One of my friends, my sweetie and I all went to the Coldplay show last night, which was basically their Coachella show, but with added light effects and some additional songs. They played the songs mostly in the same order. Chris Martin did the "one-leg hop stomp dance" thing he does, as well as the "run from one side of the stage to the opposite side" and the famous "outstretched hand reaching for the stars" thing (he used that one a lot).

Music was great, mostly X&Y tracks with some singles from the previous two albums. Chris Martin made some lyrics making some local references (Ducks, Beavers, Portland, etc) which was a nice touch; shows that he took two minutes to figure out something about who his audience is.

One complaint. Whoever was doing the editing for the concert screens was daffy. They hardly focused one camera shot before they were off to the next, so it felt like a music video rather than just trying to watch the concert. Since we were on the lawn, I occasionally glanced up to the screens to catch a close-up, but couldn't watch for very long because it gave me a headache. And it felt like I was being force-fed the live Coldplay experience.

At Coachella, they would have lengthy close-up shots of Chris' hands while he was playing an emotional part of the song and longer shots of other members of the band besides Chris. Someone could effortlessly watch the whole concert on the screens and not feel like they missed anything (which, as you may recall, I should have done since I was nearly crushed to death during that entire set).