we also saw them in december of 2011, but again my memory of this gig isn't great either. a quick look on setlist.fm does little to conjure up memories of the songs played, though it was a pretty good setlist. The details of this concert are now pretty hazy to me, but i vaguely remember them playing songs from their album at the time, viva la vida, which is still my favourite coldplay album. my mother originally got the tickets for her and my dad but he let me have his ticket after i said i really wanted to go, and thank god he did.
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it was either that or girls aloud, but my memory won't stretch that far back to recall the dates i can hardly remember what happened last week, let alone eight (eight!) years ago when i made my first trip to the MEN arena (now simply titled the manchester arena after a series of name changes over the years) aged 13. in fact, i think they were the first concert i ever went to. Way before i was an out-and-proud lover of pop, i harboured a secret passion for coldplay. even one of my favourite people on the planet, noel fielding, couldn't help taking a stab at them twice (see here and here) during his stint as a team captain on BBC two's now-defunct never mind the buzzcocks (RIP). it's safe to say, i wasn't in on it. Remember a few years ago when it suddenly became "cool" to hate coldplay? for reasons still unknown to me, people simply couldn't stand the four piece, perhaps because they had deemed them uncool, or perhaps it was all one big joke created by people who think the only way to be funny is to tear other people down for no reason.