Coldplay concert tour of Germany

"Coldplay are an English rock band formed in London in 1997. They have been one of the most commercially successful acts of the new millennium, selling over 30 million albums. The band are also known for their hit singles, such as "Yellow", "Speed of Sound" and the Grammy Award-winning "Clocks"."

On May 28, 2008, Coldplay announced the latest batch of dates for their "Viva La Vida" world tour. The German shows are listed below with their on sale dates.

• Mannheim 2.Sep.2008 @ SAP Arena - on sale Fri 30 May.
• Cologne 12.Sep.2008 @ Köln Arena - on sale Fri 30 May.
• Hamburg 14.Sep.2008 @ Colorline Arena - on sale Fri 30 May.
• Berlin 15.Sep.2008 @ O2 World - on sale Fri 30 May.
• Munich 26.Sep.2008 @ Olympiahalle - on sale Fri 30 May.

Tickets at Eventim.

http://www.coldplay.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay

I'll start applying for a mortgage now; €79,40 for a ticket, bugger that.

dull dull dull

I know concert tickets in germany can be quite expensive, but that's ridiculous!

The trick to seeing bands cheap in Germany I found, is to go and see them as soon as they get big in Briain and come over here trying to repeat their success in Europe. As soon as they start getting hits here the price rockets. I missed out seeing Snow Patrol a little while back, I bet if they return they'll cost similar money.

I detest this group and their music with a passion. Bunch of creeps playing creepy music. I especially hate the lead singer – saw him on TV recently severely assaulting a photographer just because he was taking photos of his beloved Gwyneth.

Reminds me of 40 year old virgin: "You know how I know your gay" "how" "You listen to Coldplay"

Coldplay is one of a small handful of bands that I would pay that much to see. Have to think about this one... So far this has been a Coldplay-bashfest, are there any other fans out there?

@BB-When you get followed around your entire life minute-by-minute with people shouting at you for photos and harrassing you in a myriad of ways, see if you don't lose your cool from time to time. I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.

I like Coldplay a lot, but not enough to pay that sort of money. There are cheaper tickets, but you'll be so far back it might as well be on TV. I like to get up the front!

@leeza- They are rich because of the attention they get from the media, dont bite the hand that feeds you and if you can't handle the lack of privacy you should have gotten a real job like the rest of us.

I like 'em too, even if the bastard of a singer stole my girlfriend. The tickets are not that expensive - The Rolling Stones were about €150

just got my tickets
(olympic stadium is never cheap. RHCP was around the same price last year)

I don't wish to worry you , but the concert is in the Olympiahalle, are you sure your tickets aren't fakes?

Yes, but the Rolling Stones can play and have paid their dues.

How much for a ticket?! You could buy a 3 day festival ticket for that price and see 20 bands!

And yeah, you can't go comparing Coldplay to the Stones, a little bird tells me the Stones may have just a few more tunes than these boys.

I'd probably pay 25 Euros to see Coldplay, but I saw them way back in 1999 I think it was, playing to 150 at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff

You can pay €10 here and see 34 bands over three days, have two days of Scottish and Irish sporting events, watch the Footie Thingie on a big screen, swim in a lake, camp for free and spend the time in the fresh air on a fine big organic farm. Isn't that right PB?

I hate cold play, but if any of you are planning on going to see them @ the southside festival and want to save some cash:

If you only want to go on June 20th for Radiohead, I only want to go on June 21st for NOFX...we could split the cost of the damn 110 euro ticket and both have a great show...it'd work perfect if you're a couple people as my fiance would love to come too...hell, all interested, post, maybe there's a bunch of us that can work something out.

Southside festival anyone?

Well, Madonna tix range from about 80 Euro to 200. I remember in Australia U2 tickets were going up to $200 AUS for Reserve A seats (probably about...120 Euro?). And Alison Krauss / Robert Plant tix in Sweden top tier were 690 SEK (about 75 Euro), so I think it's about on par.

Coldplay don't offend me, I don't mind their music, and I'd probably go see a show, but it's a little too pricey for me though at the moment, given I've pretty much blown my summer concert budget. They're one of those bands that kind of sneaks up on you with a "they're not 'cool', but they're also not horrible either". Like I'm not going "I can't WAIT for the new Coldplay", but I would say "Hey, Oasis is back in the studio. Cool."

Here goes another classic TT merry-go-round... but what the hell. Some bloke wants to make some music, and make some money off it... in the meantime, he meets an awesome girl, who happens to make movies. They get married and spit out a piece of fruit or two. So this gives the right to every person on the planet to have instant access to them and their lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? To be stalked like gazelles on the Serengeti? I don't think so. As I said above, you walk in their shoes for a month or so and see if the paparazzi madness doesn't drive you to the brink. Go on then, I dare you.

And back to the concert... €60 - 80 seems to be the going rate for any world-class bands these days. Sad but true. As I only go to a concert about once a year or so, I can see justifying the ridiculous costs. Of course I remember, back in the day, seeing 4 top-class bands for $20, but such are not the times anymore...

EDIT: And I paid €90 for floor seats at U2 two years ago (or was it three already...?, the Vertigo tour anyway) and I would have paid three times as much. But then U2 are only the best band on the planet, after all...

EDIT EDIT: And for the record, I do think Chris Martin is a bit of a cunt, but he writes incredible songs and has one of the best falsettos in modern times. And a girl always loves a good falsetto, I say.

Middle of the road, depressing shite. A bit like Radiohead in the 90s. All their stuff sounds the same, each album has 1 - 2 good songs and the rest is cack.

Spot on. Sure I might even be putting in an appearance mesel', with the odd Coldplay cover. Because people like that kind of stuffulage. And I sing like a girdle. And will be singing like a girdle at the Greenfarm Festival.


