2 September 2009: Stade de Suisse, Bern, Switzerland
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Setlist
- Life In Technicolor
- Violet Hill
- Clocks
- In My Place
- Yellow
- Glass Of Water
- Cemeteries Of London
- 42
- Fix You
- Strawberry Swing
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Partial Techno Remix)
- Talk (Partial Techno Remix)
- The Hardest Part (Chris Solo Piano)
- Postcards From Far Away (Chris Solo Piano)
- Viva La Vida
- Lost!
- Green Eyes (Acoustic)
- Death Will Never Conquer (Acoustic - sung by Will)
- Billie Jean (Michael Jackson cover - Acoustic)
- Viva La Vida (Remix Interlude)
- Politik
- Lovers In Japan
- Death And All His Friends
Encore - The Scientist
- Life In Technicolor ii
- The Escapist (Outro)
Photos
Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for Bern. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1719
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=51703
Discussion
All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51703
Fan Reviews
All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.
Once again, a great concert! (Except for the weather maybe..) I really hope someone recorded it!
Oh, I just discovered that the picture in the 2009 tour programme below the text "the greatest fans in the known universe" was taken from last year's show in the Hallenstadion, recognized a few faces there. Damn, just a little bit more to the left... oh well.
[parabel]
Hey,
I have been to this concert! We were able to buy tickets at the black market... for less than half the regular price I also filmed a few parts of the concert, but wasn't able to upload the vids to YouTube yet. Have to say, I didn't mind the rain at all, it was great fun, hehe. Chris sadly didn't talk so much, but for welcoming he shortly spoke in Swiss German: "Grüezi, alle zämme." Or something like this
[Gya]
Media Reviews
Bern preview: "Nobody makes stadium music deliberately"
By Adrian Schraeder.
Tonight with Coldplay there is playing one of the most successful bands of the decade at Bern’s Stade de Suisse. Drummer Will Champion talks about the rehearsals before a big tour and the relationship to his band's multi record label EMI.
Bund: Do you have diligently practiced before your big tour or is a band like Coldplay not in the need of doing that anymore?
Will Champion: We find out how a song should sound in order to let it work live, but we don’t spend months with rehearsals before a tour. This happens before we go into the studio. During this time, we rehearse the songs, discarding ideas and work meticulously on details. The same thing happens again when we are in the studio working with producers.
For the last album one of these producers was Brian Eno, a man who has already helped bands such as U2 and David Bowie to fame and honour. Please describe a normal day in the studio.
In the morning we often began with a musical exercise program. We should play what just came to our mind, without being focused on a goal - which at times degenerated into almost free jazz. In the afternoon we worked focused on individual songs, but when we got stuck, Brian Eno broke the thing off quickly, immediately moved to the next song. He doesn’t like it when things go round in circles.
I've heard that you also dealed with magic cards.
Yes. When we didn’t know what to do, he came up with these cards that we had to draw. In a random process pattern of thoughts and routines should be broken.Then on the cards were things like "play it backwards," or "allow a simplification of structures”. Sometimes this has actually brought us to do things that we hadn’t done in our normal operating procedures.
Why does a band like Coldplay need a producer at all?
Otherwise it would take an eternity for us to record an album. A producer can give an idea a form, he keeps track of things and distance.
Is there a boss at Coldplay?
We have found a way to function as a band. Chris Martin writes all the songs, but when he submits us with ideas that wouldn’t leave some leeway for the band or where not everyone of us can stand behind, we have to reach a consensus on it.
The record company EMI seems to be plenty depending on Coldplay – if an album delays the stock market values will break in. How do you deal with such a relationship?
It shouldn’t simply worry us. And it ultimately doesn’t change our attitude to music. We don’t write a better album, because we want to help EMI, as we would never make a bad album to annoy EMI. We are still in the fortunate position that we can publish our music with the help of a larger group.As long as this works so well, there is no reason to be worried about it.
There’s a little problem with Coldplay for quite some time: One listen to your songs, possibly in love with them, and when you see the band live later on, one must share this love with 20,000 others. Has Coldplay accepted being a stadium band?
