27-Jul-08: Pemberton - Tickets, Preview, Meetups, Review/Photos

[busybeeburns]

Welcome to the thread for the above show which can be used for all discussion prior to, during and after the show.

One thread one show - should hopefully keep everyone organised and up-to-date with Coldplay on the road.

Did you get tickets?
Are you looking for tickets?
Are you looking for ticket swaps?
Need help/directions on getting to the show?
Not sure what the arrangements and rules are for the particular venue is?
Are you just bloody excited?
Do you have a review for the show?
Did you take any pictures... share them here!


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Setlist/Reviews (http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/27_July_2008:_Pemberton_Festival%2C_Pemberton%2C_B .C.%2C_Canada)

Photos (http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1512)


Videos

Life In Technicolor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toYyUenJAaI


Violet Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDfh_0JYjs&feature=related


Clocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nL3tDm2IW4&feature=related


In My Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJiBejloZBo


Viva La Vida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg5s-Dqb3xY&feature=related


Fix You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAdNh_IYu4


Yellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI6kGzOZFE&feature=related


Lost!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdgEZ-ehE04


Lost!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDWTPCPb80&feature=related


The Scientist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRuSkcbd8Y


Death Will Never Conquer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MyfEzmjx0&feature=related


Politik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gZ5HlXuEu8&feature=related


Politik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQXwpqtmyU


Death And All His Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZNubvTBcA&feature=related






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[Kaycee]

I'm the first one here!!??? Looking forward to the festival!!

I've got my VIP tickets for me and my daughter, we're going to take our motorhome from Edmonton and have our reservations at a campground near Whistler.

YAYYY

I also got a ticket to see Joseph Arthur in Vancouver on July 24 - another one of my favorite artists, and he's going to be there when I'm there!!!

[englishrose]

I'm going.
It still hasn't sunk in properly yet.
It'll be my first mainstream festival, and who better to headline it? :D
The only thing is, I'm going with my mum (nobody else wanted to spend $350 :thinking: ) and I don't think she'll be too keen on waiting for around five hours in front of the stage just so I can get remotely near the front... :S

[Shaftell]

I'm just going to bump this up seeing as it's next Sunday.

Anyone else going? Can't wait! :D

[mc_squared]

I'm just going to bump this up seeing as it's next Sunday.

Anyone else going? Can't wait! :D

Didn't you say you weren't going to this because it's a festival??:confused:

[Shaftell]

No, I said I'm not looking forward to it because it's a festival.

Coldplay is going.. you think I'm not going to go? They won't be around here for a while!

[mc_squared]

No, I said I'm not looking forward to it because it's a festival.

Coldplay is going.. you think I'm not going to go? They won't be around here for a while!

So you're still not looking forward to it, then??:confused:

Who are you going with?

[Shaftell]

Well, I don't like Festivals. Too many weird people.
Oh well... :P

[mc_squared]

Well, I don't like Festivals. Too many weird people.
Oh well... :P

You included??:P

[Shaftell]

Haha, yes! :P

I can't wait.... 7 more days :cool:

[mc_squared]

Haha, yes! :P

I can't wait.... 7 more days :cool:

Are you going to camp out??:rolleyes:

[Shaftell]

Well the plan was to go just for Coldplay but then another band we like is there as well so yeah...

[mc_squared]

Well the plan was to go just for Coldplay but then another band we like is there as well so yeah...

Which band is that?

So you have a tent?

[Shaftell]

Sam Roberts.

And no. We made reservations at a place in Whistler.

[englishrose]

I love Sam Roberts too.
GAH I'M SO EXCITED! :dance:

[mc_squared]

I love Sam Roberts too.
GAH I'M SO EXCITED! :dance:

Why don't you guys all have a meet up and have a photo taken together for the board??:rolleyes:

[englishrose]

Why don't you guys all have a meet up and have a photo taken together for the board??:rolleyes:

Heh. At a festival with God knows how many thousands of people--we will definitely find eachother. ;)

[mc_squared]

Heh. At a festival with God knows how many thousands of people--we will definitely find eachother. ;)

Do you have mobile phones in Canada??:P

[EnglishSilk]

I so wish I was going to this! **slaps self** if only I`d have stayed in Portland...I`d a been there:cry::cry::cry::veryangry:

[EnglishSilk]

Do you have mobile phones in Canada??:P




Lol:laugh3:

[mc_squared]

I so wish I was going to this! **slaps self** if only I`d have stayed in Portland...I`d a been there:cry::cry::cry::veryangry:

I'm confused. Are you going or not??:confused:

[englishrose]

Do you have mobile phones in Canada??:P

No, we use snowballs to get eachother's attention. ;)

[Shaftell]

:lol:

Woooo, 7 more days!

I can't wait to see Sam Roberts live! Their new album was pretty awesome :cool:

[mc_squared]

:lol:

Woooo, 7 more days!

I can't wait to see Sam Roberts live! Their new album was pretty awesome :cool:

How can Sam Roberts be a band??:confused:

[Shaftell]

Because it is a band?

It's actually called Sam Roberts Band or something like that but no one calls them that.

[englishrose]

Isn't he technically a solo artist, but live they're the Sam Roberts Band? That's what I always thought anyways...

[Shaftell]

I don't think so.

I'm pretty sure they're a band. He might have been a solo artist but ever since Chemical City was released, they've been a band.

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

is this thing sold out

[englishrose]

Nope, there are still tickets left on their website. Family Camping is sold out, however, so if you're under 19 and wanting to camp on-site you'll have to check Craigslist or eBay.

[busybeeburns]

How a village in B.C. came to host one of the summer's hottest music festivals

VANCOUVER -- When a band as big as Coldplay decides it wants to produce and headline a European-style music festival in North America, you find a place to put it. The person charged with that responsibility, on a tight, one-year deadline, was Shane Bourbonnais, president of touring and business development for concert promoter Live Nation Canada.

Bourbonnais chose Pemberton, B.C.

Pemberton, for those who haven't had the pleasure, is a village with about 2,200 full-time residents in the Coast Mountains about 30 minutes up Highway 99 from Whistler in the Lillooet River valley. It's a take-your-breath-away kind of place: lush, green and spectacular. In the winter, it's a popular accommodations alternative to Whistler.

But the agricultural community is not on anyone's list of concert sites - it wasn't even on Bourbonnais's list at first, even though he has a vacation home there.

But this week, some 40,000 people are expected to descend on the valley for the first-ever Pemberton Festival, a three-day event that begins on Friday with acts such as Jay-Z, Nine Inch Nails, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Tragically Hip and, of course, Coldplay.

The conversion of the village to small city is just about complete.

Tents are up, sound and lighting equipment for the bands is being set up, and heavy-duty landscape cloth has been placed on top of the native soil to protect the fertile farmland.

Putting on a festival of this size in a remote village 150 kilometres north of Vancouver is "10 times the amount of work" as it would be in an urban setting, Bourbonnais says. "It's a huge challenge, but I've assembled what I think is the best team I've ever had in my entire career working on an event."

The festival is being produced by a partnership between Coldplay, the band's management company Good Boy Productions (a joint venture between Coldplay manager Dave Holmes and Depeche Mode manager Jonathan Kessler) and Live Nation.

Bourbonnais was approached last summer by Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and asked to find a suitable spot to stage the festival: It needed a place that could accommodate a couple of stages, tens of thousands of fans and, in the European festival style, thousands of campsites.

Bourbonnais' first thought was that an event that large would have to be in Southern Ontario, due to the population base. He checked sites in Wasaga Beach, Muskoka and Kitchener-Waterloo. He also looked at spots in the Maritimes and Alberta, but nothing seemed exactly right.

He returned home discouraged from his scouting missions. To shake off the frustration during one of his trips back to Pemberton - by this time it was already September - he and his wife went hiking. As they gained elevation on a mountain trail, Bourbonnais looked across the valley toward majestic Mount Currie and then down to the farm fields below.

"The light went on at that point," he said during a recent interview from the festival office. The site he had been searching the country for was in his own backyard. Coldplay's managers came to town, rented a helicopter, flew over Bourbonnais' chosen hayfield and approved the spot.

In town, the festival has been the buzz almost ever since. "This is putting us on the map," says Sandy Ryan, vice-president of the Pemberton & District Chamber of Commerce, and one of the first locals to hear of Bourbonnais's big vision for the little village. Ryan's initial reaction was "wow." His next thought was the event needed the support of the community.

Live Nation and the chamber met with landowners and groups such as the Rotary and Lions clubs. Locals gathered in October for a meeting at the Royal Canadian Legion where Bourbonnais laid out the plan, took questions and asked for a show of hands. "Everybody threw up their hands and gave a big cheer," remembers Ryan.

To win support, organizers had to address various concerns. There had to be a ban on bringing root vegetables into the area, for example, because Pemberton is a seed potato control zone, one of the few virus-free areas in North America. It helped that Bourbonnais was not some outsider wanting to trample local farm fields for a quick buck. "It was good because I was a local," he said, "and I could pick up the phone and call [my neighbours] rather than being some guy from L.A. or Toronto."

"Obviously we all have our concerns, [but] in the feedback that we've received, I would describe it as cautiously supportive," Jordan Sturdy, Pemberton's mayor and a local farmer. In December, Pemberton council voted unanimously to support the event on a one-year basis. "We thought, 'Let's take a leap of faith here and see how it goes,' " says Sturdy.

The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District board also voted to support the festival.

Numerous agencies were brought in for consultation - including the province's Ministry of Transportation, the RCMP and Vancouver Coastal Health. All that was needed was approval from the Agricultural Land Commission, because the land in question is part of the Agricultural Land Reserve.

The commission, after expressing its dismay that substantial planning for the event had gone on without its involvement, finally granted approval for the festival - for one year only - on March 12. Two days later, Live Nation made the official announcement.

Throughout this time, Bourbonnais was putting together a killer lineup to draw 40,000 people to an out-of-the-way spot. Having Coldplay involved was definitely a help in drawing other acts, he says.

Local enthusiasm has been buoyed by the expected economic impact. While it's difficult to estimate, the region's economic development consultant Alexandra Ross figures festival-related spending will be "a few hundred thousand dollars" in the village alone.

And for the regional district as a whole, Ryan predicts the impact will be in the millions. He figures if 40,000 people each spend $150 (on top of the cost of tickets) from the time they enter and leave the district, that's $6-million. "I think that's conservative," he says.

Many locals will be working for or volunteering at the festival (look for Mayor Sturdy selling his berries and carrots at the farmers' market). Others will be employed in festival-related work in town. Hotels in Pemberton sold out "virtually immediately" following the festival's announcement, according to Sturdy, and Whistler hotels are busy this weekend as well. "For a change, Whistler is our bedroom community," Ross says.

Most of the artists will stay in Whistler and be driven or flown by helicopter to Pemberton. The Pemberton airport will be used as a parking lot.

Bourbonnais predicts the event will be sold out by the time the gates open later this week. Live Nation and the other producers hope the event goes well enough to convince the community and politicians to allow it to return.

That is not a certainty. The Agricultural Land Commission has already expressed "very serious concerns" that the long-term use of the site as a concert venue will debilitate the land. "This is simply not the place to hold such an event," the commission warned in its March decision. It only allowed this show because so much work had already gone into it.

For the producers, there is a lot at stake. The money they've spent on traffic studies, blueprints and other start-up costs will be easier to swallow if it's amortized over the long term.

"We'd love to see this festival become like the ones in Europe that last in a community for many, many years and be a really great economic driver and a highlight of the community's year," Bourbonnais says, adding: "There's nothing better than having incredible music in a beautiful setting."

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[Malcolm-Edge]

Im stoked for this. I only got a ticket for Sunday. It was free so why complain? Im from Vancouver so it works great.

Gonna head up Sunday morning and work my way to the main stage and camp all day. Im looking Forward to the Death Cab, Jay-Z Coldplay 1-2-3 knockout. I the only one hoping Chris jumps on stage with jay to preform Beach Chair?

I hope this lives up to the hype. Wish I could go Saturday... ahh well Im going for coldplay anyways.

See you all there.

[englishrose]

Wow, lucky you for getting a free ticket...I'm spending way too much money on this :stunned:

I'm sure it'll be worth every penny, though.

[Malcolm-Edge]

Yeah Thank god for my connections. Gonna be a long day though with working graveyards and coldplay not hitting stage till 9:30 (so in concert speak like 10-10:15ish) I wont get home till like 2-3 we figure and i work at 8:30 that day.

The sacrifices we make for the best band in the world.

[Jenjie]

What the music festival of the summer means for the Village of Pemberton

By Claire Piech

The quiet before the storm

In 15 days, 4 hours, 13 minutes and 25 seconds, 40,000 concertgoers will descend upon the small village of Pemberton to party their brains out over three days and nights. But you would never guess that talking to Live Nation organizer Shane Bourbonnais.