Also depends upon how long they'll still be a touring band for. A Schweinshaxe, a vintage Lolo ball, some scoops and taxi-fare now compared to xxxxyoyos when you have to be ferried in the special needs entrance when you're 90 and they're barely fit to hold their instruments. An admittedly tough choice. You'll admit they are one of the few younger bands that one can utter in the same breadth of scale as U2, REM, et al. They're big. When the likes of the Stones, The Who, U2 even are beyond the Pale of performance, who'll replace them? Coldplay is one of the few bands to approach that level. Snow Patrol too. Also, Pink Floyd are a jaded, long overdue shite of self-indulgent rich boy effluvium that occasionally hits the mark. Oh sorry was I being subjective? But each to his own.

In other news, my intention for posting this thread was purely informational. So there. I'm not even that much of a fan. Just thought that one or two of the one or two who read this site might find the information helpful. Bear out.

Ditto, but that was because their concert was canceled. A little while back in my case being in November 2006, they were going to play in Ludwigshafen (couldn't go to Munich just for a concert on the first day of classes of the semester), and I couldn't believe my luck and then they canceled the remainder of their tour (of course after already playing in Munich). I think I had paid between €20 and 25 for the ticket, and then I had to return it, I was sad. I like Coldplay, but I don't think I'd pay €80 for any concert.

Well we like 'em. Always have done. They're one example of why the best music still comes from the UK (or do I mean just England).

lilplatinum...
we can't all be Fluid Engineers testing Rotordynamic Force Coefficients in gas damper seals.

Thank fuck.

i am frakly shocked at the level of interest in coldplay. whettist band there is touring that i know of.

and u2 are fucking shit to boot. bono and his fucking hat. lizardfish or whatever his name is and the other guy. twats.

if that is what i've got to look forward to when i'm old i may as well give up now.

p.s. stones, led zep, beatles, et al are good. u2 is shite.

So the kings of melancholy and depressing songs are back? Oh goodie... Cannot wait for the next album. I have money on it sounding like the others but with a slightly more suicidal ring to it...

Wouldn't the 'king of melancholy' be James Blunt??

We really like coldplay. And they're even better in person - good show, nice/funny guy when chatting with the audience, and great music. Won't be able to see the show though, due to timing. But we would have paid top dollar to get good seats.

Have fun to anyone who goes. They are worth it.

sorted our tickets out.
we saw them a few years back at OlympiaPark, then saw em again at the Isle of Wight festival, they're very good live.
Chris is quite charismatic surprisingly.
heard a few tracks from the new album, we're quite impressed!!!
looking forward to the concert, thanks for the info Punchy.

I just saw that Coldplay will be playing for free in BCN on June 17th. Awesome! Except I'll be in Sevilla then. Crap!

i would only pay that kind of money for radiohead, maybe. they were good at making melancholy songs but now they're not even good at doing that. their only good album was parachutes and they keep going downhill from there music wise, yet chris bashes that album and thinks it's rubbish - he's rubbish! x&y clearly blew, i just hope the new one is drastically better than the last

Thanks for the paragraph in the original post explaining who Coldplay are, otherwise I'd never have known.

Here's hoping their new album sells million of legal copies and the record industry is saved.

heard the new album yesterday, all songs more or less sound too contrived for me to love them, definitely not paying that kind of money to see those guys live at a concert.

but i reckon the record will sell billlions and everyone will love it, because omg its coldplay and they've gone experimental

Really interested to go to this show in Munich, but missed out on tickets.
If anyone has any extra tickets for sale please PM me.
(interested in up to 5 tix for the show).
thanx.

You could enter the competion for tickets to a gig of your choice on the tour.

Thanks PB, I just entered, wouldn't wanna pay €80 to see Coldplay live but for free I wouldn't mind at all.

Hi all,

I new to Munich, and this is the first time I have posted on Toytown. I am very into my music and I am a huge coldplay fan. I know they are playing this Friday in Munich at the Olyimpia Hall.

I am going to stand outside to see if I can get any tickets from touts, but if anyone has any spare tickets, or cant go, please let me know and I will be happy to meet you and buy a ticket.

Thanks

Mike Borkett

We went to the show in Köln on September 12. Good show, but I would really like for it to have been longer. I don't think they were on stage for two hours, including the encore. We saw them in Verona in 2005 when I was on R&R from my deployment and they had a much longer show. I blame the opening act; they were late, then went on too long, and I think Coldplay had to cut their act short in order to be in Hamburg the next night. Or maybe we were just spoiled by the R.E.M. show in Würzburg on 22 August -- they played without a break for over three hours.

The opening act (Albert Hammond, Jr.?) was an arrogant ass -- he kept talking down to the crowd. "Thank you, and thanks to Coldplay for having us. Or maybe just thanks to Coldplay." I mean, what the hell? People were paying attention and applauding, but for crying out loud, you're an opening act. Open, play, and get the hell off the stage so we can see who we paid for.

FANTASTIC concert on Friday in Munich. i want more!!! great atmosphere, great music and fantastic band. they played for the fans and it was just fun hearing excellent musicians play and be part of a special evening.

friday was AMAZING. i would have to say it was one of the best live acts i've seen. the only complaint was the germans - just standing there looking straight forward!! me and my friends were dancing and singing and shouting all over the place (like typical amis i guess!)

Munich concert will be broadcast on a UK radio station this Wednesday night, more info on coldplay website.

The radio station is Absolute radio, which up until today was called Virgin radio. You can listen to it via their webplayer, through itunes radio player under Pop (Still listed as Virgin radio) or over sky satellite on channel 0107.