Last show in Germany.

On the bus, on the way to the venue. The crew are all ‘fresh’ from a day off yesterday. The tram cables of Munich are strung up over the road. This is a one-off show today. The last show in Germany. It’s right next door to the Olympic Stadium, home of the 1972 Olympic Games. A little bit of history for you..
Yesterday, I took a chance to have a stroll around Munich. It’s Oktoberfest at the moment (despite still being September…), so the city was buzzing. After checking out the main tourist sights with Steve, the ‘Motion Control’ for Coldplay’s stage spheres, we headed out to see Oktoberfest. We decide that the best way to get there was to follow the lederhosen. There were colourful dresses, cardigans, long socks, feathered hats and polkerdot shirts lining the streets (worn by inebriated German folk). Eventually we found the ‘meadows’. Huge temporary tent structures crammed full of drinkers, lederhosen..and huge tankards of beer. It’s an amazing sight. Apparently “the world’s largest beer festival”. Not surprising, when seven million people consume six million litres of beer there.. 1 huge fun-fair + lederhosen as far as the eye can see + lots of beer = Oktoberfest 2008. 

Munchen Olympiahalle. So here I am in the production office. Here at least until I can’t get on the internet anymore.. I got cut off in mid-flow when I was writing from the tour-bus this morning, when we rolled into the venue, and I somehow got carried away with the day.. This was Coldplay’s last show in Germany for now, and therefore, my last chance to work with Oxfam Deutschland. It was another great show for Oxfam. Over 1100 more voices in a call for fairer agricultural policies from the government here. That’s over 7000 in 5 shows in Germany. Incredible stuff.

The Olypiahalle is part of the Olympic complex. Strung together with the Stadion and swimming hall, it looks like one giant tent structure made of steel, glass and gigantic bolts. It was a very open venue which gave everyone in the house a good spot to sit or stand. The bleep of fork lifts is still going on in the distance behind my head. The band have had a great time playing to 5 sold out crowds across Germany. I have also seen some tense games of table-tennis going on backstage too.. !

I want to thank Ulrike, Juliane, Sabine and all of our other volunteers for their help along the road here. It’s been great to see a little of this country and meet so many Coldplay fans here too. Time I wound this one up. It’s been a long day, and could be a long night. We are heading for Zurich tonight, and the Alps. I’m excited.

So long.. Farewell.. Auf Wiedersehen.. Goodbye..

 

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2 Responses to “Last show in Germany.”

Sebastian September 27th, 2008 at 3:41 am

Interesting Blog, thank you.

by the way, it’s “Auf Wiedersehen” ;-)

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