25 August 2009: Hannover Stadium, Hannover, Germany

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25 August 2009: Hannover Stadium, Hannover, Germany (picture by Larry)

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I'm back from the concert ................. it was amazing!!! I was here with Oxfam and we had a really great time Pete from Oxfam told me I'm such a big fan and gave me his setlist and I was so spechless in this moment. I startet crying and all I could say to him was "Thanks, thanks thanks!" Daniel (another supporter) and I came into the inner circle near the stage B and we had a fantastic concert Now I'm really tired, I'll sleep 5 hours and then back at home

[aniskywalker]

Okay, back home everyone

I am really horrible doing reviews so I better don't do it.

Funny thing, when the curtain was supposed to come down after LIT, it burried half of the band underneath and Chris had to stop singing Violet Hill.

Can't figure out exactly but I reckon he was kind of 'pissed', well at least he was annoyed about it as he kept saying sorry for the 'technical problems' on and on

Guy looked simply AMAZING!!! Sorry, have to mention it as his 'longer' hair makes him look sooo much better and more relaxed and less skinny

bout the setlist ... yes, it was exactly the same as Stockholm but people around us were absolutely impressed by the 'cellphone wave' and CP performing 'Billie Jean', so many of them still were kind of 'surprised'.

Also about the C-Stage, people at the back really freaked and starting singing the VLV 'Whoooaas' when they noticed that the band came running their way and climbed the little stage for the accoustic set

They did Chinese Sleep Chant and White Shadows for soundcheck 'cause we were standing near the stage entrance and could hear Guy singing (during CSC). Funnily we were the only two people there

And when the band drove past us while arriving at the AWD Arena two of them waved at us (tinted windows SUCK BIG TIME!!!) and I guess we've figured out that it was Will & Guy. Not sure though but one of them was certainly Will

[littlemissmessy]

Hello everybody, a short summarize. I`m back from the concert in Hannover,before the concert, the killians and whrite lies were the opening act, they were absolutely brilliant i think, just great! both Albums are great but live they were even better, fu** great!!!It was raining at the beginning., the show was almost sold out, just a few free places. before the show started, the band played U2, JayZ,BlockParty and a "Wiener Walzer". At the beginning the curtain fell over chris, then he claimed about the collaboration with the crowed...and after than something was wrong with the technic and he leaves the stage for 3 minutes, the other guys from the band were wondering...but chris apologized for it and then the concert gets better and better.It was a amazing show but I can`t close ones again without to mention that the german crowed missed every entry...thats sad! in munich it was fantastic but hannover didn`t jump at all and didn´t sing often. ok I`m very tied...sorry for my bad english...I tell you after the very bad beginning of the concert I was afraid...even I saw the faces of the other band members when chris left the stage...they were nervous and a little bit angry and supriesed when chris left the stage but in the course of the show they played better and in the end it was a great gig...it was also funny to see the curtain fell on chris!

[m.rogo86@gmx.de]

Just arrived at my home near Bremen again!

Although they've not been any surprises regarding the setlist I must admit it was an amazing show! My 4th Coldplay show and probably the best one personally. Especially because it was an amazing stadium, the band was in a good mood and the audience was beyong incredible (far better than in Hamburg and Berlin last year). Mercifully it was only raining while the first band (Kilians) was playing who were amazing I think. I didn't like White Lies though...

They had some funny problems here and there like the curtain which was supposed to come down or some mistakes with their screens at the beginning. Chris apologised a lot during the show and he also left the stage for about 3 minutes before Fix You. Nevertheless I was extremely content with the concert. Chris also sang "Glas aus Wasser" at the end of "Glass of water" hehe.

My train journey back to Bremen was also funny. Someone with a yellow Coldplay rain coat obviously blocked the door when the train wanted to start (I hope it was noone from here). Suddenly the angry driver said something like: "Hey you in the yellow coat! The Coldplay show is over! You've had your buzz! Move your ass back from the door now otherwise I will kick you out of the train and you can sleep at Hannover main station." German Railways at its best!

Good night!

