Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Viva La Vida!

Last night I went and saw Coldplay at the Honda center. Coldplay is on my list of "Bands to see before I Die (or they do)", so I was really excited (to say the least). I had everyone take a picture of themselves to express their excitement

We had pretty good seats


(thanks Danny for the presale code!)

The silver surfer sat in front of us


The opening bands were Sleepercar (pretty cool folky guys from Texas) and some crazy trance music DJ that had some weird videos playing. After the opening acts, they starting playing some old school Jay-Z.



Sick!

And then they went all ballet on us



And then it all Began!

They opened with Violet Hill, probably one of the most awesome songs off the new CD, and it only got better as the night went on.

There were lazer lights!


Regular Lights!!


They played an electronic version of Politik, with a moog and all!

And probably the sweetest part of the night is when they walked back about 20 feet from where we were sitting and played an all acoustic version of The Scientist (featuring two guitars, a mandolin, and a harmonica)





Towards the end of the show, they played Lovers in Japan and thousands of little glow-in-the-dark butterflies showered the crowd.



We went and got lots of them after the show


Oh, and they came out for an encore and played Yellow!

It was a wonderful night and if Coldplay comes to a town near you, see them!

1 comment:

UpFront Stundent Ministries said...

I am very jealous of your experience D! It sounds like you guys had a rocking night and I am truly happy for you. Coldplay is on my list as well... I'll try and catch them next time! Love you buddy.