I was yelling exactly what the title is of this post for almost the entire time of the concert. I had SO much fun. I went with my mom (which was the best I could get for this concert... No offense mom!) to it and had a blast. In all concerts, there is an opening band that plays to get the crowd warmed up. The first opener, was Sleeper Car. They're from Texas and their music was a mix between Country and Alternative. I thought they were really good for an opening band. However, the second one..... Not so much... It started out with this guy (who every one thought he was part of Coldplay, which was why every one was cheering really loud when he came out) who walked onto the stage right up to a big electrical device looking thing. This music started play and a few moments later, images and little videos started to play on this screen which was to the left of him. Now, the music that was playing wasn't really all that bad. It was the images that were. Imagine a cross between like those erotic, Japanese anime movies. The ones filled with all the gore and.... bad stuff... (you know what I'm talking about...) So anyways, a cross between the Japanese anime; an EXTREMELY creepy Dr. Seuss book; and mix it all together with M.C. Escher's pattern like images. It didn't have any "bad stuff" in it, but it was definitely creepy... And after around 30 minutes of this guy, he finally stopped.
Then we waited... Kept on waiting... And even more waiting.... After 45 minutes of waiting, Coldplay finally came out. They went in the Viva la Vida album order of the songs. Starting out with Life in Technicolor, moving onto Lost!, and then Clocks!!! After those we moved to Cemeteries of London (which was awesome!!), then 42, and then Yes, and then Speed of Sound!!!! I liked Speed of Sound and Cemeteries of London best out of that section. Then we had a little 5 minute break.
When they came back, they played Viva la Vida!!!! Sure it might have only been half of the song, but it was still the best. Then they did Violet Hill, moved onto Lovers in Japan, and then Strawberry Swing. Then they were done.... Or so it seemed... We waited for about 10 minutes this time and while they were gone, they played like a Karaoke version of Viva la Vida on the speakers and they dimmed the lights way down. More and more people gradually started pulling out their cell phones and swinging them in the air slowly. It looked so cool. With all the lights turned off, the place looked seriously like how a starry night sky looks at Lake Powell. I'll post my pictures of the concert in my next post.
Then the best part of the concert happened. We saw a single spot light go on and point to the band. Then, they started walking up to where me and my mom were sitting... Don't call me a girl for this, but me and her both screamed at a really high note. Then, once they had finally reached their destination in the audience, Chris spoke. He said "now this is the section of the concert we like to call Play an Instrument You Don't Know How to Play... Except for So-and-So (I forgot what the name was but it was the drummer) here." Chris was on the Harmonica and the drummer and one of the guitarists were on rock guitars. The other guitarist was on a Sitar, which is kind of like a guitar in India. They played an awesome song, but I didn't catch the name of it. I was too busy snapping pictures. After that, the drummer sang a song where occasionally, Chris and the others played their instrument. After that, they went back down and a section of the stage lit up. There was a lone piano in the light.
They all went down and the 3 disappeared... Except for Chris. He walked right down to the piano and talked a little bit. Cracked a little joke and told us he was going to play a song called The Hardest Part, which is in the X&Y album. What was awesome though, was that it was just piano and singing the entire time. Chris sang for a little bit and then another spotlight shown on the drummer and he accompanied Chris with is voice as well. Then after about a minute, the spotlight went only to Chris again. He finished up and THEN every one thought that the concert was over... Which it originally was. But we just kept on clapping, and a minute later, Coldplay came back out.
Chris spoke again saying "Well Salt Lake City. You guys just keep on wanting more, so we'll play one more song. It's one of our favorite songs. It's called... Yellow." Every one cheered. The lights in the stage just went entirely Yellow and they started playing. The song ended and so did the concert.
I just entirely loved tis concert and I can't wait until the next time they do another. Even if my parents don't pay for me, I'm still going. Well, this post needs to get wrapped up so in conclusion...
COLDPLAY IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
