coldplay @ rod laver

*photo from the herald sun website

Yes, as expected coldplay was incredible. They played almost every song I had wanted to hear. They put on an incredible show - I loved it when brightly colored paper butterflys fell down from up above (i collected some later to take home). Chris Martin certainly makes the most of the stage, running frantically from one side to the other and jumping crazily into the air. It was nice to see them come into the crowd and do a few songs acoustically up in the stands. I was a bit disappointed with the main support act - mercury rev - they seemed to think they were a lot better than they really were. But when chris and the band finally came on it more than made up for it!!

For many years I have wanted to make it to a coldplay concert and I am so glad that my day finally arrived. It just shows you that if you have patience some things really do work out.

I quote therefore I am

So I said if it happened I would post about it. Coldplay have just announced Lost! (track 3) as their new single, which when combined with Viva La Vida (track 8) means that I predicted correctly.

Allow me my moment of boasting.

words are just noises

I recently read a quote from Chris Martin about names and it made a lot of sense to me. I have often quoted: "words are just dust" and thought about what that means exactly (which may have unknowingly come from these lyrics "Words are just dust in deserts of sound"). Now, here is something else to analyse and see where/if it fits in your world.

"People make a big fuss over names: names of babies, names of albums, names of bands, names of people. The thing that everyone forgets is that a name is just a noise, and if you like it, then fuck what everyone else says. That's what it's called. So there’s nothing weird about calling your baby Chewbacca if that’s what you want to call your baby. It’s no weirder than Sarah, it's just that people are more used to it."

- Chris Martin.