The Toronto Show Reviews - Let's Hear 'Em! [11 June 2003]

[cold_kitty]

wow guys. that was something else last night. i wish it had never ended. i really like the venue. it was so small, any seat was a good seat!

coldplay fans are definitely a different crowd for me. i'm use to crazy girls and parents escoting them (lol. oh boyband). when the show started and i went nuts, i realized i was the only one moving around at all. it was weird. i know coldplay really isn't a moving and shaking crowd, but i would have thought i would have seen more people at least bopping their heads. :?

two minutes before coldplay took the stage these two huge guys sat in the seats in front of me in my friend. we're not exactly the talest people so we were struggling to see. lol. then they started to smoke which really pissed me off. then the guy next to my friend started to smoke. he also kept moving over pushing into her. i was getting really angry because i couldn't concentrate on the show since my friend was not having fun. i went up to one of the security people and explained that my friend and i can't see and people around us are smoking. she was so nice. she moved us from row h 302 to row c 202! i was like "THANK YOU!!!"

so then i could finally enjoy the music. i loved it. every last note. it seemed to go by in minutes. amsterdam was definitely an unexpected surprise. that's my friends favourite song and we were both pretty sure that it wasn't going to be played, so you can imagine our eyes when it came on. my favourite was daylight. i love that song live. hell it was all good.

chris is adorable. i'm sure everyone who went enjoyed that lovely dancing he did! :D i kept hollaring for more will though. lol.

the past concerts i've been to have all had encours of one song. when coldplay had two encours of 5 songs in total. woah - that blew my mind.

fantastic. i'm so glad that i went. i took pictures, but my camera is shit, so we'll see what actually turned out.

can't wait to hear all the other reviews!

[cold_kitty]

encours? wtf am i drinking today? sorry, i meant encores! (like ya'll didn't know that.)

[sarah**]

Here will be my long detailed review because Laura requested long ones.

I got the Ontario Place with my friends at 5:00ish hoping that the park would be open but it was closed :( So we walked around and grabbed some food to eat. My two friends had lawn seats and I was sitting in 200s with Sean (he's from the other board). So I met up with Sean at 6:30 and we were just standing there talking in front of the gates when Tony Clement, our health minister walks by!

This man.
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/photos/clement_tony030508.jpg

We proceeded to go to our seats and I was pleasantly surprised with how close they were. This was a much better improvement than my 28th row seats at the ACC last Septemeber. I was 17th row after the general admission area.

We waited for a bit then Eisley came on, and I liked them. My other friends thought they were annoying but I really liked them.

Then Ron Sexsmith came on and I didn't like him at all. Lots of people in the audience were really excited for him. And the last song he performed was Gold in Them Hills and I was hoping so badly that Chris would come on stage. I was thinking Ron Sexsmith is from Toronto so Chris HAS to come on, and HE DID. That was really cool.

Then I noticed that Molly and Cindy from the other board were sitting a few rows ahead of us so we chatted with them for a bit. Then Sean took me to meet Grace and Mel from the other board as well. It was lots of message board people in one night.

And sometime in the evening I bought a poster and a shirt, and now I see the shirt is too big but I'll try and shrink it.

The people sitting around us weren't so bad, I've had worse experiences with loud drunk people being rude and annoying but for this show it was good.

Then at 9:30 the boys came on stage with Politik and I started to get teary then. I was thinking oh god if I'm about to cry now and it's just Politik what am I going to do later on? I was really overwhelmed, I was so happy so see them again, and so happy that I could see well, and so happy that the people around me were real fans and really into it and just a million other things.

The boys were really into the show and the crowd was amazing and so into it and singing along. Coldplay seems to really love it when the crowd responds really well to them.

Chris was amusing as always. He said something about how they didn't cancel the show because of SARS, which I'm so glad they didn't. And Ozzy Osbourne had a show in Toronto last night at another venue and Chris made some joke about how we all thought we were going to Ozzfest but we ended up at the wrong place and now we are stuck with Coldplay :lol: He was jumping around and doing his piano humping very well :D

One of the highlights was when they performed Moses. It was MUCH better than the mp3 that I have. They've changed some of the words and stuff and it was unbelievable. I hope somebody recorded the show that was in the audience for the songs that didn't air on the radio.'

