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Just some thoughts about the concert...

-- started 50 minutes late. i mean, concerts usually start later than posted, but I might have been able to stay for the whole show if he started just 30 minutes late...
-- seating plan. if they knew people were going to stand on chairs, why put chairs in the bowl at all? this is where i prefer the pit section of concerts in US...at least everyone will be at the same height, and it is much safer to stand on the ground than the chair. am definitely buying the seats on the side next time...

++ sound was better than i expected
++ it was "cute" (according to my gf) that he got the lyrics wrong on Yellow
++ him breaking the law
++ pretty responsive audience
++ nice venue (though i have never been to the exhibition center in wan chai for concerts)

and here is a partial set list (i had to leave early)..

Square One
Politik
Yellow
Speed of Sound
God Put a Smile on Your Face
What If
Parachutes
White Shadows
The Scientist
Til Kingdom Come
Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash cover)
Trouble
Clocks

then i had to leave...can anyone fill in the rest of the list?

- bernard

p.s. sorry couldn't make it to the meeting at the bar...didn't get there until 7:50pm.

[Krad]

The full set list:

Square One
Politik
Yellow (best of the night!)
Speed of Sound
God Put a Smile On Your Face
What If
How You See The World (I think. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Parachutes.)
White Shadows
The Scientist
Kingdom Come (Or the I broke the law in Hong Kong song)
Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash cover...was good, but nothing beats Cash himself)
Trouble (yeah!)
Clocks
Talk

Bunch of applause for about ten minutes before they came back on and did:

Swallowed in the Sea
In My Place (The Chris Martin Marathon Song)
Fix You (That brought down the house)


I think I would've liked seeing more of the band on screen...it was tough seeing them from the side and I can't imagine what people saw from the back...atmosphere was great, Hong Kong security sucks so much that Chris Martin actually had to give an annoucement out to people to sit down

[francocw]

It's a very nice convert.

- The venue is nice. Much better than in Wan Chai Exhibition Centre.
- The sound is good. I think it's related to the venue as well.
- The band's performance is great especially chris martin. (At least we know he've been to deep water bay. haha)
- People's reaction is a bit shy at the begining, however as the show progress, the audiance's response are getting better and better.

The only bad thing is no standing area. I don't understand why it would be a all seated concert. It's crazy to ask Chris Matrin to announce: (Please go back to your seat). Who cares? This would only happen in HK i guess.

I give this show 8/10

[zeroth]

yeah, the seating-concert idea was really dumb....it's 'twisted logic' concert yet they never sang twisted logic...but it's nice that they sang songs from their older albums. i agree 'yellow' is the best! but would be more great if they had 'see you soon' being the last song...hehe