Da LIVE Music WEEK... I can FEEL it!!!! PART I

I'm Back... with a vengeance!!!...WAIT a MINute! What vengeance?

Cheyz!... I'm just back...after a 2 week no-post period.

Hope everyone who reads this is fine. Many things happened in the last 2 weeks. Let's do a quick Recap:
1. BONUS LETTER
PwC employees received their promotion and bonus declaration letters from their partners.

2.ITALY WINS WORLD CUP ALBEIT THE LARGEST MATCH FIXING SCANDAL IN ALL HISTORY AS JUVENTUS TAKES THE PLUNGE INTO SERIE B
This goes to show ah... MONEY MAKES THE BALL GO "WHY"!!! Obvious as it may seem, match fixing do cross borders and I am pretty sure WC is fixed too!

3. COLDPLAY ROCKS INDOOR STADIUM
On the nite of 10 July 2006 they came, they played, they Chilled!!! After all they are "played cold". LAMEEEEE....

4. ESPLANADE SHOOK TO BAYBEATS
14-16 July 2006, the boring durian came alive with "Make Love Not War" style gatherings of 20+bands in the most fabulous Baybeats ever!!!!

PHEW!!! 4 major things in 2 weeks!!
Now, my writing isn't that bad to go "out of point" so i shall bring us back to the TITLE!
The
LIVE MUSIC WEEK came alive when the most unlikely thing to have a alternative rock concert playing on a MONDAY nite but COLDPLAY did it! SHUCKS!As BIG as I am a COLDPLAY FAN, I had grabbed the tickets of the "TWISTED LOGIC WORLD TOUR" at the very hour they went on sale back in MAY. So living this anticipation for 2 months is blardy difficult but on Monday last, at the stroke of 9PM, NUMBERS showed..


and CHRIS MARTIN(the man who "Shagged" Gyneth Paltrow and made an Apple out of it)came on the stage to a major opening as if you were playing the "X & Y" CD.... 1st track "Square one". The entire Indoor Stadium was thrown into delirium!!!... Super power...
From where i was standing I could see the Chris get "orgasmic" over his seat in front of the piano...

The entrance was quickly put to the next number, "POLITIK" from A RUSH OF BLOOOD TO THE HEAD. Can't imagine this song is a blardy 4 year old song already. The album came out in Aug 2002 but somehow the song still was seemed to work the crowd.

Nothing amazing...


as soon as POLTIK ended,CHRIS "shagged paltrow" Martin greeted the crowd while he set himself up on a Rickenbacker...no one was having a clue what he was to play next... then the RIFF started...That RIFF that put COLDPLAY to lengendary status... YELLOW.. that's what that Rickenbacker was for.

The whole stadium was alive, alive with those words," Look at the stars, look how they shine for you" and "Your Skin, oh yeah your skin and bones. Turn in, to something beautiful". It's the release of some emotion of some kind in the stadium that really sets the whole crowd into some frenzy...







At this point, the whole stadium glowed wif some warm lights and GIGANTIC Yellow balloons floated and bounced off the MOSHING crowd. The stadium almost didn't want this song to end. Yellow's the color of our skin, and it's amazing the song made COLDPLAY the band they were. (even some may disagree)


The band took a break as lights go out. Chris spoke to the crowd for the 1st time after poking cheekily with his guitar and bursting at 3 innocent yellow balloons that bounced onto the stage. He was right, the last time the band played in Singapore was to a MIAO MIAO crowd who was treated to a double whammy where TRAVIS seemed to steal more of the limelight.

Then ... music began... familiar... it's the LICK to "Speed of Sound". Stage was totally dark and we know the reason why. The screen started to show "X & Y" colors. Chris played in orgasmic fashion once again on the piano, and the screen turned into trickling numbers and characters ala "MATRIX" style. The light show on the backdrop was simply amazing, but as it turns out, I have not seen the best yet. Chris did his super energetic mad prancing around the stage.

As you can see in his mad frenzy, i got a blurry image of him. He recovered from that true enough and got back in front of the piano. It's amazing with the way he was playing, he didn't feel a bit of pain on his buttocks man. Considering he does it so wildly, probably a nun would love it. HA!

Anyhow, the next few songs weren't really easy to remember. Remembered "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face"(A Rush of Blood to the Head) I just remembered that the band now took quieter numbers and they started off with "What If" (Track 2 of "X & Y")



Anyhow, this was the closest I got of a moving Chris Martin.

Next, the band took on "White Shadows" (Track 3 of "X & Y"). As apt as the song, the producer of the concert got the camera dudes to shoot an upclose of Chris Martin against a parapet wall on the stage and fed it to the screen in NEGATIVE mode, creating a White Silouhette of Chris on the mega screen. Pity, i didn't get a shot of that. As the song drew to a close, Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland(Lead guitarist) were lying down flat on the floor.

Next up.... Chris got back to the piano and the poignant words of "The Scientist" (A Rush of Blood to the Head) echoed through the stadium. This song never fails to bring some rush of emotions. Some break up song as it is. HA... "Nobody says it was easy, No one ever say it would be so hard...." Sigh. No pics to show for this one either. Have tonnes of videos though. Amazing thing for this song was 2 things:

1. The picture showing on the screen looked like a sattelite pic (Google earth style) and i was zooming in.. and it zoomed into an open palm of a person right until it just looked like crevices of his skin.

2. Chris did whip up the rapport with the audience by letting us sing some parts of the song and its amazingly loud. Even dudes who paid 100 or 80 bucks were singing to it, shows how large a following coldplay had in Singapore. He got the audience to do a "Oh oh oh oh" echo which was at the end of the song and it was simply amazing!

Now the band took a break and it was really into unplugged and slow shit. Drummer, Will Chapman, took to the keyboards and the foursome stood together on a small platform in the front of the stage with Chris on guitar, Johnny on guitar, Bassist Guy Berryman, on Harmonica and some shakers. Here's a pic of how it looked:


And we all know that it's going real slow now. So he started with the tribute song to Johnny Cash, "Til Kingdom Come" (Track 13, "X & Y") in traditional english fashion, there is some taste to that song. A longing that sings and a sad translation of emotions of a long awaited coming.

Paul said X & Y isn't as good as Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head. HELL NO PAUL!! With the visual at the concert, you can really feel its 3 years in the making, this album is as good as the rest, thou honestly, I loved Parachutes best!

"Trouble" (Parachutes) came up next. Classic from the 1st album. This one got the whole stadium singing too.
Can't remember the sequence now, but they did some Johnny Cash no., titled "Burning" somwhere.

Next the band got a climax with another hit, "Clocks" (A Rush of Blood to the Head). We were treated with a wonderful display of laser and light beaming all across the stage while the famous piano riff sounded. I remembered Liquid Room used to spin the trance-y version of the song.

This was when "Clocks" was about to end

Next few numbers were equally solid. The band belted out "Low" (Track 9 of "X & Y"), and another number which i have on my video but its really low quality 10 sec bite which i can't make out.
I remembered that Chris bade farewell for the band in thunderous applause and gals screaming. But as tradition goes, there's always an Encore.

The band returned to stage again after 5 mins. Some inexperience concert goers in front of me walked out. Missed a good part of the show man!

We all know they were not done here! Couple of Big songs in X & Y and a couple of classics were not sung yet!

So the band kicked off with "Swallowed in The Sea" (Track 11, "X & Y"). with a superb backdrop, a mega big white cloth hung before the screen and a projector shone the scribblings of words in white while the entire stage was dark with exception of lights on the band. It looked like this. I feel this is one of the best songs in "X & Y".