Last night I went to see Coldplay at Crystal Palace just south of London town center. It was pretty amazing. It's pitty they didn't play Talk, X&Y was a bit bland, but other than that it was a fantastic gig. I was about 6 people from the front and everyone between me and the stage was really short so I had the most perfect view of the whole thing. The music is brilliant, the more I hear the X&Y tracks, the more I love them. However the sound was a little iffy, a bit too bassy and probably not loud enough. Personally, I think the crowd was too loud.

Crap, there's too much negativity in that... it really was great. I love the style of their live performances, the energy and enthusiam lead singer Chris Martin shows is absolutely crazy. You can really tell he, along with the rest of the band, thoroughly enjoy playing. And that rubs off on the crowd, who around me were brilliant... I didn't have any of the drunk offensive or abusive people I usually seem to end up next to at gigs. At the front Laura and her flatmate Liz apparant were next to a couple of arses, which they weren't too happy about. But for me at least, the gig was almost perfect! :D

Supporting Coldplay were Morning Runner and Supergrass. Supergrass didn't play the one track of theirs I know (We Are Young) so I haven't really got anything to say about them other than... average. But Morning Runner... oh my they're good! Absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to get my flat, get ADSL setup and get myself downloading some of their stuff. They're very similar in style to Coldplay but perhaps more "happy", not that Coldplay's newer music is more lively than their "depressing slit wrist" first album, Parachutes.

But, god.. getting home was a mission. Can you image the majority of a 40k attendance trying to get home on a small suburban railway system. It took us from 10:40 at the end of the gig until 12:30 to get into central London. I didn't get to sleep (because of noise in the hotel room) until 02:30, and I had to get up at 8 for work.... and now on my first day of full time, real grown up world employment, I just want to go to bed!

And the worst thing is... I have no music player in my hotel room to play X&Y to relive the concert!