If I love a song or a band, I never think that I'd like to have it for myself. Far from it! I want to inspire as many people as possible for it. Music deals with that finally: It connects people. And obviously we are padded in a general sense of being with our music. I don’t have any problems with it. We have started as a musician with this ambition, and so we want to continue. I've read several times: "This song sounds as if it had been written for a stadium." This is ridiculous. Nobody does it deliberately. If a song doesn’t sound good when you play it alone in a small room at the piano, then it won’t sound good in a stadium either. It needs that intimacy in a song in order that it becomes something big. One can mix up everything in the studio with guitars, reverb and electronics. But when a song doesn’t have a soul and emotion in its core, it will never sound great. Coldplay has always focused on this core.
The concert tonight is sold out. A small contingent of cards can be ordered through www.stadedesuisse.ch. (The Bund)
[translated by Larry]
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Niemand-macht-mutwillig-StadionMusik/story/29786045
Bern preview: "Our songs work in a room as well"
By Adrian Schräder
Find out what Will Champion (31), the drummer of Coldplay, has to say in VIPtalk before today's concert at the Stade de Suisse in Bern.
Coldplay are suggested to be the best stadium band in the world. How to write stadium songs? I don't know. And I don't believe that you can write good songs with this consideration at the back of the mind. Our songs have a special immediacy and a very melodic core. They work as well when you play them in a small room at the piano. This is a part of the mystery I think.
Lately you've always worked with the legendary British producer Brian Eno. Why? He has done incredible things with David Bowie, the Talking Heads and U2. And then there is this myth which surrounds him. You never know what happens. We wanted to work with someone who forces us to question ourselves.
Eno has a special method: He let musicians draw cards which have instructions. What was written on it for example? It says "take a break!" or "play everything backwards!". Some of the instructions are clear, some rather cryptic. Once I drew a card saying: "give the structure some relief." I was quite perplexed.
Chris Martin is always clearly in the foreground. Does every band need a leader? You have to clarify the responsibilities. We've solved these problems long ago. Previously Chris often came in with ready-made songs which barely left room for us to bring in our ideas. Today we all contribute our part.
[translated by Larry]
http://www.blick.ch/unterhaltung/musik/unsere-songs-wirken-auch-in-einem-zimmer-127577
The songs were stronger than the downpour
by Nina Ladina Kurz
With their «Viva la Vida» world tour, Coldplay stopped off at the sold-out "Stade de Suisse" and offered a typical high-class Coldplay show
Almost one year ago Coldplay played in Zürich at the stadium "Zürcher Hallenstadion" and made their fans enthusiastic. On Wednesday 2 September, 2009 the four British Coldplay members visited Switzerland again - this time they played at the stadium "Stade de Suisse" in the Swiss capital Bern. In spite of the expensive tickets, the stadium was sold-out – and who was ready to spend the money on the expensive tickets was rewarded - in spite of the pouring rain. Already at the beginning of the concert Coldplay played some of their anthems - hits such as «Violet Hill», «Clocks» and «Yellow». Leadsinger Chris Martin's infectious and like-able way of acting spread fast to the audience. An electronical dub version of «God Put a Smile Upon Your Face» and Martin's solo performance at the piano playing «The Hardest Part» followed. A little past 9.30 pm the concert was interrupted due to the pouring rain – to compensate for this Martin played the next song in the middle of the audience. Coldplay on their side appeared to be impressed by their Swiss opening band Pegasus: After their gig they found five bottles of champagne in their dressing room – including a "thank you" note by Coldplay.
[translated by Nancy Boysen]
http://www.20min.ch/unterhaltung/sounds/story/Die-Songs-waren-staerker-als-der-Platzregen-20044575
Coldplay and 40,000 people looking towards the sky - worried
By Marina Bolzli
Screaming fans, catchy melodies and good light effects: Coldplay were tip-top on Wednesday 2 September, 2009 at the stadium "Stade de Suisse".