The Calgary-born, California-raised head honcho of operations looks startlingly calm on this sunny July afternoon as he strolls through his air-conditioned office in Pemberton’s industrial park. He speaks honestly about the concert preparation, detailing ticket sales and stage construction in an enthusiastic but mellow voice. His acute cool emulates throughout the building: fashionably dressed employees work serenely at their computers or talk to each other in an ever-so-civil manner.

And this relaxed atmosphere is just how Bourbonnais likes it.

“In this business, if you are two weeks away from an event and things are chaotic, you know you are in trouble. Here,” he says waving his hand around the office, “things are under control. We are in great shape for the festival.”

Assuring words from the man who holds the fate of Pemberton in his hands.


Like the towns of Glastonbury in the United Kingdom, Coachella in California and Bonnaroo in Tennessee before it, the tiny village of Pemberton is heading for a major change this summer with the arrival of the highly anticipated Pemberton Music Festival.

Up until now, Pemberton’s economy has been based almost solely on farming and tourism. This is a village where almost no one locks their doors at night. This is a village where the Pemberton Barn Dance – complete with cowboy hats and plastic cups of beer – used to be the summer’s biggest event. And this is a village where the parking lots still have hitching posts.

As the anticipated arrival of Coldplay, Jay-Z et al. draws closer and Pemby prepares to cross that heavyweight line from farming community to notorious multi-day festival host, residents are preparing for the big shift. In the lull before the storm, families are buying locally-discounted festival tickets, attending town hall meetings on traffic flow and porta-potties, and stockpiling their cupboards with enough groceries to get them through the week.

And as everyone holds their breath and prepares to take the leap of faith between July 25 to 28, one big, fat question hangs in the air: What becomes of small villages that play host to large festivals?

Suddenly, Bourbonnais’s cool, calm, collected attitude seems like a priceless commodity.


But first, a one-minute history of Pemberton

Big festival celebrity was not always in the cards for Pemberton. Until recently, this was not a place you would expect to see rock stars. The village’s humble roots began somewhere in the 1880s when a group of European settlers, tired of chasing gold, realized the soil at Port Pemberton (as it was then called, despite the lack of a port) was great for farming. They named their new home after Joseph Despard Pemberton, a surveyor-general for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Thus was spawned “Spud Valley”.

Of course, long before the Europeans stumbled upon Pemberton, spread out beneath the 8,300-foot splendour of Mount Currie, the Lil’wat First Nations roamed the area. They fished, hunted, and lived harmoniously with the land. Today, band members of the Lil’wat First Nation still live in the Pemberton Valley, on the Mount Currie reserve.

In 1914, more European settlers poured into town when the first passenger train rolled into Pemberton and connected the valley with the rest of the world. Agriculture and forestry became the town’s economic driving forces, and Pemberton became renowned for its seed potatoes. In 1967, the village became the first commercial seed potato area of the world to grow virus-free seed potatoes, and today Pemberton potatoes are shipped throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California.

A major economic shift for the village occurred in 1975 when a highway was finally built between Whistler and Pemberton. Easier access to and from the village brought in workers from Whistler’s bourgeoning tourism industry, and local farmers began growing a larger variety of crops. In the wake of these innovations, another wave of migration came, highlighted in 2005 when Pemberton was proclaimed the fastest growing community in all of British Columbia. Yet despite this rapid growth, nobody imagined what was to come in the summer of 2008.

Enter the Pemberton Music Festival.


The big show

The first public murmurs of the festival began in the fall of 2007, when a rumour spread that Live Nation Canada organizer and Pemberton local Bourbonnais was thinking about throwing a Coldplay concert in the village that summer. In November, Bourbonnais confirmed he was looking into a large scale event but nothing was set in stone. Over the next few months, gossip continued to gain steam as Bourbonnais and his crew worked through logistical hurdles.

Then, on the fateful day of March 13, 2008, inside information was leaked to Billboard.com that the Pemberton Music Festival was happening. Billboard immediately posted the festival's preliminary line-up on their website. Among the musicians listed were Jay-Z, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Tragically Hip, Nine Inch Nails and Death Cab for Cutie.

Later that same day, Bourbonnais officially announced the festival at Big Sky Golf and Country Club in Pemberton.

“After the announcement was made, that same day I got calls from media across the country,” recalls Jordan Sturdy, the mayor of Pemberton. “That, I think, was my first inkling of really the scale we were going into.”

News of the festival spread instantly. Even before ticket prices were announced, dozens of Facebook groups dedicated to the event sprung up in heightened anticipation as people across North America scrambled to organize trips to Pemberton. Phones throughout the Sea to Sky corridor were ringing off the hook, and less than four weeks after the festival was first officially announced every hotel room in Pemberton was booked out for the July weekend.

“Where we haven’t gotten calls from? That would be a shorter list,” laughs David MacKenzie, general manager of the Pemberton Valley Lodge. “We’ve gotten everything, from entertainment media, to celebrities, agents of celebrities. It has been overwhelming, but it is nice to see how the word about the festival has gotten out there, far and wide.”

And it is not just Pemberton hotels that are selling out, adds MacKenzie, who also operates hotels further south in the Sea to Sky Corridor, both at Whistler and Squamish.

“Now, I am seeing the volume of our Squamish reservation grow," he observes. "It is a trickle down effect."

Tickets, priced around $259.50, went on sale soon after the festival was announced and were scooped up quickly by buyers from British Columbia, Alberta, the rest of Canada, the United States, Australia, England, mainland Europe, and even Asia. Roughly half of the tickets sold went to people outside British Columbia. Two thousand of those were sold outside North America.

As the hype for the Pemberton Music Festival grew, people everywhere suddenly knew where the tiny village of 2,283 was located. Pembertonians, used to having to always explain to outsiders that their village was 30 kilometres north of Whistler, now couldn’t get the word “Pemberton” out of their mouth before someone would immediately reference the festival. And residents were even hearing a new question asked: “Whistler? Is that near Pemberton?”

“I think we’ve got to appreciate that Coldplay is the third most popular band in the world, and they have just put a new album out,” concedes Paul Selina, president of the Pemberton Chamber of Commerce. “Even in Europe, people are hearing about Pemberton. The concert is definitely putting us on the map, without any shadow of a doubt.”

These effects are already being felt strongly in Spud Valley. While tourism numbers are down for most of British Columbia, visits to Pemberton are up. And the concert has not even happened yet.

“I think it is going to affect positively every business in Pemberton, because everyone is connected to the local economy in one way or the other," speculates Selina. "Farmers are growing produce for it, the vendors are going to sell the produce, the restaurants are adapting their menus to be able to sell fast and hard, and the B&Bs and hotels have been fully booked for ages."


Forget potatoes. Let’s make money off of rock stars

As “go time” for the festival approaches, Pemberton businesses are temporarily switching from farming and tourism to concertonomics. Take the example of Victor Lee. Three weeks before the festival, the owner of AG Foods — one of the only grocery stores in town — can be found sitting down at his desk, carefully combing through the list of extra merchandise he has ordered for the upcoming event. Lee is purchasing more than twenty times his usual supply of water, ice, pop, snacks, juice, milk, coffee, and tea to make sure his shelves are properly stocked when people drive into town for the festival.

“I mean, there are about 50,000 people coming to town,” exclaims Lee, referring not only to the number of concert goers, but also to the number of workers, volunteers, security personnel, roadies, entourages, and more that come with a festival like this.

“Fifty thousand people! Now think about how many drinks one person would consume per day at the end of July? Let’s say the number is four drinks per 24 hours, I bet it is more, but let’s just use that number. So we are talking about 200,000 drinks a day. And then multiply that number by three and a half per day, and that is 700,000 drinks!”

And that is just the number of drinks, he says. That does not even cover the amount of food people will needed to eat during the festival.

Of course, the type of planning needed to be properly equipped for an event of this size is not instantly intuitive to a storeowner used to dealing with a customer base of less than 5,000. To figure out proper numbers, Lee put a call into his buddies in Merritt, British Columbia as soon as the festival was announced to get the lowdown on how they prepare for the Merritt Mountain Music Festival each year.

“I asked them, ‘Okay, what can I expect to happen, how much did their business increase, and what kind of product did they sell’. And these are things they have been telling me, to stock up on water, ice. Of course, they have much, much bigger stores, so I have to take that into account,” he explains.

Because Lee is ordering so much extra stock, he has transformed his own backyard — which incidentally is also near festival grounds — into a temporary warehouse of trailers.

The other major complication he has run up against in his preparations is staffing. Since the population of Pemberton is so small, having to instantly increase his workforce proved to be problematic. To get more workers, Lee has enlisted students and part time employees.

Despite these snags, Lee says he does not mind that the Pemby Fest is being held in his hometown. “I love it,” he beams.

Other businesses in Pemberton are also modifying their business plan specifically for the three days of the Pemberton Festival. Like Lee, they are stocking up on supplies and trying to speculate on how many customers will come through their doors during the fateful weekend. Almost all plan to extend their hours of operation till at least 10 p.m., if not 2 a.m. (an extremely late hour for a village of this size). And restaurants and cafes are designing special scaled-down menus to make sure their turnaround time will be short enough to meet the demands of such a large crowd.

“Nobody really knows what to expect,” says Alex Ross, economic development consultant for Area C and the Village of Pemberton. “This year I see as an educational year… Some people around here, they have never experienced a concert of this magnitude.

“Next year, though, they will have a better idea of what they can offer and what people are interested in."

Ross notes despite this lack of experience, most businesses she has talked with are welcoming the festival with open arms, and almost all comments she has heard have been positive.

Selina adds, “I think for three or four days of the year, the dynamics of Pemberton will change without any shadow of a doubt. But longer term, the town will return back to normal really quite quickly.

“It is like someone coming into Pemberton and spending millions of dollars with Pemberton businesses and then going away. It is the best tourist you could ever have.”


The other Pemberton Music Festival

Though most people seem to have forgotten, this is not the first time a music festival has taken place in the Pemberton Valley. From 1984 to 1989, a series of concerts took place on the Mount Currie reservation called the Stein Valley Voices for Wilderness Festival. The festival started out small, with only 500 attendees in its first year, but grew to a respectable 16,000 by its end.

The Stein Valley festival was thrown to protest logging in the Stein Valley, one of the last untouched watersheds in the southern Coast Mountains of B.C. The protest worked. In 1988, a moratorium was placed on logging in the Stein, and in 1995 the area was declared the Nlaka'pamux Heritage Park, jointly administered by the Lytton First Nations and B.C. Parks.

At its height, the festival hosted several well known musicians including Blue Rodeo, Bruce Cockburn, Spirit of the West and Valdy. David Suzuki also attended as a guest speaker.

“The setting was perfect,” wrote Casey Clemens in an issue of UBC’s campus newspaper, The Ubyssey, “a valley tinged by majestic, protective mountains, marred on one hillside by the ugly gashes of clear cutting to remind us what we were fighting for.”

Most of the Stein Valley Fest's attendees, for whatever reason, did not hail from Pemberton. When asked about the festival, most Pembertonians say they do not even remember it clearly. George Henry from the Pemberton Museum speculates this is partly because the village of Pemberton has seen so much growth over the last 20 years.

And while Henry admits that he also did not attend, he does remember that cars were parked for a couple kilometres around the Rodeo Grounds, where the festival was held, and that there were lots of drunk and disorderly people.

“Let's face it, when you get 10,000 people coming into a town of only 400 or 500 people, you always have a spin-off effect,” he remarks. “Lots of people came into town to buy gas and beer, even though no alcohol was allowed. People bought it anyway.”

Henry’s relative Arne Siego, an environmentalist from Kelowna, did go to the concert one year. Siego says the heart of the concert really was focused on the protest. “It was a good very food feeling,” he says. “People were very positive about the situation but very angry at the government for allowing people to log it.”

Because the Stein Valley Festival, unlike the Pemberton Fest, was focused around a cause, most stakeholders in this summer's festival say that few comparisons can be drawn, and Bourbonnais says he did not model the Pemberton Festival at all after the Stein Valley Fest. In fact, he has found almost no records of it taking place.


Small towns with big festivals

As businesses in Pemby get ready to cash in on the upcoming fest, the Chamber has also been busy behind the scenes checking how other large music festivals have impacted towns with small populations. The number one case study: The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.

“There is no other festival in North America that is like the Pemberton Festival that has come to a small town,” says Selina. “Most of the festivals in North America are near larger towns or cities. But the one festival was can draw the most similarities too is Glastonbury in the UK.

“What is interesting for the community of Glastonbury, England is that the festival is their economic driver for the whole year. They are a small town, and everything is about the festival.”

Adds Ross, “They build everything around that event. Year-round, it is all around that event. I can see doing something similar with Pemberton.”

