COLDPLAY!!

2012/05/29 Tuesday Evening:
  Lucy and I (Rob) went to see Coldplay at the Coventry Ricoh Arena. We
were a little worried that we'd miss it, as the parking arrangements and organisation at the Arena were atrocious, but we got inside in time to see the 2nd Support act (Robyn) who was 'interesting' (i.e. fairly good, but not really 'our thing') and VERY loud (Properly vibrating our internal organs to a worrying degree!).
  The actual Coldplay show was great as they know how to make a great display: Huge fireworks marked the start of their set, and then the whole show was punctuated with enormous clouds of confetti, crazy laser shows, about 50 giant themed beach-balls that got thrown into the audience, huge models of butterfly's and chrysalises that seemed to appear from no-where and throughout everyone was given a 'xyloband' to wear on their wrist, which lit up or flashed at certain times in the songs to accompany the music...

  Throughout the show there were excellent video screens that you could see really well, so you didn't miss any action as they bounced around the stage and 'catwalks' into the crowds. At the end they started their encore by surprising everyone by suddenly appearing at a tiny stage at the back of the stadium (not far from us) for a couple of acoustic songs before racing back to the main stage for a grand finale....

  They ended in a now familiar style with more confetti and a huge pyrotechnics and laser display. Easily the best gig I've ever been to, and despite all the gimmicks the band play 'live' really well. When a band is as famous as they are, and have as many well-known songs the audience participation and good spirit was hard to beat as well.
   Good enough to go again, I reckon!