40,000 worried looks towards the sky: Is the sky going to keep its promise / is it trustworthy? A clear and dry night. The rain has eased off during the afternoon, the clouds have disappeared as the opening bands are playing and the plastic rain coats distributed at the gates are not used. Everything is fine, because, as soon as it gets dark, the stars, the mobile phone cameras and, of course, Coldplay are going to shine in Stade de Suisse. Coldplay, they enter the stage running with sparklers while striking up the instrumental song «Life in Technicolor», it goes fast, the fans in the audience are screaming enthusiastically, thousand hands are now clapping along. And then finally, there it is: Chris Martin's unmistakable VOICE. And there HE is. He wears a light blue scarf around his neck what is quite fashionable nowadays, and a motorcycle jacket that seems a little bit old-fashioned, he takes off both the scarf and the jacket later on.
Chris Martin jumps around like a teenager «Grüezi, hoi zäme», he says, that is sufficient to make the audience go crazy, because the audience sings along to the two greatest catchy Coldplay songs, «Clocks» in the red light, «In My Place» in the blue light. At the time of singing the chorus, noone can be stopped, Chris Martin jumps around like a teenager, standing on a catwalk he allows the audience to get near him, and this incidence is repeated a few times more during the almost two-hour-long concert. Spell-binding. Who can, sings along, who cannot, kisses his girlfriend. Everybody can do something, at least scream. Coldplay can do much more than that, what they prove once again in Bern. Their atmospheric songs sound professional - immediately like when pushing the button (to switch on the light) in the living room - with the difference that in the living room, there is no charismatic Chris Martin, no perfect choreography and not this brilliantly devised light show. The light which was previously red and blue turns yellow when the song «Yellow» is played, gigantic balloons are floating over the audience, Chris Martin is quite sweaty.
«Billie Jean» Later the light turns violet, a flashing red light – and Coldplay is playing somewhat more rock and less catchy songs such as «42» off the latest album «Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends». Coldplay have become more versatile and all-round than before, unfortunately – or thank God? – still pleasant and nice. Only the sky has not kept its promise. A short time before the tribute to Michael Jackson, an acoustic version of «Billie Jean», the sky is "crying" over Bern (pouring rain). But at this time noone needs the stars in the sky, because the stars are standing before us on stage. (Berner Zeitung)
[translated by Nancy Boysen]
"Our songs work in a room as well"
Interview: Adrian Schräder
Find out what Will Champion (31), the drummer of Coldplay, has to say in VIPtalk before today's concert at the Stade de Suisse in Bern.
Coldplay are suggested to be the best stadium band in the world. How to write stadium songs? I don't know. And I don't believe that you can write good songs with this consideration at the back of the mind. Our songs have a special immediacy and a very melodic core. They work as well when you play them in a small room at the piano. This is a part of the mystery I think.
Lately you've always worked with the legendary British producer Brian Eno. Why? He has done incredible things with David Bowie, the Talking Heads and U2. And then there is this myth which surrounds him. You never know what happens. We wanted to work with someone who forces us to question ourselves.
Eno has a special method: He let musicians draw cards which have instructions. What was written on it for example? It says "take a break!" or "play everything backwards!". Some of the instructions are clear, some rather cryptic. Once I drew a card saying: "give the structure some relief." I was quite perplexed.
Chris Martin is always clearly in the foreground. Does every band need a leader? You have to clarify the responsibilities. We've solved these problems long ago. Previously Chris often came in with ready-made songs which barely left room for us to bring in our ideas. Today we all contribute our part.
[translated by Larry]
http://www.blick.ch/unterhaltung/musik/unsere-songs-wirken-auch-in-einem-zimmer-127577
Twitter Updates
- Stereo_Riders Back from a amazing Coldplay concert at Stade du Suisse Bern. Danced in the rain
- inilguitarist Coldplay was fantastic! Greatest thing i have ever seen. I'm wearing clothes. @potense
- patschindler on my way back from coldplay!why do people clap their hands to every song like at a schlager party?annoying!
- Karin_Z Txs @coldplay - you guys were amazing in the rain & thunderstorms in Switzerland. We love ya!!! Amazing gig!!!
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