[9-Sep-2012] Coldplay @ Paralympics Closing Ceremony, London, UK (please post your reviews for Wiki, thankyou!:D) - Page 72

KristenCaNaDiAn · 09-09-2012, 10:57 PM

OMG THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS!!

Absolutely amazing!!! Coldplay made it the best closing ceremonies ever!!! So proud of them

Tryptophan · 09-09-2012, 10:57 PM

Damn I missed it. I thought they were just going to do Princess of China with Rihanna, and maybe Viva or something, but what a surprising set that was! Any chance that I'll find it anywhere later on? Probably not that likely

PrincessofChina · 09-09-2012, 10:57 PM

They absolutely nailed it!

What a wonderful ending to these Paralympics! Truly amazing.

halokiti · 09-09-2012, 10:58 PM

That was amazing, I'm so proud of them. Such a great job by everyone that worked on it. From the boys, to the dancers, to the lighting, to the fireworks.

miumiu · 09-09-2012, 10:58 PM

No words to describe this amazing show!! THANK YOU COLDPLAY !!

nvdmm · 09-09-2012, 10:58 PM

i couldn't watch it guys but by the sound of it must have been spectacular. WELL DONE COLDPLAY! hope i can watch it soon somehow

coldplaykb · 09-09-2012, 10:58 PM

Amazing job Coldplay, no one could have even come close to putting on a show like that. Perfect performance, everything was just over the top. SO proud of Coldplay, and extremely proud to be a fan!!

RazorEye · 09-09-2012, 10:58 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by B.The_Scientist;5410814
Did Chris mess up lyrics during etiaw?

*rearrange

Lil Connie · 09-09-2012, 10:59 PM

Amazing and just really Fantastic , Thank you London !!!

delphin · 09-09-2012, 10:59 PM

None of the streams really worked for me here in Germany

Or maybe I'm just too stupid

busybeeburns · 09-09-2012, 10:59 PM

Paralympic Closing Ceremony 2012: Coldplay and Rihanna, review

As Neil Sedaka immortalised in song, breaking up is hard to do. Modern rituals of farewell - the awkward works leaving do, the bitter divorce, the mute despair of the civic funeral - seem designed to subdue rather than elevate our deeper emotions. Without religion and ritual we flail around trying to find shared punctuation for our lives.

The Paralympics closing ceremony marks the teary end to Britain’s summer of sporting love, when not only did we fall in love with the games and their heroes, but each other. Danny Boyle said London 2012 should be about the best of us, and the last six weeks Britain has been able to swoon over our finest attributes: kindness, a sense of fun, ambition, determination and a love of a good party.

And we got to share it, whether in the flesh at the carnivalesque, music filled Olympic park, or vicariously, in our parks and town centres, or on the TV. Saying farewell to this seemingly rare outbreak of communal, unbridled joy was certainly never going to be easy. The dog’s dinner of the Olympic closing ceremony proved that but director Kim Gavin returned for a second go at the pulling off the admittedly hard trick of combining all the pomp and speeches with something that combines the excitement of a rock concert with the emotion of a wake.

The first lesson learnt was obvious from the beginning: the bulk of the athletes were sat in the stadium before the ceremony began, cutting out the awkward timing of an overlong parade. Secondly, the thoughtful theatricality of the Paralympics opening ceremony with Stephen Hawking was mirrored in a more thematic, pagan-style show, based around the festival of the flame and the passing of the seasons. Introduced by a sermon from Lance Corporal Rory Mackenzie from the Help for Heroes charity, it was illustrated in a fire-filled opener filled with cannibalised machines that looked like a cross between War Horse and Scrapheap Challenge, echoing some of the fantastic legs and wheelchairs on show during the games, before rather alarmingly setting fire to the lovely stadium turf.

Finally, Gavin chose a much simpler cast of one band, Coldplay, rather than an ego-fuelled circus of ageing stars. Coldplay are one of those marmite bands who may not be everyone’s idea of the best of British but they know how to play to a stadium and fill it with emotionally, uplifting anthems. Avoiding the potentially patronising Fix You, they instead went for a thoughful if overlong and too slow set of hits and less-well known songs from across their career. Rihanna demurely flew in on a swing to liven things up with her hit We Found Love and later Jay Z joined them on Run This Town. The band were also self-effacing enough to leave the stage show to nearly 2,000 volunteer performers and professional dancers who writhed ecstatically around them, giving the night a decidedly prog-rock feel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...na-review.html

jeremyy · 09-09-2012, 11:00 PM

just turn on ZDF german guy!

