COLDPLAY show

Just saw COLDPLAY this weekend. It was quite a night!

The show itself: ROCKED! Not as huge and overwhelming as a big U2 show, but the music was amazing, Chris Martin was heavenly and funny and danced around like an elf the entire time and even squeezed into one of his songs, "Make me an honorary Cheesehead." (The show was in Wisconsin.) We laughed! We cried! It was just unbelievable.

My paresthetic experience during the show: We had decent seats, but we were at the very far right, and this place is an outdoor venue like Ravinia, so I had the bright beer/food vendor lights right in my face the whole night which was a bit annoying. Then the people behind us kept talking and chatting through songs as if we were just listening to them on the radio at a party or something. But the most distracting and annoying? The gross lesbo action going on 2 rows in front of us.

The concert venue: What can I say about Alpine Valley? The parking situation was dissastrous and we even had VIP parking! There were a million people and to get down to our seats we had to make our way through (AKA- step over people) the entire lawn section. It was just a zoo, in all respects, so much so that I will probably never see a show there again.

Most memorable part of the show: During the song they wrote for Johnny Cash, the 4 guys were all downstage side by side playing it acoustically. It was this really great moment. Then this girl shouts out, "I LOVE YOU!" Chris Martin immediately replies, "Whoa! Hold on!" And they STOP THE SONG. He then nicely says, "You can't say things like that! We're all married! Sorry, but no matter how many shows I do, I never get used to comments like that. I mean, I appreciate the sentiment but...Trust me, if you really knew us, you wouldn't love us...Okay, one two three!" And they were right back into the song. It was a riot.

My overall experience: Chris Martin is dreamy...Um, I mean, they put on an amaaaaaazing show and I can't wait to see them again.