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  1. It would be worth just for Charlie Brown The others are nice additions haha... Oh well it depends on how you want to live the show. Coldplay isn't Muse or Foo Fighters, they have a lot of songs with weird, "unjumpable" tempos which are boring when at the GA... I'd say that if you can't get a good good good spot at GA (e.g. first row at the Golden Circle to interact directly with them and have eye contact and that hardcorefan stuff), getting a decent seat is just as good
  2. They are cheesy as bloody hell, but I can't avoid surrendering to their beauty when they appear and just fill up the air between the band and you. Magic moment:

    Butterflies! por u2santos (LikeASong), en Flickr
  3. Sounds like a fair assessment. One logistical issue I saw was that the stage set up was such that you had to be very, very close to make GA worth it. And since their stage is nothing like the Claw, they don't have nearly as much space in that sweet spot. But getting good seats sounds like a viable plan if they come back to someplace nearby.
  4. How are the outdoor shows compared to the (short) indoor concerts at the end of last year?
  5. COLDPLAY ADMIT TOUR INTERACTIVE WRISTBANDS COST TOO MUCH MONEY


    Alternative rock outfit Coldplay may have been boasting about their innovative and 'interactive' new tour, but it seems the idea may have backfired slightly – as they've confessed that their crowd wristbands are costing too much money to make.

    The band have been touring their latest album 'Mylo Xyloto' since October last year, and have handed out colourful glowing wristbands to every member of the audience ever since. But, while the wristbands give the crowd and incredible pulsating glow of colour, they've also left a bit of a hole in Chris Martin and co.'s collective pocket.

    “Most of the money we're earning on the tour is put into the wristbands,” Chris admitted to The Sun. “We have to figure out how to keep it going without going broke because it's a crucial part of the concert.”

    He then went on to rule out the idea of trying to get the audience to give back their wristbands after the shows, saying: “You have to clean everything in case someone picks up herpes or TB. Our lawyers told us we'd get sued, and having been sued a few times we're not keen on that. It's a little self-indulgent but we love the way it looks when there are 15,000 or 40,000 or however many people with all those lights on them. The technology is still very experimental.”

    If you're a fan of Coldplay, you simply can't miss out on their huge UK stadium tour throughout the summer – where attendees will all get their own glowing wristband.


    http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/172840/9



  6. More or less the same duration. Madrid october show lasted 88 minutes, last sunday's lasted 97. Still TOO short.
  7. "Chris admitted to The Sun". I knew it would be a story from The Sun as soon as I read that headline! Wouldn't surprise me if it came out of one of the writer's arses.

    Even if it is true, I'm going to say that this Mylo Xyloto Tour is pretty much like U2's ZooTV Tour: very expensive and trying to make the audience interested in the whole stage set-up. ZooTV was almost backrupt — very close to it actually; Mylo Xyloto Tour might be in the same situation as ZooTV.

    They have got people/companies to sponsor the tour, correct?
  8. Yes, current wristbands have a big TWITTER sponsor sign all over them
  9. Originally posted by KieranU2:Even if it is true, I'm going to say that this Mylo Xyloto Tour is pretty much like U2's ZooTV Tour: very expensive and trying to make the audience interested in the whole stage set-up. ZooTV was almost backrupt — very close to it actually; Mylo Xyloto Tour might be in the same situation as ZooTV.


    I think if they want to keep the wristbands without going bankrupt, they need to trim elsewhere, ie. reduce the amount of fireworks/unnecessary visuals that the stage has! Admittedly, using the lasers less won't contribute to a massive saving, but I know using less fireworks will. Point being, Coldplay needs to decide what they want to keep. I think a lot of people would be disappointed if they stopped producing the wristbands in order to keep their tour from going bankrupt.

    I totally agree with the claim that the MX tour is very similar to the ZooTV tour, except for one major aspect. With the ZooTV tour, U2 needed that expensive stage. They needed to go way big on the theatrical because they weren't confident with themselves from a musical perspective (even though AB was one of their greatest albums, I'm sure they didn't know that they had just created a masterpiece when they were thinking up the ZooTV tour). Coldplay doesn't need to go big for this tour. They already know that they control the stage from a musical standpoint because they had all those festivals to prepare for the tour. They don't need the lasers and the fireworks and the flashing lights. In fact, if all they had were the wristbands and the video screens, they would be just fine.

    Anyhow, it would be interesting to see if these claims are true and if so, what Coldplay will decide to do.
  10. The wristbands are a MUCH bigger spending than the fireworks, lights and lasers combined. Keep in mind that, even if they have mass-produced -that means they have a very low cost per unit- the xylobands, it's still a "lost investment" (in the sense that everyone gets one and virtually nobody throws it back to the recycle point). Mreover, developing, producing and testing a wristband that glows when activaded by a very certain range of radiofrequencies can't be much cheaper than 2 bucks per unit. That means ~100.000 lost pounds/euro/whatever per night (with a conservative cost per unit of 2 bucks, it might be more). That's really bankrupt-worthy.
  11. Originally posted by LikeASong:The wristbands are a MUCH bigger spending than the fireworks, lights and lasers combined. Keep in mind that, even if they have mass-produced -that means they have a very low cost per unit- the xylobands, it's still a "lost investment" (in the sense that everyone gets one and virtually nobody throws it back to the recycle point). Mreover, developing, producing and testing a wristband that glows when activaded by a very certain range of radiofrequencies can't be much cheaper than 2 bucks per unit. That means ~100.000 lost pounds/euro/whatever per night (with a conservative cost per unit of 2 bucks, it might be more). That's really bankrupt-worthy.

    Wow this is the first time seeing those figures. I would definitely hate to see the wristbands go, since I honestly believe that the wristbands are what make this tour unique, but it looks like they may not have a choice if the numbers are that huge...

    But I think the main question is how far in the red are the shows taking them. Even if the wristbands are the main source of costs, perhaps cutting out the fireworks and other stuff would be just enough to break even.

    I wonder if moving to stadiums will put the numbers in their favor. Even though they'll need more wristbands, they'll definitely be able to sell out a stadium, meaning more revenue from ticket sales to offset the costs of the wristbands.
  12. While I think renting stadiums is cheaper (per attendant) than renting arenas, I think their main problem has come when they've realized they're going to have around 2 fucking MILLION wristbands made for the rest of the tour.

    That being said, I have no idea of what the gross of each concert can be. For example, a standard U2 concert with an average ticket price of 105$ and 65.000 attendants -Cardiff 2009- had a pure ticket gross of 7 million dollars, from which you have to take our the venue renting costs -easily 1'5 million-, the stage build/dismantle costs, the proper stage costs like screen and electricity, fireworks in the case of Coldplay, catering, etc... Total gross can be below 2 million (just GUESSING here)? Then I can see that 100-200.000 of loss is not that affordable, and althought it wouldn't put them in red numbers, it's still a huge percentage of their total benefits.
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