20 December 2011: Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
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Setlist
- Mylo Xyloto
- Hurts Like Heaven
- Yellow
- In My Place
- Major Minus
- Lost!
- The Scientist
- Violet Hill
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
- Up In Flames
- Us Against The World
- Politik
- Viva La Vida
- Charlie Brown
- Paradise
encore - Clocks
- White Christmas
- Fix You
- Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
Photos
Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for Frankfurt. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1892
Videos
Videos from this show can be found in the Coldplaying forum live thread for this show at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88644&page=6 (page 6 onwards).
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88644
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
This was my second ever Coldplay show. I came all the way from Australia to see it, and it was pretty average to be honest. I saw them in Melbourne on the VLV tour, which was amazing. The setlist was very short, Chris' banter was non-existant, the opening act was absolutely terrible, and the number of people over the age of 40 in the crowd was...questionable. Trying to make your way to the front was absolutely ridiculous, and many of the old Germans looked at my friends and I as if we had committed some crime just by being there. It's a concert, and you are in a mosh pit, what the fuck did these people expect? All in all, it was ok though. [thanks royal]
I arrived shortly past 19:00, was confused inside that some people were wearing wristbands, asked around too, but didn't get one So yeah, one of the reasons I was underwhelmed... I had seen the videos of Cologne before, where 80-90% of the people seemed to have a wristband, and yes, that did look bloody impressive! But in Frankfurt the wristbands were concentrated at the front, and only about 1/3 of the people had one, so there were a lot of dark areas, and it wasn't half as impressive. Interestingly enough, much of what I read about the other recent shows, e.g. Antwerp, is otherwise much the same - lame crowd, concert too short, band rushed through the show, "the been there done that" feeling of the band just doing shows mechanically, ending too abrupt - I just didn't feel included. Chris said that everybody was part of the show, and he probably even meant it, but I just didn't feel included at all, and not because of the lacking wristband. If I had known that before, I could have just watched the videos on Youtube later on - would have saved me 85 euros. It's too bad really - I've been a fan for nearly 10 years now, but could never see them live in the early days because I was a student in Japan back then. Now that I can at least scrape the money together for a ticket, I feel like I paid for lasers and roadies and stage decorations and other people's wristbands - when all I wanted was to see a great band play great music. personally, I'm a bit disappointed this time. from a technical point of view the show was great. But really, if I just want to see a technically great show, I'll go see Madonna. Seriously, I missed the surprise element - the setlist was the same as in Köln, the effects were the same, and the balloons and confetti weren't much impressive from back where I was. (In Strasbourg a few years ago they had the confettin raining from the ceiling, but I guess that's not possible in Festhalle. the setlist then was also different for every show, every show hat something new and unexpected) Also, I expected more wristbands. I think less than half the people actually got one. Yes, it did look nice, but not as impressive as in some videos of the other shows. And, while they certainly did work hard on the stage , I found it too short, the end was too abrupt. Two encores would have been good, or maybe breaking it up differently. The best part for me was Will, playing 1001 instruments, and singing with Chris. I had the impression that he was the only one giving energy back to the crowd. He certainly did give energy to Chris. (Rock musicians, or stage performers in general, need the energy from the crowd to perform, and ideally they transform it and send it back to the crowd - I was missing that last night). possible that it felt different for the people in the front, but for me - small, short, and unable to line up for good places early because I had to work till the last minute - that was not an option. The bad logistics of Festhalle certainly didn't help, so all in all, I'm not taking home much this time, other than a huge astonishment about Will's performance - he's the champion. [thanks ningyo]
I have been there too and I have to say it was good, but the crowd was nothing compared to the people on Rock am Ring. It was not the bands fault, cause they did a great job, but some people around me (I was stand in the third or fifth row in front of the stage) didn't even know the lyrics of the older songs. Maybe it was because of the atmosphere and the rain on Rock am Ring, but I guess nothing can be better than that. Btw. Does anyone know how this wristband works? I want it to blink, but there is no button to start it. [thanks Violent heart]