The Glastonbury Festival takes place on a dairy farm in the southwest of England, between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle and six miles east of the town ofGlastonbury. It was started in 1970, the same year that Jimi Hendrix died. At that time, 15,000 people attended. Today, Glastonbury is considered one of the largest music and performing arts festivals in the world and attracts a crowd of over 100,000 every year.

Since the Pemberton festival was first announced, the Chamber has been in frequent communication with Glastonbury's Chamber of Commerce to find out what their experience has been. Selina even flew out to the United Kingdom to meet with them during the first few weeks of July.

Another music festival the Chamber is scoping out is the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Both Sandy Ryan from the Chamber and Bourbonnais attended this year's festival.

“I went out there this summer, and everyone I talked to was remarking on what a big event it is, and what a positive impact it has had on the town,” confides Bourbonnais.

“Actually,” he adds, “Since we announced this festival, a lot of towns have called us and asked, 'How can we get one?' We've gotten calls from B.C. towns, American towns, some pretty significant places. Everyone wants to know, 'How do we get one of these?'”

The Coachella Fest began in 1999 as a two-day event and was attended by 25,000 people. The festival took off in 2002 and now attracts about 165,000 people each year to the city of Coachella, located in the southeast of California. Like Pemberton, Coachella is a rural, agriculture community. Unlike Pemberton, however, the city has more than 38,000 residents.

Ross thinks because so many aspects of Pemberton's festival unique, Pemberton will have to learn its own lessons on hosting a mega multi-day music festival.

“Nobody has ever had, for example, the vision to provide as much local stuff as possible... Live Nation really did go the extra mile to use as much local stuff as possible and keep it as green as possible. It is absolutely tremendous what they have done. They are jumping through hoops to make this happen and to really set an example of how things can happen.”

Whatever the lessons will be, one thing organizers have been very clear about is that Pemby Fest will not be like the Merritt Mountain Music Festival which has gained a sometimes negative reputation for the large amount of alcohol its concertgoers consume.

“There is no comparison to Merritt. Merritt has a lot of negative experience attached to their concert, but that is also because it is organized differently. This is really professional, through and through,” testifies Ross. “I mean, there is an additional hospital on site and things like that.”

Mayor Sturdy adds, “We expressed our concern about Merritt, and we want to ensure that is not what we are going.”


My community

Perhaps one of the reasons Pemberton stands so alone on the landscape of big music festivals is because its lead organizer also happens to also be a local. Bourbonnais has been living in Pemberton part time since 2003 and full time since 2005.

When Bourbonnais was originally charged by Live Nation to find a new venue for a huge music festival, he looked at places like Toronto before finally realizing that the ideal location was in his own backyard.

His close relationship to the village is apparent in Bourbonnais’ planning, and perhaps one of the reasons that the residents of Pemberton are mostly positive about the whole affair.

“Live Nation are just so open for input from the community,” says Ross. “They are asking questions and connecting with the community and really making them comfortable with what is going to happen.”

Since the Pemberton festival was first announced in the spring, Live Nation and the local government have held several town hall meetings to go over logistical details with the Pemberton public, as well as to listen to concerns. Topics covered at the meetings have ranged from what happens if a bear walks onto the festival grounds, to RCMP vigilance, to traffic flow, and to how properties surrounding the festival grounds will be protected from vandalism.

Live Nation, a North American company, has also made presentations to local volunteer organizations like the Lions, the Legion and the Rotary. A link has been put on the Village of Pemberton's website to generate more feedback before, during and after the event. And a debriefing town hall meeting has already been scheduled after things wrap up to go over what went right and what went wrong.

Following advice from the Chamber, Live Nation have also started a community fund to benefit local non-profit organizations. Three dollars from every Pemberton Fest ticket sold has been added to the pot of money, which now totals over $100,000.

Organizers have also been adamant that the produce sold on concert grounds during the festival days be locally grown, and a farmers market has been organized on the site as well as a mini pharmacy.

“The festival wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the community embracing it,” says Selina. “That is both Pemberton and Mount Currie, and the politicians. It really has been a community success story of what we can do when we all get together.

“Live Nation are working very close with the Chamber in all aspects of this. We are talking with the RCMP and the emergency services. We are looking at how it is affecting the community in general. We have encouraged it from the start, and they have stepped up, and they are very vocal in the community.”


The final hour

Its now one week until show time, and the only evidence in the village that 40,000 people are coming to party is a series of white tents that have been erected on the festival grounds.

Once cars filled with music fans start arriving at the campsite on Thursday afternoon, however, there will be no denying that the inaugural Pemberton Music Festival is going to go off.

And until the festival wraps up in the early hours on Monday, July 28, all the residents of Pemby can do is enjoy the music, and wait to see how large an impact the big festival will have on their small village.

“It is a big of a leap of faith here,” admits Mayor Sturdy. “We are relying on Live Nation to do a good job. We are looking to ourselves and to the public to help us anticipate problems… To bring 40,000 people to a community of 5,000, that is going to have a huge impact. I think we are all working to make sure it is a positive event.

“We have a very big decision to make after this is all over. And that decision is whether to have it next year or not.”

http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/pique/index.php?cat=C_Frontpage&content=Pemby+music+fest+1530

[mc_squared]

^I think Merritt is much the same when the Merritt Mountain Music Festival comes to town. I was lucky enough to visit one of them.;)

[Malcolm-Edge]

Yeah it goes crazy in Merritt. Im getting wary of the drive up sunday and how close i'll be to coldplay.

I just say whatever Im gonna be there and Im stoked for it.

[mc_squared]

Yeah it goes crazy in Merritt. Im getting wary of the drive up sunday and how close i'll be to coldplay.

I just say whatever Im gonna be there and Im stoked for it.

Have you been to Merritt?

[busybeeburns]

Long lineups, heavy traffic and pricey concessions can't keep music fans away from giant festival taking over B.C. mountain village

PEMBERTON, B.C. -- "Oh my God, it smells like cows." And with that comment, as she stepped off the shuttle bus yesterday from one of the dusty festival parking lots, an urban hipster began her three-day Pemberton Festival experience. Indeed, there are many cows in this lush valley, but their "essence" was quickly replaced with the scent of young humanity: beer, barbecue and B.C. Bud.

The giant, inaugural music festival, featuring international acts such as Coldplay (one of the festival's producers), Jay-Z and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, has invaded the quiet village of Pemberton, about 150 kilometres north of Vancouver. The population of slightly more than 2,000 has swelled to about 40,000 this weekend, wreaking havoc on the roads - and at the festival site.

Some campers who arrived Thursday night reported waiting hours at the Pemberton airport, which has been turned into a parking lot, for the shuttle to take them to the campsite. For some, the shuttle never came, and they had to camp at the parking lot.

"[Thursday night] was hell," said Lauren, 18, who travelled from Edmonton for the festival, and wound up camping in the parking lot, along with two friends.

"There was no people directing you, or anything," said Jason Blatchford, 26, of Burnaby, B.C. "It was just mayhem."

Festival organizer Shane Bourbonnais said campers were told to arrive between 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Thursday and when it became clear that they would keep showing up long past that, organizers tried to accommodate them.

"I was there [Thursday] night loading buses until 2 in the morning," he said yesterday. "It was unfortunate the way it went down, but I think everybody's now on the site having a good time."

Mr. Bourbonnais said 20 shuttle buses were added yesterday and more would be running tomorrow and Monday for departure.

"Obviously in a first-year festival, you can plan and plan and plan but until you actually open the gates up [you don't know what will happen]. So now we've made the adjustments and we'll fix it."

The RCMP said frustrated campers who drove directly to the site yesterday to unload their camping gear instead of waiting for the shuttle were complicating matters because the road was so narrow, the buses couldn't pass the parked cars. "It was terrible," said Constable Kalinda Link.

Traffic on the under-construction Sea-to-Sky Highway was very heavy yesterday. Constable Link said as of about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, there were backups beginning at Horseshoe Bay, more than 100 kilometres south of Pemberton.

The road from Pemberton village to the festival, at the base of Mount Currie, was jammed. Some people gave up on their hitchhiking plans, dropping their thumbs and started walking - often moving faster than the cars stuck in traffic.

Mr. Bourbonnais's vision has seen this quiet mountain valley - where people generally come in the summer to get away from it all (he himself has a vacation home here) - transformed into a small city.

The festival is a behemoth, the biggest thing to happen in this out-of-the-way place that anyone can remember. It's expected to bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars to the local economy - and millions to the district as a whole.

Prices in town were reasonable compared with the food on offer at the festival, where the going rate for a bottle of pop or water is $4.

"I'm fine with not bringing my own food in, but I don't want to get ripped off out of my pants," said Liam Johnston, 19, of Saltspring Island. (Concert-goers were not permitted to bring their own food or drinks to the festival site.)

Music fan Richard Ward, 52, travelled to Pemberton from Kelowna for the festival. With his travel, ticket, VIP parking pass and Whistler hotel, he figures he'd spent about $1,000 by the time he walked in the gate, and estimates he'll spend another $500 by the time it's all over. "It's worth it for me."

As the bands hit the stage yesterday afternoon, any lingering grumpiness over check-in hassles and inflated drink prices seemed to dissipate.

"When you're in a once-in-a-lifetime situation, who cares what it costs?" asked Richard Fonseca, 26, of Vancouver.

Added his pal Patrick Whibley, 28: "This could be the Woodstock of our generation."

At the festival

The three-day Pemberton

Festival, by the numbers:

0: Amount of outside food and drink allowed at the concert site

$60: Cost to camp, per person,

for three days

$90: Cost to park for three days

($50 for campers)

$0: Cost to park if there are four

or more people in the vehicle

37,000: Maximum number of tickets

sold per day

770: Number of volunteers

480: Number of security staff

280: Number of medical personnel

on site

600: Number of porta-potties

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080726.BCPEMBERTON26/TPStory/TPNational/Music/

[Malcolm-Edge]

Traffic is fine going up there now. So if youre going for the day saturday and/or Sunday you'll be fine. 1.5 hours from Vancouver.

Cant wait till tomorrow. Finally gonna see coldplay live! 2 off the list 3 to go!

[busybeeburns]

PEMBERTON, B.C. — At the end of day two of the Pemberton Festival, as I dusted off my keyboard (and I do mean that literally) to write this, I was still trying to shake off the drive that started the day: close to two-and-a-half hours to get from Whistler to Pemberton (a drive that normally takes 25 minutes) and then almost another half-hour waiting in the mosquito-ridden parking lot for the shuttle to get to the festival site. Yes, the transportation woes continued for the third straight day at the inaugural Pemberton Festival (as one of my shuttle-mates remarked: “Really good organization here. Can't wait for the Olympics.”) Fun!

Well, nothing like a day of excellent music to help those white knuckles unwind – starting with Sam Roberts, the indie darling from Montreal whose performance was so cool, as it wrapped up with one monumental (in both length and quality) jam, the skies opened up. The shower in no way put a damper on Saturday's main stage opener; it was in fact welcomed by the dusty crowd (stores in town were having trouble keeping mouth-and-nose-protecting bandanas in stock).

It was a good day overall here for Canadian music. Buck 65, backed by a turntable and his laptop (and calling himself “the loneliest man in Pemberton” as he had the stage all to himself), coolly conquered the complicated verbiage on tracks like Indestructible Sam and The Centaur, while offering descriptive dance moves to go with the smart, irreverent lyrics (the guy can shake his booty, it should be noted).

He also dispelled any illusions of glamorous backstage conditions, particularly the washroom situation. “The toilet looks like a moose took a dump in there,” he remarked, wondering aloud if perhaps Roberts or The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie were responsible.

The Vancouver group Black Mountain, also on the smaller Lillooet stage, sounded terrific. Too bad more people weren't there to hear the indie up-and-comers: The Tragically Hip went 25 minutes long, keeping fans over at the main stage for a good chunk of Black Mountain's set.

As for The Hip, it was a classic performance. As Downie made his way through hits including Courage, Ahead by a Century, Poets and New Orleans is Sinking, he was at his beloved weirdest, paying particular attention to the microphone stand (disassembling and handing pieces of it out to the audience, at times).

Too bad Downie felt the need to shout his way through the normally-gorgeous Grace, Too – squealing and grunting at times. Also Blow at High Dough was missing from the set list, leaving a gaping crowd-pleasing hole in the program.

However, The Hip show was great overall and the boys from Kingston, Ontario clearly should have been the second-to-last act on the main stage, instead of third-last. They packed in a huge crowd, much larger than the audience The Flaming Lips, who followed The Hip, managed to attract.

That may have had something to do with The Lips' sound. It was atrocious: muddy and not nearly loud enough. It was by far the worst sound of the weekend (in fact, the sound is generally surprisingly good for an outdoor venue of this size).