Everything's Not Lost was another good moment because they got the audience to sing it and it was just magical.

They also performed Your World Turns Upside down which I had only heard a few times before the show so I wasn't so familiar with it but it was excellent.

When they came on with Yellow the crowd went wild. The lighting really adds to the show. Everyone in the audience was so happy and singing along and moving about.

Then The Scientist came on and I almost had a heart attack from trying to hold back my tears. This song doesn't usually make me so emotional but this evening it did. AND then he played one verse of What A Wonderful World. If I didn't have 15,000 people around me I would have been balling my eyes out.

Then they went off and came back for the first encore which was amazing because they played Amsterdam. Then they came on for a SECOND encore which I don't think they always do. He said that this is the last time they'll be playing in Canada for a few years so they'll play longer this evening.

After the first encore the boys were together hugging and that also brought tears to my eyes. I hope I'll be able to find a picture of that somewhere on the net.

Then they came on for the second encore doing a cover of Echo and The Bunnymen's Lips Like Sugar. To be honest I'm not so familiar with this song to begin with but it was very good. And then they did Life is For Living which made me SO happy because at some of the recent shows they haven't been playing it.

I'm very impressed if anyone's read all of this. I tried to call Vinita on her cell but it was off :(

Here's the setlist

1. Politik
2. GPASUYF
3. Rush of Blood To The Head
4. Daylight
5. Trouble
6. One I Love
7. Don't Panic
8. Moses
9. Everything's Not Lost
10. Your World Turns Upside Down
11. Yellow
12. The Scientist / What A Wonderful World
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13. Clocks
14. In My Place
15. Amsterdam
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16. Lips Like Sugar
17. Life Is For Living

[sarah**]

Tony Clement had good seats, he was in the centre section like 5th row 200s.

[sarah**]

The quality is NOT good on these but at least you can hear. Here are some clips of some songs.

http://members.rogers.com/sweety-230/105_0530.AVI
http://members.rogers.com/sweety-230/105_0528.AVI
http://members.rogers.com/sweety-230/105_0524.AVI
http://members.rogers.com/sweety-230/105_0525.AVI

I should have learned how to use my fucking digi cam before I went to get better pictures and stuff :sad: Oh well.

[Sweet One]

Nadine and Sarah!! THANK YOU for your reviews!! The are awesome!! And Sarah, I did read ALL of yours! hahahah..

Tony Clement was there?? that is soooo funny!! hahaha...anyways, thanks again peeps!! :D

[sarah**]

Clocks sounds bad because I think my finger was covering the mic on the camera :roll: And I really wasn't that far away as it seems just I didn't work the zoom well so it looks like I was much farther away than I really was :roll:

[sarah**]

Nadine and Sarah!! THANK YOU for your reviews!! The are awesome!! And Sarah, I did read ALL of yours! hahahah..

Tony Clement was there?? that is soooo funny!! hahaha...anyways, thanks again peeps!! :D

He was there to protect us all from getting SARS :lol:

[Manders]

i read all of it oh wow im sooo happy for you...man i wish i could meet some board members...thatd be nerve racking for me though anyhoo great review glad you had a blast!

[Manders]

where are the pics?

[poptart]

