Everything you want's a dream away - Coldplay @ Paris Stade De France 15, 16 & 18 July 2017
Hello guys! So here is it, my super long post where I am gonna tell you everything about my trip! I had a little bit bad luck and I had to write 1/3 of this again because my laptop crashed, but I hope I remembered everything!
Saturday 15.7.2017
But I will start. My flight to Paris was early morning on Saturday - the same day than the first concert was. I knew that I was not going to get a good spot so I wasn’t so stressed about it. My hotel was one metro stop (which I usually walked) + one train stop away from the stadium so the location was really good! But of course I took a wrong train when I went to the stadium for the first time.. But it was the only mistake I made (it was my first time in France) so I handled everything surprisingly well alone, I’m proud of myself! Also everyone was very kind and helpful when I asked for a help couple of times, I have nothing bad to say about French people!
I was so nervous when I walked to the stadium, the train trip had made me even more nervous and I felt kind of lonely - I’m not scared to say it. I bought some merch (I LOVE THE CAP) before going to the lane and the lane was suuuuper long.
(FYI: The merch was super expensive, I’m happy that I saved so long for this or I would have cried to not get anything. And the photo is bad again sorry)
I didn’t make any friends on the line but it was ok because there wasn’t much time left before the doors. When I got in, there was thousands people already, so I got a spot like in the middle of crow in Jonny’s side, B-stage was exactly on my right side.
Opening acts wasn’t really my type of music. So I will not talk about them sorry lol. The last minutes were anyway so long!
(For non-coldplayers just a random fact now - Coldplay filmed all of the three concerts for the live dvd and that made concerts a little bit more special.)
And then it started - first the intro and then A Head Full Of Dreams. And I started jumping and singing and everyone was jumping too and it felt perfect from the start to the end. I didn’t really see more than the left screen but I wasn’t super sad about it. I also loved the fact that Coldplay -concerts are a place where no one cares about your age or gender or anything. I felt the magic of it every concert.
When Yellow started, I started crying. I have never cried to it, but for that moment it felt really special.
Here is a little clip of The Scientist I took, nothing special:
I don’t really take photos or videos at shows so you will only get couple of shitty ones!
When the boys played at the B-stage, it was so good. I saw them better, I had so much fun, I danced all the time - I was the craziest one who kept jumping and singing when no one else didn’t. They have so many danceable songs!! Everything was new to me, the show felt like it will continue forever and I loved it. I sang so loud to Fix you and the end of it was super good.
Something just like this was the second song which made me cry. I have had a special relationship with it as long as it came out and it was so good on live.
And when the show was over, I already knew this is the best live band in the world. And trust me - I have seen many.
Every night it took long get to the station because the police have blocks for our safety but it was okay. And how magical was that people keep singing Viva while walking and in the train?
When I got to the hotel I was so tired - how am I gonna do this again tomorrow??
Sunday 16.7.2017
Sunday was the day when I had the early entry ticket. It was the only ticket type that was left when I tried to get tickets - then I decided I can do this all alone and I bought the ticket.
I went to the stadium at 11am and I was kind of suprised there was almost 30 people before me! I was nervous, I felt everyone was so much cooler than me haha!
A while later @buckin-love came to say hey - he was the only person I knew who was going to concerts and he helped me so much before and during the trip. Thank you again Vik!
It was hot day again so people bought emergency blankets (only 2,5€ or something lol) to get shadows to the line and people next to me bought one too. Here is what I mean:
Clever right? That was when I started to talk with the girl next to me and then we spent the whole day together with couple with others. It was so nice to meet you Alizée, hope to see you in next tour!
I was SUPER nervous, more nervous than on Saturday. Of course I knew I was gonna get a good spot anyway but it didn’t really help!
We got our early entry gifts and here is shitty pics of it if you haven’t seen the gift yet:
The bag had hard time in my luggage, it looks better for real.. So in a beautiful box was a coloring book and that thing is how you can draw Coldplay’s logo. I think? I haven’t tried it yet. Everything is gorgeous anyway!
So we got in and me and my new friends got really good spot in Jonny’s side. There I met more amazing people!
Then the magical moment happened.