The Lips did deliver, however, on spectacle. There were Teletubbies and other assorted characters on stage, huge white balloons and confetti raining down on the crowd, and the entrance of the weekend (so far): frontman Wayne Coyne did his boy-in-the-bubble routine, rolling out into the audience inside a giant plastic ball.

The sound was no doubt partially to blame for the fans' lack of enthusiasm, which Coyne seemed to notice. He kept urging the crowd to rev it up. They didn't.

Headlining day two were Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: a surprise choice, given their era (really, some of the festival attendees may have been conceived to Petty's music back in his Free Fallin' heyday). But it worked. Petty, who seemed genuinely thrilled to be on the Pemberton stage, had the crowd singing along to hit after hit:– I Won't Back Down, Mary Jane's Last Dance, Refugee.

Petty's voice sounds great, but again the sound just wasn't loud enough. While it was great to hear everyone singing along to the chorus of Free Fallin', it's a problem when the audience completely drowns out the musician. One other Petty complaint (sorry, couldn't resist): the pauses between songs were just a little too long. The set needs to be tighter.

Day two's highlight: Canadiana! Low point: flame-out on The Flaming Lips' sound (and did I mention the traffic?).

Performances to look forward to on Sunday: a couple of little acts – Jay-Z and Coldplay. Also the U.S. musician Matisyahu, who offers the unlikely fusion of Orthodox Judaism and classic reggae. He'll close out the Lillooet Stage.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080727.wpembertonupdate0727/BNStory/Entertainment/home

[BostonSportsTD]

so when can we expect a report about this??

[melanieau]

Coldplay won't even be done playing until about 2am eastern time...:(

[BostonSportsTD]

ohhhh god i forgot about the friggin time change. that sucks.... guess i'll have to wait till tomorrow.

[busybeeburns]

http://media.canada.com/a31c7556-62af-4032-8908-ebb5274e795e/SUN0726%20Pemberton.jpg

Anticipation builds up in the rows and rows of people waiting for the End. As in Coldplay; the group credited with providing the raison d'être for the Pemberton Music Festival.

It's almost 10:20. The re-scheduled start time was 10:10. Every time any movement occurs on stage there is roar. Then: release.

There is almost a sense of relief when the cascading waves of guitar rain down and the band kicks into "Violet Hill." The first single from the group's new album Viva La Vida. The stuttered two-step rhythm of the song gets the foot-stomping up and folks are fuh-reek-in. When the second tune is "Clocks," followed by "In My Place" you know that the band is going for broke. Jay-Z upped the bar a lot.
Now it's time to prove they've got what it takes.

It has been an incredible experience up here in this beautiful valley this weekend. Here's looking forward to next year where I imagine we might see a little group from Hanna headlining. Just a hunch. If I'm right, you read it here first.

http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/stuartsblog/archive/2008/07/28/coldplay-closes-pemberton.aspx

[busybeeburns]

The difference between Jay-Z's steez and Coldplay's is night and day. Where the rap star showed up with his band in natty suits and baggies, the Englishmen went for that ever-popular military officer's style favoured by bands dating back to before the Beatles.

It was all colourful and happy. Chris Martin even looked like he'd been out in the Sun. Not so other members, but that's what you hope for in pasty pop stars.
Always the most interesting element in the band, Martin has come a very long way from those early days when the band was filming videos at the Commodore Ballroom when Parachutes was breaking.

They are a huge group. One that has developed quite a potent live presentation too.

From the shifts in the arrangements to highlight the dynamics of the vocal harmonies and soaring crescendos in the bridges to the way that alll four members played off of one another, it was a spirited performance.
While I still find the group's songs skew towards women who would like to be Gwyneth Paltrow, there is no denying that the anthemic nature of its arena rock is the sort of thing that — as reporter Claire Ogilvie noted — you can close your eyes to and re-live the moment.

That, Jay-Z did not create with his far more funk it up and get busy with it show. That he nailed his show was pointed out by Chris Martin too with a good deal of humility.

The well-oiled Coldplay machine moved from strength to strength. When tthe whole unit moved stage forward to sing in a line, it created a dramatic tension that could really be enhanced by the lasers and images of the band put up on the two screens on either side of the stage. And drummer Will Champion doubtless enjoyed a chance to be seen from the waist up as he ratatat'ed out a beat on one of those electropad kits. “Speed Of Sound” followed and ws one of the evening's highlights as guitarist Jonny Buckland chimed out the tune's hook and Martin finally got behind the keys.

Guess which song was played when the whole stage and audience was bathed in yellow light? Yup, you got it; the first big hit “Yellow.”

Around this time, a woman nearby commented that ‘is it just me, or have they gotten prettier as time goes by?’ Yes, they have.

It's amazing what image consultants and crazy wads of cash can do for your looks. I'm still waiting to give it a try; anyone else?

The big production moment came when the entire band suddenly dropped off the main stage, travelled down the long corridor to a small platform stage near the soundboard and hauled out acoustic instruments for a very intimate take on “The Scientist“ that was pretty classic.

“We were thinking, what could we do in Canada that we'd never done before,” said Martin, noting that the event had been an overwhelming success. Very true.

A success that wasn't over yet either as the Crystal Method was just preparing to start spinning the the Bacardi B-Live tent in a matter of minutes.

All in all, a really fantastic three days.

Thanks are in order for all the concert-goers who kept it on the up and up, not turning any of the minor inconveniences into cause for misbehaviour and to all the hard-working volunteers on site. And, most of all, to Pemberton for letting us all come up and, admittedly, make a real mess all over someone's farm and have a ball. We know that the bug population is going to miss all the extra food, but the fun's gotta end at some point.

See you next year?

http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/stuartsblog/archive/2008/07/28/coldplay-closes-down-pemberton-music-festival.aspx

[Texasluvsjonny]

"folks are fuh-reek-in"...great discription! :laugh3:
So No Chris on stage with JayZ

[Jenjie]

so when can we expect a report about this??

Whistler is 8 hours behind GMT so its now 00:24. so a few hours yet :(

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

does anybody know how many songs they played? :)

[Mimixxx]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember11.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember6.jpg



There's only two members of Coldplay, apparently :dozey:

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=82048368

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

^^ hhaahaha ....i know whats up with that

[Texasluvsjonny]

There's only two members of Coldplay, apparently :dozey:

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=82048368
They can't help if they are addicted to the Jonny Chrissy love. :P

[Mimixxx]

Haha, the photographer has been here and read your rules :stunned: :P

[guyy]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember8.jpg


.....

:laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

I don't think I want to know...:P

[Texasluvsjonny]

Now if I can just get the writers to stop with the Gwenyth shout outs in every story. :rolleyes:

[Texasluvsjonny]

.....

:laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

I don't think I want to know...:Plooks like he's strained something there. :sneaky:

[elena20]

no setlist yet? :)

[Texasluvsjonny]

From the reports, it looks like it will take anyone there 3 days to drive back out. :laugh3:

[Mimixxx]

:lol: That's if they haven't passed out from heatstroke :P

[Texasluvsjonny]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember8.jpg

The Canadain government announce today that they have hired singer Chris Martin as spokesman for Hernia Self Exam Week. Mr Martin will be doing live demo exams during his band, Coldplay's shows in Canada this week.

[coldjo]

I can't wait the setlist :)
Even I suppose that it is shorter and classical

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

well u should be the same length wise...it says the concert was 1 hour 3o min. ...........so hopefully they changed it up a bit

[coldpatrix]

Hey, the setlist?

[CRYSTAL]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember11.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/mimixx/pember6.jpg



There's only two members of Coldplay, apparently :dozey:

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=82048368


great pics.:)

want some vids,pics,reviews and setlist.

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

great pics.:)

want some vids,pics,reviews and setlist.

pallavi we all want that haha:)

[CRYSTAL]

i haven't said that you all do not want it ,okay!

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

^^ haha ok..but no need to get mad:)

[mc_squared]

^^ haha ok..but need to get mad:)

You need to get mad??:stunned:

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

You need to get mad??:stunned:

haha i forgot to put NO haha ......

[CRYSTAL]

^^ haha ok..but no need to get mad:)

no need to get mad,yeah who's getting mad here!

are you referencing me,see i am not mad!

i am okay in life what ever i do.

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

no need to get mad,yeah who's getting mad here!

are you referencing me,see i am not mad!

i am okay in life what ever i do.

well glad to hear that.....:)

[CRYSTAL]

seriously though what do you want to say to me directly put them in words here,

what do you want?????:rolleyes:

[mc_squared]

haha i forgot to put NO haha ......

:rolleyes:

[busybeeburns]

All pics added to the gallery at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1512

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb6.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb21.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb25.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb22.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb17.jpg

[crazyduckette]

I misread the wiki review... and thought it said Warning Sign and See You Soon had been played... :o but I didn't see the 'no' :lol:

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

seriously though what do you want to say to me directly put them in words here,

what do you want?????:rolleyes:

what are u talking about....i dont want to tell u anything!

[mc_squared]

what are u talking about....i dont want to tell u anything!

This is all getting rather confusing. :confused:

[CRYSTAL]

All pics added to the gallery at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1512

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb6.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb21.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb25.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb22.jpg

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb17.jpg

well some people here are saying that i am going mad and when i questioned why do they think so not replying at all anyways.


i liked all the pics and i am asking for setlist ,reviews,vids again along with pics

even though every one thinks that i am mad.:rolleyes:

[CRYSTAL]

This is all getting rather confusing. :confused:

absolutely what i want to say.

rush of vida:why are you getting into arguements with me here....

people only do that when they expect something from other people...

then why you're hiding that fact...

and why you're acting as if you don't.:rolleyes:

[crazyduckette]

Pallavi, stop thinking that everyone is against you.... because they are NOT! :laugh3: :)

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

ANYWAYZZZZZZZ!.........so nobody knows what songs they played...except for yellow,speed of sound,and that they played off the stage.

[CRYSTAL]

Pallavi, stop thinking that everyone is against you.... because they are NOT! :laugh3: :)


even though i understand this i want to say that there is a necessity to talk straight to people rather than going forward too much in discussion and making some one getting embarassed with behavioral aspects.:rolleyes:

[busybeeburns]

did anyone notice I posted some pictures on topic just then?

[CRYSTAL]

yeah the pictures are nice!

love them!

especially Chris pics...!;)

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

very cool pics...thanks for posting

[busybeeburns]

The highly-anticipated performance by Coldplay at the inaugural Pemberton Festival north of Whistler, B.C., had to be anticipated for just a little longer on Sunday, as extreme traffic delays on the highway finally had an impact on the performances. American funk/hip hop/alt-rock band N.E.R.D. arrived late for their show – minus three of their five musicians – and took the stage 35 minutes late, putting the rest of the mainstage schedule off-balance for the remainder of the day.

Coldplay, it must be said, was worth the wait. The headliners – and the driving force behind the festival – put on a powerful show. Frontman Chris Martin exhibited more than his typical enthusiasm and what seemed like genuine appreciation that people came to the remote festival and stuck around long enough to hear his band, which took to the stage at 10:20 pm on Sunday night.

“You braved hours of traffic and rain – all to take a chance on a new festival,” he said, adding that the consensus was that the event has been “a great success.”

Too bad for distractions during Coldplay's set: people departing in an attempt to avoid another long journey home, the slow-moving traffic visible behind the stage, the ever-present bass coming out of the B-Live tent across the field (particularly annoying during what should have been a Coldplay highlight: a short set on a tiny stage that included an acoustic version of The Scientist).

But overall, it was a strong show, with highlights that included Clocks, In My Place, and everybody singing along to Yellow.

Coldplay was preceded by an extraordinary performance by Jay-Z. For just over an hour, the New York hip hop star had the place in a tizzy – fans waving their arms in tribute and bouncing like crazy (the temporary wooden floor I was standing on felt positively trampolinesque). Some female fans showed their appreciation by flashing the crowd on the giant video screens – to great approval.

Jay-Z's urban lyrics set against the silhouette of the darkening mountains as he sampled everyone from Amy Winehouse to the cast of the musical Annie, was something to experience. Even he seemed impressed.

As the show wrapped up, like a teacher handing out gold stars at the end of class, Jay-Z sent some shout-outs to audience members whose enthusiasm he had noticed. “You in the yellow t-shirt,” he pointed to a fan. “And you, baby girl.”

An unlikely highlight from earlier in the day was a stunning two-song collaboration between Dj Dopey and 16 members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As the VSO played The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, Dj Dopey ruled the turntable, and scenes from The Shining flashed on the screens behind the stage. The crowd in the B-Live tent ate it up. Future VSO subscription holders? Perhaps.

