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Coldplay Gig

Scuse the crapness of this mobile-phone-taken shot but it should give you a pretty good idea of how FRONT ROW we were! Excellent gig too, btw. The White River Amphitheatre has to be the worlds most difficult venue to get to - 100,000 people all trying to drive to the same place meant we finally arrived an hour and a half after the official start time.... this after also getting horribly lost, driving up a mountain, and come back down a dirt track, to avoid the stationary traffic. Fortunately I think the band must've been stuck in it too as they hadn't come on yet. The venue was *massive*, but we had managed to swing special access passes to the front standing area and managed somehow to get right to the front.

Despite the size of the place, rather than a giant theatrical extravaganza which most bands will put on these days at venues like that, Coldplay came on and played music. If you didn't turn around you could've been at the Brixton Academy listening to a decent session of pure music. Love 'em or not, they performed amazingly well live and Chris Martin is definitely an extremely talented musician switching between Guitar and Piano and occasionally leaping around the stage while hitting every note spot on.

All in all, thoroughly enjoyable, even including the detour and the traffic jam afterwards as 100,000 cars attempted to leave down the same small track.