I had seen R42 reading our signs before (there was so many signs every night btw!) but when he came to back later to take the photo I was like this is not really happening. This is a dream. Of course I didn’t know was he gonna put it anywhere but it was cool anyway!
So a while later I had to check Coldplay’s Twitter and yep, there it was with the text “Yes! One big band, one big family! #ColdplayParis R42″ :
It was real happiness. I was SO happy. And I still am, of course! I started to cry and everyone around me was happy for me and that made me cry even more. And btw, thinking about this made me cry again. Crying for happiness is good!
The thing is, I wasn’t really sure about the sign. I changed my mind many times will I do it or not. But it felt special for me so I made it. And yeah, it was right thing to do and the message of it is so true too. I know many people don’t go to concerts alone but there is people who do. And there’s nothing wrong about it. People should talk more about it and I really hope I have inspired people to do it! I’m still the awkward-not-the-most-social-and-broken-english -girl from Finland and I made new friends so you can do it too! I have tried to read all of your comments and you are all so sweet, I’m so thankful and I love you all. (And it has 180 000 likes on IG, THIS IS CRAZY!!)
So back to the show. I had really found the right people around me. Almost every of them had seen Coldplay at least 10 times and were crazy like me. So when Coldplay started, we started jumping and singing and dancing. And we barely stopped any time.
Coldplay was so good. SO GOOD. The best show I have ever seen. And when Chris said we are one of the loudest crow ever, when he said he would pay to play for us.. It was special. I keep using that word but there’s no any better way to say it.
As I told you, there were camera men filming the audience too. And one of them was this really sweet gentleman (I think his name is Mike?) who somehow find a way to my photo of Chris:
He was cute and kept filming us to screens. But we had so much fun so why not! Me and him also shared a lollipop together and it is one of my funniest memories. If the video of it somehow finds a way to public (because he was filming all the time), I’m gonna laugh my ass off!
But as I said, he kept filming us to screen and here is one great video where I’m on the screen twice during The Scientist:
Here is also one screenshot of it:
Yep, I was happy. On the video is also Chris’ “So far I have to tell you, this is one of the best audiences we ever heard so thank you for being here!”. And Chris’ cheeky smile!
When the boys went to play to the B-stage, Chris stopped in front of us like “who wanna get my pick?” and then looked at my eyes and threw it to me. But I never got it, it dropped to the ground and some crew member gave it for someone else.. But yeah it’s ok.
The concert was so good that I don’t know what to tell you.. Charlie Brown was super good every night and I love when the crowd sing the guitar riff together. And the xylobands!! It was magical.
On the C-stage, they surprised everyone of playing Trouble and it was really good. And Chris’ Paris -song was adorable, I love listening to his French, no matter that I don’t understand anything.
Here is a short clip of my favorite part of Don’t Panic:
I love the new version where Will sings leading vocals and then there’s Jonny’s adorable singing too.
I don’t really have words to explain how good the show was.. I wanna see the live dvd already, I really hope they use something from Sunday! I hope I would live this day again, it was so good, so emotional, I was so happy.. *continue watching live videos from the concert and ugly cry*
So Monday was a day off and I went to do some sightseeing with Vik and his friend. Paris is really beautiful and I have to go back one day. Maybe next CP tour?
Tuesday 18.7.2017
On Tuesday I had a normal standing ticket again. I went to the stadium at 7am and I was fourth in my gate.
I was a little bit worried how everything would go because it was going to be really hot day and I didn’t know anyone again etc. But then maybe 30min later one guy who was next to us on Sunday came! I was so happy! Saad you saved my day! So we spent the whole day together.
During the day many sweet people came to say that they saw the photo of me and saw me on the screen and everything, thank you!
So the day was SO hot. 35′C. We got the blanket to have a shadow but it was hot anyway. Here is a random happy pic of me from Tuesday outside of the stadium:
We were stressed about spots again because so many gates would open the same time. But Saad’s friend has saved a spot for him so I went to the second row behind him. Almost the same spot than on Sunday, yay!
There I meet more people again and I’m so happy that everyone was so nice to me, almost everyone was from different country and everything, but we still are one big family.
Just before the concert began, the same two camera men came in front of us again and the another one said “I remember you!”. I was like huh oh and he said something like “you were here on Sunday too!” and then the camera was on my face again and I melted. Kind of funny that they remembered me when all around me was people who has seen the band so many times and who has also been there all of three concerts.
