‘I used to be on the Coldplay live performance in Ahmedabad, and I cried’

British band Coldplay’s members Chris Martin, second proper, Jonny Buckland, left, Will Champion, second left, and Man Berryman carry out in the course of the band’s ‘Music Of The Spheres World Tour’ on the D.Y. Patil Sports activities Stadium in Navi Mumbai on January 18, 2025.
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“You’ll cry,” my buddy mentioned, once I excitedly instructed her that I had managed to get tickets for the Coldplay live performance in Ahmedabad.

After ready in seemingly countless digital queues with six-digit numbers each time BookMyShow introduced tickets, I had given up on my long-time dream of seeing the British rock band Coldplay carry out in India. However then, only a few weeks earlier than their present in Ahmedabad, the positioning made extra tickets accessible. This time I used to be round 15 thousand in queue. As my place began to indicate promise, my nervousness started to floor. By the point I hit the 5000th place, I began pacing. Then the display introduced ‘it’s your flip’. The standing space, my favorite spot for concert events, which had stuffed up by then, magically opened a number of slots. 

The members of British rock band Coldplay. Picture: Wikimedia Commons

It was meant to be, I assumed. 

“So who’re you going with?” my buddies requested. 

“Alone.”

Lower to January 26, and I stood amongst a crowd of greater than 1 lakh folks singing ‘lights will information you residence’ at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium. It was nearly surreal. We felt that we have been all a part of one thing larger. As a result of Coldplay’s concert events are about extra than simply music. As a result of, let me let you know this, Chris, Jonny, Man and Will Champion will collectively ‘Repair you’. 

Musician Chris Martin
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Once I flew into Ahmedabad from Chennai catching a pink eye flight, drained and excited, I joined followers beneath the blazing solar. We have been packed like sardines a number of hours earlier than the present was slated to start out. We stood there for hours, ready impatiently, by way of the opening acts, ready for Chris to waltz in along with his ‘Greater Energy’. He did simply that, sending the gang into tizzy. 

This was adopted by ‘Journey of a Lifetime’, ‘Paradise’, ‘Viva la Vida’ and extra. It felt as if the skies had opened and rained stars upon us. With confetti of various shapes and colors pouring from the sky, vibrant colored laser lights shining by way of the stadium, gorgeous pyrotechnics enjoying background rating to the songs, Coldplay’s live performance lived as much as all of the hype. 

The live performance was punctuated by many poignant moments. Resembling when Chris invited a fan to sing with him. Or when part of ‘One thing Simply Like This’ was sung in signal language. Or that second when Chris did a hand confetti trick.

Seeing him break into intricate footwork set to the guitar notes in ‘Repair You’ after which trumping it by throwing hand streamers into the air, the entire stadium erupted into screaming applause. He additionally wished us for Republic Day and sang Vande Mataram.

Because the opening notes of the favored ‘Sky stuffed with stars’ started to play, Chris instructed the viewers to place away their telephones. “Fingers within the sky, telephones within the pocket… No one wants a cellphone for this tune, all of us are in the identical band collectively, one huge household…” 

And maybe that’s the reason somebody will at all times look out for you on the live performance. When the paper stars streamed down from the skies as Chris sang ‘A Sky Stuffed with Stars’, a person standing beside me grabbed a falling star and supplied it to me. And once I was parched, one other ‘Coldplayer’ supplied me water. How can one be alone at a Coldplay live performance? 

I positively got here again a unique particular person from Coldplay live performance. Not one of the songs sound or really feel the identical anymore. As I caught one other pink eye flight again to Chennai from Ahmedabad, nonetheless listening to Coldplay songs in my headphones, I knew it was an evening I wouldn’t overlook.

Every part felt proper till my playlist stumbled at ‘One thing Simply Like This’. Immediately my coronary heart felt so full. Tears began streaming down my face. I buried my face in my scarf and sobbed, till my flight landed in Chennai.

All I wished to do was return residence, crawl into my sofa and bawl my coronary heart out, buoyed by the unbelievable excessive from the live performance. As a substitute I picked up the love formed confetti that fell from my bag into the plane and positioned it safely in my bag. I went to the workplace, and instructed my editor I didn’t know what to do with these intense feelings. Then I sat down in entrance of my laptop computer and let the phrases take over.

Ultimately they have been all proper. I did cry. 

And I can say that I used to be there. And it was all the things.