On unlikely combinations, the American Hasidic reggae almost-star Matisyahu closed out the smaller Lillooet stage with a spiritually-inspired performance that went with the gorgeous setting (at least the part of the show I managed to catch; there were scheduling conflicts with Dj Dopey and Death Cab for Cutie). In beard, yarmulke and side-curls, Matisyahu didn't exactly look the Pemberton Festival part, but with musical talent like his, he fit right in.

N.E.R.D. – late though they were – got the crowd going with a high-energy, infectious performance. Okay, so they thought they were in Vancouver at first, and Pharrell Williams uttered the f-word more times than one could count, but their energy was almost unparalleled on Sunday (and then Jay-Z came along).

Wish I could say the same for Seattle's Death Cab for Cutie. Perhaps it was festival fatigue setting in, but they just didn't do it for me – or the crowd. After N.E.R.D. – and Dj Dopey – the performance simply felt lacklustre. Too bad, because they've got a lot to offer.

Highlight of the final day: a crowd crazy in love with Jay-Z.

Low point: the backlog caused by earlier traffic delays meant Coldplay didn't wrap up their set until 11:40. And then, festival fans set out for what would no doubt be another long journey home.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080728.wpemberton0728/BNStory/Entertainment/home

[mc_squared]

did anyone notice I posted some pictures on topic just then?

No. Where?:rolleyes:

[mayurshikotra]

was this a televised festival?

[Jenjie]

Pallavi - I think what they were trying to say is that we are all waiting for reviews, pics, vids & setlists.

And you know what we're like, as soon as we track them down, they'll be in this thread for all to enjoy.

[Texasluvsjonny]

did anyone notice I posted some pictures on topic just then?You bet your sweet ass I did!:stunned:
http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb22.jpg

[Jenjie]

You bet your sweet ass I did!:stunned:
http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb22.jpg

down girl!!! :laugh3: :P

[Texasluvsjonny]

down girl!!! :laugh3: :PThat's what Jonny said. :P

[CRYSTAL]

Pallavi - I think what they were trying to say is that we are all waiting for reviews, pics, vids & setlists.

And you know what we're like, as soon as we track them down, they'll be in this thread for all to enjoy.

sounds cool!:)

[busybeeburns]

PEMBERTON, B.C. — Explosive back-to-back sets by Jay-Z and Coldplay capped the closing day of the inaugural Pemberton Festival, an ambitious three days of music set in a dusty B.C. mountain valley that, minus a few snags, was a resounding success.

The sun had just set behind the mountains on Sunday evening as Jay-Z took the stage to a roar of cheers - and quickly stole the show.

Backed by a brass band, the legendary producer and rapper worked the 30,000-person strong crowd into a frenzy. The ground shook as the audience thrust their fists in the air to hit after hit, including "99 Problems" and his breakthrough "A Hard Knock Life."

"To come up and here and get this much love, don't think I don't appreciate it," Jay-Z shouted to the thundering crowd.

"I appreciate each and every one of y'all out there."

And while songs from Coldplay's latest album, the critically lauded 'Viva la "Vida or Death and All His Friends," were interspersed throughout the band's closing set, it was crowd favourites that took centre stage.

The band rushed to an impromptu stage in the middle of the audience for an acoustic, singalong rendition of "The Scientist," and the crowd swayed and sang in unison to hits including "Clocks" and "Yellow."

Singer Chris Martin even referenced the traffic problems that had plagued the festival, singing "When the festival traffic moves at a snail's pace," in "Fix You."

A rainy Sunday morning threatened to turn the trampled sheep field into a giant mud pit before the clouds began to lift and music fans, many of whom had spent the previous three nights camped in fields surrounding the stages, gathered for the highly anticipated final day.

The promise of seeing such diverse acts as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Crystal Method and Nine Inch Nails in a beautiful mountain valley drew about 40,000 people to the remote community of Pemberton, B.C., 150 kilometres north of Vancouver.

For Seattle-based Death Cab for Cutie, the lineup was the deal breaker in deciding to play the festival during a break between European and Australian tours.

"I can't imagine another time in our life where we're going to get to say, 'Stick around for Jay-Z,' " laughed drummer Jason McGerr.

The promise of a massive party appealed to others. About half of the festival-goers camped on site, in a sprawling campground that formed a horseshoe around the concert grounds. At times it looked like a refugee camp, with dusty tents and bright spotlights, save for the booming of a late-night DJ tent that echoed well past 2 a.m.

While talk of long waits on the narrow highway between Vancouver to Pemberton, chaotic parking and an impractical shuttle system dominated talk on the festival grounds on Saturday, a calm settled over the site on Sunday.

Rob Hepburn, 24, of Vancouver, said he's able to look past a few organizational missteps.

"I think everyone understands that this is the first year the festival's going on, and we're all just excited to be here. The setting's so great that everyone's just willing to forgive it," he said.

His brother, Jeff, flew in from London, Ont., for the show.

"At times it didn't seem like they had complete control, but it's to be expected. It's their first time through, a lot of kinks to figure out and a lot of people to police."

Still, the traffic chaos continued into Sunday. It took up to eight hours for some people to make the usual 20-minute trip between Pemberton and the nearby resort town of Whistler.

While it was clear that security was disintegrating Sunday, as concert goers openly flaunted smuggled-in alcohol and others boasted of walking in without tickets, a co-operative spirit of good cheer seemed to maintain order.

At a news conference on Sunday afternoon, organizer Shane Bourbonnais of Live Nation said his crew has "learned a lot of lessons."

"Every great festival has its hiccups at the beginning," he said.

"Obviously there are always kinks. We've identified all those issues, we're taking notes and figuring out how we'll improve on those issues."

Bourbonnais said he's already heard from seven bands interested in headlining the stages for the next festival.

The weekend also featured rising Canadian acts such as Buck 65, Wintersleep and Kathleen Edwards alongside the international heavy-hitters.

Canadian band Metric was one of the first to take the stage Friday, and singer Emily Haines says the mammoth festival marks a change in Canada's music scene.

"The days of Canada being sort of insular and disconnected from the rest of the world culturally is over, and festivals like this are the first sign of that," she said.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAdf4Zb2H2LGEjeaDLJ0LgrJFA2A

[mc_squared]

That's what Jonny said. :P

In your dreams.......... :rolleyes:

[coldplay12]

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**lolo**

[Cris_Santos]

Thanks!! Great pics :D

[CRYSTAL]

wow what a pics!!!!!Chris your belly!!!!ahhhh....:laugh3::wink3:

[Timothy Q. Mouse]

:o

Quite a lot of pics there.

So, what was the setlist?

[Cobalt]

Belly much with Chris? I swear that shirt is cut higher on purpose. Not that I'm complaining...

[busybeeburns]

You all know that I think Chris Martin is one of the ultimate best British frontmen around. He's at once sexy, coy, charismatic and captivating. Coldplay, along with Live Nation were the brainchild behind the Pemberton Festival, and Chris Martin helped hand-pick the location along with some of the lineup.

Because of N*E*R*D's tardiness, the rest of the main stage's set times were bumped up by almost an hour. Instead of going on at 9:30pm, Coldplay took the stage at 10:20 and played till 11:40, well past the venue's 11pm outdoor curfew.

Chris was sweating like a beast by the third song (Clocks) - as usual he was really working hard on stage. I loved the accompanying black and white visuals during Viva La Vida that showed footage of Chris, Guy, Jonny and Will as a string quartet performing those sections of the song. A very nice touch.

And during Yellow, incidentally the only song the band performed off their debut album Parachutes, Chris got lots of help from the crowd, who were eager to join in. It's a very hard song to sing along to...the lyrics are simple, yet everyone seems to forget the proper order. And sometimes he mixes it up. I would have loved to have heard Sparks or Everything's Not Lost...or even Don't Panic or Trouble, but alas, there was no time.

At one point the band stormed down the security-only catwalk to the soundboard and performed an acoustic version of Lost and then The Scientist. Jonny, Will and Guy all surrounded Chris with their acoustic guitars. It was like a band of brothers - this new kinship that the band really feels like sharing with the rest of the world. Then, just as suddenly as they'd appeared at the soundboard, they were back on stage, blasting into an explosive version of Politik.

I can only assume that the band wasn't able to supply the crowd with an encore due to the late start time - they ended with Death And All His Friends. It'll be interesting to see what other setlists look like when the band continue their tour in support of the album for the rest of the summer. Full setlist below!

Setlist

Life In Technicolour
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
42
Fix You
?
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Speed Of Sound
Yellow
Lost
The Scientist
[techno interlude]
Politik
?
Death And All His Friends

Can anyone fill in those two blanks? I feel strongly that they must have been from X&Y, an album that I've admittedly neglected, which would explain why I was unable to identify the tracks. Let us know in the comments!

http://blog.muchmusic.com/archives/2008/07/pemberton_festi_20.php

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[busybeeburns]

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PEMBERTON -- Dazed and exhausted festival-goers had to wait until 10:15 p.m. Sunday night to witness the biggest act of them all, British mega-stars Coldplay.

The eager masses threatened to knock over fences and storm restricted areas to get closer to what many consider the biggest band in the world.

But the soothing -- in comparison to Jay-Z-- sounds of front man Chris Martin and his merry band of men seemed to bring joy and harmony rather than hostility. Thankfully.

Considering Coldplay has always trumpeted causes having to do with peace and humanity, it was a fitting mood to close this epic event.

The band appeased the crowd early on in the set by playing older favourites like Clocks and A Rush of Blood to the Head, but relied heavily on material from the new album, Viva la Vida or (Death and all His Friends) throughout the rest of the show.

Heavy doses of piano -- such as on Speed of Sound -- and bits of orchestral string arrangements -- particularly on the new album's title track -- help with Coldplay's appeal to the easy-listening masses, while their grand guitar ambitions give them ample rock cred.

The most stunning moment of the night's set was when Martin stayed quiet and allowed the tens of thousands of people to sing the opening verse of the band's breakout hit, Yellow.

The repeated refrain, "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you," was marvelously fitting considering the dark and open skies above (even if clouds blocked the stars).

The band's big, symphonic sound and their messages of hope and peace were a fantastic ending to a festival that certainly had its issues, but seemed to make the majority happy.

As Martin himself said: "The overwhelmingly positive consensus is that it's been a great success."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=ada0c95a-a269-4365-b2a9-42035bd56452

[Mimixxx]

Damn I was just going to post that. You win again Burns :P

[coldjo]

I suppose that 2 ? are : chinese sleep chant and Lovers in Japan

[Christa42]

Yummy for the tummy:rolleyes:

[crazyduckette]

The band appeased the crowd early on in the set by playing older favourites like Clocks and A Rush of Blood to the Head, but relied heavily on material from the new album, Viva la Vida or (Death and all His Friends) throughout the rest of the show.


Am I reading this correctly?! :o

I hope they mean the song and not 'from the album AROBTTH' :o

[green_eyes11]

An acoustic performance of Lost!? I think I almost prefer that. Wouldn't mind if they carried that through here. Admittedly, it's probably my least favorite song on the new album... It'd open up a spot on the main stage for something better (imo) Plus I actually prefer the lighter version of the song.

[Khalplay]

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1512/pemb39.jpg


... XD

[CRYSTAL]

waiting for some videos now!

any songs they played that they never played before in previous shows?