But yeah, there was SO hot, at least 30´C in the evening too, I’m pretty sure I have never sweated so much in my life! But it didn’t stop us to dancing/jumping/singing.
This concert was the last concert of their European tour and I couldn’t get it off my head. Just when all of this began, it’s over.. Thanks god Chris said that they will be back, but at least two long years, huh!
When Chris and Jonny went to play Paradise remix to the catwalk, it was somehow kind of sexy to watch lol. Jonny is adorable and smiling and enjoy how everyone is watching him and Chris keeps watching Jonny and coming closer and closer of him and hah it was so great!
Here is a not very good photo of lasers and Chris changing his shirt because why not:
When Chris wanted to play Hypnotised, it was unreal and I was the whole song like is this really happening? And I was like the only one who opened the Hypnotised -app and Will laughed at me lol.
Here is a short clip of Magic and Buckin because yes.
In the end of the concerts, there were some of the band members’ kids ( I don’t know whose and it’s not really my business to know) playing in front of us and it was so cute!
There was so much going on all the time, four guys (and one of them barely stay still), confettis, fireworks, xylobands, 80 000 people.. I think I need ten more concerts to know every little detail (not matter how many concerts I have watched online before this!). On Tuesday I wasn’t so in shock anymore so I was able to realize more what is happening: Jonny’s sweet smile (you can’t get it too many times) and happiness, Chris’ adorable laugh all the time when he crazy dances and his playful eyes - his magical eyes, Will being serious but then next he is one big soft smiling bear again and Guy who somehow keep us all together and surprise us again and again. What a band.
When they played Up&Up, the final song, it was hard and I cried half of the song.. Is it really over? And when the band hugged one last time..Take me back to the start..
That’s it. That was my amazing, unbelievable trip to Paris. I’m so thankful, speechless, happy.
I wanna say huge thank you to everyone who shared this experience with me, thank you for hanging and talking with me, thanks for all the help. Special thanks to Vik, Alizée and Saad!
Thank YOU so much reading, I hope you liked this! I hope I didn’t make any big mistakes. Please share it for everyone who could enjoy this. Ps. If you wanna follow me on somewhere else, I’m riddikulusfin on Twitter/IG/SC.
This time two weeks ago I hadn’t seen my favorite band on live yet. Live concerts have been the most important thing for me as long as I remember. I started going to abroad to see bands in 2013 when I went to see 30 Seconds to Mars to London and Dublin. There’s nothing better than seeing new countries and meeting new people around the world. But this spring was my first trip on my own when I went to see Ed Sheeran to Sweden. So going to Paris alone was a really big deal to me - my second trip on my own. I don’t have many friends and none of them wanted to go with me (=we don’t share many favorite bands) so I had to choose stay home or go alone. You know which one I chose.
Two weeks ago I was sitting in the airport and I had tears in my eyes. It happened every time when I thought that I’m going to see Coldplay. This is happening. I can do this. And when I finally was on the plane I started crying. I’m going to see the guys who changed my life. I have tried to learn to be happy (loneliness is one big reason why I haven’t been) and I was overwhelmed of feeling it so strong. Because that is what they give me - happiness. I’m still learning but I’m on my way there. I fell in love with Coldplay really fast and somehow it was special connection from the beginning. Then so many things happened in Paris I would have never imagined.
Now two weeks later, I’m still happy, I’m still thankful. Most of people are already tired of hearing about this band but I don’t wanna be quiet if I wanna share something important for me. I don’t know why I wrote this but I wanted to share this beautiful photo I got from Cornelia on Twitter. Me and the boys. And now I’m here.
Tonight I got Chris Martin’s guitar pick and a setlist. When your last night in Paris (and of your trip in general) just exceeds any expectations you had. (at Stade de France) Sometimes I actually can't believe my luck.
THIS IS HAPPENING AND IT’S TOO MUCH TO HANDLE. I just keep crying like a teenager again and again, most of because I’m so stressed and I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M GONNA SEE THEM.
This was the first ticket I bought because there wasn’t any other tickets left 😂 It was super expensive but you can believe how happy I’m now! I have saved years to make my dreams true and now it’s happening!!
