[9-Dec-2011] Coldplay @ O2 Arena, London, UK - Page 49

Tash · 22-12-2011, 01:30 PM

Norwich College’s budding sound technicians go behind the scenes of Coldplay gig at the O2 arena in London

Six Production Arts students from City College Norwich, who are more used to working in the College’s 250-seat theatre, will go behind the scenes at the 20,000 capacity O2 arena on Friday to see the fit up for Coldplay's sell-out concert. Pictured: Production Arts students Ashlie Mason, Evie Smith and Jonny Emery.

Students from City College Norwich received an inspiring experience that put their dreams into perspective.

Six production arts students went behind the scenes of the mission impossible operation that is the stage set up for a gig by a massive band in a massive venue, Coldplay at the 02 Arena in London.

On Friday December 9, Evie Smith, Ashlie Mason, Jonny Emery, Morgan Ellis, Harry Lackey and Rory Woodhouse met with people they aspire to be in future - sound and lighting technicians and tour production staff working on big jobs in the music industry.

They also met with and learnt from Coldplay’s tour manager, and the main stage managers for Latitude Festival and Glastonbury. And for the young, budding backstagers, who are more used to the college’s 250-seat theatre, to be given exclusive and rare access in a 20,000 capacity venue was an eye opener.

“It was really useful, it broadened my knowledge and gave me perspective,” said 17 year old Rory Woodhouse, from Thunder Lane, Thorpe St Andrew.

“Watching them rigging the stage and set up the lights was exciting, we do things on a much smaller scale. The speed they work is impressive, they are quite pressed for time.

“It inspired me to follow my dream of working as a followspot operator.”

Mr Woodhouse wants to work the spotlight for major bands, he’s in one himself.

“I would love to work at Wembley or the 02, that’s the dream and hopefully I’m working towards it,” he said.

The six were given the opportunity through the National Skills Academy Creative and Cultural’s Production Day Visits programme.

Evie Smith, 17 from Southburgh, said: “It was good to see what we are aiming for, now we have a target.

“It was amazing, we are so lucky, not even 02 staff are allowed to see the set up.

“We learnt so much, it was run totally different to how I expected. It was a few hours before the gig, I expected it to be manic but they were so organised.”

The group didn’t meet the band, but Miss Smith doesn’t seem too bothered.

“It was more beneficial to see the set up of the gig, without that there would be no show.

“It would have been cool to meet the band, but much more useful to meet the unsung heroes.

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LINNEAH · 27-12-2011, 04:52 PM

Was looking at the pictures from the concert yesterday and found a really cool picture. Well it's not a good one but it has a very special effect.... my friend had some strange settings at her camera and this is the result. Can someone tell? ;-)

Coeurli · 27-12-2011, 05:00 PM

Wow that's amazing

cleeson7 · 29-01-2012, 03:52 PM

Coldplay - O2 Arena - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall - YouTube

ah2k10 · 17-05-2012, 09:07 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by LINNEAH;5139051
Was looking at the pictures from the concert yesterday and found a really cool picture. Well it's not a good one but it has a very special effect.... my friend had some strange settings at her camera and this is the result. Can someone tell? ;-)

hi

im going to the emerites gig.

what were your timing like??

how early did u get there to get that close to the front??

great pic by the way

thanks

LINNEAH · 29-05-2012, 12:31 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by ah2k10;5299435
hi

im going to the emerites gig.

what were your timing like??

how early did u get there to get that close to the front??

great pic by the way

thanks

I was there around 10 and had only like 15-20 persons before us

but I guess if you want a good spot you don't need to get there that early, there was no rush until maybe ~ 2-3...

birdman987 · 30-08-2012, 09:11 AM

Can anyone point me towards Rob Brydon photos please?

ColdplayerForever · 05-09-2012, 01:33 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mimixxx;5113094
Ouch!

Coldplay, 02 Arena, London (2/5)

The Kraftwerk allusions, the Brian Eno productions, the “experimental” new directions: the propaganda which comes with each new Coldplay album would make you think they were a major rock band.

But as they break in their fifth, Mylo Xyloto, at the O2 Arena in front of 20,000 excited, adoring fans, it becomes obvious this is a category error. Chris Martin writes songs which Take That would kill for. The self-revelation and transformation of listeners some still expect of rock music never happens.
Coldplay are the lightest entertainment.

They are honest workers, though, and try so athletically hard. As “Hurts Like Heaven” opens the show, wristbands handed out with tickets glow in green, white and red, making the crowd look like Christmas lights. Two songs later, giant balloons drop from the roof, kicked open by singer Chris Martin to reveal confetti crosses. Two songs after that, they wheel out the confetti-cannons. Special effects are reinforced by physical ones. Martin makes regular running leaps down a gangway, looking posed for action photos in mid-air. But amidst this huffing and puffing, no excitement is actually coming off the stage. When Jonny Buckland and Martin circle each other on springy feet, they are equally ungainly and uncharismatic. Buckland’s lead guitar borrows U2’s sound, but does nothing with it.

