Remember the other week, in my blog about the Coldplay concert I went to, I mentioned the Xyloband I got and how it may never light up again?

Well early on Sunday morning I came downstairs to find it lit up, two weeks after I'd seen them live. After bemoaning the fact that mine hadn't while others had said theirs had started days after they'd been to one of their gigs, I had finally witnessed mine doing it. It might not have been flashing, but it was still alive.

 Apparently mine had been on since about 5am at least  according to my dad, who got the fright of his life when he came down and saw it glowing (in the dark - lol) on the table in the front room. How long it had been on prior to that, I don't know, but eventually it stopped at about 10am. It made me wonder, just how and why it had come on at that point? Was there something in the mechanism that makes it light at random after a certain amount of days following a concert? Had Chris Martin sent out a secret signal to every Coldplay fan who had one in their possession? Or could it have been simply that the batteries were dying and mine was having one last hurrah before going out completely? Who knows. However, I'd be surprised if mine did come alive again at some point, as it was on for quite a few hours.

This is the first of my playlists of the week. I intend to make this a regular feature on my blog, where a share a list of songs that I love and/or been listening to. Some of them will have a theme, others will just be a mish mash of whatever I've been liking that week. 

For my first playlist, I thought I would share with you my favourite Coldplay songs. It has been over a week now since I saw them at the Etihad stadium and yes I probably still haven't entirely come down from the experience (read my earlier post on it and you'll know why).  I have even posted it all on spotify if you would like to listen to it here.

Here's the list:

Yellow
Life In Technicolor ii
Talk
Speed Of Sound
In My Place
Clocks
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Don't Panic
Shiver
Sparks
Everything's Not Lost
Politik
Brothers & Sisters
Charlie Brown
Paradise
Major Minus
Viva La Vida
Lovers In Japan
What If
Fix You
Hurts Like Heaven
High Speed

There's probably a few that I've missed (it is a bit of a long list, isn't it?) 

OK, I am pretty much mentioning this on every corner of the internet that I've set up camp on at the moment,  but it's not like I have a massive following on any of my blogs, so I can just about get away with it. 

On Saturday night I saw Coldplay at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester. And they were fab.

Better than fab, they were incredible.

In fact, they were better than incredible...which is... whatever is better than incredible.

I had been waiting for the day of the gig from the moment I booked the tickets through O2 Priority. I was that determined to get them after missing out  on the last few occasions they played in Manchester,including when they played at Old Trafford Cricket ground, which is practically on my doorstep (I got to hear them from my house though, which is almost like being there I guess). I can finally cross them off the list of "bands I want to see live before I die", and I would definitely go and see them again. In fact on Sunday I was wondering if I could go and sneak in again with my ticket, but I decided to watch videos that people had put up of the gig on YouTube instead. 

I have my own (not great quality, but decent for my mobile) photos of the concert and I managed to get a (not that much better) video of them doing Speed of Sound and a little clip of Viva La Vida, which I'd have filmed the whole of if I wasn't (a) enjoying myself so much (b) unsure how much space I had on my phone and (c) didn't have someone walk right in front of me while filming it. 

I will almost certainly write about it on my main blog in more detail, but here's a couple of my better pictures: