Chris Martin, Coldplay frontman
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Coldplay
May 15, 2009
Cruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL
By Giselle Portuondo
Explosions of flying confetti, giant yellow beach balls and an array of special effects made Coldplay’s grant start of the Viva La Vida tour exceed the expectations of eager fans.
Blasting onto the stage, Coldplay kicked off the night with a brilliant arrangement of "Life in Technicolor." The band wore their usual "Sgt. Pepper-like" jackets and throughout the night moved around two smaller stages set up in the lawn area. The band played "Violet Hill" and the always crowd pleasing "Clocks." Giant yellow beach balls bounced around the thousands of fans as they performed their hit "Yellow" in an array of lights and moving images, ma king this song one of the most enjoyable performances of the night.
The most memorable moment, however, came during the performance of "Fix you," for as soon as Coldplay’s front man Chris Martin began to play the piano, the crowd instantly erupted in cheers. Thousands of voices then began to sing along to the famous tune as lights and images filled the stage. This was one the most amazing moments of the evening.
Giant yellow beach balls bounced around thousands of fans as they performed their hit "Yellow" in an array of lights and moving images.
Chris Martin, singer of Coldplay
Throughout the night, Coldplay — eager to please those seated at a fair distance from the main stage — performed "Lost!" and "Green Eyes" in the other two smaller stages. As a special treat the band played a fun cover of The Monkeys, "I’m a Believer," and Will Champion, the band’s drummer, tried his luck at singing (and succeeded for that matter).
"Lover’s in Japan" was one of the most technical songs of the night. While they played it, huge explosions of confetti shaped like butterflies flew on stage, and movie images played on the giant screen behind the stage as well as on the hanging orbs that doubled as high tech monitors. Coldplay closed the night with a fan favorite, "The Scientist," which concluded the more than two-hour long concert, but I'm sure that for every fan, the concert must have felt like a second.
Coldplay did many new things throughout the night, beginning with a "Mexican phone wave" as Martin called it, basically a crowd wave with cell phones. (It actually looked pretty cool). And for the first=2 0time Coldplay distributed free copies of LeftRightLeftRightLeft, a record which included nine live recordings of the show, a move that backfired as a shortage of supply caused the usually mellow Coldplay fans to rush toward the main gates in order to get their hands on a copy of the record. This resulted in what seemed to be a thousand unhappy and empty handed fans.
But in the end, Coldplay’s first date of the Viva La Vida Tour proved to be an amazing head start to one of the year’s most anticipated tours. Their incredible performance proved why they are highly regarded as one the best live bands, and why their shows usually sell out within hours (or minutes in some cases). Coldplay put on one of the best shows of the year and most definitely one of the best performances to hit South Florida in a long time.
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Chris Martin
Chris Martin
Chris Martin