[busybeeburns]

http://www.thetelegram.com/photos/Telegram/stories/Coldplay.jpg

Explosive back-to-back sets by Jay-Z and Coldplay capped the closing day of the inaugural Pemberton Festival, an ambitious three days of music set in a dusty B.C. mountain valley that, minus a few snags, was a resounding success.
The sun had just set behind the mountains on Sunday evening as Jay-Z took the stage to a roar of cheers -- and quickly stole the show.
Backed by a brass band, the legendary producer and rapper worked the 30,000-person strong crowd into a frenzy. The ground shook as the audience thrust their fists in the air to hit after hit, including “99 Problems” and his breakthrough “A Hard Knock Life.”
“To come up and here and get this much love, don’t think I don’t appreciate it,” Jay-Z shouted to the thundering crowd.
“I appreciate each and every one of y’all out there.”
And while songs from Coldplay’s latest album, the critically lauded ’Viva la “Vida or Death and All His Friends,” were interspersed throughout the band’s closing set, it was crowd favourites that took centre stage.
The band rushed to an impromptu stage in the middle of the audience for an acoustic, singalong rendition of “The Scientist,” and the crowd swayed and sang in unison to hits including “Clocks” and “Yellow.”
Singer Chris Martin even referenced the traffic problems that had plagued the festival, singing “When the festival traffic moves at a snail’s pace,” in “Fix You.”A rainy Sunday morning threatened to turn the trampled sheep field into a giant mud pit before the clouds began to lift and music fans, many of whom had spent the previous three nights camped in fields surrounding the stages, gathered for the highly anticipated final day.
The promise of seeing such diverse acts as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Crystal Method and Nine Inch Nails in a beautiful mountain valley drew about 40,000 people to the remote community of Pemberton, B.C., 150 kilometres north of Vancouver.
For Seattle-based Death Cab for Cutie, the lineup was the deal breaker in deciding to play the festival during a break between European and Australian tours.
“I can’t imagine another time in our life where we’re going to get to say, ‘Stick around for Jay-Z,’ ” laughed drummer Jason McGerr.
The promise of a massive party appealed to others. About half of the festival-goers camped on site, in a sprawling campground that formed a horseshoe around the concert grounds. At times it looked like a refugee camp, with dusty tents and bright spotlights, save for the booming of a late-night DJ tent that echoed well past 2 a.m.
While talk of long waits on the narrow highway between Vancouver to Pemberton, chaotic parking and an impractical shuttle system dominated talk on the festival grounds on Saturday, a calm settled over the site on Sunday.
Rob Hepburn, 24, of Vancouver, said he’s able to look past a few organizational missteps.
“I think everyone understands that this is the first year the festival’s going on, and we’re all just excited to be here. The setting’s so great that everyone’s just willing to forgive it,” he said.
Still, the traffic chaos continued into Sunday. It took up to eight hours for some people to make the usual 20-minute trip between Pemberton and the nearby resort town of Whistler.
While it was clear that security was disintegrating Sunday, as concert goers openly flaunted smuggled-in alcohol and others boasted of walking in without tickets, a co-operative spirit of good cheer seemed to maintain order.
At a news conference on Sunday afternoon, organizer Shane Bourbonnais of Live Nation said his crew has “learned a lot of lessons.”
“Every great festival has its hiccups at the beginning,” he said.
“Obviously there are always kinks. We’ve identified all those issues, we’re taking notes and figuring out how we’ll improve on those issues.”
Bourbonnais said he’s already heard from seven bands interested in headlining the stages for the next festival.The weekend also featured rising Canadian acts such as Buck 65, Wintersleep and Kathleen Edwards alongside the international heavy-hitters.

http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=156857&sc=84

[coldpatrix]

Ian, give me the setlist pleeeeeeeeeease! :)

[ccsg]

The setlist was posted a page back. Take a look.

Those pics are great Ian. Thanks! Chris looking more animated than ever these days. And I can't wait to hear what the Perv Unit has to say about the Chris kneeling next to Jonny pic. Easy everyone.

Did Chris actually have something to do with putting this festival together? Did I read that correctly?

[coldpatrix]

Dear ccsg, the setlist posted a page back is incomplete (there are two '?' in the list)...

[busybeeburns]

I guess no-one knows the full setlist yet, only those who were at the festival, and its going to be a while before they get back from that, slutchy fields broken buses and all :)

[coldpatrix]

Ahahah...
We have to wait the users who were in the crowd...hoping that their buses went well!

[blue_girl]

Hey everyone!! i have this question.. maybe stupid.. where was Guy?? i cant see him in the pics.. was he in the stage??? i see a person.. but he doest not look our Guy.. im i right or wrong??

[mc_squared]

Hey everyone!! i have this question.. maybe stupid.. where was Guy?? i cant see him in the pics.. was he in the stage??? i see a person.. but he doest not look our Guy.. im i right or wrong??

Maybe he had the night off.:rolleyes:

[crazyduckette]

you can tell it's Guy in the photos from his usual stance.... :dead:

[Carlaatje]

what's with the chris and jonny only pics? what so it's a two men band now? how can they not respect the hawtness??:angry: (not just guy will too, but he has one solo photo...)

[Shaftell]

Hey everyone. Sorry for taking a while to come on here.. I just got back like a few hours ago.
Traffic was deadly!

Anyways, the festival was terrible. They just gotta work out the kinks for next year but overall it was definitely worth it.

Coldplay was amazing though! Chris showed a lot of energy. Guy and Will seemed out of it for some of the concert. The acoustic part of the setlist was amazing I'm not good at posting reviews but I am good at posting pictures and videos. :)
Anyways, I got to go get my things organized then I'll come back here if that's alright. And from what I can remember, I'll try to post the setlist:

Life In Technicolour
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
42
Fix You
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Speed Of Sound
Yellow
Lost!
The Scientist
Politik
Lovers in Japan
Death And All His Friends


I might be missing a song or two. I'm not sure... I'll be back though!
Bye :)

[Mimixxx]

Out of it? Like stoned? :P

Will look forward to your pics :)

[Jenjie]

Hey everyone. Sorry for taking a while to come on here.. I just got back like a few hours ago.
Traffic was deadly!

Anyways, the festival was terrible. They just gotta work out the kinks for next year but overall it was definitely worth it.

Coldplay was amazing though! Chris showed a lot of energy. Guy and Will seemed out of it for some of the concert. The acoustic part of the setlist was amazing I'm not good at posting reviews but I am good at posting pictures and videos. :)
Anyways, I got to go get my things organized then I'll come back here if that's alright. And from what I can remember, I'll try to post the setlist:

Life In Technicolour
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
42
Fix You
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Speed Of Sound
Yellow
Lost!
The Scientist
Politik
Lovers in Japan
Death And All His Friends


I might be missing a song or two. I'm not sure... I'll be back though!
Bye :)

yay!! you win the prize for first one back :D that's my first fan review for Wiki :)

and you filled in one of the missing songs from the setlist we had earlier. one more to find :D

[coldjo]

and the last missing song is ... ?

[coldpatrix]

Update!

Life In Technicolour
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
42
Fix You
?
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Speed Of Sound
Yellow
Lost! (Acoustic)
The Scientist (Acoustic)
-----
Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death And All His Friends

[Merwithani]

Thanks!! Great pics :D

Ditto!

[jnspiro]

First-time poster - here's the correct and complete setlist from last night.

Life in Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
42
Fix You
Chinese Sleep Chant (band playing close together, right side of stage)
God Put a Smile Upon Your Face (techno version, right side of stage)
Speed of Sound
Yellow
Lost! (regular version - not acoustic)
The Scientist (acoustic, b-stage beside sound booth)
Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic, b-stage, Will on vocals)
techno interlude
Politik
Lovers in Japan
Death and All His Friends
The Escapist (outro)


Great show!

cheers

[Mimixxx]

^ Thanks :D

Coldplay shows solidarity in Pemberton's dust

http://www.straight.com/files/imagecache/display/files/gallery/pemberton-festival-day-3/080727%20Pemberton%20Festival%2022-34-08-1-Edit.JPG

While the rap fanatics retreated, everyone else rushed forward for Coldplay, whose brand of triumphant pop is tailor-made to the scale of an outdoor mega-festival at night. Lead singer Chris Martin was in fine form, nailing all his soaring parts and bounding giddily across the stage, ever the endearing, self-deprecating fool. When the Englishmen launched into “Viva La Vida”, he seemed to want to leap out of his skin, basking in the peculiar satisfaction that must come when 40,000 strangers are singing your own words back to you.

If you looked closely, you could see he was wearing bandannas, too, wrapped as arm-bands on his jacket, as if in solidarity with every dust-caked survivor below.

Full article here: http://www.straight.com/article-155541/coldplay-show-solidarity-pembertons-dust

[Mimixxx]

I'm surprised they did the little acoustic set at a festival, there's about 39,000 people that can't see :P

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[Texasluvsjonny]

I'm guessing no magic balls at outdoor venues? Did they use the big screen more?

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

was this on tv

[blue_girl]

you can tell it's Guy in the photos from his usual stance.... :dead:

Oh yes lol i just realise was him :) i thought he only used his red shirt lol but now its blue.. so its even better :D i love blue!

[englishrose]

We got back about two hours ago.
I'll do my report soon but I have to give myself a chance to start functioning properly again...suffice to say that Coldplay were fucking amazing...
*collapses*

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

^^:laugh3: .......:stunned:wait are u okay?

[Malcolm-Edge]

I'm guessing no magic balls at outdoor venues? Did they use the big screen more?

Oh yes there was one.

I agree with those who said it was a great show. It was blew me away, no other show will Jay-Z and Death Cab ever open for Coldplay again.

I have hundreds of complaints about the festival its self. And stage set up and poor techs. The latter of which Coldplay felt the worse of. Treble dropping and going up was annoying.

Traffic....you people have no idea what the traffic was like, which also affected the performance. Performer showing up late which was behind me in traffic.

[StephBerryman]

^maybe that's why the other poster said that Will and Guy seemed out of it?

Wow...how bad was the traffic. after the concert in LA, 1.7 miles took 1 hr!

[Malcolm-Edge]

^maybe that's why the other poster said that Will and Guy seemed out of it?

Wow...how bad was the traffic. after the concert in LA, 1.7 miles took 1 hr!

Will look right into it, Guy seemed normal-ish. As headliners I think Coldplay got a helicopter in to avoid the line. Other bands didnt. I think we were infront of Wintersleep on the way in.

They need to widen the road next year 4 lanes is essential as it would have cut wait times in half.

The show was brilliant though, aside from drunk people.

Took us 3 hours to get into Pemberton (5KM) then after the concert it was 2 hour wait to the airport (5KM) and another 2 out. Then 6 hours to whistler (30km)

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

more videos of the concert:

politik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQXwpqtmyU


fix you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAdNh_IYu4

[englishrose]

^^:laugh3: .......:stunned:wait are u okay?

Never better! :D

Oh yes there was one.

I agree with those who said it was a great show. It was blew me away, no other show will Jay-Z and Death Cab ever open for Coldplay again.

I have hundreds of complaints about the festival its self. And stage set up and poor techs. The latter of which Coldplay felt the worse of. Treble dropping and going up was annoying.

Traffic....you people have no idea what the traffic was like, which also affected the performance. Performer showing up late which was behind me in traffic.

Took us 4 hours to get 10 km. I'm not exaggerating.

Report coming...

[Malcolm-Edge]

We walked to the airport to get our car and went the other way around. Long way, but we liked it cause we were actually moving at 100KM.

Overall music was great. I hope next year we get an Irish foursome. And different stage positions.

[englishrose]

I'll try and keep this short-ish...apologies in advance if I write you a novel :P
After waiting in a line for an hour and a bit, I managed to get third row, right in front of center stage. I'm only 5' tall, so I couldn't really see unless I contorted myself but I managed. Vampire Weekend was excellent--they were defnitely one of the highlights of the festival for me. N.E.R.D followed them--that was hard to endure. They were shit. Plus the crowd started pushing and moshing during their set, and didn't back down afterwards...I ended up being shoved back a couple rows and right to the left edge of the enclosure-whatsit. I ended up being on the rail, though, so I had a better view than when I started. Death Cab would have been great had the bass not been about 500 times too loud--I swear it rearranged my insides, and I literally could not hear a thing the singer was doing. Oh well. Then Jay-Z came on, and I'm amazed to say that I actually enjoyed it--a lot. Normally I avoid rap like the plague but he did an excellent show.

And then. Ah, Coldplay. I swear, from the very first note of Life In Technicolour to the last one of the Escapist, I forgot about the copious amounts of pain I was in from being crushed chest-first into the railing by however many thousands of people...:stunned: I had a pretty excellent view, considering. I could see about two-thirds of the stage clear as day, but unfortunately Guy was on the third that I couldn't see the entire time...
They were incredible. Despite the hiccups--Jonny's guitars sounded really sharp throughout the concert, but he managed to cover it up pretty well. Whoever tuned them will have got the sack. The setlist has already been posted, so I don't need to tell you how amazing it was...the crowd was great, singing through the whole of Yellow, VLV and Fix You, and I sang along to the rest. :P Chris replaced a couple of lyrics with lines about festival traffic, and about halfway through Lost!...he got, um, a bit carried away with his dancing and...he fell over! God, it was priceless. He jumped right back up, but he didn't quip about it once he was back at the mic, which I thought he would. Maybe he was too embarassed or something. I feel a bit bad for laughing...
After Lost! they came offstage and walked through the fenced-off pathway thinger towards the middle/back of the audience. I was literally two feet away from them. I just about died...the Scientist acoustic was really lovely, and then Will sang Death Will Never Conquer, which was also lovely. After which they walked back up to the stage, meaning I died again...
Politik was amazing. I loved the piano outtro (does anyone know what it is?). Lovers was a really big higlight for me--they did the butterfly confetti, and I caught some...it looked so pretty falling all over the stage as they were singing. They finished with DAAHF, and then it was over...truly, truly amazing. It definitely made that night one of the best of my life, and I've got the bruises to show for it...

