Location : Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA
Time : 30 September 2005
Hats off to the group of Britons called Coldplay. I went to the last US leg of their Twisted Logic tour and it was definitely the best concert I've ever been to so far.OK, let's start with what matters most with a concert: the music. And these guys, boy, they're just born to make melancholic, wallowing music you can hold your lighter to. The quality of their performance was top-notch. I was a bit worried actually after hearing the Chris Martin got some sore throat a few weeks before and a date was cancelled. But my worries were without cause, they played excellently.
Chris Martin is a natural-born entertainer. All through the concert he communicated very well with the audience. I suppose the funniest thing was how he said that if there was one city where they wouldn't be able to sell tickets, that would be DC. The reason was because when they just started, they actually played at the HFStival and let's just say they were far from being the most popular band at the festival. He put much of this story and his hello-washington-happy-to-be-here speech in the verses of « Speed of Sound ».
The final touch of the concert was the superb lighting and giant plasma screen background displaying abstract CGI images such as coloured smokes, water bubbles, shifting colors and countdown timer. Plus, for « Yellow », baloons in the aforementioned color were dropped to the audiences and they start bouncing them off. It was quite an interesting sight.
All in all, it was perhaps not a shocking rock concert with a pigeon-chowing scene nor was it a spectacular pop concert with hundreds of dancers and fireworks. Instead it was a somekind of a deep, touching, feel-good concert where everybody was just enjoying the good music, good ambience, and some good shit judging from the wafting air now and then ^_^.
