Yesterday night I was dazzled by the spectacular performance of Coldplay live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre! Their show was filled with amazing music accompanied by wonderful surprises, amazing lazer shows and big screen motion graphics; it was more than enough to "ignite your bones". (Coldplay-Fix You)
The support act was from Youth Group (Perth, Australia). I hadn't heard much of their music so I was looking forward to hearing them live for the first time. Youth Group performed brilliantly and their songs are beautiful; the ambience created by the nostalgic-like sounds were magical at times.
Coldplay then kicked off their concert performed Square One from their latest album X & Y which simultaneously featured a huge count down digital ticker on the large screen on stage . The excitement was generated immediately and everyone knew we were going to be in for a great concert!
They played all my favourite tracks, including ones from their second album Rush of Blood to the Head-'Clocks', 'Politik' and 'God put a smile upon your face'.
When Coldplay performed 'Yellow' it was a lovely surprise to see massive yellow balloon balls float down from the roof onto the people below. The balloons were pushed back up in the air (unfortunately we missed out on the fun since the balloons never made it up to the seating area).
Chris Martin (piano, guitar, voice) had fun bouncing and lying on the balloons too! Near the end of the song he attempted to pop one of the balloons on stage by throwing down his guitar. It didn't pop. :) He later said to 10 000 people in the audience, 'that's got to be the worst guitar throw in the history of Rock and Roll'. :) Everyone just cheered him on after that!
The concert continued and so did my enthusiasm for the music, I jumped right out of my seat several times (almost oblivious to the fact that there were people behind me).
Martin surprised us even further when he ran down from the stage, down the back of the Entertainment Centre and up into the seated area! He wanted to make sure that we didn't feel disadvantaged up in the seats. Never!
Coldplay also made a dedication to Slim Dusty and Johnny Cash by doing a cover song of theirs. Just when I thought the surprises were over they came back on stage to play a cover of Kylie Minogue's 'I Can't Get you Out of my Head'!!!! It was a little odd but that didn't stop me from bopping along to it! lol
I thoroughly enjoyed the concert and the light-hearted humour from Martin when he occassionally stuffed up. :)
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