sized balls from the ceiling, which was then lighted. It runs a laser show on the opposite side of the stage. Chris speaks Swedish, admiring audience singing efforts, asking many times about how we feel. They go out and stæller in the audience and runs two songs aukustiskt, The scientist and Death will never Conquer. The latter may drummer æran to sing while Chris Martin plays harmonica. This is Aer hæftigt but it bæsta among the last. A fantastic beautiful confetti rain. During the song Lovers in Japan injected it a mængde konfettifjærilar then UV lights incredibly beautiful. I want sæga that I had in general been able to pay just to see the confetti rain again. But just næstan!

Nær cold play play Yellowhammer last edition, I am with a smile on læpparna and Length already after næsta concert! So many kænslor that went through my body the kvællen Aer the only positive!

Dubbel extas med Coldplay

De försöker i alla fall variera sig. Inte mycket, men ändå: Halvvägs in i konserten sätter sig Chris Martin ensam bakom pianot och ger sig på en av bandets tidigaste låtar. Han sjunger en rad, men glömmer bort texten. Han sjunger två till - och kommer av sig. Sedan avbryter han sig själv med ett garv: - Låt det bli en läxa det där; Repa alltid innan du kommer till Stockholm. Det blir "The hardest part" i stället. Precis som i onsdags. Men det vore synd att klaga. Ingen kommer till Coldplays andra konsert med förhoppningar om att de plötsligt blivit Bruce Springsteen; att de kan byta ut tio låtar efter humör och vara jukebox för publikens önskningar. Kväll två med Coldplay är ett karbonpapper på kväll ett. Inledningen bjuder på en rad visuella små mästerverk, men bandet svajar till ibland. Sen kommer lyftet, och konserten når en första kulmen i den majestätiska "Fix you" - där allsången nästan dränker ljudet från bandet, Beatles-style. Och efter den lilla new wave-picknicken på en liten scen ute i det sångsugna publikhavet blir det dubbel extas under mäktiga "Viva la vida" och maffiga "Lost!". Avslutningen är uppvisning. Coldplays utflykt upp på läktarna är förvisso mer rolig än bra, men extranumren är fantastiska. "Politik" väger tyngre än bly. "Lovers in Japan", med enormt konfettiregn, är en ny gigant och avslutande "Yellow" överträffar onsdagsversion med 187 procent. Jag är imponerad, igen.

Här är låtarna dag 2:

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 Talk Trouble The hardest part Postcards from far away Viva la vida Lost! The scientist Death will never conquer

Extranummer: Politik Lovers in Japan Reign of love Death and all his friends

Extra extranummer: Yellow

Anders Nunstedt

http://www.expressen.se/noje/recensi...s-med-coldplay

Double ecstatic with Coldplay

They are trying in all cases vary itself. Not much, but still: Halfway into the concert itself Chris Martin alone behind the piano and goes on one of the band's early songs. He sings a number, but forget the text. He sings two to - and will by itself. Then he interrupts himself to a tanning: - Let it be a lesson there; Repo always before you get to Stockholm. It is "The Hardest Part" instead. Just as in Wednesday. But it would be a shame to complain. No one comes to Cold Plays second concert with the hope that they suddenly become Bruce Springsteen; that they can replace ten songs by mood and jukebox for the public's wishes. Evening two with Coldplay is a carbon paper in the evening one. The Introduction offers a series of small visual masterpiece, but the band svajar to sometimes. Then the lifting, and the concert reached a first climax in the majestic "Fix you" - ie where ngen nearly drowning the sound of the band, Beatles-style. And after that little new wave picnic on a little scene out there in the audience singing sugna sea, it will be double ecstasy during the mighty "Viva la far" and MAFF "Lost!". The closure is a showcase. Cold Plays outing up in the stands is certainly more fun than good, but the extra numbers are superb. "Politics" weighs heavier than lead. "Lovers in Japan", with enormous confetti rain, is a new giant and final "Yellow" surpassing Wednesday's version by 187 percent. I am impressed, again.

Here are the songs on day 2:

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 Talk Trouble The hardest part Postcards from far away Viva la vida Lost! The scientist Death will never conquer

Encore: Politik Lovers in Japan Reign of love Death and all his friends

Second Encore: Yellow

The Oracle on 18 September 2008: Globe Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden

January 25, 2012 - submitted by Oscar, Sweden
Q. When I saw Coldplay at Globen, Stockholm 2008 Chris Martin said to the audience that The Scientist originally was written by Metallica. This is a piece of info that is nowhere to be found on the internet. Rather the opposite. Was this just a joke by Chris?
The Oracle replies:
This is a fine example of Chris' sense of humour of which there are hundreds of examples. It must be hard sometimes to know what's true and what's not but Metallica are (almost) as far away as you can get from Coldplay so I assure you this is a 100% joke.

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