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

I'll try and keep this short-ish...apologies in advance if I write you a novel :P
After waiting in a line for an hour and a bit, I managed to get third row, right in front of center stage. I'm only 5' tall, so I couldn't really see unless I contorted myself but I managed. Vampire Weekend was excellent--they were defnitely one of the highlights of the festival for me. N.E.R.D followed them--that was hard to endure. They were shit. Plus the crowd started pushing and moshing during their set, and didn't back down afterwards...I ended up being shoved back a couple rows and right to the left edge of the enclosure-whatsit. I ended up being on the rail, though, so I had a better view than when I started. Death Cab would have been great had the bass not been about 500 times too loud--I swear it rearranged my insides, and I literally could not hear a thing the singer was doing. Oh well. Then Jay-Z came on, and I'm amazed to say that I actually enjoyed it--a lot. Normally I avoid rap like the plague but he did an excellent show.

And then. Ah, Coldplay. I swear, from the very first note of Life In Technicolour to the last one of the Escapist, I forgot about the copious amounts of pain I was in from being crushed chest-first into the railing by however many thousands of people...:stunned: I had a pretty excellent view, considering. I could see about two-thirds of the stage clear as day, but unfortunately Guy was on the third that I couldn't see the entire time...
They were incredible. Despite the hiccups--Jonny's guitars sounded really sharp throughout the concert, but he managed to cover it up pretty well. Whoever tuned them will have got the sack. The setlist has already been posted, so I don't need to tell you how amazing it was...the crowd was great, singing through the whole of Yellow, VLV and Fix You, and I sang along to the rest. :P Chris replaced a couple of lyrics with lines about festival traffic, and about halfway through Lost!...he got, um, a bit carried away with his dancing and...he fell over! God, it was priceless. He jumped right back up, but he didn't quip about it once he was back at the mic, which I thought he would. Maybe he was too embarassed or something. I feel a bit bad for laughing...
After Lost! they came offstage and walked through the fenced-off pathway thinger towards the middle/back of the audience. I was literally two feet away from them. I just about died...the Scientist acoustic was really lovely, and then Will sang Death Will Never Conquer, which was also lovely. After which they walked back up to the stage, meaning I died again...
Politik was amazing. I loved the piano outtro (does anyone know what it is?). Lovers was a really big higlight for me--they did the butterfly confetti, and I caught some...it looked so pretty falling all over the stage as they were singing. They finished with DAAHF, and then it was over...truly, truly amazing. It definitely made that night one of the best of my life, and I've got the bruises to show for it...

very cool......thanks for posting and glad u had fun

[Malcolm-Edge]

Great location. I stayed at the back barrier and stood on it and got a great view. Then ran to see the b-stage about 10-15 feet away. Probably heard me screaming. :P

The sound hickups were annoying. Im glad they worked it out for Politik onward. Politik was bloody brilliant. Traffic was worth it.

And yes Jay-Z was awesome! He had great energy and a great crowd.

[englishrose]

very cool......thanks for posting and glad u had fun

:nice:

I'm just uploading my photos/videos...might take a while though, given this shit internet connection...:dozey:

[suzanafg]

englishrose, such a nice review you wrote, very detailed. I'm glad you enjoyed it!S

[suzanafg]

englishrose, such a nice review you wrote, very detailed. I'm glad you enjoyed it!S

[Malcolm-Edge]

My little review:

Starting off I slowly got aggravated waiting in line to get into Pemberton for what seemed like hours. I eventually got there. Wandered around the site for awhile. Wasnt as committed to getting front row so i stood on a barricade 45 feet back and got a good view of the stage.

"How you doing Vancouver!?...Ive just been informed we are in Pemberton! Doesnt matter Cause we are here in Canada" Good job generalising the second largest country in the world. N.E.R.D. only thing they were good for was putting the final nail in the traffic coffin; by getting caught in traffic and delaying their set 30 minutes . They proved to the organizers that traffic was BAD. the 30 minutes eventually grew to over an hour with reoccurring sound problems.

Death Cab was very good, 5 minuite bass solo was awesome. Good Energy, and like he said :The only time I will be able to say this in my life. JAY-Z is next!!!"

Hova provided an electric set with hit after hit after hit. I enjoyed his set a lot his last was the best Encore! "I love Canada you gotta tell boarder guard to be gentle on HOVA so he can come back!

Coldplay...from the first note of Life In Technicolor(the second time) to the last note of The Escapist. They were brilliant. Playing hit after hit that pleased the crowd of 30,000 strong.

"You all stayed?" Of course we did Chris, you guys are amazing. The first Sunday Singalong was Viva La Vida which was amazing. immediately followed by Fix You. "Lights will guide you hoooome and ignite your bones....and i will try to fix you" the crowd sang for chris as usual! "I want to thank you for taking a chance on a new festival that you didnt know if it was gona be shit or great. Its turned out great."

Then the last part of lost! "Just because Im losing doesnt mean im..." Lost the crowd sang rather dismally. "Oh come on one more time and we'll come all the way to the back. To which the back roared LOST!

The b-stage performance was cool. I got 10 feet from the Jesus Of Cool. And after that the best moment of the concert came. In the form of....POLITIK.

After Politik I could have gone home happy. We got Lovers with major confetti which was pretty cool...was hoping for fireworks as it being out doors.

"This is our last song tonight. Thank you for coming sticking through traffic! See You soon" Death and All His Friends, was brilliant.

The show blew me away. I sit here now praying for a 2009 N.A. tour with Vancouver stops to see them again in a more intimate setting and seats...those are a must for a good week.

Overall Im looking forward to next year, I've learned from this experience and will that those lessons to next years fest!

[busybeeburns]

great review! :)

[A RUSH OF VIDA]

this is during the song LOST and he falls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdgEZ-ehE04


might i add he falls sooo really funny

[Jenjie]

embedded for you :)


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[Jenjie]

Musical thrills were worth the wait

As they hit the stage 50 minutes late at the mega-musical festival they helped to create, the members of Coldplay seemed genuinely grateful that people had stuck around to hear them, late on a Sunday night and after a weekend of logistical problems that might have sent less devoted fans running. "Thanks for waiting around for us," front man Chris Martin said after the opening song, Violet Hill.

Then they put on a show that was the worth the wait.

Martin exhibited more than his typical enthusiasm as he rocked out on the guitar and behind the piano, complete with dance moves that made you wonder if he's been getting tips from Gord Downie. Their light show dazzled, with laser beams, a lit-up peanut-shaped balloon bouncing through the audience, and of course the trademark yellow floodlights to accompany the hit Yellow.

Martin is every bit the rock star. At the same time, he seemed almost humbled and certainly delighted as he looked out at the packed field in the remote Pemberton Valley and saw first-hand the result of his band's dream to help to produce - and headline - a European-style music festival in North America: thousands of fans, on-site camping, a killer lineup.

"You braved hours of traffic and rain - all to take a chance on a new festival," Martin said, adding that the consensus was that the event has been "a great success."

Their late arrival onstage was the result of a backlog caused earlier in the day when the American funk/hip-hop/alt-rock band N.E.R.D. got stuck in the notorious traffic that overwhelmed the highway between Whistler and Pemberton all weekend. A drive that normally takes 25 minutes took up to 4½ hours on Sunday.

The scary prospect of the drive back saw the crowd thinning out a few songs into Coldplay's fine set. "Down your beer and let's go," someone behind me said to her friend during Viva La Vida. Behind the stage, the crawling traffic was visible - along with the flashing lights of emergency vehicles. Distracting, to be sure.

On distractions, what should have been a highlight of the night was marred by a sound issue that plagued the festival all weekend. As Coldplay performed a short set on a tiny stage set in the middle of the crowd - which included an acoustic version of The Scientist - the ever-present bass line coming out of the B-Live tent across the field was clearly audible. It made the experience less intimate for the audience and more challenging for Martin.

Still, it was a powerful show over all, with the crowd singing along word for word to hits including Clocks, In My Place and especially Yellow.

The inaugural Pemberton Festival ended with a double-barrelled bang: Before Coldplay, hip-hop superstar Jay-Z put on an extraordinary performance that had fans in a tizzy for more than an hour: waving their arms in tribute, bouncing like crazy and, in the case of a few free-wheeling female fans, flashing the crowd on the giant video screens. Things never let up. It was electric.

One wonders about any controversy in having Jay-Z headline a music festival (a debate raged after he was announced as this year's Glastonbury Festival headliner). Even Martin joked during Coldplay's set: "We're honoured to be closing for Jay-Z."

The juxtaposition of Jay-Z's urban lyrics against the silhouette of the darkening mountains was something to experience. As he made his way through hit after hit - 99 Problems; Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem); Jigga What, Jigga Who; even a bit of Crazy in Love (minus new bride Beyoncé) - fans who should have been pretty spent after a long, dusty weekend were beyond enthusiastic.

As the show wrapped up, like a teacher handing out gold stars at the end of class, Jay-Z sent some shout-outs to audience members whose enthusiasm he had noticed. "You in the yellow T-shirt," he pointed to a fan. "And you, baby girl."

An unlikely highlight from earlier in the day was a stunning two-song collaboration between Toronto's Dj Dopey and part of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As Dj Dopey (a.k.a. Jon Ryan Santiago) stood centre-stage behind his turntable set-up in his Notes To Self T-shirt, a black curtain slowly rose behind him, revealing 16 members of the VSO in formal wear (we're talking white tuxedos and black ball gowns).

The classical musicians played the opening strains of The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, Dj Dopey was spinning and scenes from The Shining flashed on the screens behind the stage. The young, mojito-infused crowd in the B-Live tent ate it up. Future VSO subscription holders? Perhaps.

For the most part, Sunday's lineup provided a bang-up end to a festival that had its share of logistical problems (including long lineups for shuttles, showers and porta-potties), but delivered big time on musical thrills.

Martin wound up Coldplay's show by wishing for "many more years of success" for the festival and thanking everyone once again for sticking around. "Sorry about the traffic, but I hope it's been worthwhile."

A chance to see Coldplay, Jay-Z, The Tragically Hip, Nine Inch Nails, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Buck 65, Wintersleep (I could go on) all in one weekend? Worthwhile doesn't begin to cover it.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080729.PEMBERTON29/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Music/

[Jenjie]

Traffic and Dust Problems Overshadow Pemberton Festival's Big Name Line-Up

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-pember.jpg

Over the weekend, the Pemberton Festival brought artists like Jay-Z, Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails and the Flaming Lips to play to more than 40,000 festival-goers in the B.C. wilderness. But it also brought a fair share of chaos as well. According to several news reports, the inaugural music fest was marred by kilometres-long traffic jams, chaotic parking lots, choking clouds of dust, overflowing toilets and overworked medical tents.

After many fans got hung up on the 30-kilometre stretch of highway between Whistler and Pemberton— some for over five hours — they were greeted by parking situation that left many scratching their heads. “Getting here from Whistler was a nightmare,” festival-goer Adelle Papp told CBC News. “Then we paid $90 for parking, and we just stumbled on it. There was no one directing traffic, nothing.”

Exclaim! correspondent Amanda Ash, who covered the festival for us, faced a different obstacle of her own when he bus turned over, forcing the passengers to escape through the emergency exits. “Our bus flipped last night because they didn't make the roads big enough to fit two cars. Awesome,” said reported. “I’ve never had to use the emergency escape before last night. It's kinda funny after the fact (especially since parts of this festival are a total disaster, as I'm sure you've already heard) but during the whole tipping process I thought I was going to die. Haha.”

Amanda also gave a more detailed account of the traffic jam, adding, “There's only one road in and one road out, so traffic was a nightmare. Tour buses were late (obviously). I missed half the festival on Saturday because I was stuck in traffic for over three hours. Another reporter was stuck in traffic for six hours yesterday. Police couldn't get in and ambulances couldn't get out. Oh, and the place looks like a makeshift refugee camp because there were only a handful of garbage cans. All the papers on Friday pretty much said it was a gong show.”

Once everyone managed to pass all the traffic hurdles, many had to play the waiting once more, with line-ups to get a beer, use the toilet and even get a bottle of water being almost as long as those on the highway. And while this may be expected for a festival of this size, concertgoers had to do it all while inhaling clouds of dust kicked up by crowds on farmer’s field-turned-festival site, forcing many to cover their faces with scarves to avoid inhaling the dust.

Over at the first aid tent, Dr. Samuel Gutman told the Vancouver Sun that the dust had been causing a lot of problems for some festival-goers. “With the dust, we’ve seen lots of respiratory illnesses, and lots of hay fever, which makes sense, given the floor is spread with hay,” he said.

He said, the medical team treated about 250 cases a day, with the roving response teams taking care of about 600 to 800 people a day. “To give you a persecutive, at Lion’s Gate, which is a main trauma receiving hospital, we’d see 120 a day,” Gutman told the Sun. “Friday we did over a hundred IVs. We actually completely exceeded our stock.”

Also, it seems the security wasn’t as tight as promised, causing many music fans to come out with complaints. "Security was giving up," concertgoer Chris Betts told the Canadian Press. "There were no checks and no one seemed to know who was in charge."

Another Pemberton audience member told the CBC: "It was kind of like going to a war zone. It feels like entering a refugee camp: tents, blowing dust and bright lights."

