walbourn | Concert

For the holidays, a friend gave me two tickets to see the Coldplay concert because Fiona Apple was opening for them. Other than the few times I've heard Coldplay on Top 40 radio and John Stewart mentioning him on The Daily Show, I don't know much about them. But hey, Fiona.

As I had two tickets, I asked

tara_firma to come along. She managed to make the trip down from Bellingham, and it was nice to get a chance to hang out.

The concert was at the Key Arena, which sucks a bit for acoustics, but our seats were reasonably close to the far left of the stage. Fiona was great as always, playing a number of favorites from her first album and lots of her latest. Coldplay was very popular with the crowd, but I can tell I'm getting old when my first impression was that they were too loud. I'm just big into lyrics, and it was hard to hear anything distinct with the rest of the band cranked to 11. They put on a good show, the audience was very responsive, and I thought they managed a good audience rapport. They just sounded a whole like U2, which may just be something about the British band sound.

Overall a good evening and fun company.