Beneath the show’s eager to please bluster, what strikes me with increasing force is the repetition and weakness of Martin’s songs. From the solipsism of their first inescapable hit, “Yellow”, where the stars themselves “shine for you”, there is no lyric of mature realisation. Every song is other-directed, constructed for mass, mild elevation. Not a word suggests a real emotion of Martin’s as if, locked in a celebrity bubble early, he can’t locate them, and stopped learning long ago. “I will wait for you,” he sings on “In My Place”, straight from a Hollywood movie. “Nobody said it was easy,” he adds on “The Scientist”.
Nobody except Coldplay.

“Paradise” has their most inanely catchy chorus yet (“para-para-dise...”), and is a study of a woman who as a young girl believed in heaven, and, naturally, regains her dreams. But in Coldplay songs we’re always in heaven, where no suffering lasts. All they lack is the grit that makes artistic pearls. The crowd leave happy, because Coldplay have helped lower our expectations of pop. It’s got to be better than this.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...5-6275937.html

GO AWAY HATERS SHOULD NOT BE ON THIS SITE-****.

ColdplayerForever · 05-09-2012, 02:03 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Inside_a_Bubble;5110589
That was my 3rd and probably best Coldplay gig. Saw them with Jay-Z at Wembley and then saw them at the iTunes festival in Camden this summer. The crowd last night was the best by far and that's what makes it for me.

The wrist bands are an amazing idea and will take some beating! Can't wait to see what will come next. Paradise is a proper stadium anthem as is Charlie Brown.

Don't Panic was a fantastic suprise I never thought I'd see that song live - same with What If (even if everyone else decided that was the time to get the beers in...)

Overall a quality night and I can't wait for the Emirates in June

TOTALLY AGREE,I LOVE WHAT IF BEAUTIFUL SONG,BUT YES MAGIC NIGHT,BEST BAND IN THE WORLD,AS I SHOUTED OUT,AT SOME POINT!

ColdplayerForever · 05-09-2012, 02:06 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by MrB;5115381
Possibly the best concert I've ever been to! Great set - great performance and fantastic stage/light show (what the hell is that numpty from the independant on about!?) - a few vids I took...

http://youtu.be/PIXzf9TvaPE

http://youtu.be/-x3TULsQ47s

http://youtu.be/9OEJBy4Qj3k

http://youtu.be/ryHUC17Py0c

AGREED,I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS WHO'S AT THE TOP OF THE TREE RIGHT NOW,AND THEY'RE ON FIRE,AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET JEALOUSY,ENVY.AT THE END OF THE DAY,THEY ARE THE HARDEST WORKING,AND BEST BAND IN THE WORLD-TO WHOEVER DON'T LIKE IT FUCK EM!!

ColdplayerForever · 07-10-2012, 09:29 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by nancyk58;5108766
^^ I wonder whether Pete has done what he threatened to do when he posted that he had a bag of rotten fruit and veg in case they played "What If" tonight!

