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It's Saturday January the 28 around 12:20PM and

Coldplay Leaves Vancouver in the Cold

Coldplay came to town this week and they left people with a bad taste in their mouth. In fact one reviewer named Jen over at World Wide Water Cooler gave the bad news for Mr Paltrow and co. fans:

"Ok, so maybe I was expecting too much in the way of musical genious from an arena show. So instead I’ll focus on the stage presence and showmanship. I can sum that up in two words: HALF ASSED. They could’ve done so much more than they did with the light/graphic setup they had...
Bottom line, there was not only nothing impressive, but there was no theme or continuity to their stage show, which is absolutely essential in a stadium show, where the artist wants to reach the person in the top row at the very back, just as much as the person front row centre.

But another, Jenn - this time Jennifer Good - really liked Coldplay. That's two Jens on Coldplay, and two different opinions.

The whole two-day mess was obviously not as entertaining as this hilarious interview between Chris Martin and Ricky Gervais. Seriously this is unbelievable - listen to the whole thing:

Gervais: "Now you like to buy clothes from third world sweat shops because they are cheaper, do you prefer Chinese or Indian made stuff.
Martin: "Indian. Chinese don't know what they are doing."

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Posted by: Graham

January 28, 2006 01:55 PM

I have to agree with the first Jenn, the majority of the show seemed somewhat uninspired, no real magic from the band. They did redeem themselves in the encore which was amazing, but still not enough to justify the $90 ticket price.