AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!Omg I told you I'd have a big post about the concert I was going to and here it is! Man oh man what a night. My girlfriend and I got there at around 5:30 (mistake....) Doors opened at 6:00 and they let us into the theater at 6:30. Then the wait began. See we knew there would be opening acts but this was a little much. At 7:30 the 1st band came on and played about 7 songs... then the next band came on and played about 7 songs..... It was a bit of a overkill in my mind and seeing as we had been there since 5:30 boredom was setting in. Finally at 9:00 the lights went out, crowd erupted and they came out.
OMG it was awesome. It was 90 minutes of fantastical kickassness. They played Life in Technicolor, Violet Hill, Clocks, In My Place, and Yellow. I was nervous about yellow since this wasn't a big theater and I didn't know if they would have the famed yellow balloons but they came raining down when yellow started! Something like 100 balloons the size of a person floated down and covered the entire arena floor. I managed to only tap one as they kept getting knocked away from me last minute :( But that was still good.
Forget some of the songs but then later on they came out into the crown to a little stage they had set up and played a remix of a few songs and then The Hardest Part. They went back to the stage and played some more newer stuff like Viva la Vida. Then they went back into the crown AGAIN but this time more toward the lawn section. It is so great they would go out and try to give everyone a front row seat no matter what you pay :) They had this cool thing they tried which was a variation on the classic "wave" Instead of a wave where people throw their hands up they had us take our cell phones out and make a wave of light. This was in hopes as Chris Martin said that someone over in Philly (we could see the skyline) would look over and see it and say "what the fuck is that?" Then they went back and played Lovers in Japan. Now when they reach a point in the song butterflies are supposed to float down over the crowd. I knew it was coming but it was still amazing. The high point came and butterflies starting shooting out of everywhere from the stage and in the middle of the crowd. We were too far back to be covered but the sight was still amazing! Then they sang Death and All His Friends and that was it, they left the stage.
No. One. Moved.We all just stood there, erupted in the Viva la Vida "whoooaaaaaa" chant until they came out for an encore lol. Then Chris announced that everyone would be giving away a FREE CD to everyone as they left! It is a live album of songs they sang throughout the Viva la Vida tour called "Left Right Left Right Left" Now don't feel left out because you too can get a free download of the CD off their website right here. Then they sang The Scientist and Life in Technicolor ii and that was it.
What a night it was, amazing just amazing. I hope they come back to the area soon because it was such a fun and energetic concert. It was great I cant say enough about it. Oh and by the way, if you are ever going to the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden.... good luck with parking they have one exit and if your at the back of the line your waiting for a good hour to go home :(
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