WHAT AN ARSEHOLE-GREAT SONG

22-12-2011, 01:30 PM	#721
Tash Ms Coldplaying 2012 Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 35,500 Location: 0118 Gender: Seen CP: 12 times Fav. CP album: VLVODAAHF Fav. CP song: See You Soon Fav. CP member: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 236 Thanked 4,044 Times in 1,887 Posts	Norwich College’s budding sound technicians go behind the scenes of Coldplay gig at the O2 arena in London Six Production Arts students from City College Norwich, who are more used to working in the College’s 250-seat theatre, will go behind the scenes at the 20,000 capacity O2 arena on Friday to see the fit up for Coldplay's sell-out concert. Pictured: Production Arts students Ashlie Mason, Evie Smith and Jonny Emery. Students from City College Norwich received an inspiring experience that put their dreams into perspective. Six production arts students went behind the scenes of the mission impossible operation that is the stage set up for a gig by a massive band in a massive venue, Coldplay at the 02 Arena in London. On Friday December 9, Evie Smith, Ashlie Mason, Jonny Emery, Morgan Ellis, Harry Lackey and Rory Woodhouse met with people they aspire to be in future - sound and lighting technicians and tour production staff working on big jobs in the music industry. They also met with and learnt from Coldplay’s tour manager, and the main stage managers for Latitude Festival and Glastonbury. And for the young, budding backstagers, who are more used to the college’s 250-seat theatre, to be given exclusive and rare access in a 20,000 capacity venue was an eye opener. “It was really useful, it broadened my knowledge and gave me perspective,” said 17 year old Rory Woodhouse, from Thunder Lane, Thorpe St Andrew. “Watching them rigging the stage and set up the lights was exciting, we do things on a much smaller scale. The speed they work is impressive, they are quite pressed for time. “It inspired me to follow my dream of working as a followspot operator.” Mr Woodhouse wants to work the spotlight for major bands, he’s in one himself. “I would love to work at Wembley or the 02, that’s the dream and hopefully I’m working towards it,” he said. The six were given the opportunity through the National Skills Academy Creative and Cultural’s Production Day Visits programme. Evie Smith, 17 from Southburgh, said: “It was good to see what we are aiming for, now we have a target. “It was amazing, we are so lucky, not even 02 staff are allowed to see the set up. “We learnt so much, it was run totally different to how I expected. It was a few hours before the gig, I expected it to be manic but they were so organised.” The group didn’t meet the band, but Miss Smith doesn’t seem too bothered. “It was more beneficial to see the set up of the gig, without that there would be no show. “It would have been cool to meet the band, but much more useful to meet the unsung heroes. link __________________ Luctor et Emergo/not swallowed in the sea Rotterdam 03-10-08 Nijmegen 09-09-09 Landgraaf 11-06-11 Arras 03-07-11 London 09-12-11 London 10-12-11 Rotterdam 17-12-11 London 01-06-12 London 02-06-12 London 04-06-12 Detroit 01-08-12 The Hague 06-09-12 *it means everything and it means nothing to everybody and nobody - Guy Berryman* *Phil, who is our fifth member, he doesn’t play an instrument but he plays the mobile phone and the laptop computer - Will Champion* *a negative capability is the ability within yourself to accept that things go up and down and you can't always control it and they can't always be up but they won't always be down - Chris Martin* it’s a good noisy crowd that sing through the show at the Ahoy - none more so than when the band are on the B-Stage and the cheer for Will during Us Against The World is so huge that the song grinds to a halt amidst disbelieving giggles on stage - Roadie #42

27-12-2011, 04:52 PM	#722
LINNEAH Coldplayer Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 53 My Mood: Location: Gothenburg Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 9 Thanked 19 Times in 6 Posts	Was looking at the pictures from the concert yesterday and found a really cool picture. Well it's not a good one but it has a very special effect.... my friend had some strange settings at her camera and this is the result. Can someone tell? ;-) __________________ 17/9 2008 Ericsson Globe, Stockholm 22/8 2009 Stockholm Stadium 27/6 2011 Where the action is, Gothenburg 9/12 2011 O2 Arena, London 2/6 2012 Emirates Stadium, London 28/8 2012 Parken Stadium, Copenhagen 30/8 2012 Stockholm Stadium

27-12-2011, 05:00 PM	#723
Coeurli It's pronounced Curly Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 13,861 Location: 136 Low Street, The Little Apple. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1,888 Thanked 1,495 Times in 850 Posts	Wow that's amazing __________________ A dazzled Coldplay fan. Also known as R Célly, or Nikola's PR. COLDPLAY: "Four very attractive young men playing the sexiest music ever created that will melt both your heart and your brain at the same time." "We're a punk band, you know that" - CM Stade de France, Paris, 2.09.2012 The night I had eye-sex twice with The Martin

17-05-2012, 09:07 AM	#725
ah2k10 Alex Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 34 My Mood: Location: Essex Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	Quote: Originally Posted by LINNEAH;5139051 Was looking at the pictures from the concert yesterday and found a really cool picture. Well it's not a good one but it has a very special effect.... my friend had some strange settings at her camera and this is the result. Can someone tell? ;-) hi im going to the emerites gig. what were your timing like?? how early did u get there to get that close to the front?? great pic by the way thanks __________________ We all want a spray can soul.....

29-05-2012, 12:31 PM	#726
LINNEAH Coldplayer Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 53 My Mood: Location: Gothenburg Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 9 Thanked 19 Times in 6 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by ah2k10;5299435 hi im going to the emerites gig. what were your timing like?? how early did u get there to get that close to the front?? great pic by the way thanks I was there around 10 and had only like 15-20 persons before us but I guess if you want a good spot you don't need to get there that early, there was no rush until maybe ~ 2-3... __________________ 17/9 2008 Ericsson Globe, Stockholm 22/8 2009 Stockholm Stadium 27/6 2011 Where the action is, Gothenburg 9/12 2011 O2 Arena, London 2/6 2012 Emirates Stadium, London 28/8 2012 Parken Stadium, Copenhagen 30/8 2012 Stockholm Stadium

30-08-2012, 09:11 AM	#727
birdman987 θρίαμβος αγάπης Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 180 Location: Wollongong and Sydney Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts	Can anyone point me towards Rob Brydon photos please? __________________ 14 March 2009: Sound Relief Bushfire Benefit Concert, Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney. 15 March 2009: Acer Arena, Sydney, Australia. I went to have a shower and a guy was obviously having a massage in a room next to where the shower was. I heard this lady say "Oh, what are you doing tonight?" And he said "I'm going to see Coldplay". And she said "Do you like that band?" And he said "Well, I would have preferred U2 but that's the best they've got on offer". CM

