Crystal Palace Sports Stadium
Tuesday 28th June 2005
reviewed by Cars
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Curses that Supergrass could only be support on the 27th & I got lumbered with Interpol. They're a band I quite like the debut of (obviously not the follow up - who does?) but that were so boring & lifeless tonight that if it hadn't have been raining so hard on the crowd I fear they may have fallen asleep standing up. There was no crowd interaction - nothing!
Mind you the band before that weren't much better - Morning Runner. A cross between Keane & James Blunt but with loads of guitars thrown in & half the talent taken out. They were average but brave for holding their own before 2 huge bands.
I have never been to Crystal Palace for a gig - from what I could tell there hasn't been many (if any) there before. A really nice venue though & it's great that it's easy to drive to even if it was a shambles getting out the car park which resulted in an hour of us playing the film game (played much better here!) whilst stuck in a huge jam on a very muddy hill.
Now onto Coldplay - well Chris' wife actually! Yes I spotted Gwyneth Paltrow & I will tell this story over & over to anyone that will listen for years to come. She walked along the pitch past where we were sitting in the stand & I shouted her name. She looked up, smiled & waved - how nice of her even though I know she was thinking "thanks Loser, now everyone's seen me".
Now really onto Coldplay - OH MY GOD! Amazing!
They started off with Square One & Chris' voice was faultless. In fact the whole band were & carried on being faultless throughout the whole 90 minutes they were onstage.
Even when Chris "f*cked up" the words for Everything's Not Lost & had to start again he did it with such humour & warmth that it enhanced the show rather than put a damper on it (he actually ended up changing the words to "if you say f*uck in front of 40,000 people everything's not lost")
As with any band with the amount of great songs they have there's always going to be tracks you wished they'd played. I would have liked Politik to have been replaced by X&Y & am amzed both Shiver & Trouble were left out but on the whole they delivered a fantastic set list.
Every person that had seen Coldplay in the past told me I would have a crying moment - where Chris' voice was so beautiful & the words so poignant that I'd cry. There I was hanky at the ready & when I heard the first couple of notes for The Scientist I thought "a-ha, here I go, bring on the water works". That was until I spotted a crazy woman on skates breakdancing to the music. If you think it's not possible to breakdance to The Scientist you would be very wrong my friends. I've seen it & it ain't pretty.
They ended the main set with Swallowed By The Sea & came back on to their John Lennon Imagine-esque What If. Then In My Place bought the house down & Fix You accompanied by fireworks was what finally made me shed a tear!
Highlights for me were Yellow, God Put A Smile On Your Face, Talk, White Shadows, Don't Panic, In My Place
10 out of 10
Setlist:
Square One
Politik
Yellow
God Put A Smile On Your Face
Speed Of Sound
Talk
Warning Sign
Everything's Not Lost
White Shadows
The Scientist
Until Kingdom Come
Don't Panic
Clocks
Swallowed By The Sea
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What If
In My Place
Fix You
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