Hi!
I usually just read messages, I hardly ever post, but I just had to this time :D
I had 305 section seats, on the very far left but Coldplay wasn't too small from were we were, tho Guy was blocked by the speakers. It was my first concert (pretty sad considering I'm 19, I know), and I am just so happy it was Coldplay. I've only been a fan since last December, when I bought "Maybe THis Christmas" and I heard the amazing version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Chrstmas" so I decided to get their CDs and been hooked since. Then I saw a broadcast of Glastonbury, when the entire crowd sang Yellow and I've been wanting to go see them live ever since and lined up for hours to get tickets to last nites show.
Well, anyway, the show was just awesome tho I think I was the only one in our section the was bursting with excitement. I didn't think it was possible for me to like them even more, but after last nite, wow. I woke up this morning and started blasting their songs, I can't get enuf.
Every song was amazing, and I thought it was so cute when during Trouble, Chris's voice cracked, everyone was just like "awww." His um, "attempt" to dance was really cute too. I think it's hilarious when he goes crazy on the piano, lol. That comment about the Ozzy concert I thought was funny, cos I wanted to go to that one too (Finger Eleven was opening!!) And also when he changed the words around for Everything's Not Lost (I think...) about the whole SARS thing. I LOVED it when they played What A Wonderful World, I usu. don't like it when ppl mess around with that song, but Coldplay's amazing. It was so cool seeing all those ppl, everyone was there, even ppl that I would never have guessed would like Coldplay.
The highlight was A Rush of Blood to the Head (my fav song by them) and Yellow for me, it's probably the main reason I went to see them. I wanted to be there when the whole crowd sings Yellow all together and well, it was amazing. ANother thing I loved was when Chris came out to sing Gold in Them Hills with Ron Sexsmith in the beginning. I didn't want to leave, I don't think anybody wanted to anyway. I slept in the Coldplay shirt I bought, lol, I know I'm a loser. I'm definitely going again when they come back.

Anyway, sorry this was long. Nobody I know likes them as much as I do, so they weren't as excited as me about this whole thing. It's just that listening to COldplay makes me happy. I know how sappy that sounds but that's all I can think of.

Thanks for reading, lol.

Melissa
"Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice."
-Pvt. Webster, "Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose

[psychedelic_clocks]

HHHOOOOOLLLLLLLYYYYYY
it was SO DAMN GOOD!
AAHH! i cant believe that THAT was my FIRST CONCERT!
it was so amazing! I totally wish it never ended! I wish i couldve gotten an autograph or something! damn..i love my twwo shirts though...50 bucks spent well..

AMAZING!
TOTALLY RAD!
AWESOME!
I LOVE THEM EVEN MORE!

It was so unbelievable! aahhh! im so freaking out! i want to see them again!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhh
:o :shock: :o :shock: :o

[psychedelic_clocks]

i wish they'd play crest of waves or ladder to the sun! they're both good songs!!
wooow...man

[Sweet One]

Nadine and Sarah!! THANK YOU for your reviews!! The are awesome!! And Sarah, I did read ALL of yours! hahahah..

Tony Clement was there?? that is soooo funny!! hahaha...anyways, thanks again peeps!! :D

He was there to protect us all from getting SARS :lol:

LMAO!! I"m sure he was!! hahahaha...did he seem like he was enjoying the show?? :lol: :lol:

[sarah**]

I slept in the Coldplay shirt I bought, lol, I know I'm a loser.

So did I :o :D :lol:

[sarah**]

Nadine and Sarah!! THANK YOU for your reviews!! The are awesome!! And Sarah, I did read ALL of yours! hahahah..

Tony Clement was there?? that is soooo funny!! hahaha...anyways, thanks again peeps!! :D

He was there to protect us all from getting SARS :lol:

LMAO!! I"m sure he was!! hahahaha...did he seem like he was enjoying the show?? :lol: :lol:

I think so, he seemed a little excited I guess. He was by far the oldest person in the audience. I guess he has connections to get him good seats.

[Sweet One]

hahahaha..yeah, my cousin said that if you have any notoriety whatsoever, you've got a seat. And if you don't claim them on the day of the concert, it's released to the public. hahaha :lol:

[cold_kitty]

which shirts did you guys purchase? i bought the scientific one, with the squares that say play. it's big, and not exactly flattering on me so i'm getting it jazzed up tomorrow.

[Dania]

hi nadine glad u had fun so did guy look hot?

[cold_kitty]

oh soooooo hot! i was pondering kidnapping him for you......;)

[psychedelic_clocks]

I slept in the Coldplay shirt I bought, lol, I know I'm a loser.

So did I :o :D :lol:

I slept in my MAKE TRADE FAIR T-shirt!!!!! i wanted to sleep in my coldplay one..but i was gunna wear it the next day..TODAY!
aww man, i was flaunting my shirt around and telling people how great the concert was!



