Hallelujah Here She Comes
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Well, y'all asked for a review of Kristie's and my Coldplay experience, which normally would belong in the already existing Coldplay thread. But this was less a mere concert experience and more a two-day twin-stravaganza, so we felt it warranted it's own thread. 
Kristie: Yer damn right!!
Kristie here now. Cos, I'm still at casa del Gina. Anyway.
So yesterday at 2:30 am after a half hour of sleep
yell I wake my ass up and get ready to go, get on the train at 5, come to Chicago.
At this point I'd just like to say Amtrak trains are quality.
So I'm at the train station and I don't see my twin and I start to get worried... I went to the phones and called her cell phone and she didn't answer However, eventually she tackled me in the bathroom. WOO!
Oh and I made her this little sitting down cardboard Edge that sits atop her monitor. It's really cute.
Gina back. Man, I'm freakin tired. Anyway, we came back to my appartment and watched us some Beatles. There was this clip of them performing Pyramus and Thisbe from a Midsummer Night's Dream. John in a dress and braids, George swearing at people. Yeah, it was quality.
At around noon, we sauntered (read: took the train) over to the venue, fully expecting a massive line of people to already be there (we had GAs). But actually there were only about 10 or 15 people in front of us. This turned out not to matter all that much since security at the venue sucked my ass and like 50 people who were there after us got better spots. But we met these two really cool girls in line who had awesome taste in music, and we still got really awesome spots in the second row in front of Chris. Speaking of the crappy ass security, we supposedly weren't allowed to bring cameras into the venue.
Twins: Pshawwww!! Yeah, right!
So we smuggled our cameras into the venue in our socks (we's smart twins) and surreptitiously snapped photos the whole kickass freaking awesome concert. The whole band, especially Chris were in really high sprits because this was the final show of the tour, so the whole concert was fabulous, but here are some of the highlights that haven't managed to slip out of our brains yet:
- Chris. Cause he kicks ass. And he even manages to come off as spastically energetic when sitting at the piano.
- Shiver. An amazing song anyway, but so unbelievable live. I don't even know what to say about except that it rocked.
- Everything's Not Lost. Even more beautiful live than it is on Parachutes, made even more-er, poignant by Chris' insertion of the lyrics "It's gettin hot in here, so take off all your clothes! I am gettin so hot, so I'm gonna take off all my clothes!" into the outro. Somehow, it managed to be hilarious but not take away from the beauty of the song.
- Trouble. Before he started the song, he started going on about how this was a song that would have been a big hit if Mariah Carey had sung it, but she didn't want it so they got it instead. Then he started the song, but stopped a few bars in to quip "you know, this song would have been a much bigger hit if I had larger breasts" before heading right back into the song.
- Green Eyes. I swear up and down that this song was really written about the Edge (Green Eyes, the spotlight shines upon youuu
) but even if Chris Martin doesn't have a PLEBA-esque crush on the Edge, it's still a lovely song.
- Right before the close of the show, this couple walked on stage and Chris starts saying something about how they got a letter from this guy who "had a girlfriend he wanted to make a wife" and we're all like "Awwwwww!!!" Then the guy, all teary-eyed and nervous, comes up to the mic and proposes to his girlfriend who's also crying at this point and we're like "AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!" She accepts and Chris starts jumping around and cheering like a spaz who just won a football game. And yet again, I must say.
As a sidenote, there were these hos in front of us who had totally been behind us in line. And they got like EVERY FREAKING THING that Chris threw into the audience AND at the end of the show one of the security guards came up and gave them GODDAMM BACKSTAGE PASSES. And all we got was Chris Martin spit water on us from one of the bottles he threw....not that we're complaining....
Ok, so this post is getting ungodly long. Want to find out just how much we can write about one concert? Stay tuned to find out!
EDIT: I have to take Kristie to the train station now, but there's more, LOTS MORE which I will write when I get back. Don't touch that dial.
Kristie: Yer damn right!!
Kristie here now. Cos, I'm still at casa del Gina. Anyway.
So yesterday at 2:30 am after a half hour of sleep
yell I wake my ass up and get ready to go, get on the train at 5, come to Chicago.At this point I'd just like to say Amtrak trains are quality.
So I'm at the train station and I don't see my twin and I start to get worried... I went to the phones and called her cell phone and she didn't answer
However, eventually she tackled me in the bathroom. WOO!Oh and I made her this little sitting down cardboard Edge that sits atop her monitor. It's really cute.
Gina back. Man, I'm freakin tired. Anyway, we came back to my appartment and watched us some Beatles. There was this clip of them performing Pyramus and Thisbe from a Midsummer Night's Dream. John in a dress and braids, George swearing at people. Yeah, it was quality.
At around noon, we sauntered (read: took the train) over to the venue, fully expecting a massive line of people to already be there (we had GAs). But actually there were only about 10 or 15 people in front of us. This turned out not to matter all that much since security at the venue sucked my ass and like 50 people who were there after us got better spots. But we met these two really cool girls in line who had awesome taste in music, and we still got really awesome spots in the second row in front of Chris. Speaking of the crappy ass security, we supposedly weren't allowed to bring cameras into the venue.
Twins: Pshawwww!! Yeah, right!
So we smuggled our cameras into the venue in our socks (we's smart twins) and surreptitiously snapped photos the whole kickass freaking awesome concert. The whole band, especially Chris were in really high sprits because this was the final show of the tour, so the whole concert was fabulous, but here are some of the highlights that haven't managed to slip out of our brains yet:
- Chris. Cause he kicks ass. And he even manages to come off as spastically energetic when sitting at the piano.
- Shiver. An amazing song anyway, but so unbelievable live. I don't even know what to say about except that it rocked.
- Everything's Not Lost. Even more beautiful live than it is on Parachutes, made even more-er, poignant by Chris' insertion of the lyrics "It's gettin hot in here, so take off all your clothes! I am gettin so hot, so I'm gonna take off all my clothes!" into the outro. Somehow, it managed to be hilarious but not take away from the beauty of the song.
- Trouble. Before he started the song, he started going on about how this was a song that would have been a big hit if Mariah Carey had sung it, but she didn't want it so they got it instead. Then he started the song, but stopped a few bars in to quip "you know, this song would have been a much bigger hit if I had larger breasts" before heading right back into the song.
- Green Eyes. I swear up and down that this song was really written about the Edge (Green Eyes, the spotlight shines upon youuu
) but even if Chris Martin doesn't have a PLEBA-esque crush on the Edge, it's still a lovely song. - Right before the close of the show, this couple walked on stage and Chris starts saying something about how they got a letter from this guy who "had a girlfriend he wanted to make a wife" and we're all like "Awwwwww!!!" Then the guy, all teary-eyed and nervous, comes up to the mic and proposes to his girlfriend who's also crying at this point and we're like "AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!" She accepts and Chris starts jumping around and cheering like a spaz who just won a football game. And yet again, I must say
. As a sidenote, there were these hos in front of us who had totally been behind us in line. And they got like EVERY FREAKING THING that Chris threw into the audience AND at the end of the show one of the security guards came up and gave them GODDAMM BACKSTAGE PASSES. And all we got was Chris Martin spit water on us from one of the bottles he threw....not that we're complaining....
Ok, so this post is getting ungodly long. Want to find out just how much we can write about one concert? Stay tuned to find out!
EDIT: I have to take Kristie to the train station now, but there's more, LOTS MORE which I will write when I get back. Don't touch that dial.
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Cant' wait to hear the rest!! 
