Concert roundup

[angela_o]

Details are here. I just got home a little while ago and it was a great show. They had reconfigured the seating a little so we ended up in the 8th row, about 30 feet from the stage. Rilo Kiley opened and played a very tight set. The lead singer has a very powerful voice and I liked their music. It will be interesting to see if they take off after the exposure from this tour.

Coldplay's set list for the concert was

1. Square One
2. Politik
3. Yellow
4. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
5. Speed of Sound
6. Low
7. A Rush of Blood to the Head
8. Everything's Not Lost
9. White Shadows
10. The Scientist
11. Til Kingdom Come (acoustic)
12. Ring of Fire (acoustic)
13. Don't Panic
14. Happy Birthday (which the crowd sang along with as it's Johnny's birthday)
15. Clocks
16. Talk

The encore songs were
17. Swallowed in the Sea
18. In My Place
19. Fix You

For Yellow, they released giant yellow balloons into the crowd which were bounced around. There was a slight wind blowing so several of them ended up caught in a tree at the edge of the amphitheater. It reminded me of the kite eating tree from Charlie Brown. It wasn't homicidal enough to be the Whomping Willow.

Chris flubbed The Scientist at first as he started coughing. The drummer called him over and Chris said that when your drummer tells you that you've "fucked it up", you need to start over, which he then did. He said that's why Coldplay would never cut it on American Idol because you only get one chance. lol He was very self-deprecating and funny about it and said that we were due a .25 cent refund for the screwup.

During the encore, I turned around and instead of a sea of lighter flames, there was a sea of lit cell phones casting an almost phosphorescent blue glow over the crowd. It was a very striking sight. A sign of the changing technological times I suppose. Sadly, I didn't bring my camera as the tickets said they weren't allowed. But, since the band flashed a GET CAMERA READY message on the screen onstage, it wasn't meant to be strictly enforced. Even without photographic evidence, it was an amazing experience. You should definitely go see them if you get the chance.

Now, I think I should get to bed.

Night all. Sweet dreams. :)

Comments

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm excited. I wasn't sure if you were still going to send them out and I didn't want to bug you about it. I was reading some Rose/Nine fic yesterday and thinking that it might be time to rewatch. :)

What's the countdown to the VM premiere? Is it the 27th? I haven't been seeking out spoilers so I've got my fingers crossed that Rob doesn't have a sophomore slump.

[marcolette.livejournal.com]

I think we're at 16 days or something. 9/28!!! I'm pretty spoiled, although I plan to go clean once the season starts. *g* I'm not focusing much on individual plot points, because I don't think you get a clear picture of this story and how the elements fit together until it shows up on screen. You know how it its -- try summarizing the plot of the show to a friend who doesn't watch it and they look at you like, "So, you're obsessing about teen soap operas, now?" I actually wouldn't encourage seeking out spoilers since they've mostly just given me more questions than answers.

So this is the only thing I'll say about the spoilers I've seen, and it's spec rather than spoiler. I am relatively confident that we're going to get another year of smart, intricate storytelling in which all the characters are gray but believable. I could be proved wrong, but the story seems to be headed in that direction.

As for my computer, I lost my harddrive, had to reformat back to factory state. Yes, I do have an external harddrive. No, I didn't have a recent backup. Yes, I am an IT professional. Yes, I did learn a valuable lesson. As I heard on a harddrive recovery piece on NPR this morning (second in a week, too late for me to have learned from it), they say that there are two kinds of people; those who currently have a regular backup routine and those who will have a regular backup routine. I am reformed.

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry to hear about the computer woes. Is that the IT equivalent to the shoemaker's children being barefoot and the doctor's children being the last to be treated? ;) I must admit that of the two types of people that you mentioned, I'm sadly the latter. I should look into an external hardrive however. My desktop is about three years old and hard drive space is becoming an issue. Of course, I know nothing about what to look for. lol

Since I'm not going to seek out spoilers per se, tell me this please. Will my Logan-loving heart be broken this season? I'm trying not to be a 'shipper, but old habits are hard to break.

I totally agree with you that you can't get a true sense of how things will play out onscreen until you actually see it. I'm sure it will be an interesting season though. Even the not great episodes last season were better than most everything else on tv.

[marcolette.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, it's exactly the IT equivalent of those things. I don't know much about external hard drives - I basically just read a bunch of reviews online before I ordered one. The one thing I learned from them is that bigger is not always better. It seems that the 300 GB hard drives tend to be less stable than the 150 and 200 GB drives that have proved themselves over time. I am aware that my external hard drive could also fail, but I have a better shot now of keeping my important things.

As for Veronica Mars . . . I'll email you! :-)