I was on my bed and scrolling down my facebook
feed when I suddenly notice SGAG’s post (pict below):
I, then, just texted my sister who happens to live in Singapore asking whether the rumour is true or not. And she had no idea.
Couple of days later my sist texted me saying that it is true
that COLDPLAY is coming to Singapore and that I’ll need Citibank credit card to buy the presale ticket. Hours
after that I read the news that the ticket sold out in a good two hours.
I was like “Okay, maybe I meant to
watch their concert only once. Maybe X&Y world tour 2006 is enough”, and I tried not to
think about it anymore –even though I really can’t help myself from thinking.
About 20 days after SGAG’s post –which around 25th November 2016, my sista’s call woke me up like
early in the morning, and I can hear excitement from her voice. She was like “HEY, DO YOU STILL WANNA SEE COLDPLAY? MY FRIEND CAN HELP YOU IF YOU
WANT TO!” and I was just like “LIKE ABSOLUTELY YEAH! Any category will do me”, and she hung up the
call after asking me to pray so that her friend can nail the ticketing traffic.
*two hours later*
RECEIVED MY E-TICKET ON MY EMAIL!
I was on cloud nine!
I flew to Singapore just 2 days before the concert -29th
March 2017. For the last 2 days I found myself hard to sleep due to the
excitement. I really couldn’t sleep like until 3 o’clock in the morning just having a flashback to COLDPLAY’s X&Y world tour concert back in July 2006, and imagining what it’d be like this time. I
was so pumped about the concert that weekend.
D-DAY! 31ST MARCH 2017
The concert was at 8pm so I spent some hours sending my niece
and nephew to school and shopping with my sista before off to the concert. I
was super excited that I was smiling from ear to ear the whole day –in the bus stop, on
the bus, mrt, basically like everywhere. My sista was like "Hey you look way too happy as if you're
about to get married ". Well, I was defo so happy cause I was about to
watch my all time fave band for the second time —after their X&Y
world tour in Singapore back in 2006.
The gate opened at 6pm but I off to the venue –Kallang Indoor Stadium at 3pm. It was pouring rain but I couldn’t care less. I arrived in Kallang MRT 15 mins later and head straight to the Stadium. The first place I wanted to find was the official merchandise booth, and found it right away ! It was drizzling and the line to the booth got no roof but again, I couldn’t care less. I got myself a hoodie & tote bag *and just got bankrupt straight away. lol *
I was on my way to find the gate when I heard COLDPLAY doing the soundcheck. I got closer to one of the gate and can see Chris
Martin! The excitement was palpable!! WHOOP! I
finally got myself in the line the gate. The gate opened exactly 6pm *so
punctual. Hands down*. It took less than 15 mins from the
security check, ticket scanning, LED wristband and pin collecting until I
finally found my seat.
The show started exactly
at 8:00 pm with O Mio Babbino Caro
by Maria Callas was played in the background. My level of happiness rose to ecstatic when COLDPLAY –Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion finally came out. I can’t help myself but jumping and dancing when they performing A Head Full of Dreams and followed with Yellow –one of my all-time fave song. It was so, so beautiful. They continued the
showed by performing Every Teardrop is a Waterfall, The Scientist,
Birds, Paradise, Always in My Head, Magic, Everglow, Clocks, Midnight, Charlie
Brown, Hymn for the Weekend, their
biggest single of all time –Fix You,
covering David Bowie’s Heroes, Viva La
Vida (click here for the short vid), Adventure of a Lifetime,
Kaleidoscope, Don’t Panic (with Will Champion
as the lead vocal), 'Till Kingdom Come, Amazing Day (which really explain the day), Something Just Like This, A
Sky Full of Stars and
Up &
Up as the closing to this amazing
concert. I love it when Chris Martin thanked all of us for spending our money on the airplane tickets and everything in order to see them that night; and on all the merchandises. He did thank all of us for that.
-The Opening of the concert: AHFOD-
I can’t tell which part is my fave cause everything was so, so exceptional and amazing. I didn’t want to miss the show; I just wanted to witness and enjoy
everything –instead of taking selfie and updating on social media and everything. I did
take several short videos which in total like 8 minutes out of 120mins of the show
[and most of it was shaky]. Not a
single selfie was taken. I just wanted to enjoy the moment. I literally sang
every single song, like there’s no tomorrow *lol*. I
danced the night away.
Every minute of the
concert was so magical. Those euphoric moments when COLDPLAY first came, when the whole stadium (approximately
50,000 people) cheering, singing and dancing
together; XYLOBAND (the super-cool LED wristband that synced to a radio
transmitter, allowing them to be manipulated in time with the music, creating
vast rivers of coloured light); the fireworks, stunning sound and lighting.
Everything. Everything was really a one heck of experience.
Despite
the fact that this was not my first time seeing COLDPLAY, I was in awe
of it still. I really can’t find the words to describe the feeling of being at the
concert and getting to hear all of my favorite songs that has been inspiring me
for years live, in a stadium filled with twinkling lights. I did feel
emotional. Ah man! I certainly wouldn’t think twice to see these guys in the future and cross off my bucket list for the third time!
THANK YOU COLDPLAY
I
W A S ( A N D S T I L L) E C S T
A T I C !
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