1. I actually love his hyperactivity and the little funny speeches he usually makes, short, but connecting. Tho sometimes the hyperactivity makes me a bit worried for Gwyneth Paltrow's health...but that's another issue.
  2. And BTW, for the Coldplay//U2 crowd (don't hate me yeah! ), here's something from an interview with Martin:

    Originally posted by Telegraph.co.uk
    Coldplay's X&Y was the biggest-selling album of 2005, selling 10 million. But the fallout almost destroyed the band.

    "U2 once said they were reapplying for the job as the best band in the world: on Viva la Vida we feel like we're just reapplying to be a band again. After the last album we weren't really talking to each other, we were falling apart...."



    Originally posted by Telegraph.co.uk
    "We felt Brian was the man to reconnect us. Just listen to the production he has done for Bowie, Talking Heads or U2. I always view our albums in terms of U2 albums. Viva la Vida is our Unforgettable Fire in that it's less straightforward, more oblique. It's about sex and death and love and fear and travel and illness. There's light and there's dark."
  3. Originally posted by Ali709:And BTW, for the Coldplay//U2 crowd (don't hate me yeah! ), here's something from an interview with Martin:

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    Don't worry. I never denied, that you find a good part of U2 in Coldplay.

  4. Alright then

    Any views on the Viva La Vida videos?

    The weird one:


    and the one by Corbijn:


  5. Originally posted by Chris"U2 once said they were reapplying for the job as the best band in the world: on Viva la Vida we feel like we're just reapplying to be a band again. After the last album we weren't really talking to each other, we were falling apart...."


    Of course, that album had the song "Talk" on it....oh, the irony.
  6. Setlist Oslo

    Life In Technicolor
    Violet Hill
    Clocks
    In My Place
    Speed Of Sound
    Cemeteries Of London
    Chinese Sleep Chant
    42
    Fix You
    Strawberry Swing
    God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)
    Talk (partial - techno version)
    The Hardest Part (piano - Chris)
    Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
    Viva La Vida
    Lost!
    The Scientist (acoustic)
    Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing)
    Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
    ------
    Politik
    Lovers In Japan
    Death And All His Friends
    -------
    Hunting High and Low (Chris singing with Magne Furuholmen from 'Aha' playing piano)
    Yellow
    The Escapist
  7. Originally posted by yeah:Setlist Oslo

    Life In Technicolor
    Violet Hill
    Clocks
    In My Place
    Speed Of Sound
    Cemeteries Of London
    Chinese Sleep Chant
    42
    Fix You
    Strawberry Swing
    God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (techno version)
    Talk (partial - techno version)
    The Hardest Part (piano - Chris)
    Postcards From Far Away (piano instrumental)
    Viva La Vida
    Lost!
    The Scientist (acoustic)
    Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic - Will singing)
    Viva La Vida (remix interlude)
    ------
    Politik
    Lovers In Japan
    Death And All His Friends
    -------
    Hunting High and Low (Chris singing with Magne Furuholmen from 'Aha' playing piano)
    Yellow
    The Escapist


    they didn't play Reign of Love? thats odd...


  8. It's not like that one would be a live stable as far as I know...


  9. it seems to have been dropped entirely...