[Larry]

i saw him leave and the rest of the band looked lost too... they did what they could to keep the show going... and yep... he returned about 3 mins later... god knows why he left in the first place... i video taped part of that... not that you can see much... but if anyone wants to see it... let me know

to be honest... the only thing not working right was the huge curtain... i havent notived anything else... so wtf make a big deal out of it? maybe i didnt notice cuz this was my first show in 3 years... hahah.... ops...

how cool that they gave out those free cds! do they do that on all the shows??

and maybe you hate me now for saying it... but the show was so much like U2... who is copying who here?? the stage looked like a redo of the vertigo stage, the cell phone thingy... singing MJ cover... doing the remix versions, chris thanking everybody for such a great night... not that this is all bad... but... huh???

[angelfish23]

This show in one word: Amazing.

I had high hopes for this concert - but it was much much much much [...] much better than I expected it to be.

Outstanding moment: The "Interlude" before DWNC - in which he said "If you having a good time, gimme a 'WHOOP WHOOP'!" or something like that.

[Arizzo]

hey guys,

we had a great time yesterday

arrived at the venue at 1.30 pm and there weren't too many ppl there at that time. when the doors opened at 4.30 pm, it was sort of terrible, tho. everyone went a bit mad and was pushing their way through it was a bit unorganized from the security, methinks. i lost my whole group on the way to the stage, but luckily found them later. when i entered the stadium, i was so impressed... omg, it was huge. and it just looked amazing, it really did.

anyway, we made it to maybe the fifth row in front of the stage (centre). for me it turned out to be a very nice spot and i had an awesome view. liked the first support act (the kilians, a german band) very much. i saw them once back in 2007, but this time they were so much better. by the time they played, it had already started to rain and it wouldn't stop for about half an hour or so. but i didn't mind the rain too much, since i was already quite exhausted. but luckily it stopped when white lies played (didn't like them too much, although they do have some nice songs) and the rain didn't return the whole night

soooo... coldplay hit the stage at 9 pm. i so loved when the curtain fell on them at first i was like "wtf" but it did look really funny... plus, it's sort of good to see that things can still go wrong at a coldplay-concert. it's not always good when everything is just perfect and well-organized, if you know what i mean at least that's my opinion, so that was a bit of a change, heh. later, chris said they had sort of a "shitty start, with things collapsing on the band" you could tell he was a bit pissed at first, but took it with humour afterwards it is true that they had some technical difficulties throughout the gig and like people already told you, chris apologized a lot i think the screen in the middle wasn't working for the first two songs. i have to say, i didn't like when chris suddenly left the stage for 2 or 3 minutes before fix you. it felt like an eternity until he returned and nobody knew what was wrong. the other band members seemed a bit lost, too still no idea where he went, maybe sth was wrong with his mic or he had to go to the toilet anyway...

one of my fav moments was definitely the c-stage although i couldn't see the guys back there at all and had to look at the screens, i sooo loved green eyes, that song about the german audience (it finished with sth like "and just to give you and extra thrill, here's a song by our drummer will" ) and especially the billie jean cover!!! i hadn't heard it before and boy, it was SO amazing. everyone had their cellphones out and it just looked stunning... aww. the atmosphere was really great as well at that part of the show. so yeah, that was probably my fav moment. oh and i loved the little dance jonny and chris did during DWNC as well, that was so SO cute, heeeh

other fav moments were of course lovers in japan, the scientist (i like the normal version a lot better than the acoustic version), politik, 42 and strawberry swing. a few more changes in the setlist compared to last year would have been nice, but well... i didn't really expect that too happen anyway.

to conclude this little review, it was a great show with only a few downers. i have to say, i enjoyed myself very much, but not more than last year, although this time everything was much bigger. this again wasn't as special to me as maybe oberhausen back in 2005. but it was still amazing, of course it was.

PS: what maybe spoiled it a bit for me, was that people behind me kept talking very loud during the whole gig, especially during the quieter songs (the hardest part, green eyes...) i mean, i don't mind people talking, but that was a bit too much - for me it ruined the atmosphere many times

[*Sarah*]

Ugh ... my head hurts. Anyway here's a little review and "some" pics I took.