05-09-2012, 01:33 AM	#728
ColdplayerForever Coldplayer Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 51 Location: COLCHESTER,ESSEX. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by Mimixxx;5113094 Ouch! Coldplay, 02 Arena, London (2/5) The Kraftwerk allusions, the Brian Eno productions, the “experimental” new directions: the propaganda which comes with each new Coldplay album would make you think they were a major rock band. But as they break in their fifth, Mylo Xyloto, at the O2 Arena in front of 20,000 excited, adoring fans, it becomes obvious this is a category error. Chris Martin writes songs which Take That would kill for. The self-revelation and transformation of listeners some still expect of rock music never happens. Coldplay are the lightest entertainment. They are honest workers, though, and try so athletically hard. As “Hurts Like Heaven” opens the show, wristbands handed out with tickets glow in green, white and red, making the crowd look like Christmas lights. Two songs later, giant balloons drop from the roof, kicked open by singer Chris Martin to reveal confetti crosses. Two songs after that, they wheel out the confetti-cannons. Special effects are reinforced by physical ones. Martin makes regular running leaps down a gangway, looking posed for action photos in mid-air. But amidst this huffing and puffing, no excitement is actually coming off the stage. When Jonny Buckland and Martin circle each other on springy feet, they are equally ungainly and uncharismatic. Buckland’s lead guitar borrows U2’s sound, but does nothing with it. Beneath the show’s eager to please bluster, what strikes me with increasing force is the repetition and weakness of Martin’s songs. From the solipsism of their first inescapable hit, “Yellow”, where the stars themselves “shine for you”, there is no lyric of mature realisation. Every song is other-directed, constructed for mass, mild elevation. Not a word suggests a real emotion of Martin’s as if, locked in a celebrity bubble early, he can’t locate them, and stopped learning long ago. “I will wait for you,” he sings on “In My Place”, straight from a Hollywood movie. “Nobody said it was easy,” he adds on “The Scientist”. Nobody except Coldplay. “Paradise” has their most inanely catchy chorus yet (“para-para-dise...”), and is a study of a woman who as a young girl believed in heaven, and, naturally, regains her dreams. But in Coldplay songs we’re always in heaven, where no suffering lasts. All they lack is the grit that makes artistic pearls. The crowd leave happy, because Coldplay have helped lower our expectations of pop. It’s got to be better than this. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...5-6275937.html GO AWAY HATERS SHOULD NOT BE ON THIS SITE-****.

05-09-2012, 02:03 AM	#729
ColdplayerForever Coldplayer Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 51 Location: COLCHESTER,ESSEX. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by Inside_a_Bubble;5110589 That was my 3rd and probably best Coldplay gig. Saw them with Jay-Z at Wembley and then saw them at the iTunes festival in Camden this summer. The crowd last night was the best by far and that's what makes it for me. The wrist bands are an amazing idea and will take some beating! Can't wait to see what will come next. Paradise is a proper stadium anthem as is Charlie Brown. Don't Panic was a fantastic suprise I never thought I'd see that song live - same with What If (even if everyone else decided that was the time to get the beers in...) Overall a quality night and I can't wait for the Emirates in June TOTALLY AGREE,I LOVE WHAT IF BEAUTIFUL SONG,BUT YES MAGIC NIGHT,BEST BAND IN THE WORLD,AS I SHOUTED OUT,AT SOME POINT!

05-09-2012, 02:06 AM	#730
ColdplayerForever Coldplayer Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 51 Location: COLCHESTER,ESSEX. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by MrB;5115381 Possibly the best concert I've ever been to! Great set - great performance and fantastic stage/light show (what the hell is that numpty from the independant on about!?) - a few vids I took... http://youtu.be/PIXzf9TvaPE http://youtu.be/-x3TULsQ47s http://youtu.be/9OEJBy4Qj3k http://youtu.be/ryHUC17Py0c AGREED,I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS WHO'S AT THE TOP OF THE TREE RIGHT NOW,AND THEY'RE ON FIRE,AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET JEALOUSY,ENVY.AT THE END OF THE DAY,THEY ARE THE HARDEST WORKING,AND BEST BAND IN THE WORLD-TO WHOEVER DON'T LIKE IT FUCK EM!!

07-10-2012, 09:29 PM	#731
ColdplayerForever Coldplayer Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 51 Location: COLCHESTER,ESSEX. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by nancyk58;5108766 ^^ I wonder whether Pete has done what he threatened to do when he posted that he had a bag of rotten fruit and veg in case they played "What If" tonight! WHAT AN ARSEHOLE-GREAT SONG