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 Panorama: American Airlines Arena, Miami 30 June 2012 10:16 pm Here's our latest panorama show from Coldplay's North American tour  Good evening. Here's Roadie #42's panorama shot taken before last night's show in Miami. Click the picture for the hi-res version.  Click here for more summer 2012 crowd panoramas. Anchorman
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02-07-2012, 01:58 AM
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 Roadie #42 - Blog #174 2 July 2012 1:21 am #42 and the curious tale of the disappearing guitar camera So here’s a funny one. I’ve been playing about with a bunch of new cameras lately. Even though it’s the cheapest of them, one of the most interesting is a tiny little video camera that was invented for sticking on skydivers heads. What better way to test it then, than to stick it to the end of the guitar that Chris throws into the air at the end of God Put A Smile? Hoppy spends a lot of his working day repairing this guitar and nursing it through the tour. Understandably, he’s not entirely sure about the idea when I first explain it, but he’s game. I rig it up and show him how to press record, then pretty much forget all about it. During Princess of China after God Put A Smile is done, Hoppy’s voice comes over the comms system. “I’ve got no idea where your camera ended up, mate”. Oh bugger. We have a quick scan around the stage while the band are on the B-stage and then wait until they take off for the two songs at the back of the arena. I’m down in the pit with a torch, searching on the floor when Darren from the video department informs me that he saw it fly off towards the confetti canon, stage right. Despite a pretty thorough hunt, no joy. I head back to my bunker to be ready for Clocks and tweet a quick message from the Coldplay account asking if anyone that’s been to the show saw where it went. I don’t hold out much hope - I mean what are the odds? I’m thoroughly expecting to endure a few days of “I am Spartacus”-style wind up, as hundreds of folks who weren’t even at the show all turn up claiming they’ve got our camera. Hmmmmm. Mainly though, I just want to see what’s on it! When the show is done and we’re heading for the plane, I have a quick look on Twitter and I’m astonished by the explosion of retweets. A few folks quite helpfully tell me they saw it come off and in which direction it went, but nobody found it when it landed. Oh well, that’s that. An hour or so later though, as we’re getting to the hotel in Miami, there’s a tweet saying “we have your camera!”. Really? Hmm, could this be the start of the hoaxes? Shortly afterwards though, they post a photo of the camera. It clearly shows a sticker that I put on it just before the show.  My god! That’s it! After a bit of email back and forth, it turns out that they were in the front row after being “upgraded” from seats way up the back. The band have done this for ages now. It came about after struggling with shows where the seats closest to the stage were often full of just “the highest bidders” and not necessarily the most enthusiastic fans. In European standing shows, the front rows are the kids who’ve been outside the venue since daybreak and who’ve sprinted in to get the pole position. Usually by the time the opening acts have finished they’re at fever pitch with excitement. The sight of Chris’s piano being wheeled into position can bring about a screaming cheer - explosive enough to make you think the show has already started. In contrast, folks who’d paid astronomical sums for the tickets could often just sit with an arms folded sense of entitlement, emoting “come on then, entertain me, have you any idea how much I paid for this?”. So the band don’t sell the tickets to the front few rows any more. Instead, various crew members are sent out to scan the highest, furthest seats to find folks who look genuinely excited and giddy to be seeing the band. They’re then given tickets to the front row (which quite often looks a very, very long way away from the “nosebleed” seats). Often, folks think it’s a scam and refuse to believe it. Often they go berserk and jump up and down screaming - until they have to calm down before they fall down. Eventually, though, they end up down the front and the natural order of things is restored. For them, it’s a Willy Wonka golden ticket. For the band, it’s guaranteed energy from the folks closest to them. It genuinely does make the shows better. We’ve all said it many times. How good a show is, is largely to do with how good the audience are. It’s what fuels the whole thing.  So it seems, Andy, Brianna and Julia (above) had been upgraded. And a good thing too! When the guitar flew through the air and came crashing down onto the stage, my camera flew apart in all directions. The guts of it though, landed at their feet - and they very kindly mailed it back to me the next day. Twitter, it would seem, has more uses than telling folks what you had for lunch… The camera got pretty comprehensively trashed upon its crash landing. The waterproof enclosure was shattered and gone, the back cover missing, the battery AWOL, but the body intact. With a little work though, I coaxed the footage from the poor frightened little bugger. So here we have it ladies and gents - I give you the final seconds of the 42cam’s maiden flight: Never a dull moment… R42
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02-07-2012, 05:30 AM
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Thats the best live video ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
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02-07-2012, 06:35 AM
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^have to agree, best footage ever!
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02-07-2012, 07:35 AM
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Oh WOW.. oh wow.. that is SO so cool! what are the chances he got the camera back too... amazing!
I love that..
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Oh WOW.. oh wow.. that is SO so cool! what are the chances he got the camera back too... amazing!
I love that.. SO much I posted twice apparently LOL
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02-07-2012, 09:00 AM
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AMAZING video
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02-07-2012, 09:13 AM
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This better be on the DVD.
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02-07-2012, 07:22 PM
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02-07-2012, 07:44 PM
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03-07-2012, 05:18 PM
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 Panorama: Philips Arena, Atlanta 3 July 2012 5:05 pm Roadie #42's pre-show photo of last night's crowd Good evening. Here's our crowd panorama shot of last night's crowd at the Philips Arena in Atlanta. Click to see the hi-res version. You can upload your pictures from the show (and check out others) in our Live Archive.  Click here for more summer 2012 crowd panoramas. Anchorman
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04-07-2012, 05:31 PM
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 Panorama: Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte 4 July 2012 5:08 pm Here's Roadie #42's panorama shot from last night's show Good evening. Here is Roadie #42's crowd panorama photo of last night's crowd at Charlotte's Time Warner Cable Arena. Click the picture to see the hi-res version. You can upload your pictures from the show (and check out others') in our Live Archive.  Click here for more summer 2012 crowd panoramas. Anchorman
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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
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06-07-2012, 07:11 PM
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 Panorama: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia 6 July 2012 7:01 pm Our latest pre-show crowd panorama from the North American tour Good evening. Here's Roadie #42's marvellous pre-show panorama shot from last night's show at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Click the picture to see the hi-res version. And you can upload your pictures from the show (and check out others') in our Live Archive.  Click here for more summer 2012 crowd panoramas. Anchorman
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Not a news piece from coldplay.com, but can't find the relevant thread - sorry! Has anyone seen the new-look recordings section? Go to it, click on lyrics for one of them, and enjoy! I like the redesign, quite efficient
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