Well, my mother and I were at the stadium at 11.45. She already started to be kinda pissed, because there was literally no one at the gate. So we decided to take a little walk around the stadium. At the east entrance there were some security guys who gave us a map of all the entrances and then we figured out, that we had to go to the north entrance ... yay ... maybe we weren't to early after all. We passed the Swimming pool and I saw a sign that said "Coldplay - Showers ->" ... ... so I thought if I wait here long enough I might actually see the band members?! *coldplayintowels* Well, I didn't wait, we went to the North entrance and discovered that there were already some people waiting, so we just sat down and waited and waited and waited ... still 4 and half hours until they were going to let us in. Some people from Finland had obviously spent the night in front of the gate ... cosy. We started to watch a movie on my iPod and then heard them rehearsing "LiT" and "Violet Hill" about 4 times. I guess somebody wasn't quite content yet ... Then they were rehearsing "White Shadows" and "Chinese Sleep Chant" ... OMG ... I so hoped they were going to play "White Shadows"!!! All of a sudden (at 3.30pm, still 1 hour until entry) the people stood up ... ... didn't quite understand that, so I simply sat down again. Then shortly after 4.30pm they finally let us in! I said to my mother: "Run! Run! Run!" ... Welll, she was a lot faster than me, but the security guys stopped all the running people in the stadium anyway. So I walked as a fast as I could towards the stage and suddenly fell down and hurt my ankle ... ouch ... I got up again and hobbled towards the stage and sat down like 1,5m in front of the barrier ... that was close enough for now. The stage was huge ... especially when you were sitting on the ground.

2 hours ... 2 more hours to wait. My mother took a pic of a guy who spent the time as efficient as possible.

I was wishing I could sleep ... no room though. Some people just made me angry ... how stupid must one be to smoke in the middle of such a huge crowd! I hate cigarette smoke! There was this one woman who lit a cigarette right in front of me, although I just said that I hate that! Stupid cow ... Still one hour until the Kilians were going to enter the stage ... a lot of people still weren't in the stadium ... it looked kinda empty,

(Viva Balloons!) At 6.50pm the Kilians started their show ... so did the rain ... the woman who lit up her cigarette left the show when the rain started, she just didn't want to do that to herself ... again: STUPID COW! You paid for it! You don't know what you've missed!

The Kilians did a nice job and were really impressed by the stadium and thanked Coldplay many times for this chance ... well and the singer also said about a hundred times "We are the Kilians from Dinslaken!" Well, I GOT IT! Little pause and then the White Lies entered the stage ...

... the rain got less and less ... but I was completely wet. Why didn't I buy a cape??? The White Lies did an awesome job, too. Although their singer wasn't really chatty, maybe he was just a little shy?! Well, now it was 8.20pm ... the stadium filled up pretty quickly.

The roadies started to prepare the stage ... it felt like it took ages. But look who kneeled down right in front of us:

Mr. Roadie #42. The curtain finally fall. I got so excited. I noticed that the wind was blowing against the curtain and the roadies desperately tried to get it away from the stage ... Some twin-chics pushed their way through the crowd ... they got on my nerves the whole evening. How fake can one be? They were all dressed up and wore high heels to a rainy concert, perfect. It was as if they wanted to say "Hi Chris, here we are, take us now" ...

I was simply glad that I came this early, when the band entered the stage and started "LiT" that close to me! The curtain fell down and buried the mics and the band. Chris seemed a little pissed, but I think Jonny smiled a little. Well, they managed to free the stage from the curtain and the band rocked the stadium with "Violet Hill".

I screamed as loud as I could when the first notes of "Clocks" started ... how I love that song.

Chris said something like "Wow, the people in Hanover sing like angels!" Yeah sure ... you little charmer ... "In my place" was absolutely awesome and I saw a little bit of that Chris&Jonny love.

Chris jumping towards the audience is massive!

Right after "In my place" "Yellow" started and the yellow balloons fell on the audience.

Waahhh ... seeing the pictures makes me want to go back to that moment ... "Glass of Water" was awesome as usual ... I sang along the whole song, although I noticed that a lot of the people around me didn't.

"Cemetries of London" and "42" followed ...

(That pic could be pure awesomeness, if it wasn't that blurry! )

The minute Chris finished "42" he just ran and left the stage. That confused me a little. I began to worry that he was feeling sick maybe ... but I saw Guy looking for Chris and smiling a little. He walked towards Jonny and both had a kind of "knowing" look on their face. I'd still like to know, what was going on. Anyway Chris returned as if nothing had happened and "Fix you" began ... awesome as always with 40.000 people screaming along. My mother asked if the people at the Hamburg show last year knew the text that good as well. Of course! Every single Coldplay fan knows that song by heart! The band went to the B-Stage to play the "GPASUF/Talk-Medley". It was kinda hard to see them from where I stood.

