Why I loved the Coldplay concert

I know some of you have heard that a few of us went to the Coldplay concert this past friday night and I wanted to give you a run down of why it rocked.

1. The Music: You don't realize it till you are there but Coldplay has so many great songs. The songs they played Friday night not only sounded amazing, but they were creative and mixed up the arrangements so it wasn't like just listening to the CD. I get really bored by bands who play live and do NOTHING different than what I've heard already. U2 is the absolute best at this but I would say Coldplay is a close second.

2. Showmanship: They are great performers. You can tell they love their music so much and really really appreciate being able to share it with the world. Chris Martin was so much fun to watch and really electric with his personality. It made me excited each time he talked and shared cause it was just so great. You just wanted him to keep talking.

3. The "Real" factor: Even though they were putting on a great show, you felt like they weren't pretending or just putting on a show - and they just weren't totally into themselves. They made lots of jokes or even messed up and laughed it off. I just really loved the authentic aspect of the show. For instance, Chris Martin had just started playing a really beautiful song on the piano and he stops right in the middle of the intro and says, "Shoot, I forgot to say this earlier. I'm really sorry we had to change the concert date, we know that was a big pain for you all. It was my fault really, the label told us we all needed to get nose jobs and we booked the surgery on the concert date! I really messed this one up." And then proceeded to go back into the song.

4. The "Close" factor: We had lower level tickets but they were toward the back of the stadium. We had a great view but not that close up view you'd die for. Well, towards the end of their first set, they ran to the back of the stadium up showed up 10 ft away from us. We could see their sweat! They played "the scientist" and another song while standing in the tunnel opening right next to us. How awesome that a band would play a song in the back of the stadium just so they could make their fans happy? And how awesome was it that they chose OUR section to sing?! They were so close!

5. The Presentation: Yeah, they had great special effects from lasers, to huge video screens, to enormous sheets of art that would drop for the background for different songs, to huge globes that projected video images. It was a eye pleaser.

6. The babes: One would think that I was talking about Rebekah and Jenna who were sitting next to me but no. It was the drunk ladies across from me that really seemed to be interested in me. It all started off with them asking me to take their pictures then progressed into them yelling, "you're awesome cause you're singing (even though almost everyone in the crowd was singing) the song" and then proceeded to demand a high five. I gave it. Finally they were asked to leave their section by the security person. Yeah they were pretty into me and I think Rebekah was a bit jealous.

7. The company: We had a great time driving up the five of us: Joe, Mindy, Jenna, Rebekah and I. It was a great group to see a concert with and we all were really pumped up afterwards. We ate at Panera Bread before the concert and Joe was predicting that dinner would be his highlight of the evening but even old grumpy pants thought the concert was pretty amazing.

So all in all it was totally worth the absurd price to go!