Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Guy Berryman and Chris Martin, the wise one who plays guitar, the frightening one who plays drums, the very handsome one who plays bass, and the other one who sings, respectively, thank you bunches for giving me the BEST SHOW OF MY LIFE!
Last night was simply the most awesome night of all. I thought it was entertaining, captivating, interactive, energetic, heart (and fist!)-pumping, well, to describe it all in a word, AMAZING!
So nevermind that they only came on stage at 9.05pm, nevermind the fact that Mercury Rev wasn't particularly my cup of tea, nevermind that I had to go pee even before the concert and I didn't because I was too afraid that they'll start without me. God, it was all worth it! The moment they ran onstage with sparklers in hand, I knew it was going to be magic! And boy, was I right!
Chris Martin engaged every single one of the 10 000 people in the audience throughout the two odd hours, chatting while he played the piano, running down the side stages, lying on the floor and refusing to get up until everyone was singing the oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (from Viva la Vida).
Yellow was a clear crowd favourite and huge yellow balloons came flying out of no where for the audience to hit around in the air and when Chris or Jonny used the guitar necks to hit it hard enough, the balloons burst and confetti came flying out! Chris even sang an extra line at the end for us to sing along!
As expected, awesome laser show during Clocks, which we sang and clapped and stomped along to. Violet hill had really nice violet (duh!) lights and Strawberry Swing had pink ones. Needless to say, Yellow had, well yellow, lights! The video projected on the screen during Lovers In Japan was really nice, really in theme with the lyrics. The encore of The Scientist and Life in Technicolor 2 was great, with every single one singing along, and we did the Mexican Wave in between. It was fun using our cellphones to do the wave!
The best part was when the entire band started running through the audience only to stop and stand on the seats to play 2 songs acoustic. It was such a clever move to engage and include the audience even more! Everyone near that area typically swamped over to take pictures and videos!
The only slight disappointment I had with the entire night was that they didn't perform the entire Talk, but rather only the first verse and a chorus. Plus my camera haywired through Lost so I only took a few pictures. Other than that, it was
MAGIC!