42rock89 · 09-09-2012, 11:00 PM

Im so proud of Coldplay, they showed the whole country and world how great they are once again and made a perfect ending to London 2012, so so amazing its made me so happy this performance

macky · 09-09-2012, 11:00 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by vanessarrent;5410811
It was phenomenal!!!!!!! I'm so proud of them :')
God, I love those guys <3

Vanessa, I love your signature

Ennosuke · 09-09-2012, 11:00 PM

I want that in 1080p HD on my plasma

09-09-2012, 10:57 PM	#1066
KristenCaNaDiAn Biggest Guy Fan 2012! Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,017 My Mood: Location: Canada Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 79 Thanked 136 Times in 94 Posts	OMG THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS!! Absolutely amazing!!! Coldplay made it the best closing ceremonies ever!!! So proud of them __________________ "Guy is the most handsome member of Coldplay. We’re all hot, but he’s boiling..." -Chris Martin ~~Toronto July 23 and July 24, 2012, St. Paul August 10 and August 11, 2012~~

09-09-2012, 10:57 PM	#1067
Tryptophan Watch the orange glow Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 867 Location: Inside a bubble Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 1 Post	Damn I missed it. I thought they were just going to do Princess of China with Rihanna, and maybe Viva or something, but what a surprising set that was! Any chance that I'll find it anywhere later on? Probably not that likely __________________ "I'm always trying to work out what 'He' or 'She' is. I don't know if it's Allah or Jesus or Mohammed or Zeus. But I'd go for Zeus" - Chris Martin Jonnyboy Buckland is a fucking legend. Proud keeper of: Shiver (Live at Rock Werchter 2011) "I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you could tell me something worth fighting for" "Give me real don't give me fake" Jonny's epic intro of Spies in the live versions in 2001/2002 Some other stuff

09-09-2012, 10:57 PM	#1068
PrincessofChina Biggest Chris Fan '12 Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 3,169 My Mood: Location: The Sahara. Chris' favorite dessert. Gender: Country: Seen CP: 2 times Fav. CP album: AROBTTH Fav. CP song: Unanswerable Fav. CP member: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 563 Thanked 841 Times in 377 Posts	They absolutely nailed it! What a wonderful ending to these Paralympics! Truly amazing. __________________ "We have the best fans in the world and everybody knows it!" - CM Curls. That is all.

09-09-2012, 10:58 PM	#1069
halokiti Coldplayer Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 609 Location: Long Island, NY Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts	That was amazing, I'm so proud of them. Such a great job by everyone that worked on it. From the boys, to the dancers, to the lighting, to the fireworks. __________________ 09/21/2002 - Air Canada Centre, Toronto, 09/07/2005 - Madison Square Garden, New York, 03/26+27/2006 - Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, 06/23/2008 - Madison Square Garden, New York, 08/02/2008 - XL Center, Hartford, 10/26+27/2008 - Izod Center, New Jersey, 05/23/2009 - Meadows Music Theater, Hartford (my bday), 08/02/2009 - All Points West, New Jersey, 10/21/2011 - Today Show, New York, 08/04/2012 - Izod Center, New Jersey, 12/31/2012 - Barclays Center, Brooklyn

09-09-2012, 10:58 PM	#1070
miumiu DOMO KUN Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 377 My Mood: Location: in my place Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	No words to describe this amazing show!! THANK YOU COLDPLAY !! __________________ "with Viva whoa ohs in my head... XD " July 09th, 2005 - Coldplay @ Coubertin Platz Munich September 14th, 2008 - Coldplay @ ColorLineArena Hamburg September 26th, 2008 - Coldplay @ Olympiahalle Munich August 25th, 2009 - Coldplay @ AWD Arena Hannover August 29th, 2009 - Coldplay @ Reitstadion Riem Munich September 18th, 2009 - Coldplay @ Wembley Stadium London September 19th, 2009 - Coldplay @ Wembley Stadium London http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../wembsig-2.jpg

09-09-2012, 10:58 PM	#1071
nvdmm Coldplayer Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 409 Location: Beyond the horizon... Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 58 Thanked 32 Times in 26 Posts	i couldn't watch it guys but by the sound of it must have been spectacular. WELL DONE COLDPLAY! hope i can watch it soon somehow __________________ Give me love over, love over, love over this.....

09-09-2012, 10:58 PM	#1072
coldplaykb Heaven Is In Sight Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,648 My Mood: Location: Up With The Birds Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 1 Thanked 72 Times in 34 Posts	Amazing job Coldplay, no one could have even come close to putting on a show like that. Perfect performance, everything was just over the top. SO proud of Coldplay, and extremely proud to be a fan!! __________________

09-09-2012, 10:58 PM	#1073
RazorEye Up In Flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4,953 My Mood: Location: In the gap between the two trapezes. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 52 Thanked 61 Times in 25 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by B.The_Scientist;5410814 Did Chris mess up* lyrics during etiaw?* *rearrange

09-09-2012, 10:59 PM	#1074
Lil Connie Coldplayer Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 28 My Mood: Location: Escondido California Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 3 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Amazing and just really Fantastic , Thank you London !!!

