Coldplay: Live 2012 Review

[starman15317]

Coldplay Live 2012 Blu-Ray

Coldplay Live 2012 Review

Coldplay had announced a new concert film/live album being released in November, called Coldplay Live 2012. The Blu-Ray will be a 2 disc Blu-Ray/CD set. You can preorder it now at EMI's site (which is European based). They're selling the Blu/CD by itself or with a lithograph.


Here's the announcement.

http://coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=1091

Spoilered for size:

[Show spoiler]

Good afternoon. We're very pleased to report that, on 19 November*, Coldplay will release Live 2012, the band’s first concert film / live album for nine years. It documents the Mylo Xyloto world tour, which has been seen by more than three million people since it began in June 2011.

Live 2012 will be released on DVD/CD, CD/DVD, Blu-ray & digitally. You can pre-order it now from the Coldplay Music Store, with an exclusive hand-numbered lithograph poster.

Said Chris: “The Mylo Xyloto tour has been the most fun we've ever had as a band. It's felt very uplifting right from the start; partly because we are proud of the music, the LED wristbands, the pyrotechnics, the lasers and all of that stuff, but mainly because of the amazing audiences that we've been playing for. Over the years, our crowd has become more and more a part of the concert itself. They're loud, diverse, full of soul, and make the songs sound much better than we can on our own. We wanted to try to bottle the incredible feeling that they give us, and hence our concert film.”

In the US, premium network EPIX will premiere the tour film as an EPIX Original Concert Event in the U.S. on November 17, on TV, online at EpixHD.com, and on EPIX apps on hundreds of devices including Xbox consoles, iPads, iPhones, Roku players, and more.

The film was directed by Paul Dugdale, previously responsible for Adele’s Live at the Royal Albert Hall and The Prodigy’s Worlds On Fire concert films. Live 2012 includes footage from Coldplay’s shows at Paris’s Stade de France, Montreal’s Bell Centre and last year’s triumphant Pyramid Stage headline performance at Glastonbury Festival.

Live 2012 director Paul Dugdale said: “We wanted to make a film that was as intimate as it was epic, punctuating Coldplay's colour-drenched performance with candid portraits of the band. The set is curated from several concerts around the globe, using the 75,000-capacity Stade de France as the backbone. Myself and JA Digital wanted to approach this film in the same way Coldplay approach their stage show: it’s essentially a film about people, and we wanted to highlight how the band have blurred the barrier between stage and audience to create a tour that reaches out to everyone from the front row of the stadium to those right at the back. It's a 90 minute kaleidoscope of emotions. My main objective as a filmmaker was to make the viewers' eyes widen and their hearts beat faster.”

* Full list of international release dates
14 November: Japan
16 November: Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Norway, Ireland
19 November: UK, Rest of World
20 November: US, Canada, Italy, Spain
21 November: Sweden

Anchorman

Track Listing (posted on Twitter):

[Show spoiler]
1. Mylo Xyloto
2. Hurts Like Heaven
3. In My Place
4. Major Minus
5. Yellow
6. Violet Hill*
7. God Put a Smile Upon Your Face
8. Princess of China (with Rihanna)
9. Up in Flames
10. Viva La Vida
11. Charlie Brown
12. Paradise
13. Us Against the World
14. Clocks
15. Fix You
16. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

*DVD (and presumably Blu-Ray) only

Special Features:

-Bonus Tracks
1. The Scientist
2. Don't Let It Break Your Heart

These bonus tracks were announced on Twitter.

@coldplay: @alexsanber the scientist is on the DVD as an extra, + don't let it break your heart
PH

Trailer:

Coldplay Live 2012 (Official Trailer) - YouTube

[Snicket]

I'm in!!

[Villiam Hayes]

I like Coldplay,I own all their albums,I used to own the 2003 concert DVD but sold it a year or two ago.
I will probably look into buying this at some stage.

[starman15317]

I updated the first post. This is my first thread about a Blu release so please excuse my slowness.

[Scottie]

I will probably buy this.

They were my first concert in 2004.

[UNCMT9]

Have never owned a performance on DVD or blu but this will be my first! Thanks for the post.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by UNCMT9

Have never owned a performance on DVD or blu but this will be my first! Thanks for the post.

You should get Green Day's Awesome As F**k and Bullet In A Bible.

[kylai10]

I went to this tour and it was a lot of fun. The wristbands were awesome! Wil buy this for sure!

[Yoeddy1]

Awesome that this is coming! I took my family to Portland, Oregon to see this show. Best concert I have ever been to.

Jason

[ack_bak]

I am all over this!

[starman15317]

Originally Posted by iScottie

You should get Green Day's Awesome As F**k and Bullet In A Bible.

I have to get those too. As for the Mylo Xyloto tour, I would have went if Coldplay came to Pittsburgh. My first concert was the Viva La Vida tour and I loved it!

[Blu Balls]

Wish this had The Scientist on it. I saw them on the Viva tour at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin and it was pretty spectacular. I'll be getting this and Led Zeppelin Celebration Day at the same time.

[Clark Kent]

I will buy it mainly because I like the track listing, it has a good mix of older and newer songs.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Blu Balls

Wish this had The Scientist on it.

It does. Look again at the bonus features.

[Evra]

Watched this in cinemas today and it was amazing. If anything, they have such a vast variety of great songs that there are bound to be favorites that are left out from the film/concert. Disappointed that The Scientist wasn't in the released version but glad it's an extra.

Bummed that my personal favorites such as The Hardest Part, Till Kingdom Come and Life in Technicolour weren't on the tracklist as I am sure they would have sounded great live.

Ohh and those people in Stade de France are really some lucky mofos to be able to experience them live with the visuals and all.

[Blu Balls]

Originally Posted by Evra

Watched this in cinemas today and it was amazing. If anything, they have such a vast variety of great songs that there are bound to be favorites that are left out from the film/concert. Disappointed that The Scientist wasn't in the released version but glad it's an extra.

Bummed that my personal favorites such as The Hardest Part, Till Kingdom Come and Life in Technicolour weren't on the tracklist as I am sure they would have sounded great live.

Ohh and those people in Stade de France are really some lucky mofos to be able to experience them live with the visuals and all.

Yeah, I'm very glad to see The Scientist is included, even if it's not in the actual film. I would have loved to seen The Hardest Part, Swallowed in the sea, and strawberry swing as well but, I'm not *****ing. I'm sure this will be a fantastic release.

[starman15317]

I edited the set list a bit because it looks like Rihanna is featured on Princess of China on the Blu-Ray.

Edit: I edited the page more to add the US link on this site.

[Luketheman5]

Saw them live last night in Melbourne, Australia. Will be buying this bluray day 1! Has most of my favourite songs of theirs on there! (Violet Hill baby yeah )

[starman15317]

I haven't bought this yet but I plan to soon. I saw it in FYE this morning and noticed that it has a Parental Advisory label!!!

[JMK]

Coldplay Live 2012 Review