What was the song before the upside down song..two songs before they played yellow.

[poptart]

which shirts did you guys purchase?


i got the one with their faces on it, gray, had the north america 2003 tour dates on the back. i wanted to get the one with the arobtth cover on it, but i already spent $45, i had no more money left. i got the tour book tho, so great, i was hugging it all the way back home (how mature am i?). i put on the shirt rite after i bought it too...um, it didn't fit in my purse :D it's huge! but it's was so nice and soft and comfy :D

Melissa
"Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice."
-Pvt. Webster, "Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose

[psychedelic_clocks]

I spent 50 all together.. I wanted to buy everything there! but i didn't have a lot of money..it was suckass! i wanted to get a poster too, for my coldplay wall but i couldn't find any after the concert.. : P
i want more coldplay merch!

[sailormaxx]

Great reviews everyone! I read them all. :)
I'm glad you all had a good time. :D

[sarah**]

I should have bought the tourbook :x oh well. :shrug:

[Abstract]

Yeah, me too. That plus the MakeTradeFair t-shirt they were selling. I didn't even know they were selling them. Stooooopid.

I can't really add anything else to the conversation other than that Chris dances quite strange. His impersonation of someone climbing up a ladder is..............oh, I can't find the adjective to describe it. :D

[poptart]

they were selling make trade fair shirts? i didn't see them! damn, i've been wanting one for the longest time. i was thinking of printing out the stencils on their website, but i don't know any place where they could make custom shirts here.

just a quick question: before the last encore, the last break the guys took, was the crowd in the middle section stomping? cos i swear it felt like the ground was shaking....i may have been just really delusional at the time tho :shrug: ...

does anyone know if they'll be airing the concert broadcase again on edge?

and...i was reading this review on some website of a red rocks cp concert, it wasn't a favourable review, but i thought it was interesting when the guy wrote chris "flubbed the intro" to trouble and then in wed. nite's show chris' voice kinda cracked one time at the start of trouble. do you think chris is doing that on purpose?....ok, i think i really am going crazy.

sorry, that was 3 questions.

[psychedelic_clocks]

aww man..i got a mtf shirt! i loover it so much! i saw it at the stand when i walked in and bought it right away!
i printed one stencil and makes a patch instead of a t-shirt..so much easier! and its like nicest patch on my kickass massive zipper bag!

i want to hear it on EDGE102!!!! i want to listen to it so bad! then record it, so i can listen to it forever! damn, it was so such a good concert!

[sarah**]

they were selling make trade fair shirts? i didn't see them! damn, i've been wanting one for the longest time. i was thinking of printing out the stencils on their website, but i don't know any place where they could make custom shirts here.

just a quick question: before the last encore, the last break the guys took, was the crowd in the middle section stomping? cos i swear it felt like the ground was shaking....i may have been just really delusional at the time tho :shrug: ...

does anyone know if they'll be airing the concert broadcase again on edge?

and...i was reading this review on some website of a red rocks cp concert, it wasn't a favourable review, but i thought it was interesting when the guy wrote chris "flubbed the intro" to trouble and then in wed. nite's show chris' voice kinda cracked one time at the start of trouble. do you think chris is doing that on purpose?....ok, i think i really am going crazy.

sorry, that was 3 questions.

Yeah there were people jumping at the front, but I doubt it would be shaking the ground. The ground was shaking from how loud the music was playing.

I dunno if they are going to re-air the show. I know edge 102 wants to re-air it but I think they have to get permission from Coldplay's management and as of yesterday they didn't have the permission, but they have been playing songs from Toronto randomly throughout the day on edge. I'd recommend listening for an hour or two and I bet you'll hear at least one song from the concert. I think I've heard them play In My Place, Clocks, Lips Like Sugar and maybe one or two other songs between Thursday and Friday.

And I dunno about him flubbing the song on purpose.

And another note, reviewers are stupid. I don't usually trust what they say. EVERYONE that is a true fan and that was at the Toronto show said it was great, including myself, and I'd trust what they say over some reviewer.