09-09-2012, 10:59 PM	#1075
delphin Coldplayer Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 4 My Mood: Location: Germany Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 1 Post	None of the streams really worked for me here in Germany Or maybe I'm just too stupid

09-09-2012, 10:59 PM	#1076
busybeeburns mr coldplaying himself Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 46,455 My Mood: Location: test Gender: Country: Seen CP: 20 times Fav. CP album: X&Y Fav. CP song: GPASUYF Fav. CP member: Chat posts: 16 Thanks given: 1,589 Thanked 968 Times in 433 Posts	Paralympic Closing Ceremony 2012: Coldplay and Rihanna, review Paralympic Closing Ceremony 2012: Coldplay and Rihanna, review As Neil Sedaka immortalised in song, breaking up is hard to do. Modern rituals of farewell - the awkward works leaving do, the bitter divorce, the mute despair of the civic funeral - seem designed to subdue rather than elevate our deeper emotions. Without religion and ritual we flail around trying to find shared punctuation for our lives. The Paralympics closing ceremony marks the teary end to Britain’s summer of sporting love, when not only did we fall in love with the games and their heroes, but each other. Danny Boyle said London 2012 should be about the best of us, and the last six weeks Britain has been able to swoon over our finest attributes: kindness, a sense of fun, ambition, determination and a love of a good party. And we got to share it, whether in the flesh at the carnivalesque, music filled Olympic park, or vicariously, in our parks and town centres, or on the TV. Saying farewell to this seemingly rare outbreak of communal, unbridled joy was certainly never going to be easy. The dog’s dinner of the Olympic closing ceremony proved that but director Kim Gavin returned for a second go at the pulling off the admittedly hard trick of combining all the pomp and speeches with something that combines the excitement of a rock concert with the emotion of a wake. The first lesson learnt was obvious from the beginning: the bulk of the athletes were sat in the stadium before the ceremony began, cutting out the awkward timing of an overlong parade. Secondly, the thoughtful theatricality of the Paralympics opening ceremony with Stephen Hawking was mirrored in a more thematic, pagan-style show, based around the festival of the flame and the passing of the seasons. Introduced by a sermon from Lance Corporal Rory Mackenzie from the Help for Heroes charity, it was illustrated in a fire-filled opener filled with cannibalised machines that looked like a cross between War Horse and Scrapheap Challenge, echoing some of the fantastic legs and wheelchairs on show during the games, before rather alarmingly setting fire to the lovely stadium turf. Finally, Gavin chose a much simpler cast of one band, Coldplay, rather than an ego-fuelled circus of ageing stars. Coldplay are one of those marmite bands who may not be everyone’s idea of the best of British but they know how to play to a stadium and fill it with emotionally, uplifting anthems. Avoiding the potentially patronising Fix You, they instead went for a thoughful if overlong and too slow set of hits and less-well known songs from across their career. Rihanna demurely flew in on a swing to liven things up with her hit We Found Love and later Jay Z joined them on Run This Town. The band were also self-effacing enough to leave the stage show to nearly 2,000 volunteer performers and professional dancers who writhed ecstatically around them, giving the night a decidedly prog-rock feel. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...na-review.html __________________ The early bird catches the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese!

09-09-2012, 11:00 PM	#1077
jeremyy Coldplayer Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 7,534 My Mood: Location: in a stormy haze Gender: Country: Seen CP: 1 times Fav. CP album: AROBTTH Fav. CP song: warning sign Fav. CP member: Chat posts: 1 Thanks given: 275 Thanked 1,400 Times in 618 Posts	just turn on ZDF german guy! __________________ Here I am and I'll take my time, Here I am and I’ll wait in line always, always.. *It's like when bacon and eggs and mushrooms and chips, put on the same plate. Become something greater than it was individual parts. It's tasty. Our sound is tasty. That is what our sound is.* Chris Martin,2000, Channel 4 Documentary, x

09-09-2012, 11:00 PM	#1078
42rock89 Defender of Paradise Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 630 Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 4 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Im so proud of Coldplay, they showed the whole country and world how great they are once again and made a perfect ending to London 2012, so so amazing its made me so happy this performance __________________ 'Every step that you take Could be your biggest mistake It could bend or it could break But that's the risk that you take' <3 {Manchester MEN Arena 19th December 2011} [Coventry Ricoh Stadium 29th May 2012} {Manchester Ethiad Stadium 10th June 2012} Add me on twitter : ImMarc

09-09-2012, 11:00 PM	#1079
macky Brent's stalker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,702 My Mood: Location: Mars Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 34 Thanked 32 Times in 24 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by vanessarrent;5410811 It was phenomenal!!!!!!! I'm so proud of them :') God, I love those guys <3 Vanessa, I love your signature __________________ "Please eat more chocolate and please listen to more Coldplay" Chris before singing Amsterdam, Live 2003 DVD Let's be twitter buddies: @mcktll

09-09-2012, 11:00 PM	#1080
Ennosuke Coldplayer Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 114 Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I want that in 1080p HD on my plasma