Yet, despite the problems, Pemberton Festival organizers are already talking about doing it all again next year. “In our inaugural year, there are obviously kinks and we have identified those issues and we have been taking notes and figuring out how we can improve,” festival producer Shane Bourbonnais of Live Nation told the Province newspaper. “We have already started looking at ways of fixing them, working toward a much smoother festival for next year.”

http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=844&fid1=32743

[Jenjie]

Traffic and Dust Problems Overshadow Pemberton Festival's Big Name Line-Up

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-pember.jpg

Over the weekend, the Pemberton Festival brought artists like Jay-Z, Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails and the Flaming Lips to play to more than 40,000 festival-goers in the B.C. wilderness. But it also brought a fair share of chaos as well. According to several news reports, the inaugural music fest was marred by kilometres-long traffic jams, chaotic parking lots, choking clouds of dust, overflowing toilets and overworked medical tents.

After many fans got hung up on the 30-kilometre stretch of highway between Whistler and Pemberton— some for over five hours — they were greeted by parking situation that left many scratching their heads. “Getting here from Whistler was a nightmare,” festival-goer Adelle Papp told CBC News. “Then we paid $90 for parking, and we just stumbled on it. There was no one directing traffic, nothing.”

Exclaim! correspondent Amanda Ash, who covered the festival for us, faced a different obstacle of her own when he bus turned over, forcing the passengers to escape through the emergency exits. “Our bus flipped last night because they didn't make the roads big enough to fit two cars. Awesome,” said reported. “I’ve never had to use the emergency escape before last night. It's kinda funny after the fact (especially since parts of this festival are a total disaster, as I'm sure you've already heard) but during the whole tipping process I thought I was going to die. Haha.”

Amanda also gave a more detailed account of the traffic jam, adding, “There's only one road in and one road out, so traffic was a nightmare. Tour buses were late (obviously). I missed half the festival on Saturday because I was stuck in traffic for over three hours. Another reporter was stuck in traffic for six hours yesterday. Police couldn't get in and ambulances couldn't get out. Oh, and the place looks like a makeshift refugee camp because there were only a handful of garbage cans. All the papers on Friday pretty much said it was a gong show.”

Once everyone managed to pass all the traffic hurdles, many had to play the waiting once more, with line-ups to get a beer, use the toilet and even get a bottle of water being almost as long as those on the highway. And while this may be expected for a festival of this size, concertgoers had to do it all while inhaling clouds of dust kicked up by crowds on farmer’s field-turned-festival site, forcing many to cover their faces with scarves to avoid inhaling the dust.

Over at the first aid tent, Dr. Samuel Gutman told the Vancouver Sun that the dust had been causing a lot of problems for some festival-goers. “With the dust, we’ve seen lots of respiratory illnesses, and lots of hay fever, which makes sense, given the floor is spread with hay,” he said.

He said, the medical team treated about 250 cases a day, with the roving response teams taking care of about 600 to 800 people a day. “To give you a persecutive, at Lion’s Gate, which is a main trauma receiving hospital, we’d see 120 a day,” Gutman told the Sun. “Friday we did over a hundred IVs. We actually completely exceeded our stock.”

Also, it seems the security wasn’t as tight as promised, causing many music fans to come out with complaints. "Security was giving up," concertgoer Chris Betts told the Canadian Press. "There were no checks and no one seemed to know who was in charge."

Another Pemberton audience member told the CBC: "It was kind of like going to a war zone. It feels like entering a refugee camp: tents, blowing dust and bright lights."

Yet, despite the problems, Pemberton Festival organizers are already talking about doing it all again next year. “In our inaugural year, there are obviously kinks and we have identified those issues and we have been taking notes and figuring out how we can improve,” festival producer Shane Bourbonnais of Live Nation told the Province newspaper. “We have already started looking at ways of fixing them, working toward a much smoother festival for next year.”

http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=844&fid1=32743

[busybeeburns]

Coldplay @ Pemberton Festival-Life in Technicolour + Violet Hill-2008-07-27

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[Texasluvsjonny]

^ First, that is some high quality video :stunned:
Second, you left some discriptions out Ian...need to add "drunk Canadains singing Lover Boy, badly" and "I'm dead sexy" :lol:

[Mimixxx]

That's a great vid :D Pity that stupid girl who works there decided to ruin the view, but still ace! :D

[BostonSportsTD]

haha thos people were ridiculous. but the part with coldplay actually in it was very good!

[Carlaatje]

this is during the song LOST and he falls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdgEZ-ehE04


might i add he falls sooo really funny

i know i'm not suppost to laugh but... :laugh3:

[Texasluvsjonny]

this is during the song LOST and he falls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdgEZ-ehE04


might i add he falls sooo really funnyThose bullets finally got him. :laugh3:

[Mimixxx]

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[Kaycee]

Great show - i tried to get near the front but got squashed, drenched with water when someone threw it, and crowd surfed over, so I gave up. I'll post some videos (from the safety of the VIP compound of to the side) in awhile!

3000 km drive in the past 6 days - 13 km long traffic jams - took us 4 hours to get into the festival site on Sunday - they REALLY need to make some major changes! It's a small town of 1000, with 40,000 people arriving on one 2 lane road!!!!

It was VERY dusty too, and long lineups for everything - toilets, food, drinks, etc, etc, etc.

But Coldplay made it all worth while!!

[StephBerryman]

Will look right into it, Guy seemed normal-ish. As headliners I think Coldplay got a helicopter in to avoid the line. Other bands didnt. I think we were infront of Wintersleep on the way in.

They need to widen the road next year 4 lanes is essential as it would have cut wait times in half.

The show was brilliant though, aside from drunk people.

Took us 3 hours to get into Pemberton (5KM) then after the concert it was 2 hour wait to the airport (5KM) and another 2 out. Then 6 hours to whistler (30km)

Yikes! the traffic i endured was a cakewalk compared to this.

[ColdplayCold]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IdgEZ-ehE04

Hopefully he didn't get injured. I thought he was drunk for a second.

[Altimax98]

That was pretty funny, but he didnt miss a beat. Thats impressive.

[uwwedoogie]

hey you robbed my avatar :P:P

[Kaycee]

Here is a video of 42 and Fix You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFL-ubnTH0

And some photos of the main stage, and the long lineup on the road

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/kcalder/HPIM3603.jpg

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[CRYSTAL]

great kaycee, any one have videos for chinese sleep chant and god put a smile upon your face?

[Denise]

Pics from Rolling Stone

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[Kaycee]

great kaycee, any one have videos for chinese sleep chant and god put a smile upon your face?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2rvOwepDo

There you go! Chinese Sleep chant (missing first few seconds) and GPASUYF

[CRYSTAL]

thanks kaycee!

[Mimixxx]

Roadie #42 - Blog #17
July 30, 2008 11:02 pm
#42 becomes a mountain person
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We arrive in Whistler pretty dazed and confused. The travel has been fairly brutal once again - but hey,nobody said it was easy...

All I knew about this in advance was that it's a festival. I think I vaguely got the idea that there would be some trees. But the van ride from the airport to Whistler lays it all out before us in glorious technicolour. Mountains, lakes, glacial streams, it's all here. The road hairpins its way around the mountains revealing another breathtaking vista with every turn. By the time we reach the hotel, pretty much the entire crew have decided that they're going to knock touring on the head and retire here to write their memoirs. OK, maybe that's just me, but it's pretty much as gorgeous as planet earth gets here, so suddenly the sleep deprivation seems a little more worthwhile.

The fact that the hotel itself is an out of season ski-lodge can't help but bring to mind 'The Shining'. This doesn't improve when I meet Production Assistant Marguerite in the lobby at 3am for the load-in. She tells me there is only one road in and out, which has been closed due to an accident. I decide to go back to bed, but the first sign of a little bloke on a trike shouting "Red rum" and I'm off.

Cutting to the show itself, I can't not mention standing at the side of the stage to watch Jay-Z's set. Notonly is he more than able to blow a crowd away, but the punters are right up for it. As for his band - well any tighter and they'd have imploded. He "bigs up" our boys generously before he leaves and walks away from a job well done - not to mention leaving the bar set rather high.

Never ones to shy away from a challenge, our fellas throw themselves into it with abandon. It's one of those size crowds where you start to wonder whether the people at the back can see for the curvature of the earth, but they're clearly trying to project right to the very back. As they steam into In My Place, every part of Will's drumkit is bouncing,rocking and swinging in an almost cartoon-like slo-mo explosion. It looks like he's literally trying to break his kit to pieces - and may well succeed!

Inevitably, the hits get the rowdiest response. Festivals are ever thus. It's telling, though, that despite the prospect of utterly horrendous traffic and the temptation of leaving early, the crowd hardly dwindles until the outro is run. It's been the first run for the Pemberton festival, as well as the first festival show for us on this tour. I reckon we all did pretty damn well.

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[CRYSTAL]

apart from Chris falling down does any one have Lost full video?

and yeah also speed of sound.

because these are the only ones i haven't seen left over.

[StephBerryman]

oh my goodness...Whistler is gorgeous! That's my next vacation spot.

[Jenjie]

darned #42. he always wait for me to go for breakfast/lunch/home/bed before posting, after i've been refreshing Coldplay.com on and off for hours. I'm starting to get a complex :laugh3:

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VANCOUVER - The dust hasn't settled after all at the Pemberton music festival in British Columbia.

The Agricultural Land Commission says the festival, which featured headliners Coldplay, Jay-Z, Tom Petty and Nine Inch Nails and drew about 40,000 people to the area, is inappropriate for prime farmland and promoters should find a new venue if they want to repeat the event next year.

"The success in this case could further compromise the agricultural capability of the land," commission executive director Colin Fry said Tuesday.

Fry said the commission met March 12 to grudgingly approve the July 25-27 festival as "non-farm use" on 50 hectares of agricultural land for 2008 only.

Minutes from the meeting show the festival could be held "for this year, and this year only" and that further festivals would not be approved because "long term use of this site as a concert venue will debilitate this high quality agricultural land."

Issues include soil compaction, soil contamination, construction of permanent facilities such as roads and buildings and the potential for the event to expand in coming years.

The commission also expressed displeasure that organizers of the event did not file an application until Feb. 6, putting pressure on the commission to give approval with limited time to consider the issue.

Fry said the promoter has the legal right to reapply to the commission to hold the concert on the same site in 2009, but that "they do so in full knowledge of the decision made many months ago that the commission is not supportive of repeated, continued events on this site."

The festival was considered a success despite dusty conditions and long traffic lineups.

Shane Bourbonnais, president of touring and business development for concert promoters Live Nation Canada, said that if the ALC doesn't allow the use of this piece of land, the future of the festival will be in jeopardy.

"We have looked and looked and looked and we really think that this site . . . is the best possible site in Pemberton," he said.

He remains optimistic about the future of the festival.

"The landowners had a great time and they would love to have it back," he said, adding that they made more money in rental fees from Live Nation than they could have farming.

Besides, Bourbonnais said, the farmers on the land - the majority of which is owned by Ravens Crest Developments Ltd. - managed to get one hay crop harvested before the festival and may even get another out of the field before the end of the season.

Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy said the window is still open for the current site to be used, since a land-use application hasn't even been submitted to the ALC.

First, Sturdy said, the village will consult with residents and stakeholders about whether they want to hold the festival again. So far, he said, the response from locals has been "overwhelmingly positive."

Sturdy, who owns a farm not far from the festival site, said it could be frustrating if the ALC overrules the wishes of the community and Live Nation.

"Food production is by no means optimized in the Pemberton valley," he said, adding "there's no question" the land can be remediated after the festival.

"The grass is growing," he said. "In fact, if you drove by there today you'd be hard-pressed to know that a festival took place there a few weeks ago."

Asked how much of Pemberton is within the agricultural land reserve, Sturdy said: "The whole valley."

If forbidden from having the festival on ALR, Sturdy said Live Nation has one other option: heading up the highway to Mount Currie and the Lil'wat Nation's reserve land, which is outside of the ALC's jurisdiction.

The Vancouver Sun could not reach a Lil'wat spokesperson on Tuesday.

The 16th annual Merritt Mountain Music Festival took place in the B.C. Interior on agricultural land two weeks before the Pemberton Festival, raising the question of a double standard.

Fry said every application is considered on an individual basis, and that the Pemberton site "from a soils perspective is significantly better" than Merritt, B.C., a dry predominantly haying and ranchland grazing area.

"Merritt is proof the commission is prepared to look at these activities," he said.

The Pemberton site included 50 hectares of class one and class two farmland capable of growing a wide range of crops.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ccca9e70-5697-48fd-a96d-e89bc89b08e1

[Jenjie]

First post updated with videos. Have had a hunt round and found a few more tracks :D

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