[Dania]

oh soooooo hot! i was pondering kidnapping him for you......;)

aaaaaaah but u let me down I had a room prepared especially :cry:

anyways glad u had a good time maybe next time heh?

[poptart]

thanks for answering :D

[cold_kitty]

oh soooooo hot! i was pondering kidnapping him for you......;)

aaaaaaah but u let me down I had a room prepared especially :cry:

anyways glad u had a good time maybe next time heh?

maybe we should just devise a plan to capture and keep guy & will! with your looks and my able-to-cry-on-spot routine, we can't fail! lol.

[amanda_coldplay5]

my review

the concert was amazing!

i left to get to the molson ampitheatre at about 4:30. we arrived there and then spent 25 minutes looking for parking. damn $15 parking. so we found some $9 parking and then went into the lawn line. by that time it was about 5:35. while in line, the band came out on a balcony. someone further behind me started yelling out "GUY! GUY!". then the band waved to us and everyone started cheering. then at about 6:35 we got let in. i think i got the best lawn seats possible! no one (when coldplay were playing) was in front of us and they were very much in the center. when we were waiting for coldplay to come on there were just two girls in front of us. eisley came on about 7:40 and ended about 8. Then they had to set up for ron sexsmith for a little while. ron came on at about 8:30 or so (i think). when ron started to play gold in them hills chris came out and did the duet with him! before he started singing he went over to the mike and said "what did i do?". then around 9:30 or 9:45 (somewhere in there) after it was setup, coldplay came on! right when the music started everyone was on their feet! they opened with politik. the full setlist is:

politik
got put a smile upon your face
a rush of blood to the head
daylight
trouble
one i love
don't panic
moses
everything's not lost
your world turns upside down
yellow
the scientist and what a wonderful world

1st encore
in my place
clocks
amsterdam

2nd encore
life is for living
lips like suger
(or were they they other way around?)

it was soo amazing! best concert i've ever been to! the security wouldn't let us against the wire though. people needed to be able to walk through. he kept on telling us to stop going against it. right after the scientist i was going to yell out "sing it backwards!!" (not that he would be able to hear me). but then he went straight into what a wonderful world. the new songs moses and your world turns upside down were really good! i was so happy when they performed lips like suger. one i love was really good. did you see jonny during it? he was really into it. chris' dancing was really funny. he kept spinning. he also did a little kick.
the sound quality was really good. but did anyone hear a problem during part of the show? the music was so great! what a night that was. the lights were stunning! i loved them. the lights for clocks went over all of the crowd. they were really cool. i was singing along most of the time. so was everyone around me. in trouble... "and they spun a web i think i can turn this into a big singalong. we also had one during everything's not lost. i had a great time! :D

[Dania]

oh soooooo hot! i was pondering kidnapping him for you......;)

aaaaaaah but u let me down I had a room prepared especially :cry:

anyways glad u had a good time maybe next time heh?

maybe we should just devise a plan to capture and keep guy & will! with your looks and my able-to-cry-on-spot routine, we can't fail! lol.

NOW THERE IS A PLAN SO EVIL AND CUNNING IT MIGHT JUST WORK :D

so what wass ur fave song of the night then nadine?

[cold_kitty]

had to have been amsterdam that i like SCREAMED along too. which was in honour of you of course deary! lol. ;)

[Dania]

aaaaaw ur so sweet so thats why i had to go to the dentist its all ur fault stop bein sweet :x

[cold_kitty]

fine, BITCH! <----------- notice me not being sweet! lol.

[Dania]

ooooh ur evil u but i like
so u never told me wht guy was wearing on that day as u can see am so into the music of coldplay heheh.

have u seen them in concert when they toured thier first album?

[poptart]

i was actually surprised when they played "amsterdam" cos i've heard they don't play it often. i would have loved to have seen them when they toured parachutes...i'm dying to hear "shiver" live! but i didn't like them then :oops: but i was young and stupid, you can't blame me :D :lol:

[Dania]

yeah shiver live is supposed to be amazin I think u can downlaod am mp3 of it somewhere