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:
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:
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