That's why I didn't see Chris playing "The hardest part" and "Postcards from far away". When "Viva la Vida" began the crowd started to scream as loud as they could! I was singing along the whole song, so did the the people around me. I took some pics of Will on his drums, but all of them are blurry. "Lost!" followed ...

After "Lost!" the band went to the C-Stage. Jonny in front simply went down the runway beside me and Chris was kinda irritated because he seemed to think they'd have to leave the stage at the side, so he first called "J!" and when Jonny didn't hear him he threw his towel at him. But then he noticed, that Jonny was indeed on the right way and simply followed him. (Chris throwing a towel at Jonny's back. )

I couldn't see a single thing happening on the C-stage, they were simply too far away. But I was so lucky, that they played "Green eyes", one of my favourite songs. After that they played a little song, in which Chris seemed to improvise and he introduced Will and he started to sing "Death will never conquer". I saw him on the video wall ... so cute. "Billie Jean" and the mobile phone wave followed. I remember Chirs saying "Now keep up your cell phones" and at first nobody reacted. My mother didn't understand until I told her what to do and finally everybody did the same.

Back on the main stage they played "Politik". I didn't take a single pic, I simply love that song too much. "Lovers in Japan" was awesome, I noticed Chris had some difficulties with the high notes before, but this time it was perfect. But maybe I simply didn't hear enough of him singing.

(Don't ask me why this pic turned out that pink.) Once the butterflies started to fly, I was completely distracted from the band and just tried to catch as many as possible.

After "Death and all his friends" they left the stage and returned in their colourful uniforms. "The Scientist" almost mad me cry, as usual. I was very happy, that they played the full song and not some acoustic version at the end of the stadium like they did in Hamburg last year. Chris also apologized for the technical difficulties ... again.

"LiT II" was the last song, of course I sang along as loud as I could, although the people beside me weren't as text-savvy as me. After that the band left the stage pretty quickly and I started to feel kinda depressed, I could have stood there for another hour.

But all in all it was absolutely awesome. My ankle still hurts a little and my knees look rather damaged ... but it was totally worth it. Now I'm going to pack my bags, the train to Munich leaves early in the morning. Can't wait for Saturday to come.

[Ekmi]

when they started the concert i began to cry... i was so happy because i waited for this like lifetimes :'D es war einfach wunderschön, unglaublich GEIL, überwältigend, bezaubernd! es war mein erstes großes konzert und ich war so aufgeregt, es war einfach toll!!!

[Vivalicious]

Oh, what a great show!!! And I was in the first row! They are so fantastic! It was my first Coldplay gig, but I think not last! ... I was so lucky that Will sang Death Will Never Conquer again! And people were amazing... They realized my dream, thx Coldplay!

[mehelik]

As a highlight of this year's open-air season, they can be considered safe, the four Britons of Coldplay. Zahlreiche begeisterte Fanreports über die Konzerte in Hannover, München und Düsseldorf erreichten uns in den letzten Tagen auf eventim.de. Numerous Fanreporter enthusiastic about the concerts in Hanover, Munich and Dusseldorf reached us in recent days on eventim.de. Stellvertretend schildern hier die User Stefan und Sandra ihre Eindrücke. Vicariously here to describe the user Stefan and Sandra her impressions.

"First of all a big round of applause to the two opening bands, it was really not easy! Although I must say that the Kilians from Dinslaken the better touch with the fans had! However, both bands have made it neat! Well, where do I start at. It is about twenty minutes to nine, the tension that emanates from the 44,000 fans, the air is practically almost explode.

Und dann erklingen die ersten Töne des Intros! And then the first notes ring out of the intro! Die Menschen auf den Rängen springen aus ihren sitzen und recken die Hälse, wann kommen die vier Engländer endlich auf die Bühne? The people in the stands jump out of their sit up and stretch their necks, when the four Englishmen finally come on stage? Und dann.... And then .... Vier Wunderkerzen... Four sparklers ... Life in Technicolor und das Stadion wird aus seinen Grundfesten gerissen! Life in Technicolor and the stadium is torn from its foundations! Ein unglaubliches Konzert beginnt und hat alles für den Fan zu bieten, was es nur zu bieten gibt: Feuerwerk, Bunte Papierschmetterlinge, die in die Luft geschossen werden, riesige Luftballons, Nebelmaschinen, Lightshow etc.! An amazing concert starts and has everything to offer for the fan experience, what there is to offer only a fireworks display, colorful paper butterflies that are shot into the air, giant balloons, smoke machines, light shows, etc.! Es reiht sich Hit an Hit (ich glaube von der Viva la Vida CD fehlen nur Yes und Reign of Love)! It joins Hit an Hit (I think from the Viva la Vida CD missing only Yes and Reign Of Love)! Mittendrin, runter von der Bühne, an den jubelnden Fans der Esprit Tribüne vorbei, auf eine kleine Holzbühne mitten im Stehraum und mit Akustikgitarre und Mundharmonika weitergerockt! Middle, weitergerockt down from the stage, past the cheering fans of the Esprit Tribune, a small wooden stage in the middle of Stehraum and with an acoustic guitar and harmonica!

Was soll man sagen, die Fans wurden mit einbezogen, Chris Martin sprach Deutsch, ein gigantisches Feuerwerk zum Schluss! What can one say that the fans were involved, Chris Martin spoke German, a gigantic fireworks display to end! Es ist 23 Uhr, das Konzert ist zu Ende (leider fehlten Speed of Sound und Trouble), draußen noch die Live CD abgegriffen und mit einem scheinbar niemals endenden Lächeln im Gesicht nach Hause! It is 23 clock, the concert is over (unfortunately lacking Speed of Sound and Trouble), worn out or the live CD and with a seemingly never-ending smile on his face to go home! Große Band, großer Abend!" nk / eventim / fanreport / rock Great band, great evening! "Nk / eventim / Fan report / rock

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littlemissmessy Located at the stage entrance. Hopefully we will see the guys arriving. Weather is currently dry.

littlemissmessy Someone just rehearsed tiny bits of Chinese Sleep Chant. I just hope its the technicians.

littlemissmessy The band just drove past in 3 mercedes vans with tinted windows. Someone waved at us but we couldn't figure out who. Saw Miller too.

littlemissmessy Soundcheck currently on. Guy singing Chinese Sleep Chant. OMG! Jonny's guitar is just excellent!

littlemissmessy O M G! They are just rehearsing WHITE SHADOWS! Please! Let them play it tonight!

littlemissmessy Soundcheck finished. We are still standing at the backstage entrance as we can see the catering tent from here.

littlemissmessy Now sat on our seats. We didn't see anyone backstage. It' 5.30 pm and I am eating a sausage in a roll. First proper food today.

littlemissmessy Btw. they did search for cameras and told us NOT to use them. Was able to sneak both of them in hopefully they won't catch me.

littlemissmessy C-Stage is right in the middle of the stadium at the other end of the stage.

littlemissmessy Just spotted sarah and winnie in the crowd. Unfortunately not first row but pretty close to the stage.

littlemissmessy People just got up and are now rushing to the front. And it started to rain, umbrellas everywhere. Still no sign of first support band K ...

littlemissmessy The Kilians just entered the stage and they are really rocking. Great video screens to both sides of the stage.

littlemissmessy The Kilians played for 30 mins, 7 songs. They mentioned Coldplay several times and how grateful they are to open up for them.

littlemissmessy Btw. don't thing that I will take many pics tonight as the stage is miles away. This stadium is just huge.

littlemissmessy White Lies just took the stage and the audience is really rocking along.

littlemissmessy It's now 8.20 pm and The White Lies have just finished their 40 min. set with 8 songs.

littlemissmessy U2 Magnificent! We're getting there. Not long anymore! Squeee!

littlemissmessy Breakdancing roadie, audience loved it Blue danube

littlemissmessy Hannover Setlist Pt. 1: LIT, VH, Clocks, IMP, Yellow, GOW, COL, 42, Fix You, SS

littlemissmessy Hannover Setlist Pt. 2: B-stage = GPASUYF/Talk, THP, PFFA

kirsten:Hannover Setlist Pt. 3: VLV, Lost, C-Stage = Green Eyes, DWNC, Billie Jean, VLV remix

littlemissmessy Hannover Setlist Pt. 4: Politik, LIJ, DAAHF, The Scientist, LITii, The Escapist

25 August 2009: Hannover Stadium, Hannover, Germany

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